Sam Freedman
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Writes the UK's most popular politics Substack (). New book - "Failed State" - out 29th August .
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The Local Election Preview 2024 - with predictions and analysis for every race. And how to intepret the results.
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Haaland now has as many PL hattricks as Ronaldo, Vardy and Lampard. He's played eight games.
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I think the BBC may have dramatically overestimated how interesting the narcissistic ramblings of a tennis player might be.
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At this rate the Ukrainian farmers union are going to have the 6th or 7th biggest army in the world.
Watching videos of Ukrainian farmers stealing Russian military equipment worth tens of millions of pounds - in this case a Tor-M2 SAM system - will absolutely never get old.👇🇺🇦
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In 2002 Wimbledon fans had our club stolen. It was reopened in Milton Keynes as MK Dons. We restarted the club in the 10th division of non-league football.
17 years later - because of tonight's results - we'll be playing in a higher league than MK Dons.
Finally, justice.
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I guess a lot of Brits are seeing Zelensky in the first time in this role of heroic war leader and don't realise he's a comedy actor by trade. He won the Presidency after appearing for 6 years as the fictional President in a TV show.
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There was a 93 year old lady at the polling station. Registered blind. In a very loud voice she said "how do I vote against beergate!" Everyone cheered.
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Number of students currently studying architecture, building, planning and engineering = 245,395
Number currently studying "Harry Potter Studies" = 0
"The current system would rather our young people get a degree in Harry Potter studies, than in construction," says Higher Education Minister Andrea Jenkyns, who says that universities are feeding students "a diet of critical race theory, anti British history and Social Marxism."
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St Petersburg was designed by an Italian and built by a Frenchman using Swedish labourers.
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Whichever librarian managed to get not just the "The Twits" but also "Betrayed"; "Resistance" and "Fahrenheit 451" in the shot behind Johnson has my admiration.
Got to be the worst politicians Zoom bookshelves ever.
Except what's that in the top, right hand corner, "The Twits".
School librarian has a sense of humour.
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Dear BBC news programmes - this man no longer leads a party, isn't a MP, and no one cares what he thinks. Please stop inviting him on.
NEW: Nigel Farage: I agree with Donald Trump's refugee ban policy
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Imagine being too much of a moral vacuum for Priti Patel.
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With Strictly and voicing Paddington on his CV the only way Zelensky could appeal to middle Britain more would be if it turned out he played Superintendent Hastings in the Ukrainian version of Line of Duty.
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TV series idea - CASE CLOSED - veteran detective Simon Case investigates murders in a small rural village but every week he turns out to be one of the perpetrators + has to flee to a new village.
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Cannot get over that Dacre letter. A man with a £2m salary, a Mayfair house, Highlands estate + Carribean holiday home, who's had decades of privileged access to multiple Prime Ministers + for whom the govt literally rigged a job, complaining the establishment are out to get him
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The best bit in Braverman's letter is where she says she was prepared to accept Sunak despite him having no public mandate as long as he agreed to her secret deal the public didn't even know about.
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An Oxford education and no one ever told him Cassandra was right!
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Zoom is now valued at 50% more than all the US airlines put together.
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I reckon if you're going to spend that much on a house you should finish the book and see how it works out for everyone first.
The largest home to be built in Britain in 100 years has been inspired by The Great Gatsby
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If the BBC have to pull MOTD I'm happy to fill in with an 80 min lecture on why the illegal immigration bill is the worse piece of legislation put in front of Parliament in my lifetime.
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Today doesn't feel like it's gone as Putin wanted:
* Ukrainian defence stronger than expected.
* Massive US/EU/UK sanctions for all major banks
* Stockmarket down 40%
* Protests across Russia (despite thousands of arrests)
* Finnish MPs pushing to join NATO
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A lot of focus on Sunak being the first Asian PM but this is a big day for Britain's petite male community as well.
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Being told by Grant Shapps and Priti Patel than you're not good enough at politics is the final humiliation.
