Ben Harris
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America-loving Brit. Aston Villa fan and Garlic hater. YIMBY. Baseball (Orioles) enthusiast. Phantom Menace enjoyer. #Birdland #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
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Impossible to describe how incredible President Zelensky is. Could've easily fled Kyiv but decided to stay, possibly at the cost of his life, in order to inspire resistance and prevent the kind of quick victory Putin was hoping for. Will go down in history as one of the greats.
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Russia 2018, Qatar 2022, Saudi Arabia 2034. FIFA is an absolute joke organisation. None of these nations should ever have been chosen.
🏆🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia, set to be announced as World Cup 2034 host with formal steps to follow today.
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What is this even supposed to mean?. These people's brains have just been totally fried by the culture war, to the point where they tweet like a broken AI would.
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I honestly can't believe these people still exist. Just crazy.
Embarking on a 6-hour car ride with someone who takes zero COVID precautions. Chilling in the back seat with this respirator and trying to keep the CO2 under 1,000 ppm. Wish me luck!
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Yeah it's wrong that so many people think Japan attacked the US for no reason. Japan attacked the US because the US embargoed Japan's oil. Why? Because Japan was on a genocidal rampage throughout east Asia.
when americans study the pacific theater of ww2, it starts with japan attacking the usa “for no reason at all”. japanese history starts with 50 prior years of american interference in east asia, intent on limiting japan’s regional power. which story sounds more believable
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Don't start wars then if you can't deal with the consequences. 🤷♂️
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It's genuinely crazy how many people are pro-Houthi/pro-piracy now simply because of culture war BS.
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Because libs like Zelensky and libs bad therefore Zelensky bad. That's it. These are very stupid people, remember.
I honestly don't get how Zelensky, who seems like a brave and dignified man, and even a good male role model, has become this "two-minute hate" figure to the MAGA set. I mean, look at the way his portrait is being used here, supposed to be triggering like a red cape to a bull.
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I cannot stop laughing.
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She was outed as a spy in 1999 in her late 80s, but I genuinely believe we should've still locked her up for treason. It's no different to how elderly SS commanders have been (rightly) imprisoned in the past when their crimes were revealed.
Retired British civil servant Melita Norwood, now an 87-year-old grandmother living in Bexleyheath, is outed as a KGB spy who, in the 1950s, sold a number of atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. She admits to it and says that she is proud of what she did.
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Farage and Reform are genuinely rattled by this Putin stuff. It seems to have cut through in a way that previous stories about pro-Nazi Reform candidates did not. I think they've misjudged just how unpopular Putin is in Britain, and how deep support for Ukraine goes.
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Some of the world's big powers, by government type:. USA - presidential republic.France - semi-presidential republic.Russia - fascist dictatorship.China - communist dictatorship.Japan - constitutional monarchy.Saudi Arabia - absolute monarchy.UK - pensioner dictatorship.
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Other nations that would make excellent World Cup hosts:. - Canada.- Australia/New Zealand.- South Korea/Japan (as in 2002).- UK.- Netherlands/Belgium.- France.- Spain/Portugal.- Italy.- Germany.- Poland/Czechia.- Denmark/Sweden/Norway. Too West-centric? Don't care. It's fact.
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"Zelensky" will become a byword for bravery in the same way "Putin" has become a byword for evil.
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There is no anti-Western dictatorship that Jeremy Corbyn will not shill for. Comfortably the most evil, disgusting and vile leader of a major UK political party in modern memory.
Labour’s former leader Jeremy Corbyn condemning Britain’s crucial military aid to Ukraine in an interview he granted to a pro-Russian, pro-Assad, pro-Hezbollah, Iranian-linked propaganda media outlet.
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This is horrendous. Just vile.
Now is the time to get the Government's knee off the neck of the Black, African Caribbean, Asian and minority ethnic community. #BLMUK #COVID19 #BlackLivesMatter
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I voted Leave and thought those People's Vote marchers were absolutely stupid, but they weren't trying to violently overthrow the government. Stop with these cretinous comparisons.
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"We're at risk of 8,000 new homes being built in my constituency". "at risk". "AT RISK". FUCKING. HELL.
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"No to pylons, yes to energy security". You really couldn't make it up. Just enormously thick.
I say No to Diversity Officers. -No to Milliband bankrupting Britain with his Net Zero madness. -No to #Lincolnshire becoming a dumping ground for pylons. -And yes to energy security, food security, and investing in our flood defences in Lincolnshire.
