Extraordinary interview on @BBCr4today with Kemi Badenoch. She’s getting increasingly tetchy by being asked technical detail about her gender recognition proposals - which don’t seem thought through at all. Totally see why she’s not being used much for media appearances 😱
#OTD in 1882, James Augustine Aloysius Joyce, Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic was born in Rathgar, Ireland. A contributor to the modernist avant-garde movement, Joyce is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.
Didn’t someone once say ‘good governance is when you feel you are not governed’ ? This last gob of spittle of a Tory nightmare offered up as a government should wise up every last one of us!
I've waited seven years for this moment.
"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad." George Orwell, 1984
The prime minister's distant cousin offered to guarantee an £800k loan.
Weeks later he appeared on a list of suggested candidates for a £250k a year job with the British Council.
https://t.co/b3pEF67auZ
The mounting scrap heap of former PMs and their extensive and expensive security protection is costing the U.K. a fortune.
There are currently 7 living former PMs and soon there will 8 - and most of them can afford to pay for their own security!
https://t.co/qEr7NBSKB9