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Looking forward to Piers Morgan, Andrew Neil and Nigel Farage's inevitable GB News talk show. I propose the name "Loose Gammon".
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Mail, Express and Telegraph get taken on a taxpayer funded Braverman trip to Rwanda. Each paper dutifully splashes their Sunday edition with the headline she's asked for. Client journalism as it's most blatant and we're paying for it.
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Congratulations to Jan Moir for sneaking in right at the end to win worst take of the year.
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The day of that "press conference" there was a "gold command" meeting discussing whether to put the country in full lockdown; thousands of lorry drivers were stuck outside Dover with no food or water, and Nicola Sturgeon apologised for briefly taking off her mask at a funeral.
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Sometimes I can't help but think Jacob Rees-Mogg is an invented character designed purely to wind me up. No set of affections or behaviours could be so perfectly calculated to make me this annoyed.
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I doubt he'll stand but if the Tory party put Boris Johnson back in charge I'm going to become one of those people that stands outside Parliament shouting all day.
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Love Christmas Day on twitter. All the "I only use it for work" lightweights gone and just the hardcore three-pack a day addicts left.
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Being publicly called "utterly ridiculous" by Nadine Dorries is a new career high.
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Coverage of the Ethiopian crash is grimly revealing. Every headline focuses on the 7 Brits lost rather than the 149 people in total. Every story has a picture of the white woman who died.
If no Brit had been on that plane it wouldn't have made the front page.
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Putin doing a live speech and just did a bit on "cancel culture" in the West focusing particularly on J. K. Rowling being cancelled. I wish I was joking.
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
There were far, far more cheers, but that doesn’t make a good headline does it.
Queen’s thanksgiving service: Boos and jeers for Boris Johnson outside St Paul’s
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Back in 1893 the Tory MP for Thanet James Lowther gave a speech saying the country was being "overrun" by "destitute foreign migrants" who should go back to where they came from. He was talking about Jews, including my great-great-grandparents.
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Unfortunately I have a cough + a fever. Turns out I can't get a test because I haven't been to any affected countries or come into contact with a known case. Even though I have been through an airport + to a concert. This seems a major flaw in the testing system to say the least
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These are the BBC rules on social media and it is v hard to see how Lineker broke them. (Via
@kitandrew1
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Because you told Republicans not to vote by mail you absolute balloon.
How come every time they count Mail-In ballot dumps they are so devastating in their percentage and power of destruction?
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40 Tories didn't vote with the Government on fracking. Including Kwasi Kwarteng.
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Pre-Brexit we had three Chancellors in 19 years. Post-Brexit six in six.
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Wait till they hear how many times this month I've worn these trousers. I'm basically CEO of Greenpeace.
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Lol - Zahawi and Cleverly trashed their reputations for absolutely nothing. Classic Boris Johnson dick move.
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Two big macs AND a cheesburger combined have the same number of calories as the vegan katsu curry at Wagamama. Fact.
It feels like class snobbery to single out McDonald’s in this manner. It’s notably less calorific than more up-market burger chains, not to mention patisseries.
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Middle income families do not use private schools for the absolute love of God. The average household income is less than the annual fee of Sunak's old school.
‘Our kids are the best readers in the western world now. When Keir Starmer attacks private schools, I told him he’s attacking people like my parents. Middle income families who want nothing but a great education for their kids’
Rishi Sunak is asked about his education plans.
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Papers have been briefed that Govt will announce tomorrow that asylum seekers will be flown to centres in Rwanda for the claims to be assessed. Sending people fleeing from persecution to a dictatorship that repeatedly violates human rights might just be a new low.
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If I were one of Rees-Moggs civil servants I would sneak into his office and leave a note saying: "You weren't here when I walked by but I look forward to seeing you out of office soon".
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There is no getting around the fact that this is extremely enjoyable.
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Someone needs to tell Sunak to stop talking to us like he's a management consultant delivering a careers session at the local college.
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Hanukkah begins today. Like all Jewish festivals it can be summarised as:
"They tried to kill us. We survived. Let's eat."
