Benedict Spence
@BenedictSpence
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Occasionally on your screen. Now, for instance. Mostly microplastic. My views are of terraced houses.
London, England
Joined April 2009
Imagine needing 280 characters to demonstrate you don’t have one.
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“What is the charge? Smoking a cigarette? A succulent outdoor cigarette?
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If I was prime minister, I would simply *not* tweet that I was meeting with a company at the center of conspiracies about buying up land in the immediate aftermath of a farmers’ protest. The man can’t even be evil competently.
I'm determined to deliver growth, create wealth and put more money in people’s pockets. This can only be achieved by working in partnership with leading businesses, like @BlackRock, to capitalise on the UK’s position as a world leading hub for investment.
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I’m still staggered that the death of a woman who was set on fire in a street in England isn’t the biggest story in the country.
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So it *is* a land grab. From the people who grow our food. Governed by halfwits, cheered on by imbeciles.
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Justin Trudeau?.
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I can’t imagine why the government wouldn’t want a nationwide inquiry into the mass rape of thousands of children. Either they think child rape isn’t important, or that people might discover its true extent — and who may be to blame.
Exclusive: Labour has rejected Oldham Council's request for a government inquiry into grooming gangs. GB News has seen a letter from Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips urging the council to organise their own inquiry.
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“And one day, that duty, of consoling defeated England players as they traipse forlornly from some far-flung European field, shall fall to you.”
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“I’m sorry, George, but marriage to the Infanta is essential if we are to secure an alliance against France.”
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The UK government wants nothing to do with the man making this possible. Madness.
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What — and I cannot stress this enough — the actual fuck?.
BBC News has just taken the Supreme Leader of Iran’s Friday prayers for 40 minutes. Look at the banner. Am I going mad?
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Well, there it is. The most revolting, demented thing you’ll read today.
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It’s amusing how the richest man on the planet — whose companies make, among other things, cutting edge electric vehicles, rockets and brain implants — is considered some sort of halfwit by Britain’s chattering class.
"Nine times out of ten it is sheer rubbish". Classics professor Mary Beard's health warning on Elon Musk's posts about the Roman Empire #Newsnight
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Do you hear that, lads? You can say what you want now, then just rock up to court and tell the judge you didn’t mean it. That must be how this works, right?.
Black law student Suhel Ali who called England star Bukayo Saka a ‘monkey’ a 'n*****' and a 'black piece of s***' is let off because he ‘was not intending to be racist’
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Remember when Andrew Marr went on Question Time and told us with a straight face investment was going to come flowing back into Britain because of the new-found stability Labour brought?. That was six months ago. Good times, eh? Good times.
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Give it Prince George t’ end of season.
BREAKING: Gareth Southgate has resigned as England manager after his side lost a second Euros final in a row.
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In Dawn Butler’s defence, she is catastrophically stupid.
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You think Churchill was racist? Holy shit, wait until you hear about the guy he beat.
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Sorry folks, I just don’t think a man who gave away sovereign British territory to Mauritius, took thousands of pounds of freebies from a billionaire sugar daddy, and who made David Lammy foreign secretary is going to be “embarrassed” by a petition.
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“Just a straightforward eye test drive to Barnard Castle.”
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Quite aside from how revolting the implications of this are, just how stupid do you have to be to admit it out loud?.
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: My Gaza ceasefire vote speeded up my NHS care, says MP Jess Phillips
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Watching the Argentine boat floating away from you down the Seine:
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Wanna feel old? This is what Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman look like today.
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For as long as Alastair Campbell is accepted on the airwaves and in polite society, the rest of us should take no lessons on the evils of disinformation poisoning the public sphere.
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The Chagos Islands decision has made me more angry than anything else Labour has done since getting back in. Both at them, and the Tories for letting us get here. The stupidity of those running this country is dangerous and destructive. We aren’t even 100 days in.
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From refusing to discuss it to signing an agreement in, what, 48 hours?. It’s a humiliation ritual for the UK at this point.
🚨 BREAKING: 56 Commonwealth leaders, including Keir Starmer, have signed a statement saying the ‘time has come’ for a conversation about slave trade reparations. Keir Starmer did originally say it would not be on the agenda for the summit and insisted the UK won’t pay.
