Labi Siffre
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You misinterpret my song "Something Inside So Strong".
#BorisJohnson
's 1st instinct is to lie
(his safe place)
He defines the electorate as "stooges"
I assessed him as not be trusted after seeing him on "Have I Got News For You".
He continues to confirm my assessment as accurate.
My reaction when the left are panicking, spitting feathers and frantically sending me abusive messages because we want to
#BringBackBoris
He is a winner and the opponent they fear the most.
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Within the past two weeks, on a visit to the city of my birth, London, I have committed:
1) The crime of being Black while studying the interior of a church (I did church architecture as part of pre 6th form O Level art &, though an atheist from the age of six, retain an interest
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@LizKershawDJ
It’s disappointing to find that you are an internet troll. I’m 77, English, not a royalist & have no interest in celebrity. We have serious problems in the UK. They’re getting worse. People are suffering. Gratuitous insults, no matter how mealy-mouthed, demean you & help no one.
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Cancel Culture
The first time I was cancelled I was six years old. I was holding my father’s hand. We were in Ladbroke Grove, London. I looked to the building on my left and saw, in the lower left corner of the front room window, a postcard. It read:
“Room To Let
No blacks
No
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His arrest proved his point.
A protester standing outside Conservative Party conference in Manchester with a handmade sign reading "Priti Fascist", during the Home Secretary's speech to delegates, was arrested and bundled into a police van.
He's not wrong, is he?
#PritiFascist
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I’ve lived a lifetime with racism from the Mail, Express, Sun & Telegraph.
Them accusing others of racism is risible & insulting.
They’ve profited, & wielded political power, by selling & encouraging racism, homophobia & sexism for decades.
#UK
#media
#racism
#sexism
#homophobia
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I am not a member of any organisation called "Black Lives Matter” but I believe that Black Lives Matter and I agree with the statement, “Black Lives Matter”;
that's because Black Lives Matter. I believe “I’ve made my position absolutely clear".
#BlackLivesMatter
#race
#racism
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A reminder that the Vatican believes Rupert Murdoch has an “unblemished character” & in 1998 awarded him a Papal Knighthood, inducted into the Pontifical Order of St. Gregory the Great, an "honour" he holds to this day. "An unblemished character" a man who, it's fair to say,
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Nigel Farage is neither an EU skeptic nor a lockdown skeptic; he plays politics for a living. He views politics entirely as a business & like Donald Trump (& Boris Johnson) views his followers as gullible fodder.
#Farage
#EU
#Lockdown
#PoliticsUK
#Politics
#Demagogues
#Populists
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Democracy won't be “alive & well” in GB till we replace 1st Past the Post with Proportional Representation (*not* AV; that's FPTP Lite). For 1 party to govern it should have won at least 51% of the votes. № of Seats should = Proportion of votes.
#FPTP
#ProportionalRepresentation
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Huw Edwards
The police say there's
No evidence of any criminal offence
Seems the "criminal" here is not Edwards
but Rupert Murdoch
#HuwEdwards
#RupertMurdoch
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Questions asked at PMQTs are asked on behalf of the British People & deserve informative respectful answers. Bluster & Evasion at
#PMQTs
show contempt for the British people.
Clearly Rishi Sunak intends to continue that tradition of contempt.
#braverman
#Sunak
#Conservatives
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BORIS JOHNSON WIPES HIS ARSE WITH THE UNION JACK
He knew what the EU Withdrawal Bill was when he signed it. His Internal Market Bill shows Brexit to be a squalid affair of dishonesty, dishonour & betrayal. He shows Britain’s & its people’s word, our word, to be worthless. Shame.
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I'm no royalist but appreciate fair play. So I was surprised to hear, on
@BBCPM
8 Dec, that the Duke of Sussex is a "spoiled" person who's "had it very easy". I thought, "So no mention of his 10 years in the Army/2 tours in war-torn Afghanistan inc 10 weeks in Helmand Province."
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In a country claiming to be
A meritocracy
I’m no royalist, I prefer to be
A citizen
Rather than a subject
Yet it seems
Better my country would be
if Harry & Megan did
Whatever they thought best
& The Mail, Express, Sun,
Mirror, Times & Telegraph
Left
#HarryMeghan
#HarryAndMeghan
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The Sun and the Sunday Sport are condemned for "counting down" to the 16th birthdays of celebrities including actor Emma Watson and singer Charlotte Church. "The implication is shocking – that *millions* of readers should share a joke about the sexual desirability of underage
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Breaking News!
it is understood that Liz Truss will be turning water into wine in Cheltenham & turning the Cairngorms into gold.
