How Brexitism is eating Conservatism. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog placing Truss's 'essay' and Sunak's many woes in the wider context of a 'Brexitist' capture of Conservatism, and how that could lead to a re-alignment of the political right: https://t.co/tpa4Drxp9J
What Truss got wrong https://t.co/GabcY1u3lC Truss was right about one thing in her essay: this country does face economic threats that the status quo is entirely unwilling to address. What she got wrong was thinking that her right-wing fantasy world offered an alternative.
Good to be back in Kyiv, my 4th time since Russia‘s invasion.
This time, with my team of Commissioners.
We are here together to show that the EU stands by Ukraine as firmly as ever.
And to deepen further our support and cooperation.
The Russian influence operation to get Trump elected was real. It serves no one to pretend otherwise. We are still learning about it. Denying that it happened makes the United States vulnerable to ongoing Russian operations. 18/20
In 2016, the FBI special agent (McGonigal) who was charged with investigating the Trump campaign's Russian connections went to work (according to the indictment) for the very same Russian oligarch (Deripaska) as Trump's campaign manager (Manafort).
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Ukrainian decathlete Volodymyr Androshchuk will not be representing his country at the Paris Olympics because he was just killed by the Russian armed forces. In other news, the IOC announces that Russian athletes are welcome in Paris.
Sajid Javid says we need to pay £20 for a GP appointment and £66 to go to A&E as a way to solve the NHS funding crisis. He’s wrong because there are so many better options in my new report on funding the NHS. A thread…..
For an economic demolition of Javid's plan, see this thread (which does not take into account the down-the-line increased costs of easily treatable diseases becoming chronic because poor people can't afford to see the doctor). https://t.co/7xZ77pZgtX
There is £12 trillion of financial wealth in the UK but the truth is there is no wealth without health. In that case charging those with wealth more in tax to pay for the NHS we really need makes complete sense, as my new report on funding the NHS suggests https://t.co/zKvVDL6ihu
🧵 A great thread from @RichardJMurphy on the answer to the problems in the NHS.
The principle of the NHS as a universal service would be totally destroyed if we introduced charges.
We need an NHS free at the point of need more than ever. 👇
@JonathanPieNews Been on the cards for a while. The Torys have been planning privatisation of the NHS, since they have been in power by deliberately underfunding and demoralising staff.