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Gavin Shuker
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The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for. We should be kind while there is still time. Master of carbs cookery.
Who do you think is thinking for me?
September 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Yeah, honestly, I don’t know. I just think if you oppose fascism you kind of have to oppose facsism, y’know?
September 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Oh, that was so much fun! That’s a lovely memory 😊
September 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Worth reading my wiki on this one.
September 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I find this summer far more subversive than last. In ‘24 the actions were so clearly criminal and violent; this year the same bad actors have learned to inch back.

You and I may not be best placed to describe how intimidating it is to have men in balaclavas erecting flags outside our houses at 4am.
September 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Genuine question - I’m not necessarily dunking on the guy. Can you explain why he hasn’t done the same this summer?
September 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Reasonably well forgotten now, but he was Corbyn’s first Shadow Leader of the House.
September 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I’ll bat on this - I don’t think it’s a bad idea to stick one person on it across the whole civil service. There’s all sorts of complexities with MPs tax affairs; special attachments to the standard self assessment return. They compartmentalise for privacy also, which I don’t consider unreasonable.
September 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Clearly still suffering Twitter PTSD and the need to insulate myself from bad-faith actors 🤷‍♂️
September 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Thanks. I guess if it were sought through that channel - and poor advice given, or declined to be given - it might strengthen her case. If it were not sought, the opposite.
September 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
In fairness the sub-editor there is not having the greatest of days ✊🏻
September 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I mean, it feels like important context - missing from the original article - yet a search of the BBC’s own CMS would have thrown it up.
September 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
A quick google and you’ll never guess what… www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
September 2, 2025 at 7:24 AM
September 2, 2025 at 7:22 AM