I spent nearly 30 years as a policy official in Whitehall, mostly working on genuinely intractable issues.

And yet on asylum policy, when the right policy is obvious - safe and legal routes, and processing in France - the whole political class is united in denial.

Nadhim Zahawi’s SLAPP has now resulted in disciplinary action for his lawyer.

A thread on why it happened, and what it means - for the lawyer, for SLAPPS, and for Zahawi himself.

The Kharkiv Prosecutor’s Office has published a drone video showing the aftermath of today’s Russian attack on our city.
No military targets.
No military goals.
Sheer terrorism.

I think Dominic Cummings - the privately educated, Oxford graduate, married to the daughter of a Baronet and previously the right hand man of a Tory Prime Minister - is the perfect person to lead an anti-establishment party.

Gibraltar voted by over 90% to remain.

Maybe they’re taking their sovereignty back.

From the UK.

🚨🚨 Welcome to sunlit uplands where things are always rosy, cozy and all lovely. Britain's finest hour.......Or the 10 000th example of the everyday miserable #BrexitShambles . 👇👇

Two videos..

One video from Russian side, last night, boasting of how they were launching missiles onto the people of Kharkiv.

Another video from people of Kharkiv, last night, showing results of those missiles.

No military objective. Just genocide.

Every single politician, academic, journalist, peer or other member of “the establishment” who advocated for Brexit should never be listened to again. This was blindingly obvious.

One of the greatest misconceptions of the war, in my view, is that Hamas has taken heavy losses and is somehow on the ropes.

It is not. Hamas has returned to 90 percent of Gaza, mostly because Israel left every place it 'cleared.' The evidence for this is that Israel has gone

💥Back in the day Netanyahu asked Donald Trump to support his request, sent via then-Mossad director Yossi Cohen, to Qatar, to get more money to Hamas. Trump agreed. Billions flowed. Trump was 100% all in. I join David Rothkopf in asking why this isn't more of a public issue.

Nadhim Zahawi got £26m from selling his shares in YouGov, but transferred them to an offshore company so he didn't have to pay any tax.

He hid and blocked investigation for 6 years, before finally he was forced to pay the tax + interest

If it was you, you'd be in jail for Fraud

Jacob Rees-Mogg has almost his entire £300m fortune located in Tax Havens, as does Rishi Sunak with his £730m.

These £150bn a year subsidies are what is killing the UK, not disabled people getting disability benefits.

After starting WW2 together with Hitler in 1939 by invading Poland, Stalin held a military parade on the Red Square in May 1941 with Hitler's Nazis as his guests of honor.

These 4 billionaires who own 80% of UK print Media are being sued by Prince Harry for printing information obtained by phone hacking.

None of them pay tax, none of them live here, none of them contribute anything but hate and lies.

RT if you want them sued into bankruptcy.

Lord Bamford owes £500,000,000 to HMRC he has retired from the House of Lords and fled.

He expects his debt just like Michelle Mone's £232,000,000 debt to be written off.

We must recover every penny from these thieves, and toss them in jail.

Thomas White, an ordinary Briton with mental health issues, has been in prison for twelve years for the theft of a mobile phone.

Nadhim Zahawi, a Tory Chancellor who dodged £3.7 million in taxes, is allowed to slip off quietly into the night, without spending a day behind bars.

What a shitshole country England has become due to the far rights Brexit.
England’s rivers to remain in poor state as EU laws ignored post-Brexit, says watchdog | Rivers | The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/ar…

It’s not only the Islamist repression but also the fact that religious Muslim rulers don’t show any signs of ethics and humane values has convinced these millions to give up Islam in Turkey, just like Iran.

8.5.45 - While you celebrate how it ended, don't forget how it started. 👇🏼😉