Ian O'Reilly
@IanInShropshire
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“Worth pointing out that a lot of my Observer/Guardian colleagues feel exactly the same way on this issue”
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@AllisonPearson
@rustyrockets
A measure of the depths of *your*cynicism.
No thoughts for the 16 year old victim?
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@guardian
Cheesy? Yep. A bit nonsensical? Absolutely. Joyless? In no way whatsoever! It's a joyous piece of fun cinema that should just be enjoyed as such.
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Absolute belter of an episode of Succession tonight. I can't recall a show with such great writing and direction, with a perfect ensemble of actors at the top of their game. This scene from Kieran Culkin was amazing. They shot the whole funeral in a single take with four cameras.
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@MrBrendanCox
She resigned over a vote that will make no material difference to the situation in the middle east and is merely posturing. And for that she loses the chance to make an actual difference in the lives of vulnerable women.
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@eshaLegal
@codet_t
@nalpraxis
Comfort yourself that if your revolution ever comes and you find yourself against the wall you only have yourself to blame, comrade.
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@benjamincohen
Surrogacy isn't the same as IVF. Women's wombs are not a commodity to be used by men.
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@illdoitanyway
"Standing against war" is an infantile phrase when it means passing a motion which would effectively cede Ukrainian land to an occupying force who have raped and tortured children and adults. Sometimes military self-defence is the least worst option.
@ucu
is a disgrace.
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@ayeshahazarika
@fionamac2017
@DAaronovitch
I moderate the largest labour supporting group on Facebook and I can say from experience that nothing brings out abuse more than women who dare step out of line on this issue. I am shocked at what some GC women have experienced, often from people supposedly extolling 'kindness'.
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@TiffMHardy
@amenabee
"let us give thanks to the Lord our God"
"It is right to give Him thanks and praise"
"It is indeed right .... etc"
Is that just us Anglicans?
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Loving all the news coverage that is suddenly about the impact on jobs in LONDON because of the impending Tier 2 when the North-West has been experiencing exactly this for weeks! Apparently it only matters when in the South.
#lockdown
#tier2
#manchesterlockdown
#Liverpool
"About 200,000 people in central London are going to lose their jobs this weekend"
Kate Nicholls from UK Hospitality tells
#BBCBreakfast
tier two restrictions in London will have a huge impact on hospitality jobs.
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@francesweetman
I genuinely, genuinely do not understand how anyone can think this is OK. Its not OK in general society - it's a misogynistic parody of femaleness for fetishistic self-fulfillment - so why is it be OK in schools. Someone needs the courage to just say, 'no, this isn't acceptable'
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@20thcenturymarc
I would ask them to move their stuff. I have no problem making people give up seats that are occupied by luggage.
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@glosswitch
Probably traumatic for the baby as well. She undoubtedly needs care, but the act was still evil.
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@ytiedmai
@francesweetman
@twinkologian
Because:
1. You view them as a target you can speak over without repurcusions
2. Because you're able to dehumanise them with labels like TERF without actually engaging with what they may be concerned about
3. You have a over inflated sense of self and 'using your privilege'
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Regardless of your view on the environment, or even
@GretaThunberg
, this is a properly hilarious exchange. Andrew Tate just got utterly annihilated.
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@CrescentMoonify
@jk_rowling
Amazingly, outside of social media bubbles, most people don't care one way or the other what Jo thinks about this. They just like reading good books. Don't be fooled by the strange insular world of Twitter.
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@MrNishKumar
@jenny_symmons
I think you mean "gatecrash a strangers wedding and use it for your political ends marring their private and special day"
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Well this is a terrible reading of history from
@bintalshamsa
. Maybe learn something of Irish history before pronouncing on things they know nothing about.
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@Azalialexi
@francesweetman
Yep. The article confirms there isn't anything in the allegations. Well done. Did you even read it?
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@drlouisejmoody
@francesweetman
@sussex_police
It's been amazing watching
@sussex_police
re-enact Ricky Gervais' sketch in real time today.
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@LazyBolshevik
So the death of the two kids in Warrington didn't deserve a song asking if maybe there's a better way?
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@josephjames94
@FredSargeant
No. Violent threats are not hyperbolic. They're just violent threats.
