To preserve the editorial independence of the BBC, our beloved national public service broadcaster, ban all BBC current affairs journalists from reading privately-owned newspapers.

'If you're under 25 your brain isn't fully developed, so you can't be trusted to make informed decisions'

I'm seeing this a LOT lately, especially today. And it's utter guff, based on hearsay, misunderstandings of neuroscience, or wilful ignorance.

Why? I'll tell you why

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Hitler felt Germans had failed in their historical 'mission', he and other senior Nazis fought on long after the war was clearly lost - with the cost at that point disproportionately borne by German women and children - they literally preferred to burn everything to the ground

people going ‘wahhhh old news’: boring

breaking out the SHAGGER PRIME MINISTERS TIER LIST: ROARING

Tom James Under a suitable arrangement with the Republic, dam both ends of the Irish Sea and create a gigantic reservoir to take full advantage of our rain

Institute a Land Value Tax based on 100% of the rental yield of the unimproved value of the land, to be determined by periodically demolishing houses at random and selling off the land at auction.

William Wragg's photo shoot for the Times, with his wifi password on full display.

Half of labour's factional issues would be solved if past affiliation with student politics was seen as a sin you have to atone for

Who would you trust more to tell a pollster the question they've just asked is fucking stupid, Keir Starmer or Rishi Sunak?

TLDR of the Cass Review:

'we disregarded nearly all studies because they weren't double blinded controlled studies. We also stopped reviewing newer studies released in the last two years. As a result, we were left with very little evidence.'

This is an impossible standard.

I don't think she should be doing this whilst talking to the PM. Almost as disrespectful as referring to your other half with a definite article.

Some of the faces here look familiar. Is this just Green New Deal Rising reborn in a new guise? Certainly fits with the unwillingness to take yes for an answer.

This is fairly clearly the sum for making sure that the Tories have to do undeniably mad things to mess up Labour's spending envelope.

Tory hack predicts outcome that would make the Tory party happy, based off not much except vibes.

I’m in Baltimore - County Cork, not Maryland - to start another Turtle Travels adventure. This is a lovely village set amongst a stunning and complex sound and archipelago. It’s a jumping off point for ferries to numerous little islands. But it has something else too… #ireland24

So here in my home town of Whittlesey, the town council decides to allow its Facebook page to host an interview by Steve Barclay of a Conservatives candidate in a local by election. Strewth the bloody arrogance of it. Doesn't anyone understand electoral law any more?

I think we can safely say that Von Moltke wouldn't have let either of them near divisional command.

Second crankiest candidate to have stood for election in Aberdeenshire this century.

I know that it gives Curtice physical pain to say that Labour is doing well, but nevertheless when a party goes from <30% of the vote to >40% it has demonstrably won votes. Why is a secondary question.

Billy Howarth, an 'anti-grooming' campaigner who's been involved with numerous far right conspiracy theory groups, including 'Patriots of Britain' events at Honor Oak, London, is standing as a Rochdale council candidate for George Galloway's 'Workers Party'. Howarth is...