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The truth about climate change, in one thread. Actual science.
A CLIMATE CHANGE RECAP THREAD, OR WHY IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CO2. 1: We are in the modern warming period, due to the Solar Cycles called Bray-Halstatt & Eddy. Temperatures are EXPECTED TO INCREASE in this period. Easily understood from this graph:
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Cordless vacuum cleaner entrepreneur Nick Grey has developed a simple ventilator which he's offering to the NHS. Hero.
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This isn't a parody account. He used to be the BBC's environment editor. Honestly.
Cutting my London hedge used to leave me with choking throat and stinging eyes from the pollution particles trapped in it. Thanks to #ULEZ it’s fine now. I needed to wipe the washing line before pegging out. I don’t need to now. #War on drivers??? Nonsense.
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@ActuallyLeeWren Utter heroes, resisting media and sponsor pressure to defer to hard-left, antisemitic thugs.
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What this story doesn't explain is how Diane Abbott's drug-addicted son was selected for the Foreign Office's fast-track gratuate recruitment scheme, followed by a prime posting as first secretary for exiting the EU. A favour, called in?. via @MailOnline.
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@EmmaSayle By encouraging people to get vaccinated and thereby have mild Covid instead of needing to be hospitalised. Society is protected by keeping hospital capacity for those most needing it.
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@KiaAbdullah What some would see as cultural appropriation is actually being polite and friendly.
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Here's a nominally left-wing paper lamenting that Brexit will cut food prices, a transfer from wealthy landowners to the poor. Socialism, in 2020.
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@TerryReintke Actually, most of us like and agree with him. By the way, why did 10 member states of your beloved EU sell arms to Russia in breach of the 2014 embargo?.
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@Louise_Rowntree Take it up with the EU nation in question. They could allow Brits to use the biometric gates. Portugal does, and we do the same for all EU citizens.
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@robjeffecology @Aiannucci Agreed. Absolutely terrible that people should be restricted to one vote, and prevented from voting on others' behalf.
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Labour will use citizens' assemblies to bypass opposition from Westminster. Defective though SW1 undoubtedly is, I believe this could be much worse. They'd find ways to pack the jury, and they'd filter the information provided to get their desired results
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@PriyamvadaGopal If this is a 'coconut' snark at Munira Mirza, her dad worked in a factory (I bet clothing) in Oldham; mum was a housewife and voluntary Urdu teacher. Pray tell us how does Gopal parse? Rent-seeking Brahmin class, perhaps?.
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@EARTH3R 'What do we want?'. 'A day off school'. 'When do we want it?. 'Now'. Yep. Incredibly powerful. Tell me they all pledged to live without consuming any fossil fuel and I might take them seriously.
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@SteveDoherty1 Strange how the Labour conference doesn't need such security to protect itself from Tories. It's almost as if one side of the political divide is stuffed with thugs and the other with democrats.
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@robittybobnob @paulrey99 Antifa is behind all this. And behind both BLM and Antifa is Soros. Work out why this chaos serves his interests and you're on the path to resolving the problem.
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@Kevin_Maguire 10 Downing Street is a place of work for many, Boris included. Entirely right that he should recuperate somewhere quiet, away from such pressures. As you well know.
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@profdws Shocked at the brass neck of the BBC, broadcasting that programme just months before spending untold millions broadcasting the World Cup from Qatar, where homosexuality routinely leads to three years imprisonment and sometimes to the death penalty.
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@BarristersHorse Remainers claim the fishing industry is worth only 12,000 jobs in the UK. Yet it's 17,500 in a tiny country like Denmark. I wonder what the true level of additional employment would be in the UK were we to regain our entire fishing stock. Impact on left-behind coastal towns: huge.
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@allisonpearson I believe many supposed flu cases in UK Nov '19 to today were really CV. In mid-Dec I had evil dry cough, temp of 104, hot/cold sweats, low energy. Crucially, no sneezing/runny nose. Assumed flu. Many Twitter users have similar stories. We may be unrecognised CV survivors.
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@JMPSimor @giles_fraser Their unfettered freedom to work in EU27 must be balanced against working class kids' right to earn a living wage without their wage rates deflated by mass low-waged migration from Eastern/Southern EU. A trade-off, but losers are the most affluent, so accept it with good grace.
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@InfoMigrants If his asylum claim is genuine, France will grant him refuge and support him. The fact he isn't claiming there tells us everything we need to know.
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As a supposed Conservative, it ought to be a matter of concern to him that a former top civil servant turns out not just to be such a hardcore Labour supporter that she was selected as a candidate but so on-message for Starmer that she's walked straight into a Ministerial role.
Big congratulations to @Miatsf - a great person, of exceptional talent. As a civil servant Miatta was my lead official on 2 big innovations: creating the first National Planning Policy Framework and the City Deals that established the mayoralties. A huge asset to the Government.
