Did I mention the wife of new SoS for Environment is head of major infrastructure at @AnglianWater a company currently entangled in the "Largest ever criminal investigation into potential widespread breaches of environmental permit conditions" by the EA?
https://t.co/B8MEcYEj21
Labour: "13 years of the Tories in power has been terrible."
Interviewer: "what would you do differently in government?"
Labour: "We'd do exactly the same thing, but wearing red ties instead of blue ones."
Our favorite planet has now seen 20 days in a row breaking the modern-day record high-temperature of 16.924°C (62.46°F) set on July 24, 2022.
This global heatwave is likely the hottest 20-day stretch in the last 100,000+ years.
At least eight of the SPADs who benefitted from £2.9 million in severance payments during the political chaos of 2022 had previously worked for the Taxpayers Alliance - including its co-founder Matthew Elliot. Can I have my money back please?
“We’re not changing that policy”
Labour leader Keir Starmer says his party would not reverse the government’s two-child limit on receiving benefit support
https://t.co/hWYudbOSeW
As Sun columnist Rod Liddle is brought onto Newsnight to talk about Huw Edwards' alleged behaviour towards young people, here's a reminder of what he's written himself on the subject.
"Protesters are never popular at the time. The suffragettes were hated... workers who went on strike, people who fought racism.. were always reviled. But at the end of the day, protest has to be inconvenient to make an impression"
@OwenJones84 on @JustStop_Oil. Spot on. #GMB
Once again I am thinking about this editorial by ex Labour, Change UK and Lib Dem MP Angela Smith, who became a private water lobbyist immediately after leaving parliament and was recently re-admitted to the Labour party.
I have no doubt that the first paragraph is true and this will cause hardship for a lot of people. But I struggle to have the same sympathy for someone who has had a mortgage for 20 years and chose not to repay anything, and are now finding that their gamble backfired.
the two kinds of unsolved math problem are "we think it might be infinite but we've solved it definitively up to 12,478,329,709,179,875,728,943,982,427,349,234,293,487" and "we've spent the past thirty years trying to find out if 2 is a valid answer"