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Ask any Conservative what they think their biggest achievement was between 2019 and 2024 and I guarantee the two most common responses will be:. - Vaccine rollout.- Support for Ukraine. How can a merger with Reform work when many Reform supporters are anti-vax and anti-Ukraine?.
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Jacinda Ardern is one of the most overrated politicians around right now.
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@richardosman This is going to sound REALLY sad, but I've been keeping a day-by-day sneeze record since the beginning of 2014.
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I actually feel sorry for Neil Parish's staff. When you work for an MP you can accept losing your job because of election defeat or retirement at the end of a term, but losing it because your boss thought it was a good idea to watch porn in the Commons must sting a lot.
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The National Service policy is rightly getting slated on here but I guarantee the elderly (and disproportionately Reform-voting) demographic will love it, which is probably the entire point.
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When England play Greece tonight, it could either end in:. 1. An England win.2. A draw.3. A Greece win. I am very clever.
Israeli strikes on Iran could either .1. Strengthen the regime .2 Have little impact .3 Weaken the regime .4 Topple the regime.But in any case what comes next?.
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Note that Trump has a -65 approval rating among Tories and a +15 approval among Reform voters. There can be no Tory-Reform merge. These are two fundamentally different parties.
Trump and Biden 🇬🇧 approval:. Trump.🇬🇧Unfavorable 80-16%.🌹Unfavorable 91-7%.🌳Unfavorable 81-16%.➡️Favorable 56-41%.🔶Unfavorable 93-5%.🟢Unfavorable 97-3%. Biden.🇬🇧Unfavorable 58-32%.🌹Favorable 46-44%.🌳Unfavorable 62-33%.➡️Unfavorable 88-7%.🔶Tied 47-47%.🟢Unfavorable 63-30%.
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"You're no Tory - I on the other hand am a proper Conservative!". Their political affiliation history:
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Nah sorry, but anyone who didn't vote for Trump in 2016 and 2020 but is now voting for him in 2024 is a psycho.
My votes:. 2016: Gary Johnson 🟡.2020: Jo Jorgensen 🟡.2024: Donald Trump 🔴. Vote for Trump today, libertarians.
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Serious question: how did James Corden get so big? He's painfully unfunny.
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The Houthis, who by the way are openly antisemitic, have been attacking and seizing random merchant vessels at will in international waters. The idea that trying to put a stop to that is somehow bad is just insane.
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As close as you're going to get to a modern-day Winston Churchill. And yet bizarrely, he is vilified by many who constantly harp on about Churchill.
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Reminder that the person/people who run the political compass website think Bernie Sanders is centrist, Beto is hard-right and Kasich is literally fascist.
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The problem with the HMS Agincourt stuff isn't the act per se - it's nothing in the grand scheme of things. It's that it represents a wider attitude problem of this government, which seems almost embarrassed of this country and it's history and is obsessed with placating others.
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I'm going to be honest, this sentence is deeply off-putting and I don't think the Civil Service should be allowed to include it in job descriptions.
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We need to bring this flag back to prominence after it was swiftly and rather bizarrely supplanted by the Progress Pride flag(s).
The original flag just looks so much better than the new one
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Let's be brutally honest here: on average, the countries represented here treat their citizens FAR FAR FAR better than those not shown.
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If I were an American, I would crawl through broken glass to vote for Kamala Harris against Donald Trump, despite being way too her right. Stuff like this is why.
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Chris Bryant is fast becoming one of the most annoying MPs on this site.
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I'm not Jewish so I'm not necessarily as informed on this as many British Jews, but it genuinely does feel as if there's just a greater tolerance among British society for anti-Semitism than there is for any other major form of racism.
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Oh piss off you grifting prick.
Zelensky has no class. Wear a suit when you visit our kingdom. You’re not on the battlefield.
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I don't care how many alt-right losers it upsets, we should absolutely be letting in Afghan refugees. We owe them.
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Ok but if British republicans had their way, this is not what our republic would look like. It would be the dullest, cheapest, most miserable republic imaginable.
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Amazes me how often Corbynites repeatedly fail to distinguish between a sitting Prime Minister meeting a foreign leader (albeit a dictator) and inconsequential left-wing activists and politicians supporting said dictator out of principle.
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If I was under threat of torture or death in my own country and sought asylum in the UK, I would simply not commit sex offences once there.
