Bang on as always!

Naturally, we could not improve on the pitch-perfect response by protesters yesterday to Suella Braverman MP
- it was both hilarious & powerful. But we figured we'd try to commemorate it somehow through music (tho not a shanty). Here's to the silent treatment. Long may it continue.

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Rishi Sunak warned by senior ministers that further curbs to international students could hit Britain’s growth prospects

Sunak is weighing up a new crackdown on graduate visas in coming weeks. He wants only ‘brightest and best’ to come to UK

Gillian Keegan, the

Proper 'burn to the ground and salt the earth' stuff.

If Sunak goes ahead with this, having been explicitly warned about the damage, why shouldn't he be prosecuted for Misconduct in Public Office?

They’re just trolling us now!!

In that 4 years the Tories have managed:

3 Prime Ministers
1 crashed economy
762 Sunak “resets” (approximately😜)
Leveling up agenda - abandoned
Green agenda - abandoned
Welcoming Refugees - abandoned
Welcoming foreign students - abandoned
#GTTO

I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating:

I came out as ‘gay’ shortly before transphobia became our national pastime.

My replies at that time were bigots saying I was ‘not a real man’, attacking my femininity, and calling me ‘Maxine’ as some kind of a dunk.

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The real kicker is that the figure for 2023 is an projection based on data from 2005 to 2019

These values have SWFA to do with “turbo-cancer”

@abridgen proper numpty

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I just…. I just can’t 🙄

An actual person came up with that headline🤷‍♀️

#DailyFail
#ToriesOut

Being autistic is framed as a negative constantly, particularly by non-autistic 'autism experts', and I am not going to minimise the difficulties, or the vast array of additional issues which can come with being #actuallyautistic , but let's have a little perspective. 1/

THIS

Jewish criticism of Israel’s actions must not be dismissed theguardian.com/world/article/…

As someone who works with children, I promise that adults thinking they ‘identify as pasta’ is hilarious to them. IF, and that’s a big if, a child has ever said that, they are 100% taking the piss to see how far they can push right wing adults into embarrassing themselves.

I'm not saying Britain's Strictest Headmistress should be Britain's Most Unemployed Headmistress*, but if a small child comes up to you and goes 'rawr, I'm a tiger!', no one remotely normal would respond by taking to Twitter to denounce the child as some kind of deviant

'My name is Nathaniel Dye, and I'm dying of cancer'

'At first I was told I'd have a rough year with treatment and surgery and then be free to live my life. When scans eventually happened further spread was discovered and my prognosis worsened'

'It's all but certain that I'll

🎶You’re just a sh*t Boris Johnson🎶

A chant that united both sets of fans at tonight’s Southampton FC vs West Bromwich Albion game 😂

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

Looks like the pearl clutching over potentially adding VAT to private school fees has reared its ugly head again (yup, there’s a Telegraph article 🙄)

Some thoughts (and data and evidence😊)👇🏼

There is plainly some sort of bet among teachers at her school to see what is the most batshit thing they can get her to tweet.

- “Rigatoni, you say?”
- “I promise you, Katharine. I was shocked.”
- “Incredible.”
- “Yet totally real. Would you like your phone?”

Averaged across OECD countries, 80% of homeless people are those staying in shelters, hostels and other temporary accommodation.

This group is invisible to most of us, but in England it amounts to 113,000 households, among them 146,000 children. That is *1 in 200 households*.

Some people have responded to that chart with 'That can’t be right', or 'We can’t be worse than America'.

I’m afraid the chart is right. 15 years ago the UK’s record on homelessness *was* not too dissimilar to other developed countries, but things have rapidly deteriorated.

NEW 🧵: how Britain became gripped by the worst homelessness crisis in the developed world