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[Dominic Grieve @dominicgrieve_]

Five years since we left the EU and not one tangible benefit to have come from it.
Most telling of all is how it has diminished our ability to generate wealth and thus provide for our defence and public services in challenging times. Far from getting rid of red tape there were 41 million customs declarations to be made for trade between the U.K. and EU in 2023. Not surprisingly over 16,000 SMEs have given up exporting to Europe and our goods exports are rising at the paltry rate of 0.3% per annum compared to the OECD average of of 4.3%. Margaret Thatcher helped create the Single Market in goods and services because she could see clearly the boost it could give to our economy and it bore fruit. Until reality dawns for our politicians we are back to the 1960s-constant failing initiatives to boost growth, stagflation and impoverishment. We deserve better and it is within our power to get better. But that means abandoning the politics of fantasy.

[Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK]

Conservative leaders who back Trump should be ashamed. They are abandoning the very values which were once the core of conservatism - betraying the very idea of constitutional government, prudence in policy, and simple decency.
And they are also backing a loser...

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Counting the votes will extend beyond election night on Tuesday, and determining the outcome of the presidential race could, too. Here’s what we expect from vote counting in each battleground state. https://t.co/ID98PJlan2

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

One reason pollsters might be failing to pick up what and Seltzer picked up in Iowa, is a lot of women are afraid to say they are voting for Harris.

Sharing stories yesterday after knocking doors in Pennsylvania, can't tell you the number of canvassers who had wives standing in the background while speaking to the husband and having them mouth something to the effect that they were voting for Harris. Or if they answered the door, they pretended to not say who they were voting for out loud and then whispered they were voting for Harris. It's kind of heartbreaking actually.

[Ryan Burge 📊 @ryanburge]

For some reason, I have been thinking about this moment a lot today.

It's from John McCain in 2008 at a town hall.

The woman begins to espouse conspiracy theories about Barack Obama's nationality.

He immediately shuts it down.

"No ma'am. He's a decent family man."

[anne mcelvoy @annemcelvoy]

Go looking for a bit of paperwork and find the official results of East German, regional elections in early 1989. 98.85% of ballots, allegedly, supported Communist party approved candidates. Six months later, the Berlin wall fell.

[Insightful Geopolitics @InsightGL]

-After property bubble burst & youth unemployment (46%), next crisis, #China’s pension system
-#Chinese basic state pension will have more outgoings than income by 2029
-Whole country would be unmanageable by 2050
-War would be only option for #CCP to divert public attention

[新闻调查 @xinwendiaocha]

勇士，泪目

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

“They want future Chinese to know that in the 2020s, when things had never been darker, Chinese people did not yield to comfort or fear.”

How underground historians are resisting Xi Jinping. https://t.co/PHLS7TccN9

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Economists say Poland’s GDP PPP per capita is on track to overtake Japan before the end of this decade.

It shows just how much the Polish economy has grown since the fall of communism in 1989.

1992
🇯🇵 $34,049
🇵🇱 $10,662

2022
🇯🇵 $41,641
🇵🇱 $35,798

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This clip shows a kinesin, a motor protein that moves molecules around the cell. It's powered by ATP and transport molecules along microtube filaments at a rate of 2000 nm/s

[“The Inner Life of the Cell”: https://t.co/aHMSHOoUYe]

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

Two days ago on Mars https://t.co/d2ActqODOd

[BBC Earth @BBCEarth]

Taking hanging out to a whole new level.

During breeding season, male vitelline masked weaver birds build nests by tightly weaving blades of grass together, suspended from tree branches.

#EarthCapture by Daniel Rosengren via Instagram

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

I have never been curtailed in my activities on social media and I have certainly been .. erm… punchy at times which is why I find this whole thing deeply confusing and damaging for an amazing organisation full of smart Independant people with hugely diverse views and talents.

[Mark Austin @markaustintv]

Ultimately, if I’m allowed an opinion on this, the BBC ‘s independence is a much more important principle than a sports presenter’s impartiality

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

It's absolutely insane that Britain has become a country where having an opinion can cost you your job. If we don't cherish & fiercely protect free speech, even for views we personally despise, we're no better than totalitarian regimes like China & North Korea.

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

Please join the campaign to #FreeJimmyLai

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

Well, there it is.

[Guy Verhofstadt @guyverhofstadt]

Britain is broken…says the man who is responsible for it…