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✝️ 'Two Bottle Orthodox'. A fan of: Richard Hooker, detective novels, Charles King & Martyr, Ernest Bevin, political history, Benjamin Disraeli & Barbara Pym
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Male suicide etc is a massive problem. But I'm not convinced that applying feminised solutions to male problems - i.e. 'let's talk about it', weepy emoting etc - will work. Men need a common purpose, their own sorts of friendships etc - not a replication of female relationships
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How stupid would you have to be to think that one - and for some reason only one - nation in the world has no distinctive national culture/identity, and that's the country that produced common law, half the world's popular sports, a national literature admired the world over...
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Yes, we are so Islamophobic that you, a Muslim, became First Minister and lost your job for reasons that had nothing to do with your religion and everything to do with the fact that you were an incompetent gobshite
I was the first Muslim leader of a western democracy. And I say Islamophobia has poisoned our politics | Humza Yousaf
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Inject it into my veins. God save the King and thank God that we're not another beige, sterile country whose parliament looks like the conference room of a mid market hotel chain branch.
This whole thing looks mad. The jewels, the ermine, the gold and the sparkly hat. Talking about local bus services and mission-led delivery.
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Reinstate the Batley teacher, disperse the mob, show some backbone.
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The new crime fiction shop in Cambridge, due to open in about a fortnight, is shaping up nicely... You can come & buy some golden age detective novels and visit St Botolph's at the same time! Then go for tea and cake at Fitzbillies (all within a 20 seconds walk of each other)
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My understanding is that football fans have been found guilty of criminal offences for mocking the victims of the Hillsborough disaster. That being the case, can someone explain to me how mobs shouting anti-semitic threats and cheering the murder of Jews aren't also arrested?
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A note to the British left: using the terrible George Floyd incident and riots 4000 miles away as an excuse to lecture millions of English people about how they aren't sufficiently anti-racist, implying that they are all bigots in the process, is not going to win hearts and minds
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I'm a Christian. Many people make their dislike of my religion abundantly & openly clear. I don't love that, but that's life: I can't stop people criticising my religion, that's their right.
But when people criticise Islam, apparently it's Islamophobia & utterly unacceptable...
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Progressive middle class people tend to be so unthinkingly pro immigration because the only immigrants they ever meet are either fellow members of the global laptop class who are indistinguishable from themselves, or low paid domestic workers who are basically their servants
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It is a very odd feature of modern politics that a majority of the Left identifies so strongly with Palestine over Israel, given the weight contemporary progressives ostensibly place on issues such as gay rights, women's rights, being against the death penalty.
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Glad to see that the new crime fiction bookshop in Cambridge, 'Bodies in the Bookshop', is now OPEN. I just went in and it's terrific. It's huge inside. I bought a Dickson Carr and various Golden Age stuff on the owner's personal recommendation. I heartily suggest a visit
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While we're at it, another thing that drives me crazy is replacing BC/AD with 'BCE/CE'. It's the worst sort of half-baked nonsense: let's continue to use the same dating system but relabel it with some daft euphemism to pretend we're not still basing it around the birth of Christ
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Jonathan Ashworth losing is amazing. Leicester has clearly become not so much a British constituency as a battleground in some Hindu-Muslim turf war. That is pretty worrying
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They also, of course, need positive models of masculinity that they can actually own and be proud of - not versions made up for them by middle class liberal feminists that aren't really models of anything, just a negative repudiation of 'toxic masculinity'.
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To all Jews out there: remember that there are those of us who will stick by you under any & all circumstances & aren't fooled one single iota by the wave of dishonesty, evasion and propaganda spewing out from the pro terrorist, pro-Hamas side. Not all of us are stupid or cynical
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I'm sorry but this utter hogswash. If you don't like people drinking beer after (and indeed often during) a cricket match, then that's your problem. No-one is forcing it down your throat. We're not going to become cheerless puritan scolds because your religion doesn't like booze
Cricket must move away from its alcohol culture or it will continue to alienate Muslim fans, one of the game’s most high profile figures has said ⬇️
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The delusions of a parliament wasting huge amounts of time debating a hypothetical ceasefire between two sides neither of whom want one, neither of whom care a jot what we think, in a context where we have no power over any of it. Pathetic.
