Tim George

@latsot But better at a deeply technical level?

I knew I should have been a marketer: "The Good Law Project: only *statistically* worse than placebo".

@MrTCHarris @Malcolm_Pal9 Surely no-one could be that daft? Apart from Ms Chapman, obvs

@Malcolm_Pal9 It's difficult to detect irony or sarcasm in so many Tweets these days. I assume you're not being serious?

Wow, what a brave lady. Such a powerful gesture. New Scottish Green Party MP Maggie Chapman took her parliamentary oath while wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh, in a show of solidarity with the Palestinian people.

@darrenpjones Excellent - another layer of people not actually doing anything.

Each department in government will now have its own delivery unit, led by a senior civil servant. And every Secretary of State and Minister of State will be given a new “delivery advisor” in their private office to support this work. These new delivery functions will be accountable to both their Secretary of State and to my team. This builds on my recent work setting up the new joint No10 and Cabinet Office Delivery Unit. Read more: civilserviceworld.com/professions/ar…

@GSpellchecker @Irmenberga Ian Fleming will be revolving fast enough to take off? Whatever one thinks of the books, he wrote beautifully economical prose

I came across this and assumed it must be faked, given how painfully transparent and on the nose this appalling writing is. But it is genuinely from an official James Bond novel: On His Majesty's Secret Service by Charlie Higson. The book was published in 2023.

@jeremycorbyn @kevin_ovenden Please list the liberal democracies in the Middle East that have the rule of law and enforce rights for women and gay people.

78 years ago, 800,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes. Britain made it possible. Today, Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Britain made it possible. 78 years of the Nakba - and 78 years of British complicity in crimes against the Palestinian people.

@Daniel_Sugarman @tryingattimes Electorate notoriously intolerant of unnecessary elections

Perfectly possible that Labour could now lose both Makerfield AND the Manchester Mayoralty.

@LukeTryl Theresa May was highly regarded in her constituency, because she was known for spending time in it, meeting people. A bit ground down towards the end, sure, but it was other MPs she wasn’t keen on, not the public

Burnham another for my theory that looking like you enjoy/even relish public life is a pre-requisite for connecting with public. Starmer, May, Sunak, Reeves, Brown always look slightly pained. Johnson, Burnham, Farage, Polanski -even back to Blair/Cameron look like they relish it

@wariocolosseum @FRANKADEMILLE I don’t get why people post tweets that add nothing apart from demonstrating their complete ignorance of the subject

i dont get how some british ppl are okay with this ultra rich out of touch monarch dictating their privacy

@DuxVul @PositivFuturist He also needs a serious word with his tailor

James did PPE at Oxford, became a local councilor & then an advisor to Sadiq Khan He has never had a job or hired people He now runs the world’s 4th largest workforce & a £246bn annual budget God help us

@emanzaman4 @holyZarquon_ @DanNeidle So what? You simply ask the council for their opinion. You get a letter saying you don’t need to pay, or a bill. Why would you think you shouldn’t contribute to the costs of local services because you’re on a boat?

@holyZarquon_ @TmGeor @DanNeidle Not always so black and white

Extremely poor from @DanNeidle - he knows he has a platform and needs to use it more responsibly

@JasonGroves1 @jessicaelgot If this is ‘government ground to a halt’, there’s strikingly little difference to a few months ago.

Current state of play: :: Wes Streeting has not resigned :: Andy Burnham has not got a Westminster seat :: Starmer has not won back support of his MPs :: Rayner not running unless someone jumps first :: Miliband stirring the pot :: Government has ground to a halt...

@RestIsPolitics Could we just have even a few politicians who don’t feel the need to drone on about their belief in weird old superstitions?

Labour's Wes Streeting talks about coming out and his relationship with faith 👇

@SamaHoole @CaigerRob What happened to the poor chap’s legs?

The British wet fish van was, from roughly 1920 to 1995, the way coastal Britain delivered fresh fish to inland towns. A small refrigerated van. A man called Eric, or George, or Ron, who had been driving the route for thirty years. He left the harbour at four in the morning, after the boats had come in, with that day's catch packed on ice in plastic crates. He drove the same route every Tuesday and Thursday, through three villages and one market town, parking in the same lay-by at the same time, sounding his horn twice, and waiting while the housewives came out with their shopping bags. The slab in the back of the van, opened on a hinge, was a wet fishmonger's counter in miniature. Cod, haddock, plaice, sole, herring, mackerel, sprats, smoked haddock dyed yellow with annatto, kippers in pairs, oysters on Tuesdays if the boat had got them, brown shrimps from Morecambe Bay, cockles from the Thames estuary, and a crab or two for the household that knew how to dress one. The fishmonger boned the fillet on the lid of a plastic crate with a knife he had been using since 1976. He weighed it on a brass scale. He wrapped it in newspaper. He took the money in coins. He drove on to the next village. The wet fish van required: a coastal fishery, a working harbour, a road network, a refrigerated vehicle, a knowledgeable operator, and a population that knew what to do with a whole fish. The fishery collapsed in the 1970s through industrial overfishing. The operator retired. The population forgot what to do with a whole fish. The van is in a barn in Lincolnshire. The horn no longer sounds in any village. The North Sea is still there.

Telling children who might grow up to be gay or bisexual that they are “born in the wrong body” IS conversion practice, you artichoke-headed fuckwit…

@oliviabaileymp Criminalising talking therapy for the 80-90% same sex attracted cohort at places like the Tavistock is gay conversion therapy.

@siennamarla Electorate notoriously unimpressed by unnecessary elections

@siennamarla Incredibly hard to see how he’s going to win a seat when a) the electorate will know it’s an attempted stitch up and b) every other party is going to fling every possible resource at it

EXCL: If Wes Streeting announces his run for leadership tomorrow, the soft left say they will not turn to Angela Rayner but stick with their Plan A of Andy Burnham Tribune exec MPs are expected to push Labour's ruling body to allow for Burnham's inclusion – even though that means allowing a whole by-election before the race begins Their hope: force the issue to go to full NEC rather than the small officers group, where Burnham might have a better chance – and I'm told Ellie Reeves was in favour of allowing that to happen last time FULL STORY w/ @_tomscotson 👇 politicshome.com/news/article/t…

@keewa That’s not how any other taxes work. HMRC expect you to get your income tax right, for example

Wouldn't you say the duty of ensuring council tax collection is correct falls to the council itself, and not each individual resident?

@sacrareleges @Fat_Jacques @DanNeidle @AudreySuffolk @thecraftybeggar Indeed!

@TmGeor @Fat_Jacques @DanNeidle @AudreySuffolk @thecraftybeggar Papal infallibility has a secular equivalent concept it seems

It's only 8am but I've already seen the stupidest insult of the day: