A lot of the news is profoundly depressing at the moment. This has taken too long but it is very welcome. Speaker Mike Johnson has put his job on the line to do the right thing 👏 And every other democracy in the world should be asking: what more can we do?
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Not easy leading when you have a very small majority and some of your own party have no sense of the national interest. Taken longer than many of us hoped, but Speaker Mike Johnson is now putting his job on the line to do what is right and he deserves respect for that

EU proposes undoing harm Brexit has done to young people on both sides of Channel. No surprise this Government isn't interested, but what a miserable response from Labour. Neither party pro growth or the interests of our young people #depressing bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

In the immortal words of General Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett: 'That is what is so brilliant about it. Doing precisely what we have done before is exactly the last thing they'll expect us to do this time'

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky...

Not easy leading when you have a very small majority and some of your own party have no sense of the national interest. Taken longer than many of us hoped, but Speaker Mike Johnson is now putting his job on the line to do what is right and he deserves respect for that

#wisewords

Brilliant as usual from Robert Hutton

“'The whole idea that we can protect adults from themselves is hugely problematic' Truss continued. Certainly no one has succeeded with her'

More please

Labour are trying to lump him and Truss as two sides of the same coin (unfairly given he gave the clearest warning in advance of the likely consequences of her policies). He needs to clearly differentiate himself

Some welcome good news both for the Government and all of us

But will the Bank of England start cutting rates before the Fed?

If I were a Conservative candidate in May's council elections, or indeed the General Election later this year, the very last thing I would want is days of headlines of Liz Truss blaming everyone else for her own mistakes. She is the gift that keeps on giving to Labour

A lack of defensive cover, particularly given Stones and Walker apart we're not blessed at the back?

I get that people find it hard to not pick one of Foden, Palmer or Saka, but the result is playing Bellingham in a less advanced position than he plays for Madrid?

There's a more fundamental error here: there's *nothing* Conservative about cutting taxes without also cutting spending when you already have a large deficit (and there's nothing Conservative about undermining institutions that would otherwise restrain you either)

You have to admire the optimism of the British people yougov.co.uk/topics/society…

For regular followers of this account, an attempt to replicate last summer's Tuscany photo Jim Pickard 🐋

As readouts of calls with leaders of friendly countries go, this is quite something. The Netanyahu Government's conduct of the war in Gaza is doing serious damage to Israel's relationships even with its closest friends

I am sucker for anything map related. This is great

Widely acknowledged that United are having a bad season; under acknowledged that they are much higher in the league than they deserve to be. They keep getting points from games where they were completely outplayed