Showing posts with label Liz Truss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liz Truss. Show all posts
Saturday, June 06, 2026

Remembering Liz Truss and her dogs that barked at drones

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A news story on the Shropshire Live  website has put me in mind of one of Liz Truss's early triumphs in the House of Commons. That story...
Monday, December 15, 2025

The Joy of Six 1449

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"They can mess about with flags and play the national anthem and rail against DEI all they like. But if they shut down your mum’s nursi...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Downing Street Downfalls: The Misadventures of Britain’s Prime Minister Since Thatcher by Mark Garnett

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Downing Street Downfalls: The Misadventures of Britain’s Prime Minister Since Thatcher Mark Garnett Agenda, 2025, £20 It’s not a novelty for...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Liz Truss's drive for Stilton exports to Japan proved a flop

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Reader's voice: Shall I say it? Liberal England replies: Go on then. Reader: That. Is. A. Disgrace. Liberal England: Thank you. Liz ...
Thursday, July 03, 2025

The Joy of Six 1380

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"Since the Truss debacle, the UK has had to pay a substantial premium over other G7 countries to borrow in the bond markets. In other w...
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Thursday, June 26, 2025

Starmer's coming U-turn on PIPs reminds us of the virtues of a parliamentary system

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If Keir Starmer backs down on his planned cuts to Personal Independence Payments, he will be attacked for being weak and making a U-turn, bu...
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Saturday, February 22, 2025

The Joy of Six 1327

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Emma Burnell reviews Get In by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund, and ponders the limitations of the Morgan McSweeney approach to politic...
Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Sorry Liz Truss: Barking dogs don't keep drones away from prisons

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Remember this? Sadly the claim that barking dogs deter drones seem no to be true, as we still have a problem with drugs, phones and other il...
Monday, May 13, 2024

Rishi Sunak's speech today: "Do you think that's wise, sir?"

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Embed from Getty Images In his speech today, Rishi Sunak said the next five years will be some of the most difficult and dangerous in the U...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Mountains of unsold Stilton

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There are those who claim that Lord Bonkers has built up large stocks of Stilton to enable him to withstand a strike by the miners, but I...
Saturday, March 16, 2024

The Joy of Six 1212

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Helen Salisbury says it’s time to push back against the destruction of general practice in the NHS: "The down-skilling of general prac...
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Sunday, February 25, 2024

CPAC: Liz Truss among the Nazis

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Embed from Getty Images NBC News reports on CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference), the US event addressed by Liz Truss last week:...
Friday, February 09, 2024

The Joy of Six 1202

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Peter Geoghegan reminds us that, easy though it is to laugh at Liz Truss's PopCons, small groups backed by shady money have already res...
Saturday, January 06, 2024

Liz Truss beware: She wouldn't be the first MP laid low by a turnip

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The Turnip Taliban are back, says the Independent . James Bagge, one of the Conservatives who resigned from the party in protest at Liz Trus...
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Tuesday, December 26, 2023

The Joy of Six 1189

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"Give or take the odd percentage point, and Sir John tries to persuade the media not to sensationalise small, meaningless poll movement...
Saturday, September 23, 2023

The Joy of Six 1164

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"Neil Oliver and his pals see themselves as radical, romantic revolutionaries, but they are really nothing more than a dismal combinati...
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Monday, September 18, 2023

The Joy of Six 1163

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"Liz Truss almost wrecked the British economy in her 49 days as prime minister, and is now working on a book, Ten Years to Save the Wes...
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Friday, July 14, 2023

The Joy of Six 1145

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"The self-styled free market task force seems to be yet another dark money outfit in British politics – led by senior figures from US a...
Monday, May 29, 2023

Lord Bonkers' Diary: The Archbishop of York, two page boys and the gospel choir

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Australian tours of England really did use to begin with a one-day fixture at Arundel against the Duke of Norfolk's XI. And 1953 was an ...
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Friday, May 12, 2023

Why the Tories should be wary of consulting their grassroots

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Embed from Getty Images Tomorrow the Conservative Democratic Organisation  (CDO) is gathering in Bournemouth.  This new party group was set ...