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However bad your day has been you are not the person trying to write Truss's conference speech.
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Which makes what he's doing now even more extraordinary. Like we decided to elect Hugh Grant as PM after Love Actually and then he turned about to be the heir to Churchill.
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Asking someone to have a test before going to a big event = Nazi authoritarianism.
Removing people's citizenship w/o informing them and banning peaceful protest = sensible strong government.
These people have ventured into a land far beyond logic.
Conservative MP Marcus Fysh who is opposing vaccine passports this morning on BBC "we are not a 'papers please' society"
"This is not Nazi Germany," he says
"It's the thin end of an authoritarian wedge"
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I'm sorry but this is contempible. It was in the press release. We can all see it.
"I never had any intention of changing the terms and conditions of teachers and nurses. But what I want to be clear about is I will not be going ahead with the regional pay boards”
Liz Truss says her policy on regional pay boards has been “misrepresented”
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I'm not saying Boris has quite reached the end yet, but his wife briefing against him is probably not a good sign.
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Always amazed when discussing private schools on here how many people using them genuinely think they're "squeezed middle" or not rich. Apart from a handful of full bursaries everyone using private schools is rich.
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I fully support Farage in this boycott and I hope the BBC understand that continuing to ask him on programmes is disrespectful given he's made his position clear.
Nigel Farage boycotts BBC after accusing it of treating him like a 'war criminal'
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For people under 50 today's YouGov poll is:
Lab 60%
Con 10%
Green 10%
LD 9%
Reform 5%
SNP 3%
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Honestly don't understand how the China travel checks is a bigger news story than people lying on the floor of A+Es around the country writhing in agony. The latter is far scarier and consequential.
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One of these parties (I know it's hard to keep track) was for James Slack, now deputy editor of The Sun, in case you've been wondering why they've been downplaying partygate.
🚨EXCLUSIVE
Number 10 held two boozy parties the night before the Queen mourned Prince Philip alone.
Staff drank and at points danced until the early hours of the night of April 16.
Hours later, the Queen went to a socially-distanced funeral for Philip.
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Tory MPs declaring their opposition to attacks on liberty re: masks/vaccines while voting through a Borders Bill that allows the Govt to remove someone's citizenship without even telling them why. And supporting a Police Bill that allows them to stop any protest causing "unease"
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As the Met said yesterday that these questionnaires are equivalent to an interview under caution, Boris Johnson takes the dubious honour of being the first PM to be cautioned by police in office.
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Am going to do a substantive post on Raab and bullying for tomorrow but the idea that his behaviour was necessary to drive performance can be refuted by the absence of a single substantive achievement in 7 years as a minister and 5 in cabinet.
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Priti Patel stepping down from Government and heading to the backbenches.
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Yougov 23rd-25th September
Labour 45%
Tories 28%
Libs 9%
Biggest Labour lead YouGov have ever had in 21 years of polling.
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GCSE data published today shows that for the first time pupils for whom English is not their first language (EAL) did better than native speakers on every measure reported by the DFE.
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For all those still arguing Raab's behaviour was necessary to improve performance, a reminder that he delayed a decision to evacuate people from Afghanistan because he was unhappy with how a document was formatted.
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Kwarteng thinking a random Korean consultancy was going to pay him £10k a day right after he'd offered himself at £10k a month gives some insight into why he struggled as Chancellor.
🚨MPs FOR HIRE: a Led By Donkeys undercover investigation🚨
Watch the trailer…
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Being endorsed by Rees-Mogg, Dorries and the Mail simultaneously is the political equivalent of the sorting hat putting you in Slytherin.
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Hi Chris can you tell me which hospitals Steve Barclay has worked in? Or the schools Gillian Keegan has taught in? Or which units Grant Shapps has commanded?
In fairness, the entire Labour Front Bench seems to have been selected on the basis they have no knowledge of their new brief...
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For instance adults should be able to answer simple questions like:
"If you are thousands of maths teachers short of required numbers + you've cut real terms pay for 13 years + then you introduce a policy that requires thousands more maths teachers how likely is it to succeed?"
