There’s a step change from a party which achieves its malign ends within the traditional conception of our constitution & one which is prepared to lay waste to it, and the Tories have rapidly moved from one to the other. But you’d understand none of that from reading the BBC’s political editor.

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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Your chance to own a genuine Bob Ross, if you've got a few tens of thousands lying around: apnews.com/article/bob-...

This isn’t an unavoidable fact of life. It’s the direct result of policy choices made my those in power.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

Shameless bullying by odious little tin soldier Jenrick of people who just want to serve the public.

This shouldn’t be worth taking seriously ofc, bar the manifest risk that our politics will now dissolve into an auction over how many judges each party promises to sack.

A few points & a warning 1/

There is something deeply broken in the UK and it has absolutely nothing to do with migrants, especially with 1 in 25 properties being vacant.
This should be the number one priority for the government. Instead more and more homeless individuals are dying.
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Ukrainian refugees in Caerphilly believe that neighbours who display placards in support of Reform UK are telling them they are unwanted and should go home, we can reveal ✍️ Martin Shipton

I attended @momoshaty.bsky.social's Meeting of the Morbid Minds: The Horror of Becoming virtual symposium last week and all I got was a skyhigh TBR and my mind blown!

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“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

A thousand book historians are nodding vigorously.

(we are legion, and more canny about the history of markets than you’d think for folks who also make literal formulae to represent how an individual book was constructed)

I'm not sure why the 'spectrum' idea causes such problems with regards to autism. Lots of conditions (not a perfect word, but the best I could come up with) have a range of presentations, and that's understood pretty easily, but for some reason when it comes to autism it seems a real struggle.

/adds to lexicon/

I thought this was interesting on how that 'gap in the law' came about, from @adamwagner1.bsky.social - www.linkedin.com/posts/adam-w...

Your reminder that Robert Jenrick isn’t interested in judges being unbiased or apolitical: on the contrary, like the far right media, he wants to intimidate or control judges into making decisions which reflect *his* political biases

Jenrick accusing Lammy of being thick, whilst apparently under the impression that immigration judges wear wigs

Chris Philp on R4 yesterday making 3 false statements about the ECHR and the GFA.
1. “The ECHR is mentioned only in the Multi-Party Agreement not the UK/Ireland Agreement.”. Wrong: the latter agreement requires the UK to support the former: they can’t be pulled apart like that.

Except, and I do fully understand that this is the Telegraph so facts might not matter too much, pretty much every reliable expert agrees that the only practical way to genuinely reduce small boat crossings is to provide safer and simpler alternatives. 1/

I am in this picture and I do not like it.

I never know how they expect people to remember these appointments.

❗️''Since 2019, Clearsprings and the two other providers that cover the rest of the UK have made a combined profit of £383m from the asylum contracts''

This is big business.

So, why is it so hard for them to provide decent, safe housing for people that need it?

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