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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 1d

Politico: "Boris Johnson breached anti-sleaze rules (again) after failing to come clean about work he is said to have done for two firms without consulting regulators...Johnson sought to link firms up with foreign government representatives & entered into contracts without consulting the watchdog."

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Kev Shaw @kevshaw99.bsky.social · 1d

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 1d

The speed and booze addicted dressed in black playing raw live shows in prisons with a voice like god almighty himself guy is “deeply uncool”? What

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 2d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Kev Shaw @kevshaw99.bsky.social · 1d

More Brexit benefits.

European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 1d

From Sunday, travelling into Europe gets tougher for Brits.

New EU border rules mean fingerprint scans, photo registration and longer queues.

This is the real-world cost of Brexit - more hassle, more red tape, more delays.

Kev Shaw @kevshaw99.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly.

But a decade of relentless lies, unchallenged by most of the mass audience media, will change that I'm sure.

mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 1d

Numerous polls have been conducted on withdrawing or not from the ECHR.

The more recent polls have given a clear majority (over 50%) staying in the ECHR.

The evidence is clear, withdrawal commands neither majority support nor political urgency.

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Kev Shaw @kevshaw99.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe 9 months ago a you might have said it's just because Reform are new and interesting.

That's no longer possible.

It's so obvious, so out of keeping with majority opinion (outside of X and the Telegraph/Mail), that it's obviously deliberate bias.

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Kev Shaw @kevshaw99.bsky.social · 1d

It's also a clear indicator the basic editorial values now in place at the BBC, and not a good one.

It's why we see the constant non-critical lionising of Farage from the BBC politics editor (Mason), reflected on the key political/news broadcasts and content online.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Kev Shaw @kevshaw99.bsky.social · 1d

Completely agree.

In hindsight, the central party's approach to the Uxbridge by-election should have alerted us to the self defeating caution/cowardice in taking on the populist right that seems to be core to the messaging and some elements of policy now in government.

Kev Shaw @kevshaw99.bsky.social · 1d

That's a tactical vote result if ever I saw one - big drop in Greens as well as Labour, supporting the increase in LibDem vote, I think.

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Kev Shaw @kevshaw99.bsky.social · 1d

Polanski is a great communicator, in charge of a party with a clear platform.

His ability to take on the bollocks pushed by Reform and the Tufton Street bro's is refreshing.

It also makes Labour's abject failure to communicate the positive things it's doing and attack the right seem cowardly.

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Kev Shaw @kevshaw99.bsky.social · 1d

I have to say we should not be convicting people of saying mean things about a religion, or for mistreating or destroying a religion's symbols.

This guy was creating a public nuisance, and such a charge would be sufficient.

Adding a religious element to his charges is a slippery slope, imo.

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Kev Shaw @kevshaw99.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely spot on.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

It's never the comms. Labour's comms is grey because in the absence of a clear strategy for what the government wants to achieve, no-one can defend or articulate what the government says in an interesting or exciting way.

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 2d

I do wonder if Labour might look at the sorts of people dominating the discourse and dominating the content wars and maybe, just maybe, rethink the sorts of grey figures they routinely put up for interviews, instructed at that to be as cautious as possible. Things have changed. Their comms hasn’t.

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Kev Shaw @kevshaw99.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly this.

JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 1d

Brexit is irreversible until those who want to reverse it decide defeating the anti-EU right is more important than anything else. Until the EU sees that, and then the defeat, there is no chance it will countenance initiating a rejoin process.

Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 1d

It's national broken clock being right day.

Totally right.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Kev Shaw @kevshaw99.bsky.social · 1d

Yup.

But the politics of replacing it with a property tax are .... challenging.

To raise more money overall,.most people would pay more than they are now - obviously.

FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 2d

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, what's the most unfair tax of them all?

An #FTEdit 🧵on the madness of council tax 👇

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Kev Shaw @kevshaw99.bsky.social · 2d

This is what political courage can do.

There was a loud, well connected and well financed but small minority against these measures, but Khan pushed through, and now theres no chance of it being rolled back.

Elected officials throughout the country - please take note.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 2d

Thanks to London’s bold action, almost 10 million people are now breathing cleaner air.

That means fewer children will grow up with stunted lungs and fewer people will have to suffer from asthma, dementia and heart disease.

London hits clean air milestone 184 years early - ULEZ makes 'big difference'

A professor has branded the success a 'truly remarkable turnaround for the city's air quality'

www.mylondon.news

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Scott Myers @gointothestory.bsky.social · 3d

Greta Gerwig: "Whenever I have trouble writing, I think about the pace of baseball. It’s slow, just grinding out another play. You strike out a lot. This, for me, is very helpful to have in my mind while writing.” gointothestory.blcklst.com/screenwritin... #screenwriting

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Kev Shaw @kevshaw99.bsky.social · 2d

Most of the remaining Brexit true believers are not Reform voters.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

New polling by YouGov, commissioned by B4B, shows:

📊 46% of potential Conservative voters consider Brexit a failure.
📊 Most blame Boris Johnson, David Cameron and Nigel Farage for Brexit's failure.

Full research here: https://bit.ly/46LZq1G

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Kev Shaw @kevshaw99.bsky.social · 2d

100%.

The people in Soho who bought places 40 years ago now blocking late licences and outdoor seating are the worst hypocrites.

*They* specifically moved there for the noise and nightlife, and now spend their lives making this harder for young people, and so hurting local businesses.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

Policy Number 2 of my new centrist party, Go Outside!, is that you can't object to a noise that has been in the area longer than you.

thebelovedaunt.bsky.social @thebelovedaunt.bsky.social · 3d

Start with every single bar that surrounds those miserable bastards in Soho that constantly whine about moving to the nightlife centre of London and finding nightlife.

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Kev Shaw @kevshaw99.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly this.

I'm in my late 50's.

The first alcohol I drank with friends when my parents weren't there was in our local pub with mates - the landlord knew who we were, and knew our dads.

So our drinking was controlled.

Loosing these social controls on drinking has been a disaster.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

This is maybe my least pro-market position: the good thing about drinking in a pub is there is an adult who can cut you off, something which cannot happen when you are drinking alone with the booze you bought at Tesco.

Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 3d

Should go further and tax supermarket beer at a higher rate than at the moment- raises revenue, targets the biggest source of binge drinking and might help get people back into pubs.

Kev Shaw @kevshaw99.bsky.social · 2d

Boomers are the most entitled, spoilt and delusional generation ever, part 75577

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 2d

Hollow laughter

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 2d

Peter Atwater
“With each passing day, the AI space looks more and more like the USA’s home mortgage securitization at the peak of the 2007-8 housing bubble with its overlapping series of capital conveyor belts.”

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Kev Shaw @kevshaw99.bsky.social · 2d

This Guardian article attacks the sensible changes to make it easier for pubs and bars to attract customers.

The liberal left and centre left are just - if not more - as NIMBYish as the small c conservatives.

Soho is a great case in point.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help the ailing hospitality sector but have attracted criticism from health experts

www.theguardian.com

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Kev Shaw @kevshaw99.bsky.social · 2d

This is disastrous for pubs and bars, and also disastrous for socializing.

The gap in pricing between bars/pubs and supermarkets is bad for us all - we should change the duty rules to reduce the price gap.

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Kev Shaw @kevshaw99.bsky.social · 2d

The ludicrous situation where pubs, bars and restaurants pay duty on alcohol sales, but shops and supermarkets don't, is the key issue.

As the parent of a young adult, I can confirm they "pre charge" - meet with friends at someone's house, and get drunk on shop bought drinks before they go out.

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