NEW: Boris Johnson awards Gavin Williamson a knighthood. Why *now*? In middle of Russian crisis? He was appointed defence secretary in Nov 2017 at exact moment, FBI revealed its Trump-Russia investigation began in London. Is this relevant? 1/ theguardian.com/politics/2022/…

To protest Russia’s actions I simply have no choice but to destroy this souvenir doll I got from Moscow! *pulls doll apart* …what the… *pulls doll apart* …no way *pulls doll apart* oh you gotta be you fucking kidding me

When I left my job in 2020 to go full time in crypto my boss laughed at me. Now two years later when I turned up to ask for my job back he laughed at me again.

The Home Secretary said yesterday that a visa centre had already been set up in Calais. This was untrue and under any normal administration that would be a resigning matter.

The UK should be blue too.

This shit is not good enough. This country is not good enough. This government is a disgrace.

Some good news! In the case of the Women vs the Met Police, in which the police tried to silence the Sarah Everard vigil, the Women won 👏👏👏

Tominey says the EU “has been excruciatingly slow to react”. All 27 national governments of the EU agreed, announced & implemented its Ukraine asylum policy within 7 days of the invasion. Meanwhile, Brexit Britain still hasn’t announced its Ukraine asylum scheme after 16 days.

… and here’s the letter. Sir Keir Starmer writes to Lord Bew calling for unprecedented review of Evgeny Lebedev’s peerage. He says Bew must publish original advice in which appointments commission blocked it. In March 2020, they cited security concerns raised by intelligence.

The police have written to a local business in Tyneside, warning them that hosting an Extinction Rebellion meeting would be "illegal". Talking about climate activism is not, in fact, illegal and the police should not be doing this.

"We all need to pay our fair share, especially at this time" Uber must now pay tax on the service they provide 💸 💰

I'm surprised no-one has tagged Neil Gaiman into this thread yet

"I can't believe this is happening" - man who helped this happen

This is truly disgraceful. Despicable. Any thought of inviting this man to an 🇪🇺 summit should be shelved. x.com/AlexTaylorNews…

Extraordinary letter in @ft from former UK defence attaché at Moscow embassy - we warned you about Putin but you listened to the City instead

Rishi Sunak: "Only the Conservatives can be trusted with taxpayers money" £4bn in fraud written off. £37b for a non existent Test and Trace system. Fraudulent contracts to their friends. I laughed out loud. I had no idea he was an aspiring right wing stand up.

🧵It is wrong to describe the proposed action by barristers on 11/4/22 a ‘strike’, still less as “totally unwarranted” as Dominic Rabb did in the Commons last week. Imagine you were a jobbing builder, with a full diary of jobs of your own to do. 1/