Deirdre Heenan
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Prof of Social Policy, UU. Senior Associate Nuffield Trust. Columnist SPB, Irish News. From Annaclone Co Down, Fan of Man Utd. Hon Consul 🇦🇹 All views my own.
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Kate Hoey, woman who set fire to the house, fanned the flames, added accelerant, *can’t believe* it burnt down.
#pmqs
#BrexitDeal
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This is Dr Richard Harris. The Australian anesthesiologist, aeromedical consultant, cave diving expert with over 30 years experience. Responsible for co-ordinating the
#ThaiCaveResue
operation.
When your children ask about heroes, tell them about him.
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Starting salaries for doctors:
🇦🇺: £44,000
🇨🇦: £46,000
🇫🇷: £43,700
🇺🇸: £41,900
🇮🇪: £53,000
Meanwhile in 🇬🇧: £29,384
Junior doctors aren't holding the NHS to ransom. They're holding the NHS together.
Pay them what they deserve.
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
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Barry Keoghan.
In 2003 his mum passed away. Spent 7 years in foster care with 23 different foster homes.
In 2010 he responded to small casting ad in Dublin shop window.
In 2023 nominated for best supporting actor.
#Oscars2023
#bansheesofinisherin
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This woman may influence UK laws for decades.
The public are entitled to know why Charlotte Owen was given a seat in the House of Lords by Boris Johnson.
The reason for her elevation is the very definition of an issue of public interest.
I want to know, do you?
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On
#bbcqt
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown points out “Stanley Johnson was a wife beater”
Fiona Bruce helpfully explains “he broke his wife’s nose, she was hospitalised”
“ it did happen, BUT it was a one off”
What a defence - only occasional domestic violence 🤔
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Ukrainian refugee arrivals to date:
🇵🇱 Poland: 885,303
🇭🇺 Hungary: 169,053
🇸🇰 Slovakia: 113,967
🇲🇩 Moldova: 84,067
🇷🇴 Romania: 71,640
🇪🇺 Other EU: 157,000
🇬🇧 UK: 50
UK - we are “leading the world” in terms of the humanitarian response.
Shameful.
#StandWithUkraine
️
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Stephen Flynn completely destroying Farage-
“When Nigel Farage tells you all that migrants are biggest problem and are making you poorer- don’t believe him.
You want to know what the biggest problem facing the UK economy right now? His pet project of Brexit"
#itvdebate
#bbcqt
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Oh dear. Did someone at the
@Telegraph
forget to remove the caption below the photograph?
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Now that Paula Vennells has handed in her CBE, maybe it's time to move on to other dubious honours.
Starting with, who is Charlotte Owen?
and why was she appointed to House of Lords by Boris Johnson?
#PostOffice
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So I see in the interests of impartiality
#BBCLauraK
ends with two anti Gary Lineker messages.
#BBCLauraK
#Linekergate
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Dear
@guardian
Your Sinéad O’Connor obituary is a disgrace, tone deaf and reductive.
Framed in negatives - "she lacked, she failed, she was unable” etc
She was a trailblazer, brave, uncompromising, fragile who fought relentlessly for underdog.
Grim.
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Junior doctor starting salary in:
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🇨🇦 Canada: £46,000
🇫🇷 France: £43,700
🇺🇸 USA: £41,900
🇬🇧 UK: £29,384
Any ideas why they might be leaving in their droves?
We simply cannot afford to lose these skilled dedicated professionals
#JuniorDoctorsStrikes
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I genuinely want to know why Diane Abbott drinking a mojito on the train caused more outrage than William Wragg compromising the security and privacy 12 of his colleagues?
#WilliamWragg
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The £37 billion given to Dido Harding (not the NHS) for Test & Trace is more than the estimated cost to vaccinate the *world*
Where on earth did it go?
Shouldn’t this be a priority for the government’s anti-corruption tsar? Who is? *checks notes* Dido Harding’s husband. Oh
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Rishi Sunak says sanctions for not doing National Service could include driving licences” and “access to finance”
Completely Bonkers 😬
He is dying on his feet.
#bbcqt
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Incredible.
Conservatives trounced in the local elections, but the bbc flagship politicial programme
#bbclaurak
lead “interview” is an unchallenged rant from the delusional, divisive, twice-sacked, right wing crank, Suella Braverman.
