Deserve everything that is coming to them.

For a government that was elected on ‘Change’, it’s probably one of the lower cost levers they could pull to argue they had, in fact, changed anything at all.

WHSmiths, Kingston - started Christmas ‘99 through some loophole that allowed me to work age 15. I was in charge of restocking the roll wrap. Lasting memory was a team meeting on 30/12 where we heard what we’d do if the Millennium Bug hit (there was no plan).

+1

He also inexplicably irritates people. And something I’ve learned in life is that once someone starts irritating you, it’s not long until the way they breathe starts to piss you off.

I don’t know. When you are at his level of approval it probably makes sense to keep him away from people’s screens.

Perhaps the only moral in all of this.

If this 2025 policy was likely have major impacts on journeys, the boats would already have stopped in 2022-2023-2024 when it and a tougher policy were tried

June: ‘We’re an island of strangers’

September: ‘We’re in a fight for the soul of the nation’

November: ‘No residency for 20 years and we’ll take the family heirlooms that are all you have from the homes you fled’

There must be a happy medium

If the budget weren’t in two weeks, someone would move. This is unsustainable.

They think there is some intellectual foundation to MAGA and Trumpism, when it’s actually just mass hysteria as a concluding reaction to Pax Americana ending.

Are they trying to get the boot deliberately?

It’s a useful (and disgusting) way to smoke out any potential leadership bids from cabinet. If they sign up to this, they will struggle against literally any soft left candidate in the eventual leadership contest.

Power of patronage is useless if nobody thinks you’ll be around much longer

Øresund border practicalities are my go to argument when people say Britain could never join Schengen. You can still carry out border checks and be in Schengen, and there’s no reason you couldn’t do same at Dover and St Pancras.

Because the voters whose votes they are after will be dead by then.

Oh no, he absolutely does. I don’t know where it comes from, but it’s visceral.