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The UK is a deeply unhealthy country, and its politicians do not wish to cure it. A healthy country wouldn’t have child rape on the scale the UK has — and if they wanted to cure this sickness, the government would at the very least launch a vast investigation.
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“I hope this email finds you well.”. How the email finds me:
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This is the sort of thing we will hear trotted out repeatedly for the next five years. Migration is all good, there are no downsides, and all who disagree are racists. It will ultimately be disastrous for Labour.
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No better case study of where the UK is mentally than the fact you can advertise fetishes and state-sanctioned suicide on the London Underground, but not a Twix.
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Is it James Cleverly’s fault that homosexuality is illegal in Qatar? . Or is it his duty, as Foreign Secretary, to give UK nationals the best advice to help them avoid persecution abroad?
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Jess Phillips admits 'mistake' over unrest tweet
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India receives hundreds of millions of pounds in aid from the UK every year. The UK doesn’t even have hypersonic missiles. Hell, it can’t even dig big holes in the ground to collect water.
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Something’s really been bugging me about this #thick trend. It’s being spread by people really upset that they lost. Guys, if the folks who beat you are thick, what does that say about you? Why would you want to advertise that you’d been outwitted by halfwits?.
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I see a lot of talk about Sunak being under pressure to sack Braverman, but even if it wasn’t far too early to do so without rupturing his delicate premiership, she’s the only one speaking the public’s language on immigration. It would be abysmally stupid to sack her now.
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Six months in and Labour’s reached this stage:
Starmer asks UK regulators for ideas to boost growth
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This idea that Britain should be a go-to destination for people caught up in every catastrophe and hardship the world over has to end.
Today in Parliament I called for the creation of a Palestinian family visa scheme. This should bring Palestinian refugees to safety in the UK through a new safe and legal route, and reunite families desperate for their loved ones to reach safety.
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Labour: “Our MPs are being physically threatened because of our stance on Gaza.”. Labour, 24 hours later: “Islamophobia is the real problem, it’s all the far right’s fault.”.
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Jeremy Clarkson is one of the most successful broadcasters the UK has produced. He’s a master of the craft. The people who think him fronting a campaign — any campaign — is bad for said campaign inhabit the same headspace as those who claim Elon Musk is an idiot.
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I almost admire Neil Ferguson. His lover is a hardline climate activist, so he shut down all air travel, locked everyone in their homes and trashed the global economy for her. It’s quite sweet! I think a ‘home workout’ was the least she could do to say thanks.
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This guy’s entire shtick is that everything good about this country is imported from abroad. But when it’s something bad? Hooo buddy, no, that’s an ancient, well-trodden and ever-so English tradition.
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If the response from the Tories to increasingly tedious demands to remove/replace/rename anything created before 1990 was just a curt “no, fuck off,” I suspect their polling would skyrocket.
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He inherits a farm, needed for growing food, which people need to… y’know, eat. Not £6m in cash. In fact, likely almost nothing in cash. Why is this so hard for people to grasp?.
This man will inherit £6m which he will have to pay just £0.6m Inheritance Tax on, over 10 years. He thinks he should inherit £6m for free, and so should all his children and so on forever. Because he is special, he's a farmer.
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The UK government will now be tied to a narrative of foreign election interference and opposition to free speech by going after a man driving a tech revolution with the ear of the likely next president of the US. These people will ruin us.
This is war.
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Absolute state of this. We’re at the stage where the contradictions and lies can be laid bare on national TV like this, but the plan marches grimly on.
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There’s no mystery why Britain is struggling. It has chosen to do this to itself.
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Britain did apologise, and led the world in abolishing it. Not acknowledging this shows ‘absolute lack of respect.’.
Not apologising for slave trade shows 'absolute lack of respect' . Read more🔗.
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Imagine if North Korea got a female leader before the Labour Party. .
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“Oh, when farmers do it it’s fine, but when it’s Just Stop Oil or Extinction Reb—”. Yep, pretty much. One is a group of hard working people protesting a policy legally, the other a bunch of unemployed arts grads breaking the law to demand abstract regime change.
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I’m curious, how many stabbings do there have to be at any given cultural event for that event to be considered a problem?.
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And, sure enough, the response to the past week from UK government ministers and mouthpieces is to warn that the chief danger is Elon Musk’s posts, not what he’s posting about. Clown country.
