Ellie voted for the Assisted Dying Bill, despite the desperate pleas of all disability rights groups. Sometimes she listens, and sometimes she doesn’t ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The power of the institutional Treasury to take politicians, convince them HMT is right, and use them as shields for the unpopularity of HMT's policies is truly magnificent to see Poor Rachel Reeves (and I genuinely feel bad for her) is just cannon fodder for HMT

Long thought there's a lot of money to be made in telling traders what's actually happening in politics.

Mike Bird Well in this case they're reacting hard to an entirely groundless rumour! Having not reacted at all last night to a serious shift in the fundamental political dynamics of the government's economic policy.

Dream SW1 job (for some): get paid to watch Parliament TV, hang out in SW1 pubs, read Twitter and occasionally respond to the texts of a finance bro

When parliament voted for assisted suicide, many called it “choice at the end of life”. What choice will remain when the state funds an assisted suicide service over hospices?

The PM can sack Rachel Reeves, though ditching a chancellor doesn’t always end well, and there might be a dead-cat bounce, but unless economic policy fundamentally changes, it won’t solve the government’s problems. Reeves is symptom as much as cause.

Not-so-fun fact: One of the monasteries that Henry seized and dissolved had developed a prototype blast furnace. Had the English Reformation not happened, the Steel Age, and thus the Industrial Revolution, may have begun 200-300 years earlier.

Slightly tongue in cheek, but Paul Powlesland now you know how those of us on the right feel when people invoke human rights law for everything and anything! But on a serious note, something has seriously gone wrong with human rights discourse in this country for that to be said

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill and the NHS 10 Year Plan: mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk/the-terminally…

But….. 👉 with only 1 reference to palliative care 👉 only 3 mentions of hospices and 👉 no commitment to universal access to high quality palliative and end of life care ❌ we shouldn’t even think about legalising Assisted Suicide ❌ it wouldn’t be a real choice for anyone

Aaaaand… “palliative care” is mentioned once. Once. In 168 pages. Our 10 year plan for dying people is: - Neighbourhood teams will include hospice and palliative care staff. - Use of Personal Health Budgets for accessing hospice care.

I think all those MPs who voted for the Leadbeater Bill need to look at this 👇

Morgan McSweeney (Starmer's Irish political advisor/svengali), Jacinda Ardern (a New Zealander who worked for New Labour), and Lynton Crosby (an Australian who was the Tories' campaign strategist) are a few examples of non-UK citizens who worked in British politics.

Now that European summer is heating up, let me quickly remind you just how important street trees are!

But this is #assisteddying. Surely, the defendant was empowering his victim; calling her "vulnerable" is very patronising, no? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

A milestone. Encouraging serious self-harm online became unlawful in the Online Safety Act 2023. Vulnerable people protected. Suicide prevention a X-Govt responsibility. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Genuine q: what's the charitable defence for why we need planning applications for something like this to be that long?