Former govt strategist & political columnist @TheScotsman. Now Senior Counsel @SECNewgateUK. Chair, @LabourHistory. Wrote books; now dad. Views own.
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Want to know what #Brexit looks like? History gives clear clues. Excellent analysis from @GR1900 #UkinEU telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop…
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As our piece notes, the British state promptly engineered novel legal arguments — many disputed or not even published — to justify air strikes intended to kill ISIS adversaries in Syria. Zero accountability or transparency required.
But when SAS soldiers were on the ground, and made snap decision in extreme circumstances, the same decision-makers in Downing St and the Ministry of Defence adopted the opposite view in the most expansive way possible.
One SAS soldier told us he didn’t want immunity and acknowledged two successive directors of special forces said they would have made the referral to law enforcement.
But the notion their conduct merited a three year investigation, homes raided, phones seized — but that they were ***at the same time*** fit for deployment to the most sensitive operations imaginable against ISIS in Syria, in one case 48 hours after being questioned for murder on base in Britain — is the tension our piece examines.
EXCLUSIVE: Insight reveals SAS soldiers hunting Isis leaders in Syria were arrested for murder and had homes raided — only to be sent back behind enemy lines
Our report on Operation Tanglement ends years of secrecy to expose crisis in UK special forces
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The misogynists are having a meltdown.
Insecure weak men scrabbling to blame anything except accept their own inadequacies.
🙄No, I won’t go to hell for saying men and women are equal.
🙄No, women have not “systematically destroyed” our society.
🙄And no, being broodmares is not in the “societal bargain”
It clearly hasn’t dawned on this lot that it takes two to tango as they say.
And women are far less likely to have babies with men who still need their mummies to look after them.
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My sister is right.
Ah, the misogyny club breaks cover 😏
Why should women be allowed to vote and hold office? They actually want an argument🙄
All humans are born equal in the eyes of God. In Christianity, men and women share equal moral dignity and accountability.
Competence and judgment vary by person, not by category. Excluding half the adult population violates individual responsibility and the principle that government derives its power from the consent of the governed.
A free society trusts adults to vote according to their interests. Persuasion, not disenfranchisement, is the remedy for bad ideas.
The fact that Reclaim persuaded almost no one - male or female - to vote for it is no more the fault of women than the fact that Labour’s failures are the fault of men.
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RT @b_judah: Don’t think it’s been internalised what it says that Trafalgar Square now has to have anti-ramming bollards and gates about th…
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It’s been a great summer for Lidos - with more hot summers likely we need more outdoor swimming facilities.
And that means protecting our national assets like Peterborough Lido & creating more of them.
☀️🏊🙏
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RT @metpoliceuk: The Met has urged a group of students planning to march on Wednesday, 7 October – the anniversary of the terror attack on…
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At the NEC AGM. Delighted that Peter Wheeler is the new Chair of the NEC.
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The forthcoming Water Bill should include provision for water companies to support our lidos – and the government should look at creating a Lido Regeneration Fund
✍️ @andrewpakes_
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Astonished that no politicians have cracked down on this anti social menace. Hard to get a train nowadays without someone blaring something from their phone speakers.
On a packed train with my family. Couple across the aisle both alternatively playing social media videos on speakers at full volume. Managed not to say anything until the woman started playing a documentary about serial killers. I'm here with my daughter.
I politely said "please could you turn it down it's not appropriate." To which she replied "I'm sure she's heard worse at school." I said that really wasn't her call to make and in general could she please reduce the volume.
Her response "Its a public train for heavens sake".
For me that's exactly why it is anti social (and what headphones were invented for). I'm wondering which one of us is out of kilter on this?
Ps I should note she did thankfully reduce the volume and we all left it there.
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Could we come to some arrangement with Mauritius where they build a tram system for Leeds for £400m?
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Is this acceptable?
Rebuilding an 18m wide railway bridge cost £237,000,000.
And it’s taken…
1,258 days.
That’s LONGER than it took to BUILD the Eiffel Tower.
EXCLUDING HS2, rail costs 79% MORE to build in Britain than other countries.
The delays must END.
FIX planning, SAVE money & BUILD infrastructure.
Who’s with us?
My latest for @spectator on the avoidable mistakes and unlearnt lessons that explain how it can take three years and cost £237m to upgrade a single railway bridge.
spectator.com/article/why-do…
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My latest for @spectator on the avoidable mistakes and unlearnt lessons that explain how it can take three years and cost £237m to upgrade a single railway bridge.
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"If Britain built as cheaply as its European peers, then without spending a penny more we would have been able to afford an extra £41.5 billion worth of infrastructure over this Parliament."
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This was the summer Lidos were built for.
And with more warm summers on the cards we need to protect and support these wonderful pools.
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This was the summer Lidos were built for. Now we need to protect & restore them for our new climate
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From this weekend, if your train is cancelled, you can get on another operator’s service and carry on your journey without paying again.
This simple, common sense change puts passengers first.
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It's good to see you on farm.
It has been a long 2 years.
Hopefully the beginning of something with positive outcomes.
@angelaeagle @agricontract
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Superb event, brilliant panel
'Not if we try another way'
... is how I'd sum up the takeaways from last night's panel on "Is the UK ungovernable"?
Great to hear so many different views on this fascinating topic from our speakers @racheljanetwolf, @joshsimonsmp and @b_judah. Standby for more Re:Lates from the team at @restate_thinks !
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RT @annaturley: It was an honour to attend the funeral of PC Matthew Blades today and pay my respects and gratitude on behalf of Redcar & C…
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Vertical drinking latest: Westminster council has kept the restrictions on standing while drinking a pint for new licenses in Soho, and kept the cumulative impact zone despite 81% of consultation respondents being against it
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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