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Clean and presentable. Former sea-monkey owner. Occasional writing. @LD_Sceptics , @Quillette and Cumbria magazine. ❤️ tennis, oolong, sheep
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I'm driving 22 miles tomorrow on quiet roads to see my mum, who is in my 'bubble'. I've printed off proof of my address, so I can get back. And printed the Government's rules on bubbles. And have memorised what I'm going to say, if stopped by police.
I shouldn't have to do this.
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@FatEmperor
Some lockdown proponents are getting more aggressive towards sceptics because they believe the end is in sight, and they now need to try to justify to themselves and others that the out of proportion, devastating set of policies they support was the only choice available.
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Turn on Radio 4 and how long do you have to wait before you hear about race, gender, climate change? New record this morning. Within space of first 4 minutes I heard about George Floyd, climate change, equality, and gender roles. (Sunday Worship, A Point of View.)
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@JuliaHB1
I hear that the cafes in Islington have been entirely stripped of skinny lattes and ethically-sourced sourdough rolls, as locals stock up before Brexit Armageddon.
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Fact: Andrew Doyle does the best monologues.
Big tech is now withdrawing financial services from those who fail to conform to the approved ideology.
My opening monologue from tonight’s episode of Free Speech Nation…
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Every last one of Andrew Doyle's to camera GB News pieces is perfect. Not just for the views expressed - which I happen to agree with - but also for the writing and delivery, and most importantly the ability to go to the root of the issue without simplifying it. Lovely stuff.
Broadcasters are now routinely adding “content warnings” to popular sitcoms like Fawlty Towers and ‘Allo ‘Allo.
My thoughts on
@GBNEWS
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@YardleyShooting
One of the oddest things about the Nightingale hospitals is that there wouldn't have been enough - or indeed any - doctors and nurses to staff them, even if they had been necessary.
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11 March, 2020
Twelve days later, full lockdown.
Dr Jenny Harries, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, came into Downing Street to answer some of the most commonly asked questions on coronavirus.
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"The supposed reverence for ‘the science’ among the Covid crackdown zealots is not a reverence for science itself ... What the zealots have is reverence for individual scientists who happen to agree with them..."
Peter Hitchens' Sunday column.
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Best thing I've heard or read about Rushdie, since the attack.
Andrew stuck to the main issue and made a series of vitally important points.
Regrettably, others have absurdly and unjustly tried to associate things like cancellations & deplatforming with a fatwa, smearing many.
The horrific attack on Salman Rushdie is a reminder that we must never appease those who wish to deprive us of our freedoms.
My thoughts from tonight’s episode of Free Speech Nation…
(Apologies for the terrible sound - technical issues! 🤷♂️)
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@UNmigration
Disingenuous. You mean mass immigration, which most people are against. But most have no problem with sustainable, well-managed migration.
You do not represent the values of humanity, but a specific ideology espoused by a relatively small section of it.
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We should not be in a position where this needs to be said, but unfortunately we are, and Andrew Doyle says it brilliantly. 🙏
There is a sense of real and justified anger here.
Why do so many gay people feel that Stonewall no longer represents them?
My thoughts from tonight’s episode of Free Speech Nation…
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@ameliewenzhao
Writing is not life. Art is not politics or morality.
Writers can write what they want, short of inciting a crime.
A few short years ago this was common knowledge.
And what art was, and, in truth, still is.
If you'd care to look.
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@PolandDaily
I've always found it fascinating that protesters often believe they can disrupt others' lives with impunity.
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Richard Madeley speaking with Peter Hitchens, on
@talkRADIO
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"If you treat the population with contempt what do you expect to happen?"
@ClarkeMicah
@richardm56
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@James7Holland
@Fox_Claire
If
@Keir_Starmer
is so worried about a "deregulated economy", which is a fair point in itself, perhaps he should aim to avoid it by winning a general election, rather than wanting his policies implemented from abroad by the EU. Or has he given up on the idea ever gaining power?
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@PaulEmbery
The sad thing is, the writers of this letter can't see how infused it is with intolerance to other views. It's arrogant and dismissive. And to accuse you of wanting to sow division just shows how deeply dogmatic and frankly stupid it is.
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@afneil
Perhaps that's what happens when a country is subjected to open borders dogma for long enough.
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"Contact us" has a new meaning
It now means a web page with no phone number or email address, but a mass of help topics, none of which are relevant, which you have to trawl through, and after ten minutes of frustration you might possibly find some way of chatting with a computer
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@ActionBrexit
What I'd like to know if anyone reading this has children who protested: how did their children become interested in it and in protesting? Was it from their teachers, social media? From knowing nothing about climate change how did they end up suddenly marching with placards?
