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by Oui Sat Dec 25th, 2021 at 06:09:25 PM EST
Always party time at Downing Street 10, especially for a slice of British humor and political cartoonists.
Boris new announcement 🚨#BorisOut #Boris #PMQs #BorisJohnson #LBC #ToryCovidCatastrophe #DowningStreetBriefing #Johnson pic.twitter.com/AnGgU5K5HX— Marcus365 (@TheMarcus365) December 20, 2021
Boris new announcement 🚨#BorisOut #Boris #PMQs #BorisJohnson #LBC #ToryCovidCatastrophe #DowningStreetBriefing #Johnson pic.twitter.com/AnGgU5K5HX
NHS stakeholder Funds and War on Covid
Steve Bell on a lack of help to ease Covid pressures on the NHS - cartoon [_link]— Guardian Opinion (@guardianopinion) December 23, 2021
Steve Bell on a lack of help to ease Covid pressures on the NHS - cartoon [_link]
Lorry Drivers and EU Rules
European lorry drivers 'will not want to come to UK', warn haulage chiefs [_link]— The Guardian (@guardian) September 25, 2021
European lorry drivers 'will not want to come to UK', warn haulage chiefs [_link]
Supply Chain Crisis
Ben Jennings on the UK's supply chain crisis - cartoon [_link]— The Guardian (@guardian) September 28, 2021
Ben Jennings on the UK's supply chain crisis - cartoon [_link]
Afghanistan
Ben Jennings on doubts over the 20-year war in Afghanistan - cartoon [_link]— The Guardian (@guardian) August 29, 2021
Ben Jennings on doubts over the 20-year war in Afghanistan - cartoon [_link]
Dyson and Sleaze
Chris Riddell on #BorisJohnson #Dyson #DominicCummings #Leaks #TorySleaze #ToryCorruption- [_link] - political cartoon gallery in London pic.twitter.com/jRMlkUmPxa— Political Cartoon (@Cartoon4sale) April 24, 2021
Chris Riddell on #BorisJohnson #Dyson #DominicCummings #Leaks #TorySleaze #ToryCorruption- [_link] - political cartoon gallery in London pic.twitter.com/jRMlkUmPxa
Ruling the Waves - Global Britain
Chris Riddell on Britannia surveying a future out of the European Union - [_link] - political cartoon gallery in London pic.twitter.com/95g9W1v1VN— Political Cartoon (@Cartoon4sale) January 2, 2021
Chris Riddell on Britannia surveying a future out of the European Union - [_link] - political cartoon gallery in London pic.twitter.com/95g9W1v1VN
New Year's Challenges and Boris
Chris Riddell on there being lots of fish and a coronavirus vaccine to look forward to, but little else #BrexitDeal #brexit #BorisJohnson - political cartoon gallery in London [_link] pic.twitter.com/HYR5SmaCmp— Political Cartoon (@Cartoon4sale) December 26, 2020
Chris Riddell on there being lots of fish and a coronavirus vaccine to look forward to, but little else #BrexitDeal #brexit #BorisJohnson - political cartoon gallery in London [_link] pic.twitter.com/HYR5SmaCmp
Seeing the rollout of our booster programme in action today - more than 23 million people across the UK have already come forward to get boosted. We'll give the NHS everything it needs to deliver millions more boosters in the coming weeks. Don't delay: Get Boosted Now. pic.twitter.com/9PCLcegC9d— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) December 13, 2021
Seeing the rollout of our booster programme in action today - more than 23 million people across the UK have already come forward to get boosted. We'll give the NHS everything it needs to deliver millions more boosters in the coming weeks. Don't delay: Get Boosted Now. pic.twitter.com/9PCLcegC9d
John Caudwell, the billionaire founder of Phones4U who handed the Tories £500,000 before the last election, said he had been hugely disappointed by "the mistakes and faux pas" made by No 10 and said he did not know if Johnson could or should lead the party into the next election.
