NEW - MPs say Bridget Phillipson and Liz Kendall confronted Kemi Badenoch about her language at PMQs today where she called Phillipson "spiteful" which Kendall said was outrageous.
Badenoch reported to have said “I’m never going to stop talking about how spiteful you are”
Phillipson then hit back at Badenoch: “The public are going to find out who you really are.”
Badenoch responded: "I will never stop fighting you. You are destroying children’s lives"
The avalanche of 'class war' and 'sheer spite' and 'politics of envy' attacks in response to the objectively rather mild step of removing tax breaks from private schools tells you one thing loud and clear - that a battle royal would break out if a large reduction in inequality was pursued as a political priority.
It’s not “objectively mild” to the tens of thousands of parents who have had to find a new school for their child at short notice, not to mention that the policy has raised almost nothing when increased state school rolls are taken into account.
There was no serious economic case for the change, it was pure class envy and the politics of spite.
NEW - MPs say Bridget Phillipson and Liz Kendall confronted Kemi Badenoch about her language at PMQs today where she called Phillipson "spiteful" which Kendall said was outrageous.
Badenoch reported to have said “I’m never going to stop talking about how spiteful you are”
Phillipson then hit back at Badenoch: “The public are going to find out who you really are.”
Badenoch responded: "I will never stop fighting you. You are destroying children’s lives"
The avalanche of 'class war' and 'sheer spite' and 'politics of envy' attacks in response to the objectively rather mild step of removing tax breaks from private schools tells you one thing loud and clear - that a battle royal would break out if a large reduction in inequality was pursued as a political priority.
I'm not sure it tells us anything very much tbh although I do wonder if it is actually true that there are fewer teachers.
I think it does. If that's Class War (!) just imagine the resistance to something that seriously erodes privilege.
How do you have a Class war with someone with no class?
NEW - MPs say Bridget Phillipson and Liz Kendall confronted Kemi Badenoch about her language at PMQs today where she called Phillipson "spiteful" which Kendall said was outrageous.
Badenoch reported to have said “I’m never going to stop talking about how spiteful you are”
Phillipson then hit back at Badenoch: “The public are going to find out who you really are.”
Badenoch responded: "I will never stop fighting you. You are destroying children’s lives"
The avalanche of 'class war' and 'sheer spite' and 'politics of envy' attacks in response to the objectively rather mild step of removing tax breaks from private schools tells you one thing loud and clear - that a battle royal would break out if a large reduction in inequality was pursued as a political priority.
I'm not sure it tells us anything very much tbh although I do wonder if it is actually true that there are fewer teachers.
There are fewer teachers
Totally due to falling rolls
The proceeds have helped the new version of Sure Start and is helping hundreds of thousands of less well off children and their schools to give them a better chance in life at school
Then that should have been the reply. Here are the facts. I'm doing a good job. The government has done a good job. And blame the Blue Team for axing Sure Start in the first place.
NEW - MPs say Bridget Phillipson and Liz Kendall confronted Kemi Badenoch about her language at PMQs today where she called Phillipson "spiteful" which Kendall said was outrageous.
Badenoch reported to have said “I’m never going to stop talking about how spiteful you are”
Phillipson then hit back at Badenoch: “The public are going to find out who you really are.”
Badenoch responded: "I will never stop fighting you. You are destroying children’s lives"
The avalanche of 'class war' and 'sheer spite' and 'politics of envy' attacks in response to the objectively rather mild step of removing tax breaks from private schools tells you one thing loud and clear - that a battle royal would break out if a large reduction in inequality was pursued as a political priority.
It’s not “objectively mild” to the tens of thousands of parents who have had to find a new school for their child at short notice, not to mention that the policy has raised almost nothing when increased state school rolls are taken into account.
There was no serious economic case for the change, it was pure class envy and the politics of spite.
You reinforce my point.
The tens of thousands who have had to change schools and the thousands that have closed trope and tripe
£33 for a ticket. I think I paid €10 when I saw it in Bayeaux a couple of years ago.
Ouch!
But will still probably have to go, when in the UK for a couple of weeks in the summer.
Edit: or maybe not, doesn’t start until mid-September. Perhaps next year, by which time the queues might have died down a little!
I've got the same problem - down in London the week before it begins for a comedy show that my wife has insisted tagging herself along to (Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee for anyone who cares). I'm in London for work, she's just going to see the show and do things while I work.
When I say the tapestry in March 2025 it was €16 each, but given that the evening meal was €160 it didn't seem that important..
Is the Bayeux Tapestry worth looking at, or just cultural FOMO?
oh it's worth it but again I do cross stitch and it's a period of history where I like the misinformation around it (and the tapestry is a source of some of that misunderstanding).
Equally I won't be rushing to see it in London wll probably visit Bayeux again when it's back there.
How does the copy in Reading compare, anyone who knows?
(I'd go for the real deal ideally, but if I miss it, I've been aware for a couple of years that we have what is supposed to be a decent replica and have been tempted).
I've seen both, and would recommend visiting both. To have them 90 minutes apart on the train is wonderful.
The original has more penises, since apparently the Victorians of Reading were delicate blossoms who bowdlerised it and applied the Bobbit technique or added coverings; think of what some Yanks might do.
Excluding Liz Truss who is Scottish, Andy Burnham is first bona fide Northerner to become PM in 50 years.
