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Harry Lambert 🌻

5 years

"The Great University Con" - how we're creating a lost generation of sub-prime students (while costing the taxpayer billions). My cover story in this week's @NewStatesman :

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

4 years

🚨 Excl: Ken Clarke on Boris Johnson's deal with EU - He was "desperate… there was no proper negotiating." - Johnson was alone with Varadkar for 90 mins and caved. - Boris "hadn’t understood what he was agreeing to." In essence, a clueless capitulation.

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

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Raab could be gone if Lab, who are polling in single-digits, stood aside for Lib Dems in Esher and Walton. When race is narrowed to 2 parties, per @DeltapollUK : Con - 48% (+2% on all-party race) Lib - 48% (+7%) How is it not in Labour's interest to defeat the Foreign Sec? 🤦‍♂️

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

4 years

Is the Corbyn Surge™ repeating?… Labour up from 24.9% to 28.6% in 10 days, per @britainelects . Tory lead down to 8.6 points.

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

5 years

I wonder who briefed @Peston and @ShippersUnbound …

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

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The real university con? Post-2012 students not only pay £9k fees - they pay vastly greater rates of interest. The same degree from the same university has cost A pre-2012 student: £10,000~ in fees, £2,000~ in interest Student since 2012: £27,000 in fees, £22,000~ in interest

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

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In 2009-10 the Lebedevs bought the @EveningStandard & @Independent . Why? What did they want? In @NewStatesman this week we reveal the companies of which they are the main shareholders have since lost *£150 million*. But Evgeny Lebedev has become a Lord.

What does Evgeny Lebedev want?

Buying British newspapers gave the Lebedevs clout in Tory high politics. Over a decade on, it remains unclear what they hope to achieve.

www.newstatesman.com

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

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MRP: Tories could still fall short of majority. 2nd ref still possible. Lab keep climbing, from 25% to now 34%. Green vote looks soft - still 1.5% higher than '17 - and Lib Dem vote just keeps falling. Lab cld be 37%+ by Thurs. Final polls to come at .

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

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I've written a @NewStatesman profile of Dominic Grieve, the Tory rebel who represents everything Cummings wants to purge. Cummings is the architect of Brexit. Grieve is the reason it hasn’t happened yet. The last in our NS/ @britainelects election series:

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

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"He's be guilty of contempt of court and sent to jail." 🚨 Dominic Cummings' uncle – one of the UK's great judges – on Boris' fate if he disobeys the law on 19 Oct. I met him & spoke to Cummings' parents, Steve Hilton, Craig Oliver & more for @newstatesman

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Harry Lambert 🌻

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Kensington is the 2019 election. YouGov/Times say @SamGyimah will lose for Lib Dems on 29%. Tories win with 37%. While Lab, who won it in 2017, get 27%. A heavily Remain seat will comfortably vote for Johnson's hard Brexit. Corbyn and Swinson, take a bow.

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Harry Lambert 🌻

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The UK's tax system entrenches inequality, stymies growth, & rewards a few at the expense of the many. Yet @RachelReevesMP is refusing to reform it. Why? Lab lead by 20 pts & reform is *popular*. It's also vital. Take council tax. It's indefensible… 1/x

Britain’s great tax con

The UK’s tax system entrenches inequality, stymies growth, and rewards a few at the expense of the many.

www.newstatesman.com

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

4 years

Labour stand down in Chelsea. Lib Dems stand down in Putney, Hendon, Chipping Barnet. They split Wimbledon, Finchley, Cities of Westminster, and Kensington; they each stand in 2 each. 8 Tory seats = 5 Lab, 3 Lib. Instead of 0 Lab, 0 Lib. How is this hard?

Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

4 years

All 7 of these London seats are *heavily Remain*. Yet all are set to vote for Johnson. Corbyn and Swinson are ensuring Brexit. Add Wimbledon (27% Leave), Putney (27%), Chelsea and Fulham (29%), Finchley (31%), and Hendon (42%) to Cities of Westminster (29%) and Kensington (31%).

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

5 years

For 18 months after the 2017 election, politics was incredibly static. Since Feb, when May's lifeless govt finally began to fall apart, it has been in incredible flux. Anything possible in next 6 weeks. Millions will tune in for first time since '17.

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

4 years

Michael Heseltine confirms he’ll vote Lib Dem and tells the country to do the same - unless they can vote for the Tory rebels. At an event with @DominicGrieve1 , @DavidGauke and @AnneMilton .