More announcements of her works will follow after she raises the dead Tuesday next in the car park of Tescos Extra, Great North Road, Hatfield.
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When a politician flatters the audience by implicitly describing them (near or far) as "Law Abiding, Hard Working, Common Sense" &/or "Family people" or, even worse, "God fearing", I know I'm listening to a con-artist, snake-oil sales-person, not to be trusted, never to be voted
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Please don't apologise on behalf of others. Bear in mind that, as an Englishman, I'm not outside of this. I'm part of this.
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I wonder why austerity never starts at the top?
#UK
#GB
#Austerity
#Conservatives
#Hunt
#Truss
#economy
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The "Nakba" never stopped.
We are complicit in genocide.
We are watching genocide.
We are abetting genocide.
What is happening in Gaza today did not start on October 7th 2023.
[75 years of Ethnic Cleansing]
If you are not aware of the "Nakba" and the continuing Ethnic Cleansing
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When the power to kill is a hundred to one (p'haps more) in your favour and you continue years of playing "the victim card" (& yes I've despised & opposed holocaust denial from David Irving to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and beyond) and your evidence (inc that of a Hamas terrorist hub
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Brexit Means:
Blaming the neighbours when you’re having a row in your own house
#StopBrexit
#RevokeArticle50
#Remain
#PeoplesVote
#RevokeA50
#Leave
#Brexit
#BollocksToBrexit
@BorderIrish
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When, during a UK General Election campaign, the Nov 9th 8 a.m. news read on
@BBCr4today
describes the 1989 COMMUNIST government of East Berlin as “An oppressive SOCIALIST regime” there’s no need of Bots or Russian interference in UK elections: The BBC is undermining well enough.
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So much for the myth of surgical strikes. If you're after Hamas and Hamas (as is claimed) is in tunnels ... literally "underground" there's no need to destroy everything above ground, everything Palestinian civilians have: their homes, their shops, their hospitals, their places
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If Jeremy Corbyn hadn’t behaved as though Brexit was irrelevant, things might have been very different, and better.
#Brexit
#BrexitReality
#BrexitDividend
#UK
#GB
#Corbyn
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I’m trying to get mildly drunk. I’ve ordered another margarita. At the next table three financial guys, one with a piercing voice, are discussing how to make a lot of money (a prime minister is a good friend of his). My olives have arrived. I’ll need more
margaritas.
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Dear
@theresa_may
My national identity as English & British does not need to be restored. As an EU Citizen my national identity was never taken away. On the contrary I feel it has been enhanced. We need to bring people together not divide them.
#StopBrexit
#brexit
#Remain
#leave
The UK passport is an expression of our independence and sovereignty – symbolising our citizenship of a proud, great nation. That's why we have announced that the iconic
#bluepassport
will return after we leave the European Union in 2019.
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That there are ANY children in absolute poverty in the UK of GB makes a lie of any claim that we are a great nation.
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
@BorisJohnson
@10DowningStreet
#ReesMogg
#BorisJohnson
#UK
#GB
ChildPoverty
#poverty
#Brexit
will make things even worse
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@JolyonMaugham
It isn’t sleaze
It’s CORRUPTION
You know
Like in Nigeria
India
Pakistan
Lebanon
Russia
South America
The USA
Is there no one in GB with the backbone to call it what it is?How can we fight it if we don’t even have the balls to call it by its name!?
CORRUPTION
#UK
#GB
#BorisJohnson
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It is interesting (and disappointing) that it is not more widely and punitively noted that Rupert Murdoch through his media empire (inc Fox "News") has, during the past 55+ years, damagingly, divisively, traitorously (perhaps permanently) changed the course of human history (for
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I wonder how much longer it will take to complete the construction of the film set under the al-Shifa hospital.
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The claim to be God's "Chosen People" is an "in your face" claim of Racial Superiority.
Arrogance, hubris, supreme racial and national narcissism no different than claims of White Supremacism or Aryan superiority and with the same corpse ridden results.
Apparently we're supposed
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"Mowing the lawn"
Those with Tanks claim they are the victims of those who have no tanks.
Those with Helicopter Gunships claim they are the victims of those who have only Para-gliders.
Those with F16 fighter bombers dropping bombs and White Phosphorous claim they are the victims
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I Want My Country Back
The country in which experts were respected but facts were checked & a child having a tantrum demanding what it knows doesn’t exist but nonetheless screams & threatens demanding it, is ignored 'til it behaves itself.
