Alex Burghart

Shadow CDL (Cabinet Office) & Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Conservative MP Brentwood & Ongar. For a reply:

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

I don't think anybody really grasps how desperate this situation is.

University professors are now saying they are unable to teach history because reading long books and passages is how a person learns history. College kids are incapable of reading more than a few pages.

Some classes don't assign any reading at all now, only lectures.

There is an assumption among the people managing this decline that reading is just a way of receiving information. It isn't. Proper reading is how we build the mental muscle to synthesize ideas and evaluate them.

If the catastrophic decline in reading and literacy is not addressed now, we risk losing everything.

Western civilization cannot survive the death of reading because it was built by people with the kind of cognitive depth that a culture of deep reading brings:

Complex reasoning, extended internal dialogue, the capacity to hold opposing ideas in tension. Our systems and institutions are complex, and they require well ordered minds to maintain them.

Reading forms minds, and the West was built by the richest minds in history.

[Christopher Fear @ChristopherF198]

Following a standard workplace safety check, I have just received an email from a university administrator in which my custom of keeping books on the shelves in my office is described as "the unnecessary storing of combustible materials".

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Now the UK Energy Secretary:

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Labour's new Education Secretary is off to a flying start.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Delusional. It’s a £45 cut in the average annual household fuel bill. Offset by a £50 increase when the price cap is raised Oct 1st. So a net negative of £5. Nobody is going to move to EVs or heat pumps on that basis.

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Burnham Chalks Up Two U-Turns in Two Days as PM https://t.co/SqXDAhVceL

[Lord Moylan @danielmgmoylan]

Scandalous.

Labour and LibDems Unite to Block Tory Calls for Burnham Scrutiny Debate https://t.co/6FHgQlV7ta via @guidofawkes

[Alex Burghart @alexburghart]

Very glad to see Ambassador Ewart-Biggs’ murder by the IRA remembered by our embassy in Dublin fifty years on

[British Embassy Dublin @BritEmbDublin]

Today, we marked the 50th anniversary of the murder of British Ambassador Christopher Ewart-Biggs and Judith Cooke.

Honoured to be joined by Taoiseach @MichealMartinTD, Kate @EwartBiggs, Marlie Ewart-Biggs, Peter Taylor and many others for an evening of remembrance & reflection

[GB News @GBNEWS]

‘Oh dear, the rot has set in, and we are only on day two.’

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg questions how Andy Burnham can unite the Labour Party after a group has spent a year trying to take down former Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604

[Neil O'Brien @NeilDotObrien]

Looking forward to my "free energy" (paid for by massive tax increases)

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

New: Andy Burnham has performed his first u-turn since becoming PM

He told reporters on Monday he was looking at raising the personal tax allowance, after proposing the tax cut in an interview with the Times at the weekend

Tonight aides indicated he won’t go ahead with it

[Jacob Rees-Mogg @Jacob_Rees_Mogg]

A Convicted Fraudster in High Office. Watch now: https://t.co/B8okNtHntv

[Lord Moylan @danielmgmoylan]

Convicted fraudster Louise Haigh stripped of oversight of fraud office https://t.co/HZc5ETt9Wa

[Alex Burghart @alexburghart]

Strong start

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Louise Haigh has been stripped of her responsibility to tackle public sector fraud as Cabinet Office Minister

She was convicted of fraud in 2013 over falsely reporting her work phone missing when working at Aviva

[Sir Gavin Williamson CBE MP @GavinWilliamson]

Andy Burnham cuts VAT on energy bills — follow live.

Might it be a good idea to tell this to Parliament?

The House of Lords is sitting why can’t the House of Commons hear about major policy decisions.

The Commons should be sitting this week.

https://t.co/afScd5b6jv

[Mel Stride @MelJStride]

When it comes to Labour’s VAT cut on energy bills, they have accepted that they don’t even have an accurate estimate of the money they are claiming is there but that the OBR says is not! This is getting really silly. Totally inept start by Burnham.

[Mel Stride @MelJStride]

Our country cannot afford an economic lurch to the left. The 1970s under Labour was not a good time for Britain. We fell further and further behind the rest of the world. We became poorer. People hurt. My words in the Daily Express.

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

Didn’t the last incoming PM who promised unfunded tax cuts get mauled by the bond market?

[James Cartlidge MP 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 @jcartlidgemp]

I woke this morning to the news of Andy Burnham’s first big policy - cutting VAT on energy bills. By the time I started the media round at 7.45am the policy had completely unraveled. Why? Because there’s no cash to pay for it.

[Harry Cole @MrHarryCole]

"I have a plan."

"Cool, can we see it?"

"This needs to be done in the right way, I'll show you when I take over."

SOME MOMENTS LATER

"Congratulations PM, can we see the plan now?"

"It will be unveiled later in the year."

Chinny beard.