Billionaire Tory backer turns against Johnson following sleaze and scandals [_link]— The Guardian (@guardian) December 25, 2021
Billionaire Tory backer turns against Johnson following sleaze and scandals [_link]
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
This billionaire Tory donor is telling us to get back into the office from his yacht in Sardinia. [_link]
Seems to be less principled, a perfect home at Tory HQ. 'Sapere aude'
There was a time when students roamed Europe to spend time with Erasmus himself; most famously an Englishman, Thomas More, who ended up beheaded by his crown. Erasmus program replaced by a scheme named after Alan Turing, who was chemically castrated and led to death by his state. [_link]— rui tavares (@ruitavares) December 24, 2020
There was a time when students roamed Europe to spend time with Erasmus himself; most famously an Englishman, Thomas More, who ended up beheaded by his crown. Erasmus program replaced by a scheme named after Alan Turing, who was chemically castrated and led to death by his state. [_link]
Capita undercuts British Council to run Turing student exchange scheme | The Guardian |
PMQs: Boris Johnson refuses to apologise to student facing £12k jump in uni fees
How Alan Turing Cracked The Enigma Code 'Sapere aude'
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
Mary Robinson, Chair of the Elders, shares her favourite memories of South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu, including his response to someone asking him why he was 'such an optimist' to which he replied: 'No, I'm not an optimist. I'm a prisoner of hope' [_link] pic.twitter.com/sAZZOhSGom— Sky News (@SkyNews) December 26, 2021
Mary Robinson, Chair of the Elders, shares her favourite memories of South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu, including his response to someone asking him why he was 'such an optimist' to which he replied: 'No, I'm not an optimist. I'm a prisoner of hope' [_link] pic.twitter.com/sAZZOhSGom
Not apartheid regime but the ANC declared a terrorist group | White House - 1988 |
Project Coast: Apartheid's Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme 'Sapere aude'
2021 in pictures 👇🇺🇸 The US Capitol riots🦠 The Delta COVID variant hits India🇦🇫 A baby is passed to US forces at Kabul airport🌋 The Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma erupts🔥 Wildfires spread across Europe— Sky News (@SkyNews) December 26, 2021
2021 in pictures 👇🇺🇸 The US Capitol riots🦠 The Delta COVID variant hits India🇦🇫 A baby is passed to US forces at Kabul airport🌋 The Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma erupts🔥 Wildfires spread across Europe
Culture warriors sallied forth, only to be defeated by their own ineptitude | David Olusoga [_link]— The Observer (@ObserverUK) December 26, 2021
Culture warriors sallied forth, only to be defeated by their own ineptitude | David Olusoga [_link]
One year on, most voters say Brexit has gone badly
Shane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation, said he expected many of the problems faced over the past year by small UK businesses exporting to the EU, particularly the rising cost of sending small amounts because of new charges, would now confront those sending small specialist consignments the other way, from the EU to the UK. 'Sapere aude'
Nice, but Polish nurses can now get higher wages in Germany or Norway. With no bureaucratic hassles. [_link]— Radosław Sikorski MEP 🇵🇱 🇪🇺 (@sikorskiradek) December 26, 2021
Nice, but Polish nurses can now get higher wages in Germany or Norway. With no bureaucratic hassles. [_link]
'Ignore This Russian Red Herring' | @BooMan - Jan. 2018 | 'Sapere aude'
'A fire-eater who's run out of fuel': European press lays into Boris Johnson [_link]— jon henley (@jonhenley) December 21, 2021
'A fire-eater who's run out of fuel': European press lays into Boris Johnson [_link]
After Brexit: Transatlantic Opportunity for Europe's Neutrality John Kerry in Joint Press Availability With Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni And the reason I start off by mentioning all of that is really to emphasize that the vote about Brexit and the changes that now are being thought through have to be thought through in the context of the interests and the values that bind us together with the EU. Twenty-two of the nations in the EU are members of NATO, and so there is a continuing criticality to this relationship. And one of the things that I want to emphasize in coming here today to Europe is how important the relationship of Europe - the EU - is to the United States and to the world. One country has made a decision. Obviously, it is a decision that the United States had hoped would go the other way. But it didn't. And so we begin with a fundamental respect for voters. In a democracy, when the voters speak, it is the job of leaders to listen and then to make sure that they are moving in a way that is responsible to address the concerns. I am absolutely convinced - and I say this to the marketplace, I say this to citizens who are wondering what is going on - I am absolutely convinced, President Obama is absolutely convinced that we will be able to work through this in a sensible, thoughtful way that takes the best strengths of the EU, the best strengths of the marketplace, the best interests of our national security and international security, and works to keep them moving in the right direction for our countries. I have no doubt about our ability to be able to do that. And so we will continue, the United States, to have a very close and special relationship with Great Britain. We value that relationship. That does not change because of this vote.
John Kerry in Joint Press Availability With Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni
And the reason I start off by mentioning all of that is really to emphasize that the vote about Brexit and the changes that now are being thought through have to be thought through in the context of the interests and the values that bind us together with the EU. Twenty-two of the nations in the EU are members of NATO, and so there is a continuing criticality to this relationship. And one of the things that I want to emphasize in coming here today to Europe is how important the relationship of Europe - the EU - is to the United States and to the world.