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Imagine a Britain where the desiccated republicans got their way. Every colourful & eccentric rite & tradition of our ancient country abolished. A nation administered by grey, clinical bureaucrats in sterile, white-washed buildings, presided over by another bland party politician
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The bleating about the Erasmus scheme, which 95% of the population won't have heard of and wouldn't have cared about if they had heard of, is hilarious. A free holiday for middle class students is not worth compromising our national sovereignty for. No normal person cares
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If Gerry Adams had done in the US what he did in Ireland and Britain, he would be in a high security prison if he were lucky. Grinning with terrorists who ordered bombings and killings isn't hilarious. I would like Biden to go and look the victims of the IRA bombings in the eye
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The people trying to erase an entire nation's 1000 year history and culture are historically illiterate quarter-educated goons who write twee, fact-free blither to provide flimsy ballast for their half-arsed, intellectually contemptible progressive ideology
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In short, shut up about your feelings and instead:
- play cricket
- do some gardening
- look after your family
- work hard
- go to Church
- have a few pints with some mates while talking about literally anything other than your emotions.
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I have listened to 'The Rest is History' podcasts on the Nazis recently. Prompts me to reflect that this is about a million times closer to 30s Germany than, say, leaving a supranational trading bloc, a temporary prorogation, or thinking that immigration is probably too high.
A Jewish charity event to help disaffected young boys has been mobbed by anti-Israel protestors after the address was leaked by a provocative social media activist.
Disturbing footage shows a number of masked men abusing Jewish passers-by in Hendon while being blocked by police.
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It seems to me that there are a lot of liberals/'centrists' who would rather see civilization fall, terrorism win and probably be murdered in their beds than even be suspected of being in alliance with low-status people with the 'wrong' opinions.
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I know which side I am on, and it isn't the Islamist barbarians kidnapping and slaughtering innocent Israeli civilians, nor the bargain basement Bollinger Bolsheviks toasting Hamas in their million pound houses in Islington. Solidarity with and victory to Israel.
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There's a certain brand of elite 'feminism' that really is a function of utter self-aggrandising narcissism. Obsessive self-promotion, rampant egotism and social climbing dressed up as a political crusade.
On this momentous day the Garrick club doors are finally open to Women.
Where’s my invitation to become a member?
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The main symptom of our malaise is self hatred. Every institution now hates what it is supposed to serve. The Labour Party hates the working class. Radio 4 hates the bookish middle class. The National Trust hates our heritage. The Church of England hates its loyal congregations
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...a wildly disproportionate amount of the popular music widely enjoyed across the world, a set of national myths & folklore to rank with any (from Beowulf to Robin Hood etc), well known foods, ranging from our many local cheeses through to our fine tradition of beer brewing...
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If self-hating progressive pseuds want to sneer at all this & pretend that our national inheritance is some cringy pop-culture version of Britishness (at best), that is their prerogative. But to pretend English culture somehow doesn't exist is as absurd as it is contemptible.
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I joined the Labour Party when I was 15. I have been a cllr, ward organiser, University Labour Club Chair, branch secretary. Trans women are not women. Expel me. My membership number and personal details available via DM.
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We face an extraordinary 5 months in politics: the collapse of the Tories, Trump very possibly winning, a Le Pen surge in French elections. Such drama would have been unlikely if the incumbents had done one simple thing: made reasonable steps to keep immigration down
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Can't help feeling that there's a real strain of envy coming out among comedians defending the cancellation of
@glinner
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Starmer is shaping up to be a British Francois Hollande. A personally dull technocratic centre-left leader who manages to actually win an election against a corrupt and unpopular centre-right incumbent government before failing dismally in office, ending up as popular as smallpox
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Parliament being bullied into submission by Islamist and Islamist adjacent thugs. Yeah, no problem here, nothing to see. We are a totally normal country and in no way governed by spineless cretins
Christ on a pony. If true, this is horrendous.
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One of the things we all valued so much about the Queen is that in an age of tawdry exhibitionism, California-esque psychobabble and self-obsessive therapy culture, she stood for discretion, stoicism and Getting on With It. An antidote to an age of narcissist crybabies
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The view that if you are sufficiently middle class the law should just not apply to you is probably widespread among the yogarati. Prison, in these people's minds, is just not compatible with shopping at Waitrose or having grade 7 oboe at some deep metaphysical level.
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Dear me I am sick of being told that we all need to 'open up and talk about it'. TBH I don't want to constantly hear about everyone's mental health traumas. Bottle it up, or if you must, self medicate with alcohol like any self respecting English person. This isn't California
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Amused by so many Americans asking 'why is Britain so transphobic?'. The real question is 'why are so many Americans nuts?'
