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6 months

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Stephen Bush

@stephenkb

2 years

It’s me, the World Book Day grinch, once again complaining that World Book Day costumes are a) homework for parents (which should be banned), and b) another way to highlight who in the class is poor (which should be banned).

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6 years

BREAKING: The Conservative Party.

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4 years

I'm sorry, but if you can't laugh at "Concerned about my kid, a fortnight later I decided to test my eyesight by driving 30 mins down the road with them", when can you?

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4 years

The Arsenal back four The Tory government 🤝 Failing to handle Marcus Rashford on his debut

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@stephenkb

1 year

Work for an MP and you too could have your relationship status and salary range broadcast to thousands of people so your boss can hit back at someone tweeting as 'ComradeWario69'.

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@stephenkb

7 years

Surreal to think that not a single living Prime Minister, including the incumbent, think this is a good idea.

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@PA

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Theresa May signs the Article 50 letter, as she prepares to trigger the start of the UK's formal withdrawal from the EU on Wednesday.

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6 years

I saw my estranged father on the train and all I got was this lousy column:

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@stephenkb

5 years

I don't often do pure opinion, but made an exception tonight. Boris Johnson knows exactly what he's doing and what the consequences of what he says might be:

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@stephenkb

2 years

Viktor, just say “Jews”, this is taking forever:

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@stephenkb

4 years

My unpopular opinion: if you haven't confirmed all the candidates to face your setpiece Toughest Interviewer (TM), then you shouldn't schedule the other interviews with your toughest interviewer.

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@stephenkb

2 years

The fifth-placed candidate for the London mayoralty (who for context got only 10k more votes than the winning candidate for the Croydon mayoralty) has been in the main slot on Politics Live before any of the 32 borough leaders elected this month. Super-healthy!

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

2 years

Reclaim Party's Laurence Fox says proposed windfall tax on energy firms is "not rebalancing, that's just theft" Families "can't afford the basics" while some companies are "posting record profits", says Class think tank's Ellie Mae O'Hagan #PoliticsLive

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@stephenkb

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British Electoral Politics

@electpoliticsuk

7 months

Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election result: LAB: 58.6% (+24.1) SNP: 27.6% (-16.6) CON: 3.9% (-11.1) LDM: 2.9% (-2.2) GRN: 2.0% (+2.0) REF: 1.3% (+1.3) Labour GAIN from the SNP.

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2 years

News!

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@FTPressOffice

2 years

Financial Times appoints Stephen Bush as columnist and associate editor @stephenkb

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@stephenkb

2 years

When Kwarteng's replacement takes office, the Conservative party will have had as many chancellors of the exchequer in 2022 as the Labour party has since 1967.

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@stephenkb

4 years

You, versus the guy she told you not to worry about.

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@stephenkb

10 months

Hard to see how Gordon Brown’s 2024 election campaign can come back from this.

Telegraph Politics

@TelePolitics

10 months

🔴 A tax break, scrapped in 2000, could have helped families hit by the surge in interest rates. Full article:

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@stephenkb

2 years

The year is 2100. The UK’s three remaining small villages are given “city status”. The UK’s only remaining town is still, inexplicably, Reading.

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

2 years

Eight new cities created in Queen's honour

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@stephenkb

3 years

"They" in this case being the incredibly woke bloke who was chair of the joint intelligence committee, worked for John Major and was appointed to his position by David Cameron. This casual mainstreaming of conspiratorial talk is just unnecessary and damaging.

Jacob Young MP

@JacobYoungMP

3 years

A female, BAME, daughter of immigrants who: • speaks out against the “woke” left • won’t vote the way they say she should • wants controlled immigration • dared to become Home Secretary Of course they want to tear her down.

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@stephenkb

6 years

What’s the point of us if we reward “no comment” with a viral clip of the politician in question looking cosy and charming?

ITV News

@itvnews

6 years

"I have nothing to say about this matter except to offer you some tea..." @BorisJohnson greets the media armed with a tray of mugs amid burka row

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@stephenkb

3 years

So much about the inadequate food parcels is anger-inducing, not least that you can literally just tick a box and give parents £15 per child via Universal Credit at the touch of a button rather than a food parcel, which will always result in less actual food per child.