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@RosamundUrwin
@AllisonPearson
@rustyrockets
RIP my mentions this morning for Allison replying to me with this answer!
Amazing - a journalist commenting on such a high profile piece (fantastic work Rosamund!) without actually reading it.
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@stellacreasy
Hi Stella. Do you agree that this is a complex issue. As you say, parents can be a challenge, but surely so is an authority figure encouraging kids to keep secrets from parents - that's an absolute red flag in all safeguarding guidelines and has been the cause of unreported abuse
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@emzanotti
Actual pilgrimages involving ordinary people were a regular feature of medieval life. I was a tour guide at Canterbury Cathedral and the records there are quite clear that people from all parts of society formed the throngs who visited the Shrine of St Thomas.
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@PeterTatchell
@BioNeilBoi
@IWPride
@StoneCrabsTC
@OutOnAnIslandIW
Peter that's clearly untrue, otherwise why give the book such a glowing review?
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@jk_rowling
@francesweetman
I found myself defending the right of women not to have their consent violated against a woman arguing it's all fine which was a bit weird.
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@chakrabortty
@edballs
I mean that is a bit nonsensical tbh. Osborne and Balls vigorously opposed each other *when in office*. Just because they are able to have civilised discussions now isn't a bad thing. Osborne's point was conduct in office, not afterwards.
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@BBradley_Mans
After ten years in power the Conservatives haven't dealt with terrible problems like these - in fact they are worse now than in 2010. Yet you will use the extreme examples to justify his decision to vote against free school meals. No one thinks it's FSM alone that will fix this.
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@SimonFRCox
@DAaronovitch
If people hadn't debated, for example, the rights of gay people to marry it would never have happened. Debate is essential for progress.
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@RosieDuffield1
His defenders are unbelievably awful as well. I've had one telling me he (yes *he*) has no compassion for the 16 year old victim yet as it needs to be proved 'beyond reasonable doubt' first.
Others showing their lack of experience with abuse victims. Just awful.
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@maximumpickle
@BDSixsmith
@CHIMPSINSOCKS
A Wilfred Owen poem called "This is such fun"?? Seems a pretty obvious giveaway.
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@ggld
@oliverdarcy
@jaketapper
UK guidance is that a mask isn't required outside when social distance is observed.
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@ScottPatrickPhD
@spargles
@aidansbbv
"if it wasn't for Americans funding the murder of civilians".
Fixed it for you. And get out of here with your American ignorance of what the provos meant for ordinary people in the North. There's a reason they had little actual support.
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@MichaelUnett
Is this one of those times when the more you cope and seethe, the wilder the accusations become? Because there's a whole weekend ahead of you, you might want to pace yourself.
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@HadleyFreeman
Ugh. I don't get why people like this. At the recieving end of 'high maintenance' people are usually poorer people just wanting to keep their jobs in hotels, restaurants, venues etc.
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Trump gassed peaceful protestors and the Church’s priest FOR A PHOTO OP!!!
#DCProtests
#DCPROTEST
#TrumpDictatorship
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@OwenJones84
@arobertwebb
You, Owen. You have consistently encouraged pile-on behaviour against those you deem beyond the pale. This is where that leads. You need to own that.
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@AnotherBrisket
@CathAllen8
@ejrosetta
@carriewarrie1
Sorry anime avatar person, but you see none of those are the smoking gun you think they are and the fact the person turned off replies shows they know this.
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@HollyKirk
@JaviTayi
I don't understand what you want, Holly. Fewer white people taking part? What are you proposing?
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I write as a Catholic and one who has great respect for
@pontifex
, but I think he is wrong. There is only one solution - Russia withdraws from land it has occupied. Anything else is morally reprehensible and will lead to further suffering by Russian forces in the future.
Profoundly saddened by the immense suffering of the Ukrainian people as a result of the aggression they have suffered, I address an equally confident appeal to the President of
#Ukraine
to be open to serious proposals for peace.
@ZelenskyyUa
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@damian_from
@Rachael_Swindon
He should be self-isolating as he is 70. It’s irresponsible and a terrible example for him not to be doing so.
