Dawn French. Beautifully put.

Why is it in the country's interest to grant student visas for courses like 'digital marketing', allowing the student to bring dependents with them?

Excellent thread 👇

Brexit has been a wonderful success

Beyond parody

Alistair Haimes It could be a fun recreation of collective madness that befell us. Fancy dress with best masks, bring your pots and pans to bang like a lunatic. We could mark roads with little arrows, employ Covid Marshalls to look through letterboxes. And finish with a great big zoom quiz.

Remember the Scotch eggs, the Rule of Six, and the illegality of hiking miles from anybody.

In a plot twist nobody saw coming, very religious people turn out to be bloodthirsty irrational actors.

This will/ would make for terrible government, as super-majorities always do.

Hopefully people will grow out of the Reform sixth-formers and ranters, when in the ballot box with a chance to minimise the damage Labour will undoubtedly do.

Sunlit uplands; no downsides, only upsides - because we hold all the cards

Farcical drafting. The lawyers should be ashamed.

It also means that instinctive Conservatives will have less reason to vote Tory

Levelling down

Is arguing for the immutability of biological sex actually transphobic?

I read the thread this tweet responds to and can't see that it argues for anything else, but for the obvious point that women need protection from predators who will game the system.

And the bishops, surely?

The two health systems no country has ever copied are the British and the American. Quite right too. The US spends more of its GDP on health than any other country yet millions are still not covered. The UK system is “cheaper” and covers everybody. But its health outcomes are…

I will forgive Elon Musk everything for inventing community notes.

Final Words ✨

“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for…

I'm an instinctive Conservative, but the Tories do deserve a period out of power for pushing the Brexit nonsense

Just to remind. If it's not actually a centered red cross on a white background then it's not, in fact, the Cross of St George. Could still be quite lovely, but it ain't ours.