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

4 years

🚨 Excl: Grieve on Cummings and his "cascade of disinformation" - "The way he raises tension and then suddenly drops it away is classic Maoist stuff." - Create turmoil then relax it, and "people say, ‘Oh how wonderful. We’re being offered the way out.’"

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

4 years

…but projected margins of victory are <5% in 30+ Tory-voting seats. "YouGov cautions that a fall from the present Tory national poll lead of 11 points to <7 points could yet deny Mr Johnson a majority." Tonight's @SavantaComRes poll cuts Tory lead to 7

Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

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YouGov/ @thetimes MRP poll in full: Tories: 359 (+42) Lab: 211 (-49) Lib: 13 (+1) SNP: 43 (+8) Tory majority of 68 says the model that predicted a hung parliament in 2017.

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

4 years

🚨 New: "Why weren't we ready for coronavirus?" This wasn't a black swan event. It was the No 1 security risk facing the UK. Not terrorism, cyber attacks, flooding or a blackout. A pandemic. So why were we so slow to act? 1/

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

4 years

How polls have changed in the campaign, per @britainelects . Con: 40.9 (+5.2) Lab: 29.2 (+4.0) Lib: 15.1 (-2.8) Brx: 6.4 (-4.9) Green: 3.2 (-0.8) Tories lead by 11.7%, up from 10.5%. Headed for a comfortable majority (350+ seats). See more at

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

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Since Brexit Party stood down in Tory seats on 11 Nov, per @britainelects : Con: 42.4% (+5.3%) Lab: 29.6% (+1.2%) Lib: 14.6% (-1.4%) Brx: 4.4% (-5.1%) Green: 3.4% (+0.4%) Big, evident impact. Lab had closed lead to 9 pts. Now 13. More from @spreadsheetben

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

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Council tax is a massive indefinite tax cut for London paid for by everyone else. Everyone could instead pay 0.5% on their home. That's the red line. If Labour did that it could abolish stamp duty, raise just as much, & cut taxes for three in four people. So why don't they?

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

4 years

🚨 New: No 10 runs Britain, but who runs No 10? There's a delicate balance inside Downing St – and it's about to be upended. My @newstatesman cover story on Cummings & co, out today:

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

8 months

In short 👇. The rules of the tax game have been stacked against working people. Does Labour want to fix that or not?

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

5 years

Talking with @mrjamesob on Fri about Cummings & his uncle… Full 9m clip here @lbc :

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Is Dominic Cummings a 'visionary' or a 'fool'? Harry Lambert, who wrote a profile on the political strategist, told us his thoughts. @mrjamesob | @harrytlambert |

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

4 years

#Kobe died two weeks ago tonight. I wrote about his final game, and following him for 15 years, for @bbcsport . If you never watched him, this is why we did.

'Take the next shot' - the new message from Kobe Bryant's final game

In the last game of Kobe Bryant's career the Los Angeles Lakers are 10 down with three minutes to go. What came next is now remembered in a very special way.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

5 years

✦ He also says @UKSupremeCourt could meet within days if Boris refuses to ask for extension on 19 Oct, contra to No 10 briefings to @ShippersUnbound ✦ If Boris disobeys law, the court can issue "an order of mandamus" & compel him to obey it. If not… Boris faces jail. (Ends)

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

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It's regressive by design. You will pay 10x~ as much of it — as a proportion of the value of your home — if you live in poorer areas of Britain than in richer areas (i.e. in London). So you pay 1.1%~ of your home in Burnley. And 0.1%~ in Kensington & Chelsea.

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

4 years

Cummings won, but what has been lost? More than 20 One Nation Tories have been purged. I talked to Dominic Grieve, Ken Clarke, @DavidGauke , & @NickBoles as the Boris wave was about to hit. @NewStatesman long-read:

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

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🚨 In 2016 the UK ran a theoretical pandemic exercise that "killed a lot of people". It exposed Britain's critical need for ventilators. Yet nothing was done to stockpile more. The shortage we now face is daunting. 👉

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

5 years

Discussing this with @mrjamesob at 12.45 on @lbc .

Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

5 years

"He's be guilty of contempt of court and sent to jail." 🚨 Dominic Cummings' uncle – one of the UK's great judges – on Boris' fate if he disobeys the law on 19 Oct. I met him & spoke to Cummings' parents, Steve Hilton, Craig Oliver & more for @newstatesman

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Harry Lambert 🌻

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✦ He also says it is "a mistake to assert, though it is very often asserted [most famously by his nephew]… that our sovereignty was diminished by membership of the European Union." 🚨 To talk of 'taking back control' of our laws is spurious. Britain has control. (4)

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Excl: Cummings' uncle is Sir John Laws. He was, until recently, one of the longest-serving Lord Justices on the Court of Appeal, and could easily have been appointed to the @UKSupremeCourt . He is among the top legal minds in Britain. (2)

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

8 months

This week's @NewStatesman cover explains how we got here – by way of Thatcher, Blair, the crash, QE, Piketty & Philip Gould, ft @arunadvaniecon + @garyseconomics . Labour is ignoring wealth at its peril. In stagnant societies, capital reigns.

Britain’s great tax con

The UK’s tax system entrenches inequality, stymies growth, and rewards a few at the expense of the many.

www.newstatesman.com

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@harrytlambert

5 years

🚨 He thinks the 2016 referendum "constitutionally troublesome" and said in 2017 that it was less "legitimate" than the 2014 Scottish referendum. ✦ “It troubles me very greatly,” he said then, as “you are having direct democracy and indirect democracy vying for position.” (3)

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

4 years

Blair was 25 when Thatcher won in '79. Cameron was 30 when Blair won in '97. The next Labour leader to become Prime Minister could be drinking Mai Tais in Bali right now. It sure isn't going to be Rebecca Long-Bailey.

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

4 years

2019 election: Conservatives: 13,966,454 (43.625%) Lab + Lib: 13,965,490 (43.622%) -964 votes Conservative + Brexit: 14,610,711 Lab + Lib + Green: 14,831,925 +221,214 votes Lab could forget the Red Wall if it can absorb @LibDems and @TheGreenParty . This may take a decade.

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

5 years

I'm delighted to be rejoining the @NewStatesman as Special Correspondent.

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

4 years

Refusing a Lib-Lab pact worked out well for Corbyn and Swinson.

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

4 years

In related news... departing/departed Tory MPs: Amber Rudd Margot James Nicky Morgan Justine Greening Anne Milton Anna Soubry Sarah Wollaston Heidi Allen Antoinette Sandbach Caroline Spelman Seema Kennedy Sarah Newton

Rachel Sylvester

@RSylvesterTimes

4 years

Pretty extraordinary that there is not a single woman in the list of politicians used most frequently by the Conservatives for TV and radio interviews #toxicmasculinity

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

5 years

✦ Talking before this week's ruling, he said his nephew's prorogation was without precedent since the 1600s, and told me it could "draw the Queen into political controversy". ✦ It is "difficult to see where the Queen stands" he told me, when the PM acts without parliament. (5)

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

11 months

🗞️ I am looking for reporters to cover big subjects for the @NewStatesman . I'm esp interested in telling stories about power in London. Please get in touch by DM. I'd also be keen to hear cultural pitches with a political angle. If you think you have a great story, pls reach out.

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

5 years

If you haven't seen me tweeting about it 😀… 7 pages on Cummings in the @NewStatesman today. New stories of his upbringing, motivations & aims. I hope it helps explain the govt we're living under. As we all know, Cummings controls it - for now.

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

5 years

In 3 ½ weeks, Boris/Cummings have to request an extension from EU. From my reporting on him & according to the v well-sourced @ShippersUnbound (& per Boris himself, as @lewis_goodall says), that's NOT going to happen. We're headed for Supreme Court, pt II.

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@ShippersUnbound

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Nice get! But it doesn’t contradict what I’ve written. I’ve written that his nephew wants a fight in the Supreme Court. Sounds like he’s going to get one

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Harry Lambert 🌻

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If there is one story that captures the Age of Austerity, @garyseconomics ' new book may be it. I've reviewed it in the @newstatesman :

Confessions of a City trader

Gary Stevenson’s rags-to-riches memoir exposes a system where the rich can’t lose and the economy is choked by inequality.

www.newstatesman.com

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@harrytlambert

5 years

Thanks to the @thetimes for running our @newstatesman profile of Cummings as the Weekend Essay. p32 of what felt like 100+! Newspapers alive…

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Harry Lambert 🌻

@harrytlambert

4 years

UK-based magazine traffic: 1. Spectator 2. @NewStatesman 😎 3. Atlantic 4. Economist 5. Quartz* 6. New Yorker 7. UnHerd* 8. Politico EU* 9. Prospect 10. LRB .. 😯 11. Nyrb 12. TLS * = created in 2010s

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…because the UK *never intended to suppress* a future pandemic. The govt have known the NHS would be overwhelmed since at least 2009. The aim has only ever been to "mitigate" impact. A lockdown was not anticipated. Nor was mass testing or tracing. 2/

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1 year

Simon McDonald on @BBCPM just now pushed back against criticism of his @newstatesman interview: "I think it was realistic. I think it's very important for us to take an accurate audit of what we are, what are capabilities are right now. That's not declinism, that's realism."

