[Youngian]

Bloody humans and their rights, down with rights especially for foreigners.

[Tubby Isaacs]

No sense from Inbetweener Seb that if you aspire to global power then agreed rules are actually in your self-interest.

[Youngian]

Donald will protect our interests if we do his bidding appears to be a serious proposition by the British right for a geopolitical policy.

[Andy McDandy]

All they've had since 2016 to be honest.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Reeves had a good line today v Mel Stride that his team's approach is to ignore China and the EU. It's only a few months ago that Kemi was making the running as an international dealmaker. Liz Truss emerged from the pack by running with rolling deals over and looking like a forward looking internationalist.

Has Kemi junked all that to shadow Farage?

[The Weeping Angel]

Seb does international law, zeroing in on the Attorney General who's expressed the shocking view that international law is important, and that we should abide by treaties we've signed up to. I was thinking that sort of stuff came with the job (even if the Government as a whole didn't always live up to it), then I remembered that Seb's mates gave the job to Suella Braverman. This bad Attorney General has also attacked populism. Who does he think he is?

I'm not paying The Times to see what a Tory treaty on the Chagos Islands would have looked like. Seb must tell us, right?

Good news such rulings don't count.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Straight outta Policy Exchange.

[The Weeping Angel]

I don't think it's occured to Yuan that if Britain can ignore such votes then so can China and Russia.

[davidjay]

I don't think it's occured to Yuan that if Britain can ignore such votes then so can China and Russia.

That would require joined-up thinking and besides, they have to abide by the rules. We can do whatever we like.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Attorney General represented Gerry Adams and got paid for it, is The Times headline. Not that the Times has to make a profit, but presumably it would like to maintain a few educated readers under the age of 70, for its advertising revenue if nothing else.

Kemi was talking yesterday about Labour ministers having no business experience. The Attorney General having legal experience in high profile cases is bad though, apparently.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The Times also going with a story about state school capacity in Edinburgh. It's paywalled, but the lack of capacity seems to be in a few already oversubscribed schools. Edinburgh has 10,000 private school pupils, and 51 have switched.

[Andy McDandy]

So the "badly off but ambitious for their kids" parents either coped with the fees hike, or didn't exist?

[Tubby Isaacs]

I suppose some more could move at the end of the school year but so far it seems like about 9,950 are paying VAT and 51 have moved into presumably surplus capacity, cost not very much at all.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The Times leading with exodus of millionaires because Labour.

Being a millionaire isn't what it was. Lots of London- SE pensioners in decent relatively ordinary semi-detached houses are millionaires. Selling up and moving somewhere quieter with nicer weather isn't exactly a new phenomenon among that group.

So how many? 10,000. Out of 3 million. And it's, get this, dollar millionaires. That's quite a bit less. Absolute bullshitters.

[Tubby Isaacs]

What was "thwarted" was the government lying its socks off in the consultation. Excellent take down by Chaminda Jayanetti.

https://bsky.app/profile/cjayanetti.bsk ... zut3c3e22p

[davidjay]

And the narrative that the law is open to interpretation by the government of the day gets yet another airing.

[The Weeping Angel]

Jason Cowley on Ed Milliband

Apparently Ed is an MP for North London.

[mattomac]

You can see what the New Statesman went shit.