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@charlesarthur @SimonMagus It was bleeding obvious - from the very outset, people identified inconsistencies. It became even more so once the second suspect was arrested

@markbishopuk @SimonMagus And it wasn’t “bleeding obvious” or they wouldn’t have arrested the 26yo near the crime initially. You are using hindsight.

One of the odder things about today's media is that so many people have come to expect a running commentary from the Police conducting a murder investigation. But then, as we see here, without that commentary people just make stuff up.

@charlesarthur @SimonMagus other parties involved and any other targets 3/3

@charlesarthur @SimonMagus that counter terrorism police weren't leading the inquiry from the outset, which they should have been 2/ 3) Arresting for terrorism also gives the police powers they otherwise would not have, which might prove decisive in following the evidence upstream to identify 2/

@Timoldland @hiltonholloway I suspect that's a legacy deal and in any case that it went up this month. New customers would pay 8p off-peak and (from memory) 30-37p peak

@markbishopuk @hiltonholloway I pay 7p overnight and 24p daytime with Octopus.

That EV revolution in full. Expensive public charging plus a charge per mile.

@visitcamberwell @DavidGHFrost @KemiBadenoch @Telegraph I'd say the same thing of the Tory Party. Had Badenoch removed the whip from May for giving us net zero and Sharma for COP, I might take seriously the party's current opposition to it. With those individuals still prominent, May especially, I can't trust it 2/2

@visitcamberwell @DavidGHFrost @KemiBadenoch @Telegraph I'd much rather have an unknown junior, because that person would be a random pick. Coutinho is a known bad actor, because of her actions and espoused views when in office. Coutinho mk2 is a good thing in isolation, but the fact it's a retread of mk1 gives me cause for concern 1/

"Net zero isn't conservatism. It has more in common with communism." @KemiBadenoch is quite right to force candidates to back scrapping net zero & quitting the ECHR. And in denying the whip to Gavin Barwell, she got ahead of me too: 👇 @Telegraph link in next post.

@charlesarthur @SimonMagus Oh, and another point: motive also matters very much in determining which charges are laid and what sentence might be expected. There's a big difference between a burglary that went wrong and a premeditated act of terrorism

@charlesarthur @SimonMagus Which means other political or public figures may be at risk. Under such circumstances, the police spotting the bleeding obvious fact that this was a targeted murder and therefore investigating motivation, whether or not a lone wolf, should have happened earlier, no? 3/3

The people using Ann Widdecombe’s murder to call for social media censorship have conveniently forgotten the vicious mockery directed at her by the mainstream media.

Why is that good news? Coal provides close to sixty percent of China's electricity. EVs in China are essentially coal powered vehicles. Let's call them what they are-- CVs.

Because of Labour’s insane Net Zero policies, Norway is able to prioritise taking out gas from basins shared with the UK and sell them to us.

It is the third heatwave of the summer, the reservoirs are down, and across the South there is a hosepipe ban. If you are the sort who gets up in the morning, goes to work, and pays for your own water, the ban lands on you with full force. You let your lawn go brown. You fill a can at the kitchen tap for the tomatoes. You take it on the chin, because that is what a rule is, and because some part of you still believes rules in this country are things that fall on everyone alike. They are not, and a hosepipe is a small, almost comic proof of it. Southern Water and Affinity have handed a blanket exemption from the ban to every household on the WaterSure tariff - the scheme that already caps the water bills of benefit claimants at a fixed rate, with the shortfall spread quietly across everyone else's charges. So the household that pays the reduced bill, subsidised out of yours, is also the household left free to run its hosepipe through August while you ration from a watering can. A smaller bill, and then, stacked on top, unlimited use of the water you are helping to pay for. The medical cases on that tariff are real, and a decent country waters them without a second thought. That is not the decision two water companies made this week. Faced with a choice, they reached by pure institutional reflex for the setting every British institution now reaches for by default: relieve the recipient, bill the contributor, and never once ask what four decades of governing this way does to the people on the paying end. Because this is the master-rule of British public life now, and a hosepipe only shrinks it down small enough to see whole. Everywhere you look the obligations run uphill to the man who works and the exemptions run down to the man who does not. He pays the taper that claws back 55 pence of every extra pound he earns. He funds the tariff, the exemption, the tribunal, the hotel, the entire apparatus of relief - and then watches that apparatus wave through, at his cost, small comforts he is himself refused. He is not the citizen the machine is built to serve. He is its residual claimant: he gets whatever is left once everyone with a grievance or a subsidy has been seen to. A country can run like this for a while, on the patience and the decency of the people carrying it. It cannot run like this forever, because those people are not fools, and every year a few more of them do the arithmetic and conclude that the mug's game is not worth the candle. They stop straining. They go part-time, or to Dubai, or into the queue they used to fund. And you would struggle to blame a single one of them. This does not want another regulator or another review. It wants the incentive turned back the right way up, so that carrying your share is the rewarded thing again, the way it is in every country that still works. That is what Progress is being built to do. In the meantime, fill your watering can, keep your own private tally of what your compliance actually buys you, and understand that the tally is where politics begins. Then come and help us change the sum.

This is the ‘Manchesterism’ of Andy Burnham’s manifesto-free scrutiny-free incoming Labour Government. He’s left Manchester £1.34 billion in the red, with the highest debt of any authority in England.

I think if, in the week after Jo Cox's death, the BBC had invited an activist on to say that Jo was bad for believing in immigration and that Brexit supporters were the real victims, that activist would have been shamed into hiding if not emigrating. This is grotesque

Boris: let's import a million low-paid care workers and their families from non-EU countries Sanchez: hold my cerveza

Why hasn't Ukraine destroyed the Kerch Bridge yet, despite completely neutralizing its air defense shield? The answer is masterclass psychological warfare. You don't destroy the bridge. You leave it open. By keeping Putin's prize bridge intact but visibly defenseless, Kyiv is applying Sun Tzu’s ancient rule: build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across. If you trap millions of occupiers, collaborators, and Russian settlers on Crimea, they will fight to the death out of sheer desperation. Instead, you leave the escape hatch open and let panic do the work. The message is loud and clear: "Get out while you still can." The massive, self-inflicted exodus of Russians fleeing back to their homeland does more to demilitarize Crimea than a thousand missile strikes ever could. Why waste ammo when the enemy is evacuating themselves? #KerchBridge #Crimea #PsychologicalWarfare #SunTzu #MilitaryStrategy #UkraineWar

Good, but given the historically higher chance of them being elected as @Conservatives, it's going to require @KemiBadenoch to kick them out