Two years into #Brexit disaster , the UK still has no customs regime in place for EU food imports. Gvt daren’t introduce necessary health controls because food inflation already so high. Another fine #Brexit mess. No wonder so much voter regret. #LibDems #NFU #Farmers

Recent Data from the #UN  showed Britain endured the worst exports record of any member of the #G7 besides Japan over the last decade.  A consequence of  #Brexit disaster  which no amount of Far Eastern trade deals can overcome. #LibDems #Brexit

The Telegraph:

Britain is a poorer nation.

Economic decline is coming.

We should celebrate with Brexit has already achieved.

A lot of truths in this, even if I think we are acting like Sid James in Carry On Up the Khyber in the scene where the embassy is under siege. nytimes.com/2023/07/21/opi…

'Brexit to blame' as yet another UK bike distributor closes cyclingweekly.com/products/brexi…

This has serious implications for school leaders and education depts. How many will just ignore it? forbes.com/sites/maryroel…

Study finds that COVID-19 infection is more likely to cause blood clots than the vaccines. buffalo.edu/news/releases/…

Just for clarity the 0.08% benefit of the pacific trade deal does not off set the 4% loss of GDP from Brexit it is already in the calculations. Without this deal the damage would be 4.08%, now it is 4%, as expected.

In case you were on a different planet and missed the big news, we have now had 11 days in a row setting new all-time modern global temperature records, peaking at 17.233°C on July 6, quite possibly the hottest 11 days globally in the last 100,000+ years.

washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/0…

None in the MSM comment enough on why UK continues to run scared (4 times postponed) of getting its Brexit fully 'done'
but instead continues to subject its citizens to an ever expanding smugglers' utopia.
(plus favouring EU's exporters over its own & the breaking of WTO rules)

Either the initial inspection was flawed, which highlights how subjective and irrelevant inspections are, or they have intentionally changed the grading, which highlights how subjective and irrelevant inspections are. Either way, abolish OFSTED now!! bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Liz Truss said her recent visit to Taiwan was necessary in order to 'show solidarity in person with the Taiwanese people.'

What she didn't add was that she was being paid £80,000 by a think tank to go there.

Some welcome clarity from the FT's energy editor:

Going to college in the US is expensive, but, according to The Economist (April 8th) as far as public universities are concerned, England is worse:

Going to write something proper about this later but the numbers are awful.

24,000 school buildings that are past their design life.

24,000.

“I know of no other example where the prime minister has overruled intelligence advice.”

Channel 4 Dispatches uncovers how Boris Johnson chose to ignore security advice and make the son of an ex-Russian spy with alleged links to the Kremlin a member of the House of Lords.

Great article. We might usefully take Peter Pomerantsev's advice here in the UK, Keir Starmer Ed Davey theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This compilation of what Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has said about independent pay review bodies will cause anger & outrage amongst teachers across the country

UK news shows need to step up & expose this latest outrageous Government CON against our public sector workers

Now the River Aire in Leeds.

Which river’s next?

E.coli detected at Blackpool beaches.

There's simply nothing more to say.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…