The OBR last November 'a recession lasting just over a year from the third quarter of 2022, with a peak-to-trough fall in GDP of 2 per cent'
With the upwards GDP revision of around 1.7% as well how can anyone take the Office for Budget Responsibility seriously? It is miles out...

Dan Salt He's conspicuously more concerned about looking like a good chap to the international elite, and his friends in banks, i think that's his nature, but he will also have an eye on the next job after politics. President of the World Bank would be good, but needs the right supporters

As usual they are focusing laser like on the important things

Good piece

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Mass clean out of my Kindle - a therapeutic process as I tend to get stressed about having so much to read

Good piece

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Pretty standard but due let's keep importing more

Lisa Nandy You said rapists should be transferred to women's prisons if they self-identify as women.
You called Women's Place UK a hate group.
Given that you're one of the biggest reasons many women on the left no longer trust Labour to defend their rights, do you stand by those comments?

Valid

In short the British state is mismanaged and incompetent

Again only if parliament chooses to let this happen, it's sovereign in the UK and can will what it likes to happen

No a group who happen to there did that - most of the civilians the city itself didn't

Fucking women drivers

Demolish the rest of Luton as a job lot 🤣

Remind me what the criteria are for a failing state again…?

Just appalling.

There are a 100 billion viruses in an average quart of sea water but don't panic only 263 types are known to cause illness in humans

A single parent bacterium could in theory produce a mass of offspring bigger than the 🌎 in two days and within three it would exceed the mass of the observable universe

Top shagging

Mr Uey strikes again

Paper straws 🤣

What are they supposed to do give your AIDS or something?