Hadn’t, in truth, really absorbed the scale of what the Conservatives are proposing on ILR and immigration more broadly until this week’s Sunday Times interviews. Some thoughts on that in today’s note: [Tory deportation plan would up...](
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Terrific weekend essay by @henrymance.bsky.social [How polarised is Britain?](
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Being ill the right way = ordering a curry and watching “Xena: Warrior Princess”.
Today’s newsletter: on the GK Chesterton rule of regulation and why government needs to provide digital ID not outsource it to third parties: [Online safety demands trust — ...](
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There's a lot of 'the spendthrift PLP versus the Iron Downing Street' about, which ignores that the PLP accepted a deferment of scrapping the two child limit and voted to means-test winter fuel.
👇 genuinely don’t understand why people are unable to comprehend “don’t get AI to do something for you if you can’t understand whether it has produced the wrong answer”. RE:
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The word 'enshittification' really has become a thing people say, patronisingly, to things that a) describe literally none of the conditions of the article and b) would not explain the problem if it did. https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:xbnsfdtxoothg654ujxe3p25&cid=bafkreih3bolhtosd447qqompnfssp733uye6shg6yefyz3fxteyypwviai
Fascinated by how inept the Tory party's 'we are celebrating five years of Brexit' is. Fronted by their most unpopular frontbencher. Suggests the EU-UK security pact is bad. Has a typo in the press release. https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:xbnsfdtxoothg654ujxe3p25&cid=bafkreiapor2g3cc6tsfhi5g6f3eycbvoirmfqmbpjp22olz7puu42xrgcy
Sunday 19 January: I always knew I was a 'fairweather fan', but today I discovered exactly what point on the thermostat I become a 'I'm not schlepping out to watch Arsenal in THAT' fairweather fan. (In my defence, I also am getting a cold.)
Unless I’m missing something, Badenoch has tweeted herself into a situation where she is either spreading falsehoods about Reform (i.e. Farage may have a case for libel) or she is saying “CCHQ or someone connected to me broke the law”: [Farage and Badenoch trade clai...](
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