Alexander John Green 🇬🇧

Public Policy, Economics . Journalism in: @cityam @thesun @theipaper. @newsassociates + @LSENews alumni.

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Do the Channel Islands even exist? Family left £5,000 out of pocket and holiday ruined - because airline didn't know Jersey was real https://t.co/0jWbbSIELu

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

German civil servants are allowed to work from the beaches of Europe for up to eight weeks a year under what has been called the “Mallorca rule”.

The allowance in effect allows German transport officials to clock in from the beaches of Spain, Italy or Greece.

It is also possible for officials to dial in from outside the EU, meaning a weeks-long trip to Canada, Thailand or the United States could be combined with remote working.

🔗: https://t.co/A6kmNYsDW1

[World Bank Group @WorldBankGroup]

Which of the four first-time World Cup nations was reclassified as an upper-middle-income country in July 2025

[German Embassy London @GermanEmbassy]

75 years ago the UK and West Germany re-established diplomatic relations.

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Send your photo and a short description to [email protected]

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Around the June solstice, London and Rio de Janeiro enjoy almost the same sunset time. That feels wrong at first. After all, the two cities sit more than 40 degrees of longitude apart. But the calendar fixes the puzzle. London is near its longest day of the year, while Rio is near its shortest. Geography is weird but the source of great trivia. Source: https://t.co/p69LD5Xzp0

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: South Korea is reportedly preparing to launch three “mega-projects” spanning chips, AI data centres, & robotics.

[Clown World Today @cwt_news]

Private jets are “green” but your AC is destroying the environment

[Lin Mei @linmeitalks]

Can I be brutally honest- native British patriots don’t have long left!!

If Labour opens the doors to hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of asylum seekers, they would have created a complete new voting group who will see another Labour or Green government come in.

You have about 5 years max until you have no power to stop what’s happening

You WILL be a minority in your own country.

[Sonny @thehonestletter]

A UK family where both parents work full-time, pay full council tax, and earn enough to be 'doing alright' on paper, can't afford to take their kids to the Tower of London on a Saturday in 2026.

Two adult tickets and two child tickets at standard price comes to roughly £100. Add £40-£80 in train fares and £50-£70 for lunch — that's around £200 for a single Saturday at one tourist attraction in their own capital city.

A family on full Universal Credit, living in subsidised housing, paying no council tax, can take the same four people to the same Tower for £1 a ticket — £4 total — under the 'inclusive access' schemes most major UK attractions now run.

The working family pays the full £200 day out AND covers — through their taxes — the £196 discount the benefits family gets on the same trip.

Whatever the original intention of those schemes, this is the structure most UK working families are now living inside. Pay the full bill, then watch the people next door enjoy the day out you can't take your own kids to.

[Financial Times @FT]

Why keeping Europe cool need not be a luxury https://t.co/GoHjG64SBc | opinion

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Austria is urging Europe to host Anthropic after U.S. restrictions on access to Mythos & Fable.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Sir John Major makes the essential point. Parents who send children to private school save the state money.

Labour’s tax on them has failed. Now the state has 2,000 fewer teachers than when Conservatives left office.

So we will reverse this futile, vindictive policy.

[Financial Times @FT]

Hartlepool has had the most regeneration funding per head of anywhere in England.

But the response from residents, still struggling with the cost of living, can feel muted.

Read more: https://t.co/o2mANngSba

[Kate Hoey @CatharineHoey]

A brilliant speech from @Miss_Snuffy A great sadness to me that when she first was hoping to open her school in Lambeth and I gave her my full support the Labour Council there did everything they could to prevent it happening.

[Flat Ranger - UT @UtahFlatRanger]

"You're hiding a unregistered AC Unit, are you not?"

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Andy Burnham will need a “Moscow test” as well as a “Makerfield” one if he is to succeed as Britain’s next prime minister, a leading military figure has warned.

🔗: https://t.co/1U1HsEnrkR

[Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant]

A very spiteful community note has been added here, pointing out that overall teacher numbers actually fell by 1900. Perhaps Phillipson will moan to the press about that too

[Rachel Sylvester @RSylvester1]

David Miliband is ready to serve in Andy Burnham Cabinet. Burnham is actively considering appointing him to a senior role - possibly foreign secretary in the Lords. My story for @ObserverUK
https://t.co/oiPyo0SKUv

[Simon Hoare MP @Simon4NDorset]

NO WE ARE NOT. To paraphrase @KemiBadenoch which bit of NO do you not understand? We stand and stand to win as Conservatives. @KemiBadenoch leads and the Party follows that lead