The Home Office’s absurd taxi bill results entirely from its insistence on forcing people to move round the country without choice or notice, & to live on the breadline so they can’t afford public transport. That Mahmood didn’t know about it till the BBC told her shows how appallingly the HO is run.

I know I rant about this all the time but the rabid - and omnipresence - anti immigrant line on BBC 6 music news is so jarring

Feels like a text book example of how an Overton window is shifted

It looks like a boat with two sailors at some angles. Perfect setting

It's not so much lessons we fail to learn, it's that we fail to challenge those in Govt who perpetuate the prevailing narrative that tells us we have no money and are at risk of bankruptcy whilst at the very same time are themselves creating money every single day for the purposes of Govt spending

Seems UK has same dynamic as US. Left struggles to get elected & is thus fearful of taking ANY risk, alienating their base. Right takes any margin of electoral victory as a mandate to charge unapologetically even further to the extreme. This scenario makes progress impossible & regress more likely.

He’s not in office and can’t quietly get on with sorting out the mess 🙄