NEWS: Alistair Carmichael, the LibDem MP for Orkney and Shetland, has congratulated the SNPโs candidate for Shetland Islands, saying it looks as if his party has lost the seat. The shift represents a political earthquake in the far north.
Politically awkward moment on the BBC has Victoria Atkins says she hasn't spoken to Robert Jenrick since she supported his failed bid to lead the Conservative Party.
๐จ Er... this seems important, just casually loaded on .gov.
The government is going to remove a layer of public transparency by stopping consultations with the public.
It will ask Ai to help determine what public consultations are unnecessary (Will those be defined as consultations the government knows wont give them the answers it wants) How will we ever know?
And how will they know if we agree or not? they wonโt and thatโs the point.
Wow, Shocking ๐ฃ
EXC: A man recently arrested on suspicion of spying for China met MPs on the parliamentary estate in January and visited at least one other time in the past year
David Taylor was able to access parliament and meetings of the Qatar APPG as a guest of his wife, the MP Joani Reid
Yeah this is reason to panic! We could be entering a very dangerous and unpredictable time all because of warmongering from America and Israel
https://t.co/NDyD0Wc9CP
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EXCLUSIVE- QATARENERGY CEO TELLS REUTERS: WE MAY HAVE TO DECLARE FORCE MAJEURE ON LONG-TERM CONTRACTS FOR UP TO FIVE YEARS FOR LNG SUPPLIES TO ITALY, BELGIUM, KOREA AND CHINA
- From Reuters.
This is bad.
Spanish PM Pedro Sรกnchez has unveiled a new government AI tool that will rank social media sites based on how much hate speech they host.
https://t.co/hze1B2Xgnl
HRW report on Mar 3 attack: โThe Israeli militaryโs unlawful use of white phosphorus over residential areas is extremely alarming and will have dire consequences for civilians,โ saidย Ramzi Kaiss, Lebanon researcher at HRW. HRW has documented Israelโs widespread use of WP on Leb from Oct 2023
JUST IN - Trump admin officials told congress in a closed-door briefings that the U.S. was responsible for targeting the area in Iran where a girls' school was struck and scores of children were killed โ NBC
๐จ EXCLUSIVE: Palantir provided the 'minority report' intel used to justify US-Israeli strikes on Iran - and is now profiting from the war. All three of its top figures publicly advocated for this conflict. One called it an investment opportunity ๐งต/1 https://t.co/QYIvfx7ovw
It was only last month that Trump insulted the UK by saying the US โnever needed us" during the Afghanistan war, that "the US never really asked anything of us" and that the UK sent "some troops" and "stayed a little back, a little off the front lines".
He can GTF
Not to be that guy, but MPs pay has risen to ยฃ99,000 a year and today parliament started at 11.30 and finished at 15.55. What job do you know pays that well for few hours of real work in the chamber?