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@tomclayton92
@Iromg
Chris Bryant trying to make the facts fit his opinions, and intolerant and patronising with it. A closed mind.
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@Fox_Claire
@TheBembridge
I would have described myself as one, only four or five years ago. Brought up with it. Someone who likes relatively neutral news reporting and analysis, with a reasonably complex sense of humour. Surely neither of these would be met by the bulk of Radio 4's output today.
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@toadmeister
What's worse is that the BBC actually believes its Covid-19 coverage is truthful and fair.
If anyone previously had any doubts that the BBC is a morally corrupt and intellectually bankrupt organisation, its coverage of Covid-19 should have convinced them.
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After reading Peter Hitchens' Sunday column about electric scooters, I had my very first sighting of one today - straight across my path, about 4 feet in front of me on the pavement, going about 20mph. Shouted after him, but he didn't give a damn. Why do they allow this? Madness.
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@SteveStuWill
This must of course be because universities discriminate against male applicants. I don't have any proof of this, but I frequently read in the mainstream media that every gap is mainly caused by prejudice.
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@MarkChangizi
I've often thought about politely saying to some elderly mask-wearers I see in the street, you might not know this, but there is no evidence masks work.
I just hate the indignity of these souls having been misled.
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@GarbyJooman
@jonkay
"The joke of a still being a ball and not a pumpkin is harmful."
They should put that quote in the next NASA probe heading out into deep space, to warn others it's no longer worth coming here.
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@gymguy99
@itvanglia
And yet her views are dismissed by the presenter who says "she's a product of her time". That's not an argument it's not professional.
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@Fox_Claire
I find these videos of these incidents quite stressful and they're not even happening to me.
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@KiszelyPhilip
It's quite enlightening. It seems to confirm to me something I've suspected for a few weeks, which is that gender fluidity is seen by believers as being inseparable from the issue of equality for those who are same-sex attracted. So if you oppose it you must dislike gay people.
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@georgegalloway
@OPCW
@roberts69411729
Whereupon it will find no material evidence, but will speak to the health cluster partners (SAMS, Physicians for Human Rights, etc) take their jihadi-free version of events as truth & report back to the UN with 'proof'. And Russia is always accused by the MSM of obstructing.
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@jamesjohnson252
@AdamPerkinsPhD
@Channel4News
Hopefully Coogan will end up being to this election what Eddie Izzard was to the Remain campaign in 2016: a liability.
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@andrewdoyle_com
In my experience, significant parts of the left have always blamed voters for being stupid and patronised the working class.
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In recent weeks I've noticed a big increase in the number of replies which are concealed under that warning message about "the following replies might be offensive''.
Virtually none of them contain anything offensive.
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Unfortunately I'm unable to keep up with the replies and retweets, but they're appreciated.
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@simondolan
I must have missed something in the last three months, because nowhere have I seen it reported that the Black Death has been sweeping across the UK.
The Government's response just seem to get more risible by the day.
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@Jeremyaudouard
You get people like this all over the world. But they're usually slumped on a bench, surrounded by empty beer cans and telling passers-by they love them.
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I had planned to go out tonight to meet interesting and attractive people, or to raise money for kittens and puppies, but I'm going to stay in and watch this instead.
It was a great pleasure to talk to
@jordanbpeterson
on his latest podcast.
We discussed the religiosity of the woke movement, the human capacity for transcendence through the arts, and much more!
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@SebDance
@WinterfellT
Where on the ballot paper did it give the option: Leave (but only with a deal)?
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@ClarkeMicah
For those who missed it, Peter Hitchens is on from about 22 mins into the programme, for about 8 minutes.
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@DrHoenderkamp
April 2020, I entered M&S via its designated exit, as it was nearer the food section.After an argument with the manager, she demanded I leave and use the designated entrance 100 yds away, which I did, soon ending up standing exactly where I'd been arguing with her minutes earlier
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If those who blithely supported the US, UK & French airstrikes on Syria without evidence, read and digested even half of what's written in this blog post, then in future they might avoid plunging the world into a major, irrevocable conflict.
@ClarkeMicah
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@YardleyShooting
The perfect example showing why the BBC is no longer impartial, but is now the main propaganda arm of the state.
There can be no other reason for its constant and blatant deception.
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@thomasbrake
@JohnMannMP
@theresa_may
The box where I put my cross said 'Leave the European Union', not 'Leave the European but not if some people think it will do damage'.