#Brexit
#leave
#remain
#PeoplesVote
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Thought For The Day
The Nazis believed as a matter of conscience that science/tech was the cure for being a Jew, a Roma, a Homosexual, the physically or mentally disabled. Their sincere belief was evil. Evil people also are sincere.
#Widdecombe
#Farage
#Holocaust
#Bosnia
#Rwanda
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At 6 or 7 I knew the Golliwog was derogatory, a weapon aimed at me. it hurt.
It was my 1st lesson about white people. By age 16 it no longer hurt. I'd learned who not to trust; learned who to despise for their pathetic cowardice.
I've never taken kindly to attempts to bully me.
If you don't tolerate this, teddy bears will be next, writes Petronella Wyatt for the Telegraph. The bar seems high for the most ridiculous commentary about the 2023 revival of golliwog discourse, but this will surely prove quite hard to beat.
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A Great country would have no child poverty
A Great country would have no poverty
A Great country would have no citizen denied suitable healthcare
Suitable healthcare does not impoverish those who need it
There is a massive difference between a Powerful country & a Great country.
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In an area benefiting from a substantial
#EU
financed road, transport, communications & jobs project, a friend discussing what UK adults & their children have lost because of
#Brexit
was told by Brexiteers present, “It doesn’t matter to us. We don’t go anywhere”.
Precisely.
#UK
The main question remains the same. Just how much political armour can Johnson forge from the public’s psychological need to deny the observable reality of his Brexit?
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Perspective:
Rightly or wrongly (on my part) I began categorising these kinds of experiences as run-of-the-mill many many years ago.
They are as nought when compared to (for example) Suella Braverman claiming asylum seekers were engaged in an 'invasion' of the UK's south coast.
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Unfortunately, proficiency in numeracy (which I wish I had) is no guarantee of empathy, no guarantee of opposition to injustice.
The fact that there are a million things in more urgent need of his attention doesn’t mean that Sunak is wrong about maths. And he probably doesn’t intend it this way but the greater a population’s numeracy, surely the lower their tolerance of financial equality.
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Walking in central London this afternoon, in the space of a couple of hours I heard three people on their phones saying “I love you”.
It was good to hear.
#love
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@benhabib6
“Stay Woke"/ “Be Woke”: Black American phrase of the 1930s (Leadbelly) meaning, “Be aware of what Whitey’s doing” (later & to the present day, “Be aware of injustice” (Erykah Badu). Also now pejoratively used by the political right to indicate anything they don’t like.
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75 Years of ethnic cleansing, 56 years of occupation, 16 years of blockade. 10,000 children (not "minors") 10,000 *CHILDREN!!!!* murdered in three months of barbaric, sadistic, indifference to, or revelling in, their slaughter. No matter the findings of courts and "enquiries", we
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Theresa May says, "No government could give a blank cheque to commit to an outcome without knowing what it is.”
That is exactly what she & her government did on the 29th of March 2017 as they invoked Article 50.
#Brexit
#UKPolitics
#Leave
#StopBrexit
#PeoplesVote
#RevokeA50
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I'm on BBC One "Imagine" tonight 14th Feb at 10.35pm.
@labisiffre
#labisiffre
#BBCOne
@BBCOne
#documentary
#music
#Songwriters
#musicians
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"God promised to Abraham to give this country to you and to your children"
... David Ben-Gurion (Former Prime Minister of Israel)
However, If God is your authority, you have no authority. There is no evidence of God and your belief is not evidence. When you claim God is your
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Thank you to all those who have brought the TR misuse of my work to my attention. Had permission been sought, it would have been denied.
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Israel is not "The Jews".
Hamas is not "The Palestinians".
Complexity and (once again) blood is the name of every detail of the game.
But when "The Good Guys" watch the scenery blow up (having tacitly supported the boot on the neck for so long) the honourable choice is between
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Hate is not the problem. Stupid people are the problem:
“Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers." ~ Socrates
Trying to use reason and logic to argue with a stupid person is like playing
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My 14 years as a 24/7 carer leads me to believe every home (& social location) should be designed for the disabled; then everyone, disabled and so called "able-bodied" alike, would be catered for.
#ableism
#disability
#uk
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@mrjamesob
So this is the difference between optimism and wishful thinking. Unfortunately, against the advice of experts, we chose Brexit & wishful thinking. Still, we’ll hear less “foreign” spoken on the bus as we wave our Union Jacks, confident that “They need us more than we need them”.
