Should be much more of this debated in the campaign - easily the most transformative (and potentially damaging) pledges in Labour’s manifesto 👇

🥱 Apathy. No momentum. Low turnout. A general sense of disengagement. Little movement in the polls. This listless campaign echoes 2001, even though the stakes are much higher.

Latest i newspaper column on the problems being stored up by this odd election
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Opinion | This boring election campaign hides dark clouds for Labour

🖋 Sebastian Payne trib.al/6QZNN7D

Liam Gallagher outstanding this evening performing Definitely Maybe, biblical you might say. Having seen Oasis in about four combinations solo and together, this was by far the most electric and energetic.

These people aren’t patriots. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Ashamed of my alma mater for its pusillanimous decision to shut down a The Durham Union debate on Israel-Palestine conflict.

The Durham Union has been a crucible of free speech for nearly 200 years and the university shouldn’t have given way to intimidation telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/0…

🗳️ Nigel Farage is likely heading to the House of Commons in a month's time - and it's going to pose some a big question for the Conservative Party. Whether he should be allowed in or not may be the debate of the summer.

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🍰 This week on the Onward cake trolley: blueberry cheesecake from Bon Bouche.

A surprise return for a cake trolley classic, in more potent form. Excellent texture and strong topping.

Team Onward rating: 8.4/10.

Unimpressive leader from The Economist last week.

Poor understanding of the evidence around pro-parent policies & lots of speculation. 1/7

Today's announcement on apprenticeships and HE is sensible - there are too few apprenticeship opportunities, particularly for young people, and too many low-value degrees which are unjust for students and costly to the taxpayer [1/4] bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

🫡 We proposed an opt-out civic 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 to develop young people's skills, mental resilience and national pride.

💥 Three times as many young people support the idea than oppose it.

Sebastian Payne | BBC News (UK)

Britain needs to make and do more of what the world wants to buy.

That partly means reindustrialisation - backing advanced manufacturing in areas like life sciences, chemicals and aerospace.

Great piece by Gavin Rice 🇬🇧

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