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This is what ignoring local voices in major infrastructure decisions really looks like.
Ok this bit is mind blowing. Two and a half hours to cover that much of France. Sitting in a comfy 1st class seat for about £30. Has France a) broken the laws of time & physics or b) invested in infrastructure
#TRAIN
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"The situation had developed not necessarily to the plan's advantage."
Last line from Truss's serialisation in the Mail:
"The whole experience as Prime Minister had been quite surreal and my resignation seemed like just another dramatic moment in a very strange film in which I had somehow been cast. Things had not worked out as I had hoped."
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Pelosi is straightforwardly wrong about the Belfast Agreement, and Truss should just tell her so | my latest for the
@Telegraph
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They don't let MPs add thousands of expensive additional requirements, nor make the builders bribe their way past every parish council on the route.
Why does France make building high-speed rail look so easy😢
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Rationing water in a country with our annual rainfall is a fucking joke.
The UK risks running short of water and the goal is to get consumption down to 110 litres/person/day
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In 1997, New Labour promised that:
“A sovereign Westminster Parliament will devolve power to Scotland and Wales. The Union will be strengthened and the threat of separatism removed.”
How's that working out? | my latest for the
@Telegraph
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Meanwhile France just quietly gets on with owning - sorry, *being* - a South American country because it had the balls to integrate it.
The UK suffered a diplomatic defeat recently when the EU referred to the Falkland Islands as Islas Malvinas
So whose sovereignty do Europeans support?
🇪🇸 52% Argentina / 14% UK
🇮🇹 32% / 21%
🇩🇪 30% / 24%
🇫🇷 27% / 23%
🇸🇪 23% / 28%
🇩🇰 23% / 31%
also
🇺🇸 24% / 35%
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Upset about Truss's use of an official plane? You're exhibiting symptoms of Decline Mindset | my latest for the
@Telegraph
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The experience of following this war on Twitter is that it seems to be a non-stop series of Russian pratfalls and defections, then the evening map comes out and they're slowly cutting Ukraine in half.
Ukraine is giving a masterclass in how to shape the information environment in your favor. I want to note some truly inspiring messaging and explain why unfortunately these sentiments & appeals could be clouding our assessments of whats coming. 1/10
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Private grief is seldom a good basis for public policy, but it's an extraordinarily effective campaigning tool.
'I challenge anybody who is in opposition to this to actually be affected by a road crash and still object'
Crystal Owen, whose son Harvey was one of four teenagers who died in a car crash, is calling for tighter rules for new drivers under the age of 25
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'Long-term" now means "redirecting capex spending into maintenance".
We've set out long-term plans to resurface local roads across the country using money saved from HS2.
I reserve the right to point at any remaining potholes.
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Being a national legislator, drawing up laws to benefit the entire nation, rather than a glorified councillor.
If a community can’t rely on their MP to speak for them in their local interest, what is the point of the MP?
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"Some of the local clans do not share His Majesty's glorious vision of a new, modern Britain."
Anger at King Charles' plan to build an 'ideal town' in Kent: Locals lash out at Duchy of Cornwall over proposals for 2,500 homes on 320 acres of farmland which they fear will 'swallow up historic villages into an urban mass'
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Selling assets to cover costs is a death spiral.
Exclusive from us this morning. The government is quietly advancing plans for a major loosening of council budget rules to allow them to sell assets en masse to avert a wave of bankruptcies
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What sort of interior life must he live to just put up with this and not resign?
🇬🇧 Britain’s bullet train 🇬🇧
In Japan, I saw the benefits high speed rail can bring - to connect communities & grow the economy
That’s why, despite the global inflationary pressures, we remain fully committed to building
@HS2ltd
🇬🇧 🚄 Building it shows we believe in Britain👇
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Starmer has realised what the Conservative ought to have realised: that he can go some way to solving the housing crisis - and queering the electoral pitch in Labour's favour - by building in places that don't vote for him.
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It's fucking Soho.
@richardparke15
@Gaylussite
It is not so much 'conversations over dinner'. What residents told me what troubled them was the loud music, the late, loud music and the cumulative noise from the street. They saw the presence of traffic as a way of ensuring the 'street tables' couldn't happen.
