But we are 100% self sufficient in Liz Trusses.

“New paper claims unless demand for resources is reduced, many other innovations are just a sticking plaster” #ClimCrisis

theguardian.com/environment/20…

Last year I wrote this on refugee policy:

'This is what happens when you normalise the unthinkable.

First it becomes thinkable.

Then sayable.

Then ‘desirable’, ‘the only option’, ‘common sense’.

Once out there, it cannot be unthought, unsaid, unnormalised'.

THREAD

'The suffragettes are the largest domestic terror organisation who ever operated on British soil, they have no equivalent' Dr Fern Riddell

Worth remembering this every time a JSO protestor temporarily annoys some sports fans.

bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/6…

Scenes at Hampden as the game is paused for 20 minutes while they try to dry the pitch out #SCOGEO

Because they are the international lender of last resort & exist to promote international economic stability. Responsible governments recalibrate fiscal policy according to forecasts (see also OBR) & so hopefully avoid some of the predicted problems, necessitating new forecasts.

Quote of the day: 'Most developed countries have some poor places. The UK has a poor three-quarters. If you concentrate all the economic activity in the bottom right-hand corner, the economy as a whole will suffer.'

What links Sir David Attenborough with one of the most infamous murders in Victorian Britain?🍿

BREAKING: Peter Murrell has been released without charge “pending further investigation” scotland.police.uk/what-s-happeni…

Just remember, if the Rebellion can come for Palpatine, they will come for you.
What's next, prosecuting Darth Vader for killing a few Younglings, or Tarkin for blowing up ONE measly planet?
Where will this woke madness end???

Dear Free The Free Speech Union, I’ve been waiting in all day for you to pop round to defend Gary Lineker, but you don’t seem to have shown up. Can you let me know when this will happen please?

Interesting piece of history, which I learned this morning courtesy of #ThisIsRigged
stirling-lhs.org/sca-suffragett…

In other news, some glass got smashed

A fatal assumption that many die hard independence at any cost supporters make is they assume all other yes supporters are like them.

If an independent Scotland risks being unsafe for rights of women, LGBTQ+, refugees or progressive why would you risk voting for it?

This is really important!

Okay, I’m going to say this one more time, because for some reason it’s still confusing people.
The only way to manifest a ‘personal’ belief that marriage is between a man and a woman that does not impose that belief onto others is to personally not marry someone of the same sex.

Belinda Carlisle at the Usher Hall. Brilliant

The following thread is factual.

The UK Government passed its Equality Act in 2010. All public and private bodies have to comply with the Act as it has legal force to prevent discrimination. The Government set variable deadlines by which full compliance was to be achieved.

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