David Scullion
@DavidScullion
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Executive Editor @TheCriticMag
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Joined January 2012
“Far from being grateful for vital war stocks, the Soviets seemed to go out of their way to be difficult and obstructive” — @militaryhistori on one of the most gruelling Navy tasks of WWII
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Why did the Bill Committee have six witnesses from states that have only just introduced dying laws, but none from Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands or Oregon? asks @tomhunt1988
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“This is not 1975. Margaret Thatcher did not become leader after our party’s worst-ever defeat. She did find herself third-place in the polls behind another right-wing party within her first hundred days. She did not lead a party accustomed to regicide”
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"The hapless Conservative leader is consigning the party to complete irrelevance"
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“In public appointment there once was a disclaimer that none of this material would actually be seen by selectors, but no longer”
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This is strong stuff, but totally right
“If Rob Jenrick really believes, like me, that the Chagos deal is treachery, then he should commit to locking up the traitors once back in office. Anything else is all so terribly #14Years” — Critic Editor CD Montgomery on the Tories still not getting it
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Britain is rapidly developing anarcho-tyranny, in which the governable are governed increasingly harder and the ungovernable are increasingly ungoverned, writes @93vintagejones
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The law of undue spiritual influence — far from being an arcane piece of jurisprudence from the 18th Century — must be enforced in full, with serious sentences for those convicted, says @DanielDieppe
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Showing off my cultural hinterland by leaving Spotify open in the café
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“Immersed in virtual worlds, we scarcely recognise that we have literally slowed down — our traveling speeds have decelerated since the early 21st century” — @ktdrozdowski
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Economic stagnation has set in for most of Europe. Anti-growth lies like Net Zero incurred a debt to the truth that we are now paying, says @RealHarrisonG
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Behold, the fall of the German firewall! The other parties are finally working with the AFD, writes @e_dampier
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.@BDSixsmith says if you’ve got a podcast, you don’t automatically become a multi-dimensional philosopher king
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“If I am subject to a professional obligation to promote EDI, I intend to refuse as publicly and as noisily as possible and look forward to presenting all these arguments to my disciplinary Tribunal.” — @SVPhillimore
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Expertise is invaluable in the right context. But the technocratic worldview demands undue deference where it either hasn’t been earned or isn’t appropriate, says @HCH_Hill
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Since digitising all interviews, both universities are rife with reports of cheating — Our new University Challenged column
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Canadians’ pride in their country is at its lowest since records began. How could it be otherwise, when they are being told that theirs is a genocidal state? asks @yuanyi_z
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