It's only a '£75 billion increase' over 6 years if you assume that spending would otherwise have been frozen in cash terms for 6 years - i.e. only if the government was, until today, planning to breach its NATO commitments. This is such an unhelpful way to present the figures.

Now hang on a moment. Market forces aren't meant to be two-way, are they? I don't know where I live now.

There are now real fears, even on his own side, that if Trump wins this time, he will set about establishing an autocracy. But what exactly is the Trump camp proposing to do? And what steps are his opponents taking to stop them?
✍️ Phil Tinline

prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united-s…

Ben and Phil Tinline in conversation here ipsos.com/en-nl/conversa… 🎧

Reading this tweet listening to repetitive beats.

Phil Tinline It's a great book!

Very chuffed to see my book cited today by Nick Timothy Breaking from an old consensus is neither something you can simply will, nor something that just happens. It means both reading and leading the public.

'We are no longer in an age of accommodation and agreement, but an age of hard choices.'

Nick Timothy channelling Phil Tinline - well worth a read telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/2…

In support of Phil Tinline “ Death of Consensus” - great book

Why don't we just wait and see.

Did my friend Bernard Hughes enjoy Everything Must Go by the excellent Dorian Lynskey? I believe he did:

theartsdesk.com/books/dorian-l…

Was no one else available?

A great book.

Great to see this. Looking forward to getting stuck in.

And very struck by the title. The feeling that all the exits are blocked - that every option is unthinkable - was also very strong in the later 1930s, & in the mid-1970s. Finally, something unthinkable becomes unavoidable.

Okay I'm in the window at Foyles, this is a new experience, this is incredible, and if nobody buys this book I will have literally no one but myself to blame

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.Shayan Sardarizadeh about the work of and in BBC Verify. And how news consumption has changed. He stresses that it is vital to monitor what is disseminated on social networks and also use it to get the news out on these channels. To audiences there.
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But we are going to support the introduction of new pointless rules that make it harder for you to have your say, and easier to miss that opportunity.

We won't conduct proper research into the consequences.

Clips, titles and some of the best idents in broadcasting - a little mash-up I've done for tonight's Newsnight to celebrate BBC2's diamond anniversary. It's been a treat seeing my work on this channel, my broadcasting home for many years. Very sad I'll soon be leaving it.