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Hear hear

Quite a piece theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Why is #RishiSunak so obsessed with individuals’ tax bills? Did he go into politics for purely selfish reasons? And if not, why does he assume all voters are only self-interested? Might we not care about the common good? #GeneralElection #bbc @MishalHusain @BBCr4today

@Jo_dB Well, he certainly got rained on

Very good piece. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@AvantiWestCoast Hi, we have tickets booked for the 0947 Birmingham to Euston today, but it does not now seem to exist. Why does it not appear listed as cancelled anywhere?

Hooray theguardian.com/politics/artic…

Just had an Amazon delivery. He’s put on weight and grown a beard, but I knew it was #Rishi - because he “delivers for Britain”. #ToryFail

Alexey's lawyer and his mother have arrived at the Salekhard morgue. It's closed, however, the colony has assured them it's working and Navalny's body is there. The lawyer called the phone number which was on the door. He was told he was the seventh caller today. Alexey's body is not in the morgue.

Тела Навального нет в морге Салехарда, как утверждали в колонии, сообщила Кира Ярмыш

Russia's prison service says "the causes of his death are not clear". In fact it's blindingly obvious the regime killed him - either by murder or deliberate neglect - and that no such decision could be made without Vladimir Putin's personal authorisation

They killed him, in other words. #Navalny theguardian.com/world/2024/feb…

@nathanrisaac98 @TheCBSO @annalapwood The surtitles were perfect, & the whole experience marvellous! Extremely well constructed concert!

@FriendsKenwood @cityoflondon @CityCorpHeath And #Kenwood features in it too!

Recommended reading! Thanks to an ex- & excellent Chair of the Hampstead Heath Consultative Committee, @VRounding . This committee is one of the great initiatives of @cityoflondon caring for the Heath maybe as #StellaGibbons would have liked @CityCorpHeath

@payne_helen @CityCorpHeath @HandHSocHeath @ellinst @HGSColin Yes, I think you’ll really enjoy it.

@VRounding @CityCorpHeath @HandHSocHeath @ellinst @HGSColin Must find a copy!

I’ve rarely read such evocative descriptions of #HampsteadHeath as in #StellaGibbons’ novel #EnburyHeath (pub. 1935, repr 2021). Can see, hear & smell it from the page. @CityCorpHeath @HandHSocHeath @ellinst @payne_helen @HGSColin

Just like Pussy Riot, Sasha Skochilenko has incurred Putin’s wrath. But we won’t let him win theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Brilliant ⁦@JohnJCrace⁩ theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

Very good to see and hear @MarthaMcLorinan with @excathedrachoir in the Rachmaninov Vespers at Birmingham Town Hall this afternoon. Brilliant performance. @BMusic_Ltd