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@stephenkb

5 years

It's fascinating because it's a lie: the Conservatives went into the 2005 election pledging a referendum on whether or not to scrap the Welsh Assembly.

Jim Pickard 🐋

@PickardJE

5 years

some extracts from May’s speech in Stoke tomorrow, fascinating point about the original vote for a Welsh assembly

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Stephen Bush

@stephenkb

7 years

One thing the Trump presidency has done is dismantle the "Why would the villain reveal his plan? That's not realistic" criticism.

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Stephen Bush

@stephenkb

8 years

All of the wrong people are clapping.

Marion Maréchal

@MarionMarechal

8 years

VICTORY ! #EUref #Brexit

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Stephen Bush

@stephenkb

3 years

Two years ago, Disney released a brilliant Star Wars film, panicked when a comparatively tiny number of people kicked off about it, and then hastily cobbed together a film that pleased no-one in the shape of Rise of Skywalker.

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@stephenkb

4 years

We have chaos and Ed Miliband, they're just not evenly distributed.

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@stephenkb

4 years

Thank god, this epidemic of people coming here from the EU, making friends, falling in love, involving themselves in the community, paying their taxes and doing their jobs has been getting out of hand.

The Times and The Sunday Times

@thetimes

4 years

EU migrants have been able to “treat the UK as if it’s part of their own country” for too long, Boris Johnson said yesterday as he reprised the core message of Vote Leave’s 2016 EU referendum campaign.

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@stephenkb

2 years

What is this, the prime ministerial equivalent of the Make A Wish Foundation?

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@PA

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. @BorisJohnson flew a Typhoon fighter jet from RAF Coningsby last week In a speech at the Farnborough Air Show, he said he felt like a “vertical firecracker”

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@stephenkb

7 years

I think Trump lying about the rain stopping may have surpassed him claiming to be Michigan's Man of the Year in 2011 as my favourite lie.

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@ddale8

7 years

#TrumpCheck : President Trump made four false claims in his first two days in office. They are about crowds and rain.

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@stephenkb

3 years

The reason why 'Flower of Scotland' is a great national anthem is you listen to it and feel inspired. 'God Save The Queen' has the same energy as a presentation that ends with 'and, as a result, we will be beginning consultation on redundancies'.

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Stephen Bush

@stephenkb

4 years

That’s nothing. I am the owner of an unfinished novel that could be worth £3.5m.

MoS_Politics

@MoS_Politics

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Sir Keir's backyard riches...

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@stephenkb

2 years

Just had one of the worst experiences it's possible for a man in London to have walking through the park: a group of school kids playing football, one of them fails to control it, and the ball heads, inexorably, towards me, the kids watching expectantly for me to kick it back.

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Stephen Bush

@stephenkb

7 years

You can explain all politics using just this quote.

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Stephen Bush

@stephenkb

4 years

Continues to be crazy to me that in every indoor photoshoot - Starmer’s trip to a brewery, Sunak’s Wagamama video, every appearance Johnson does - they don’t just...wear a mask?

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@stephenkb

2 years

Excellent Dominic Lawson column today:

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2 years

Fun fact: Next week would have seen the last sitting day of Owen Paterson’s 30-day suspension.

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Stephen Bush

@stephenkb

6 years

The number one priority for a US-UK trade deal must be to eliminate the “cup” as a unit of measurement in recipe books, and I don’t care if we have to sell off the NHS to do it.

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@stephenkb

3 years

Strong opener from the veg box founder this week.

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@stephenkb

6 years

Sign at BBC’s Westminster office. Surprised they’re being so blatant about it.

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@stephenkb

5 years

An early tactical error by Remainers not to emulate Nigel Farage and have 20 years of largely uncritical media coverage and sympathetic mood music from the major parties.

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@stephenkb

4 years

I'm a shop assistant. I woke up this morning with no sense of smell. Do I choose: a) to risk the outside chance the UK can actually find and enforce my decision not to self-isolate at a cost of £10,000 or b) stay home and have the certain cost of only getting statutory sick pay?