@AaronBastani We don’t punish sex offenders with death or torture in this country. qualifying someone’s right to asylum on the basis of whether they have committed a crime would be tantamount to that - something I don’t think we should be arguing for as socialists!.
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I’m sorry but you cannot see how nuts this is? Refusing private healthcare out of “loyalty to the NHS” is full on religious cult behaviour.
My father refused private healthcare when dying telling his consultant that he would never not use the NHS. It’s a personal choice. The political choice is whether we fund the NHS properly.
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Officially decriminalising sexual assault is a terrible idea and would do untold suffering to vulnerable people. It's an insane idea regardless of whether the person espousing it has been sexually assaulted themselves.
Fuck you, you piece of shit, don't you dare tell survivors of sexual assault how they're supposed to react or what they're supposed to wish for.
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The UK was never off the world stage, and the idea that we were is absurd partisan nonsense.
Stamer front row next to NATO Secretary General. Uk is well and truly back on the world stage.
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This is extremely negligent parenting.
Look at how dangerous the XL Bully is. This is what it looks like to have responsible owners.
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Whole bunch of people who should be on an MI5 watchlist in the replies.
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Here's what actually happened:
All battles since 2500bc… . We halted this with the foundation of the European Union !. 🇪🇺✊🏻
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I'd totally watch a travel show where George Bush and Michelle Obama go abroad and get up to wacky adventures.
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I don't care that she looks like a sweet old grandma - this woman committed crimes far graver than most people we imprison.
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I sometimes wonder what would've been the cause of Johnson's downfall had Covid not happened.
Five years ago today: Boris Johnson delivered his victory speech on Downing Street after achieving the Tory party's biggest majority since 1992. If a week is a long time in politics, then five years is an age - & no one will be feeling that more acutely today than him. Pic: PA
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Hot take: NIMBYism is more to blame for the the UK’s economic sluggishness than Brexit.
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Israel is the without doubt the only country in the world that can be on the receiving end of its own 9/11-style terrorist attack and get more abuse/hatred than sympathy as a result of being the victim of said attack.
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I still find it crazy how the Progress Pride flag was able to come out of nowhere and in the space of a couple of years completely supplant the traditional flag which had been around for decades. Definitely speaks to the influence of certain fringe activists.
The flag on the left is infinitely superior to the abomination on the right.
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Yeah it's a dumb book, but why are you taking pictures of random people on the tube with their faces clearly visible?. Creep.
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It's actually shocking how many people couldn't see through Brand's BS until he pivoted from far-left to far-right. He was always odious.
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"Syrian children" is a funny way of saying "Iran-backed militias".
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I still don't understand how Trump's "I like people who weren't captured" about John McCain comment didn't end his presidential campaign in its infancy.
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"60kg of love". This is a dog breed that's literally responsible for over half of deaths from dogs in the UK this year despite only being like <1% of the dog population.
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I'm not far away from quitting the Conservative Party over this. This is getting out of control and has to stop.
Unlimited refills of sugary soft drinks in restaurants may be outlawed, along with selling sweets and chocolates around checkouts, under a new Government campaign against child obesity
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I like how she says "putting constituents first" and then the video immediately cuts to clips of her waving a Palestinian flag. Just completely unserious people.
I’M STANDING IN STRATFORD AND BOW. As the Whistleblower of the Labour Party. It’s time we had a representative who will hold truth to power, for Justice for us all. Vote Halima Khan as the first MP in Stratford and Bow. and the first Whistleblower to be elected into Parliament
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I find it genuinely frightening to live in a country where the "justice" system feels a mere 8 years is the appropriate sentence for unprovoked attempted murder. The whole system needs to be smashed and rebuilt.
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Yeah, I'm still going to pick the US president over the tyrannical, child-murdering president of Russia any day, fall or no fall.
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In a country where the health system is treated as a pseudo-religion and people are regularly demanded to make sacrifices for it, people being pressured into ending their lives in order to "help the NHS" is not a far-fetched scenario. So no, fears of the worst are very valid.
FYI, I don't consider "The Gov will start killing anyone like Canada" as a valid argument. If we didn't do anything because of fear over worse case scenarios nothing would get done. I don't believe there's any reason that should, or would, happen.
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🚨🚨 SHOCK POLL 🚨🚨. Hope you're sitting down for this:. Westminster voting intention: . CON: 0% (-40) .LAB: 0% (-24) .LDEM: 0% (-15) .BREX: 0% (-10) .JEB!: 100% (+100). via OpiniumResearch, 30 Oct .Chgs. w/ 23 - 25 Oct.
