Lee Price

Short are the days of wine and roses.

[𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 @MancPictures]

Oh how I wish I was around when Piccadilly Gardens was like this!

What a fantastic space it used to be.

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[Aidan James @mcandidate]

I don't know who this bloke is, but he looks like he's stepped straight out of a different era.

The suit. The tie. The confidence.

A proper throwback to an England that valued character, individuality and a bit of class. 👏👍✊🇬🇧👌❤️🙏

[BonkDaCarnivore @BonkDaCarnivore]

What's amazing to me is that, 10 years apart, there are the exact same clouds in the exact same positions.

DC truly is a magical place

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Sam Harris has written the best thing you’ll read today.

https://t.co/gI0wZZNH4m

[Lee Price @LeeTPrice]

@TheBurnleyWay Gerrard when commentating and summarising games offers cliches and little insight which puts me off him.

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

Bradford.

Again.

Yet we have no confirmation Bradford will be included in the rape gangs inquiry.

Which raises the question: is it really a national inquiry?

Of course Bradford must be included.

Just like everywhere that this evil festers.
https://t.co/CbXxoPdoXf

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Keir Starmer: “there is no such thing as two-tier policing”.

Police chiefs today: “we will review controversial guidance advising officers to treat ethnic minorities differently”.

The absurdity of modern Britain.

[Tom Tugendhat @TomTugendhat]

For years @KemiBadenoch has been clear - the victim culture and labelling of individuals as oppressors simply because they are white has led to serious wrongs done to them and division in our country. It must end.

[Neil O'Brien @NeilDotObrien]

"Best and brightest?!
"Bringing incredible skills"

-A quick visual tour of firms allowed to sponsor "skilled worker" visas shows the reality:

1/10 Sai's Bargains Ltd

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Number of people asking me to comment on the Henry Nowak case. His father said "We do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension". If you can't respect his wishes, you're scum. That's what I think.

[Lee Price @LeeTPrice]

@SCFCDan_ @TheBurnleyWay Really? I thought the perception was he'd done a reasonable job?

[Lee Price @LeeTPrice]

@GARSIDEK It was clichéd banality from him. Penalties 'are a lottery' nonsense.

[Women's Voices Australia @womensvoicesau]

Not sure I could love Germaine Greer any more than I do. Everytime I watch this clip 💜💜 her a little more. For all the sex denialists this is the original critique of “gender”. Take note: Women are a sex class.

[Ian Austin @LordIanAustin]

Last night PSG fans rioted during and after the Champions League final.

57 police officers were injured.
Cars and shops set alight.
One mob even tried to storm a police station.
Police arrested 780.
22,000 police were deployed.

Presumably, if they are drawn to play an English club in next year’s Champions League, all the people who claimed they wanted Maccabi Tel Aviv banned on grounds of public safety (and not because they were in fact a bunch of anti-Jewish racist obsessives), will be demanding the French fans are banned too?

[Lee Price @LeeTPrice]

@danielstorey85

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

I expected people to keep quiet during the trial. But, now that we have the conviction, why has no minister spoken out? Where are all the celebs who took the knee six years ago? Where is the wall-to-wall BBC coverage? Unlike the Floyd case, this one happened in Britain, ffs.

[Lee Price @LeeTPrice]

@IanRatcliffe21 A lot to handle and he should have professionals helping him not just family who are inexperienced in such matters. The Hearns should be providing assistance.

[Lee Price @LeeTPrice]

Whistle Down The Wind

[Inspector Gadget @InspGadgetBlogs]

Hard Days Night.

[Jonny Mac @JonnyMc1]

Anthony Gordon after doing 7 kick ups at his Barca unveiling in the July sun.

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

Further to Blair. Literally every honest sensible person in all the main parties privately agrees with all these propositions:

- welfare spending is too high and is throwing good people on the scrapheap
- defence spending is too low
- the triple lock is unsustainable
- without cheap energy we cannot exploit the AI revolution
- we should be investing in EVERY form of energy: renewables, nuclear and the North Sea
- migration needs to be controlled to boost social cohesion and because the boats look like a huge failure of the state
- any new relationship with the EU will be imposed on us until we are stronger and cannot involve the closeness some desire without freedom of movement
- we are deeply embedded with America in ways which the public does not understand and cannot be told and however joyous it makes us feel to hate Trump, disengagement at the deep state level is not only wholly unrealistic but also undesirable
- Whitehall needs a total overhaul so specific project expertise and political appointees can be brought in quickly

Blair basically says all that.

The one thing he doesn’t say and which the same group of people agree on is this and it’s something Blair left behind:

- judges and quangos have too much power, are unaccountable and without redressing the balance in favour of parliament it is very difficult to do anything big fast
- the bare minimum that needs to change in this regard is to reform judicial review and planning law so we can put building and economic growth ahead of newts and NIMBYs

None of that above really ought to be up for discussion. It is all common sense but not one of our politicians will publicly say all of it

Whatever you think of Blair, engage with what he’s saying not how he makes you feel. The bare minimum we should expect from any leader is that they have an analysis of the current situation and a plan to deal with it which is as coherent and realistic as his intervention. Pretty well every critique I’ve read so far has failed to meet this requirement.

Over to Andy and Keir and Kemi and Nigel and Zack and all the others