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Doctoral candidate SDA Bocconi, Chairman Craven Street Wealth

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@B0ATsmith @ollieparrot Over France, North Africa and Greece. Unsurprisingly the 109s won

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@ChristianJMay @CityAM Start with Natural England - responsible for the bat tunnel, the fish disco, the Dartmoor wild pony cull, and many more insane decisions

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@andrew_lilico Former steelworkers do not work as management consultants and engineering jobs tend to be well paid

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@miroirdufou @jk_rowling She is accurately stating facts, while you are incorrectly saying that she is merely making a normative claim. Sex is a binary in humans - this is an observable fact. Intersex conditions (<2%) are medical conditions. Trans is not the same as intersex

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@nathanclark_ Looks more like a £90,000 Apple car in Silver. Which I might buy. But as a £500,000 Ferrari it is a mighty fail

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@johndotwills Consolation Foreign Secretary

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@bswud Also a fan - my office was on Gough Square, developed in 1690 and an unexpected gem

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@tom_watson Best album ever

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Britain is in an Energy Emergency.

But the Government is FAILING TO ACT. They have no plan, no idea what to do, and they’re leaving us exposed.

So today we’re launching The LFG Emergency Energy Bill to SAVE OUR INDUSTRIES and GET BILLS DOWN

Here’s how it would get bills down IMMEDIATELY:

1️⃣ SCRAP all levies on energy bills. These stealth taxes on the British people are unnecessarily hiking up their bills by hundreds of pounds.

2️⃣ REOPEN THE NORTH SEA, and directly deploy the tax revenue generated to GET BILLS DOWN.

3️⃣ Stop new CfD contracts and launch an investigation into the system that signed them off. Last year, billpayers paid £1.5 billion for big renewable corporations to THROW ENERGY AWAY. By 2030, it’ll be £8 billion. The existing settlement is a national scandal.

4️⃣ Scrap Clean Power 2030 targets. These needless constraints have pushed civil servants to procure wind at any cost – and at huge expense to the British people.

5️⃣ DITCH the duties of energy regulators, NESO and Ofgem, towards Net Zero goals, so their only focus is to MINIMISE ENERGY COSTS, subject to security of supply.

6️⃣ Hold auctions for connecting to the grid, and directly deploy the revenue generated to GET BILLS DOWN

Our Emergency Energy Bill has cross-party support. It is ready to PASS IMMEDIATELY. It does what governments for the past 20 years didn’t – it takes RADICAL ACTION to SAVE OUR INDUSTRIES and GET BILLS DOWN.

There’s no excuse. Last week, the US suspended access to some of the world’s leading frontier AI models. Britain is vulnerable - and our energy prices are strangling our national security. We cannot afford to be at the mercy of other countries or events beyond our control any longer.

The Government needs to GET BILLS DOWN NOW or explain why they’re still letting this emergency destroy our future.

Force Westminster to ACT. Send our Bill to your local MP and sign our letter to the Prime Minister and Ed Miliband. GET BILLS DOWN, NOW!

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@DanNeidle @mediawatchinguk @russellquirk The IFS did some work on this - additional cost around £300m (although this might be out of date) https://t.co/hz1qx70vs9

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@LabourGrowth You should both be proud of a serious supply side analysis of the UK’s growth conundrum. Carry on pushing

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@paullewismoney I am happy to pay a material proportion of my income for the social contract. But look at the graph, taxation is its highest ever and rising. The concern is that welfare spending is spiralling upwards, to the detriment of UK taxpayers and recipients

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@DAaronovitch @Elephantastick @geraldposner The elements I refer to as Critical Race Theory are pretty clear:
“what is race and racism
types of racism
bias
intersectionality
white privilege
white fragility
inclusive and exclusive terminology
micro-aggressions
allyship”

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@DAaronovitch @Elephantastick @geraldposner Even an enquiry may struggle to identify the officers’ motives for their dreadful conduct. But there js evidence (here from the college of policing) that Critical Race Theory is being taught to British police (in this case Police Scotland) https://t.co/nCXRsffNgB

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@TheRestHistory Great episode - this is my (17 years old at the time I think) grandfather Flavio about to go to the front. He went on to serve in the Second World War as well

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@v_j_freeman Wes Streeting has been pretty unimpressive since he resigned. This was an opportunity to set out a 6,000 word essay in which he diagnosed the issues and came up with policy prescriptions. Instead, a lightweight piece attacking straw men

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@DanNeidle @rcolvile Dan - has anyone costed the collection cost for each of these smaller taxes?

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@DAaronovitch @rcolvile The data is limited as you go back, but there really has been a steady fall in English/Welsh mother births since 1970, and that does accelerate after 2020. I don’t know if I’d say collapse, but it is dramatic

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@DAaronovitch @RupertMyers Pub closure rates are increasing but are significantly lower than the rate seen in the 2010s (based on Morning Advertiser data)