Hadn’t, in truth, really absorbed the scale of what the Conservatives are proposing on ILR and immigration more broadly until this week’s Sunday Times interviews. Some thoughts on that in today’s note:

She‘ll be in and on all those outlets shortly as „a rising star“. If clicks and readers/viewers are generated none of them will care less how dangerous or immoral the policies are.

It seems that the Leader of the Tories also may have failed to read their own paper.

Why should Labour leadership read and respond to the papers the Tory leadership can’t be bothered to read and have no power to implement?

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Maybe they wanted the focus to be on the people saying it, not the labour reaction.

Real gold, shurely not?

Can’t take the bugs out that they’ll build in. Might you need to build a new White House?

I bought a stack of wood to make a fire as it’s cold and I’ve also become my Dad. It’s made me very happy.

Perhaps with the (paid) help of Farage to advise on where best to become an economic migrant to avoid one's fair share of taxes?

Promises, promises.

Is the Isle of Wight a suitable compromise?

If so, I expect he had his fingers crossed.

Maybe we should aspire to be more Scandi and less Saudi?

Fascism cannot endure ridicule or absurd satire because its power depends on fear, obedience, and the illusion of infallibility. Laughter punctures that illusion, mockery exposes the tyrant’s fragility, stripping away the pomp and terror to reveal only vanity and insecurity beneath.

Sadly, there's a lot to be said for Marina Hyde's analysis here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How are they going to have time for the other culture if they are rowing the Thames, going to all the top tier British sports events and cultural events? There’s barely a weekend off to see the Bolshoi, military parades, Cossack Festival or Judo events.

Too busy baby.

Don’t give them ideas.

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

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Is Rory Stewart available? Didn’t he tutor the Wales boys at 18, after Eton?

He’s more of a Boisdale Man & with a T Bone steak for £64 you can see why.

Man of the Paypal.

If this is cultural appropriation which culture would like to claim this?

If any Labour MPs are reading (go on, you know you want to), as someone trying to hire six new Oxford professors in AI / experiments / big data / all the stuff you say you want, I would really appreciate knowing if new hires can, you know, stay in the country they move to... current policy is chaos

Or getting Russians in to build a comms room? 🧐

He won’t be happy until it’s like Putin’s palace. Pole dancing bar and all that…