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You've all heard of the political compass. I now present to you: the political wheel. It's not strictly about left or right, or even about where those politicians themselves are, but about where their supporters tend to be.
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Corbyn calls Hiroshima an "indefensible act of inhumanity", without once mentioning why Hiroshima was bombed in the first place, or what would probably have happened had nuclear weapons not been used.
On Hiroshima Day, we remember the thousands of people who were killed in this crime against humanity. My piece for @tribunemagazine on the best way to honour their memory: by vowing to rid our world of nuclear weapons once and for all.
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I think one of the things about Trump that grates on me the most is that he's a deeply negative force in American politics and society, and he's doing it all for his own ego. That's it.
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NIMBYism genuinely is the root cause of about 80% of our problems.
The UK hasn't built a reservoir since 1991. Thames Water famously tried with Abingdon, but the planning system killed it.
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None of that immense suffering would've happened if Germany hadn't collectively decided to go on a genocidal rampage across Europe.
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Germany going from 30% nuclear power in 2000 to 0% just over 20 years later is insane regression, and a reminder that objective progress can often be yanked back for the most irrational and stupid reasons.
"A member of the German ministry seems to have rewritten relevant passages. to imply that it would not be possible to delay the phase-out due to safety concerns.". Wild - the phaseout was in 2021, just as energy prices were skyrocketing. A delay would've helped the economy.
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The Jackie Weaver stuff really was bizarre. Second only to Captain Tom grifter family for pandemic-era weirdness.
Handforth Parish Council member Jackie Weaver attends the premiere screening of "The Walking Dead" Season 11 airing on Star on Disney+ at Kings Place in London, England (2021)
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I had many doubts about Starmer but I genuinely (and as it turned out foolishly) believed that his government would at least be solid on national security and foreign policy. No longer. Our enemies will be licking their lips after this decision.
UK agrees to give up sovereignty of remote Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in historic deal over one of its last overseas territories
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I'd rather have a cringey prime minister than a war criminal president like Putin.
Could this BE any more awkward? . Theresa May was caught dancing in South Africa and it's just as cringe as you'd expect it to be 🙈.
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I've tweeted this before but have to do it again: Jacob Rees-Mogg was technically in 24 Season 1.
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Oh God here we go. Most people know Huw Edwards didn't get special treatment. Most of the uproar is centred around the fact that the justice system treats possession and distribution of child pornography so leniently by default.
Why did Huw Edwards avoid prison?. Is this evidence of “two-tier justice”?. Let’s take a quick look. 🧵. TLDR: This is an entirely expected sentence for offences of this type.
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Actually, it’s good that both the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition both agree on one of Britain’s core interests and haven’t had their brains turned to mush by online contrarian conspiracy slop like you have.
Rishi Sunak's "wholeheartedly support" uniparty boosterism for Starmer over Ukraine at PMQs today is not what he's there for. It may make him feel warm and statesmanlike, and get plaudits from pundits, but he's now Leader of the Opposition — clue is in the name, Oppose!.
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TikTok is being banned because it's literally a Chinese government psyop and you Zoomers have proven yourselves about as resistant to totalitarian propaganda as Gollum to the One Ring.
the tiktok ban with no receipts on actual reasoning is really feeling like the government admitting: “more people are seeing news we don’t want them to so we are going to ban that place they are seeing it”.
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Two years ago we had a Prime Minister who was widely known by just his first name, to such an extent in fact that many people were complaining that it was too familiar and chummy.
Why do we call male politicians by their last name, but women - such as Kamala Harris - by their first? 🤨. Today's Q&A is a US politics special 🇺🇸. Coming to @GlobalPlayer
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People who work in Parliament for an MP who describe themselves as "Chief of Staff", what they think they look like vs what they actually look like:
🔵 SOMERTON & FROME: I understand that James Hamblin, chief-of-staff to David Warburton, the MP who has just quit, has applied for the Conservative selection.
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Can the BBC please stop inviting people with sixth-former politics onto their shows.
"By historical standards it is cheap to borrow money". PoliticsJOE editor Oli Dugmore says "if you invest money in a society, the social good that will come out of it is extraordinary". #BBCLauraK
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@prospectmelv It literally is random merchant shipping - they've gone after multiple ships which have nothing to do with Israel. And no the US and the UK do not attack random merchant shipping. There is not one example of this.
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