Rosh 🇮🇴

Interested in Law, History and Architecture. Alum of @cambridgelaw 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧👑⚖️

[Purav Menon @profavi_]

“Smithers, I'm beginning to think that Andy Burnham was not the brilliant tactician I thought he was.”

[MB @paxangloceltae]

When We Win we will restore judicial dress and banish these abominable robes now worn by judges to the dustbin of history - and bring back the Chancery Division of the High Court.

[Rosh 🇮🇴 @22Rosh_]

@AlistairCarns @ZackPolanski Mr Carns, might I suggest “Zone 2 Zack”? It has more of a ring to it.

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

@ZackPolanski Another clanger from Zack from Zone 2 🤡

A hand up for anyone who can work. A safety net for anyone who can't. If you think that's Tory, you've lost the plot… and the public.

[Rosh 🇮🇴 @22Rosh_]

Sir, a second resignation has hit the MoD

[Tony Diver @Tony_Diver]

EXC: Keir Starmer will not commit more money to the Defence Investment Plan for Dan Jarvis.

Jarvis is expected to receive the same settlement of £13.5bn that led John Healey to quit the Government in anger last week, despite the new defence secretary’s pledge to ensure the Armed Forces have “what they need”.

He will instead be told to supplement the existing budget by finding savings at the MoD when fresh negotiations kick off this week, two sources familiar with the situation told @Telegraph.

Jarvis will, however, be given the chance to tweak the DIP *within the existing envelope* if he wishes.

The news will dash hopes that John Healey’s resignation last week would force the PM to change course.

[John Wakefield @JohnWakefieId]

Andy Burnham Subplot: Another 50 billion pounds to pensioners! 👴

Keir Starmer Subplot:

[Rosh 🇮🇴 @22Rosh_]

I must have missed that chapter of Brideshead!

[Sebastian @Seb__flyte1]

Subverting gay norms by being shorter than my Asian twink boyfriend

[Rosh 🇮🇴 @22Rosh_]

Could an outgoing US President stand in an election for the House or Senate?

i.e. if Obama stood in a November 2016 House/Senate election.

[Peter Franklin 🌳 @peterfranklin_]

Burnham not even Prime Minister yet and he’s already getting in the u-turns. Efficient.

[ellen🍸 @algorecrave]

we are john healey
we carry the flame
we’ll fight for defence funding
we’ll honour his name

[John Ritzema @john_ritzema]

Turns out you can just weather storms 👍🇬🇧

[Rosh 🇮🇴 @22Rosh_]

It’s Starmover

[Election Maps UK @ElectionMapsUK]

Makerfield By-Election Voting Intention:

LAB: 49% (+6)
RFM: 39% (-1)
RES: 8% (+1)
GRN: 2% (-1)
LDM: 1% (-3)
CON: 1% (-1)

Via @Survation, 26 May - 1 Jun.
Changes w/ 18-22 May.

[Tom Harris 🇬🇧 @MrTCHarris]

The United Kingdom is comprised of only two countries: Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Boarding schools are “increasingly not British at all” after a surge in the number of foreign students, the UK’s top educational philanthropist, Sir Peter Lampl, has said

He mentioned that British children were being “priced out” of boarding schools, with their places taken by international students

The Telegraph has compiled data to see if his claims line up ⤵️
https://t.co/ZeAFLUA6kH

[Rosh 🇮🇴 @22Rosh_]

Lord Atkin in 1932:

[Juliana 🐞 @colemansdimple]

PETER CAPALDI SAYING DUTY OF CARE IN 2026 YES I'LL TAKE THAT

[Rosh 🇮🇴 @22Rosh_]

The Starmer v Burnham leadership battle is going to be centred around the question: “better the weather vane you know?”

[Financial Times @FT]

Tony Blair criticises Labour’s Andy Burnham for leftwing ‘delusion’ https://t.co/pgsXJ4j9Et

[S. I. Rubinstein @si_rubinstein]

Whatever I was ‘really voting for’ in 2024, it wasn’t Andy Burnham.

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

“Argentina was once as rich as Germany and richer than France. It isn’t anymore.”

In a generally excellent essay this is the most important line. Everybody expects Britain to muddle through no matter how poor our leaders are. There is no - zero - reason to believe this is true.