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@Make_it_Raines
Except the 'whole nation' didn't decide, a few did and it was imposed on the populace who had no choice in the matter. Those who did try and resist this were hounded and persecuted.
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@sharrond62
@stephenpollard
Sharing this the day Brand is accused by four women including a 16 year old is very strange and suggests just that yes.
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Invited some American friends to the (relatively) normal Anglican Church we attended at the time. For some reason I've never worked out, the curate decided to make everybody do the conga around the nave. Mortified doesn't cover it.
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@syrpis
@philwoodford
The point is that they can't really. They can be 'COVID safer' but not 'secure'. All measures except isolation (and a vaccine) are just mitigations against risk, not prevention.
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@kristenhowerton
From this side of the pond (the UK) this is fascinating. I forget that there's a distinctive 'Christian' culture in the US that is unlike Christianity anywhere else in the world.
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@JoyceCarolOates
And we recognise that you cannot live in the past, that generational trauma is a fraud that traps people in destructive cycles. Both Ireland and Britain have forged a new relationship.
(and pretty much every Irish family has English relatives, and visa versa. We intermarry).
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@scribblercat
@joelycett
That's nonsense. As Israel is the only state in the region that gives equal right to gays and women I think time would be better spent on the states that keep women in servitude and bindage, and tend to. Stone/behead/throw gay people off buildings. "pink washing" - such bollocks
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@AntJphoto
@SP_Duckworth
"no one should be offended by patients setting their own boundaries". I think that's what you meant
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@kkdumez
Having worked in publishing all my adult life, my son was asked what I did for living and replied "he just plays on his computer all day".
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Congratulations to
@mrrobwilson
who ran a great campaign. The fact that 70% of the electorate voted against Peter Nutting shows the strength of feeling there is against the North West Relief Road and for a more sustainable transport policy.
Shropshire Council election 2021: Result for the Copthorne division. Peter Nutting (Con) - 476; Rob Wilson (Lib Dem) - 995; Ian Matthews (Lab) - 217
#ShropVotes21
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Citadel is enormous fun - fights, great effects, sexy leads. What's not to like?
#Citadel
#CitadelOnPrime
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@yatakalam
@akhivae
You don't get away with writing 'burn it all down' when people have torched 10 buildings with a follow up tweet 24 hours later trying to backtrack because you've been called out.
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@dlongenecker1
It could be argued the establishment of religious orders was to minimise and limit women's roles, and that restoring women to the Diaconate is an act of justice.
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@bucephalus424
Data points, geolocation, verifiable images. These are the tools that get to the truth.
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@AndyMcDonaldMP
It's irresponsible of an MP to make any preemptive judgement on this. To do so inky increases the risk of attacks on already besieged Jewish people in this country. I hope you withdraw this.
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Friends. I have just found out that I may have a kidney available for transplant and am heading to the hospital now. Your good thoughts or prayers (depending on what works for you) would be appreciated. Remember my family and our finances which are going to be severely impacted.
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@AllisonPearson
@rustyrockets
Maybe read it first? Read the women they've interviewed, the explanation of the process of the investigation?
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@aureleos
@TheOculusOnline
Boring (apparently): Chaucer, Shakespeare, Sheridan, Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, the Brontes, Tolstoy, Zola, Dante, Austen, the Brownings, T S Eliot, Larkin, Hughes, Orwell, Vaughan Williams, Gaskell, Hardy.
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@Azalialexi
@francesweetman
Depends what your definition of 'woman' is. Are we using the word the same way? Good to start with the basics.
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@DrJoGrady
"Standing against war" is an infantile phrase when it means passing a motion which would effectively cede Ukrainian land to an occupying force who have raped and tortured children and adults. Sometimes military self-defence is the least worst option.
@ucu
is a disgrace.
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@ProfBethLord
@boodleoops
My daughter deferred the year because she was worried this would happen (she has anxiety and is on meds). I think she made right decision.
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@PompeySteph
@JournalistJill
@NikiOutsideFBPE
@RosieHeys
@UKLabour
Anti-trans US republicans are not the same as UK gender-critical feminists and their allies. That you try and conflate the two is kind of like arguing that Hitler was Vegetarian and many Green Party members are vegetarian, so clearly there's no difference between them.
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@evolvepolitics
Completely untrue. We have great teams here. In fact, in the ward in which I'm standing we've seen more people willing to get involved than for some time.
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@GameCreepr
@danwaterfield
@Sharon_Kuruvila
American conservative Catholics are more protestant TBH. (and not the good ones - the weird hyper-fundy ones).
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@RogersHistory
I think it's called whistleblowing. I just see a couple of pretty brave kids standing up for the beliefs and recording a teacher acting unreasonably.
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@justsomequeer
@ytiedmai
@francesweetman
@twinkologian
Yes, yes it is. It removes any actual discussion of the issues and is an ad hominem move to avoid any actual debate. It's the equivalent of a toddler sticking their fingers in their ears and yelling.
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@soniasodha
@Sheebie_Geebies
Our baby died there in 2000. We decided not to be part of the inquiry - it was just too painful.
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@OldRoberts953
Middle class politicians confusing the working class 'live and let live' attitude with an enthusiasm for post-structuralist gender theory.
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@SisterWalburga
I'm not quite a Catholic, Sister, but I don't get how someone can be a Catholic and reject a Church council or a Pope because they don't like the outcomes. Isn't it logically inconsistent with the actual fundamental understanding of the Church is for Catholics?
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@calvinrobinson
Disgraceful response from a so-called priest. Not even a hint of compassion for the victims, or condemnation of the acts - even if you want to caveat it with 'if proven'. Utterly repellent.
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@lottelydia
That assumes that the protest has any merit, is based in fact, and is relevant to event disrupted. Protest is not, on itself, automatically good.
In this case, it seems to rest on a misrepresentation of Professor Stock's views. So some scepticism of its value isn't unwarranted.
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Had fun testing out the new Rickshaw cycles with
@markafermor
and Colin Stead that
@hub_shropshire
and
@ShrewsburyBID
are launching as a new service in Shrewsbury.
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@empathyhaver
Let's be honest. Most men who can't find a partner are either repulsive, porn-addled, unsociable, sexist, are unable to act normal around women, or lack basic hygiene.
And watching 3/10 men expect 8/10 women to find them attractive is just embarrassing. (Written as a clear Mid)
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@GreenJennyJones
@HillingdonGreen
@stophs2
Ridiculous. The only way to reduce cars is to build better public transport infrastructure. More public transport infrastructure means a level of development. This objection to HS2 is sentimental conservativism that offers no solution.
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Such a simple statement, yes so important. Why do we tolerate roads and infrastructure that puts our children at risk at the expense of the car? Is the car more valuable than a child's life?
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@Kav_Kaushik
@JonnElledge
As a Christian I'm not sure Christians care that much. We did Easter at home and could do Christmas. This is about the social and economy not religion.
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@benleo444
@Danflashes2
@jburnmurdoch
I mean those are all tiny numbers. Just over 75k? Today on Radio 4 has 5.8 million listeners *after* an 800k fall. Evening news gets 4.8 million on the BBC and 2.2 million on ITV.
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@AaronBastani
@Keir_Starmer
It includes donations up to the 22nd Feb, so unless you have firm information it looks like desperate smears to be honest.
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Getting ready to watch
#BirminghamPhoenix
in
@thehundred
at Edgbaston and watching both the women and men warm up. Great seats in the 1882 club.
#thehundred
#Cricket
#TheHundred2021
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@Psephizo
Ian, that's nonsense. The press have carried out investigations for a century - that's what journalism is. The presumption of innocence is the right not to be held criminally liable without a trial. It doesn't mean the press cannot report allegations against a perpetrator.
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@AbbyJohnson
@sandracfong
As a Christian shouldn’t the command to love your neighbor trump any desire for personal freedom. You wear a mask not for you, but to protect others (especially from those who may be infected without symptoms or asymptomatic). Wearing a mask is an act of Christian love.
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@PaulEmbery
I'm no Grace fan, but she's right. Do you suggest that people all decide to suspend their judgement in the vague hope it might some to court unlike the vast majority of rape cases?
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@evolvepolitics
Why. I don't need to prove it to you. You will see I have publicly retweeted you on my timeline for all to see. If I'm lying it'll get called out. But I'm not. You are.
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