Benjamin Butterworth
@benjaminbutter
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Indefatigable. (on a break)
Joined March 2009
Good to see a newspaper taking action over an editor with serious accusations
The Times Scotland editor suspended over indecent communications charge
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Now we know what to call all the Tories in disguise joining Reform… they’re bonnie blues
New - Bonnie Blue nails her colours to the mast, writing in The Spectator: “Reform has sensible positions on immigration and inheritance tax, so I stand with Nigel Farage.”
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Problem with politics now is that it’s a fight and not a pursuit. Zack Polanski can make clearly vile comments about immigrants ‘wiping bums’ and Cancel Culture types see no issue, while Nick Fuentes monetises racism and the Right flinch at condemning him. Pathetic all round.
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Where is the free speech 💥 brigade now?
The Trump administration plans to require all foreign tourists to provide their social media histories from the last five years to enter the country, according to a notice published in the Federal Register.
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He’s totally fumbled it, he should’ve just been honest and reflective, and it speaks volumes about him that he cannot be
This is the biggest crisis of Farage's career. Every day the Dulwich allegations grow, and it becomes ever harder for Farage to shrug them off as schoolboy banter, or politically motivated, or as lies. He is being so tin-eared, & bound to alienate Jewish, black & Asian voters.
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There is absolutely no way a right-winger could say this without being heavily criticised. You have to ask if Zack Polanski must resign now. There is blatant classism and inescapable whiff of racism talking about ethnic minority migrants use being to ‘wipe the bums’ of Brits.
🚨NEW: Zack Polanksi on why we need migration: "I don’t know about you but I don't want to wipe someone's bum"
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We're in extraordinary position in tackling HIV - why our plans matter writes @wesstreeting
https://t.co/WXtvikERAy
mirror.co.uk
Writing for The Mirror on World AIDS Day, Health Secretary Wes Streeting said huge medical advances mean people with HIV lead long, happy and healthy lives as he said work needs to be done to tackle...
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This is, categorically, racism. Not judging a person by the content of their character or hard work in their life. But by the country they were born in and the ethnicity they belong to. Of course little Lucy will never achieve what Nus Ghani has, no matter where she was born.
Today, the Deputy Speaker presiding over the Budget Statement in the UK House of Commons is Nus Ghani. Nus Ghani was born in Kashmir, Pakistan. There should not be a single person born in Pakistan in the UK House of Commons.
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Rachel Reeves has today done more to transform the lives of 450,000 of Britain’s poorest children than any of the seven previous Conservative chancellors, who, in 14 long years, did nothing but harm to the lives of vulnerable children. https://t.co/xOTRFpKUhU
newstatesman.com
By abolishing the cap, Rachel Reeves will lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty
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Children should not be punished for the circumstances of their parents. For all the debated uses of public money, one I make no complaint about is ensuring children can be fed, clothed and educated properly. Cutting child poverty should make Britons proud.
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Retirees with no mortgages get more above inflation handouts and special benefits on ISAs, while workers crippled by housing costs and marginal wage gains are punished. The stranglehold on our economy by its richest group, pension takers, must end if we are to get anywhere.
Hitting people saving for their pensions at a time when we’ll have to work longer knowing we’ll get less from the state is a special kind of stupid.
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Opposing a tourist tax is incredibly silly. I cannot think of a single European city I’ve been to that doesn’t have one. Nobody is cancelling their holiday because of £2. Meanwhile it brings in hundreds of millions from foreign visitors to cover services for locals.
English cities to be allowed to impose tourism taxes
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Why does every MP now have to act like a kids TV presenter
Billionaire wealth keeps piling up. Everyone else is left with less and less. With this mountain of pasta, I show why we need to tax the Billionaires.
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This person’s home has quadrupled in value and is rented out, presumably at thousands of pounds a month, yet thinks he is a victim of this economy. People like this extract from our economy, not contribute to it. The country will be better off when this isn’t normal.
🇬🇧🏠 We purchased a modest little townhouse in Fulham many moons ago, back when you could still get change from a half a million quid in SW6. Fast forward to 2025 and it now scrapes the £2m mark, literally the borderline where Labour’s threatened “mansion tax” starts to bite.
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Is it normal to leak every detail of the budget?
THE BUDGET 2025 Here's everything we know about today's Budget, from the dozen plus tax rises to the cost-of-living giveaways and increase in spending on welfare: TAX * Freezing income tax thresholds for two more years until 2030, raising £8bn to £10bn. The biggest tax rise
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Great news! Top EU court mandates same-sex marriage recognition across borders https://t.co/WIcrLsV2tL
politico.eu
The Luxembourg-based court said a decision by Polish authorities infringed on a same-sex couple’s freedom of movement.
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Just to be clear, the reason there are 80,000 cases in backlog, resulting in people giving up on justice altogether due to years long waits, is down to the government you were at the top of. There is a legitimate debate about the value of jury versus judge trials, but don’t
An end to our ‘world class justice system’ as we know it. This is a serious assault on our liberty. Trial by your peers is a fundamental right in our democracy and goes to the core of who we are as a nation. Is there nothing sacred left in this country that Labour won’t
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An extraordinary turn of events. The chill wind of Trump litigation against media organisations working exactly as it is intended. And another example of the internal neurosis over a largely irrelevant Panorama edit resulting in *more* partial coverage of Trump, not less.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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2 Years of the Broadcaster’s Supper Club! Had a great time defrosting Mariah Carey with this lot. Featuring the legendary @iaindale as Santa Claus & @Caiwilsh @christiancalgie @tomhfh @benjaminbutter @rosiewright99 @CameronDLWalker @Stsantek @JAHeale @JoshRomOnAir as elves 🎅🎉🍾
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The slightest support for the poorest families and workers who commute: "No! Slash public expenditure now!" Whopping increase in the state pension every year, costing the Treasury billions a time: *crickets*
Question: When debt is over 100% of GDP, how on earth can the government justify increasing it even further by spending £3 billion on abolishing the 2 child benefit cap, and now increasing the subsidy to railways by £600 million? They should be slashing public expenditure, not
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