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@harrytlambert

5 years

Ah yes, Boris says 'I promise'. What more could you want.

(((Dan Hodges)))

@DPJHodges

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Boris has just given Gregg Clarke a commitment workers rights will not be worse than those of their EU counterparts, and that commitment will be enshrined in law. Labour MPs who have made this the defining issue of whether to support the bill have nowhere to hide now.

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"6 Labour marginals that have never voted Conservative would turn blue, as would at least 9 seats that have been Labour since the Second World War." Alexander Boris de Pfeffel, of Eton and Oxford, winning in Labour's heartlands. But Corbyn is a Great Leader.

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@harrytlambert

4 years

The only story in town is the madness of Lib and Lab not standing down for each other. Can someone explain to them they would both win more seats? Instead they guarantee Brexit in a country that may want to Remain. 👏

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“Polls can’t tell you what is actually going to happen on polling day.” Novara Media’s Ash Sarkar says the MRP poll shows Conservatives have “effectively unified their Leave vote” and adds Labour will be “looking to strengthen their offer to Leave voters” #Newsnight | @AyoCaesar

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@PeterAshurst @monicabeharding @RemainiacsCast 3/ In Iain Duncan Smith's seat… IDS - 47% Lab - 45% Lib - 8% The Lib Dem, @gseeff , should back Lab candidate @faizashaheen if he wants IDS out and/or a confirmatory vote on Brexit. @PeterAshurst (Lab) & @gseeff (Lib) cld effectively trade, and between them defeat Raab and IDS

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1 year

Are our MPs fit to lead us?

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@harrytlambert

7 months

"Revel in the time you have. It won’t come again." @jennirsl in @thetimes today on what she's learnt:

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@harrytlambert

4 years

🚨 At last — a Lib Dem candidate has backed a Lab candidate in a Lab/Con marginal. >> Lib & Lab candidates can do this unilaterally. Forget intransigent, self-defeating Corbyn & Swinson. Here are others who shld if they wish to defeat Johnson… 1/

Francis Elliott

@elliottengage

4 years

This is interesting - LD candidate in Stockton South effectively endorsing Labour candidate. I wonder if there will be others through the day.

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@harrytlambert

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After doing @iaindale 's @lbc show yday, I'm pro-longer panel shows with no live audience. You get beyond 10 word answers.

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@harrytlambert

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Lebedev's media companies have collectively lost money in every financial year since 2011. In the early 2010s those losses were driven by the print @Independent . Now they are due to the @EveningStandard , which has not had an official editor since 2021. 2/

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Here's the interview if you haven't caught it.

Simon McDonald: “It’s the end of the game for Britain”

The former head of the Foreign Office on the UK’s decline, why we should not “make an enemy” of China and how he brought down Boris Johnson.

www.newstatesman.com

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Friend: “I keep coming up against companies who required a university degree to finish their job applications.” >> We’ve created a system that demands people pay £40k for the right to be a job applicant. 👏.... The university con continues. (icymi )

The great university con: how the British degree lost its value

Never before has Britain had so many qualified graduates. And never before have their qualifications amounted to so little.

www.newstatesman.com

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@harrytlambert

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Nevertheless, Johnson's liberal lockdown is indeed welcome. Esp to those who were already on lockdown on Mar 5, when Johnson was still suggesting we "take this on the chin". Good to hear him now speak of protecting the NHS - 3 weeks later. And 7 weeks after the first UK cases

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@harrytlambert

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🚨 Cummings thinks he can disobey parliament on Oct 19 and negate any extension request. 🚨 That's @GaryGibbonBlog on C4 tonight. We *know* this is direct from Cummings - he was filmed briefing Gibbon earlier today.

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What, then, does Evgeny Lebedev still want? He's been a pivotal figure Tory politics for a decade. He won over Boris Johnson & recruited Osborne. "Being a Lord – you would have thought that was everything he ever wanted." Yet he's only 42. What's next?

What does Evgeny Lebedev want?

