Ian Garrow

It should not be controversial to teach teenagers that: - Migration has positives and negatives for both the receiving country and source country - Greta Thunberg is an iconic political figure - Amnesty International is a leading campaigner against modern slavery But here we are!🤷‍♀️

“Prime ministerial patronage should be curtailed; minimum expectations for attendance and participation introduced; transparency over financial affairs should be increased; and outside employment more tightly regulated where it creates conflicts of interest.” Sounds rational…

I thought that the US, reportedly somewhat litigious, would have laws that could be used in this sort of case Would I be wrong ? @dankaszeta.bsky.social ?

Well, he’s right in the sense there’d be economic growth - 0.05% according to UK govt’s impact assessment. Not much Same assessment also said the cost-benefit analysis, accounting for pollution, health impacts of noise etc would be negative by tens of billions of ££ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think that Ms. Abdi-Wali seems to have worked hard, that the UK has demonstrated its capacity for integration, that her story is examplary for how migrants can work to improve British society. THIS is the dream. Thanks to Mr. Goodwin for highlighting this positive migration story.

“60% of the answers I give are true.”

Thanks again, to @monkemma.bsky.social: "You have to ask why the Guido Fawkes headline, the City AM headline and Matt Goodwin wanted you to focus on condoms for Pakistani men rather than the family planning and maternal health services for the rural women" monkdebunks.substack.com/p/no-we-dont...

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TIL about the Evil May Day riot May 1 1517 Preacher “Dr Bell" made an inflammatory xenophobic speech about foreigners taking English jobs & food on Easter Tuesday at the instigation of broker John Lincoln. 2 wks on: anti-Migrant riot Under-sheriff of London Thomas Moore was sent to calm the rioters

Perhaps she should have worn a balaclava…

Wouldn’t it be great if politicians such as Badenoch had Special Advisers who pointed out this stuff to them, instead of them making fools of themselves with falsehoods?

I really need a job, if anybody knows of somewhere looking to hire a good writer with connections in scientific academia and a few random folks in government please lemme know

How puerile and petty

Who on earth stands behind a lectern to talk to Primary school kids? @dankaszeta.bsky.social #Notapodium

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

Our cover leader argues that Islamists and the populist right feed off each other. That is the real danger facing Europe bit.ly/3SDI1nC Illustration: Peter Dench

When I lived in the UK none of my concerns e.g. affordable housing, climate action, increases in welfare spending, scrapping tuition fees, an ethical foreign policy, were ever framed as legitimate concerns. lnstead I was routinely told to fuck off by most political parties for having such concerns.

For comparison www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

This is irrelevant misinformation aka twaddle

The Falklands have been British longer than California has been American.

Does she think Free Trade means nobody pays for anything?

Maybe the Kennedy Center should be renamed the Dolly Parton Center.

Does he realise that Canada is also in America?

Let’s have more overriding control by local Mayors!

Love “the man is not here to fuck spiders.”

“Unfit for purpose” I recall

Fed up with people shirking responsibility by arguing that the UK causes just 1% of emissions? Here are two fantastic analogies from a primary school teacher, Mark in Coventry, who called Sheila Fogerty on @lbc.co.uk - one involving dog poo 😆 Other arguments here: www.nebriefing.org/mp-dialogue

Larry the cat owns Zia Yusuf:

So, excuse me if I miss one but he’s pissed off: Canada Greenland Denmark UK Oman S Korea NATO Europe generally Haiti Venezuela Somalia Did I miss anyone?

You cannot scratch your ear with your elbow.

Do you want to hazard a guess at what this “jaw-dropping” list of freebies included? What luxuries asylum seekers might be being given “for free” in Thetford? Xboxes? Plasma TVs? iPhones? Ferraris? Let's take a look👀 🧵 1/22

Italian researchers found that semi-transparent solar panels over olive groves increased olive yields by 12%, reduced water evaporation by 19%, generated clean electricity, and even improved olive oil quality. 🌿⚡🫒 #Agrivoltaics #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability #ClimateSolutions

Hi, I'm being made redundant by the University of Southampton at the end of this month. I'm desperately looking for work. I'll consider all offers but have particular skills in policy, strategy and research. I also have a consultancy service I offer. Please let me know if you hear of anything

14/14 This is why a slogan like "put the Navy in the Channel" is just silly and dangerous. It's political messaging, not maritime planning. It begins with the assumption that the difficult part is finding the boats. From a seafarer's perspective, the difficult part begins after you've found one.

Yeah, embrace it…without the extreme weather events, wildfires, water shortages, refugees fleeing climate catastrophe in their own countries… just the sunny weather, eh Alistair?

I know it's not news Kemi Badenoch is not across the detail, but this is an absolute shocker. She says the UK's net zero plans are 'perversely increasing carbon emissions'. In 2019 when net zero targets were adopted emissions were 45% below 1990 levels. Last year they were 54% below 1990 levels.

Today is good reminder that the UK Prime Minister is appointed by the King based on a parliamentary majority, but is not elected by Parliament. This is different to most continental European systems, where the appointed PM needs to face a vote in Parliament first.

Is this the first instance of “Antiwoke”?

In 2001, Walter Cronkite appeared on the David Letterman show and shared his thoughts.

All those “illegals” taking our jobs and benefits, hanging around on street corners and now stealing the water from true British patriots!🤯

Polluter pays, you say?

Americans: take the "s" off the end of "Legos" and pop it on the end of "Math" would you. That'd be smashing. Thanks.

So the same people who didn’t have a problem in 2019 with election literature in Chinese now want to outlaw election literature in Irish, Gaelic, and Cornish?

And the rest of the revelations are great, too

How sad that the media have to point out that he’s “white and British”, although there will still be those who doubt his “whiteness” or his citizenship. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...