I won't repost that Conservatives ad, but if you accuse your opponents of having 'seized power', use misleading footage & lie about 'squads of enforcers ... terrorising communities', you don't get to brag about upholding democracy against 'extremists' trying to 'tear us apart'.

Once again, party funding discourse is mired in a petulant debate about whether £xm should be given back and not about whether it’s entirely contrary to democracy that wealthy elites can silently influence policy by making huge donations.

In the Netherlands, where the Dutch invest in safe cycling infrastructure, the over-65s cycle around a quarter of their journeys, and the over-80s cycle around 10% of trips.

These people aren’t ‘cycle freaks’, Charlotte.

Cycle lanes don't 'restrict freedom', they expand it.

Before Johnson gives his evidence we should consider a few things:

1. Just how bad was the UK pandemic response?
2. How much could Johnson have affected this?
3. What was Johnson’s intent?
4. Was there any overt maleficence?

Thread 1/n (buckle-up!)

So … our ‘pro-growth PM’ literally, genuinely doesn’t know the difference between GDP and growth.
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Oh good, another day of lobby journos breathlessly repeating gossip like it's the Yr 10 Girls Loos. We can't put our heating on, lads.

'We are all somehow expected to sacrifice hours of day to do thankless, unpaid work pushing back against illiberal narratives spread relentlessly by people for whom spreading those narratives is a full-time salaried job.'

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So his final line is 'Is it time for a change, and we are it.'
Er.... #CPC23

Sunak just doesn't come across as a particularly pleasant man, does he? Odd, because he probably is - it's tone, or something. #cfc23

There is a reason why every economist who’s ever taught the subject uses environmental damage as the classic example of market failure (from the tragedy of the commons onwards). Much as it drives the right crazy, capitalism *won’t* save the world (alone).
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Come on Metropolitan Police, I know you excel at brutalising defenceless women at vigils, but even you can solve this crime, surely?

Doomscrolling really is doomscrolling when a fascist state led by a psychopath has mined Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant

Is it worth (repeatedly) clicking on 'Not interested in this ad'? Or am I actually doing a bad thing somehow by doing that?

Well, it’s been an interesting couple of days. Happy that this ridiculously out of proportion story seems to be abating and very much looking forward to presenting Match of the Day on Saturday. Thanks again for all your incredible support. It’s been overwhelming.

Will some variant of this be next week's Spectator cover, Fraser Nelson? twitter.com/ItsNotMeAdam/s…

Oh. Sunak is going to carry on with the North London jibes. Great.

Love that nowhere in any of the discussion about our prospective PMs is what any of one of them might do

Anyway. Can we write her off yet? twitter.com/christopherhop…

'The Prime Minister is not under her desk'. Good to hear, thanks Penny #Mordaunt