DreadPilotGagarin

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More Brits than ever say Brexit was wrong choice: YouGov survey in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Only 30%? Seems pretty much the majority these days

Britpop: What prompted the end of the genre that gave us Blur and Pulp? (BBC News) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

They played TRNSMT festival in Glasgow the other weekend, and had some shows since. Not sure how long they're touring now though

Government plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda ruled illegal in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

How many hours of work and how much money has been spent on this tabloid fantasy policy? What if we used all of those resources to ... actually tackle the (massive) asylum backlog. Absolutely inevitable this was going to be shut down and so much effort has gone to waste pursuing it.

Stubbornly high inflation increases pressure for interest rate hike in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Does anyone know why our inflation rate is staying so persistently high? Other peer countries seem to be improving and we're getting worse and worse.

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Johnson’s aide nominated for peerage appears to have exaggerated time spent at Number 10 (www.tortoisemedia.com)
 

The woman who is set to become the UK’s youngest ever life peer appears to have exaggerated the amount of time she worked at Downing Street on her public profile. Charlotte Owen is one of seven names approved by King Charles for elevation to the House of Lords as part of Boris Johnson’s controversial resignation honours’ list.

Her LinkedIn profile states that she worked as a special adviser for the former prime minister from February 2021 until October 2022.

However she is not named alongside others in Number 10 in the annual report on special advisers published in June 2021. She is named in the same report from a subsequent year as working half for the prime minister and half for then chief whip Chris Heaton-Harris.