Amazing to be able to share in #RBOFigaro live from the fab Ilkley Cinema! A few more subtitles wouldn't go amiss but we are filling in the gaps ourselves
I challenge @RishiSunak to release the #Russianreport - unredacted - and let’s finally start talking about something important in this election campaign. Do please retweet if you agree.
@amandaorson I love this! See also: pouring and serving the coffee. I once (as the only female in the meeting) deliberately held back from doing so. The coffee went cold as none of the men volunteered for the role.
American artists often seem shocked at how good British audiences are at group singing. This from Elbow’s concert in Manchester last night proves that school assemblies where kids sing together must never be abandoned
This is interesting because the basic arguement matches a recent Telegraph opinion piece - and it’s both correct and naive. It’s correct because the only way Brexit could have worked economically speaking was to use it to deregulate, lower business taxes, shrink the state etc. It’s naive because the majority of U.K. voters - especially those who voted for Brexit - don’t want that. They actually want a European social model - high spending on health, education, defence, etc. And the only way you can have that in today’s difficult geopolitical world (given our geographical position on the European continent) is to be part of the vast, pan-continental single market and customs union that exists to deliver the European social model as far as is possible. This is why the Labour Party, in government, will eventually begin the process of joining the European single market and customs union. The only other option is to follow the Brexiteer vision of a much smaller state - and a large majority do not want that. As the recent Telegraph piece pointed out, these are the only two choices that do not lead to inevitable economic decline.