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lefty Tory

[—-L1702—- @libbiiish]

@pngdeeau Maybe the Italians shouldn’t have gone to war and lost 700k men on the basis of a treaty signed in secret

[—-L1702—- @libbiiish]

@tomhfh You said the opposite earlier citing realpolitik. You fundamentally misunderstand what it is. It is not an amoral/ non woke use of force but the achievement of necessary and achievable foreign policy aims through viable and available means. Unclos + french power preclude this

[The Rest Is History @TheRestHistory]

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Tom and Dominic discuss:

🫆Was the secret ingredient of Tudor England... crime?
🏴‍☠️Was Francis Drake a pirate or a patriot?
🇪🇸How does one man manage to declare war on Spain all on his own?

[—-L1702—- @libbiiish]

@tomhfh Not to mention it requires abrogating, if temporarily, UNCLOS, which if your taking the realpolitik view would be akin to the actions of Napoleon III

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

For those of you interested, this style of railway timetable takes little practice but is actually very clever.

[James Heale @JAHeale]

The Night of the Long Eyelashes – Hermer, Reeves, Lammy, Kyle, Reed all gone now. For the Starmtroopers, today represents their Battle of Cannae.

[Rt. Hon Ben Wallace @BenWallace70]

i recommended to Benjamin Netanyahu’s government that he help Ukraine. Isreal declined saying they didn’t want to upset Russia. So Russia kept spending nearly $1bn+ on Iranian drones. Now ordinary Israelis have to face the consequences of Netanyahus judgement . Since the invasion of Ukraine Isreal has welcomed all the dirty Russia money and crooks. A sad decline for a once decent Country.

[Jack 🐝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇫🇰 @The_Peach03]

I don't think you of all people want to play the logic of "the bigger country should take the smaller island because it's closest"....

[James @TypeForVictory]

The point of old fashioned uniforms, chains of office, wigs and gowns, official residences and the like is that they represent the office and *its* grandeur, not the person's.

The person simply inhabits the role. The egotistical move is to reject it and make it about you.

[Michael Gove @michaelgove]

It’s always fascinating to hear two privately educated chaps ruminate on their schooldays - but whatever they were taught at Ampleforth and Stockport Grammar, the history national curriculum in our state schools now deals extensively with the British Empire and indeed others…

[—-L1702—- @libbiiish]

@implausibleblog Almost every school does slavery/ empire, mostly in year 8, in year 9 empire is revisited to do with the WW’s and potentially decolonisation. Almost ubiquitous and empire is statutory requirement @ ks3. Maybe Polanski should focus on improving support for skwl hstory not cric

[—-L1702—- @libbiiish]

@admcollingwood Great strategic piece, think it’s escalators logic rests on a rocky foundation over the extent and motivation for Russian restrain. Stronger logic would be if occupation/ partition the end goal it would have to rebuild key infrastructure, a burden it couldn’t afford?

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

@ZackPolanski Do cooling measures, in your view, include air conditioning?

[Gary Winslett 🌐🇺🇸 @GaryWinslett]

I’m not sure any politician could fix what ails the UK. You have:
1) a political culture that is hostile to growth,
2) local govt institutions that empower #1,
3) badly aging demographics such that any prime minister is going to be reliant on older voters,
4) those seniors are rabidly committed to the idea that their benefits always get to make the first claim on every pound in British society.
5) those same seniors are a big driver of #1 too.

So then what you get is this total denial by voters that what Britain needs is pro-growth politics and more means-testing of senior benefits, even though that’s obviously what the fix is.

No politician is going to be able to square that circle.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

As big a change to the constitution as anything Blair proposed. It would undermine parliament being sovereign.

In 1940 it also would have meant Churchill doesn’t become PM.

Tapp is a moron, so I suspect he hasn’t really thought about any of that though.

[Ruth Davidson @RuthDavidsonPC]

I don't think I've seen a prettier set of numbers in a long, long time... 😍

[S. I. Rubinstein @si_rubinstein]

Jews are much safer in Britain than Israel. Make aliyah by all means, but don’t claim it’s about personal safety.

[Ian Miller @ianmSC]

He’s dating Kim Kardashian, who has an estimated net worth of nearly $2 billion. He's worth nearly $500 million and lives in Monaco to avoid paying taxes in the UK.

Remarkable lack of self-awareness.

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

I call BS.

The facts are these:
Henry Nowak told officers he'd been stabbed. He told them he couldn't breathe. An officer replied, “I don't think you have, mate”. They dragged him along the ground and handcuffed him. He died before anyone called an ambulance.

No DEI course teaches you to ignore a dying man. Officers have a duty to assess injured persons, call for medical assistance, and not take one party's word as gospel. They failed on all three.

This is incompetence repackaged as ideological victimhood. “DEI made us feel certain ways” shifts anger from officers who let a teenager die onto a culture-war target. That's their defence strategy.

Henry told them he was dying. They didn't listen. They didn't follow protocol. That's a conduct and skill problem, not a DEI problem.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Today I have met Lucy, Mark and Katie, Henry Nowak’s mother, father and stepmother. Their courage is extraordinary.

They have endured the most appalling loss, it is a life sentence for them.

They have also faced the agonising decision to release the harrowing body-worn camera footage, knowing how painful it would be and how strongly people would react. They did so because they want truth, accountability and change.

They have asked that we work across political parties and religions to rebuild trust in the police. That trust has been broken because of what happened, and I agree with them on that.

We must also be prepared to examine, carefully and seriously, religious practices or exemptions that permit the carrying of dangerous weapons in public, and other activities that are not conducive to the public good. We also need to examine where the law needs to change.

Henry’s family do not want anger to tear communities apart. They are a family who have friends across faith and race, and so did Henry. His family want his memory to help bring our society together.

Everyone knows I have strong views about how we should deal with equality under the law. What the family agreed with me on is that we need to bring common sense back, and that is what we should all be fighting for.

I promised the family that we will work to ensure there is a positive legacy for Henry out of this tragedy.

That is my focus now.