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If you want to understand why child sexual abuse gangs in Rotherham and elsewhere were able to get away with it for so long, look at Crispin Blunt's statement. Cynical weaponisation of race and other minority characteristics to deflect from the sordid reality of abuse
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The reason why Farage and 'populists' are so hated by the main parties is because the have the temerity to politicise whole swathes of policy that liberal technocrats wish to be taken out of the realm of democratic politics altogether & decided in committees by 'people like them'
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Amazing how many people don't appear to understand that Cappadocia was in no sense 'Turkey'. There were no ethnic Turks there until about 800 years after St George died. It was a Greek speaking Christian territory
Happy Turkish Bloke Day!
George was born in Cappadocia (Turkey) and died in Palestine 🇵🇸
He never even visited England.
Best not tell the flag shaggers!
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I find the fact that we have to wait for courts to pronounce which (utterly mainstream) opinion we are 'allowed' to hold to be absolutely batshit. A presumption that any opinion might be deemed unacceptable until some judge has decided otherwise is mental.
A judge in the UK has ruled that not subscribing to Critical Race Theory is a protected belief under equality laws.
Sean Corby, an employee of the government’s workplace conciliation service Acas, was accused of promoting “racist ideas” for saying that he favoured Martin Luther
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Putin has managed to be more respectful in response to the Queen's death than the New York Times. What a world.
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Well I think that recent events have very much confirmed that Keir Starmer is not in fact some sneaky political genius but rather the luckiest opposition leader possibly ever who won by default because the Tories machine gunned themselves in the face
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...a v distinctive history of Christianity (both pre and post reformation) - ranging from our medieval reputation as 'the Dowry of Mary' to our possession of an unusual 'catholic and reformed' established church - the legacy of which is 100s of fine parish churches & cathedrals
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and probably most obviously the fact that England has continually existed as a nation with well developed, distinctive state structures for pretty much as long as anywhere in the world, since around at least the 10th century (arguably earlier).
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I have nothing against recognising the achievements of immigrants, but it does seem like the native white working class - in London, the cockneys of Whitechapel, the despised poor of Southwark - have simply been written out of history, like they didn't exist
This city was built by migrants. By refugees.
In the face of hostile, draconian and immoral immigration policies across Europe, we must all show more compassion towards those fleeing their country for a safer life.
#RefugeeWeek
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After David Amess was murdered by an Islamist, parliament decided that the real issue was hurty words online for some reason. I wonder what they'll decide is the big problem this time. Irresponsible placard manufacturers? Poor quality daytime TV? Climate change?
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My theory on why most politicised young people are so apathetic about (or hostile to) free speech is that they've never had the experience of holding views that put them in a small minority. Politicised at university, they've always been in the majority among their peers
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Does a single British politician have the balls to speak against the imposition of a de facto blasphemy law on large swathes of the UK by elements of the Muslim community? Just one would be nice
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Any Lab leadership candidates want to talk about, ooh, I don't know, the cost of living, wages, jobs, pensions, tax? You know, what the rest of the country cares about, rather than self-indulgent bullshit student politics that makes us look like aliens from the Planet Gobshite
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Given that 'God Save the King' didn't become the national anthem until the 18th century, around 100 years after the regicide, that would be...tricky
God Save the King is a disgraceful 'national' anthem that should have been scrapped 350 years ago when Charles I head was chopped off.
Nothing to do with the UK or even England, just King this, King that.
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Is it just me, or have others noted a major decline in some basic social skills? For example, so often now when I meet someone new and have to make small talk etc, I ask them about themselves, but they make no effort to reciprocate: they just talk about themselves
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Dear me, everyone gets on their high horse so much about Bojo. Nothing he has done comes close to attempting to prevent a democratic referendum from being implemented and breaking trust with basic democratic norms, which is what most of his detractors were precisely guilty of
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It still amazes me that, for most progressives, the traditions and identity of indigenous peoples - Maori, Aboriginal Australians, First Nations etc - are sacred and to be protected - but in the case of western populations, the same things are to be derided & undermined.
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Radical idea. Maybe the best way to win over millions of people who want immigration reduced is to...reduce immigration.
Campbell is right. The best way for Labour to deal with the Reform issue is not to pander to it. It’s to deal with the actual material problems that are fuelling people’s discontent. And sort themselves out on the trans issue.
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Channel 4 has spent years broadcasting nasty sexualised programmes intended to titillate & shock. It allowed an anti Semitic leader of a totalitarian theocracy to broadcast an 'xmas message'. I presume that those wanting to shut down GB News will call for an end to Channel 4 too?
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The Queen apologises to no-one, you tacky little American halfwits.
