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I returned to the Wales homelands to write about the end of 100 years of Labour dominance, and the rise of Reform. Had some lovely drives along the Heads of the Valleys.
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Britain’s generational political turbulence: I got my second prime minister aged 4, my third at 10, my fourth at 20 and my fifth at 23. My son got his second and third before he was seven months old, his fourth at 2 and his fifth today, aged 4.
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Would add it often depends which sport. Born and grew up in Wales but have always been happy to also support England at football. True today as in 2002 when my entire classroom was gutted watching the Ronaldinho lob. But the idea of ever - ever - supporting England in rugby...
1. Lots being written about why many people in other home nations don’t support England at football. Reasons are many & complicated & I’ll try & unpick a few. Firstly, sporting rivalry - smaller Celtic nations will always want to beat their much bigger neighbour - this extends>
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Get the Brenda from Bristol GIF!
One consequence of Andy Burnham's likely coronation is that the calls for an early election will be relentless
Expect Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch to argue on repeat that he has no mandate or legitimacy, that winning a by-election does not qualify you for No 10
Farage went there within minutes of Starmer confirming his resignation:
"I’ve had enough of waiting around. Britain needs change - real change, not another washed-up has-been shoved into place by the uniparty
"If Labour thinks it can shove another professional politician into No 10, it has another thing coming. Reform is ready for an election, and we are ready to deliver radical change.”
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And so the world is once again paying attention to the internecine carousel of British politics. Wrote a piece from this sunny, chilly perch: nbcnews.com/world/united-kin…
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I returned to the Wales homelands to write about the end of 100 years of Labour dominance, and the rise of Reform. Had some lovely drives along the Heads of the Valleys.
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And here's a postcard sidebar in which I was allowed to reflect a little on memories of growing up in Wales and what it feels like to return to such a changed place. Somehow managed to avoid using the word 'hiraeth'
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At the anti-AfD protest outside the party's venue in north Berlin, demonstrators just fired up a 1960s-era 110db "catastrophe siren." Built for warning of nuke attack, the siren was sounded as a "warning about the outcome of fascism in Germany," organizer Stefan Pelzer tells me
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Upturned cars ablaze in E11 this morning, women clutching babies run screaming through the street, a payphone receiver swings dial tone blaring...
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Four RAF typhoons (per FlightRadar24) are currently flying in formation high over London. Four more flew over about 15 mins ago. Probably happens all the time (?) but still a striking sight especially In These Times.
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Alexander Smith retweeted
Not that I want to blame everything on Covid but I do feel like people being locked into their own small circles for the best part of two years just did to hell with public etiquette in general but the cinema is where it’s most obvious
The Rock says people should be able to sing in movie theaters
"You’ve paid your hard earned money for a ticket, and you've gone into a musical, and you’re into it. Sing"
(via @BBC)
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Alexander Smith retweeted
From a geopolitical perspective, it’s a minor question, but one that’s interesting to us Hungarian journalists: if Trump wins, would Viktor Orbán stop accusing us of being American agents or CIA spies? And if so, what would we become then? Deep-cover agents of Luxembourg?
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Voxpops are fine, good even, if used proportionally to colourise viewpoints behind polling data.
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Simply impossible to reconcile low birth rate data with the scenes across the low traffic neighbourhoods of Waltham Forest last night.
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Good question, why *don't* people who feel utterly cheated by society, as the social contract splinters around them, get as peeved about fly tipping and speakerphones as me in my £700k semi
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Robert Jenrick rejects claim Tory MPs put him in final two for leadership ballot by mistake - theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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