Alexandra Hockenhull

[David Soskin @davidsoskin]

@toadmeister @jfwduffield Is this the high watermark of British wokery?

[David Soskin @davidsoskin]

@FXMC1957 Huge mistake. Contributed to the Heath era inflation. Reduced the maths skills of the entire population. Bring back pounds, shillings and pence. And, while you are at it, rods and perches.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

West Midlands Police capitulated to Islamists and then collaborated with them to cover it up.

They knew extremists were planning to attack Jews for going to a football match, and their response was to blame and remove Jewish people instead. They presented an inversion of reality and misled a Parliamentary Committee.

We have had enough of this in Britain.

The Chief Constable’s position is untenable.

The British Police serve the British public, not local sectarian interests.

[David Soskin @davidsoskin]

@JohnSimpsonNews @PhilJonesy3 Do not conflate “abolishing the BBC” with abolishing the licence fee. This is a tired argument, well past its sell by date. If you do such an “excellent job”, no doubt the @BBC will flourish in a competitive market.

[David Soskin @davidsoskin]

@AllisonPearson @DouglasCarswell @OxfordUnion To lose the voice of one of Britain’s most courageous and articulate journalists is deeply damaging. @OxfordUnion is in deep trouble. The simplest solution is for Mr Abaraonye to resign as President-elect with immediate effect.

[David Soskin @davidsoskin]

@Peston It defies belief that the Secretary of State in charge of our nation's housing did not understand that stamp duty - like many other taxes - is highly complex. How could someone so breathtakingly ignorant be running a major government department?

[David Soskin @davidsoskin]

@griffitha @alexwickham Hardly slow motion. Never has a functioning, growing economy been trashed so effectively and so speedily as this. It took Blair and Brown thirteen years, helped along by the Crash, to do what these people have achieved in under a year.

[David Soskin @davidsoskin]

@ConHome @KemiBadenoch Candidate selection is key to the overhaul. The party had a tried and tested methodology wrecked by Cameron's ill-fated attempt at "modernisation". We need urgently to select candidates who are committed to core Conservative values.

[David Soskin @davidsoskin]

A quick win for the leader would be the immediate reform of candidate selection. This would also help revive funding. Pre-Cameron’s disastrous changes, judgments about selection for the candidates' list were largely a matter for the voluntary party. The Associations chose a short list, on which the members then voted. CCHQ's role was largely administrative. The leader can and should now be re-establishing this system, which worked. It would not only address a major concern of disaffected Tories but also ensure a higher quality of MPs.

[Andrew Griffith MP @griffitha]

Labour have let you down.

Today's budget of broken promises: taxes up, borrowing up, growth down.

[David Soskin @davidsoskin]

This is the choice which members wanted & expected. We need now to put the years of muddle & drift behind us - starting with a radical reform of the party's organisation & method of selecting candidates. And become, once again, Conservatives in the true sense of the word.

[David Soskin @davidsoskin]

@ConHome @NigelBiggar @KemiBadenoch A brilliant piece. The priority must be the rooting out this ideology from our schools and our universities. Conservative activists keenly anticipate the proposed measures which @KemiBadenoch and other leadership candidates will take to ensure the "political triumph of truths".

[David Soskin @davidsoskin]

@RobertJenrick This is not accurate. After Michael Howard’s excellent leadership, the Party drifted leftwards and recruited too many highly unsuitable MPs as part of the “modernisation” agenda. Cameron could not even achieve an outright majority against Brown, despite the nation’s bankruptcy.

[David Soskin @davidsoskin]

@BBCSimonJack In the 1960s and the 1970s, many with broad shoulders, those with talent and ambition, simply left the U.K. If Starmer wishes to shrink the tax base, this is the way.

[Zewditu Gebreyohanes ፡ ዘውዲቱ @zewditweets]

Denouncing "Labour’s outrageous attack on academic free speech", Prof. Abulafia writes that the "willingness to retell past facts as ‘my truth’ rather than ‘the truth’, has corrupted teaching and research".

"Take the absurd, unsubstantiated statements made by participants in a seminar at Churchill College, Cambridge in 2021 about the very person after whom the college is named. The starting-point for denunciation of Winston Churchill was not hard factual evidence, but an ideological position that demanded that ‘the British Empire was far worse than the Nazis. It lasted far longer; it killed far many more people… the Nazis were copying large elements of the British Empire. And that’s just fact.’"

https://t.co/lrUMVdi7DS

[David Soskin @davidsoskin]

@EssexPR Starmer still thinks he is DPP. The British people stand in the dock because a majority want to keep public spending under control, are concerned about the level of immigration, & also failed to vote for his party (80% of the electorate). We are guilty and need stiff punishment.

[David Soskin @davidsoskin]

@AllisonPearson Correct. Blair was a towering political figure, an outstanding communicator who managed to fool many for much of the time. Starmer, by contrast, has the charisma of a bottle of fish paste and is good at making the electorate, 80% of whom did not vote for him, feel bad.

[David Soskin @davidsoskin]

@GuidoFawkes A perfectly reasonable question for activists to put to the leadership candidates is this: “With which of Reform’s election manifesto policies do you agree and with which do you disagree?” @KemiBadenoch @RobertJenrick

[David Soskin @davidsoskin]

@silkiecarlo The statements made by the police and other public bodies including @UniofOxford should remind us of the climate of fear deliberately created during the lockdowns - a deeply worrying slide to authoritarianism and entirely alien to our democratic tradition.

[David Soskin @davidsoskin]

This is completely unacceptable. Parliament should be recalled. @RobertJenrick @KemiBadenoch