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If only there were some way to build up a sort of 'reserve' of water in this rainy country. Call it a keeplake, or something.
Plans to limit water use for residents at proposed redevelopment in Cambridge.
@camcitco
say water useage will be restricted to less than 99 litres per person per day, ‘to reduce the impact on local water resources’. 🧵1
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It's bad enough when some ignorant congressman does it, but this is the *Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary* ascribing to the US a formal role in the Belfast Agreement it does not have.
The United States is co-guarantor of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and a great ally.
For
@Keir_Starmer
and I it was important to meet Consul General Paul Narain to discuss protocol and legacy concerns and reiterate Labour’s commitment to the letter and spirit of the B/GFA.
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The live music bar in Barcelona is busier at 11.15 than it was when we arrived. In London, it would be shut.
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Rolling through open countryside, on the Tube.
The Chesham spur needs two new stations and 100,000 homes.
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Incredible. Just no words.
BREAKING
After just 24 hours, the government has dropped its commitment to reopen the Leamside Line. It was included yesterday in the initial Network North announcements, now it’s gone.
Roads minister Richard Holden tells me Govt is now just ‘committed to looking into it’.
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Has anyone checked in on France's International reputation?
France has ignored a ruling of the ECHR to deport a man with terror links
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Again: Labour should announce they'll eminent domain all this back without compensation. Kill the sale.
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"But I blocked... every home..."
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Imagine having been part of the government of this country, describing £38.7k as "the wealthiest", and not having a total-perspective-vortex moment at the scale of your failure.
It is both morally wrong and unconservative to say that only the wealthiest can fall in love, marry someone and then bring them to the UK
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This is quite, quite mad.
EXC: Tory MPs propose ‘Super Thursday’ plan - holding an ECHR Referendum on the same day as a General Election
Aimed to ‘square off’ threat from Reform and
@Nigel_Farage
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Every time the question feels redundant but how can this country's senior leadership be this stupid.
A new book by the recent head of the Foreign Office argues that Britain should barter away its nuclear deterrent in pursuit of 'soft power' goals, & give away our seat at the UN to the EU.
(The reviewer seems to relish his hand in the recent Blob coups against Raab and Johnson)
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Any employer who sets a degree requirement in a job description is saying their business needs university training to function - so why aren't they paying for it? | my latest for
@CapX
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Germany is the world’s worst performing major economy.
Popular anger and the AfD are rising in response to austerity.
FT editorial board recommends softening the debt brake and public investment. And warns: “The rise of the far right ought to focus the minds.”
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No, deploying the Royal Navy as a precaution against a rumoured blockade of a friendly port is not equivalent to threatening to inflict power cuts on a neighbour to strongarm them in a negotiation | my latest for
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The utter poverty of ambition here. Build only council housing? Let other countries develop the industries and technologies of the future? To protect the landscape of *Cambridgeshire*?
Oh for goodness sake, we do not need our own “Silicon Valley” - and the American one destroyed the local ecology. Council housing always welcome, but this has a whiff of HS2 mania about it. A golden research triangle?! Perhaps a Cape Canaveral too? Save the Fens!
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There is no such thing as an external 'guarantor' of the Belfast Agreement, and if there were the United States would not be fit to serve in the role | my latest for
@CapX
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It was bult 160 years ago?
🚇 Why the Metropolitan Line embodies the brilliance of Britain
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Should franchise it. Clarkson's Railway. Clarkson's Power Plant.
Confession: I'm totally obsessed with "Clarkson's Farm" and eagerly awaiting the new season. The show has become my absolute must-watch, and I analyse every mishap as a reflection of broader issues in the UK.
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Sounds like the Conservatives are minded to do something about this if ever they get into office.
Blasphemy is not a crime in our country. We will only remain a tolerant and harmonious society if we do not capitulate to mob intimidation. Safeguarding children and security must be of paramount importance.
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This could be Chesham and Amersham in five years.
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How can you write "despite their wealth" about a combined income of £40,000 pa.
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Peers can provide parliamentary scrutiny, often better. Peers in Cabinet is good and only recently stopped happening, we must not turn the last five minutes into another "hallowed norm".
1.The minister in charge of foreign policy should be in the Commons, where they can be questioned by elected representatives.
It's a mark of this govt's contempt for parly scrutiny that this matters so little.
