Michael Reiners
@MCRReiners
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Lawyer, Writer, Cantab, Architectural Historian & Englishman. Views self-evidently mine. Articles in @TheCriticMag & @SalisburyReview
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My piece in
@TheCriticMag
on the ECtHR, associated acts, and their mission creep problem
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@BorisJohnson
A gentle reminder that this man oversaw 2 years in which you were discouraged from even leaving your residence for reasons besides shopping for sustinence or going for a jog.
All justified using article 2 of the ECHR of course.
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@megs_io
@dotnetschizo
Swept away in a torrent of low-brow taste – to such an extent you no longer register quite how embarrassing you are. How on Earth these bots accrue 7k likes is beyond me.
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@Artemisfornow
Mental health “episodes” should not excuse criminality any more than voluntary intoxication is considered a defence (by the way, it is not). The relinquishing of personal responsibility continues.
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@UKUpdates_co_uk
Further indication that England’s institutions are in a full-swing auto immune response against the Englishman; the civil service, police, legal profession – all the way to no.10, by way of the arts council and national trust.
Starmer’s talk of ‘service’ has evaporated.
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@alexhallhall
Deliberate mischaracterisation as usual. Another great excellent example of someone who doesn’t understand the ECHR, historically or in current deployment. It began life as an inter-state court with inter-state resolution in mind. It has since evolved into something unrelated
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@Arch_Revival_
Very unconventional for the thing it’s imitating: Oriel windows, set into a stylised, two-door octagonal-turreted gatehouse
That said, I think this is a fine specimen Arkansas has built
Looks like a victorian homage to battle abbey (which has recently been cleaned)
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@MatthewStadlen
@Casumptious
You don’t have a clue what any of these things are, do you, Matthew?
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The greatest building in the world, Lincoln Cathederal, consecrated 1092.
A jewel of English perpendicular gothic crowning Steep Hill, Lincoln.
My regards to the Milanese, who refaced* theirs in the 19th century.
How are your nation’s cathedrals coming along
@Noahpinion
People think cathedrals like this were built by some ancient long-lost civilization. Bruh this cathedral was finished in 1965.
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@Nigel_Farage
Remember, polls are designed to encourage electoral behaviour - not measure it
This is much of the same
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@profdanhicks
Very embarrassing Dan, another loss of face for Oxbridge.
The rest of you sensible conscientious objectors, see the post on my profile for a little hope.
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Using museums as battlegrounds of our times, a sport endemic in the social left, produces embarrassingly non-functional museums.
Pompous curators continue to treat the public as morons, a tabula rasa, desperate for political re-education. The only casualty is the museum itself.
colleagues at Wellcome are offering some of the vision and leadership we need in the UK arts and culture sectors
the idea that a museum must never change with the times is perhaps the most ludicrous and yet pernicious argument we’re seeing in the right’s ongoing War on Culture
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This fortnight has demonstrated that the post-Blairite, high immigration conception of Britain – as a place singularly defined by its unquestioning openness to all people – is neither true, popular nor remotely sustainable.
It was never mandated. In fact, the contrary was.
There was much hand-wringing from
@BBCCountryfile
that ethnic minorities felt afraid to go to the countryside.
At the Stepping Stones in Dovedale in the Peak District, we have Muslims, hijabs, burkas & a fight with weapons.
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@mosseyuk
@DrNeenaJha
You reveal a disregard by presuming that (legal) migrants are, and should, only operate in the lowest wage range. Not so. Drives wages down & diminishes quality of care. Picking can be mechanised, already offering high wages, see the work of James Dyson in agriculture
@Dyson
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@Nigel_Farage
It means a huge amount to hear you say this, Nigel. Young professionals like myself were left paying for the privilege of a monastic existence, in empty cities, denied opportunity, our networks irreparably shattered. All in the name of protecting the NHS, an arm of the state.
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@benonwine
The strange levels of latitude in policing/law, invariably given to activists for left wing causes, has been extremely troubling. The response of this judge was proportionate - once your “protest group” resembles a criminal enterprise, then, it should be treated as one.
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@RicMG99
@Mrpippins652
@mikecosgrove
I think every single person reading knows that, Richard. Very fortunate that we have a Lib Dem here to explain it, though.
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@BGatesIsaPyscho
The constant massaging of the narrative, othering the ordinary Briton, is wearing thin.
The public have essentially voted to reduce mass immigration, legal & otherwise, at four national elections, one European election and one referendum. Those requests have gone ignored.
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@LeeAndersonMP_
There is an effort to prosecute online activity as though it had parity with reality. It is self evident to all it does not. We have regulated and legislated the lifeblood out of our terrestrial reality, and ordinary human activity has continued, often in anonymity, online.
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(🧵/1) In the passing 24 hours I have witnessed something strange. The legal profession of my country unmasking its contempt for working class English people. What began as a relatively straightforward discussion about comments by
@SBarrettBar
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@BarristerSecret
Doxxing is always favoured by professional activists & others with malicious intent. Not a lot great deal the Lyndons, or yourself, can do regrettably – hoping all is well for those affected. I wrote on the subject last month:
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@JolyonMaugham
A failed attempt at forced coexistence which has driven up prices & crime, opportunities down & created predictable tensions. Those who established their city careers long before this experiment pontificate. Unrecognisable within my lifetime – leaving shortly accordingly!
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There's only one way to make sense of the continued iconoclasm, aimed at sites/objects of significance to civilisation. Just Stop Oil is an anti-human movement. From stonehenge to magna carta, by way of Van Gogh.
People despise them, across political lines, which is heartening.
Unfuckingbelievable. Just Stop Oil have thrown soup over 2 of Van Gogh paintings AGAIN, just hours after the previous dipshits have been jailed for the same thing.
These arrogant narcissists can join their criminal mates in prison. Absolute wankers.
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Violent crime goes unchecked, burglary goes uninvestigated – and yet a BBC sitcom trio of police such as this will accost you for having an (entirely reasonable) reaction to being spat on by a newly-minted migrant
Woman is attacked.
Instead the police focus on the woman’s use of language about said migrant that had just attacked her.
Lord alive.
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@10DowningStreet
@RachelReevesMP
@hmtreasury
In for a great time explaining that 20+ years of cheap credit and QE based growth means she's going to have to introduce austerity. I wish her the very best in this.
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My article for
@TheCriticMag
on "doxxing" – looking at the lack of legal recourse to this increasingly-common tactic, frequently used by professional activists & others with malicious intent:
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My review of the
@V_and_A
's Taylor Swift exhibit; how Swiftism has aided the V&A in resisting the worst trends of the art world, with nods to
@lara_e_brown
and
@zewditweets
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@BBCNews
We are in state of visible freefall decline, demographically & institutionally. As if to prove the point, a state-endorsed broadcaster has deployed someone with this Pravda-esque job.
England’s institutions are experiencing an Auto-immune response to their own people.
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Delightful weekend in Lincolnshire; if I don’t see the cathederal at least once per financial quarter I just turn into a pile of ash – Lincoln is the Englishman’s Mecca
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They hold it in trust, for the public. BBC Midlands' headline implies is that this collection is an asset, to be sold as councillors please.
Rather than plunder Birmingham Museum Trust, we might instead ask how the Equality Act & UKSC bankrupted Birmingham council.
Birmingham City Council owns an artwork collection valued at almost half a billion pounds, a BBC investigation has discovered.
The scale of the council-owned art collection has also revealed.
Full story -
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To anyone who buys this “right side of history” nonsense. Do you really believe that people will be interested, in any way, in your personal beliefs & panderings? You flatter yourself.
They don’t even care now!
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I am uniquely placed to comment as an art historian & lawyer:
Failure to prosecute, to the fullest extent, activists to who choose to treat our cultural landscape as though it were a prop in their tantrums doesn’t only invite chaos - it is a failure on a civilisational level.
NOW - Climate activists defile Van Gogh's Sunflowers at the National Gallery and glued themselves to the wall.
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Here we have a hero of our shores, Horatio Nelson, juxtaposed with a piece commissioned by Mermaids UK (a trans youth charity).
Just one of many attempts to use the shoulders of our ancestors as a soapbox for that which remains profoundly unpopular with the public.
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Many convicted for online posts were told they would be remanded in custody until trial – hence their guilty pleas.
Alternatively, Kings Counsel barristers will equivocate on your behalf if you wish death upon the political right, through a loudhailer, to a street-mob no less.
"A Labour councillor has accepted that he told a crowd “we need to cut [the] throats” of far-Right rioters as he pleaded not guilty to encouraging violent disorder"
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@SartorialShootr
This is because most (safe) Middle Eastern countries are absoloute monarchies or theocracies; they are also ethnically homogeneous, and generally have negligible or nonexistent income tax. Something to think about, isn’t it?
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Britain’s judiciary has excited itself over “AI”, which I dispute exists as more than a shrewd marketing term. For
@TheCriticMag
, I suggest that
@JudiciaryUK
must first look to the facts before passing judgment.
With nods to
@BasedBeffJezos
and
@pmarca
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An important thread. Our built landscape is being repurposed – used as props in a political reeducation campaigns against none other than, the English.
Those who understand the intangible value of these things must speak up, and seek one another out as they do.
Royal Parks have branded the Albert Memorial as “offensive” as it “reflects a “Victorian view of European supremacy”.
This decision does not meet the rigorous standards set by the Government’s “Retain and Explain Guidance” or Policy Exchange’s “Principles for Change”. Why? 🧵
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@markjenkinsonmp
You should stand aside for the reform candidate (as they did so graciously in 2019)
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We presently have a sectarian islamist Secretary of State for Justice (and Lord Chancellor), one who has participated in “rousing racial hatred” personally.
Two months ago an act of unspeakable violence against innocent young girls rocked our country.
Where others sought to exploit this tragedy to divide Britain, the people of Southport and beyond came together in unity.
They are the best of us.
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@BBCPolitics
Kier, right leaning lawyers are behind you too, now get the deportations moving, provide a strong deterrent, and leave the ECHR if you need to in the process.
People might start to wonder if you’ve got a financial interest in remaining in the ECHR if you don’t!
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As I have always maintained: The finest (yet one of the least visited) Early Gothic cathederal in Europe in terms of both placement and its distinctive triumphal east-facade.
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Grim, oppressive, WET!
(And that’s just the political climate)
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A retrospective on Lockdowns by
@DanielJHannan
, a must-read for those with selective memories, those who cheered it on, or those who did not know that the HRA (1998) & ECHR facilitated the most widespread suspension of basic rights in British history
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Public art holds a mirror to us - all too often now public art lacks any discernible meaning - in the case of he Georgia guidestones it our sheer loss of confidence.
Contrast with the temple of ancient virtue at Stowe (3-4) - Donatello’s St George at the Florentine grain market
In Georgia, there was a monument that gave instructions in 8 languages on how to rebuild society after an apocalyptic event. The monument also functioned as a compass, calendar, and clock.
It was destroyed in 2022 in a bombing from a vandal.
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Excellent talk from The Rt Hon Lord Horam, on whether or not the UK is a failed state.
For various reasons, most of those in attendance believed the answer is 'yes'. The matter of 'why' varies, but even Londoners know what one looks like.
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Reserving a whole bench, for one bear?
State of this country
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Hear ye, Hear ye, Currently the M11
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The ECHR provided the legal justification for the largest suspension of rights in British history.
An interview from one of 2020's funeral goers: "At the end of the service there were no hugs, no shared tears...just awkward goodbyes and splodges of hand sanitizer as the next
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Been my phone background for over 2 years now
Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl about
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4 years ago London erupted into openly anti-English racial disorder over George Floyd.
The now-PM bowed in awe, a stark difference to today. England is experiencing an auto-immune response to its own people, and they think it’s funny.
My article on why:
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England is in state of highly visible decline, demographically & institutionally – the abruptness would make
@ClarkeMicah
blush.
England & its institutions are experiencing an Auto-immune response to their own people.
This BBC correspondent’s job title demonstrates the point.
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Richard Rogers’ “Millennium Dome” – modern insofar as it was built to commemorate the millennium (we built one in 1951 under Churchill too). Useful insofar as it was bought, and put to use by private industry. Bid for by cities around the country – handed to London.
The Dome (is there no end to the New Labour legacy?) 12 yellow poles for the months of the year, 52 metres high for the weeks of the year, 365 metres round for the days of the year.
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Institutions cannot be respected unless those belonging to them command that respect - attire does so instantly.
As for the wig & gown, they signify that a Barrister takes on a role, he isn’t your friend. He conducts a performative abstraction in the court which others cannot
Quoth the Bar Council:
"In general, business attire means smart dark office wear. This will usually
mean a black, dark grey or dark blue suit with tie for men..."
On my train, I am the only person with a tie. Few have a jacket.
Is "business dress" as archaic as a wig & gown?
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@XrRebel
I'm sure
@Ed_Miliband
plans to reinvigorate industry in the UK by making us even less competitive (Electricity is twice as expensive as in the US, this will rise).
You are celebrating becoming energy dependant on oil & gas imports from Norway, Saudi Arabia and Russia.
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The octagonal-turreted gatehouse, proliferated in the Tudor era, is a motif exemplary of Englishness in architecture. Form the Bugh Geat of Saxon times, to its use in castle architecture (left, Tattershall) before finally becoming ornamental by the 16th century (right, St Johns)
Prior to visiting Charles Darwin's student rooms at Christ's College Cambridge. Beautiful aged gates everywhere. And magic once passed through.
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Some of the most distinctive vaulting in these aisles - we do vaulting better than anywhere, the lady chapel is up there with Lincoln Cathederal’s asymmetric choir vaulting (left), it’s chapter house’s fan (middle) and the skeletal fan vaults of King’s Chapel in Cambridge (right)
The is no instrument so beautiful as the human voice - and the Lady Chapel in Winchester Cathedral was the perfect setting today for hymns sung by
@AntiquumD
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Excellent podcast with
@AndrewGold_ok
and
@astor_charlie
– this hour goes into candid, personal detail about how people are sucked into the gender-swapping behaviours of our times, and, what it is like to subsequently escape. A must watch:
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We have been losing the ability to accurately describe our reality for quite some time now
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A failed attempt at forced coexistence: prices & crime inexorably rising, opportunities down & predictable tensions up while those who established their city careers before this experiment pontificate, about food. Unrecognisable within my lifetime – leaving shortly accordingly!
London.
We are Mixed Blessings, West Indian Cuisine; next to Ly Trang, Vietnamese supermarket; next to Bay Root, Lebanese restaurant; next to Brasiliero, Brazilian Grocer.
Best city in the world.
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And is this “far right” in the room with us right now?
Are the far right in Britain aware that they are doing Putin’s work?
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"Judge Oscar Del Fabbro set a provisional trial date for Jan 20 next year, setting aside five days for the proceedings."
A five day hearing? For something agreed, filmed and witnessed by hundreds?
The UK's speech laws aren't just unpopular, but also farcically applied.
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I may well be wrong, and I’ll be the first to admit when I am – but Moby & Mi5 were right
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This is because the rest of the world doesn’t endure draconian offence-based legislation, misapplied in its courts by a judiciary with an average age of 50 (and a digital competence to match).
Judicial experience comes with age - for the online world? The inverse is true.
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Maugham regularly lowers public perceptions of the Bar - he is *the* activist lawyer. The law, to this KC, serves the deep-pocketed activist or the perpetually aggrieved miser, not the interests of justice.
However, over-regulating the humanity out the Bar is not the solution.
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More hearts, minds and eyes must be exposed to the gentle majesty of England’s built landscape 🏴
@middletemple
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Another example of our institutions – and the things that make them – being used as mere props in political reeducation.
No different to
@JustStop_Oil
cracking open exhibits, or painting them orange.
Institutions have capitulated (and unravelled) where they should’ve resisted.
Salisbury Cathedral has gone full woke. Pile of rubbish outside to represent climate change, and a refugee kit next to the Magna Carta which we are told is really about women’s and migrants’ rights.
Is nothing sacred?
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Britain is a health service with a nation attached. This is bad. NHS worship has made it a bottomless pit for the taxpayer, a mockery of healthcare, has helped justified huge levels of unchecked immigration to staff and saw you locked you in your home for 2 years to “protect” it.
Exclusive: Rachel Reeves to put saving crisis-hit NHS at heart of Labour's first Budget in 14 years
Chancellor will prioritise any spare cash on cutting record waiting lists & repairing health service
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@FaiselSadiq
@SBarrettBar
@gatehouse_law
Quoting Erskine May (the Bible of parliamentary procedure): “A schedule…is dependent on one or more of the preceding clauses, by means of which the provisions of the schedule are carried into effect.”
Schedules’ addition at committee stage, rarely in open house, calls into
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A different kind of roast occurring this afternoon (as opposed to the Twitter variety)
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In recent years, the further one’s accent deviates from Queen’s English, the better it is politically weaponised to denote one’s background in political class warfare. ‘Dear people, I sound like you, I’m just like you, I sound like you,’ says the accent. See: Russell Brand
John Reith, the first Director General of the BBC, defends the 'BBC English' accent.
He believed it was the only accent that "didn't particularly irritate one part of the country" and would be widely understood.
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Former director of public prosecutions, signalling to a racial interest group which embezzled millions of pounds in donations. The progressive racialisation of law must not be imported to the UK (from the US).
My article on BLM’s rise/fall from 2020:
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Pence will never be allowed near the reins of relevance again, a man who tried to prosecute his own running mate for treason in 2021. Assange is an example of the misuse of national security to disregard habeus corpus entirely. Truly a desperate & bloodthirsty message.
Julian Assange endangered the lives of our troops in a time of war and should have been prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The Biden administration’s plea deal with Assange is a miscarriage of justice and dishonors the service and sacrifice of the men and women of our
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The government is thriving, has a widespread mandate, positive approval ratings and boasts a cabinet brimming with talent (on Roblox)
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There is a distinct English identity that can be traced back architecturally, materially and genetically to the Anglo-Saxon.
Erasing this identity, and the term Anglo-Saxon from curricula, is antithetical to the Englishman himself.
Will police raid Sutton Hoo next?
Oi! You got a license for that Anglo-Saxon replica helmet? This is TERRORISM!
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This man was the Lord Chancellor, a role dateing at least as far back as the Norman Conquest (1066), and possibly earlier. They are the head of the Ministry of Justice & Secretary of State for Justice.
What is a brat summer? I think I may be having one, even though I don’t really know what on earth it is 😂
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@zarahsultana
What a throwback to 2014 Russel-Brandian politics, haven’t heard a mainstream politician say something like I hate it because it “entrenches privilege” in a good while.
The real subtext here is “everything must be shite”.
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@GBNEWS
It’s not so much the class, colour or creed as it is the remarkably consistent intellectual uniformity & disdain for those they govern!
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Far from it. ‘Brexit’ was stillborn – the transition period ended a mere 2 months before the entire western world unravelled, watched our basic liberties eroded by supranational human rights legislation, and took on astronomical amounts of debt through cheap credit – over a cold
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On leaving the ECHR, Lord Sumption:
“I would now…. I had hoped the strousbourg court would become more sensitive to the implications of its decisions on Democratic societies like ours…there is no sign of that happening”
"Suggestions that we would put ourselves in the same corner as Russia or Belarus are very wide of the mark"
"Russia is not a democracy. Belarus is not a democracy. Neither of them have independent courts."
Lord Sumption nails it on the ECHR. 🔥
#bbcqt
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Bentos update
@FrayBentos_UK
The Fray Bentos price is a good barometer of the British economy
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It began as a 12-nation inter-state court. Now, it takes petitions from 820m people with a backlog “46 years” deep.
ECtHR mission creep & overreach has made it a threat to The West, posing as a guarantor of Liberty.
We must have a referendum on the ECHR’s fitness for purpose.
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Sad to see members of the Bar of England & Wales proving to be far more radical than Starmer, let alone the public.
The mask has slipped when Barristers are openly hoping to use Labour's win as a vehicle for the abolition of prisons. There is zero democratic mandate for this.
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