[The Weeping Angel]

Funny thing is that the engagement isn't particularly impressive in either case. Perhaps the numbers on Twitter were inflated by bots, but I recall them being a fair bit higher than that. If I took my "Hammer of the Greens" schtick from the other thread here on to Bluesky and followed a few people who followed me back, would I be getting much less engagement than those two?

Jolyon might do dubious fundraising, but he has got his head down and won some significant cases. Edwin just seems to be a bloke who decided everything was shit because Brexit.

Hayward says he's an author, he's written one book called Slaying Brexit Unicorns and that's about it. With Maughaum, he has won some cases, but he's also lost quite a few and has resorted to blaming the judges or, in one case, saying he won when he lost.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Quite a few people have got themselves a good following on the back of opposing Brexit. Here's one. Here she is today being corrected by someone who knows what they're talking about, and then flapping about BTL.

[The Weeping Angel]

What's the point? The responses are 90% negative, and no one will care.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Yeah this is well-targeted. Should have done more of this stuff when they restricted the WFA. I think the new WFA arrangement saves something like £450m compared with universality, and that’ll help.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Not sure of the wisdom of Shabana challenging the EHCR like she has. But she certainly isn't alone among European government ministers- including Donald Tusk, who is rightly something of a liberal hero. And there's a commitment not to leave it, which is an important difference from Reform and the Tories, how much people might play this down.

There's very little sense among lots of people, who profess to be "European" and "internationalist" in their outlook, that parties all over the liberal democratic world are facing challenges from right populism. Some that have won have made populist moves on immigration- Albanese accepted the Tony Abbott policy on boats, Carney has (to the surprise of this Guardian column) done something "MAGA inspired"-

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... nald-trump

I think Trump's instinct that Republicans were better off not passing the bi-partisan border bill was sadly spot on.

Argue against all of this stuff on principle, but the politics of this stuff is more complicated than some people make out, I think.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I don't think we should invade Iran either, and I'm pleased to see what the Attorney General said, but there's a lot of this sort of bored "heard it all before" on the left. It's not just a bunch of "Zionists and their puppets" who think there's a major problem here. (I'm not accusing Mark Berry of being like that, to be clear).

[Tubby Isaacs]

Ministers stepping up preparations for renationalisation of Thames Water
Environment secretary indicates that calls from creditors for leniency from fines and penalties will be rejected

I'm kinder to water companies than some people and have sympathy with the current board of Thames Water, who didn't cause the problems. But they rather pissed on their own chips by getting caught misleading the Select Committee the other week. And there's no way the Government could agree to this, however much it wants a private sector solution.. I don't know if this means nationalisation or whether some other solution will be found, but nationalization is getting more likely.



https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... eparations