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Very good interview with Rory Stewart on R4 right now. He's a deeply impressive MP and minister.
He's wrong on drugs in prison - the best way to tackle it is to stop testing for cannabis, which fundamentally alters incentives towards the safer end of the spectrum.
But you can't have everything.
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Strongly advise you watch parliament right now parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/e5…
It's full of business motion, amendment blah de blah - but in reality it is parliament kicking back against a government which has undermined and ignored it at every turn
Ken Clarke: "I find it unbelievable that people are putting such effort into excluding the possibility of the House expressing its opinion. I say to my honourable friends who are getting over excited, that perhaps they should don a yellow jacket and go outside."
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Quick reminder that most Tory MPs - not some, most - are deeply misinformed.
Their constituents have tried. They have been sent material constantly over the last two and a half years and regularly emailed, all of it to inform them about basic facts over Brexit. They've ignored them and read the Telegraph.
Echo chamber culture is not just about social media. It is in parliament too.
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I really do try with the echo chamber thing, but nearly every day I have to unfollow someone on the other side just because of the rampant conspiracy theory tosh.
There are still lots of Leave voters in my stream, but all of them have either changed their mind, or become so disillusioned by Brexit that they're just mostly in pain or resignation.
Anyone still actively and enthusiastically supporting it has had to go through so many emotional and intellectual contortions that they've start to look quite insane.
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Very good interview with the ES of @PTADNigeria, @sharon_ikeazor. She explains what PTAD is and what they do. Among her many accomplishments is the recovery of “over N16 billion from the insurance underwriters who were handling pensions before PTAD was established.”
This is Nigeria: A woman retired as a level 2 officer, but was collecting the pension of level 14. Those are some of the crazy fraud issues @PTADNigeria has had to deal with.

Excerpt from Guardian interview with ES @sharon_ikeazor

guardian.ng/saturday-magaz…
Nigeria can be a crazy place sha. 2016 or so when FGN insisted civil service salaries would only be paid into BVN-verified accounts, there was a spike in requests asking to change salary accounts to Microfinance Banks and Savings & Loans Cos (which did not have BVN at the time)
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Right now, there are lots of MPs saying they want to #StopBrexit, but don't think there's a way do do it using existing Parliamentary procedures.

I will let you into a secret, MPs. Every single one of the existing Parliamentary procedures was made up at some point...
And guess what? You can do that as well. Stop being terrified of the ugly woman with the gigantic necklaces, for a start.

Now, organise yourselves by talking to each other. All of you need to go to the Commons chamber, stand there, refuse to carry out whatever business the...
...PM and her gang are trying to force on you. Tell Mr Speaker, you have all decided to have a vote on whether to leave the EU or #RemainInTheEU. Refuse to do anything else, for as long as it takes for him to agree with your demand.

Then vote. Remember, Parliament is sovereign.
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Didn't @RepSwalwell tell @realDonaldTrump back in April "If the president is going to accuse members of the Obama administration of breaking the law, he should prove it."? Why YES, yes he did: politico.com/story/2017/04/… #QAnon
2)“If the president wants to say that Susan Rice committed a crime, he has the power to declassify. No one else does,” Rep. Eric Swalwell said Wednesday. “So, he could actually show us where the crime was. I don't expect he will, because I think this is just more obstructionism.”
3) @RepSwalwell said that "if Trump has evidence Susan Rice committed a crime, he should release it and let the public judge for itself. He actually can show us what his evidence looks like. Right now, he has a credibility problem because he's been proved wrong a lot on Russia.”
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I keep thinking back to a discussion a few months on reddit about THE BELGARIAD. Several comments were made about it being cliche and pedestrian, and someone said, “Yeah, it’s a fine story, but it’s never going to be a classic.”
And all I could think to respond was, “It’s over thirty years later and we’re still talking about it. How is that NOT ‘a classic’?
But that got me thinking- I cite THE BELGARIAD (and THE MALLOREON, its sequel series) as one of my influential works. But what is that influence? I know I’ve read the whole series several times. My copies of the books are in terrible shape.
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Good morning from New York.

According to reports, Trump's attorney Michael Cohen will be seeking a temporary restraining order this morning preventing the government from using the materials obtained during the raid on his home and office.

Will cover it here at 10:30 a.m. EST
General bustle in the courtroom right now.

U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood has not yet taken the bench.
Judge Wood on sealing:

"The compelling interest is here protecting the ongoing criminal investigation as well as the attorney-client privilege."

Attorney for the press notes that the investigation is already public.

"This is as full a courtroom as I've ever been in."
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I can't with this guy...but interestingly, he's also revealing a lot with each one of these interviews.

Why not just go speak to the Grand Jury? Clearly, it's not about avoiding spending more time talking about the investigation and your experience...

He can't help himself..
#NOW: SAM NUNBERG says he was told he wasn't a target or a subject of the investigation and he was OFFERED IMMUNITY by the Special Counsel's team.

He also said THEY WANT HIM TO TESTIFY...TO CATCH ROGER STONE ON PERJURY...

ADMITTING THAT ROGER MAY HAVE LIED TO PROSECUTORS.
#LOL: Save this one...

SAM NUNBERG: "I'M NOT GOING TO JAIL, COME ON."
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