Tomas Thurogood-Hyde

If the government says supplies are fine, we are probably down to our last few gallons.

The House of Lords has done a great service to vulnerable people & the country by exposing the flaws in the Terminally Ill Adults Bill. Their scrutiny has protected us from a dangerous assisted suicide law. For MPs to use the Parliament Acts now would be misguided & reckless.

Trying to increase inclusivity by lowering our standards is at the heart of how we fail the most disadvantaged in our society.

@rorysutherland It's suggestive of the extent to which legality has supplanted politics and good sense: procedural correctness and rationality are defences in administrative law, not the court of public opinion.

If find this weird. It's perfectly okay to make a bad decision, provided correct procedure was followed in making it. Shades of Letby.

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The UK Government's concerns that the Isle of Man bill is NOT ECHR compliant, because safeguards are not "set out directly in primary legislation", also applies to the England & Wales bill that hardline supporters want to use the Parliament Acts for.

Watch Lord Robertson - who authored the government's Strategic Defence Review - say there is a "corrosive compacency in Britain's political leadership". "Lip service is paid to the risks, the threats, and the bright red signals of danger." "The cold reality of today's dangerous world is that we cannot defend Britain with an ever-expanding welfare budget."

Is the state pension really so 'meagre'? Let's take a look... The basic state pension is just £12,547 a year. But... Only around 15% of pensioners rely on the state pension alone. The vast majority have other income from private pensions etc., which is exactly how our system is designed to work (and why the UK has generous tax breaks for pension contributions). The small proportion of pensioners whose only source of income is the state pension are entitled to other benefits in addition, including pension credit, housing benefit and council tax support. A pensioner with no other income, no savings, no disabilities, no care responsibilities and rent of £800 per month is entitled to £401.55 a week in benefits including state pension, which is £20,881 a year. For comparison, a full time minimum wage worker has an after tax income of £21,364. Unlike a pensioner, a full time minimum wage worker is not entitled to free travel, free prescriptions, a winter fuel payment or senior citizens discounts. £21,000 a year is not a lot of money. But the very poorest pensioners have similar incomes to low-wage workers. Given the greater costs faced by those who are working, it's perhaps not surprising that working age adults are now more likely to live in poverty than pensioners. And at the other end of the scale, one in four pensioners are millionaires and still receive the basic state pension, paid for by current tax payers (including those on minimum wage). No one (definitely not me) is suggesting that the state pension should be reduced for the poorest pensioners. But pension spending now accounts for half of the UK's social security budget and, given the urgent need to cut government spending, we must consider reforms like means-testing and scrapping the triple lock.

Roger Scruton, the ancestor duty

What radicalised you, Marmalade Martyrs? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

ZELENSKYY to BBC: We went through difficult relations with Iran. We did nothing to them. They shot down our plane, killed our passengers and crew, didn’t admit it, and didn’t let experts in. Then the full-scale war started. They handed Shahed drones to Russians to kill our civilians. I asked them to stop. They promised there would be only one batch. They lied and kept supplying weapons. That’s why I consider them accomplices of Russia.

You'll have bad times, and he'll have good times Doin' things that you don't understand But if you love him, you'll forgive him Even though he's hard to understand And if you love him, oh, be proud of him 'Cause after all, he's just a man Stand by your man

Oh I love reaction it’s infectious!! That’s how excited you should be!! It’s also so nice to see someone speaking and acting in a positive way on the news ❤️🙏👏 Love that Emotion!

Germany is celebrating the late Queen! A special stamp marks what would have been Queen Elizabeth II’s 100th birthday on 21 April. It honours her legacy and work towards reconciliation between the UK and Germany.

This is an insane perspective. And it's all because Europe deviated from the free-market and entrepreneurial-freedom ideals that made them rich in the first place.

🚨Assisted Dying Bill🚨 Every bill this session that has received Royal Assent and went through Commons Public Bill Committee took longer in the Lords. So it was never realistic to expect the Lords to complete THREE stages in the time the Commons had for Committee alone. And that's before you factor in that it is the longest most complex Private Member's Bill in the history of PMBs, was written in two weeks, with no consultation, or prior policy development, is skeletal and gives "sweeping, unspecified and unjustified powers" to any future government.

@deeore5 Both of these dates are twenty years ago. That's how.

people born in 1980-2004, how’s life?

They say capitalism makes the rich richer. Capitalism also lifted 2 billion people out of poverty in 30 years. Socialism has never done that. Not once. Not anywhere.

Each time the Government tries to foist #IDCards on us, its reasoning unravels. In the 2000s, it went from preventing terrorism to reducing young people's passport losses in nightclubs. Now, it's gone from tackling illegal immigration to booking the nanny. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Still hear this justification re: AI in classrooms: “It’s out there & we can't be left behind.” Friendly challenge: which happens more often? 1. Schools regretted waiting too long to adopt a technology. 2. Schools regretted adopting a technology before they knew how to use it.