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“I’m not sure who benefits from treating January as the starting gun on a 365-day sprint and 31 December as the immoveable finish line.”
@sarahmanavis.bsky.social on resisting New Year’s resolutions ⬇️
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It is hard to imagine a better development for Donald Trump than the Colorado ruling. The decision’s very incoherence is proof, for his supporters, of the incomprehensible legal bureaucracy that has plagued their lives, writes Lee Siegel.
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At yesterday’s Liaison Committee session, the Prime Minister’s “tetchiness” was on display.
Rishi Sunak has shown he does not much like having to answer questions when he feels under pressure, writes @rmcunliffe.bsky.social.
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Masha Gessen is the most prominent among a growing list of Jewish women who have been lambasted in Germany for criticising the Israeli government, writes Susan Neiman.
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“The treatment of the victim by HMRC is actually worse than being defrauded.”
Our business editor @willdunn.bsky.social has spoken to people who lost their life savings to scammers, only to be told they owe the taxman even more.
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If you're a multinational company, you might get a deal with HMRC to save a few hundred mil on your tax.
If you're a nurse who's been scammed out of your pension, HMRC will pursue you to the very letter of the law.
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Journalists no longer feel empowered to critique or question the image celebrities want to project, as the Time article on Taylor Swift made explicit, writes @sarahmanavis.bsky.social.
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Keir Starmer’s Labour needs to put clear blue water between its politics and that of the government, writes Adrian Pabst. “Labour’s tendency to embrace identity politics and a self-imposed fiscal straitjacket risks alienating a popular majority.”
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Female Israeli soldiers had warned for months that Hamas was planning something. They weren’t taken seriously. What if the authority gap led to the Middle East crisis?
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Forget multipolarity. A worldwide, bipolar military conflict has begun, writes Robert D Kaplan.“ It will be the organising principle of geopolitics for years to come.”
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The Prime Minister had no need to make the Rwanda plan a defining test of his leadership, writes @lewisgoodall.bsky.social.
“Rishi Sunak’s failure; the Conservative Party’s slow, and then rapid decline; its ideological radicalisation, mirrored across Europe’s centre right – it all matters.”
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The Johnson administration’s defects may be alarming but a bigger problem if we face another pandemic is that too many believe his mistake was following scientific advice, writes @davidgauke.bsky.social.
“It is a belief that may be wrong-headed but should be addressed.”
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Perhaps the most notable thing about Scotland’s place in the latest comparison of international education performance is the lack of surprise. We aren’t doing well. In fact, we’re getting worse, writes Chris Deerin. Under the SNP, pupil performance in maths, science and reading has plummeted.
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Almost any prime minister would be struggling to retain popularity during the biggest fall in living standards since the 1950s.
But what is particularly damning for Rishi Sunak is the shift in recent months, writes @rmcunliffe.bsky.social.
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For too long, this country has been run for the benefit of the Conservative Party rather than the other way around, writes @jonnelledge.bsky.social.
“The voters deserve to take back control.”
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As many diaspora leftists find out, even if they reject Zionism, they are still tied to Israeli society through familial and friendship ties, solidarity with activists there, or by the Palestine/Israel crisis inevitably dragging them into its orbit.
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During the recent rugby World Cup finals in France Wayne Barnes, the English referee, was more abused on social media than any other player or official at the tournament. Now he is lobbying for online culture to change.
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Parenting influencers are now more self-aware, claiming to “respect” their children’s “boundaries”. But this type of content can never be ethical, writes @sarahmanavis.bsky.social.
“This may be a gentler, more ‘transparent’ version of family vlogging – but it’s still exploitation.”
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Amazon workers have protested return-to-office mandates, but the company ignored a 30,000-strong petition and invited those who preferred to work from home to resign. It sounds very much like the company portrayed in Kristi Coulter’s new book, Exit Interview, writes Alice Robb.
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“It used to be that these kids would turn punk. Now, after years of ultra-liberalism, to be conservative is to rebel.” Are Gen Z uniquely socially conservative? There are two dominant and opposing theories about this generation, writes Pravina Rudra.
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The quality of a government should be judged by its policy successes as well as blunders. This is where the picture since 2010 differs most markedly from the previous thirty years, writes Ivor Crewe.
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Yesterday the ST reported that the UK's fiscal "headroom" swung by +£59bn in a few weeks.
It is not real money.
But if it turned into real money in a few years, it would make Rachel Reeves' life easier.
So Hunt is spending it now, just in case:
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To avert political and economic failure, a Starmer government may have to act more radically, writes Lewis Goodall. “It needs not only to restore economic growth and its connection with wages, but to generate enough revenue to rescue Britain’s public services.”
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The Chancellor’s tax cuts are only enabled by painful future spending cuts, writes David Gauke. “Jeremy Hunt’s Prime Minister may be grateful, but his successor as chancellor certainly won’t be.”
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Yes, maybe Patrick Vallance’s colleague sang “The Wheels on the Bus” during a Zoom meeting.
But where he saw “shambles”, anyone who had been in a similar impossible situation – imposed by oblivious ministers and officials – would have seen heroic determination, writes @rmcunliffe.bsky.social.
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Scotland has its own immigration debate. It doesn’t want fewer migrants, it wants more. The challenge is how to get them, writes Chris Deerin. “History tells us that Scotland has rarely held great appeal for those seeking to start a new life.”
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There are obvious drawbacks to allowing terrorist content to flow across the internet unfiltered. There is the danger of such material fuelling highly distorted narratives, such as those expressed in Bin Laden’s letter, writes Shiraz Maher.
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Daredevil economics is nothing more than the undead zombie neoliberalism of the 1990s, writes @zeithistoriker.bsky.social.
“The monstrosity of Javier Milei is not his cartoonish novelty but his deadening familiarity. A new haircut on the same old monsters.”
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I wrote this like a troubled pensioner into my phone on a Basel tram this morning: Milei as a mainstream monster. www.newstatesman.com/world/americ...
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From The Iran Trap by John Jenkins, on why Israel and the West are running out of time.
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As the Tory party has flailed, contorted and rebranded itself around Claire Coutinho, she appears to have sidestepped the drama, going from anonymous backbencher to high-profile cabinet minister within a single parliament.
How? @rmcunliffe.bsky.social explains ⤵️
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There are elements of the Rwanda Supreme Court ruling that could be helpful to Rishi Sunak as he struggles to keep his fractured party together.
@rmcunliffe.bsky.social explains ⬇️
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