A junior minister reading out the "line to take" is not a substitute
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We've built a political economy in which public services are barely kept afloat via the mass import of cheap labour into a chronic housing crisis and the state tops up poverty wages with tax credits but sure, not defending that is the disgrace.
Iain Dale, "I think Labour's position on immigration is an absolute disgrace.. The three of us on this panel have all explained what the benefits of immigration are.. Do you ever hear a politician, from right or left, extolling the virtues of immigration?"
"And you have the…
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Criminalise the public promulgation of American nonsense.
“These roads were built by my ancestors”, says this guy in UK.
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Obviously can't engage with this nonsense all the time but:
a) There is a British nation in addition to the four home nations, and the UK is our national state;
b) 'Island nation' is a perfectly acceptable way to describe a nation on an archipelago.
The UK Head of State cannot even describe the UK accurately. It is not an island nation: a) The UK is one island & part of another island (Ireland); b) The UK is not a nation; it is an union of four nations.
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Britain will have "self-awareness" when it accepts taxes are already sky-high, it's a low wage country that doesn't have lots of people earning lots more than you, is short four million houses and counting, and can't keep endlessly ratcheting up entitlements because they're nice.
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...why are we talking about axeing the census?
On the show today we are talking about axing the Census.
So... what's your family tree's claim to fame?
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This attitude is obviously ignorant and hateful, but what's especially galling is it isn't describing some necessary trade-off. These things haven't caused the housing crisis, we could just have generally better lives.
@Gaylussite
@theipaper
We didn’t have foreign holidays, stag weekends in Vegas, overnight stays at weddings, meals out, take outs, beauty treatments, three music festivals a year, designer clothes and all the other things now considered a human right. Stop bitching, work harder and save like we used to
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'Britons' is the word for British citizens, which these people also are. This pedantry isn't just tedious, its actually wrong.
And with that
@RishiSunak
bounds onto the stage. “Good afternoon my fellow Britons”, he says, to a room full of people not from Britain
#ConservativeLeadershipContest
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Britain's first 'race correspondent' continuing to prove the worth of the concept.
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And remember: older property commands a market premium because we keep banning attractive features on new builds.
NEW: Lots of countries have housing challenges so how exceptional is the UK's housing crisis? Very. We pay higher prices to live in smaller, older and poorer-quality homes
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The partition of our United Kingdom was a tragedy.
The partition of Ireland was a catastrophe for our people and our country. The partition of Ireland costs us to this day, holds us back, divides us. Uachtarán na hÉireann has made clear his decision not to attend a commemorative event. His decision is the correct one.
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Wait until she finds out who's sitting in the Assembly.
SDLP MP Claire Hanna goes on the record saying that she does not think a group that represents paramilitaries should be appearing before the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee as she believes paramilitaries should not exist, she says.
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You're a government with an overall majority, what the fuck is "can't".
A Downing Street source said: 'If we can’t do anything on housing supply we are going to have to do something on affordability'
May improve accessibility but this would worsen affordability and most of the help would go to those who could have bought anyway
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We need to somehow retroactively ban the West Wing so British politicos don't come to think separation of powers is a central feature of our fusion-of-powers constitution.
This is key to what is happening here. We are witnessing the most extreme assault on judicial independence, the rule of law, and the separation of powers in our lifetime.
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Never another British soldier to an American war.
President Biden while standing in East Jerusalem: “…the background of my family is Irish American. And we have a long history not fundamentally unlike the Palestinian people, with Great Britain and their attitude toward Irish Catholics over the years for 400 years.”
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Why should the state subsidise economically-inactive people living in London as workers are getting squeezed to its edges? | my latest for
@CapX
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Please stop running against a government that left office in 2010.
As Labour’s Shadow Chancellor gets ready for her speech, it’s worth remembering how Labour left the country last time.
Broke.
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If only there'd been some previous test of whether or not Parliament had the constitutional authority to suspend elections.
Parliament has never - say - passed an Act securing its enduring existence without further Election, with membership to be determined by a committee of existing members. Or created a one party system.
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This is an absolutely incredible blurb when you realise what those British demands to the West African kings were.
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Build a reservoir. A desalination plant. An aqueduct. Whatever is required.