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Why are all the young people left wing now? Well it can't be because the country is a steaming wreck, housing is unaffordable, disposable income has been stagnant for 16 years, and nothing works.
Must be brainwashing. Only explanation.
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Think this is a cabinet minister saying her Government didn't prepare properly for the pandemic. Inquiry might like to ask her about that.
3/4 Your pandemic preparation during six years as health secretary was found wanting and inadequate.Your duplicity right now in destabilising the party and country to serve your own personal ambition, more so.
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The 22 really fucked it by assuming the threat of a second vote would be enough. Should have done the 2nd vote tonight. This is huge huge damage to the Tory party now.
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That sick feeling when I open my eyes every morning and reach for my phone to see what atrocities the Russians have committed overnight.
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This is pure unabashed racism. It has somehow become an acceptable thing for Tory MPs to do with zero consequences.
Tory MP Lee Anderson discussing Sadiq Khan on GB News:
“He’s given our capital city away to his mates”:
“I don’t actually believe that the Islamists have got control of our country, but what I do believe is they’ve got control of Khan, and they’ve got control of London."
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A PM worth hundreds of millions betting £1k that he can deport a few hundred people with nothing to an unsafe country is really deeply grim.
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This is quite possibly the subtlest joke I've ever seen on Twitter. Applause.
Pfizer vaccine: effective, protective and safe
Modena vaccine: effective, protective and safe
Oxford vaccine: effective, protective, and safe
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Remain voters need a word to describe a feeling of total vindication combined with deep horror.
Schadenfuck?
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Imagine a Tory minister defending a mob who set fire to a police van in literally any other context.
Asked if those organising protests outside hotels against asylum seekers should be described as "far right", Suella Braverman tells GB News that asylum seekers are putting "really serious pressures on communities and saying so does not make you racist or bigoted."
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Month 4 of this and still people struggling with the concept that this is about the spread of infection not personal risk.
I’m 23 years old. I like pubs. I feel safe. I’ll probably go to a pub.
If you are a lot older, don’t like pubs, or don’t feel safe then don’t choose go to one.
Common sense. Not hard.
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The depth of the Tory delusion re the BBC can be seen in them blaming the beeb for playing up partygage when all the major developments have been broken by ITV, the Mirror (and latterly the Telegraph).
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Chris Pincher is still an MP and still a member of the Tory party by the way.
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Astonishing nonsense from Sunak implying his wife would have to give up her Indian citizenship to avoid being a non-dom. She just has to chose not to pay a £30k annual fee.
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I think I'm having a fever dream. Just laughing hysterically now.
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How can a government be so politically inept - let alone devoid of empathy - that it has managed to get into an argument with the parents of a murdered child?
🚨 BREAK: Brianna Ghey's father has told Sky News that Rishi Sunak should apologise for his "degrading comments".
Peter Spooner said the PM's comments in parliament were "absolutely dehumanising".
More here:
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Unpopular opinion but MPs should be paid 50-100% more and second (and third...) jobs should be banned.
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I'll say this for Dan Hodges - he's a loyal solider. Can't be many people this prepared to die on so many pointless hills.
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May he live through this hell and get to play himself in the film.
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The PM, Cabinet Sec, + Prince of Wales all being investgiated by the Met Police, whose commissioner just resigned over multiple failings. And Andrew just had to pay £12m to resolve a sex trafficking case. So pleased to live in a country with a stable, respected, establishment.
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I hope everyone realises this "new variant" stuff is being overplayed to cover up for the fact the Govt have completely ballsed up the winter response. Sounds better to blame a "mutant variant".
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This is where constantly demonising asylum seekers gets you.
Huge mobilisation of far-right protestors outside a hotel for asylum-seekers in Knowsley, just outside of Liverpool. They've now set fire to a police van.
This was taken in the last hour:
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Sources close to Gary Lineker say a deal is increasingly likely but there are still tricky issues to resolve over fishing rights and jurisdiction of Strasbourg courts.
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