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@TitaniaMcGrath There's a clue in the name: literally, dick-tionary. Entire thing is a phallocentric construct.
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Inevitable, but tragic for the loved ones of those who died because of crude vaccine nationalism.
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@jubiweb @DanPapi_ @r1chardj0n3s @Tesla @elonmusk Odds of police being able to ID her are low. Crowdsource the job and chances are she'll be identified within hours.
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@thandienewton Actually, I laughed like a drain. Expect most people did, outside your bubble.
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@Bakehouse2016 @tuftoncroft Liar! Never happened. People no longer come to the house to repair TVs. Care to give us his contact details, so we can verify your tall story?.
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@PriyamvadaGopal @Twitter @CambridgeCops Pleased to see the police are now on the case. Hopefully my complaint will be investigated. Racism is unacceptable. Tragic that @Cambridge_Uni promoted you after your outburst of race hatred.
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The lack of accountability of the Bank of England is shocking. Nobody lost their job following the failure to address the known pooled LDI fund problem, the ill-timed restarting of QT or the politicised deadline for ending bond market intervention 1/.
🏦 Liz Truss has called for an investigation into the Bank of England (BoE) after a report found that the majority of the bond market crash under her short tenure was caused by dangerous practices in the pensions industry. Find out more at the link belo.
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@BBCSimonJack True, but @CouttsandCo briefed you that it closed the account because @Nigel_Farage had too low a balance. You ran it, without his rebuttal, ignoring the obvious fact that a bank can't breach client confidentiality so it had to be a lie. Literally a bank shill. Unprofessional 1/.
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@TherealNihal That message confirms that racist comments are not OK. Thing is, you made a racist comment. It really is not acceptable.
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That's far from the worst @maitlis clip. Remember her big rant? Used to be a big fan of @BBCNewsnight, and I still think there's a role for an intelligent analysis show after the 10pm bulletin. But grandstanding big-name presenters and lazy bias killed it for me, and many others.
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@DavidGHFrost @ConHome The uncomfortable truth is that nothing CAN be done about it. Sunak is a symptom, not the problem. Swapping him out doesn't change 14 years of betraying voters or a bunch of Blairites and LibDems on the Tory benches. Underlying cause is CCHQ candidates' office.
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@YvetteCooperMP @albrummer Some reflection and self awareness is in order Yvette. Your incessant plotting and manoeuvring to thwart Brexit, the UK's biggest ever political mandate, showed utter contempt for voters. You can't spend two years vomiting in someone's face then expect them to let you do it again.
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@mdouganlpool We Leavers are cool with this. Let us take the country out and do trade deals, sort immigration rules etc. If it's a catastrophe, you'll win any second referendum easily. I suspect opposite will happen: today's Remainers will quietly forget they were against leaving. .
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@Peston @MarcusJBall @BorisJohnson Shameful of you Robert. Democracy matters. If politicians think the side with most money will come after them for years, good people won't go into politics. It's a highly speculative case designed to tame free speech.
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Seems flying isn't such a bad idea after all. .
If there's anyone who can help in anyway to evacuate the Fridays For Future activists from Afghanistan - please reach out urgently. (The other tweet had a spelling error).
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You know the legacy media are in their death throws when the most forensic analysis of the Privileges Committee report comes from a normie who calls themselves Baa Ram Ewe and has farmyard-themed emojis in their profile. @BethRigby, @Peston and others, read this and weep.
🧵#PrivilegesCommitteeReport. After reading the full 110 pages my overriding conclusion is that the Privileges Committee Report into whether Boris Johnson intentionally misled Parliament is a confused word salad of conjecture, contradiction and is rather misleading in and of.
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@jeremybrier @jpurle I'm not Jewish, but it frightens me that the law is being upheld selectively by @metpoliceuk.
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@kprescott I'm genuinely not a conspiracy theorist, but this is starting to look like more than a coincidence.
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So far I've taken the virus in my stride. But the possibility of losing Boris has taken me to the edge. He's a remarkable man, whose respect for the people and great warmth are quite unique in modern politics. He also has a fiancee who loves him and a baby due soon. Pray for him.
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@LeoMars75 When we voted to leave the EU, it was said that 3.4 million EU nationals lived in the UK. We were told a million returned home when Covid hit. From memory, of the remaining 2.4 million, fully 7.6 million applied for indefinite leave to remain.
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@cernusson You can apply in five minutes on an app. If you can't manage that, you're not that skilled. BTW before you go, check out some of the videos of French police beating up gilets jaunes. Is that really a better place than the UK?.
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@HannahB4LiviMP @Conservatives You broke the rules to make that video, then sought to use it for political advantage. Tories now levelling the playing field. See you, Jimmy!.
