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RT @JamesCleverly: Rachel Reeves’ dishonesty has come back to bite her. And deservedly so. She made up the “£22bn Black Hole” (no indep….

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Just 17 years after the world's first tunnelled railway opened, all of these lines were open and running. Yet almost 120 years later, we've added only the Victoria, Jubilee, and Elizabeth Lines. At some point, we'll have to stop blaming wartime labour shortages.

Although the shallow cut-and-cover lines had been operating since the 1860s, the first proper underground, tunnelled railway opened in 1890 (City and South London, now part of the Northern Line) followed by a burst of other tunnelled lines, so the 1907 map is recognisable today.

Most of the London Underground was also built in a 17 year burst of effort. It's amazing what's possible when there's will!.

RT @allen_m_simpson: We have set tax in this country at a level where people simply cannot get jobs.

Her policy proposal is always the same: let everyone in. She is at least expert enough to know that’s such an ocean going lemon of a policy that she tries to conceal it, though not very hard.

Zoe is that bloke down the pub who can’t walk to the bar without catching his breath, but after 5 minutes watching the Olympic gymnastics now confidently dispenses his expert coaching to each competitor in turn. “Expert”.

That's also why every aspect of this is notably absent from the hand-wringing discourse on misinformation.

It won't register. In the Wonderland of British housing, none of the words mean what they seem and none of the numbers add up, but no one seems to mind.

Though the ideology of "trans women are women" still grips the minds many elites holding significant institutional power, so it will not fade easily from public life. Mockery remains their greatest weakness, hence the especially vicious crusade against non-captured comedians.

Turns out British people, once informed, are firmly against sterilising and mutilating children, men ruining women's sport, and predators being allowed to drive a coach and horses through every safeguarding principle in the land.

RT @CPhilpOfficial: Our thoughts remain with the police officers who were the victims of the vicious attack by Mohammed Fahir Amaaz at Manc….

Repealing it will prove far more difficult than people imagine. You'd be better off approaching criticism as a need to tweak and amend rather than abolish. Probably avoid making it a major campaign issue because you'll just look like the pro-porn for kids party.

My controversial prediction on the Online Safety Act: it's draconian and massively overreaching thus the People of Twitter will hate it and come to believe that it's widely unpopular. But when the dust settles, the general public will still nod along in support of it.

2012: Conservative Mayor of London, Conservative Prime Minister. Wonderful days, you say?.

RT @tomwhx: ONE politician made an effort to speak out against the overreach of the Online Safety Bill before it went into law. @KemiBaden….

RT @MelJStride: As the Mayor of London toured Africa, I was on the ground in East London with @AndrewBoff, hearing directly from a small bu….

Why are Londoners becoming markedly less positive about building houses? From about +30 net support a year ago to about +5 now. It's not a national trend.

In both cases, extremists took over a perfectly reasonable campaign that many people would sympathise with. But fuelled by unshakeable self-righteous arrogance, they became violent, ended up in prison, and achieved nothing for their cause besides notoriety.