Buying British newspapers gave the Lebedevs clout in Tory high politics. Over a decade on, it remains unclear what they hope to achieve.

www.newstatesman.com

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…pandemic planners warned of a 10x NHS capacity shortage *11 years ago*. The UK didn't stockpile equipment or buy ventilators. It set up a committee to help doctors decide who should be treated – and who shouldn't be. 3/

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…but this is extraordinary. Cummings' blog was not news, it revealed nothing. It was a get-out-the-vote message. On his personal blog. And it's the front page of the Telegraph.

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5 years

Masterful summary of possible Brexit deal by @IanDunt .

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Thank you to @thetimes for reprinting our @newstatesman cover in today's paper.

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Last night @allisonpearson falsely discredited the NHS story to great effect .. and gained 1.5k followers. The amoral incentive: spread fake news. This platform has problems.

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@Telegraph @allisonpearson 8/ It's 3.20 am here and I'm tired but I'll wager @allisonpearson is perhaps the most influential proponent of the faked floor theory. Stay tuned for her expose in the telegraph. I hope she interviewed the senior nursing sister! Night all !

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@MartynWilliams2 The rate affects the sum that needs to be paid back and therefore the likelihood of you ever paying it off. Post-2012 students essentially face a graduate tax for much longer. That's the point?

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Boris, 4.57pm: "If we delay the peak by even a few weeks, our NHS will be in a stronger state." …5.38pm: "There may be measures we could take, that really did suppress contact, but that might mean the disease simply surged back in a few months." These statements do not add up.

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The @EveningStandard is 164 years old. But can it survive? Its losses are now greater than the print Indy's were when the Lebedevs closed that paper in 2016. The Standard's revenue has fallen 60% in 5 years. 3/

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…every government since at least New Labour is implicated. They all ignored the UK's No 1 security threat since 2007. Johnson's government failed to ditch a flawed plan quickly. But the plan was flawed long before Johnson. 4/4

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Bercow isn't going anywhere.

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All 7 of these London seats are *heavily Remain*. Yet all are set to vote for Johnson. Corbyn and Swinson are ensuring Brexit. Add Wimbledon (27% Leave), Putney (27%), Chelsea and Fulham (29%), Finchley (31%), and Hendon (42%) to Cities of Westminster (29%) and Kensington (31%).

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"Nothing's changed, it's just a court. We've been doing the same sort of thing in the same bit of ground in London for a thousand years – [it is always] who can convince the king of something?" My @newstatesman long-read on our latest court:

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With 350+ seats, Johnson's mandate is likely to last a long time, as in 1987, 2005 and 2010 (in coalition). We had one election between Jun 2005 and Apr 2015. Lab and Lib can whistle away last night's MRP poll but in 2 weeks they may be waiting half a decade for the next election

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@harrytlambert

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"Boris Johnson is an epic shit. I hope he ends badly." - Tina Brown, then-editor of @VanityFair , in 1986. Boris, 22 and "a young fogey" at Oxford, falsely recreated a meeting with Brown and had his girlfriend sell it to the Telegraph - if that sounds familiar.

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2/ In Dominic Raab's seat… Raab - 46 Lib - 44 Lab - 8 The Lab candidate, @PeterAshurst , could back the Lib Dem ( @monicabeharding ) and help defeat the Tory Foreign Sec With Ashurst's support she may win. If you wanted Raab to lose, you cld let Ashurst know… @RemainiacsCast

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I've written the chapter on Æthelred in this tome of @IainDale 's, alongside others by @HugoGye , @holland_tom , @lewis_goodall & co. In short: Æ is a little unjustly damned.

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The answer to last night’s MRP poll is not, after *3 years* of Corbyn & Brexit, “We need to strengthen our appeal to Leave voters”. The only answer: “We & the LDems need to stand down in dozens of each other’s seats.” Corbyn & Swinson you’ll both be out otherwise. So will Britain

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A month ago, a video went viral on here appearing to show a mother pleading for her son’s safety in a mosque in Wakefield, after a Koran was scuffed at school. Suella Braverman described the video as a "sharia law trial" - but nothing was at it seemed.

Once upon a time in Wakefield

The truth about one white 14-year-old schoolboy and a Koran is less straightforward than the culture war narrative suggests.

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…the @newstatesman has already made one exciting 2020 hire: @spreadsheetben , the force behind @britainelects . Here he is on Warren & Sanders … More to come!

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This is a lovely bit of writing by @HJJoyceEcon for @NYRDaily ... a short story, simply told and unexpectedly resonant.

