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Column in today’s Times: - Pat McFadden was pushing for winter fuel u-turn before locals - Rachel Reeves joined the fray this month - No 10 staff initially not told Starmer had come round to their view - Heads of comms and policy opposed the decision www.thetimes.com/article/c121...

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Terrific column by @patrickmaguire.bsky.social in today's Times on the internal divisions over the winter fuel allowance and what it reveals:

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@mrjamesob.bsky.social l 💯&% agree with your caller Lorraine! 👌 👏👏👏

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Extraordinary frontbench exchange between Reynolds and Badenoch - Reynolds: “This issue should have been resolved years ago...” “I have to address the statement I saw made by [Badenoch] yesterday... ”I wish to make clear to the House that the new govt inherited no such deal.” 🧵

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The rights or wrongs of a Telegraph campaign to claim someone jailed for being horribly racist is ‘a victim’ to one side, if I was in jail, I’m almost certain the only thing worse would be the sight of Liz Truss riding to my rescue.

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Former head of vaccines at the FDA Dr. Peter Marks, says the US is now weaker and possibly in danger because he and his teams have been let go

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UK foreign secretary criticises Israel for denying two Labour MPs entry

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The purges continue.

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We now go live to Italy for reaction.

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NEW: The BBC’s Jeremy Bowen has accused the Israeli government of blocking journalists from Gaza because of scenes “they don’t want us to see”. Says he’s been there for half a day in 18 months, escorted by Israeli forces. Story:

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One of Britain’s finest actors, @davidharewood.bsky.social tells @mrjamesob.bsky.social about finding late fame, becoming RADA’s first black president, and the brutal challenges he faced to get there on ‘Full Disclosure’. Listen in full: www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...

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Not for the first time, I find myself wondering why so many people were so easily spooked by Faragist scaremongering about an 'EU Army'...

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BBC News, "The Whitehouse has confirmed it has inadvertently added a journalist to a group chat discussing classified plans to bomb Yemen" "It's an extraordinary breach of security with America's entire national security group, including the vice president"

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Dear Carel Press — what a wonderfully generous commendation! It makes all the long hours and hard work worthwhile (there are only three of us in the editorial team). Thank you.

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“But her emails!” comparisons can be exhausting, but I’d like you to imagine for a minute what would have happened if Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan had accidentally added Tucker Carlson to a group chat about classified war plans? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-short-...

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You know how some people said that mainstream media never talked about grooming gangs till Musk Well, BBC1 is go to remind them that their multi BAFTA award winning 3 part film #ThreeGirls was made 8 yrs ago It’s being shown again 24th - 26th March Watch if you can, it’s worth it

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The president comes across as both a bully and a lunatic here

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The paywall being down this weekend, here's a thread of some of my favourite pieces I've written over the years, which I'll add to in the random order I remember about them...

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Today is #longcovidawarenessday If you’re not aware, LC, like ME/CFS, devastates lives. And the medical profession has almost entirely abandoned sufferers. And now in the U.K., it sounds as if most will now lose their PIP. 💔

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🚨 This weekend The Sunday Times paywall is down, meaning my and my colleagues back catalogue of incredible investigations and stories are FREE to read. I thought I'd give you a brief 5 stories I think deserve your time: 1/6

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these are now 'tariffs' in the sense that your 2yo is 'making tea' in their play kitchen that you have to pretend to eat & i propose that next time he does it, everyone just goes 'tariffs, eh? oh yes super scary!' but carries on trading as if literally nothing had happened, everyone's happy

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The orange chump got his arse handed to him once again. He has no plan and no brain with which to process it if he had. He is a jumble of broken wires. But tell me again how everyone ends up "kissing the ring" or how he's playing some hyper-advanced strategic game.

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In the Trump administration it would appear that the right hand doesn’t know what the far right hand is doing

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Skidded on ice this morning, fell off my bike & twatted my head so I will be wearing a hat in the studio to cover the unsightly scar. Wear a helmet, people!

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One source told the Guardian that the US had “completely stopped” providing intelligence, including to Ukraine’s military and domestic security agencies. They said this would have a “very bad impact” on the fight against Russia. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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One reason I am sceptical of the idea there are real-world savings to be had from the bucket marked 'welfare' is shouldn't some people who are currently 'NEET' (not in education, employment or training) be....in further education?

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Off with the lurgy today, but here's one for @theipaper.com: 🗞️: inews.co.uk/news/world/t...

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Nigel Farage, who has promised to "restore law and order" to Britain, accepted tens of thousands of pounds in flights from a convicted felon. Farage took the gifts from "Posh George" who was jailed for eight months in the US for wire fraud bylinetimes.com/2025/02/26/n...

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Reads like the speech of someone who hasn’t given this 5 minutes’ thought, but insists on having their say anyway, and actually I think she may have invented female mansplaining?

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Trumpism is considerably more niche than Corbynism in Britain. The right will be in trouble if it does not realise that. The idea of a social democratic coalition founded on Trump/Bannon/Musk is simply absurd. It would be esp bizarre for communitarianism to propose an external + rootless import

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Former deputy assistant secretary general of Nato Stephanie Babst tells me on @timesradio The United States is no longer an “ally” of Europe. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

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Absolutely spot on by George - -and the faster people recognise this dynamic, the better for our ability we have to protect our values and quality of life in Europe.

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Glad that readers are responding so forced to the marriage notice of the Guardian to OpenAI. If you want to read the background to this deal & support a new independent outlet, please read this from 3 weeks ago & sign up for a new edition out soon. Yours, A Human open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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Three things on this, because I don't want already upset people to feel targeted. 1. This is deferred frustration and anger, therefore irrational. USA chooses, but THE WHOLE WORLD has to suffer Trump. So, I feel an impotent hostility knowing people who could vote didn't. I'd give anything to. 1/4

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Ukraine was asked for half of its mineral reserves, in exchange for nothing on.ft.com/4hW1x5y

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I was listening to that. Left me slack-jawed.

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STORY Tories blew £1.6m on furniture and fittings for their own ministerial offices www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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This is so very, very grim. Large numbers of people, including many children, are likely to die.

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Elon Musk's Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury's Payments System. What could go wrong.. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

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America, 2025. Hurtling towards disaster by the hour.

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Tonight, USAID…the agency that exists to administer foreign aid and assistance, founded by President John F. Kennedy, is effectively shut down. Once unimaginable, now another harbinger of US collapse. apnews.com/article/usai...

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The clearest explanation of tariffs I’ve ever heard

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