Thursday 8th October 2020

[refitman]

Morning all.

[AnatolyKasparov]

Well, today is quiet.

Everybody still thinking about that fly?

[Willow904]

I've mostly been following this on Twitter:

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The Bar Council@thebarcouncil
· Oct 6
URGENT MEETING CALLED BY @IBAHRI: The Implications of the Internal Market Bill for the rule of law in the UK.
7 October 1800–1900. All welcome. With Lord Neuberger, Dominic Grieve QC, Joanna Cherry QC, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC. More info & registration https://ibanet.org/Implications-of-the- ... -Bill.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Schona Jolly QC
@WomaninHavana
Level 1:#RuleofLaw This important meeting has just begun. I understand there is a very high level of registrations. The speakers - former President of UK Supreme Court Lord Neuberger, Dominic Grieve QC, Joanna Cherry QC, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC - are now joined by Lord Howard. #IMBill

[AnatolyKasparov]

So, there really is nothing happening today it seems.

[RogerOThornhill]

Afternoon.

Nothing apart from this I guess...

Nick Stylianou
@nmsonline
Former @itvnews National Editor, @BBCNewsnight Political Editor, @guardiannews Political Correspondent and currently
@RishiSunak's Director Of Strategic Communications, Allegra Stratton (@HMTAllegra) is the new Spokesperson For The Prime Minister.
3:25 PM · Oct 8, 2020·TweetDeck

someone has been up to mischief...

Allegra Stratton is married to lee conroy a one eyed postman who works in kingsbridge..|James Forsyth]], political editor of The Spectator magazine.[12] The couple live in Canonbury, north London.[13]

[AnatolyKasparov]

Ah, somebody else from the "left-liberal" BBC then!

[RogerOThornhill]

Yes, and all very cliquey...

Tim Walker
@ThatTimWalker
Johnson’s idea of smashing elites and making Flag of United Kingdom a meritocracy: Allegra Stratton, today named his press secretary, is married to James Forsyth, political editor of the Spectator, which Johnson once edited. Mary Wakefield, its commissioning editor, is married to Dominic Cummings.
5:08 PM · Oct 8, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

[AnatolyKasparov]

I'm sure its all part of "levelling up", somehow.

[gilsey]

Gary Shteyngart
@Shteyngart
Update: The fly has just checked into Walter Reed.

[tinyclanger2]

I remember watching the 2012 opening ceremony while on holiday in Italy. We sat on the roof terrace to watch the tv inside the room. I enjoyed it for sure, but I had no idea how wonderful and amazing such a simple, carefree experience would seem 8 years later.

[AnatolyKasparov]

The problem with that ceremony is that too many interpreted it as a statement of what we actually are (which the following 8 years has done a lot to disprove, of course)

Rather than the correct line, which is that it was what we *could* be.

[tinyclanger2]

indeed - though i really just meant the simple act of going on holiday and wandering about freely (was simple and carefree)

[RogerOThornhill]

Anyone who thinks that Blue labour shouldn't be trusted has some more evidence as to why they might be right.

Claire Fox
@Fox_Claire
A special thanks to Alison Wolf @XXFactorFacts & Maurice Glasman @blue_labour
for doing me the great honour of introducing me to The Lords today. Those on here who disagree with me, please don't drag them into it. Some people deserve credit for being gracious & generous.

[adam]

I remember watching the 2012 opening ceremony while on holiday in Italy. We sat on the roof terrace to watch the tv inside the room. I enjoyed it for sure, but I had no idea how wonderful and amazing such a simple, carefree experience would seem 8 years later.

You will be wanting this.

[RogerOThornhill]

Fox in Ermine
From Revolutionary Communist to Lady Buckley

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The people of Buckley – just 32 miles down the road from Warrington – are not best pleased with the association. The town clerk wrote to Johnson in September and complained about it, pointing out that no permission had been sought and that the people didn’t want their good name tarnished in such a manner.

But of course, Lady Fox has no need to consult the little people – she’s a baroness now. Her appointment a gift from the Tory Old Etonian Prime Minister Boris Johnson, perhaps with some nudging from her old friend Mirza, for services to Brexit.

[AnatolyKasparov]

Anyone who thinks that Blue labour shouldn't be trusted has some more evidence as to why they might be right.

Claire Fox
@Fox_Claire
A special thanks to Alison Wolf @XXFactorFacts & Maurice Glasman @blue_labour
for doing me the great honour of introducing me to The Lords today. Those on here who disagree with me, please don't drag them into it. Some people deserve credit for being gracious & generous.

Glasman was always a strange man.

[adam]

Regeneron, the antibody cocktail that Trump has been mischaracterized as a “cure”, was developed with cells derived from human fetal tissue – a practice that the administration opposes.

Not for the first time, you wonder at just how much the Republican's hardcore from the church will put up with. I'm sure they'll find another way to justify this.