This clearly remains true. Resurrect our dockyards, re-start our steel industry. Be the power our enemies accuse us of being.

Shogun TV series only without Blackthorne. So much better

I mean, the argument used to be ‘Ukraine wouldn’t have been supported under Trump’, but given whats happening…

Biden’s foreign policy has been a disaster.

Entertaining piece from Jessica Murray on upcming BID ballots. Think she would struggle to stand up the ‘dozens of complaints.’ Currently the two main anti-BId twitter accounts stand at under 100 followers apiece.

theguardian.com/business/2024/…?

All of this.

Not that any of it will stop the propal supporters out every Saturday in our cities chanting for Iran.

Shows how fast the constituency has grown since the last re-organizatiob. Like the council seats, will inevitably split next time. Meantime, Main issue is stopping Manchestral Central having one of the worst turnouts in the country

I literally refute that almost unique observation

Nothing in this to strengthen local partnerships, or to tackle the fact c70% of offences in city centres are committed by people with substance abuse issues.

Or that courts will mostly throw out cases if offenders clearly have no means to pay...

This is an utterly excellent thread on the 'extreme views of Muslims' poll. It leaves concern over extremism while analysing some of those insane figures were reached.

One for Aaron Bastani ….

Six months since Oct 7th and again yesterday we have the city centre brought to a halt, trams stopped, by people calling for the destruction of Israel. For the first time met by a counter-demo, which only makes the Police job even harder. Be nice to get Saturdays back.

It was like Brokeback Mountain, only set in Hammersmith.

We still have it in Manchester (the outside bars, not Berwick St itself) thanks to Manchester City Council , CityCo Manchester and CityCo NTE Network

This is an interesting thread, but...why does one example of terrible conflict provoke street demonstrations when a similar group suffering even more (in Sudan) provokes...nothing? Presence of media? Ingrained anti-semitism?

Delighted to be sponsoring this once more, through CityCo Manchester and the team Manchestet BIDs

This is such a mad story.

Excellent piece

Those on the left celebrating this (and civil servants supposedly refusing to deal with flights to Rwanda) should wait to see what happens when they want to do anything radical.

And everyone laughed at Liz Truss for talking about the 'blob.'

Such a great man. And that LP is superb (but will break speakers if played too loud)

*sigh*

Recognizing this must have been very difficult, but worst of all worlds…its the other businesses facing harassment from campaigners that will suffer as a result….

Idly wondering how many of those artists withdrawing their 'work' have actually read Atef Abu Saif. A writer who, apart from being culture minister in a government led by an avowed holocaust denier, frequently uses tropes falling well within the IHRA definition of anti-semitism