Matthew Hamlyn

Help, My British right, she very sick

UKRAINE HAS DRIVEN 12km INTO RUSSIAN LINES AMD REGAINED 400KM IN THE SOUTH EAST

The ISW has finally confirmed its assessment that Ukraine - which has seemingly stopped its advance for now, presumably to consolidate its gains, retook 400kmsq and penetrated 12km
into Russian held territory on the

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Hereditary Peers Bill passes in House of Lords, paving the way for further reform The Hereditary Peers Bill has passed in the House of Lords in one of the biggest reforms to Parliament and UK democracy in a generation.

Bill removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords finally passes www.gov.uk/government/n...

A cat waiting for his order in Istanbul 😂

Ed Miliband, famously closing coal mines as a 14-year-old minister in Thatcher's government during the miners' strike

Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?

Very fond of Ghent. Will be able to compare it with Antwerp when we visit next month.

The cursed percentages again

he's right and he should say it and also the fucking audacity of the *Tories* complaining about cost as if it wouldn't have been a tenth of the price if they'd done something about it back when they first took power

Órban’s crazy and wicked.

What might the EU do?

Sects on the Brain A post-Gorton narrative which is dramatic, seductive, and wrong

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Is British politics becoming riven with sectarianism? Are we the next Lebanon? Does dodgy bloc voting dominate our elections?

Many are saying "yes" after Gorton & Denton. But it doesn't reflect any of the evidence.

www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/sects-on-t...

Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.

One for @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com ?

"Our work here is done"

Ukraine is actually retaking territory this month. Very small amounts but psychologically important that Russia is now the one retreating.

I know I’m a broken record, but the sharia thing is a lie. There are religious arbitrations, to be sure, but those are agreed to. And if you don’t want those to exist, a lot of Jewish dispute resolution disappears too.

News: Paavo Järvi appointed as new Chief Conductor & Artistic Advisor of the @LPOrchestra

This seems normal. 'The Iran war is part of God’s plan and Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth".'

A reminder: Matt Goodwin lost heavily in spite of an almost total lack of tactical voting, not because of it.

The combined Green/Labour vote was 66%, versus 28.7% for Reform.

If Labour and the Greens split the vote 50/50 – a total coordination fail – he'd have finished third, not second.

Major General WHO?

Exclusive | Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions The Justice Dept. plans to abandon its defense of the president’s executive orders that targeted Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.

Breaking WSJ:

The Trump admin plans to abandon its defense of Trump's executive orders sanctioning several law firms.

DOJ — as soon as today — is expected to drop its appeals of four rulings that struck down Trump's actions against Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.

The Representation of the People Bill: contours of the debates to come The government’s long-awaited proposals for electoral reforms, published last month, will receive their first scrutiny in the House of Commons next Monday. Ahead of that debate, Alan Renwick analys…

*Representation of the People Bill update*

Steve Reed has just announced: 'We will repeal in full the power for government to impose a strategy and policy statement on the Electoral Commission'.

A very welcome change. I set out last week why it was needed.

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Usefully clear explanation here

I was absolutely sure this must be a spoof. But it isn’t

Monktastic

Thanks!

Interesting but I thought the London mayoral election was now FPTP?

'To Calais in Ordinary Time' by James Meek is brilliant