‘If you have ever seen somebody making concrete in a concrete mixer… it expands and it grows, so you can actually make it grow.’ - Mike Graham
Mike Graham 🇬🇧@Iromg
You do wonder if Americans are the thickest people on the planet
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Molly Kiniry
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Molly Kiniry
@mollykiniry
Studying the history of East African trade @CamEcSocHist. @LegatumInst, @Telegraph alum. Wandering ex-Republican, wonk, winner of 1st annual #tradevalentines
Cambridge, England Katılım Ekim 2016
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“Shaped by the post–Cold War decades of globalization, British foreign policy has found itself unprepared for the rise of autocracy and the combustible new conflicts that have come with it,” writes Minister for Security @TomTugendhat.
trib.al/GwJ3uHz
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After seven years as a transatlantic transplant, pretty well every word of this resonates - very much worth a read
ft.com/content/bd5111…
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One line from this really stood out.
"The average pensioner has a higher income than the average worker."
Robert Colvile@rcolvile
Time for the young to pay for the old and stop complaining? No - it’s time for the old to see how lucky they really are thetimes.co.uk/article/the-ge…
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Rep Liz Cheney (R-WY) tonight: “Two years ago I won this primary with 73% of the vote. I could’ve done so again. The path was clear. But it would’ve required that I went along with President Trump’s lie about the 2020 election”
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We’ve hit the ‘cut from the script of Idiocracy for being too outlandish’ stage of Republican discourse
Ron Filipkowski@RonFilipkowski
Kari Lake says Desantis has ‘BDE,’ (Big Dick Energy), the same kind of BDE that Trump has. “He has the same BDE that we want all of our leaders to have.”
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A wider point - whoever takes on Starmer in #GE2024 needs to be across the the things people actually care about.
@TomTugendhat is the only one who has talked properly and seriously about Health, Crime, Levelling up.
If we don't reflect the public's priorities, we cannot win.
Guy Miscampbell@guymiscampbell
Two big @TomTugendhat policy announcements out today. The first on crime - clamping down on gangs and county lines, and tackling the scourge of fraud: thesun.co.uk/news/19225594/…
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I've known Tom Tugendhat for almost 25 years, so I've written about my friend here.
This isn't about his politics. It's about his character. When he talks about wanting to serve, he means it.
spectator.co.uk/article/the-ca…
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Don’t think it’s controversial or politically partisan to say I heard a love letter to Scotland and what it brings, has brought, to the Union on the Sunday airwaves from an English-sitting MP yesterday and it was lovely
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Student calls to 911:
12:03—whispered she's in room 112
12:10—said multiple dead
12:13—called again
12:16—says 8-9 students alive
12:19—student calls from room 111
12:21—3 shots heard on call
12:36—another call
12:43—asks for police
12:47—asks for police
nytimes.com/2022/05/27/us/…
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A mom of two children at Uvalde was put in handcuffs after urging police and law enforcement to enter the school.
Once freed from her cuffs, she jumped the school fence, ran inside and sprinted out with her kids.
New from @WSJ: wsj.com/articles/uvald…
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I had these drills every month or two from primary school, after Columbine (1999). Literally nothing has changed
Zara Rahim@ZaraRahim
insane how the only notable change since Sandy Hook is that kids are now formally trained to hide, barricade doors, fight, or run for their lives. that was the solution. to literally put the responsibility on them to figure it out and wish them luck.
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“Why are you here?!"
A furious Sen. Chris Murphy demands answers from senators following Texas school shooting.
“Why do you spend all this time running for the United States Senate...if your answer, is as the slaughter increases, as our kids run for their lives—we do nothing?”
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Perhaps because this is a seriously creepy thing to do to anyone, including politicians
Eye Spy MP@eyespymp
David Lammy unimpressed with being papped on Victoria Line.
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"We need to stop the DC elites" my brother in Christ you live here and host cocktail parties
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Remember the Doing Business index?
Yes, it died. Mostly due to the Kristalina Georgieva cooking the books for China thing.
But data manipulation aside, was DB actually good for development?
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@ukhomeoffice rolled out an app last year to re-verify biometric data previously collected for intl students, so we could skip in-person visa appts.
Why can't Ukrainians who've previously handed over fingerprints/iris scans do the same?
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