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Indeed - and that's what some politicians would like to happen.
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As in: apart from the status of riders, they ubiquitously use illegal electric motorbikes (not "e-bikes") and ubiquitously break all manner of road rules. This is entirely the result of a business model of paying people minimal sums per delivery with no job or income security.
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Someone who can legally work has a log-in, which is then shared around. Hence the not-uncommon experience of the face (or even the gender) of the rider listed on the app not being the same when they arrive at the door.
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Social security and disability minister Stephen Timms also says the vote on welfare reform will happen on Tuesday, telling the work and pensions committee: "It is. I’m looking forward to the debate.”
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Surely they understand, "black Americano"? Just two words...
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Why? You already have a universally-understood shorthand.
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By sending the people who do this sort of stuff to jail for long periods, as would already have happened. You can get up to 10 years for criminal damage.
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Another job creation scheme for lawyers.
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While legislation does mean terrorism can be defined as damage to property, I wonder if the public's understanding of the idea matches it. I also wonder if we might look back at this in 2028/29 and see a key point in events that led to a lot more Labour MPs losing their seats, Jon Ashworth-style.
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There’s a presumably apocryphal story of two City gents who took the same train in from the Home Counties for years, always sat in the same compartment, but never spoke. All they did was soundlessly swap their Times and Telegraph at the half-way station.
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TfL needs to distribute photos of you so people are forewarned.
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If you buy a paper tube ticket this is set out in small print on the back.
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Was it Finland where they had the post-Covid joke about being pleased the two-metre distancing rule had ended so they could go back to the usual four?
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It also presumably hasn’t occurred to Goodhart that a lot of the people who “don’t speak English” are just pretending, rather than engage with a weirdo trying to tell them an amusing anecdote about Ed Davey.
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This is also a legitimate pursuit, as it’s done in full knowledge of the rules.
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“Hello, I’d like to share something amusing about today’s news!”
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I mean you write about London so you have an excuse…. almost. I occasionally chat to other cyclists at traffic lights with a 25% response rate.
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Among the many oddities is this paragraph. If you try and “share a joke” with a stranger at a bus stop, then *you* are the person who has failed to even remotely integrate into London life. It’s the first rule anyone learns.
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Click the link.
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Hang on his official height is
6ft 3in - even less likely.
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A very minor point, but after seeing Trump from a few yards away next to Starmer there is *no way* that Trump is 6ft 2in.
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Trump is leaving the G7 early, White House says. He did look a touch grumpy speaking to the media just before his Starmer meeting.
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I managed to ask Trump a question, about whether or not he effectively backs Russia over Ukraine. He gave quite a long answer which I didn't entirely follow. Full transcript here.
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This was a "spray" just before their G7 talks, where reporters yell out questions until Trump takes notice. Notably, when Trump was asked if the UK was now safe from new sanctions, he replied: "The UK is very well protected. You know why? Because I like them, that's their ultimate protection."
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It's one of the things Starmer perhaps doesn't get enough domestic credit for, but he seems quite good at global diplomacy, building relationships and handling loose cannons like Trump (as best as it can be actually done).
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Interesting detail from the G7 summit: last night Starmer held private, informal and what seem like impromptu talks over a glass of wine with Meloni, Merz, Carney and Macron, at the venue hotel restaurant. No 10 don't agree it was a "Trump-handing" chat, but it very much feels like that.
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And also:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Which is fair.
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Completely. There’s an article - even a thesis - to be written on how X helped make fairly large parts of the UK right so nativist/Powellite.
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I personally think it’s really good. It’s broad, but I couldn’t dispute any of it.
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I’d argue he’s been quite explicit on this front for a while, eg his pledge to also deport relatives of (Asian) grooming gang offenders for not stopping them. This sort of, “The UK has fallen” stuff is all over X these days. See also: “crime-infested London”.