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@stephenkb

8 years

This is amazing: Harrison Ford versus Donald Trump:

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@stephenkb

4 years

Did...did...the dog eat him?

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Stephen Bush

@stephenkb

11 months

I reckon he can come back from this:

Italy’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi dies aged 86

Legacy of media mogul turned politician is marred by scandals

www.ft.com

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Stephen Bush

@stephenkb

2 years

These three paragraphs contain essentially everything you need to understand to grasp British politics:

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Stephen Bush

@stephenkb

2 years

The Rwanda deal is a stunning bit of statecraft by the Kagame government: a cash payment of 1.5 per cent of GDP and plenty of opportunities to extract more, plus you turn large numbers of Tory MPs and their media courtiers into your propaganda arm.

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Rwanda is going to become such a booming economy over the next decades. Smart move from its government to welcome motivated people to make their lives there. Can expect Rwanda to become a new hub for business, innovation, and entrepreneurialism.

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2 years

The concern for Boris Johnson if he survives the vote will be that his government will enter a new phase of drifting hopelessly without purpose or direction, entirely at the whim of whichever bit of the parliamentary party shouts loudest, retreating at the slightest pressure.

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@stephenkb

6 years

Whitehall literally takes *years* to sign off ad campaigns (Those Who Can, Teach for instance took c18 months). Yet somehow the Home Office hired a van, a poster company all while May was hiking somewhere. Impressive.

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2 years

If you were advising Rishi Sunak, you'd go for 'resign, do a statement about the problems of Downing Street culture, worse case scenario, you go back to making money out of SW1, best case scenario, you rebuild yourself and come back later', no?

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@stephenkb

3 years

This is the ideal constitutional body. You may not like it, but this is what peak political performance looks like.

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2 years

Hard and soft power explained: Manchester United no longer have 'hard power': they can't win football matches anymore. However, they still retain 'soft power', which is why it's still funny that they lose matches.

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@stephenkb

4 years

It’s incoherent to have campaigned for a second referendum on Brexit but to be completely closed to a second referendum on Scottish independence.

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@stephenkb

3 years

This MP has done the right thing in about four different ways, and every other politician involved is embarrassing themselves, from the rentaquote Labour councillors to the inane Whitehall source calling it 'idiotic behaviour'.

Bassetlaw MP Brendan Clarke-Smith’s vaccination sparks controversy

A photo of Bassetlaw MP Brendan Clarke-Smith receiving the Covid vaccination while volunteering at Retford Hospital on Friday has sparked controversy.

www.worksopguardian.co.uk

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3 years

A point I wish was being made more: the tuberculosis vaccine is only 70 per cent effective on the most serious forms of TB but you will notice that consumption is no longer rampant.

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@stephenkb

3 months

Who would you vote for a) a real person or b) your idealised imaginary candidate?

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@adampayne26

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this poll question is absolutely risible

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@stephenkb

4 years

“Corruption” and “ineptitude” are such nice words to say - they have a great feel in the mouth. Just as well, really, as we have so many opportunities to do so.

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1 year

So is Alan Sugar 'stepping back' from the Apprentice, or...?

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@BBCBreaking

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Gary Lineker to step back from presenting Match of the Day until agreement reached on social media use - BBC statement

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8 years

I'm not crying, I just have a wet face:

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7 years

Breaking: the United Kingdom.

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3 years

Larkin really is one of our greatest poets.

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3 years

Nasa has never sent a probe to Uranus, yet many people manage to talk out of theirs.

Julia Hartley-Brewer

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NASA can send a probe all the way to Mars. You're not allowed to walk next door to have a chat in the garden with your neighbour. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Stephen Bush

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4 years

Can see what TfL was thinking in reducing number of Tube services, but visibly has had perverse consequences. Trains now guaranteed to be rammed full of key workers - precisely the group of people who can’t get sick. Government should take note re: train services nationwide.

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This is going well @centralline @TfL . I can’t believe that anyone on this train is choosing to go to work. That was at Leytonstone.

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3 years

Jackie Weaver's crushing of dissent recalls Oliver Cromwell's dismissal of the Long Parliament, and the support for her on Twitter reflects the enduring power of the good old cause. In this essay, I will...

