Billionaire Tory donor and Phones4U founder John Caudwell praises Boris Johnson for fighting back against 'Brussels bully boys' saying they are 'beating up' the UK over a Brexit trade deal.

About getting back to the office and be productive ...

This billionaire Tory donor is telling us to get back into the office from his yacht in Sardinia. [_link]

— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) August 28, 2020

Seems to be less principled, a perfect home at Tory HQ.

The truth is more prosaic.  Even with the head's up provided by the Poles, they were going exactly nowhere until Lieutenant Commander David Balme boarded the sinking U-110 and captured an Enigma machine and all its rotors.

And the Poles only got where they got because of a fundamental mistake by the Nazi's: in the original machines the first rotor had the characters in alphabetical order.

As with much Signal Intelligence, the biggest boon is the stupidity and incompetence of the other side.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

A revolutionary spirit ... think Boston Tea Party - or any Tea Party - and George Washington and the Founding Fathers framed in a time of slavery ...

Minister Mordaunt speech at the Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia

Minister Mordaunt's address to the World Affairs Council of Atlanta event on 'trade, diplomacy and defence: the foundation of British prosperity'

President Carter created this centre to promote democratic ideals across the world

Its work is practical. It brings people together. It's mission explicitly states that it will value courage to break new ground.

I like that.

The greatest moments in our national history too are when we have had a relentless focus on making something happen, when we have spanned a divide, built an alliance, and defended what we thought was right.

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We will ensure that our domestic policy supports UK businesses to compete fairly and on merit... here divergence is a "national necessity" to quote the UK's chief negotiator with the EU, Lord Frost. But this is not divergence for the sake of it, or just because we can. It is because we want to leave behind the anti-competitive and protectionist regulation of the EU, and cooperate with our trading partners on the basis that it is not for us to dictate how others regulate as long as our overall goals are the same. This regulatory competition is vital to create wealth and growth. In the UK we are liberalising the growth areas of the future to open them up to greater innovation. Data reform, gene editing, transport, medicine, AI and more We are reducing bureaucracy from state aid to procurement.

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Already responsive to the social, environmental and the ethical concerns of customers, investors and employees, businesses are taking their responsibilities to tackle harms and address poverty seriously.

They are the greatest agents of change we have in the world. More capable and responsive than any government.

By unlocking markets for good businesses we lessen the likelihood of failed states, for hot beds of dangerous ideologies, sources of illegal migration and cross border crime.

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Everyone we speak to ... In the North, South, East, or West ...

I believe passionately that the world is a safer, better place when Britain and America work together for common goals around the world.

We have a shared cultural DNA- Wealth creation Open trading systems Competition on merit Protection of property rights Delivered in the framework of a common law tradition we share.

Our partnership has already delivered much to our people on both sides of the Atlantic and across the globe.

Our security partnership has kept the world safe for over 100 years.

But with an unshackled UK, we can take yet more ambitious steps in putting trade at the heart of our relationship and in shared global challenges.

American Democracy and elections ...

#Trump kept having to retape his video telling fans to leave the #CapitolRiot , which may explain his 3 hour silence during the attack. [_link]

— Radio Dallas (@RadioDallas) December 25, 2021

We'll work with any _resident in the White House ...

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— David Olusoga (@DavidOlusoga) January 6, 2022

I'm one of the Colston Four. Our victory took the nation closer to racial justice
By Rhian Graham

Lawyers jump to juries' defence as Tories fume at Colston Four verdict [_link]

— Haroon Siddique (@Haroon_Siddique) January 7, 2022

"The issue here as I see it is more that the attorney general does not like the jury's verdict (in the Colston case) rather than that any point of law has arisen ...it appears to be politically driven rather than legally driven." [_link]

— Haroon Siddique (@Haroon_Siddique) January 7, 2022

The National

Possibly one of the most surprising aspects of this sordid and sleazy affair is the discovery that Boris Johnson has an ethics adviser. That's like learning that an iguana has an adviser in quantum physics and human empathy. Even if it did have the intellectual capacity to grasp what it was being told, it still wouldn't be interested. You'd have as much success in expecting Boris Johnson to care about the ethical standards expected of a Prime Minister as you would in getting Pablo Escobar to care about cocaine addiction.

Credit Suisse will stick to its strategic overhaul despite the abrupt departure of its mastermind Antonio Horta-Osorio following an internal probe into his personal conduct, including breaches of COVID-19 rules, the embattled bank's new chairman said [_link]

— Reuters (@Reuters) January 17, 2022

A role model for BoJo #10 Downing Street Exit? A turn-around manager 😂

The bank boss should have been in quarantine when he attended the Wimbledon finals [_link]

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 17, 2022

Tory MPs openly discuss Johnson challenge as mood 'turns dramatically' | The Guardian |

The mood of Conservative MPs was hardening against Boris Johnson on Tuesday night, with open talk of how to oust the prime minister and who should succeed him as he gave a disastrous interview claiming not to have lied over Downing Street parties. [😂]

A string of Tory MPs from various ranks and wings of the party said they believed there would be enough letters to trigger a leadership contest after the publication of the Sue Gray report into allegations of lockdown breaches.

Johnson was trying to shore up his support in the parliamentary party after it emerged a group of a dozen or so of the 2019 intake had met to discuss his future as prime minister, which became known as the "pork pie putsch" as the group had met in the office of Alicia Kearns, the MP for Melton and Rutland.

With MPs plotting his demise, Johnson emerged from isolation in No 10 to defend himself against claims from his former aide, Dominic Cummings, that he lied to parliament about believing a garden party in the first lockdown was a work event.

Never sure whether the close advisors to Tony Blair, George Bush, Donald Trump, and Boris Johnson are of the Trotsky or Rasputin characterization.

The final nail in #LiarJohnson's coffin

Tory MP #ChristianWakeford #BurySouth defects to Labour moments before Boris Johnson takes PMQs - UK politics live [_link]

— Kate 🔶 GreenLibDem🌿 (@timetospeakoutt) January 19, 2022