Why was she platformed?
#LauraKuenssberg
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The fact that Sally Wainwright waited 6 years until the actor Rhys Connah was a teenager for this series of
#HappyValley
shows just how much faith she has in him.
How right she was.
Rhys Connah is superb.
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Biggest applause of the night Beth Rigby-
“PM isn’t the truth that your problem is broken promises, ….it’s Brexit, it’s migration, the NHS was supposed to get better, people remember the £350m quid on side of a bus, it’s levelling up
A catalogue of broken promises”
#SkyDebate
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Women in audience roasts Nigel Farage.
Is the reason you’re not standing for election because the last 7 times you that you did try to stand, you didn’t get selected?
What a pity the mainstream media are so reluctant to point out that he is a serial loser.
#bbcqt
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Sinead O'Connor and Terry Hall do Dana- singing 'All Kinds Of Everything'.
Don’t know why they did it but it’s both magical and heartbreaking.
#ripsineadoconnor
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So I see people who wanted a hard border with France are outraged by the hard border with France.
#BrexitReality
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Bernard Jenkin
#Newsnight
“Brexit Deal was signed at a time when Gov was weak & gripped by a constitutional crisis, the EU took advantage”
EU trade agreement was signed *year* after his party won a maj 80 seats in election to *get Brexit done* Shameless
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Johnson we have avoided
“what COULD have been a catastrophe”
Highest death rate in Europe.
Second highest death rate in the world.
Over 37,000 people dead, despite a two month head start.
Care homes a national scandal.
This is a CATASTROPHE
#BorisHasFailed
#StayAlert
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Armando Iannucci responds to Jeremy Hunt’s gaslighting
#bbclaurak
“it's almost like we're in a Dickens novel, rather than 6th biggest economy in world”
Child poverty rates (JRF 2024)
UK 20%
Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%
Shameful
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The Sun deleting 100s of articles hounding, bullying and ridiculing Caroline Flack. She was clearly vulnerable and in distress.
Once again
#dontbuythesun
and don’t click on their stories.
#ripcaroline
Caroline Flack, former Love Island presenter, has died, her family confirms
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I wonder what it about Naomi Osaka and Meghan Markle that so upsets Piers Morgan?
Strangely, he didn’t say a word when Djokovic refused to speak to the media at US Open.
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I for one welcome the appointment of ERG Steve Baker to the Northern Ireland Office.
Frankly, there aren’t enough right-wing cranks, climate change deniers, religious zealots, anti-gay marriage and anti women’s reproductive rights advocates in NI already.
Hurrah.
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“It’s not my money it is my husband’s money”
No Michelle Mone, actually it is OUR money.
Pay it back.
#bbclaurak
#Sundaypolitics
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Dear Daily Mail,
Any ideas on what fuels this ignorance & racism?
#manchesterattacks
#WeStandTogether
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Worth remembering: John Major 9/6/16, Derry
“Brexit risks destabilising the complicated constitutional settlement that underpins stability”
Foster: “rather sad”
Farage: “scare stories”
Villiers: “irresponsible”
Dodds: “scaremongering”
Johnson: “nonsense”
Wilson: “utter bunkum”
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Miraculously, the Rosace Nord has survived (damaged but in tact).
The South & West windows were extensively restored during the 18th & 19th century.
The North Rose Window has been largely unaltered for 800 years. The glass is 13th century original.
#NotreDameCathedralFire
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Rishi Sunak notes that being in the EU Single Market is:
“the best result for the people, families and businesses of Northern Ireland”
This “Single Market” sounds amazing, if only there was some way that the rest of the UK could also enjoy the benefits.
#WindsorFramework
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People aren't waiting over 30 hours for an ambulance because of strike action by by the RCN.
They're waiting 30 hours for an ambulance because of a decade + of Tory underfunding the NHS
#pmqs
#NursesStrike
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Dear British media when giving this
#Brexitdeal
ANY credibility PLEASE NOTE
DUP do NOT represent the majority of people in NI
Majority of people NI voted to REMAIN.
*Deal* opposed by every other political party in NI & business groups
It threatens GFA
It is an UNWORKABLE SHAM
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Arlene Foster states “as someone who lived through the troubles we never had a hard border in Ireland”.
