Lara Brown
@lara_e_brown
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Commissioning Editor at @Spectator. Email me: lbrown@spectator.co.uk
Joined March 2020
Unless you are in the lucky 97% of arrivals who are not removed from the UK...
If you are thinking of illegally entering the UK, don’t waste your money, you’ll be deported.
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The Labour Party says that immigration was too high under the last Government. They're right. But when we try to reverse this, they vote against, every single time. We must change the rules on settlement to prevent this wave of migration from becoming permanent.
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Allegedly 20,000 people have signed up to 'Your Party' so far. That could be over £1 million donated under false pretences, and the membership portal is still up. Will this money be returned?
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142,000 jobs were lost in the past year. Knife crime in London has increased by 58.5% in three years. Small boat crossings are at a record high. But Starmer still wants to talk about a Netflix show and the fictional issues it raises, because it's the only politics he knows.
Congratulations to the cast and crew of Adolescence – an impressive sweep of wins at the Emmys. I met with the show's creators and campaigners earlier this year to talk about the issues Adolescence raised. Its success is a reminder that we need to keep conversations going.
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The state pension rises every year, by a minimum of 2.5%. Income tax thresholds are frozen, meaning that tax effectively rises every year. When the state pension rises in 2027, it will rise above the personal allowance and need to be taxed. Totally absurd.
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Get officially-licensed Penn State Nittany Lions Tees, long-sleeves & hoodies monthly
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In 2018 I self-published the first of a number of circumspect, polite essays suggesting we should question whether transwomen were really women, pointing to wider harms of a positive answer. There were a number of deranged responses from fellow philosophers in my field, but one
This is probably the most powerful video you will see all year. Every American needs to watch this:
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I think Bob Vylan's comments are vile. I do not think he should be sent to prison for expressing his views. This is a completely consistent position. Freedom of speech does not require us to agree with everything anyone says.
A genuine ask. For those who scream about freedom of speech, why are you so upset about Bob Vylan no matter what he says??! You either believe in freedom of speech or you believe there is a line and Lucy Connolly passed that line as did Kirk many times. Stop being HYPOCRITES. Or
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'We're looking at a multi-billion pound tech deal that could be really good for the economy.' Lara Brown says President Trump's visit to the UK has 'come at a good time' for Keir Starmer. 📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604 🔓 Become a GB News Member: https://t.co/mNsRsGC8ef
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Look who’s celebrating Formula One racing in Azerbaijan, a corrupt and brutally repressive petrostate. “Aliyev Empire,” our investigative project, maps the $13 billion fortune secretly amassed by the daughters of Azerbaijan’s president amid war and human rights violations.
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George Abaraonye, the Oxford Union President Elect who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death, has now told the New Statesman: ‘My words were no less insensitive than his’ He is not sorry for his actions. He feels no remorse for celebrating the demise of a man he met weeks ago.
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I think George Abaraonye's comments are vile. Someone who wishes death on speakers because of their opinions is not fit to be president of a free speech society. But, I also think that nobody should be expelled from university on account of their publicly stated views.
The Chancellor of @UniofOxford, @WilliamJHague should show some mettle and expel George Abaraonye from Oxford University. He has brought shame on Oxford and shame on Britain.
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Before Charlie Kirk's murder, I hadn't properly understood how little humanity many people have left. The Oxford Union President celebrating his death, the Guardian posting his comments on gun violence as though that justifies the assassination. Unforgivable.
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“Sorry I laughed about a man I had debated weeks before having his neck shot apart by an assassin on a college campus, but here’s why he was actually a horrible person”. Not really a remorseful statement from the incoming Oxford Union president
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Devastated by the loss of Charlie Kirk. His guiding philosophy was 'when people stop talking, really bad stuff starts happening'. He dedicated his life to engaging in peaceful debate with anyone who would speak to him. For that he lost his life. We are in dark times.
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Charlie Kirk has devoted his life to debating ideas on university campuses. Young people need and deserve to hear every viewpoint when they go off to university. His shooting is a despicable, violent, and criminal attempt to censor ideas and discussion. Everyone at the FSU is
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This is wildly misleading. TFL is not self-funded anymore. Their operational surplus is after £2bn a year from the Government in retained business rates and additional GLA funding. Not to mention - the cost of settling with RMT would be far more than £166 million anyway.
@SpursRC The underground has made an operating surplus for the last three years, last year it was £166 million - that was delivered by our members.
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'Yvette Cooper has failed as Home Secretary over the last year… yet she’s been rewarded for failure!' Lara Brown says Keir Starmer can’t escape blame for Labour’s immigration crisis, warning the government still backs hotel use and refuses to tackle the ECHR or legal barriers.
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We have just sent our first fortnightly edition of The Spectator for the US market. And it's a gem. The cover piece, by @bdomenech, is on the military conflict that MAGA wants. It could not be more timely:
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David Bowie was working on a musical called 'The Spectator' when he died, inspired by the original 1711 publication of the world's oldest magazine... 👇👇👇 https://t.co/7Giql9lSyR
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Heathcliff is such a raging sociopath that at one point he hangs Isabella Linton's dog in front of her. He is not a Romantasy love interest.
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