My Adventures in Psychedelia | Helen Joyce

To try psychedelics was something I’d secretly hankered after doing ever since I was a teenager, but I was always too cautious and risk-averse. As I got older, the moment seemed to pass. Today I am a...

www.nybooks.com

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An update from the @DavidGauke campaign: “SW Herts is 50 Con - 27 Gauke (central estimates). Top end us versus bottom end Tory is 39-40!” May still be winnable if things break for Gauke.

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. @DominicGrieve1 not looking any better in Beaconsfield, per MRP: Con - 54% Grieve - 33% @DavidGauke also far off in SW Herts, despite the viral videos: Con - 53% Gauke - 20% Grieve v slightly down on last MRP poll, Gauke slightly up. Both facing unassailable Tory majorities.

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I enjoyed talking to Simon McDonald, the "man who brought down Boris Johnson", about Britain's fading place in the world. He was much more pessimistic – or realistic? – about our relevance than I expected.

Simon McDonald: “It’s the end of the game for Britain”

The former head of the Foreign Office on the UK’s decline, why we should not “make an enemy” of China and how he brought down Boris Johnson.

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@tomhfh To the man with a hammer everything looks like a nail

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The crown in Lebedev's loss-making empire is now the digital @Independent , which is small but growing & profitable. Geordie Grieg has just taken over as its new editor - a move welcomed by many staff. Not everyone I spoke to had a strong grasp of the site, despite its reach. 4/

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V good, impassioned speech by @Ed_Miliband , with a hopeful conclusion: "this strategy will not work, the British people are better than this". Cummings would say he has a particular perspective of who British people are…

BBC Politics

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"As someone who grew up with parents who were born in the shadow of war, we are not at war with Europe, and we are not at war with each other" - former Labour leader Ed Miliband critical of Boris Johnson's language in the Commons

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If anyone's looking for a profile of the new Chancellor:

Dominic Cummings: The Machiavel in Downing Street

Having led Vote Leave, Dominic Cummings is now Boris Johnson’s chief of staff. Some colleagues acclaim his strategic brilliance while others mock him, especially after this week's Supreme Court...

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Cummings vs Keith: a four-hour bout ended by knockout. I sketched it here/in this week's NS

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Good reporting here in Sunday @Telegraph (), following up on our @newstatesman story on "Cygnus": the 2016 pandemic exercise that "killed a lot of people" & proved the UK wasn't ready. Nothing was done. The report was not released.

Exclusive: Exercise Cygnus warned the NHS could not cope with pandemic three years ago but 'terri...

Ministers were informed three years ago that Britain would be quickly overwhelmed by a severe outbreak

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@IanDunt Not quite that but this is great

The Treachery of Crowds

Human nature revealed in BBC's The Traitors

ellenpasternack.substack.com

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AI can feel abstract. I've tried to bring it alive with the story of @geoffreyhinton , who resigned from Google to warn the world of AI, for this @newstatesman cover For 50 years he has tried to build to a brain. Now he tells me “we're toast”. Is he right?

Is AI a danger to humanity or our salvation?

The founders of AI are divided over what’s next.

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Couple of mins on @BBCNews , talking about Cummings > Javid. Later they asked me if I "liked" our new de facto Chancellor. 🤔

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Cities of London and Westminster, i.e. Kensingon part 2. Tory - 40% Lab - 28% @ChukaUmunna 's Lib Dems - 28% 3% Green vote too, so a 59:40 Remain seat will back Johnson' hard Brexit by 12 points. Where. Is. The. Remain. Alliance.

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New paper suggests most Brits may get coronavirus asymptomatically (). She is not the first to suggest it. The first? Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer, on 5 March. "It may be that of those, 70% of the 80% actually get it without any symptoms at all."

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Blair in a 1997 QT special. Compare with today's candidates. Discussing this on @IainDale @lbc tonight at 8.

Question Time - Tony Blair hustings, 24 April 1997

On Thursday 24 April, with one week to go to the general election, Tony Blair takes questions from the Question Time audience.Note: Opening titles and theme ...

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People tuning into British politics for the first time will be amazed when they find out Sunak's warm-up act is in fact the PM.

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@StephenMcGann Stephen hi, I wrote that piece… Here's more on this, out tonight:

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This would be less egregious if these two hadn’t *already* been burned for rt’ing the Tory/Cummings line.

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Angela Smith, who just joined Lib Dems, could easily be out at the next election. @brexitparty_uk won 48% in her seat in May (EU elections) & it's a 60% Leave seat. Labour won all of 9%… Lib Dems 15%.

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