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A mea culpa from the IEA? Why Brexit was a mistake, from a libertarian perspective https://iea.org.uk/why-brexit-was-a-mistake-from-a-libertarian-perspective/ Slow hand clap. I read that the other day and was rather baffled by this bit Brexit, contrary to being a move towards greater liberty, was p...

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@sky, thanks for the QT review.
Alex Burghart, where do they find these people.
As you said, every week you think a Tory politician can't perform worse than the last one, and every week they defy that prediction.

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I found this interesting. "not committing genocide, but that it is failing to punish isolated genocidal acts by its forces or incitement of genocide by its officials" https://twitter.com/Alonso_GD/status/1750969845414309904 https://twitter.com/Alonso_GD/status/1750969850443231422 https://t...

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Discourage them from saying the quiet part out loud, you mean?

Not sure how it helps, really.

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Something to cheer you up. It might not be one of the Royal Navy's finest hours, but it's one of twitter's. The replies https://twitter.com/Ian_Fraser/status/1748698769464365451 eg Unfortunately the Captain received different orders from each of the four Secretaries of State for Defence. Didn't we h...

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On a lighter note

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Good morning.

Yes.

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Good to know our* instincts are confirmed by the data. centre-left parties promising, for example, to be tough on immigration or public spending are unlikely to attract potential voters on the right, and risk alienating existing progressive supporters. “Voters tend to prefer the original to the copy...

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Good morning. This essay was titled 'Gaza and the End of Western Hypocrisy', now changed to Western Fantasy. I suppose someone could write a book about why this has happened, certainly this piece doesn't attempt to explain it. It's not very long. https://twitter.com/MacaesBruno/status/17451758655147...

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frog222 wrote: ↑Wed 10 Jan, 2024 5:12 pm
Hoping that gilsey's eyes are recovering ?

Yes, thanks for asking. I've been very shortsighted all my life and now I'm long-sighted, it takes some getting used to.
I'm sure in a month or 2 I'll be very happy with the new me.

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"the British are among the worst idlers in the world"

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Good morning.

The CSJ? Really?
How has it come to this....

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Good morning. Is everyone watching Mr Bates vs the Post Office? I've been following that story for many years and still find plenty of jaw-dropping moments and I'm only part way through ep 2. The writer has done a brilliant job and Toby Jones is excellent as ever. Download it and there's no adverts.

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Nice moon pic.

Get well soon.

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"the prerogative of the harlot through the ages"

Whatever our poor opinion of the current Labour leadership, might be reasonable to assume they will actually pull a few levers, and of course be castigated for it by the Tories. Whether we'll think they're the right levers, time will tell.

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Good morning. Hope everyone had a good Christmas. Best wishes to Roger and his family, I hope they were able to enjoy time together and recall happier times. I've not been around much because I'm having cataract surgery, left eye done and the right one next week, so my vision isn't very satisfactory...

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Jonathan Gullis is a Port Vale fan. UTFB.

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Recall byelection petiton for Peter Bone MP to close at 5pm

Vote early, vote often.

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You can't have both? I expect there's a queue of economists wanting to explain why he's talking rubbish.

Otoh, with the tories we can't have either.

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Good morning.

I see the Daily Mail's supporting Labour now

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Good morning.

If you thought the BBC platforming Kate Andrews was bad

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No credit is due, because why should I want to know her opinion? The BBC have never explained. Listening to her is worse than listening to the BBC's beloved vox pops, some random geezer stopped in the street to have their two penn'orth on a subject of which they have no knowledge or understanding. T...

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I usually have a lot of time for Sam Freedman but this is way off the mark. I've barely seen any personal attacks on Kate Andrews, just a lot of people questioning why she's been so ubiquitous on the BBC for years and why they've repeatedly failed to inform their audience of her background. Not tha...

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Good morning. Rishi's reverse midas touch strikes again. A council in one of the wealthiest parts of the UK has warned it faces potential bankruptcy due to the “devastating” impact of cancelling the northern leg of HS2. Leaders of Cheshire East council in north-west England said the authority had sp...

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Chris Dillow's blog CENTRIST UTOPIANISM Conclusion Human kind cannot bear very much reality, so we retreat into dreams. Centrists and rightists are just as prone to do this as the left. The problem is that they get to inflict their dreams onto the rest of us. Amen to that. Another extract The notion...

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Not quite sure why everyone seems to be so surprised by the Israeli Ambassador saying a two-state solution was now dead given she slapped down the Board of Deputies over this issue three years ago. Quite. And that's the Board of Deputies , who many of the rest of us already find too extreme. 'Quite...

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Mask off? Where've they been.

Tzipi Hotovely is utterly vile and makes no secret of it.

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Leaving Las Vegas is horrible, and not because of Cage drinking himself to death.

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Shane MacGowan's funeral was quite something, surely he'd never have imagined it would be live-streamed on the BBC, with the President in the front row.

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I wonder who dropped out of qt, the person who drafted in Monbiot at the last minute will probably not be asked to do it again.

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Good morning. Thanks for the QT review, sky. I wonder if the Labour powers-that-be had a word with Dodds, to be a bit more animated after her previous showing. Unfortunately there's sfa in the Labour prospectus to be enthusiastic about and it showed. As for Monbiot It was hard to disagree with anyth...

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RIP Benjamin Zephaniah.

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In his LBC interview this morning Chris Heaton-Harris, the Northern Ireland secretary, played down the significance of Robert Jenrick’s resignation last night as immigration minister over the Rwanda bill. He said: I don’t think it’s as big a story as is being made. I generally don’t like anybody re...

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I wonder how widely it'll be reported.

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Tim Stanley as well, yesterday. Leopards, faces.

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We are not amazed.

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'the voice of a handful of cranks'

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McTernan's got out of the right (left) side of the bed today though. James Meadway @meadwaj Starting the week agreeing with ex Blair adviser @johnmcternan : “Keir Starmer’s praise of Margaret Thatcher in the Sunday Telegraph… wins over no wavering voters but risks losing the goodwill of a wide range...

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McFadden insisted that Starmer was paying tribute to her effectiveness, not her policies.

Sure he was.

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AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Sat 02 Dec, 2023 2:43 pm Snowing here today, though it isn't settling too much.

Did that change? Serious in Kendal & Ambleside apparently, plenty of stranded day-trippers I expect.

Just f***ing freezing here.

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We knew that from the beginning, when she did that embarrassing scripted Q&A with Johnson. Yes-woman.

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Good morning.

Thanks for the QT review, sky.
For me, Layla Moran couldn't outweigh McVey & Neil so I didn't watch at all, you've confirmed that was the right decision.
Of course irl Moran is worth at least 100 of the two of them combined.

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