"Where's the fucking water going to vote from?" is a question which is answered by a bigger blueprint, not a smaller one.
- Them. Is it being a NIMBY to ask, politely, where you think the fucking water is going to come from?
Another reason for spreading out and disaggregating.
Cambridge is like central London- it's totally unaffordable.
Silicon Valley has trashed the best city in N America (S Fran)-
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Shout out to all the Tory MPs who insist that levelling up means we should build all the new houses in places like this.
Bald discovers that because there are so many abandoned houses in Horden the local council has been plastering abandoned houses with printed fake windows and doors to stop the town looking too empty and dilapidated
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The secret ingredient is murder.
Former Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams launches his new book The Negotiator's Cookbook, based on recipes that Adams made during the peace process talks in the 1990's (2018)
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Britain is not the United States. Scorn this America-brained nonsense.
“Every single person living in Britain today is the descendant of an immigrant.”
Paul Drechsler, Chair of the International Chambers of Commerce UK, says it’s important we change the 'nasty' narrative in Britain about migration.
|
#R4Today
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Look who avoided the list again!
Free Palestine, Free Guam, Free Haiti, Free Puerto Rico, Free Hawai’i, Free every and all oppressed people who have been subject to imperialism and colonization and have had to fight tooth and nail to keep their land and their right to live there. We WILL be free!
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Thought occurs that if you ban a service from striking, you really need to make sure that politicians don't use the absence of that pain signal to just run it into the ground.
.
@Telegraph
@SheridanDani
reporting HMS Argyll as well as HMS Westminster to be scrapped due to RN personnel shortage.
HMS Argyll began refit in the shed at Devonport in August 2022 and was supposed to rejoin the fleet in late 2023.
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It's also his country. He's not a dignitary visiting a foreign state, he's a prime minister visiting a part of the country he is prime minister of. This stuff is ridiculous.
Extraordinary snub for Scottish people by Johnson failing to visit the leader of a country on a visit to that country.
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What if people who clearly haven't been paying any attention to Northern Ireland just... didn't tweet about it?
I don’t think people fully understand the consequences of Sinn Fein’s success. We’re witnessing the impending and I think now inevitable collapse of the United Kingdom..
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RT🔒: "Labour MP attending an event like this should be grounds for expulsion"
Great attendance at Break Up of Britain conference. And chuffed to share platform on first panel with Labour’s Clive Lewis, Plaid’s Leanne Wood & Greens Caroline Lucas.
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In his speech today, Ian Blackford claimed that Scotland played a 'central' part in the Hanseatic League. In fact, Scottish merchants' involvement in piracy led the Hanse to embargo them. Twice. | my latest for
@unherd
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"Under Section 59 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, the planning system will be re-organised under THE CAMBRIDGE DEVELOPMENT ORDER!"
Michael Gove is drawing up proposals to turn Cambridge into Britain’s Silicon Valley, with as many as 250,000 new homes built over the next two decades and the prospect of billions of pounds of investment
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Votes for non-citizens is a joke.
"Under manifesto plans for the biggest expansion of the franchise in almost a century, Sir Keir will launch a “package of proposals” including votes for settled migrants and 16 and 17-year-olds."
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I finally got to write how much I hate, hate, hate what Greg Hands is doing with that letter and what it illustrates about politics | my latest for
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The fact that there are vastly more people eligible for asylum under the current system than western countries could possibly admit - and more than was envisioned in the mid-20th Century - is not really something that can be "not a good look"ed away.
This, by Nick Timothy, is sufficiently extreme that it’s hard to imagine it isn’t some kind of parody seeking to discredit Conservatism.
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The Tories should call in and authorise every development in Lib Dem seats on a point of principle.
The need for the proposed Abingdon mega-reservoir is far from proven, and the environmental impacts of such a project don't seem to have been accounted for.
This project must be halted, immediately.
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Everyone gets one guess about whether the Tories are repealing the legislation that requires these jobs exist.
Sajid Tells NHS to Cut Pointless Diversity and Inclusion Jobs
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How did 'total war with Germany' become a generation's baseline for an acceptable standard of peacetime living?
