'She's magnificently rubbish!' James O'Brien explains why he thinks Kemi Badenoch is the 'most interesting politician of the last ten years'.

Morning All ... This one is called ... 'Growing up in the Fifties and Sixties' .. xx

My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph Buy a print of my cartoons at telegraph.co.uk/mattprints Original artwork from chrisbeetles.com

The ‘Iran War’ - is barely 8 months old, but in that time our own homegrown green energy sources (the wind and the sun) have saved us nearly £6 billion. To those who bang on about the short term cost of turning some windmills off some of the time (you know who you are) - I say stick that in your pipe…:) buff.ly/BIot99A

🇮🇪 Just as the current Covid wave ramps up, when decent surveillance data is more important than ever… …that’s the precise moment that Ireland decides to hit the ‘temporary pause’ button on publication of their wastewater surveillance reports 🙄 hpsc.ie/p/nationalwastewater…

Oleshky is why Ukraine cannot surrender an inch of territory. It’s a European town where civilians are starving to death & being hunted by russian drones. Now imagine condemning millions more Ukrainians to that fate. That’s what would happen.

Kemi Badenoch, "Our country is running out of money" My view: She is literally complaining about the Conservative party's record 🤷‍♂️ When the Conservatives entered office in 2010, public-sector net debt was around £1 trillion. By March 2024, when they left office, it was £2.694 trillion. The Conservatives more than doubled our national debt while cutting public services, that takes a special fiscally irresponsible skill. Yes, Covid was an enormous and unavoidable shock: government pandemic measures cost roughly £380bn between 2020 and 2025. But that does not explain away the wider record. A decade of Conservative austerity hollowed out local councils, public health, social care and the NHS. Cutting prevention, timely treatment and support does not make illness disappear; it leaves people sicker for longer, pushes problems into A&E and hospitals, and ultimately costs more. Then came Brexit: a Conservative project that the OBR says will leave UK trade intensity around 15% lower and long-run productivity 4% lower than if we had remained in the EU. That means a smaller economy, weaker tax revenues and less money available for the services people rely on. Office for Budget Responsibility Britain is not “running out of money” by accident. We are living with the bill for 14 years of choices: austerity that damaged the foundations of public services, Brexit that made the country poorer, and repeated Conservative decisions to protect wealth while weakening the state.

And this is *exactly* why we need independent journalism, folks. And the only hope of that is if people pay for it. This is not news, it's propaganda.

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Kemi Badenoch thinks “privatisation was a success". She's living in an alternate reality. Water is a symbol of what has gone wrong in Britain. In the years since privatisation our waterways have been pumped with sewage whilst water bosses receive bonus after bonus. Labour is putting an end to this with a strengthened Water Bill which will repeal Margaret Thatcher’s ideological ban on public ownership of water companies. And we’ll also give Mayors new powers to hold water companies to account, and close the loopholes water companies use to pay excessive bonuses.

If this is a lab accident causing plague, it shouldn't spread much further Hopefully that will be the case The problem here is that it has occurred in an authoritarian state which has a known biological weapons program who are not going to provide accurate information

Canada has the lowest marginal effective tax rate for new business investment in the G7. We have the world’s most educated workforce. We have the resources our partners need and the fiscal strength to act decisively. We’re capitalising on those strengths — turning Canada into the best place to invest. More good jobs, more opportunity, and more prosperity for Canadians.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES SHOULD NEVER SUGGEST THAT IT'S "A SMALL PRICE" FOR 2 OF OUR CITIES TO BE HIT BY A FOREIGN ADVERSARY. IMPEACH HIM NOW, FFS.

Who are you backing in today's Clay Offs? Piella or Rita?

Stanley Kubrick thought the “I'm Spartacus” scene was stupid and didn’t want to shoot it. Knowing Kubrick was afraid of horses, Kirk Douglas pinned him to a wall with his horse’s nose: “Listen, you little prick. We’re going to try it.” A horse is why this scene exists.

British sarcasm. Best in the world.

🚨Reform MP Sarah Pochin stood up in Parliament and fretted about the damage second homes do to rural communities. Forty-eight hours later she bought an £800,000 second home in Wales. Nothing says “I feel your pain” quite like snapping up a holiday bolt-hole the moment you’ve finished lecturing everyone else about the problem.

Morning all... A poem entitled... 'People '... xx

🎃 Spooky season is here! 👻 From haunted trails to creepy cocktails and eerie experiences, here are some of the best spooky things to do in London this Halloween🕷️🕸️ #LondonMakesItPossible #VisitLondon

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