Farewell and best wishes to Lord McFall who is stepping down as Speaker of the House of Lords in February.

Hi @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social,
Just to flag, there is a little typo with the IfG story.

Love the blog. Many thanks

By his own admission, Nigel Farage is an inept disorganised MP who 'keep[s] missing stuff'.

It must be difficult juggling 9 different jobs and earning hundreds of thousands of pounds alongside being an MP.

A very good collection by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

A conversation that smells of big oil

Badenoch wouldn't let the truth get in the way of a good story

Slightly mind blowing to think that 9 out of 13 years of New Labour's term in office were when Britain still had a larger economy than China

Tonight is the longest night of the year. Iranians in Iran and around the world mark this as Yalda Night by gathering around the family tables, eating watermelons, pomegranates and reading Hafez's poetry from the 14th century.
Yalda Mubarak!