Reports that Boris Johnson didn’t declare private flights provided by Christopher Harborne (he who gave Farage £5M) while still an MP. (View Post)

Meritocracy as a term was popularised by a satire that saw it as dystopian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy (View Post)

That warrants a Community Note of its own. The IFS estimate 20-40k pupils leaving the private sector, not 100k. The number of school closures is debated, but one of the highest quoted figures is >… (View Post)

Bellicose nonsense. We’re not at war and are unlikely to be, our best defence is a good offence by funnelling support to Ukraine, rather than 20th century military spending, (View Post)

Where to start? What about, “That everything bad in the last four decades of the Middle East has Iran’s fingerprints on it.” The last four decades of course includes Islamic State, a fundamentalist S… (View Post)