Who is ready for Owen Jones/@Guardian to be forced into a humiliating retraction over his latest piece? One that exposes how lazy he is as a 'journalist', who is so committed to his own ideological bubble that he has published an egregious error.
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This is impressive.
The largest crowd ever in #Georgia is taking to the street to claim that freedom and the path to Europe are not negotiable.
Russia must have no say about Georgia's future. They must go.
Same fight in Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, Syria: Moscow must be defeated.

As usual Joxley is right. And with the growing number of think-tankers hoping to find a nice safe Tory seat, can we trust them to speak truth unto power?

Our party needs an honest debate about these 14 years, not ex-leaders polishing their records
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Would be fun if Britain had a PM from Northern Ireland (or even from the Republic) and they revived the Order of St Patrick with them as the sole member.

My new column ConservativeHome questions how having five PMs trying to retconn their legacies could hamper the party's attempts to honestly rebuild.

Henry Viii, as written by Shakespeare, winking to the audience:

We are going to end up abolishing VAT by virtue of a thousand exemption campaigns.

This is a bit out of date, but really, Britain should really have many more empty homes.

Never stop hustling:

Thinking of how the Spanish saw bouncy balls for the first time in Central America and had no idea wtf was going on.

I'd have gone for 'Man of Letters'.

New: How London can boost growth, cut rents and
cut emissions by making it easier to build in the right places.

London's housing shortage is brutal, but lessons from New Zealand and Texas show it's a solvable problem.

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Who are you meant to vote for if you actually do support road pricing?

Another bit of Britain's 'rules only apply to those honest enough to try to follow them' anarcho-tyranny

This is a key replies to one of the common critiques of yimbies. The slower, more expensive, and more uncertain you make planning, the more it favours big developers with best access to capital.