The word "woke" now seems so meaningless it makes discussions using it sound Dadaist. It might as well be the sound of a duck whistle or a factory horn or Edith Sitwell hee-hawing through a megaphone.
I spoke to a senior Russian executive who said the UK sanctions were the least impressive of the lot because they don't do anything to clean up the City of London.
The executive likened it to "Columbia, Mexico, Argentina, and Afghanistan cutting Russia out of the drug trade."
The appeal system is deeply inadequate: It doesn't allow students to prove that the algorithm got it wrong
It only allows schools to show that previous year groups weren't typical.
Instead of this distraction, the Government must revert to teachers' assessments.
We’re going to pass #MedicareForAll — and the billionaires profiting off this pandemic are going to pay for it.
RT if you support @BernieSanders’ and my Make Billionaires Pay Act to make it happen.
"While no one condones looting... one can understand the pent-up feelings that may result from decades of repression and people who have had members of their family killed by that regime, for them to be taking their feelings out on that regime" https://t.co/2B4OwWPu3X
Pleasure to attend @IainMcNicol’s rammed leaving do this evening, to pay tribute to all his hard work & to say goodbye to his great team who are heading off too incl the wonderful @EmilieOldknow Always great to see so many dear Labour friends.
Number of women accusing each candidate of sexual assault, sexual harassment or inappropriate touching:
Bloomberg: 64
Trump: 43
Biden: 8
All other candidates combined: 0
In 2016 I supported Hillary for President.
But this year, I’m all in for Bernie. His ideas are wildly popular, and he’s our best chance to beat Trump.
We can’t afford to nominate a candidate who will leave voters sitting at home, uninspired.
Chancellor Sajid Javid told @bbc5live that "homelessness reached its peak in 2008" under Labour and has declined by almost 50% since then
This isn’t correct. Homelessness in England reached its peak under Labour in 2003-04 and then fell to a low in 2009-10
If people combatting antisemitism in the Labour Party are not combatting antisemitism in the Tory Party then they're not combatting antisemitism. They're combatting the Labour Party.
Matt Hancock's officials had 11 secret meetings with US drug regulators and companies about raising the price of medicines in the NHS. Here he tries to explain why... (please RT) #11SecretMeetings
No, “cynical" and "devastating" is making sick and disabled people pay for the financial crash. Your policy pushed hundreds of thousands into poverty, made families lose their homes and denied benefits to the terminally ill. That's your legacy. That’s what Labour will end
Brendan O’Neill: “There should be riots”
Laura Kuenssberg: “There’s the Labour activist, get him!”
Andrew Neil: “Carole Cadwalladr’s a mad cat lady”
Fiona Bruce: “This is Diane Abbott, right - DUUHH!”
Naga Munchetty: “Racism is bad”
BBC: “One of you has crossed the line”