His 'best week' involved once again threatening to deport people to an unsafe country; scaring 4 million people on disability benefit on the basis of a misunderstanding; and making an unfunded £20 billion spending pledge.

And didn't even have an impact on the polls.

The Banter Heuristic hears the call and awakes in the cavern deep under the British countryside where it has been sleeping these several years. It stretches, picks up its sword, rouses its pure white horse and rides forth to do battle. Its country needs it again.

😅😂🤣😂😅

An increasingly mercantilist reshoring US will find it increasingly difficult to secure European cooperation on its high-fence policy vs 🇨🇳. Note: I support the high-fence policy. But a trade dependent Europe can ill afford to be crowded out of both the US and Chinese markets

An in-depth attempt to explain nearly five years of levelling up funds: what they are, why they are, and why people have been so unhappy with them

With ⁦Amy Borrett⁩ and ⁦Anna Gross⁩

(The first in a 4-part series about levelling up)
on.ft.com/3Ux0AYE

Rather than getting a grip of who is here, quickly establishing if they have a solid claim for asylum (the bar for Moroccans should be pretty high) and if not deporting them, the government has wasted years on fake non-solutions like Rwanda twitter.com/rakibehsan/sta…

You know another traditional European value along with environmental stewardship? Oppressive imperialism.

And as the EU imposes ever tougher green trading requirements on former colonies it might do well to remember it. My Trade Secrets today:

on.ft.com/3U8II4S

Ignore the negativity, Britain’s future is scintillatingly bright with kids like this. bbc.com/news/uk-englan…

'After more than three years in office, patience with Tai has worn thin.' hinrichfoundation.com/research/artic…

This is a sitcom premise

I see that Big Freedom and the anti-slavery industry continue to exert their iron grip over EU trade policy.

Really excellent piece on the almost total absence of English nationalism, from noted Yorkshire separatist Duncan Robinson.

BCE/CE is just as Christonormative as BC/AD; It's just less honest about it.

My Trade Secrets today. The Biden admin has sent out heavy-hitter John Podesta to reset its flailing policy on climate and trade.

He's making the right noises, but the US can't lead a global green trade coalition until it brings in a domestic carbon tax.

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Sharp lad. Nothing escapes him.

So Liz Truss' publishers are now having to re-edit her book because she included a fabricated quote peddled by antisemitic conspiracy theorists

Britain will become the hi-viz capital of the world under a Starmer government.

“If you want a glimpse of the future, imagine Liz Truss’s book stamping on a human face - forever.”

- George Orwell (more or less)