Finish. The. Goddamn. Poem.

I wrote to the Home Office asking them to release the full facts on migration. The Immigration Minister, Mike Tapp, has replied to say it's not worth the money. So I've asked him to explain exactly why he thinks so. The public deserves the whole truth.

Lord Falconer lies about what his colleagues in the House of Lords say. Can you trust him when he says his bill will not force the vulnerable into suicide?

My youngest learning the true basis of British History this morning - he says its one of the best he’s read

New article: on the importance of choral evensong and the campaign to give it world heritage status (gift link in thread...)

Honestly this is a great premise for a sitcom: In the icy wasteland of Greenland, a ragtag NATO detachment of 13 Germans, 2 Norwegians, 3 Swedes, 15 French and 1 lone Brit must "defend" the Arctic from... well, mostly boredom, polar bears, and each other's national stereotypes.

@PronouncedAlva The praetorian guard murdered more than a dozen emperors

It was a long-standing rumour in Communist Romania that when Ceausescu’s classless wife saw the replica Venus de Milo installed within the Presidential Palace for the first time, she insisted on its having arms fitted rather than having a broken statue in her house.

Utter yank shite

.@carlalockhart is one of the most courageous unionist MPs that our community has ever had representing our interests in Parliament. The abuse she receives is appalling, and wouldn’t be tolerated if it was an Alliance, SF or SDLP rep. It’s no ok- unionists aren’t fair game.

@emilyhewertson We are the most right wing, explicitly pro free markets, pro capitalism and small government we’ve been for years. If you left under Boris, I could understand, as we were a big government, high immigration and net zero party. We aren’t now. Now - we have a very different offer

A government that treads more lightly on our lives latest

If you are too young to be able to drink non-alcoholic drinks aged 17, for fear of being a “gateway” to drinking, then how can you possibly be old enough to vote? Votes at 16 cannot go ahead with this nonsense too ⬇️

Precisely and the legal fees will push hospices and care homes to the brink, so they’ll be forced to accept unless they are given legal protection on the face of the Bill (a) that beyond doubt they can adopt the policy they want (b) any public funds cannot require involvement

I'll save everyone the bother of reading it. Utter joke.

Sometimes. One man is enough.

Who drank these as a kid?

@PolitlcsUK Drinking alcohol is normal you puritan freaks

I too am concerned that if you let people have fun they might also wish to have other forms of fun.

The thing is @kimleadbeater also did this, and the APM had to write, now Lord Falconer has done so. Well healed lobby group Dignity in Dying will have briefed both, and it forms part of a well established pattern of misrepresenting written and oral evidence in their briefings.