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Left: Laura Kuenssberg says Labour can't take us into a Customs Union because they don't have a mandate for it Right: Brexiter Daniel Hannan saying that the UK would not leave the EU Single Market before the vote, then after the vote, he was rewarded for his lies with a seat in the House of Lords

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By design? Menace the experts and the greatest resistance to the kleptocratic policies of the Trump administration evaporate. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Bridget Brink said she brought an end to her 30-year diplomatic career because she could “no longer in good faith carry out the administration’s policy”

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What leadership at Verizon?

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This year, the workforce has contracted by nearly 600 people — the same number of departures the agency saw across the past decade and a half. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

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It was a soliloquy in which he demonstrated why he, and the party to which he no longer belongs, should not be in parliament.

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One of the founders of Ben & Jerry’s was arrested on Wednesday after he interrupted a Senate committee hearing to protest Congress’s funding for Israel’s military as it wages war against Hamas in Gaza. Read more: nyti.ms/43uubGu

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Bruce Springsteen has made a series of critical remarks about US President Donald Trump and the policies of his administration, calling the American leader "unfit" for office. cnn.it/4mo7o6W

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Sad news of Andrew Norfolk's death. I met him following the second trial of Roland Peter Wright, convicted of child sexual abuse at Caldicott School. His coverage led to additional reports of sexual abuse in independent schools. Always courteous, considerate and incisive. archive.today/ro4Dw

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Judge temporarily blocks canceling of ABA grants amid Trump crackdown reut.rs/436AJJW

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Prisons are just 1 of 4 struggling services that pushed this, and the last Govt, to propose flawed mandatory reporting models for #CSA. The impact assessment admits referrals won’t increase. This law isn’t about protecting children, it’s abt shielding statutory services www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-...

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Prisons is 1 of 4 services in crisis that prompted this + the last Govt to table hopeless models of mandatory reporting of #CSA. The impact assessment acknowledges that referrals will not increase. The law is designed to protect statutory services rather than children www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-...

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Goldman Sachs cuts US recession odds to 35% from 45% on trade truce optimism reut.rs/3GRYnCM

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The Catholic Church has issued a warning to its clergy in Washington state: Any priest who complies with a new law requiring the reporting of child abuse confessions to authorities will be excommunicated. And a new Pope, will the culture change? www.newsweek.com/catholic-chu...

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Hope YouGov do this as a regular question on their tracker, in that I think over time this will be really interesting.

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Here's Gary Stevenson calling for a return to the 1970s, when the top rate of tax was 98%. But did the rich ever pay it? We spoke to 1970s tax dodgers and ex-HMRC staff & and crunched the data. A 🧵, but here's a spoiler: the rich pay more tax now.

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This @bbclaurak.bsky.social i/v with Alex Burghart revealed subject unawareness of both questioner + respondent. Munro's review excluded institutional safeguarding. In the >82% of countries that have #MR of #CSA data shows 'haystacks' of such referrals do not occur /1 youtube.com/watch?v=ml13...

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Trump says he's unsure whether people in the US are entitled to due process reut.rs/3EQMHzy

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20 Jan: "I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the US, & will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect & defend the Constitution of the US. So help me God" 4 May: Don't you need to uphold the US constitution? Trump: "I don't know"

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The markets and business.

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In s.45-54 of Crime and Police Bill (duty to report #CSA), @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social + @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social have delivered a world safeguarding first: discretionary mandatory reporting. The oxymoronic Bill is a deception. Why, one wonders? It fails good staff and all children. /1

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A life sentence for the boys he abused, nine years for their abuser Martin Daniels. His sentencing reflects the guidelines at the time of the offences. BBC News - Sea Scout volunteer from North Walsham who abused boys is jailed - BBC News | www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Byline Times editor Hardeep Matharu + co-founder Peter Jukes are joined in conversation with veteran political commentator Peter Oborne, who draws parallels between the turbulent times we're living through and the 1920s. Excellent podcast. Trump, Starmer, Pope + Farage podfollow.com/1747192337/e...

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And you can read the story here without paywall. archive.today/2025.05.01-1...

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FYI @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social . Your laggard advisers and civil servants including Christian, Jess, need to up their game.

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Trump’s 100 days: Pritzker calls for mass mobilization as he grows his national profile. A challenger to Pete Buttigieg capitolnewsillinois.com/news/trumps-...

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The economy including the markets have the capacity to stop the insanity. There's little else given the changes that have been so rapidly introduced.

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Ahead of the local elections, Nigel Farage continues to top the list of top earning MPs from additional work since the election

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The Government's limp response to child sexual exploitation, including a 'pretend' version of mandatory reporting law announced by @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social and contained in the Crime and Policing Bill - will continue to fail children and sentinel safeguarders. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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#Groomed was an excellent production. The usual "it's all different now" claims from local authorities and police. Except it isn't. @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social's assertion in the House that the Government is introducing "mandatory reporting" is nonsense. See my coincidental preceding posts.

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FYI @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social in case you were unaware you're tub thumping for a counterfeit Conservative proposal. Where does it leave you? Jiggered if I know. But all children will be failed by it in England. @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social @damedianajohnson.bsky.social

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Labour's mandatory reporting proposal is a replica of the last Govt's counterfeit MR amendment. Neither have a precedent in the rest of the world. Both are designed to protect statutory services from an increase in CSA referrals rather than protect children. mandatenow.org.uk/the-govts-ma...

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A real pleasure to go to Gonville and Caius college, Cambridge today to talk about Democracy for Sale and dark money in politics. Stunning evening for it.A

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Byline Times editor Hardeep Matharu + co-founder Peter Jukes are joined in conversation with veteran political commentator Peter Oborne, who draws parallels between the turbulent times we're living through and the 1920s. Excellent podcast. Trump, Starmer, Pope + Farage podfollow.com/1747192337/e...

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BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp... White House blasts 'hostile' Amazon over tariffs while marking Trump’s 100 days - live updates - BBC News. And a guest to the inauguration. Winning! err.

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Now he is 5 🎈

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Meanwhile back in Blighty. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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A company that supplied hundreds of millions of pounds of unusable COVID tests saw their profits surge to £178 million after lobbying a Conservative peer for contracts Their turnover jumped by 6800% after supplying tests which were later deemed “unfit for public use” bylinetimes.com/2025/04/28/v...

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Mark Carney is asked how the lessons of Brexit apply to Trump's tariff policy. "When you break off or substantially rupture trade relations with major trading partners... you end up with slower growth, higher inflation, higher interest rates, volatility, a lower currency, a weaker economy." ~AA

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A fascinating documentary providing insight into the mindset of West Bank settlers. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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ST 27.4.25. I'll be watching. Unless something startling appears in the doc, Anna's suggestion for an 'independent national child protection agency' is deeply mistaken. (Pls don't cite IICSA's absurd CP Agency recommendation. It's nonsense) 'Groomed: A National Scandal'. Channel4 Wed at 9pm

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