Sinn Fein won Northern Irish elections and there are two pundits on BBC politics Sunday couch arguing about whether 90 mins is too long for Keir Starmer to eat a curry.
Britain is an increasingly bizarre place.
Peter Geoghegan
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Peter Geoghegan
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Irishman in London
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Joined March 2010
- Your regular reminder that 'underlying health conditions' is not a synonym for 'they weren't really a real person/they would have died soon anyway.'
- 🚨 Last week Christopher Harborne gave £1m to Boris Johnson. This week QinetiQ - the UK defence company whose biggest shareholder is Harborne - won an £80m government contract... Great scoop from @jimfitznews (also in morning's Politico London playbook)
- Liz Truss has appointed the former head of the TaxPayers' Alliance as her chief economic advisor. That's everything you need to know about where Britain is heading right there
- 🚨Exclusive: The Met Police has refused to release details of its decision not to investigate the £3m ‘cash for peerages’ scandal in the House of Lords This doesn't bode well... Cracking @openDemocracy scoop from @martinrw and @JennaCorderoy opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…
- Which begs the question....why has UK endured a decade of austerity then?"There is £26bn of headroom, the money is there, but we also think there is room to make some sensible tax cuts as well" Boris Johnson says the UK has enough money in reserve to prepare for a no-deal #Brexit, increase education spending and cut taxes bbc.in/2NpfIXi
00:00 - Must confess I didn’t see ‘bishops are the enemies of the people’ being British Tories’ tldr Easter message
- If number 1 on your list of 'why Joe and Boris will get on fine' is 'because Biden's great, great, great grandfather fled the famine in Ireland, then part of the UK' fear might be struggling @Telegraph
- Explosive @Channel4News package revealing that Arron Banks targeted far right groups before the Brexit vote - and the BBC had the story but didn't run it....
- This is absolutely wild. The biggest party in Britain is now acting like a disinformation node and is completely shameless about itLabour's manifesto launch today and the Conservatives are running attack ads on Google The top link for "Labour" goes to a Tory mini-site using the domain labourmanifesto.co.uk
- Britain August 2022. A place where a man who ran Patisserie Valerie into the ground, bankrolled lockdown sceptics and now spreads climate scepticism is a leading voice on radio debate about the future of the British economy.
- So there's senior British journalists on here within, what, an hour of Mirror/Guardian revealing that Cummings broke lowdown rules arguing the story down and citing anonymous sources. Why?
- 🚨 The Tories have taken tens of thousands of pounds from Russia-linked donors since the Ukraine war began. Including £50k from Lubov Chernukhin day after Boris Johnson promised to step up sanctions to 'starve Putin's war machine'. New on @openDemocracy
- So BBC has run a three minute puff video about ‘party girl does politics’. At no stage does mention that said party girl is in Turning Point, directly connected into dark money, and uses Sputnik clippings to illustrate. This is *so* poor.