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It's not just about what he's said. They're obsessed with the fact that his wife is Jewish. No fan of Starmer, but this stuff must be dealt with assertively.
Opposition leader @Keir_Starmer confronted in Glasgow by pro Palestine protestors. I do hope reality is becoming more and more apparent.
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@MichealEAP @jfwduffield My grandad went to evening classes to learn about electronics, a subject that fascinated him, in the early '30s. Day job was delivering for grocer. Resulting qualifications led to him becoming a telecoms engineer for what became MI5, intercepting enemy comms in WW2 then Cold War.
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@Madz_Grant @ThatcheriteDC Amazing how 'your truth' is enough for one side but solid evidence is required for the other.
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@GawainTowler @richardcalhoun Farmers want to look like they've tried and failed to hire British workers. They prefer EU ones because they can charge over the odds for dire caravan accommodation on site, thereby getting round minimum wage rules. Post-transition, Govt must not allow importation of cheap labour.
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@CSkidmoreUK @CEN_HQ Er, no. Most normies are smart enough to realise net zero is a grift designed by Big Energy to extract subsidies from corporatist politicians, at our expense. No viable candidate will support its continuance.
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@KwasiKwarteng @RollsRoyceUK Good. But in the meantime, we could be pumping fracked gas six months from now. Instead, we're a fortnight from pouring concrete into viable wells. If that happens, it's on you personally, as the responsible Minister. Overrule groupthinking civil servants!.
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@WillOremus Musk is putting right some longstanding wrongs. Those whose conduct has been ethical have nothing to fear.
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@alexwickham @Kilsally Call their bluff. Take the long extension. In May we'll elect MEPs who make Farage look like an FBPE on happy pills. They'll work with expanded EU27 populists to create painless formal exit process. UK won't be only taker. Brussels knows this so will want us out quickly: leverage.
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We should do this, @JamesCleverly.
The Swedish government has announced it will stop paying development aid to countries that don’t take back rejected asylum seekers from Sweden. 🇸🇪
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@jamesjohnson252 @David_Cameron @MunSecConf Cameron talks as if populism is a bad thing. He's learned nothing at all from the past decade, his own defenestration included.
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@lionelbarber 1. Who funds it?.2. Who decided who should be on the panel?.3. Why is it packed with remainers?. Until you can provide satisfactory answers to these questions, stop calling it an 'independent' commission. It's nothing of that sort, as you know full well.
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@metpoliceuk Bollocks. Forget Hurty words, focus on stopping knife crime. Last thing hospitals need right now is that lot taking up beds.
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@clim8resistance @TheRAC_UK Am about to renew breakdown/recovery service. Not going with the RAC, either now or for the foreseeable, because of this. Some leftist policy wonk given too much power is actively harming customers' interests. Drivers should fight back by swerving the company.
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@GrandmasterNabz 'Gammon', including any variant thereof, is a racist, ageist and classist trope. Unacceptable. Reported to @BBC, @bbc5live and Twitter/X.
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@chriscurtis94 The UK is on the same latitude as Winnipeg. Solar is next to useless in winter, when our energy needs are greatest. We also have some of the world's highest land prices in the southern part of the UK, the only area where anyone sane would contemplate installing capacity 1/.
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@AaronBastani Surely if the UK were a hostile environment people would be trying to escape from it, not smuggle themselves in. .
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@antisemitism @IncMonocle @MoJGovUK What the hell is the MoJ doing spending taxpayers’ money on World Shame Women By Covering Them Up Day anyway?.
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@RichardPTh I thought Remainers fear the UK turning into another Singapore if we leave the EU. Strange that one would quit a country they fear 'could' become like Singapore for Singapore itself. .
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@SholaMos1 Interesting theory, but one hard to reconcile with @ConHome polling, which found that @Conservatives' preferred candidate was in fact Kemi Badenoch. A woman of African heritage. Explain that, race baiter!.
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@MichaelLCrick @hiltonholloway The best way to judge @PaulaVennells1 is by her actions. If she renounces her CBE and publishes an extensive affidavit admitting her own wrongdoing and providing the evidence needed to prosecute others and secure redress, she's genuine. If not, she's a charlatan.
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@tim_urbancrap @HardingMike I'm 50, have 13 O-levels (all As and Bs), 4 A-levels (before A+ was a thing, but scored UK's highest mark in English), good 1st degree, MBA from triple-accredited business school. Visiting Fellow there now, on advisory board of another. Committed Brexiteer.
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@Peston Underlying problem is sending political correspondents to deal with science/medical issue. Unless that changes, dialling down gotcha attitude and upweighting intelligent questions about the situation and prospects might help.
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@vivamjm @guyverhofstadt If Scottish voters had elected a government that wanted a referendum, Westminster refused, the Scots held an advisory referendum, W/minster sent in armed cops to beat up voters and Scots politicians were imprisoned then yes, I'd expect the EU to intervene if we were still members.