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Stephen Bush

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5 years

Rory Stewart took opium. Clearly the correct course of action would have been to send him to prison at vast expense and leave him with a choice between low-paying jobs and a life of crime at the end.

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3 years

It's well known, of course, that mile upon mile of beautiful, unspoiled highland countryside separates Hackney from Tower Hamlets.

Shaun Bailey

@ShaunBaileyUK

3 years

London’s population is nearly double Scotland’s. Yet they have five Tiers and we only have one. As I told @LBC , I can’t support the decision to put all of London into Tier 3. Instead, we should take a targeted, area-by-area approach to Tiers.

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3 years

Harsh. The man qualified for the Super League in his first full season in charge!

John Percy

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3 years

Breaking: Tottenham have sacked Jose Mourinho. Full story to follow @TeleFootball #thfc

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2 years

A WhatsApp from a Conservative MP.

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4 years

There is now a Piccadilly Line train every 10 minutes - there are at a conservative estimate 15 hospitals on that line and god knows how many supermarkets, delivery depots and schools. Tubes aren't full because people are riding them for the banter.

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Luke Tryl

@LukeTryl

9 months

Politics of “too many young people going to university” a bit surprising. Our Loyal National (more Red Wall) segment among most likely to say too few/right numbers going whereas Established Liberal (Cameronite/Blue Wall) among most likely to say too many young people go to uni.

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3 years

Larry’s ask: catch a pigeon. Pigeon’s ask: not to be caught. Agreement: Pigeon briefly held by Larry, but subsequently allowed to roam free. Outcome: LARRY WIN.

Luke Powell

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Here’s Larry the Downing Street cat ( @Number10cat ) catching a pigeon in front of the waiting press this morning...

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2 years

Our sacred parliamentary traditions!

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@stephenkb

4 years

Student was political at university, more on this urgent investigative scoop as we get it.

Media Guido

@MediaGuido

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BBC’s Corbynista Correspondent

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Stephen Bush

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4 years

There's a clear direction of travel in polls now - of small but potentially significant increases in the Labour vote. We can't say for certain *where* the point where the Tory lead isn't enough for a majority (YouGov thinks 7 points, Curtice thinks 6) but it's within reach.

Britain Elects

@BritainElects

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Westminster voting intention: CON: 42% (-) LAB: 34% (+2) LDEM: 13% (-1) BREX: 4% (+1) GRN: 3% (+1) via @PanelbaseMD , 27 - 28 Nov Chgs. w/ 22 Nov

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Pippa Crerar

@PippaCrerar

2 years

EXCL: Police have a photo of Boris Johnson holding a can of a beer at his lockdown birthday party in June 2020 - taken by his taxpayer funded official photographer.

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4 years

Me at the start of the decade, me at end of the decade, me when Conservatives are out of office again.

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Stephen Bush

@stephenkb

6 years

Different strokes but I am intensely relaxed about society having a low tolerance for columnists writing things that turn out to be untrue.

(((Dan Hodges)))

@DPJHodges

6 years

You may agree with Nick Timothy. You may not agree with him. But the fact he appears to have just been hounded off Twitter is another example of the increasingly dangerous intolerance we're witnessing in our public discourse.

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1 year

Wow, I sure hope no UK universities are over-leveraged anchor institutions that are dependent on foreign tuition to keep the lights on.

Allie Hodgkins-Brown

@AllieHBNews

1 year

Friday’s TIMES: “Foreign students face ban from universities” #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Stephen Bush

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3 years

A black British author: I was born in a reliably Conservative suburb. My parents were doctors. The blurb, after the publishing industry has finished with it: Born within sight of the inner city, with parents who worked every hour of the day to send them to school.

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2 years

Did...a car write this?

London congestion: Capital becomes world’s most congested city

London drivers spent 148 hours stuck in traffic jams in 2021, according to traffic information provider Inrix.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@stephenkb

5 years

100%. We never hear from the 30 per cent of British Asians who voted to leave, no-one vox pops the big city council estates that voted to Remain, no-one has done a “meet the Leave voters” safari to Sevenoaks.

