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The petition has crossed the three million mark.
Rafael Behr has a great piece in The Guardian about May being finished.
It even has a Hamilton reference.
Parliamentary petitions, including “Revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU,” have a “Show on a map” feature. I note without comment that the second-most signatures of any London constituency are currently in Islington North. Its MP is one J Corbyn.
As the big “Revoke Article 50″ petition approaches 600,000 signatures:
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I think we broke parliament.uk. Which feels like some kind of metaphor.
Good thread from Mitch Benn (@MitchBenn) here, setting out how the conversation around Europe could improve if Brexit is stopped. Just six tweets. Go read.
I love Star Trek: Discovery, but the latest episode, ‘Project Daedalus,’ was infuriating, because they didn’t use an obvious and well-established feature of the programme to get out of a fatal situation.
Finally, some good might come of the Brexit fiasco:
From a senior Tory: “Feels like the last rites of the Tory party”. Slightly overstating perhaps. But captures the mood
— Robert Peston (@Peston) 12 March 2019
Realistically, of course, they’ll cling on at all costs. But “the last rites of the Tory party” is such a pleasant thought.