Yes, without Britain, there would be no steam engine, steam trains, telephones, parliamentarism, modern constitutionalism, English as the lingua france, penicillin, end of the slave trade, ATMs, logarithms, Shakespeare, the theory of evolution and so much more.
In 1000 years, once we have gotten over neurotic jealously and third worlidsm, people will look at Britain with more admiration than we look at Ancient Greece today. It is quite evidently the greatest nation the world has ever seen. It's not even particularly close.
The mask has finally slipped.
Labour's own minister, Pat McFadden, has said it out loud: who can we tax to pay benefits to others?
That's what many suspected from day one.
Higher taxes. Less reward for work.
The game is up. This government is finished.
🚨 NEW: Mohammed Fahir Amaaz and Muhammad Amaad have been cleared over the alleged assault of a male police officer at Manchester Airport
Two juries failed to reach a verdict and no further trial will take place
Streeting and Burnham's responses to Blair are equal parts infuriating. Blair's point isn't that you should ignore inequality, it's that you can't do any of the things that solve inequality if the economy isn't growing.
Burnham rejecting Blair’s encyclical because it doesn’t mention “inequality” perfectly encapsulates why Burnham is going to be as much of a car crash as Starmer has been.
Keir Starmer should rip up Ed Miliband’s “unnecessary” net zero agenda, Tony Blair tells #TimesRadio.
“It’s not that I'm a climate denier, but it's just coming to terms with this reality.”
@CalumAM
Keir Starmer should rip up Ed Miliband’s “unnecessary” net zero agenda, Tony Blair tells #TimesRadio.
“It’s not that I'm a climate denier, but it's just coming to terms with this reality.”
@CalumAM
@eNeecie Every other day a new motorhome appears in my mother-in-law's drive and Neil hands me another bucket full of jewellery and cosmetics. I can only assume he's got himself a part time job I'm too busy to ask about.
I’ve lived in London all my life and I go to the pub with my pals fairly regularly and somehow I’ve never found myself among these sorts out standing up and drinking on the pavement such as one passes all the time when walking around London…why is that