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@NeilClark66
"the deceased has gone into hospital already seriously ill from life-threatening conditions... having had 3 or 4 negative Covid tests. While in hospital, they have had another test, which is positive, and then passed away and the death is recorded as Covid"
It's just ridiculous.
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Visiting someone today and inadvertently saw BBC News interviewing Stephen Reicher, member of SAGE. He was asked whether lockdown should be lifted soon. "No, the virus shouldn't be allowed to let rip."
He's a bloody behavioural scientist! His views on this are of no importance.
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I missed seeing this article by Peter Hitchens, almost two weeks ago. Better late than never. Highly recommended.
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How not to be a crank in 2021, apparently:
Shut down much of society for a low risk virus
Strangle the economy
Destroy long-standing, hard fought for liberties
Cause many thousands of avoidable non-Covid deaths
Mass test school children
Increase testing to boost 'cases'
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Government: we wrecked the economy and many people's lives with a pointless lockdown against a virus forecast to kill fewer than previous flu outbreaks.
The Opposition: you didn't act in this grossly irresponsible and reckless way quickly enough.
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An understandably angry, wholly justified and brilliantly executed demolition, by
@DouglasKMurray
, of those involved in the sacking of
@Roger_Scruton
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@JBrokenshire
@georgeeaton
@conservatives
@NewStatesman
#RogerScruton
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That's my Christmas reading sorted. Just ordered signed copies of The Abolition of Liberty, and The Rage Against God, by Peter Hitchens, from Blackwell's Oxford. Something I've been meaning to do for a while.
Free postage too. Can't be bad.
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Best programme on
@GBNEWS
.
Tonight on FREE SPEECH NATION…
• Why do journalists keep referring to male sex offenders as women?
• Is calling for the genocide of Jews acceptable on US university campuses?
• Was the UK government right to veto the SNP’s gender recognition bill?
PLUS my amazing
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@toadmeister
The BBC has reached a point where it is entirely unaware of its own ideological bias.
For quite some time, it appeared partly aware. But something changed over the last three or four years. Now only one set of values is considered valid.
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@jonkay
@ArmandHammer
Easily done. I've been walking around supermarkets for months wearing a dog lead, with a mask exemption card on the end. Thought it was a lanyard.
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@matthewlesh
@afneil
Meanwhile, every other political journalist at the BBC assumes XR are correct, and only discuss how they can persuade politicians to act. Andrew Neil is the only one prepared to challenge XR.
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Very informative article. I'd not heard of Albert before, and its increasing influence.
The "Stonewall of Sustainability," as Austin Williams aptly describes it.
An expose of the Green propaganda machine that openly manipulates the news agenda.
If you suspected it, the reality is even more insidious and troubling.
See how
#Channel4
's news wilfully manipulates stories to represent climate change on screen.
@spectator
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@YardleyShooting
Instead of anecdotal evidence, you'd be better looking at the data and comparing it to previous years, and also be mindful of how Covid deaths are defined, as I know you already have.
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@edwest
They probably imagined themselves creeping up behind it as it tucked into its porridge.
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What did Margaret Thatcher ever do for us?
"... at the end of it, she was a great and noble failure, who forgot or ignored half of what she really needed to do, and so lived to see almost all her successes negated."
2012 article by Peter Hitchens.
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It's a shame most of this article is behind a paywall. It's the best thing I've read about the subject. I was lucky to have the chance before it became necessary to pay.
The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous and False, by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Great Sunday column by Peter Hitchens.
The part about the Archbishop of Canterbury is particularly good. A lesson in how to say far more with less.
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I highly recommend this podcast, with that
@andrewdoyle_com
bloke. Unlike many podcasts, I feel they really got down to discussing the detail. It made for an interesting hour.
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The idea CRT is "well-intentioned" is, with respect, irrelevant and is an undeserved, needless compliment. I wish people would stop saying it. Most people, whatever their views,have good intentions. Look at it another way: why would CRT *not* be well-intentioned?
@andrewdoyle_com
'What she's effectively saying is if you accuse white people of being racist and they don't like it that proves all white people are racist.'
Andrew Doyle challenges the idea of 'white fragility', a critical race theory created by author Robin DiAngelo.
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@bindelj
@Docstockk
Many of our police are now not just an embarrassment but are facilitating harm and distress.
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@clim8resistance
@MayorofLondon
I imagine this is the sort of patronising, nannyish advice we'll get from the government's new SMS warnings service - from which millions will of course sensibly opt-out.
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@YardleyShooting
And keep asking why they don't feel shy about doing so, which to me is perhaps an even more interesting question.
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@SoniaPoulton
This video strikes me as quite sinister. And even more so because the very people who are supposed to uphold the law and protect citizens did nothing.