Bacon and ham 4oz
Butter 2oz
Cheese 2oz
Margarine 4oz
Cooking fat 4oz
Milk 3 pints
Sugar 8oz
Jam 1lb every two months
Tea 2oz
Eggs, 1 a week, if available powdered egg packet every four weeks.
No food banks nobody starved!
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'The island of Ireland' is a frame which includes the Republic but excludes the bulk of the United Kingdom. The Belfast Agreement is not an 'island of Ireland' issue.
And America has no duty in that regard whatsoever, except perhaps arresting IRA fundraisers.
Thank you,
@trussliz
for your hospitality and frank discussion regarding our duty to protect peace and stability on the island of Ireland.
I urge good faith negotiations with the EU to find durable solutions for post-Brexit trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Do we need to carve "You paid half the headline rate due to MIRAS and loan-to-value levels were less than half what they are today" on the fucking moon?
The entitled 'young' of today make me want to puke
Try mortgage rates going to 15% (FIFTEEN!) through early 90s. & being told your endowment mortgage, after being yrs in, is going to be 20% of the value of ur home short & having to borrow that extra!
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Imagine building something in three years.
Three years later the station was complete. Its train shed was the largest enclosed space in the world at the time, a vast vault of iron and glass over 30 metres high, 70 metres wide, and 200 metres long.
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Always amazed by the things the modern, ban-happy state won't ban.
EXC: Tories refuse to ban Bully XL killer breed that is behind wave of horror dog attacks
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The next BBC charter renewal should stipulate that the US may only be covered in the foreign news section | my latest for
@TheCriticMag
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"...the British prohibited her from learning to read and write..."
"...I’ve been elected to the Royal Historical Society..."
🤨
I woke up to news this morning that I’ve been elected to the Royal Historical Society in England! I’m profoundly grateful to receive this honor. I dedicate this fellowship in honor of my paternal great grandmother, who was born in Belfast, but fled to the US b/c the British…
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If this still existed, it'd be cherished. If you tried to build it now, people would whinge and gibber about their views.
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Bottom right not only does the s' properly, but also puts the t in superscript as it should. The rest are decline.
I regret to inform you that the horrific crime at St James’s’s Park tube station remain’s on view.
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Reminder that Ken Clarke shut the recently-refurbished HMP Lancaster in 2011 because he'd wanted to in the Nineties and didn't like that it was in a castle.
🚨 | BREAKING: Rapists, burglars and other criminals will be SPARED jail from next week as judges are told that the country’s prisons are literally full
Ministers are now releasing some prisoners early to rapidly free up cells
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@thetimes
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We've only been trying to home-school pupils for what, a year?
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Oxford should simply not be permitted to refuse to grow.
Went on GB News, said we should spend most of Oxford's research and infrastructure money in Bradford if it continues to refuse to grow. We can't keep propping up failing places forever.
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Tory MPs determined to get that 18-25 vote share to zero.
Wrong headline. Should say: Conservatives listen to residents and build the right homes in the right places. Labour will ignore residents and impose housing in the wrong place. While completely failing to build enough housing in London and Wales where they are in charge
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National Service for boomers, but they can buy their way out of it for a suitably eye-watering sum.
All very interesting, but what about a year of national service for the baby boomers (who are absolutely not old enough to have served in WW2 but often seem to think they did) - the generation who received countless economic benefits that today's young people can only dream of?
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Someone needs to find a form of accounting that makes "the country being shit" show up in the Treasury's five-year spending plans.
What an embarrassment - well done to
@whippletom
for his hospitality and saving some national honour
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@DPJHodges
Weren't we meant to have had spiralling food prices and soaring unemployment after the vote though?
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Polls suggest the Conservatives are on track for a hammering at the election. Every faction has an explanation for why - but none has yet confronted the sheer scale of the problem | my latest for
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I must have hallucinated all those times we were told a land border must be avoided because it would provoke republican violence.
Senior UK official close to sausage meat talks with the EU says prevention of new loyalist violence in Northern Ireland is linked to effectiveness of political negotiations between EU & UK on allowing free trade in chilled meats between GB and NI. Sounds like emotional blackmail
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Don't forget pricing childcare as a luxury good, making all official support spendable only on that broken product, and making informal childcare arrangements *illegal*.
A lot of really interesting stuff in this from
@FraserNelson
but utterly bizarre not to address the issue of housing costs
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