One country has made a decision. Obviously, it is a decision that the United States had hoped would go the other way. But it didn't. And so we begin with a fundamental respect for voters. In a democracy, when the voters speak, it is the job of leaders to listen and then to make sure that they are moving in a way that is responsible to address the concerns. I am absolutely convinced - and I say this to the marketplace, I say this to citizens who are wondering what is going on - I am absolutely convinced, President Obama is absolutely convinced that we will be able to work through this in a sensible, thoughtful way that takes the best strengths of the EU, the best strengths of the marketplace, the best interests of our national security and international security, and works to keep them moving in the right direction for our countries. I have no doubt about our ability to be able to do that. And so we will continue, the United States, to have a very close and special relationship with Great Britain. We value that relationship. That does not change because of this vote.
Not sure I can take any more tonight, how bad on the insanity scale is it?— Martin McDonald (@marty_mcd) December 14, 2021
Not sure I can take any more tonight, how bad on the insanity scale is it?
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. .... 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. .... 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. .... 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.
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.
.... 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.
.... 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.
.... 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.
#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
#Trump kept having to retape his video telling fans to leave the #CapitolRiot , which may explain his 3 hour silence during the attack. [_link]
We'll work with any _resident in the White House ... 'Sapere aude'
As 2022 nears, Biden's weakness is a danger. Now liberated from the EU, the stage is set for a bigger UK role in safeguarding Western security. London can proceed boldly in its foreign policy, especially within NATO. More analysis here: [_link]— John Bolton (@AmbJohnBolton) December 29, 2021
As 2022 nears, Biden's weakness is a danger. Now liberated from the EU, the stage is set for a bigger UK role in safeguarding Western security. London can proceed boldly in its foreign policy, especially within NATO. More analysis here: [_link]
Donald Trump's INF exit: Masterminded by John Bolton, to Russia's benefit | DW News | 'Sapere aude'
Listen back to me talking on BBC Radio 4 at 6:15am this morning - talking new food import rules coming in to force at midnight tonight [_link]— Shane Brennan (@ColdChainShane) December 31, 2021
Listen back to me talking on BBC Radio 4 at 6:15am this morning - talking new food import rules coming in to force at midnight tonight [_link]
New year Brexit changes `permanently damage' EU trade, says food body 'Sapere aude'
Four cleared of toppling Edward Colston statute [_link]— The Guardian (@guardian) January 5, 2022
Four cleared of toppling Edward Colston statute [_link]
Labour's left uneasy with leader's view on tearing down Colston statue | The Guardian - June 8, 2020 |
[_link]— David Olusoga (@DavidOlusoga) January 6, 2022
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I'm one of the Colston Four. Our victory took the nation closer to racial justice By Rhian Graham 'Sapere aude'
Lawyers jump to juries' defence as Tories fume at Colston Four verdict [_link]— Haroon Siddique (@Haroon_Siddique) January 7, 2022
Lawyers jump to juries' defence as Tories fume at Colston Four verdict [_link]
"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 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]
Boris Johnson accused of corruption after 'great exhibition' text emerges [_link]— The Guardian (@guardian) January 6, 2022
Boris Johnson accused of corruption after 'great exhibition' text emerges [_link]
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.
Lloyds boss António Horta-Osório to be hauled before MPs to explain his bank's alleged cover-up of HBOS Reading fraud, with ex HBOS CEOs James Crosby + Andy Hornby also being called to explain themselves. via @alexhawkes [_link]— Ian Fraser (@Ian_Fraser) June 23, 2018
Lloyds boss António Horta-Osório to be hauled before MPs to explain his bank's alleged cover-up of HBOS Reading fraud, with ex HBOS CEOs James Crosby + Andy Hornby also being called to explain themselves. via @alexhawkes [_link]
His next job Credit Suisse ... 'Sapere aude'
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
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]
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
The bank boss should have been in quarantine when he attended the Wimbledon finals [_link]
Latest Graun toon for the morning shift - tho comments closed at midnight last night, so why not carpet bomb Laos or bring forward legislation to slaughter the first born instead, just to take your mine off it? [_link]— Martin Rowson (@MartinRowson) January 18, 2022
Latest Graun toon for the morning shift - tho comments closed at midnight last night, so why not carpet bomb Laos or bring forward legislation to slaughter the first born instead, just to take your mine off it? [_link]
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.
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. 'Sapere aude'
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
The final nail in #LiarJohnson's coffin Tory MP #ChristianWakeford #BurySouth defects to Labour moments before Boris Johnson takes PMQs - UK politics live [_link]
Martin Rowson on Tory sharks circling their prey [_link]— Guardian Opinion (@guardianopinion) January 19, 2022
Martin Rowson on Tory sharks circling their prey [_link]
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