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What are we calling it then, Great British Suicide? The National Topping Service? British Gas Yourself?.
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The audacity and pomposity of British commentators proclaiming Boris Johnson is the worst PM the UK’s ever had, even as Tony Blair’s spin doctor is invited on national TV at every opportunity.
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There are crash test dummies with a better grasp on their frontal lobes.
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Whatever your thoughts on Boris Johnson, he’s royally pissed off all the right people.
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When next they ask ‘what is English culture?’ tell them it starts with the shared understanding that holding the below opinion should see you committed to an asylum.
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I think Elon Musk’s worst offence was giving Jess Phillips another opportunity to do the TV rounds and talk about Jess Phillips.
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Halfwits on Twitter insist that the government’s decision was some sort of moral victory or strategic brainwave. Meanwhile, the islanders are trying to tell anyone who will listen that they have been betrayed.
Chagos islanders living in Britain have told Sky News that they feel 'betrayed' after the UK decided to hand over sovereignty of the remote Chagos Islands to Mauritius following a decades-long dispute. Full story:
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Politicising an U8’s football match over a very complex foreign war that is used as an excuse by bigots to ostracise and intimidate the Jewish community in this country is repugnant.
Today, our U8s coach told us the opposing team forfeited the game over our Palestine corner flags. No issue with displaying them; confirmed with the FA. However, we view this incident as an opportunity to enlighten our followers about the gravity of the situation.
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Nicola Sturgeon: “Aye, it’s no a good thing, but Margaret Ferrier wouldnae have been in this situation if Scotland were an independent nation, not sending MPs doon to Westminster, and that’s why I believe it’s time for a second refer—.
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The damage he is going to do will dwarf what went before.
Keir Starmer has refused to rule out signing away other British overseas territories. Gibraltar and Falklands are not safe with Labour.
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Call me a cynic but it’s almost as if… there were never going to be far-right rallies in Hackney or Walthamstow.
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Credit where it’s due, Louise Haigh saw Lammy, Miliband, Reeves and Phillipson vying for top spot as worst government minister, said ‘hold my brain cell’ and dived straight in.
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Some of you actually listen to them. Never ceases to amaze me.
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No, they shouldn’t. And fortunately, that’s not what happened. Why are you implying it did?.
Black activist #SashaJohnson in hospital in critical condition after sustaining a gunshot wound to the head. Nobody should have to potentially pay with their life because they stood up for racial justice #BlackLivesMatter
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Of course the Guardian would say that there’s a racism problem in the British press. Just look at how they depicted Priti Patel.
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And to think, this Mediterranean island jewel *voted* to be part of the UK, and the result was ignored by… the UK. A truly unforgivable decision.
I have arrived in Malta (33c). They have red post boxes and British plug sockets. This is a proper country.
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“No, you don’t have legitimate concerns about immigration. You don’t. YOU DON’T! Because there are none!”
This is the sort of thing we will hear trotted out repeatedly for the next five years. Migration is all good, there are no downsides, and all who disagree are racists. It will ultimately be disastrous for Labour.
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Labour suggesting the Chagos Islands were a potential illegal migration route is so weak it’s funny. The nearest country to them is the Maldives. More than 500 kilometers away.
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If you’re in favour of first cousin marriage, you’re a freak.
Independent MP Iqbal Mohamed speaks against a ban on first cousin marriage in the Commons.
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I keep seeing people posting that X, Y or Z thing is going to bring down Starmer. Simple question is always “how?” He has five years and a huge majority leading a party that has never ditched a sitting PM. You really think he — or they — are going to throw it all away?.
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The government aren’t going to hold a fresh election over a petition, don’t be daft.
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I’m sure the British press will greet this with the same level of hysteria displayed in the immediate aftermath of Liz Truss’s budget.
Now the pound is falling. Over the past three days sterling (in trade weighted terms) is down by 1.2%. That's the biggest fall in more than 18 months.
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Oh look, that thing everyone said would happen is happening.
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What are local panels? Who sits on them? How did they get there? And what have they and their opinions got to do with enforcing the law?.
🚨 Recent violence has shaken our communities. We're working hard to support you, 24/7. We're meeting with local panels to drive our response. We’re doing everything we can. We stand with you.
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Man eats lunch. We’ll have more at 11.