Extraordinary, disingenuous assertion that will come as news to many.
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What a display of pomposity, arrogance, obfuscation from Cameron on
#bbclaurak
lecturing about ‘democracy’.
Unelected Rishi gave unelected Cameron a peerage so he could serve as unelected foreign secretary with a seat in the unelected House of Lords.
That's democracy for you.
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According to Health Secretary
@SteveBarclay
on
#bbclaurak
The benefit of Brexit is the vaccination program.
Which was created while the UK was still in the EU and subject to EU law.
It is insulting, it is a lie, it should be challenged.
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DUP leader now claiming that NI Protocol is costing NI economy £100,000 every hour or 2.5 million per day.
These figures have no basis in fact & should be challenged & debunked.
The NI Protocol has protected NI economy which is currently outperforming other regions of UK
#bbcqt
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What an outstanding performance by Emma Radacanu. What a joy she is.
The epitome of global citizenship.
Born in Canada to Romanian and Chinese parents moved to London aged 2.
A shining example of how diversity and multiculturalism unites and makes us stronger.
#USOpen
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Don’t know who did this, but it is superb.
"'Restraint' or 'Dignity' might be better choices here" is 10/10
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Andy Burnham hits the nail on the head.
“The government has done the least for people who need it the most. Low income. Self employed. Not employed. They can’t follow self isolation because they need to work. They should’ve been first to be looked after and not the last”
#bbcqt
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This woman may influence UK laws for decades.
The public are entitled to know why Charlotte Owen was given a seat in the House of Lords by Boris Johnson.
The reason for her elevation is the very definition of an issue of public interest.
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I for one am amazed that man who failed to build bridge between London and London will *not* be building bridge from NI to Scotland. 😱
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“You bring these people on and allow them to talk utter rubbish”
Good man
@campbellclaret
for saying it as it is.
We are all frustrated with the lies, gaslighting and complete lack of challenge.
#newsnight
#BrexitBrokeBritain
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Victoria Atkins tells
#bbclaurak
Tories need to understand why people wanted change.
Perhaps 14 years of scandals, failure, sleaze, corruption, chaos, and incompetence might be a good place to start.
#bbclaurak
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Bernard Jenkin sets out ERG solution to border.
Actual land border in Ireland BUT covered in invisibility cloak.
Powered by invisible purple unicorns, griffins, and the juice of 3 rainbows.
Seriously haven’t we had enough of these ERG wingnuts?
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Spain deaths Friday 2
Ireland deaths Friday 6
UK deaths Friday 324
Schools in Spain and Ireland *closed* until September.
#schoolreopeninguk
#COVID
ー19
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Raab on
#Marr
“one of reasons I resigned over previous WA was I felt it threatened the Good Friday Agreement”
-The GFA he hadn’t read
-The WA he negotiated
-The WA he resigned over
-The WA he said he could never support
-THE WA HE VOTED FOR
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Donald Tusk “We will not gamble with peace”.
He is a carpenter’s son from Poland.
He was imprisoned by the Soviets.
He helped to secure Poland’s freedom.
He understands borders and conflict.
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Muhammad Ali’s powerful interview with Michael Parkinson in 1971.
“How come is everything white?”
“Tarzan was the king of the jungle in Africa and he was white”.
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Sir Jeffery looks distinctly uncomfortable when
@SorchaEastwood
quotes his own words back to him.
“It is wrong that in a democracy…that a party that represents maybe 25% of the electorate is able to veto the establishment of a government, ……,that is not democracy”
#bbcqt
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Liz Truss was forensically taken apart this week by BBC local radio presenters who refused to let her talk over them with pre-prepared, patronising drivel.
Compare this to
#BBCLauraK
who allows her to avoid questions, waffle, and continually hide behind Ukraine.
Woeful.
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I am old enough to remember when Arlene Foster’s elevation to leader of DUP attracted unprecedented levels of goodwill across the political spectrum.
Her intransigence, petulance, pettiness, lack of generosity, anti-Irish sentiment and myopia have been catastrophic for Unionism.
🔴 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 | Dame Arlene Foster says she believes President Joe Biden "hates the United Kingdom", claiming: “I just think the fact he’s coming here won’t put any pressure on the DUP, quite the reverse actually."
