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You have to see the Cummings fiasco in context of the Tories options - which are very sparse 1/ The economy is tanking, and worse than needed because of the

Why did Cummings edit his own blog on 14/4/20 to make it look like he had warned about the danger of a coronavirus escaping from a Chinese lab last year?

23 May 1871 was the day the French army took Montmartre and Montparnasse from the Commune troops... the pink sector on the West side of the map shows their advance,

Thread on the Treasury austerity leak: 1/ The HMT base case is no longer a v-shaped recovery but a U, with longer recovery and permanent scarring, costing a £337bn deficit

On @MattHancock bad half-hour.... 1/ The UK govt is set to extend the lockdown by 3x weeks. Good, because it’s working. But what is the strategy beyond lockdown? That’s a

People kicking off about Starmer/Rayner's inquiry terms. Don't. The unreacted report (which I've been shown) a) reveals names/evidence given in confidence b) has no provenance... the allegations in it are

A senior group of Labour staffers actively conspired for the party to lose the 2017 election. That's the headline allegation from the leaked Labour HQ report ... this is a

I don't want to sound like a killjoy but the FT's celebrated conversion to Bevanism is nowhere near enough, or coherent... screengrabs par-by-par: 1/ This is self evident... but... 2/

Recession predictions (see NYT) are moving from V-shaped to U-shaped... but to make sure it's not a Greek-style lost decade we need to decide one thing now: no more austerity