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Now I am no fan of Thatcher. But when Giscard D'Estaing was incredibly rude and condescending to her shortly after she took power, in revenge, when he next visited Downing St, she sat him during dinner opposite two enormous portraits of Wellington and Nelson. 👏😂🤣
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Whatever else one might think about Braverman, her statement that the police play favourites is transparently correct. Just Stop Oil & the pro Palestine marches are obvs policed with a soft touch. The fact that this is so controversial in the Tory Party shows what a joke they are
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At some point, if immigration continues at its current rate, we will have to face the fact that the UK is more like an airport lounge or temporary worker scheme with an island attached than an actual country. An actual country has continuity & a coherent culture. It's a home
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I've spent years knocking on doors in elections. Working class voters often say 'Why should I vote, no one listens'. I've always tried to persuade them otherwise.
If Brexit doesn't happen, what are we meant to say ? Basically - yep, correct, they don't give a shit what you think
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I can no longer live by lies.
I have resigned from the Labour Party after 17 years. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but I could no longer reconcile my conscience to remaining a member.
My resignation letter is here:
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I am heartily praying for the Queen's recovery. But if it is God's will that she die now, then she will face her maker with calm assurance and be able to say with complete conviction: 'I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith'
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Listening to
@TheRestHistory
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I feel a 'Why we need to revive Young England style neo-chivalric ideals of masculinity', or possibly a 'Bring back Muscular Christianity' article coming on...
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The Ukrainians show how powerful a motivating factor patriotism is, no matter how much snooty liberals sneer at it. People won't die for some abstract idea, or for some highfalutin ideology, but they'll go to the wall to defend their homes, their families, their country.
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Once upon time the British upper classes had to travel an awfully long way to exploit poor foreigners. But why go to the bothersome faff of having an Empire when you can get much the same effect from mass immigration instead?
I’m a white Islingtonian Londoner.
Neighbour: Italian
Local shop: Turkish
Drycleaner: Iranian
Dressmaker: Albanian
Hairdresser: Rumanian
Builder: Polish
IT chap: South Asian
Staff in M&S/Waitrose/JS: very varied
Youngster giving me Tube seat: Black
#ThisisLondon
#Thankyouall
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This illustrates the inescapably eugenic nature of assisted dying. Once you say that some lives are just not worth living and can be destroyed, it has proven impossible to stop that logic being extended. It has happened everywhere that the law has been changed.
"Sorry, luv: no ramps. But we can do you a slippery slope."
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Seriously, the more I think about this the madder it seems.
Current UK polling puts the SNP on 2-3% of the national vote share.
Reform are regularly 15-20%
SNP are only on the ballot in 8.7% of parliamentary seats. Reform are standing in 93.7% of seats.
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Jenny, you're a monster.
There is no way it can ever be acceptable to prevent someone saying goodbye to their dying wife. It is evil and individuals who went along with it are culpable. May God have mercy on them
The personal sacrifices made by millions of people during this pandemic have been colossal.
We haven’t forgotten.
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The stupidest 'gotcha' from the progs who claim that England has no national culture is 'but akshually x came from outside' b/s. All cultures that aren't either totally isolated or stagnant borrow from, adapt & are influenced by others. It's a sign of vitality, numbnuts.
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For heaven's sake build enough modular nuclear reactors to provide 100% of our energy needs. Do it. One big, bold policy gambit and we get reliable energy with negligible carbon footprint for generations and are no longer dependent on the Middle East or Russia. No brainer.
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Falklands, won. WWII, won. WWI, won. Boer, won. Crimean, won. Napoleonic, won. Seven Years', won. Spanish succession, won. Last war we lost was the American war of independence 250 years ago. Last war the Americans lost was Vietnam, 50 years ago.
An army so stupid they couldn't come up with a summer uniform in 400 years. No wonder they've lost every war and the only wars they've won they needed help from Americans.
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Being a binman is, as well as an honest, tough job, also more socially useful than most bankers, lawyers and not a few scientists. They have never caused a financial crash or helped a tobacco firm avoid liability, but we would all soon notice if the rubbish wasn't collected
Imagine later in life seeing this post from your Dad, would kill me
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Didn't watch Eurovision because it's utter trash but gave a little chuckle when I heard that Israel beat Ireland and the UK public gave Israel 12 points. Not everyone is a swivelled eyed terrorist-loving loon
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Sunak is a totally useless nonentity who deserves a pasting, but Steve Bray is also an utter fucking goon who should just be locked up for everyone's sanity, his own most of all
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I hate all of the nonsensical Starmer 'we must stop this divisive politics' kumbaya twaddle. We are divided because people have genuine disagreements, and sooner or later you have to pick a side. There are zero sum games and clashes of view that can't be magicked away.