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I predict this won't be widely picked up, will die down after a day or two, and she'll keep her job. Worth reflecting on how things might have been under the Tories, Boris especially. Story would've snowballed, Minister gone, PM under pressure for not acting decisively enough.
Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq apologises after breaking MP rules by failing to declare income from a London rental property for more than a year
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@Victori04893090 Jews have made a disproportionate positive contribution in many fields of human endeavour. They should be celebrated, valued and thanked, not vilified. In some cases, I wonder whether jealousy, resentment and feelings of personal inadequacy are at the cold heart of antisemitism.
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@catherinemep You're entitled to call Brexit madness provided you tell EU it's a minority view. But lobbying @guyverhofstadt to frustrate negotiations hoping threat of bad deal will reverse decision? Reckless, undemocratic. As for @acgrayling, he represents no-one but himself. An irrelevance.
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@TheInsiderPaper Do we know anything about the attacker? Or, more accurately, are we to be allowed to know?.
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Remoaners claim we'll starve post-Brexit. In fact, turns out EU regs contribute to a third of British crops being destroyed
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@EdwardLeighMP @SteveBakerHW @michaelgove No way! He believes in nothing other than his own advancement.
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@SamanthaTaghoy When Taliban retook Afghanistan, surprisingly large numbers of British passport-holders were 'on holiday' there, and needed repatriation. Likewise when Pakistan flooded last year. Almost as if some sign up for UK benefits then live like kings back home.
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@jrendell EVs make financial sense only if (i) you cover a lot of miles AND (ii) almost all those miles are powered by electricity obtained free, or at domestic rates. Very few users meet both these criteria.
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@clairlemon Most UK gender pay surveys that control for motherhood show a slight pay advantage to childfree women over men. It's mothers, not women, whose pay lags. By the time youngest child is 20, it's about 40%. Part preference, part work being designed around assumption of no care duties.
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@cathynewman Combination of hamfistedly executed gotchas, overt political bias and egregious editorialising mean certain broadcasters are swerved by politicians, Tories especially. Perhaps time to reflect on how you and your colleagues might mend fences.
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@DanPettit7 @Channel4News Or, Ryan understands the new guidelines, like most rational people. A few uppity lefties pretend not to understand. We see through that ruse.
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@Soutiam21 Who's doing this? And individual teacher/lecturer? If so report him/her to the principal. And if it's being done by the entire faculty, report to the local education authority. Entirely unacceptable.
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@Adrian_Hilton @afneil @EdwardJDavey Didn't Ed have a lucrative gig with Herbert Smith Freehills, the avaricious and amoral City law firm that acted for the Post Office?.
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@kenanmalik @ObserverUK I guess it's mathematically possible to build half a million new homes every year. But at what cost, both financially and environmentally? Importing cheap labour deflates wages, undermines our tax base, drives up housing/infrastructure investment. Nothing progressive about it!.
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@SueWhitaker11 @sandieshoes @SupportOurLefty Same here. I think @BBCNaga misjudged this appallingly. He's a ruined man, the victim of police misconduct. She treated him like a hostile witness. Hugely inappropriate.
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@reals_b4_feels @metpoliceuk You forgot something: you have to invite the media along as well. And the police. This is performative clapping. It's better than any vaccine!.
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@FUDdaily One Nation Tories are neither One Nation nor Tories. They're Blairite corporatists.
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@Anna_Soubry Anna, BLM is a deeply antisemitic organisation. Dominic Raab is the son of a Jewish refugee. Work it out for yourself.
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@JoeWood74323155 @Daz2728 @SkyNews Unarmed? Police could not possibly have known the suicide vest was a fake. They therefore acted on the assumption it was genuine, which required them to terminate the terrorist before he could activate the explosives.
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If I held a senior position in news media I'd pay whatever it takes to acquire a video of the whole thing and would blackball anyone in factual reporting who booed. Impartiality is the hill journalism should die on, and those who lack it are in the wrong business.
WATCH: Bitter Audience Boo Farage As He Wins News Presenter of the Year Award
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@MichaelLCrick @hiltonholloway Also, there are three questions not one legacy media journalist has been asking today: . 1. Is there a police investigation into those alleged to have contributed to wrongful convictions by withholding information from courts or perjuring themselves;.
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Seems @AyoCaesar is on a journey toward Blue Labour communitarianism. But she doesn't join the dots. For example, for a priest to be in a village for 50 years, you need the church still to be holding services, which implies a largely Christian demographic being preserved.
Ash Sarkar breaks down the real reason British culture is crumbling. Hint: it’s got nothing to do with immigration.
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@OxfordDiplomat Avoiding bias is important. As a former EU attache I assume you will turn down future requests from @BBCNewsnight on the basis of your own link with the EU. .
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