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- No, jailed for inciting a riot. Do you know anything about North Korea ? No🚨🇬🇧 Man Sentenced to 20 Months in Prison for Social Media Post The UK is the New North Korea
00:00 - This understated Times column is the most sinister thing I have read about civil rights in this country for a very long time.READ IT PLEASE
- Tomorrow’s budget is not a budget because the law would thereby require that the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR), a Tory innovation, deliver a verdict. Instead we’re getting what Putin would call a Special Financial Operation
- In a typically elegant way Robert Harris's Sunday Times essay sums up the nation's plight
- This looks like becoming a new BJ scandal - and rightly so (Times)
- Not sure if Angela Rayner had tax liability on her ex council house sale. But I am sure that Lord Ashcroft, who first floated this “scandal,” is a major tax dodger, legal or not. Not alone either eg fellow non dom. Lord Rothermere. Sheer typical hypocrisy
- Ireland grapples with large budget surpluses. Are you thinking what I’m thinking ?
- Just listened to Gordon Brown on @BBCr4today appealing for humanitarian aid to prevent mass starvation in Taliban Afghanistan. He’s also called for better global help to Covid vaccinate Africa - in everyone’s shared interest. Very impressively serious stuff
- Boris has resigned but appointing a cabinet. Is he mad ?
- In recent days I have heard ex-cabinet veterans, Hague, Ken Clarke, Alistair Darling, Willetts, Ed Balls, Blair, Andy Burnham, all talking better on Covid-related strategy than any member of the Johnson team. A depressing thought
- This is further evidence that Boris is an ignorant, adolescent. It’s a casual insult to the millions - yes, millions - who suffered and died at the hands of the Soviet police state. Deep down he’s shallow
