The lesson successive governments have learned from the sheeplike response of the British people to all the Covid lockdowns is that they can now exercise their executive to powers to ride roughshod over them in all circumstances and there will be absolutely no reaction !

Pity he didn’t apply the same principle to the Chagossians.

Let’s hope all the staff have their tape measures to hand when the fire breaks out.

You couldn’t read a more damning indictment of the judge.

Hilarious take. She means the Government borrowed £7b less in December than expected. Government debt is still going through the roof ! It’s not reduced at all.

Huh ?? Every month the Gvmt is increasing its debt. This guy doesn’t know the difference between borrowing less and reducing debt. Labour aren’t reducing the national debt at all.

This is poor from Chatham House. The ICJ judgment, as the underlying article admits, was not legally binding and therefore did not “oblige” London to end administration of the islands.

Expressed as a proportion of GDP it is bound to be low. This is the sort of game you can play with stats.

372973 misses by 1 !

I agree.

The private sector always runs rings round the public centre when it comes to commercial contracts. Some are going to make a lot of money for a large number of years.

The heavily defaced Norman font at St Mary, Finedon, Norths. This is the Annunciation. #FontsOnFriday

But he needs rather more qualities than those to be PM.

I completely agree. The failure to provide this information on websites is common. Another important factor is to make sure there are a number of keys available, held by parishioners within easy reach of the church at least one of whom is likely to be in on a workday.

I would say that there are no words in the English language that have all the vowels in reverse alphabetical order, but that would be uncomplimentary.

Clever move. He will be back in a few years and I expect they are calculating this will take some of the immediate heat off Starmer.

Unusual view. Needs to get out more.

I like the idea of dedicated toast. I assume it is eaten with consecrated wine.

Not a good counter-example. Tennyson is using “passes” in a different sense. Try replacing “passes” with “dies” and you immediately see that the sentence would become meaningless.

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