Russia: Elderly woman in downtown Moscow bravely called for an uprising against Putin in the aftermath of the Kremlin's murder of Alexei Navalny and mass arrests of mourners throughout the nation.

I really enjoyed it yesterday - out on the #LabourDoorstep with my comrade Sherry Holling we certainly do make a great team! Team Wakinson & Holling! I’ve got the feeling we’re going to win 🥇 the Rockingham seat on 2nd May 2024! Would you honestly bet against us???

Sherry

Abdul Shokoor Ezedi, failed asylum seeker and suspected sex offender, launches acid attack in Clapham, London.
Ahmed Hassan, asylum seeker attempts to blow up tube train in London.
Salman Abedi, asylum seeker from Libya, murders 22 people, including teenage girls, in Manchester.

Good morning everyone! I’m hoping to gather as much support for Ukraine on Twitter as possible. Please don’t forget to follow and share. Let’s resist russia’s army of bots.

#architects I’m looking for outstanding recent UK home renovation projects for a magazine feature. No homeowner interview required, just pix, costs, location. Pls DM or send to [email protected] thank you #journorequest

'Demoralised ex-Tory voters and animated anti-Tory ones could mean a #Starmer landslide, despite him. But the by-elections are a warning to him too. Brexit ended the old certainties, bringing huge volatility. Voters can't be taken for granted. Parties plunge as fast as they soar'

Oh.

Sucks to be you Ireland.

'The Irish Government is strongly resisting a European Commission bid to seek a slice of Ireland's corporate sector profits as a way to replenish the EU budget, RTÉ News has learned'

rte.ie/news/europe/20…

UK: Economy:

We've read time and again from economic commentators/economists that EU FoM did not adversely affect wages at the lower end of the spectrum to any great extent.

This article contradicts that.

David Smith
Andrew Green

Apologies for spoiling the morning for so many on Twitter. BUT:
UK economy is now bigger than before the Covid-19 crisis. Indeed UK growth higher than Germany and France, new revisions to official data reveal.
GDP 1.8% per cent larger than final months of 2019 (ONS). Britain’s

I thought we Brexiteers were supposed to be the elderly ones.

Matt.

Many of the same economists who claimed EU free movement did not depress wages are now saying the absence of EU free movement is causing inflationary wage pressure.

Looks like the port operators and French between them have fixed last week's glitches at #Dover ... 👍

Ps. would be even more efficient if there was one desk for EU passports and *two* for others, given the longer processing time, but I guess that would be too helpful!

Met office declares wettest March in 40 years. We will have 2 weeks of sunshine in May and water companies will tell us to watch our water usage. Another 2 weeks in June and it will be a hosepipe ban. Yet water companies profits will soar again this year.

This is the French being told to work until 64.

Starmer at PMQs attacking the government over the attempted ‘cancellation’ of Gary Lineker. When he starts speaking up for JK Rowling and the Batley schoolteacher, I’ll perhaps start giving a damn.

I’ve written this week’s long-read on the defining free-speech battle of our time — and no, it’s not Lineker. The Wakefield blasphemy scandal was decades in the making. Liberal cowardice has inflamed Islamic intolerance. Here’s the story of how we got here spiked-online.com/2023/03/12/the…

To compare every attempt to deal with the problem of the small boats with what happened in 1930s Germany is just fatuous. The UK remains one of the most tolerant and open nations on Earth. But voters just want to see a properly-managed immigration system. That isn't unreasonable.

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