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HOW BREXIT & TRUMP HAPPENED
or
How Paul Joseph Goebbels Methods Are Working Today
or
We The People Are Dim As We Ever Were
or
Rupert Murdoch & His ilk Are An Existential Threat To Human Progress
or
When Will We Ever Learn?
#RightWingMedia
#Conservatism
#Politics
#Trump
#Brexit
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It is “clearly in our national interest to remain a member of the European Union” … Theresa May 2016
#StopBrexit
#brexit
#remain
#bremain
#leave
#fbpe
@theresa_may
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H, M, E, Royalty & Us
Life is not only what we live, it's also what we notice. None of us are Sherlock Holmes, so most of us fail to notice (to see) a lot. And then there's the stuff we fail to see cuz it's the stuff we don't *want* to see: like our hypocrisy.
#Royalty
#Hypocrisy
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Having one of my songs, “Watch Me”, in an episode of the revered British Science Fiction television series Dr Who (a national treasure) broadcast by the BBC since 1963 is an honour indeed (more sought after than a knighthood 🤣). I watched the first episode (and many more). 👍🏾😀
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An essential part of being British is being silly: “Can I do you now sir?”, Saucy Seaside Postcards, The Goons, The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film, Chick Murray, Monty Python & more before & after. For me, what it means to be British MUST include being very very silly.
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No nation with child poverty
has the right
to describe itself as great
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A question we're not supposed to ask?
Are these the farmers who voted for Brexit?
Are we, like farmers who voted for Brexit, the nation that collectively and successfully "seriously researched and thought deeply about it" then voted to make ourselves poorer thus shooting
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Pathetic
As, all over the world, we continue to slaughter each other and each other's children, clearly the human race has little to be proud of.
Yet boasting:
"We're all Numero Uno"
"All our nations are *Great* nations" and
"We're all God's chosen"
boasting is equally clearly
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@JohnSimpsonNews
In a land where women don't have the right
to say no
Where Taliban men demand to have women as sex slaves
What do male adulterers (better known as 'rapists') get?
A bar of chocolate,? A sly nudge? A pat on the back?
In a land where men fear to compete against women who
without a
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Thank you Benjamin Zephaniah.
I’ll miss you Benjamin. More than anything else you were a good man.
#BenjaminZephaniah
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It’s time to apologies to The Hippies.
Apart from Flares they were right:
Peace and Love
Eat Less Meat
Expand your mind and
Don’t Fuck With Nature.
“Right on!”
#Philosophy
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Anti-Zionism is not Antisemitism.
The State of Israel is not “The Jews”.
Currently, The State of Israel is a terrorist state.
Israel has the right to exist within its 1967 borders as UN resolution 242 clearly states by unanimous vote (no vetoes, no abstentions).
Orthodox Jews who oppose Zionism are seen marching through the streets of New York City, waving an Israeli flag stained with symbolic red, as they advocate for an immediate cessation to the Israeli campaign of genocide in Gaza.
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How kind & sad. In addition to our tax havens I wonder how many knew the royal family owned so much of the sea? Wind farms, Britain's fight against climate change by kind permission of those entitled to profit. So proud of our meritocracy: Gratitude.
#UK
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Contrary to John Humphrys misinformation this morning, the English judges have not declared Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament legal. They judged the matter political & not a matter for the court. A final decision will be made by the Supreme Court.
@BBCr4today
#RevokeA50
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Anti-zionism is not Antisemitism.
The State of Israel is not "The Jews".
#Israel
#Palestine
#USA
#UK
#EU
#Netanyahu
#History
#Responsibility
#EthnicCleansing
#Genocide
#Hamas
#History
#TheStateOfIsraelIsNotTheJews
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re The Taxi thing: I take a lot of taxis. Taxis stop for me. In the 1950's, 60s & 70s taxis not stopping for certain visible ethnicities was a regular concern especially in the evenings and at night (it happened to me regularly enough to notice & I assume it happened similarly to
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Encourage the wealthy by giving them more.
Encourage the not-wealthy by telling them that if the wealthy don't get more, they'll have less to pass on to the not-wealthy. But first, reward those who finance you.
#economy
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And so both sides decide
the only way to bridge the divide
is genocide.
History reminds that Great Britain and the USA, under Reagan and Thatcher, were on the side of Apartheid and labelled Nelson Mandela a "terrorist".