Nigel Farsge lunching at Scott’s Mayfair in the most expensive street in the U.K. today. To be fair I’m certain he was working on constituency business - although it didn’t sound like it.
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We are so fucked.
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If Labour MPs are facing physical threats to the point it influences their voting, a line has been crossed and we should immediately stop things encouraging this thuggery. Starting with the constant pro-Palestine rallies in London.
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Jesus Christ, a former carpenter of some repute, social media influencer and rambling enthusiast, died today at the age of 33. #WaPoDeathNotices.
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The Met arrested a man protesting Hamas’s terrorism not because he did anything wrong, but because it momentarily made their day easier. Thats what the British state does. It makes life easier for itself in the very short term, and to hell with the long-term consequences.
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Can’t wait to be locked up in Belmarsh for saying women’s football sucks.
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The Telegraph story about @darrengrimes_ ought to anger you and terrify you in equal measure, regardless of your politics.
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So he’ll take this freebie, and then slap new taxes on the parents of children at fee-paying schools who aren’t lucky enough to have billionaire sugar daddies?. As well as getting him to pay for his wife’s clothes. What a man.
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer says he took £20,000 in donations for accommodation for his 16-year-old son to study "peacefully" for his GCSE exams . [@BBCRadio4].
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Labour MPs discussing a state-run social media platform. Where the state decides what happens. That doesn’t sound worrying at all.
Excellent stuff. I’ve been thinking the exact same thing. However, I’d like @lisanandy at @DCMS to think about what a democratic, open source, transparent, public, bottom-up, cooperative based, .social media platform looks like and see it kick-started by said dept asap.
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Once more for those at the back: you don’t despise your leaders enough. You think you do, but you don’t.
🚨 NEW: The UK is sending farmers abroad over £516m in foreign aid, whilst the inheritance tax changes are set to raise £520m for the Treasury. [@christiancalgie].
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Today an archaeologist has complained the Roman legionary exhibition at the British Museum contains “unrelenting fascist imagery” and once again I am proposing we just close half the universities, the experiment has clearly failed.
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Only a government set on decline would put Bridget Phillipson in charge of educating the nation’s children.
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Gosh, that Yorkshire accent’s pretty strong, I only got half of what she said.
Urdu: A summer general election is set for July 4th! . I will be standing to be re-elected as the parliamentary candidate for Bradford West. Support my campaign to help me continue to be a strong and out-spoken voice for Bradford West.
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A government rushing to act against the best interests of its people and its allies before its allies or people can stop it. There’s a word for what they’re doing.
🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Chagos deal could be signed this week ahead of Trump’s inauguration.
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It starts with inanimate objects, like statues and property. The police don’t intervene, for fear of escalation and their own safety, but people say ‘that’s fine, it’s not people.’. But that’s how it starts. That’s always how it starts.
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The government calling people criminals before they have been found guilty isn’t concerning at all. I’m sure it won’t prejudice any trials. Totally normal behaviour.
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Labour would be handing over a vitally important military base to a country that never possessed it, which will then give it to China. This would be utterly unforgivable.
🇬🇧🇲🇺 Labour opens door to handing Chagos Islands back to Mauritius.
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The people wearing balaclavas shouting about Palestine and making gun gestures are victims of misinformation, or something. Just like the rioters in Southport are victims, because they acted on misinformation… oh wait, it literally doesn’t work like that.
These people came to this location because it has been spread that racists were coming to attack them. This misinformation was spread entirely to create this content. Don't spread it MR Tice!.
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Lee Anderson is *still* the top story doing the rounds. Not MPs being threatened with violence, or antisemitism, or even any of the other very real problems afflicting the country. Not even Israel/Gaza. Lee Anderson. News is just a circus in this country.
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What’s that? A pandemic? This calls for immediate virtue signalling!.
#Coronavirus: The coronavirus is not ‘Chinese’. Viruses do not have nationalities. Thank you @unmeshdesai for raising this question. #MQT
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Not letting hostile states spy on you is racist now.
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I suspect the British government will use Elon Musk’s posts on X as justification to turbocharge efforts to control social media. The flexing of American free speech will be used as a weapon to curtail speech in the UK. And no doubt, the EU will do the same.
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Build some effing reservoirs, then.
💧 UK will start running out of water in 10 years, says environment secretary.
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