In the weeks leading up to the vote I canvassed hundreds of voters and not a single Leave-leaning voter wanted to “completely re-order our society and system of governance”. They just wanted their community/local services to be better (and, for many, fewer immigrants)

Grateful to ⁦Rosamund Urwin⁩ for only gently teasing us 🫣 thetimes.co.uk/article/justin…

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Excellent news — and there’s a brilliant interview with Jeremy and Justin Webb on their friendship in today’s Times.

So Jeremy Bowen and I had a small gathering to celebrate our 40 years in The BBC and here's an historic moment as the wonderful Marianna Spring explains the internet to a sceptic😳

Hostage's parents tell him 'stay strong' after video shows him missing part of arm

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THE TIMES: England worst in world for underage drinking #TomorrowsPapersToday

Privatisation summed up. From the new Private Eye.

'In 2022, nine prisoners serving IPP sentences killed themselves' this is such important reporting on such a barbaric practice.
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'Stay the hell out of it.' Andrew Neil's advice on what the government should do with the media

There's been a sharp increase over the last 3 years in the number of abandoned criminal trials because no judge is available.

This includes 21 rape trials in 2023.

Judges can be made available for political priority policies, it seems.
Maybe tackling crime isn't a priority.

Brexit: “We are the architects of our own demise.

It started in 2016 with the ridiculous vote for Brexit.

Ask young people. Ask business leaders. Nobody wants it.”

- Asda chairman Lord Rose

Just off for a hearing in a rape case. Allegation reported in 2021, trial not before 2025, if we’re all lucky.

No podium speeches from the Prime Minister about this. No promises to magic up more judges, courts or lawyers.

Just silence, and the threat of further cuts to come.

Lord Anderson of Ipswich (Crossbench), 'We are in the end game now'

'The benefits of the Rwanda bill remain to be seen'

'It's costs will be measured not only in money but in principles debased'

'Disregard for our international committmments'

'Avoiding statutory protections…

Terrifyingly on the money from “Private Eye…!”

I'm looking forward to chairing this conversation in July with journalists who broke and uncovered the post office scandal.
Highly recommend that students interested in investigative journalism especially come.

Ok one last thing: look at this iconic girl group / Mount Rushmore of fabulousness! Louise Callaghan Decca Aitkenhead Rosamund Urwin

'Since January 31, 2020, when we left the EU, we have been free to make our own mistakes, and boy have we made them.' Tim Shipman continues his inside story of Brexit ahead of the release of his new book, No Way Out thetimes.co.uk/article/741301…

Ian Hislop, 'Conservative MP Mark Menzies asked for money from local donors to be put into his own account.. Thank goodness he wasn't fiddling his council tax for a small amount.. Then it would be a proper scandal' #HIGNFY

'Last time he was in trouble it was for paying a…

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