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@KemiBadenoch The question still needs answering? Which group of the UK is spreading "hatred and violence " once someone man's up we can move forward.

The Conservative Party is clear: if you want to spread hatred and violence towards Jews, you are not welcome in Britain.

The Green Party has complained about this cartoon of Zack Polanski by the The Times. They’re deeply unhappy with it. Whatever you do, do not repost!

@worcesterwizard @Alexandr4Denman They are voted in by us and work for us on are behalf. So they work for us. We should decide the pay rise/ cut ?

@Alexandr4Denman They’ll be claiming that it’s down to an independent panel that sets their salaries & that makes it ok. No wonder voters feel that politicians are completely out of touch with the reality facing many people on a daily basis

5,000 pounds pay rise from April? Are they joking? Well the economy can’t be that bad then can it? I mean if your company was doing bad you wouldn’t award yourself only would you? Otherwise the company would go bust? Am i getting vibes of lining ones own pockets here ?

@Gfletch_ New bike.

Bit of a disaster tonight, did 1.5 miles before the rear mech exploded 😡

@SaferRoadsYorks A L driver under instruction close passed me today. There is no hope.

This BMW driver opted to turn down the offer of a £100 safer driving course and challenge his careless driving charge in court. Last week he was found guilty by Bradford Magistrates of driving without due care and consideration and given 3 points and £750 in fines and costs.

No, Prime Minister. You could have banned hate matches. You could have banned pro-Iranian regime groups. You could have deported disgustingly antisemitic imams. You could have cracked down on mosques spewing Jew hatred. Instead you introduced an “anti-Muslim hate” definition.

We're nearly there 96,353 and counting. Do your thing internet. As for that vacuous act of futility that is govt's response? The Sewage Campaign Network has asked for a right to reply, we want to be able to write to the very same people govt did shredding their nonsense response. Sign now, sign today.

2014 Rachel Reeves saying exactly what people are saying now! I wonder if she realises that she could have gotten arrested for saying this today as a far right thug? Amazing how they change to save their own jobs isn’t it! There’s always a video

This was before Ai. 🤣😂

@BremenBod What's a flip flop hub?

New bike day! Elops 500 single speed. Rear wheel has a flip-flop hub. It’s quite nippy and very lightweight 👍 🚲 #Fixies #SingleSpeed

@RishiSunak You did tell us "they will tax us"

The instinct after a crisis in No10 is always to add more process. But the Mandelson appointment wasn't a failure of process - it was a failure of political judgment. The right response to bad decisions is better decision-making, not process paralysis. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

@LiegeBastogneL Femmes Debbie getting a great pacing off moto's

@BasilTheGreat I hope it's performance related.

Shabana Mahmood has just announced we are giving the French £660 MILLION to stop the boats This is on top of the £700 million we have previously given them which achieved nothing They all know it's a con This is a gimmick so people think something's being done

A HUGE St. George’s cross has appeared in Nottingham 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The 60ft long flag, which has been unveiled for St, George’s day, sits proudly on Nottinghamshire council house in Old Market Square. Absolutely beautiful 😍

Happy St George’s Day. Be proud. Fly the flag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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More words to coming back to haunt the Keir Starmer. Why has he now prorogued Parliament ‘at this crucial time’? More and more it seems like ‘One rule for them, another for everyone else’.

The Man Nobody Is Talking About. His Name Is Sir Philip Barton. Buried inside Tuesday's committee testimony, beneath the headlines about constant pressure, bullying and secret job searches, is the detail that may prove the most consequential of this entire affair. It concerns not Olly Robbins, not Morgan McSweeney, not even Keir Starmer. It concerns the man who was there before all of them. The man who said no. The man who then left his post eight months early. Sir Philip Barton was the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office when Peter Mandelson's appointment was announced in December 2024. He was, in other words, the most senior civil servant in the building at the precise moment the machinery of state was being directed to place a man with documented links to Russia and China into the most sensitive diplomatic posting in the Western alliance. What Robbins told the committee on Tuesday is this. Barton pushed back. When the Cabinet Office argued that vetting Mandelson was unnecessary, that a peer and Privy Councillor did not require developed vetting, Barton refused to accept it. He insisted that vetting was a requirement. He had to be, in Robbins's own words, very firm in person. He also voiced reservations about the appointment to Jonathan Powell, the National Security Adviser, reservations that were noted and not acted upon. He was worried, Robbins suggested, about exactly the same reputational risks that had been detailed to the Prime Minister before the appointment was announced. Then Sir Philip Barton left his post. Eight months before his tenure would otherwise have concluded. The question Richard Foord put to Robbins on Tuesday was the right one. Why did Barton's tenure end early? Robbins said he did not know. He suggested ministers may have felt it was time for a change. That answer is not an answer. It is the absence of one. Consider what the timeline now shows. A senior civil servant pushes back against the appointment, insists on vetting when the Cabinet Office wants to bypass it, raises reservations with the National Security Adviser, and departs eight months ahead of schedule. His replacement arrives to find the appointment already treated as a fait accompli, the vetting process under constant pressure from Downing Street, and the question of outcome entirely subordinate to the question of speed. If Barton was removed because he stood in the way of this appointment, then Robbins was not the first civil servant sacrificed to protect it. He was the second. And the question of who else was moved aside, overruled or silenced in the months between December 2024 and the moment the security services finally said no, becomes the most important question this affair has yet produced. Starmer sacked Robbins for following the rules. The Foreign Affairs Committee will now call Barton to give evidence. What he says will either confirm what the timeline already suggests or provide an alternative explanation that the evidence does not currently support. There is a pattern here that goes beyond process failure. Process failures are random. They point in different directions. What this affair has produced is a series of events that point consistently in one direction. Officials who comply are retained. Officials who push back depart. The security services are bypassed. The vetting is treated as an administrative inconvenience. And the one question nobody at the top of this government will answer is why this appointment, this man, this post, mattered so much that every obstacle was removed to make it happen. Barton apparently asked that question. He left eight months early. The country deserves to know why.

@ProCyclingStats that's a great gateway you have there. 👍