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@Fox_Claire
By not answering it, the outcome is the same as if he'd said the same as Starmer. They are at one on this subject.
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"I signed up to Andrew Doyle's Substack and ever since I've been rewarded on a daily basis with topical, well-written and insightful posts. If only more people would do the same, we might not be in this bloody mess."
-- David, Cumbria
“These criminals are not women”
Why are journalists misleading the public?
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@spikedonline
Correct. Rees Mogg was saying the advice to stay put was bad advice, in that fire. He says that if they had ignored the advice it would've been better, not that they should have ignored it and that it's their own fault for not ignoring it.
Critics choose what they want to hear.
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@JonHolb
@PaulEmbery
Many on the left are incapable of understanding that a dislike of high levels of immigration doesn't entail a hatred of immigrants. It doesn't compute for them.
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@EvaKBartlett
My (longish) take on Syria, on the eve of likely Western military attacks in support of jihadists.
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Very pleased that Peter Hitchens has recommended listening to retired Supreme Court Judge Jonathan Sumption's Reith Lectures, including this one. It's brilliant. Why on earth did the BBC allow it?
It's downloadable, too.
PH column:
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I've found the one Twitter account that Peter Hitchens may wish to follow.
It is not easy to fix the historical mistake to let cars dominate public space. But
#Catharijnesingel
(Utrecht) shows that cities can heal from the inflicted wounds.
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@ActionBrexit
As the clips itself shows, Boris Johnson says: "I will not *negotiate* a delay *with* the EU."
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@RubinReport
Dave, this video (of which I've now watched a large part) should be preserved in perpetuity as a classic cultural artifact revealing the madness of our current age. It has it all. Unfortunately. Every self-regarding trait of the modern radical leftist mind.
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Latest episode of The Weekly Sceptic, with
@toadmeister
&
@nickdixoncomic
Rishi’s secret meeting with Dominic Cummings
Kemi Badenoch tops polls to become next Conservative Party leader
Sadiq Khan criticised for his narcissist New Year’s Eve
And much more
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@Tim_R_Dawson
Obsessed with race, obsessed with hate, obsessed with their own feelings of virtuousness. These people have no freedom of thought. They are compelled to shoehorn everything into the narrative which satisfies their ideology.
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@JWoodcockMP
@EveningStandard
An evidence-free, highly rhetorical piece, which intelligent people will know is written to serve his agenda. It's fascinating that John Woodcock has a pinned tweet saying he's fighting for his constituents, when everything he does helps only the business and military elite.
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@WeDoNotLearn73
@SkyNews
Is
@skynews
expecting mines in the English Channel and surface-to-air missiles at European airports to take out incoming British passenger planes? Why would
#brexit
cause a problem for musicians on tour? Brexit derangement syndrome in full swing.
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@andrewdoyle_com
Just read it again. Any honest and intelligent person who shared Hirsch's worldview, would have to admit it's a very poor article. The so-called evidence she provides to try to show there's been a racist campaign against Meghan simply doesn't stack up. It's a disingenuous piece.
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@afneil
Yes. And from the very same people who never miss an opportunity to lecture people about disinformation and how voters were misled, whether over Brexit or Trump.
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@clim8resistance
Headline in the Daily Mail today is 'Running on empty', then they publish a story online a few hours later about how many drivers are panic buying.
Queues at my local filling stations, with at least one only allowing 10 litres.
I detest these journalists.
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@rakibehsan
I genuinely believe such people are not fit to be an MP. No interest in or knowledge of the many causes of racial inequalities, without which advances cannot be made, just ideology-driven cries of racism.
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You can usually rely on Rakib for the best take, and this thread does not disappoint. Spot on.
Not a surprise that the identitarian Left have reduced Great Britain's history-making Emma Raducanu to her ethnically-mixed heritage.
They talk so little about aspiration and hard work, and obsess no end over one's racial identity and ethnic background.
Dreadful politics.
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@ClarkeMicah
"I have a sneaking admiration for Miss Thunberg’s brass neck, even if I think her plans for self-imposed poverty, cold and darkness are unattractive. But for her worshippers I have nothing but scorn."
-- Peter Hitchens
This sums up my feeling over the last week.
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@ClarkeMicah
I saw this last night. It definitely looks like the presenter was told to cut him off. In other examples in the past, which people sometimes cite as censorship during interviews, I don't always agree - but with this I do. It's crudely done too.
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@MrsMThatcher
@Roger4Richmond
I've never been a huge fan of Margaret Thatcher, but this is not only good, it's prophetic. Best clip of her I've seen.
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