@mudjokivis Peston talked yday about Tit for Tat, which I assumed was Westminster journo shorthand for a cabinet reshuffle but I could be wrong @Peston
@GeoffNorcott Dear Geoff, heard Emily Dean walking dog podcast from last yr: yr story of yr dad winning the swimming competition made me fall off my bike. Thanks a lot
@alanalda Clive James said
“Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing.”
Foodbanks in the UK
2004 - 1
2008 - 22
2011 - 100
2012 - 252
2019 - 2,030
Mcdonalds branches in the UK
2019 - 1,250
The crash was 10 years ago
The UK is the 5th richest in the world
You have *one shot* to get the Tories out
#GE19#VoteNotTory#TacticalVoting
Campaigners for a final say referendum have launched a new app which they hope will ‘re-open conversations about Brexit’ ahead of polling day. https://t.co/hD6gxxQNVt
"We would be massacred in an election. I reckon we would lose over 100 seats" says a Labour MP. Further proof that Corbyn has lost all touch with reality - Jeremy Corbyn warned over Boris Johnson’s election ‘trap’
https://t.co/AA5dblyIe5
Nigel Farage and Brexit party vote against EU resolution to stop Russian election meddling https://t.co/13oeVMt7wI
Brexit Party only bother to attend EP or vote to cause problems.
This is appalling. Secretary of State for Immigration, Brandon Lewis confirms that EU citizens in UK will be subject to full immigration enforcement and liable to removal if they miss Settled Status deadline.
https://t.co/ixLiVlu7H7
Asked if patients' lives are at risk, Dame Sally replied: "They are at risk."
‘There may be deaths': No-deal Brexit medical shortages could put lives at risk: England’s Chief Medical Officer
https://t.co/5G6esn1plQ
@OxfordDiplomat Kleptocratic politics sees democracies as parasites preying on the wealth-makers. It therefore aims to cripple or destroy democracy. By making the UK more vulnerable to the demands of international capital. Brexit is one means for achieving this end, epic mendacity is another,
@OxfordDiplomat If you examine the ideology behind the kleptocratic/plutocratic support for Trump and Brexit it becomes clear that the undermining of democracy via mendacity is not merely a by-product of the lies, it is the goal of modern kleptocratic politics.
IMPORTANT:
Hannah Arendt, a philosopher who fled Nazi Germany, is one of the world’s greatest minds on the subjects of power, control and totalitarianism. The quote below should be read, re- read and shared. Its insight to Johnson & No 10’s current actions is terrifyingly real: