Helen Dale (not on your team, but always fair)
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Australian literature’s lone classical liberal. Hack lawyer. Miles Franklin Award winner. Senior Writer @LawLiberty. Agent @MWHamilton R/T ≠ endorsement. 🏳️🌈
Edinburgh, Oxford, London
Joined September 2013
Welcome to new followers. 1. I’m Senior Writer @LawLiberty: . 2. My novels: . 3. I also write (with @LorenzoFrom) at: 4. And for many other outlets, too.
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Starling murmurations (common in Italy & Spain) give you an idea why the Romans based much of their augury on the flight of birds. Watching one is almost a religious experience.
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The fox I planted last year is coming along nicely.
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Thai dance is actually astounding.
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If Pompeii happened now.
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Quite possibly the best Twitter burn 🔥I've ever seen. Five stars.
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"Get a cat," they said. "Cats sleep all the time," they said.
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It’s 243 years since the USA crashed out of the British Empire without a deal.
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Assassin’s Creed: Feline
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Going topless in front of Silvio Berlusconi is probably one of the most useless political strategies out there.
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Support this Liverpool gym.
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Today's physics lesson for squirrels trying to steal from the bird-feeder: conservation of momentum.
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When your Scottish friend tells you Border Collies are the smartest of all dogs, believe them. When an Australian says Kelpies are even smarter, believe them too - and organise a jenga-off.
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Never thought I'd see the day when Canadian police managed to out-authoritarian Australian police.
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From time-to-time, I let myself feel vindicated about this nasty little scrote. Got dogpiled on here back in 2019 for a piece in the Speccie pointing out that she (and her handlers) were using her age and disability as a shield against any sort of disagreement. Was right.
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Steady (gimballed) head. Did I mention that birds are amazing?
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The cat we need right now.
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Lions in safari parks have been known to cause traffic jams, saw this sort of thing last year in South Africa (Kruger National Park).
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Everyone laughed when it was wingnuts like Alex Jones getting banned. Now we’re seeing it done to perfectly boring, Ofcom-regulated UK TalkRADIO. Who’s next? LBC? They’re a bit “edgy”. YouTube are a menace.
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The memes make themselves.
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244 years ago, the USA left the UK without a deal.
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This is well done, but very sad.
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Poor kitty-cat encounters durian for the first time.
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GCSE Geography up the spout I see.
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This is going to be on high rotation for a while. Wonderful reminder that if you can’t live up (or down, realistically) to the standards you seek to impose on others, you lose the right of advocacy.
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I see Tony Blair, the Unflushable Turd, has once again bobbed to the surface.
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On this day, 245 years ago, the USA left the UK without a deal.
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“There’s been a murder”
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BREAKING: New York Times and Teen Vogue Announce Merger.
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You'll never look at a trainset in quite the same way again.
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Keir Starmer executes superb combination handbreak turn/reverse ferret on BLM.
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As a self-own, this is hard to beat. Congratulations, BBC.
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When you’re the last cat made for the day and the workshop is out of matching parts.
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Please let Gender Studies be next.
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Finally, a UK version.
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"The Day the Cats Took Over"
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Tony Benn’s Questions. Never forget them. 1. What power have you got? . 2. Where did you get it from? . 3. In whose interest do you use it? . 4. To whom are you accountable? . 5. How do we get rid of you?.
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The person responsible for this is a comedic genius.
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All those people at Penguin blubbering about Jordan Peterson's new book - how on earth did they get jobs?. People who turn into a puddle at first sight of disagreeable views are unsuited to work in publishing. Realistically, they're probably unsuited to work.
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Periodic reminder that geese absolutely will not be taking your shit (or anyone else's).
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Clearly, people have been lying on their census forms for a long time.
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No wonder Jess Phillips doesn’t want a General Election.
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“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.”. —George Orwell, 1984. Good novelists notice things.
“THE FUTURE IS FEMALE.”. Indeed, the female tilt among anti-Israel student protesters is an underappreciated aspect of the pro-Hamas campus hysteria. My latest @CityJournal
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Periodic reminder Twitter may be amusing from time-to-time but it’s run by people who couldn’t organise a fuck in a brothel.
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The people dancing with glee on @Glinner's comedy career are appalling. There’s something seriously unpleasant about how much they enjoy trying to destroy someone with far more talent than they have. These are people who've been on Mock the Week or Live at the Apollo once or
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Tony Blair really is the unflushable turd.
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Muslim rights or LGBT rights. Pick one.
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“I see what you humans do when you come to my park; let me copy”.
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Can the Beeb arrange for Andrew Neil to interview this Greta Thunberg character? Because afterwards I guarantee we’ll never hear from her again. She may even have a meltdown on national telly into the bargain.
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Do not attempt to outsmart a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo. It won’t work.
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Periodic reminder that the concept of #WhitePrivilege is pure American hooey, an attempt to apply US social theory to the UK. NB: Britain is a country where disadvantage is overwhelmingly a function of class, not race. Begone, Yankie intellectual imperialism.
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“Can we have a word with Design about that font?”
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Does sitting on Twitter drinking Labour tears make me a bad person?.
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I don't generally approve of Twitter "list burns", but this one is unusually good.
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Some people never get old.
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This is an actual bird that exists. That is all.
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1997 v 2019. Labour, you have a problem.
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Of course, it's a Border Collie.
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Can confirm that The Raven in Bath has the best pub pies I've ever tasted.
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Sugar Gliders are a relatively common Australian marsupial; albino versions are, however, rather rare.
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Of course, it’s a Border Collie.
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"No, don't! It's dangerous in there, even though it's warm!
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Tony Blair, the Unflushable Turd, has once again bobbed to the surface. Just before Christmas, too.
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Virgil in the time of coronavirus.
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"That campaign we planned a year ago?"."Yeah?"."Well, the zeitgeist shifted. We've dropped ourselves right in it".
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"Wanted the banana so much even the tigers had to admit they were impressed".
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Nuns rocking out to Queen. Yes really.
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‘Joe’ has a point. [Also, we need to stop the overproduction of wannabe elites already.]
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Once again, Tony Blair really is the unflushable turd.
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Periodic reminder that authors can write about whatever they like. You don't own JK Rowling's pen. I had this go-round with my first novel 25 years ago. My view now is the same as my view then. If you don't like what we write, don't buy our books. [1].
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“Who says we can’t be besties?”
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Jaguars can hunt & eat underwater.
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Brighton starling murmuration.
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"I fell into a burning ring of fire. "
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Sending 50% of the population to university turns out to be a giant waste of money; the most lucrative degrees are medicine, economics, and law; studying "creative arts" is a giant hole in the ground into which one pours money SHOCK
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“Modern life sucks so much I wish I lived in the past”. THE PAST:
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“No, smol hairless ape, you do NOT climb up there!”
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"Since you REFUSE to get out of bed and feed me, have a giant rat!"
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