So let me get this right…the genius election winning machine which is the Conservative Party seems to think that letting a few universities go bust is a…good thing? Proper GLWT territory.

And now we have some coverage, by the excellent Chaminda Jayanetti

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The soup quote is excellent.

'It’s actual chaos,' a Home Office source tells i. 'They don’t understand what they’ve done and they need us to explain it to them.'

#Simplism
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For an example (among many) of reasons to laugh out loud at the claim Johnson and David Frost succeeded in “clearing up” the Brexit negotiations, see …

100%. I'm sure that film is as terrible as all the reviews say. But what a glorious human being he is.

Jason Manford, 'Keir Starmer, is he as right of a laugh as he seems?' #HIGNFY

Jess Phillips, 'He's funnier than Rishi Sunak. He told me to f*ck off the other day'

Jason Manford, 'Did he?'

Jess Phillips, 'Yeah, because I was showing a level of sympathy for Rishi Sunak. I was

Continental Europeans will be absolutely kicking themselves tonight that as a result of Brexit freedom, their British neighbours are now the only people allowed to eat outside.

Mr Dunt Ian Dunt is quite tough but he’s right about the need to get a grip on the quality of legislation, including the overuse & under-scrutiny of secondary legislation. Some suggestions on this (and much else) here: ukgovernanceproject.co.uk/our-report/

Vague, full of generalised verbiage, and decidedly lacking in concrete promises: We get our first look at Labour's plans for sorting out parliament and... it's not great

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'The denial of entry reflects the Rwandan authorities’ intensifying assault on human rights, months ahead of the country’s 2024 general elections' hrw.org/news/2024/05/1…

The inevitable George Galloway x Jacob Rees-Mogg collab.

Too many lives have been upended because of our failed approach to marijuana.

So today, the U.S. Department of Justice is taking the next step to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug under federal law.

Here's what that means:

The AstraZeneca vaccine saved millions of live newstatesman.com/spotlight/heal…