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Now, I know that this is not the same as building a line from scratch, but it is an indication of what used to be done in this country before the dead hand of non-productive bureaucracy took hold.”
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Nigel Farage said Rishi Sunak’s plan to ban smoking for young people is “stupid” and government “should not get involved in these things”.Raheem Sterling has admitted he is contemplating a future away from Manchester City and would consider moving abroad. Kenyan police say they have arrested the husband of the distance runner Agnes Tirop, a two-time world championship bronze medallist who was found dead at her home. US Open champion Emma Raducanu has pulled out of this month’s Kremlin Cup, citing a “tournament schedule change”. Cameron Norrie rose to the occasion in one of the biggest matches of his life, obliterating Diego Schwartzman, the 11th seed, 6–0 6-2 to reach his first ever Masters 1000 semi-final at Indian Wells. In no way to change the topic, the govt launched Operation Red Meat, a dazzlingly successful exercise in limited and specific failure, which I present to you in the following sub-thread. narcissistic, bullshitting nincompoop who went on Have I Got News For You and was unable to correctly answer the Austerity cuts to the NHS, public health and social care have killed tens of thousands more people in England than expected, according to research by the University of York. The largest study of its kind found that even in just the four years after 2010, the spending squeeze was linked with 57,550 excess deaths. “This is a devastating verdict on a decade of Tory austerity in healthcare,” said Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow health secretary. I thought it was the most thoughtful speech I’d heard from a prime minister for a very long time - possibly since Thatcher - in the sense it was intelligent, it was insightful.
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If I believed in God, I'd pray for an end to this. But God isn't listening, and not enough of the public are either. Until one or the other wakes up, a perpetual vortex of agitation is where we are all doomed to live."
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David Davis, the former Brexit secretary, suggested Rishi Sunak’s speech at Conservative Party conference in Manchester yesterday was the “most thoughtful” from a prime minister since Margaret Thatcher. If you are just pissed off with successive Tory incarnations claiming that they will 'fix Britain' while denying that it was tories that broke it, then this book is for you.
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All those things are going just swimmingly, so he’s now been made Chancellor, just in time to hit his devastating peak formIt's too much to hope for that anyone other than a tax-dodging billionaire with a seat in the House of Lords who still wants to vote Tory will read this and pause for thought, but for the rest of us - and perhaps for more sanguine generations yet to come (assuming the world survives the current iteration of disaster capitalism) - it will serve as a crucial, engaging and clear-eyed testament of how badly wrong a once-decent country can go in the space of a few years when it is led by the most incompetent, venal and cruel group of people you could possibly assemble.