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Middle-class liberal left groupthink drives me insane, combining as it does a) utter contempt for anyone who disagrees, b) a failure to even acknowledge that their view (like any) is partial, not 'neutral' wisdom, c) a peculiar kind of sneering smugness that makes my skin crawl
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Fact check: untrue
First poster for Ridley Scott’s ‘NAPOLEON’.
In theaters on November 22.
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Revealing that when pressed Starmer won't apologise or admit that there was anything wrong with the donations because it was 'within the rules'. The classic legalistic mindset where everything is reduced to procedure. Other moral considerations don't even enter his head
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On Thursday my wife gave birth to a healthy baby boy. All is well. Holding a tiny new born baby, who is utterly dependent on his mum and yourself to survive, gives you some perspective on life. I won't be attending to much else for a while
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These dreary people would reduce us to some besuited no-mark president reading the speech in a glorified office block, like one of those drably utilitarian modern parliament buildings. Why is the modern left-wing mind so dismal and grey?
Hereditary prince in a ridiculous Ruritanian uniform on a golden throne in Parliament’s unelected chamber reading out a Government’s annual plan.
Welcome to modern Britain.
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Feeling nostalgic for an age when northern Labour MPs were hard as nails ex-miners called Stan or Billy wearing flat caps and respectable suits. The sort you could imagine winning the VC on Sword beach or downing 6 pints without even feeling tipsy.
Labour ideals of fairness and equality have been at the core of my life. I’m standing to be the next Labour MP for Sheffield Central to support the city that has supported me.
Please join me, in taking on this great challenge.
For Sheffield. For Labour.
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Face it: Keir Starmer is a robotic nonentity with a charisma bypass, basically a slightly less nasal Ed Miliband with better PR, who has got unbelievably lucky because his opposition has spent 2 years machine gunning themselves in the face. He will win by default
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What strikes me from watching a lot of 70s TV is that back then, even though things weren't going swimmingly (economically esp), nonetheless England still had a sort of unselfconscious cultural confidence. We didn't spend our whole time cringing and apologising for existing
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The Labour Party was founded to represent and help the working class. It now seeks merely to control, harass and chide it.
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No matter how distasteful you might find their politics, if your response to a political party that polls 20%+ is 'let's ban it', rather than 'let's try to persuade people that our ideas are better', then I am not sure you've got the hang of this democracy lark
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I cannot support
@lisanandy
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I'll spoil my ballot for Labour Leader. They're all identity politics extremists who alienate decent public opinion on a daily basis
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I think that the Tories are a disastrous, morally despicable, incompetent mess and in many ways I'd rather walk barefoot over broken glass than vote for them. But this is so totalitarian I actually might have to seriously consider voting Tory because these maniacs are worse
Labour will:
🌹 Legislate for a trans-inclusive conversion therapy ban
🌹 Make anti-LGBT+ hate crime an aggravated offence
🌹Modernise Gender Recognition processes
🌹 Appoint an international LGBT+ envoy
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Imagine if I moved to Germany, refused to take the oath to uphold their Basic Law and therefore did not become a citizen, then moaned about not being able to vote in German Federal Elections.
I'd be a clown.
Andrea: you're a clown
I’ve lived in the UK for almost 30 years, I pay my taxes here, I’ve been called for jury service and I’m still not allowed to vote in the general election. It drives me nuts! So please use your vote to get rid of the Tories on my behalf - 4 July
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It becomes very clear that there is literally nothing Israel could do to defend itself and recover its hostages that wouldn't be screechingly condemned by the pro-Palestinian left. According to them it should sit back and wait for the next round of Hamas rockets and slaughter
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Economists around the world are delighted that a profession has been found - epidemiology - that is even worse at forecasts than they are.
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An awful lot of people just don't seem to get the politics of the car. For a lot of people, often working class, often shift workers or tradesmen, there is no practical alternative to driving for them to get to work. Charging them ruinous daily amounts for the privilege is unfair
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I find the discourse of 'everyone should be free to be their true, authentic selves' troubling. Have we considered the possibility that one's 'true self' might be pretty unpleasant? That repressing it might be the key to upholding the thin veneer that is civilised existence?
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The whole point about the Christian Church of the Middle Ages was that it was a universal institution that transcended national boundaries. The fact that modern progressives think 'St George wasn't English!' is a gotcha reveals more about their own parochialism than anything else
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I just carefully read
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Dominic Sandbrook, in the Sunday Times, dismissed my whole book as the nagging of an inconveniently female historian. But if you can tell the difference between historical analysis and “telling people off”, the paperback comes out today.
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