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submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

No-hope legal challenges are costing the taxpayer a fortune and delaying critical infrastructure projects from wind farms and pylons to roads and railways. It is right then that the Government are prioritising growth and making it harder to sue major projects. 🧵

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

this is my feeling, there seems to have been a drop in the standards for screening recently, people not asking a question or two which would lead to Undeserving (or at least Borderline) Case Number One being dropped from your article. Or, if they are in to cover a point, the point isn’t made

submitted 38 days ago • 5 comments

Also, for the left, there are lots of people amenable to left wing solutions to public transport onanism (and crime, generally), but if your position is "Actually, it's not really that bad", people will just vote for the party that proposes right wing solutions.

submitted 51 days ago • 4 comments

The Crisps I Ate To Reduce The Palpitations Brought On By The Stollen Have Given Me Reflux: A Memoir

submitted 58 days ago • 4 comments

Whoever gets the job of chairing the commission into the Great Parliament Fire of 20?? is going to have a really easy job writing it and a terrible, terrible time on the Maxwellisation process, in 300 or so current and former MPs will kvetch at you about how you are being unfair.

submitted 60 days ago • 21 comments

Struggle to see why there is not more of a push to regulate the delivery apps out of existence. From the right on immigration, on the left on labour rights.

submitted 61 days ago • 20 comments

Craig Revel Horwood’s transformation into an occult bookshop owner in an Amicus portmanteau appears to be entering its imperial phase.

submitted 65 days ago • 16 comments

Very important paper: 2 billion dollars could save approx 500,000 children from dying from malaria. That's a very high ROI, easy to scale, and an issue we shouldn't drag our feet on. It took years of funding struggles to develop malaria vaccines in the first place. We can't let that happen again.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Marsh Family Songs, then.

submitted 72 days ago • 3 comments

Happy 8th birthday to the time my parents brought over wine in a plastic box because Mum was “increasingly wary of glass".

submitted 72 days ago • 33 comments

I blame that Peppa Pig.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

At last, my cultural convictions vindicated.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

IDS on the Starmer government's eye-poppingly naive Golden Age 2.0 China reset. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-6r...

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

"Hegseth used his platform to champion a particular kind of warfighter, one that should make even his Republican supporters nervous: service members convicted of or accused of war crimes." www.thefp.com/p/pete-hegse...

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

When I was growing up, what are now labelled "executive homes" were lived in by (not an exhaustive list) teachers, nurses, doctors, college lecturers, firemen, oil rig workers, engineers, small businessmen, building society branch managers, publicans, police officers & harbour pilots. Family houses!

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Oh, God, yes. Well said. It's completely ridiculous. In so many cases "executive homes" are what used to be known as "family homes" and were considered a perfectly legitimate aspiration - indeed expectation - for millions of complete bog-standard middle-class families up and down the kingdom.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

The phrase 'executive homes' sums up the meanness of current British policy discourse. You are describing a dwelling any regular family should be able to have as if it is some kind of bizarre extravagance.

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submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

On the subject of why one struggles to get anything built in this country... There is a small 'ribbon' hamlet not a million miles from where I live in the southern half of Bucks. [no this isn't a picture of it] One established house in the 'ribbon' had a large side garden that became overgrown. 🧵

submitted 83 days ago • 11 comments

You have to listen, it's got it all. South African priests. The devil defo is not a sex offender. Farting Arnie. Always sanitise your boobs. Exploding squirrels and force minge-jure. Flacid petrol piss. All in time for xmas

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Can't stop thinking about how there's a bottle of HP Sauce in Godfather 3.

submitted 83 days ago • 59 comments

Just spitballing (was awake 4am in a daze), but given Labour is giving stuff away left, right and centre (Elgin Marbles etc), would giving China Summer Palace stuff back in exchange for a 1-way ticket to Britain for Hong Kong political prisoners and the pension money issue sorted be worth it?

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Relatedly, what is mithering me about a lot of the commentary around the “six milestones” are the comparisons with Sunak’s 5 pledges that proceed as if the shortcoming of the pledges was that voters don’t like numbered lists anymore rather than “you do actually need to achieve the pledges”.

submitted 84 days ago • 15 comments

Vogue, 2012: “Asma al-Assad is glamorous, young, and very chic--the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies… She's breezy, conspiratorial, and fun. Her accent is English but not plummy. Despite what must be a killer IQ, she sometimes uses urban shorthand: ‘I was, like. . . .”’

submitted 84 days ago • 33 comments

I don't know what the state of play is these days, really, but I do recall I let myself get buggered by Kaidan Alenko out of social embarrassment and it was all very tasteful. But there it is, nothing's sacred.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Excellent column by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social on the value of self-education and a world we've lost. (As with him I suspect it is the unhappy byproduct of a happy situation, that more people are able to go onto study the things they love at university at 18).

submitted 89 days ago • 5 comments

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'At 1pm, Central Standard Time.'

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Targets are great. But targets are not a plan. Labour must get the policy details right now. The window for moving from planning to delivery won’t stay open for long.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Update: whether Masterchef was broadcast tonight or not was the lead item on every single radio 6 news bulletin today

submitted 90 days ago • 11 comments

This doesn't excuse anyone else, but the role of the police was one of the things I found most puzzling in the Makin Review. It does seem to merit closer attention - again, not to exculpate others, but to make sure the right lessons are learned. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Chris Wormald - the balance sheet. In favour: 1. vastly experienced (much, much more than Case). Run two v big budget depts. also held senior role in what is now MHCLG; done time at the centre as head of EDS and heading Clegg office. former head of policy profession.

submitted 90 days ago • 10 comments

Watched "Four Weddings" recently (Curtis' output is dreadful but this is the least offensive). Kristin Scott Thomas never has a cigarette out of her hand, save when in church. Unimaginable now. You have to love the idea of the young being corrupted by seeing C Aubrey Smith and a pipe.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

"Resurrection aromatique"

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

From Hags. I'm glad more people are seeing it (even if some of them called me a Karen for writing it two years ago, and probably will again tomorrow) geni.us/HagsPB

submitted 90 days ago • 4 comments

Ah, dear. Strictly proceeding very much as I don't like it. One of those years when it feels as though it's descending into almost a pure popularity contest so as you could be forgiven for feeling there's scarcely much point in them going to the trouble of putting in the dancing at all.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

The Kash Patel nomination, alongside Hegseth and Gabbard, reinforces my belief that allies should be prepared for significant turmoil inside key US national security institutions -- regardless of whether Trump II pursues a conscious policy of retrenchment or not.

submitted 91 days ago • 5 comments

It would be useful if some major European countries had functioning governments in place in January after the US transition. Germany will have Feb elections & govt formation talks

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Just remembered this absolute masterpiece. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivea...

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