Tuesday 19th January 2021

[refitman]

Morning all.

[AnatolyKasparov]

Good morefternoon all.

I note this is the 2000th daily thread since we started this site.

[citizenJA]

Good morefternoon, everyone.

[citizenJA]

Good morefternoon all.

I note this is the 2000th daily thread since we started this site.

[citizenJA]

I've been meeting friends here for nearly 6 1/2 years

[AnatolyKasparov]

Don't forget the original FtN site before that!

[gilsey]

Read the extracts from the Times leader under this tweet.
I assume he means 'wouldn't' in the last line.

Flying_Rodent
@flying_rodent
Credit to the Times for laying out the case for removing big chunks of the meagre support available for the very poorest people in the midst of a deadly pandemic with the overt psychopathy of their class. Other papers would be as open about their vicious contempt for the public.

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[gilsey]

I hope this is right.

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Rob Ford
@robfordmancs
Excellent analysis as per usual from Stephen. One idea he raises here which I think is really worth pondering is that welfare cuts for 2020s Cons could become like immigration for 2000s/2010s Labour: an issue they can neither dismiss, tackle or find a way to avoid"

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[RogerOThornhill]

Good morning.

Busy morning out and about buying cat food...and then taking it back and exchanging when we discovered it was the wrong one.

Here's the 6 Tory MPs that voted with Labour on the UC vote.

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[gilsey]

The government has hired a PR firm to boost vaccine take-up among minority groups amid concerns that Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) and eastern European people are less likely to accept the jab

You would think that engaging with councils and community leaders would be more effective and considerably cheaper, but this is the govt we have.

[AnatolyKasparov]

Oliver Kamm is one of the chief Times leader writers. Just saying.

[gilsey]

He's Martin Bell's nephew! I didn't know that.
RW journalists in general are terrifying.


I think Hindle had a subscription to the Times, presumably for the crossword, so we got quotes occasionally. As the tweet says, useful to see what they're thinking set out so clearly.

[AnatolyKasparov]

The thing about Kamm however is that he was (maybe still is) a Labour member and had definite pretensions to being "on the left".

(and I was slightly acquainted with his brother on my postgrad course in Bristol three decades ago)

[gilsey]

Pretensions being the operative word.

The Times equivalent of BBC 'balance'.

Like Marr, if he was impartial he wouldn't be in that job.

[RogerOThornhill]

Secretary Pompeo
@SecPompeo
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30m

US government account
We moved past foreign policy elites peddling the same old failed ideas, on the left and the right. Not popular in the Swamp but it produced great results, like the #AbrahamAccords.

Hmm...I wonder if we might get to hear just how those were achieved?

[citizenJA]

Goodnight, everyone.
love,
cJA

[tinyclanger2]

evening