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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 1h

Yes I take your point and the issue is often one's assessment of the good intentions of those raising concerns.

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you. I do think there are areas of overreach and activsm and probably poor legislation - some JRs, the ower tier immigration panels which are getting overturend on appeal. But my point is that this is fixable without tearing up the HRA or Constitutional reform act

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 22h

Thatcher once said her greatest achievement was Tony Blair and New Labour, because she forced her opponents onto her agenda. Today's new right begs to differ.

www.ft.com/content/49ec...

The battle to dismantle Blair’s Britain

Conservatives’ biggest mistake was the adoption of the liberal agenda, the new right believes

www.ft.com

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 19h

thank you

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 22h

they were before Thatcher

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 22h

Thatcher once said her greatest achievement was Tony Blair and New Labour, because she forced her opponents onto her agenda. Today's new right begs to differ.

www.ft.com/content/49ec...

The battle to dismantle Blair’s Britain

Conservatives’ biggest mistake was the adoption of the liberal agenda, the new right believes

www.ft.com

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 3d

"The problem is I would be happier if I could at least tell myself it was just me being paranoid instead of feeling like, in a more dangerous world for Jews, even our lifeboat is no longer wholly reliable, let alone inviting."

www.ft.com/content/14d4...

Home - Financial Times

News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics

FT.com

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 3d

well try reading the headline

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 3d

read the piece

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 3d

"Of course, like around two-thirds of British Jews, I am a Zionist. What about the history of Jews in Europe would make me not see the case for a Jewish lifeboat outside of it?"

100 per cent agree with this excellent piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/14d4...

Israel seems more important — and less desirable — than ever for British Jews

Amid rising antisemitism at home, our lifeboat abroad seems less attractive

www.ft.com

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 3d

Isn't it the principle of "good enough"? If your printer useage is low and irregular, the higher price is off-putting even when it is a false economy.

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 4d

When someone tells you who there are, believe them.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

Tommy Robinson blames "the elitist Jews" "the woke liberal elitist Jews like the Board of Deputies who are pro-Open Borders" & who are responsible for all of the problems Jews face, with their hugging up to Islam + open borders, not "like the real Zionist Jews"
x.com/HeidiBachram...

Heidi Bachram 🎗️ on X: "Jews were just murdered in an attack on a synagogue and Tommy Robinson is raving about the Board of Deputies and “elitist Jews” who are to blame for open borders. My husband works for the Board and fights for the community every moment at great risk. This man is not our friend. https://t.co/HR99sciFe0" / X

Jews were just murdered in an attack on a synagogue and Tommy Robinson is raving about the Board of Deputies and “elitist Jews” who are to blame for open borders. My husband works for the Board and fights for the community every moment at great risk. This man is not our friend. https://t.co/HR99sciFe0

x.com

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 4d

yes, me too

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 4d

It should be obvious that this is not a tiger Jews want to ride.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

Tommy Robinson blames "the elitist Jews" "the woke liberal elitist Jews like the Board of Deputies who are pro-Open Borders" & who are responsible for all of the problems Jews face, with their hugging up to Islam + open borders, not "like the real Zionist Jews"
x.com/HeidiBachram...

Heidi Bachram 🎗️ on X: "Jews were just murdered in an attack on a synagogue and Tommy Robinson is raving about the Board of Deputies and “elitist Jews” who are to blame for open borders. My husband works for the Board and fights for the community every moment at great risk. This man is not our friend. https://t.co/HR99sciFe0" / X

Jews were just murdered in an attack on a synagogue and Tommy Robinson is raving about the Board of Deputies and “elitist Jews” who are to blame for open borders. My husband works for the Board and fights for the community every moment at great risk. This man is not our friend. https://t.co/HR99sciFe0

x.com

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 7d

🙏

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 7d

should credit Charlotte Ivers for having this thought ahead of me

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 7d

If you feel the need to do something in the wake of the Manchester attack why not donate to the Community Security Trust, the organisation that works to keep jews in Britain safe

cst.org.uk/donate-now

Donate Online Now – CST – Protecting Our Jewish Community

cst.org.uk

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 10d

Really good piece this from @stephenkb.bsky.social. Hilariously brutal on the “What did we learn on our summer holidays?”memo. "The title sounds like it was written by an eight-year-old, which would surely have been preferable to the actual content."

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 10d

I don't think Labour's policy agenda is a winning one, but combining some quite traditional leftwing economics with, essentially, not being willing to talk about how you are leftwing feels like the worst *possible* way to govern and campaign:

Memo for Labour: globalisation is good, actually

This government is in many ways the party returned to its factory settings. But the product was faulty in the first place

www.ft.com

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 10d

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 11d

ooh vicious

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 12d

What gift to I give to a host who hates me? An ill-qualified journalist solves your domestic issues

Your one stop shop for family warfare and petty passive aggression.

www.ft.com/content/3a46...

What do I buy for someone who hates me?

Much will depend on the message you wish to convey

www.ft.com

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 13d

I do think this has been a week in which new levels of 'why don't senior Labour politicians understand we can ALL hear them' have been reached. Why would Andy Burnham do a 'I'm gonna hike taxes on London and the south, you're all rich!' Why would Steve Reed use 'regional politician' as a putdown?

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 13d

Talking Starmer vs Burnham, Liberal Democrat conference and all that on this week's FT Political Fix podcast:

Does Starmer have a northern problem?

A look-ahead to the Labour party conference in Liverpool

www.ft.com

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Peter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social · 14d

Brutal new MRP poll out today showing Reform at 311 and Labour support collapsing.

Worth reading steaming @financialtimes.com column on Starmer by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social

“Starmer can’t afford to wait for reckless Reform to implode”

on.ft.com/3VxxCaR

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