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot · 58m I’m really sorry to do this but the last Northern PM was actually Roundhay’s Liz Truss - as much as she tried to disown our great city.
She was born in Oxford, that rules her out as a bona fide Northerner.
As the most bona fide Northerner on PB I can tell you we Northerners take this stuff very seriously.
I'm not quibbling with your overall conclusion, but how does that make her Scottish?
In 1977 Truss and her parents moved to Warsaw in Poland, but returned to Britain after John and Priscilla found it "quite grim".
After living briefly in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, the family moved to Paisley in Scotland when Truss was four years old, where she attended West Primary School. In 1985 they moved south to Leeds,
And this makes her Scottish?? Not even the SRU would claim that.
She spent her formative years in Scotland (ages 4 to 10), if that's not Scottish then I don't know what is.
Some Scots don't even accept Tony Blair was Scottish, I mean born in Edinburgh, educated in Scotland...
To some Scots, if a Scot has ever left Scotland for more than a holiday they are no longer Scottish.
Remember the Is Andy Murray British website and ramp the logic up to insane levels and that is how Scots work.
The way to hit back is to use the adjective "Scotch" which annoys them intensely for some reason.
Bit like but not as bad as "Rosbif" which Scotland's friends in France call a certain nation.
Rosbif is quaintly non-insulting. I don't think any Brit has ever felt offended by it.
You think calling us Scotch is of any offence , we are the ones laughing at the stupidity and childishness of it.
Excluding Liz Truss who is Scottish, Andy Burnham is first bona fide Northerner to become PM in 50 years.
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot · 58m I’m really sorry to do this but the last Northern PM was actually Roundhay’s Liz Truss - as much as she tried to disown our great city.
She was born in Oxford, that rules her out as a bona fide Northerner.
As the most bona fide Northerner on PB I can tell you we Northerners take this stuff very seriously.
I'm not quibbling with your overall conclusion, but how does that make her Scottish?
In 1977 Truss and her parents moved to Warsaw in Poland, but returned to Britain after John and Priscilla found it "quite grim".
After living briefly in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, the family moved to Paisley in Scotland when Truss was four years old, where she attended West Primary School. In 1985 they moved south to Leeds,
And this makes her Scottish?? Not even the SRU would claim that.
She spent her formative years in Scotland (ages 4 to 10), if that's not Scottish then I don't know what is.
Some Scots don't even accept Tony Blair was Scottish, I mean born in Edinburgh, educated in Scotland...
To some Scots, if a Scot has ever left Scotland for more than a holiday they are no longer Scottish.
Remember the Is Andy Murray British website and ramp the logic up to insane levels and that is how Scots work.
The way to hit back is to use the adjective "Scotch" which annoys them intensely for some reason.
Bit like but not as bad as "Rosbif" which Scotland's friends in France call a certain nation.
Rosbif is quaintly non-insulting. I don't think any Brit has ever felt offended by it.
You think calling us Scotch is of any offence , we are the ones laughing at the stupidity and childishness of it.
Excluding Liz Truss who is Scottish, Andy Burnham is first bona fide Northerner to become PM in 50 years.
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot · 58m I’m really sorry to do this but the last Northern PM was actually Roundhay’s Liz Truss - as much as she tried to disown our great city.
She was born in Oxford, that rules her out as a bona fide Northerner.
As the most bona fide Northerner on PB I can tell you we Northerners take this stuff very seriously.
I'm not quibbling with your overall conclusion, but how does that make her Scottish?
In 1977 Truss and her parents moved to Warsaw in Poland, but returned to Britain after John and Priscilla found it "quite grim".
After living briefly in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, the family moved to Paisley in Scotland when Truss was four years old, where she attended West Primary School. In 1985 they moved south to Leeds,
And this makes her Scottish?? Not even the SRU would claim that.
She spent her formative years in Scotland (ages 4 to 10), if that's not Scottish then I don't know what is.
Some Scots don't even accept Tony Blair was Scottish, I mean born in Edinburgh, educated in Scotland...
To some Scots, if a Scot has ever left Scotland for more than a holiday they are no longer Scottish.
Remember the Is Andy Murray British website and ramp the logic up to insane levels and that is how Scots work.
The way to hit back is to use the adjective "Scotch" which annoys them intensely for some reason.
Bit like but not as bad as "Rosbif" which Scotland's friends in France call a certain nation.
Rosbif is quaintly non-insulting. I don't think any Brit has ever felt offended by it.
You think calling us Scotch is of any offence , we are the ones laughing at the stupidity and childishness of it.
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Figures not born out by fact.
Pure fantasy
Every meeting I have is 'who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others'.
Reeves's parting idea:
22% Charge on interest paid on cash held in non Cash ISAs
Non Cash ISA portfolios made up of 100% cash-like assets will be non-qualifying investments
Restrictions on transfers into cash ISAs
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fiscal-events-2026-factsheets/isa-reform-2027-anti-circumvention-rules-factsheet
The original has more penises, since apparently the Victorians of Reading were delicate blossoms who bowdlerised it and applied the Bobbit technique or added coverings; think of what some Yanks might do.
(It shows the door to 10 Downing, with a sign hung on the door knocker:
Help Wanted
Temp Job
FWIW - I like Ramirez as much as Matt, and own collections by both, but should warn you that their styles are very different.
Fun fact: "Ramirez was born in Tokyo, Japan, to a Mexican-American father and Japanese-American mother."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ramirez