Sorry Tony: conta.cc/3JNLyrD

Whenever I see Europeans fretting about falling behind the US in terms of GDP, I think about stories like this ft.com/content/13c66e…

11/18 Peter Hitchens Polly Toynbee Book tickets here

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How dare the Labour Party question the right of my friend Neal Lawson to argue for working with other parties?

Rare Corby tree felling on hold as protesters gather to save much-loved black poplar northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/ra…

Anger after French publisher held in London by counter-terrorism police theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/a…

In The Fabian Society 'Prizing the Public Pound' report - fabians.org.uk/publication/pr… - David Walker and I proposed an Office of Place Audit. This would be responsible for auditing local authorities and other place based public services, and collaboration between them; and analysing data.

Danger of oxymoron - ‘evidence’ and à government indifferent to (statistical) accuracy?

Bring back district audit (and surcharge)!
themj.co.uk/Oflog-could-he… via The MJ

Jets privés : ayons le courage de les interdire ! liberation.fr/idees-et-debat…

Indeed a true Roman. He created a desert in northern, industrial England and called it Conservatism. Wounds haven't healed led to 30 years of division in UK from SNP to Brexit. Italians love Lawson. In 1987 Italy's 'Sorpasso' meant Italy overtook in nominal GDP Lawson's UK

Finnland ist offiziell Mitglied der Nato zeit.de/politik/auslan…

As David Frost makes clear in a recent tweet he and B Johnson put a stop to all that as well as triumphantly causing travel chaos :

The Nihil Nisi principle applies. Lawson made a desert of much of north England and his Conservative Carthaginian peace led, inter alia, to rise of Scottish independence politics and working class Brexit passions. Wonder when T Blair passes if BBC will agree not to mention Iraq?

Why does this barely mention Lawson’s idiotic climate ‘scepticism’ ( ie using the Lords and other vehicles to denigrate science) ? theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

'Move along now, move along please, nothing to see here folks, move along now please,' said the Secretary of State for the Environment.

dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…

Salaires trop bas, temps passé à bord… Un texte voté contre le «dumping social» sur les ferries de la Manche ⤵️ liberation.fr/economie/socia…

Localism?
localgov.co.uk/Postcode-lotte…

“The state of Britain's rivers: Slurry, silage and sewage.”

A lethal cocktail by anybody’s standards. New Scientist continues on its quest to clean up our rivers.

newscientist.com/article/mg2573…

…au bord de la mer, lorsqu’on peut l’apercevoir!