Got my hands on a copy of the borders book by ⁦jonn elledge⁩ - every bookshelf should have a copy, and a gap next to it for when ‘Borderlines’ is available in the wild… congrats to Jonn on his achievement.

Exclusive: Tories received legal advice that Mark Menzies's alleged misuse of campaign funds amounted to fraud but decided they weren't obliged to tell the police because it was donors' rather than party money, whistleblower claims. thetimes.co.uk/article/mark-m…

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Boris Johnson skips the rules and doesn't want to be transparent about it latest ...

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Techne’s polling has been incredibly stable for months.

It’ll be the DWP and their well-paid contractors whose competence and compassion make them so loved by disabled people and anyone else who has dealings with them.

And Truss has the gall to pose as someone of intellectual rigour: people said something online so it must be true. This ‘defence’ compounds the original sloppy research and tolerance of an anti-Semitic trope.

This presentational trick kind of worked for Kenneth Baker in May 1990 (it’s one of the oldest in the book) but it didn’t avert the events of November 1990.

Open intimidation of the jury.

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More West Midlands polling, which is good. A different result from the other one (Lab +14) but the mayoral poll is a tricky one to get right partly because of variable turnout across the region.

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Was very interested in this aspect of the story which reminded me of this from August 2022: twitter.com/CatNeilan/stat…

I can still only see one MP who has registered ££ received by a community fund but would be interested to know of any other examples or information on the topic.

There's a lot going on in the Times story about Mark Menzies. One of the less eyecatching but more systemic issues is the existence of these locally-held slush funds, which seem to defeat the point of regulating political finance as well as being a standing temptation for misuse.

What did the good people of the Fylde Coast, including me, do to deserve this lot?

This Tory mp getting repeatedly blackmailed, paying his blackmailers out of his secretary’s ISA, getting dogs drunk and causing a ruckus at a Katherine Jenkins concert is tbh not wildly abnormal for a backbencher right now

In case anyone has fallen for the Truss version, an international relations expert writes.