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Time to stop indulging this tiresome bluster from DUP
Four options if don’t want Protocol
1 UK asks to rejoin CU & SM as 3rd country
2 UK asks to rejoin EU as Member State
3 NI rejoins EU through reunification with ROI
4 Hard border- threat to GFA
So DUP which is it to be?
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#Raab
on
@BBCRadio4
today:
“I can tell you CATEGORICALLY, I've NEVER advocated privatisation of the NHS”.
Extract from 2011 book Dominic Raab co-authored with Patel
“New non profit & private operators should be allowed into the service...and compete on PRICE”
#NHSNotforSale
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Keir Starmer links the gambling story into a broader issue of sleaze, corruption and partygate.
“When you get convicted for breaking the Covid rules, which you imposed on the rest of the country, you really shouldn't be talking about integrity in politics."
#BBCDebate
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Spot on
@campbellclaret
calling out utter nonsense on
#newsnight
“Are we seriously having a discussion that a tweet from Gary Lineker has done more damage to the BBC’s impartially than the fact that your chairman sorted an £800,000 loan for Boris Johnson”
#GaryLinekerIsRight
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A Rainy Night in Soho one of the most beautiful love songs ever written.
“Now the song is nearly over
We may never find out what it means
Still there's a light I hold before me
You're the measure of my dreams
The measure of my dreams"❤️
RIP Shane McGowan
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Bravo 👏 👏
On
#bbcqt
top economist Mariana Mazzucato explains why measures such as cuts to the Winter Fuel Payment and austerity are damaging and counterproductive.
She also debunks the whole notion that you run a government like you run a household.
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Ian Hislop on
#hignfy
“The tipping point of the war is now that three British aid workers have been killed in the war whereas 30,000 Palestinians killed in the war”
Grim but true, if you kill people who are not Palestinians, then suddenly it becomes unacceptable”
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Pat Cullen being bloody brilliant on
#bbcqt
“A tragic day for the country, the Tory Gov have got this completely wrong”
Nurses deserve a fair wage for the skilled, demanding, essential job they do.
Gov again on wrong side of public opinion and history.
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“What if no one else has to die?”
#DerryGirls
poignantly reminds us how far we have come, and why we must viglilantly protect our precious peace and the Good Friday Agreement.
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This is Natasha O’Brien.
Called out homophobic abuse by a ‘soldier’ and was knocked unconscious by the ‘man’ paid to protect the public.
Called out a ‘justice’ system which prioritised his career over the physical and mental damage inflicted on her.
Not all heros wear capes.
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If only there was some clue as to why the Tories were so keen to Brexit before the EU’s clampdown on tax avoidance, offshore activities, and non-dom
status came into force.
#OneRuleForThem
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Without a hint of irony Nigel Farage tells
#bbcqt
that lockdowns have been catastrophic young people.
What about Brexit ?
Farage’s project has inflicted monumental harm to UK and young people.
Lost right to travel freely, participate in Erasmus etc.
A shameless grifter.
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Outstanding day for democracy in UK.
New unelected Tory Prime Minister foisted upon us.
Chosen by an electorate that’s made up of 0.2% of the population that is:
-97% white,
-70% male
-average age of 57.
#BorisJohnson
#BorisDay
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You know the extent to which this government is scraping the bottom of the barrel when
#bbcqt
audience erupt with laughter at idea of Esther McVey as Minister for Common Sense.
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Dominic Lawson points out that Boris Johnson’s Social Care Plan is “not about quality of care”.
It will not fix it “once and for all” and is more about protecting the inheritance of the wealthy at the expense of a deeply unequal
#NationalInsurance
tax on the lowest paid.
#Marr
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I am fairly sure, if one of the 489 people who died that day in UK was a member of your family and you were told that you couldn’t be with them, you'd find this much less amusing than Downing Street does.
Shameful.
#downingstreetparty
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It defies belief that the leading story on BBC tonight is whether or not Gary Lineker has broken BBC guidelines by questioning the Government’s despicable, anti-refugee plans and not that the Government’s proposed immigration Bill breaks international law.
#GaryLinekerIsRight
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Edwin Poots is completely right.
The Irish government made us hold a referendum.
The Irish government lied so that leave won that referendum.
The Irish government made us go for the hardest Brexit which meant a border in the Irish Sea.
Bloody Irish government.