As for massacres (one completed, one in progress) in these
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Just weeks before Hamas launched the deadly Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, the head of Mossad arrived in Doha, Qatar, for a meeting with Qatari officials.
For years, the Qatari government had been sending millions of dollars a month into the Gaza Strip — money that helped prop up the
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Common sense didn't
get us out of
the stone age
nor give us a cure for
polio, tuberculosis or smallpox
we need
MoreThanCommon
sense;
much more.
#CommonSense
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In 2016 I saw Donald Trump for the first time. He was addressing a crowd of his supporters at a campaign rally in his bid to be President of the USA. He said he was super intelligent, immensely rich and not a member of the elite, brilliant and rich beyond our imagining and NOT a
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Being left-handed is normal and natural for the left-handed.
Being a redhead is normal and natural for redheads.
Homosexuality is normal and natural for homosexuals.
When, if you're heterosexual, did you choose to be heterosexual?
You didn't. No one chooses their sexuality, they
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@historyinmemes
Just finishing my final breakfast coffee & read this, a history of John Lewis I knew parts of, then found myself crying, which has taken me by surprise. Some things stay with you for the rest of your life.
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@elonmusk
It would be more inspiring if you used your talents to clean up Planet Earth rather than running away to turn another planet into a festering global rubbish dump. A new civilisation on Mars? Bullshit! It’s just the same
disease transported to another site.
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Apparently, if you voted for Boris Johnson or Brexit or Donald Trump you bear no responsibility for the damage they’ve done.
Seems to me THE definition of Democracy is Collective Responsibility. That view is, of course, overwhelmingly, vehemently rejected; & here we are.
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In 2023
As in every other year
Neither Tradition
Religion
Culture
Faith
"Common sense"
Nor fear
can excuse
Cruelty
nor make it righteous
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Anti-Zionism is not the same as anti-Semitism.
The state of Israel is currently a terrorist state.
The state of Israel is not “the Jews”.
#Gaza
#Palestine
#Israel
“I saw in Auschwitz that if a dominant group wants to dehumanise others, as the Nazis dehumanise me, the dominant group must first dehumanise themselves, the same holds nowadays for Israel.
I am appalled about how hateful, how dehumanised, that they do not see any human aspect
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I got a blue tick so people would know that my tweets were mine and not those of an imposter using my name. I assumed that was what the blue tick was for: an assurance & better security for the reader.
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BREXIT - WINNERS & LOSERS
For a start, it isn't a competition. We are not in the playground. We are supposed to be fighting to protect the vulnerable. We have a duty to do so. Those earning the average income circa £28,000 a year, or earning less or much less and those just
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Thank you all; I’m glad you enjoyed it.
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LINEKER
There is no huge influx (OPINION)
We take far fewer refugees than other major European countries (FACT)
This is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people (OPINION)
in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s (FACT)
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Profit is not the problem.
Profit at any cost is the problem.
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We're on so many knife edges, all of them connected at the handle: Trump, Netanyahu, Putin, the likes of Farage, Orban and the "God knows we're righteous and will favour us on the last day" brigade, grifting from their pulpits (secular or religious) as they and their giant
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The mask you wear saves others
The masks they wear save you
Don’t call yourself compassionate
If you’re still arguing with that
#LongCovid
#Covid19
#Covid_19
#Life
#Death
#Compassion
#Duty
#Responsibility
#UK
#USA
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When Trump tells the Proud Boys to "Stand back and stand by", it's a joke.
When Trump provokes an insurrectionist attack on the US Capital Building, it's a joke.
When Trump calls captured and/or tortured and/or permanently disabled and/or disfigured or dead American service men
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@Martypaling
Accurate Fact of That Day:
The musicians on the track were
Chas Hodges: guitar
Dave Peacock: bass
Ian Wallace: drums
Labi Siffre: Electric Piano
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The subtle rhetoric of fascism is winning. Goebbels would be proud. As an Englishman I feel ashamed that this disgusting creature is our leader.
I am disgusted not because his words are “Not In My Name”. I am disgusted because, in a Democracy, his words *are* in my name.
#Ukraine
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Donald Trump is asking American voters to make him President of the United States of America for the second time and in addition to make him officially above the law no matter what crimes he may commit; in effect, to give him the Godlike power of immunity, for life. Once again
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Whose children deserve to be killed and whose children don't deserve to be killed?
#Israel
#Palestine
#Children
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@kgooglywoogly
It means, to this musician, "uncool", "not cool".
It can also mean "sex with no embellishments".
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