#BrExit

1 The passing away of Justice Ginsburg #RBG and the prospect of decades of an alt-right domination of #SCOTUS under the mantle of 'the rule of law' will shed light
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A thread. Here are some things about me:I’m over 50, white and I own a house in a rural area of Wales. I don’t have kids, I’ve been variously vegan
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Mehdi Hasan is an interesting case study. He went from 10 years supporting Wikileaks and appearing with Assange at events to denouncing him to ignoring his show trial. That and
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.@KathPinnock:“We tried 5 times in Fire Safety Bill to persuade Govt to prevent any of the major costs of remediation being charged to leaseholders. Each time Tory MPs voted in
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UK and Scottish govs have been doing a decent job. No gov has faced anything like this before and while we must ask tough questions, we need patience with mistakes,
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This video from @mrjamesob made Dominic Raab, the man sitting in place of our Prime Minister, so angry that he went round blocking all of us that shared it &
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Michael Gove thought it was so important to protect the upper class from Covid restrictions, writes @paulwaugh "he scheduled a meeting on Saturday with one item on the agenda for
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Racist, sexist, homophobic views aren’t a biological trait. Like an ex-smoker, I’m kind of pushy about it because I used to be that. I went to private school, same one
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New Thread: Over the last few days the father, since reunited with Idiot Son (he may or may not be happy about that) has been pursuing a tactic of trying
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Just woke at stupid oclock again I had a nagging thought that I had missed something in Rishi Sunaks press conference last night that was vitally important. When I woke
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All of the vitriol directed at @libdems over Canterbury is, I believe, rather misplaced and typical of the oversimplification of politics that got us in this mess in the first
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Honestly about to chuck this book in the bin. Its impossible to write just now for a start. Then theres the not insignificant issue that every time I make some
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I get the feeling some people still just don't / won't believe the adverse impact of the UK Internal Market Act 2020 upon devolution in Scotland and Wales. [Norn Iron
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This is appalling. By breaking our international aid commitment, @BorisJohnson is doing irreparable damage to the UK's reputation and reneging on our duty to the world's poorest and most vulnerable.The
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'No True Scotsman' really is a fallacy that runs through a lot of Scottish political analysis just now. The 700k who vote Tory, the million who voted for Brexit, they
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Forgive me for being weirdly delighted if horrified by this picture that's been making the rounds, since it is essentially the ending of my 2014 novel, A MAN LIES DREAMING
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