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Global wall-to-wall media coverage of ‘plight’of
#Djokovic
and his ‘inhumane treatment’ & ‘torture’ culminating in him winning ‘freedom’
Meanwhile, charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe arbitrarily detained in Iran for 5+years is of marginal interest
Shameful.
#FreeNazanin
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Bravo to this lady on
#bbcqt
eloquently reflecting on the of the challenges faced by people with disabilities in the labour market.
Decimating Isabel Oakeshott’s offensive suggestion that people with disabilities can just “muck about” on benefits.
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I am old enough to remember when Arlene Foster’s elevation to leader of DUP attracted unprecedented levels of goodwill across the political spectrum.
Her intransigence, petulance, pettiness, lack of generosity, anti-Irish sentiment and myopia have been catastrophic for Unionism.
According to Dame Arlene Foster, one could “be forgiven for thinking the visit was about them [Sinn Féin] and not marking the death of our sovereign and the first visit of her successor!”
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Boris Johnson is more likely to unite Ireland than unite the UK.
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Matt Hancock: “We've already had 4 doctors die, and some nurses”
Dame Professor Kinnair; “We're not even counting the nurses”
Matt Hancock: “I wasn't aware of that”.
Why are nurses not afforded the same respect?
#bbcqt
#COVID19Pandemic
#NHS
#clapforkeyworkers
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Lord Frost furious at Lord Frost for having negotiated the NI Protocol that Lord Frost now says is “dead in the water” but here to stay.
Frankly, this pretence is wearing a bit thin.
#BrexitShambles
#marr
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#marr
absolutely shocking, biased and poorly informed re the NI Protocol.
He asserts “The people of N Ireland lost faith in the Protocol”.
We are *not* an homogeneous block.
The majority of NI politicians and businesses *support* the Protocol.
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Well done
@simoncoveney
Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, for calling out Marr’s ludicrous line of questioning:
“Andrew, you’ve been following these negotiations for 3 years now, and you’re a pretty good detail person, and you know that is a completely *bogus* argument”
#Marr
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The tragedy of Arlene Foster’s *leadership* is that her elevation to leader of DUP attracted unprecedented levels of goodwill across the political spectrum.
Her intransigence, petulance, arrogance, lack of generosity, and political myopia have been catastrophic for Unionism.
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A beautiful message from Patrick Kielty on the passing of Shane MacGowan, perfect in pitch and tone.
He has the ability to reflect the views of a nation in a sincere, thoughtful and heartfelt way.
Kudos Paddy.
#Latelate
#latelateshow
#ShaneMacGowanRIP
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Did Sinn Féin win or did they just have to sit back and watch DUP pursue the most extraordinary act of self-harm?
You decide.
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Can you imagine
#bbclaurak
asking a government minister if they have a conscience?
The demonisation of nurses and junior doctors is appalling.
They are NOT to blame for the crisis in NHS
In 2010 NHS was voted best in world,13yrs of Tory cuts and mismanagement is the problem.
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Well said John O’Farrell on
#bbclaurak
on the Angela Rayner “ridiculous
non story”
I have to say, for you as a broadcaster, for BBC, to keep spending time on this …..this bit of gossip.
“It’s not a story”
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Audience shout shame as Rishi Sunak says he will take Britain out of “foreign court” the ECHR.
#bbcqt
ECHR NOT a foreign court but an international one which UK signed up to.
Pernicious use of word ‘foreign’ is grim.
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Full house in Guildhall Derry to hear
@jeremycorbyn
deliver the Bloody Sunday lecture.
#BloodySunday50
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Bravo this man in the
#bbcqt
audience:
‘The average billionaire in this country is some £720m better off over Covid, whilst we are all much worse off’
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Man who is currently collecting his salary, but refusing to work telling others to get on with their jobs.
Welcome to N.Ireland 😀
I’m sure you all feel great🙄 Everyone can stand around and clap each other on the back in the, ‘politically correct brigade’. How about getting on with the real issues affecting people such as tackling drugs, theft and crime?
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Bravo to this woman in the
#bbcqt
audience.👏👏
It is a bit rich for our billionaire PM SunaK to refer to a “sick note culture and lazy workforce”’
Perpetuating toxic tropes and demonising sick, vulnerable people in society is utterly despicable.
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