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[Thomas @thomas_718]

@lazpch This is the real circuit split

[Martin @PojdBase]

and we are still here!

[a ressentiment woman @ANNVYSHINSKY]

Michael is one of the most accomplished (if not the most accomplished!) young scholars I know. It’s a shame that his widely acclaimed academic work has been subjected to the heckler’s veto.

[Thomas @thomas_718]

@michaelpforan @UniofOxford terrible if a tutor can’t lecture. I had a tutor who defended his awful views on a hierarchy of rape. What could @michaelpforan say that would be so shocking it needs shutting down? @OxfordLawFac assume this won’t be flagged in your next alumni begging letter?

[Thomas @thomas_718]

@DeptfordWife1 Very easy when you don’t send your kid to a private school, however that seems a non-negotiable for many of couples in these types of stories

[Thomas @thomas_718]

@ProfRobAnderson “Law of the Sea” is by far one the coolest sounding modules

[Barbara Rich @BarbaraRich_law]

It’s pointless and a pity to lose the historic “Chancery” name for part of the High Court (why not modernise “King’s Bench” too?), and in this announcement to say nothing of its traditional place in resolving disputes over wills and trusts in English law https://t.co/hJpvGQCU6C

[Paul Johnson @PJTheEconomist]

Lost for words. Never thought I’d see a British govt trying to set food prices. If there is one highly competitive sector it is food retailing.
Do we really want to live in a country where the state sets these prices?

https://t.co/yLqYOdfXNN

[WW @weaverswinter]

Hilarious that these lads can't grasp the actual dystopia is someone in the top 10% of income at £50k priced out of London while social tenancies pass between generations like a landed estate.

https://t.co/Mf0mMq6ySB

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

If Burnham wins, he’ll treat it as a mandate to do whatever terrible leftist policies he wants (nationwide rent controls, wealth tax, exit tax, ultra-high CGT). This could be quite bad.

If he loses, Rayner or Miliband will become PM instead as obvious second-best choices, wounded and weak from day one and with no claim to a mandate. They are also clearly less electorally appealling. Reform winning in Makerfield therefore seems very desireable, and a lot of economic growth may be at stake.

[Thomas @thomas_718]

@yuanyi_z Spines go out the window when most of the cabinet would lose their position, enhanced salary and other perks under another leader

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

When people say we need *even more* social housing, it might be worth asking them how much more.

40.2% of households in Islington are socially rented.
39.7% of Southwark.
33.6% of Lambeth.
35.9% of Tower Hamlets.
33.7% of Camden.
40.5% of Hackney.

How many more?

[Thomas @thomas_718]

The last time there were more Lords Spiritual than hereditary peers was before the dissolution. Time to finish what Henry VIII started🤞

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Hereditary peers' last hurrah as 700-year-old system abolished https://t.co/AOFjuFU7N5

[Gideon Falter @GideonFalter]

Where was Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley two years ago when his officers threatened me with arrest for being “quite openly Jewish” in the vicinity of a hate march?

Back then he said his officers did the right thing and these were “peaceful” protests.

Now he says it is “unacceptable” that British Jews have to make choices about how to look and where to go.

This man is a disgrace to British justice would resign if he had any honour at all.

[Loïc @Fremond_]

Mandation would be an act of suicide. The responsibility of fund managers is one thing and one thing alone: deliver healthy and stable returns for pension policy holders.

Forcing pension funds to invest in British companies that they otherwise would not invest in is to tacitly force policy holders to accept less good returns for the sake of political posturing.

[Bear @BearJFK]

McDonald has also argued that Britain should give up the nuclear deterrent and hand over its UNSC seat to the EU.

With people like this heading the Foreign Office, is it any wonder seemingly every policy undermines Britain?

Drain. The. Swamp.

[Thomas @thomas_718]

@yuanyi_z @si_rubinstein Done more for the national interest than the lawyers in our government!

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Europoor is an entirely accurate phrase. America is simply in a different league.

[James @TypeForVictory]

Wildly, this appears to be broadly true.

There's a very small tail of extreme high earners, but there's a crisis of wage compression killing productivity and ambition.

Not sure how you sell "lower/freeze min wage, abolish tax cliffs for higher earners" to an electorate, though.