It’s me, the World Book Day grinch, once again complaining that World Book Day costumes are a) homework for parents (which should be banned), and b) another way to highlight who in the class is poor (which should be banned).
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Stephen Bush
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- BREAKING: The Conservative Party.
- I'm sorry, but if you can't laugh at "Concerned about my kid, a fortnight later I decided to test my eyesight by driving 30 mins down the road with them", when can you?
- The Arsenal back four The Tory government 🤝 Failing to handle Marcus Rashford on his debut
- Work for an MP and you too could have your relationship status and salary range broadcast to thousands of people so your boss can hit back at someone tweeting as 'ComradeWario69'.
- Surreal to think that not a single living Prime Minister, including the incumbent, think this is a good idea.Theresa May signs the Article 50 letter, as she prepares to trigger the start of the UK's formal withdrawal from the EU on Wednesday.
- I saw my estranged father on the train and all I got was this lousy column:
- I don't often do pure opinion, but made an exception tonight. Boris Johnson knows exactly what he's doing and what the consequences of what he says might be:
- My unpopular opinion: if you haven't confirmed all the candidates to face your setpiece Toughest Interviewer (TM), then you shouldn't schedule the other interviews with your toughest interviewer.
- The fifth-placed candidate for the London mayoralty (who for context got only 10k more votes than the winning candidate for the Croydon mayoralty) has been in the main slot on Politics Live before any of the 32 borough leaders elected this month. Super-healthy!Reclaim Party's Laurence Fox says proposed windfall tax on energy firms is "not rebalancing, that's just theft" Families "can't afford the basics" while some companies are "posting record profits", says Class think tank's Ellie Mae O'Hagan #PoliticsLive bbc.in/3wxkeXg
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Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election result: LAB: 58.6% (+24.1) SNP: 27.6% (-16.6) CON: 3.9% (-11.1) LDM: 2.9% (-2.2) GRN: 2.0% (+2.0) REF: 1.3% (+1.3) Labour GAIN from the SNP.- Ok, I was wrong. THIS is my favourite chart about the last 14 years of British politics: ft.com/content/1cc501…
- Financial Times appoints Stephen Bush as columnist and associate editor on.ft.com/3Ekvmcv @stephenkb