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The problem isn’t too many vox pops it’s that vox pops always come from a narrow group of people and places picked according to the stereotypes uppermost in the minds of politics producers and commentators and usually just confirm the biases of said narratives

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6 years

The astonishing lack of even a basic understanding of tech some of our legislators regularly display: a series.

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3 years

Nothing will convince me this guy is not in fact the baddie in a RTD era Doctor Who episode. One of his slogans is literally to 'transform London', it's hidden in plain sight.

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3 years

Every year, half a dozen headteachers will resign after a bad Ofsted. Why do so many of our politicians expect less of the Metropolitan Police?

How can Cressida Dick keep her job as Metropolitan Police Commissioner?

The Met head’s statements on the murder of Sarah Everard frequently make it seem as if she doesn’t understand the problem.

www.newstatesman.com

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3 years

Just discovered the FT's very enjoyable 404 page.

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6 years

The group of people who mystify me most are the people who are politically engaged enough to be angry that our local elections coverage hasn’t included Wales but not enough to have noticed there aren’t local elections in Wales this year.

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2 years

Astonishing to me that neither good taste nor progressive values have managed to drive “Do They Know It’s Christmastime?” off the air. Is it a good tune? No. But are its lyrics socially acceptable? Also no.

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5 years

I honestly think it is one of the most interesting things about May is that she is intensely relaxed about saying things that are untrue: cf things said about the backstop, the whole "implementation period" shtick, etc etc.

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4 years

People shouldn’t be shopping like this, but worth remembering that everyone selling flowers in this picture are in the 15 per cent of workers (i.e. the self-employed) who still don’t know how they can afford to shut down their businesses for an indefinite period.

Dino Sofos

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🛑 STOP THIS NOW 🛑 Columbia Road flower market, East London. Photo taken just now by my colleague @JJ_Bryant (who was not there as a punter).

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5 years

Police? I’d like to report a murder: on the bottom of page 138 of David Cameron’s book.

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6 years

This is just shameful and entirely avoidable in a country as wealthy as ours.

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4 years

I don’t know, it doesn’t *feel* to me like we’re showing that we’ll react in a calm and orderly fashion to a no-deal Brexit on 31 December.

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Stephen Bush

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5 years

To give you an idea of how remarkably unpopular these guys are: Johnson is more unpopular than Cameron during the Panama Papers, Nick Clegg during the AV referendum, Ed Miliband in 2015, Tony Blair in 2006...but is 42 points ahead of J-Corbz.

Keiran Pedley

@keiranpedley

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Public satisfaction with how Johnson is doing his job as PM Satisfied 37% Dissatisfied 55% Net -18 Net rating is down 11pts from July. But Corbyn's net rating as Labour leader is -60...

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2 years

Increasingly concerned that I am in a coma.

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4 years

SAGE Against the Machine.

Robert West

@robertjwest

4 years

I am sorry to have to say that as another member of SPI-B I have to agree.

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@stephenkb

7 years

This doesn't look like campaign suspension to me. Also remarkable from Home Secretary for 6 years.

The Irish Times

@IrishTimes

7 years

Prime minister Theresa May says there is "far too much tolerance of extremism" #LondonTerrorAttacks

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3 years

I, personally, think you have to admire the energy of writing a blog saying “Did I believe the Prime Minister was doing something dangerous and potentially illegal? Yes. Did I try to tell the public about it? No.”

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7 years

One of the many things I love about France: the way all its politicians look like they're in a really classy crime drama.

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2 years

Fortunately, a much more foolhardy man intercepted the ball and booted it well past the kids before having to shamefacedly walk on. I had a near-death experience.

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@stephenkb

4 years

Yet to have a PMQs in the Starmer-Johnson era without some form of U-Turn, new target or spending commitment. Today's appears to be proxy votes for shielding MPs.

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Stephen Bush

@stephenkb

2 years

I'm aware that asking questions like 'but with Steve Barclay as health secretary, who is the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster' is why the rest of Anglophone Twitter laughs at us, but: with Steve Barclay as health secretary, who is the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster?

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