James Robert
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As a nation they’ve been collectively forgiven for twice plunging Europe into years of misery; and for either participating in or acquiescing to the destruction of an entire race of people. I think they should be expected to put up with some light banter in return.
No trouble here in Dusseldorf but our German hosts are being treated to this
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Anyone who thinks this knows absolutely nothing about how class status signalling works in the UK.
Guess the names - Tristram, Tarquin, Sebastian, Rupert, Quentin ?
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Germany had plans to turn Britain effectively into an open air concentration camp if it won the war in 1941; but Britain won so Germany has to listen to a slightly hurtful football song. Seems fair.
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I’d tell them the British state survived a century when many others fell into tyranny because the political nation was embodied by a crown in parliament - symbolic power and imperial grandeur to which politicians could never aspire; autocratic legitimacy they could never have.
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Abramovich’s yacht. Or, as it soon will hopefully be, Royal Yacht Britannia II.
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My country squeezed its ally dry while it fought to the death to defend the free world from Naziism.
I am very clever and we are the good guys.
When Churchill came hat-in-hand to the United States in 1940 asking for destroyers, we gave him the oldest, most obsolete ships in our fleet
In exchange for 99-year leases on a slew of Atlantic naval bases
What, exactly, have we gotten from Zelensky?
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Votes at 16 is gerrymandering. They want to force 16 year olds to stay in school until 18, increase the age at which you can drive, increase the age at which you can smoke, reduce criminal responsibility for young adults…but for some totally unknown reason they want them to vote
@iainmartin1
It’s totally over the top to describe votes at 16 as ‘gerrymandering’. If your objection to it is only or mostly that it might disadvantage your ‘side’ then you are also open to the accusation of gerrymandering. Argue it on its merits
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“Prince Charles”
Look closely at the tie Prince Charles is wearing and it seems to have teeny tiny Greek flags all over it
#ElginMarbles
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“If you’re on the fence about killing yourself, the fact that you’re a burden on your family or the wider society should be taken into consideration”.
At least they’re now being honest about what they want.
On Canadian euthanasia. I explain how MAID has been misrepresented in the media, and why it is a humane policy that preserves individual liberty and human dignity.
I also refute "dying from poverty," worries about slippery slopes, and other arguments.
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I don’t understand why the rubric is still ‘King Charles’. He’s the King; there isn’t another King. It’s like the press has done a mental find and replace for ‘Prince’ Charles.
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This is particularly incomprehensible because (a) it’s extremely easy to look up the law and see that this is a lie, and (b) the Queen has four great-grandchildren older than Archie who are not styled as princes and princesses.
On the whole Prince/Princess HRH thing for Archie, Meghan says the convention was actually being changed for their son. "The first baby of colour in this family".
And Prince Harry's son would not be entitled to security.
#OprahMeghanHarry
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Members of Parliament should not be lobbying foreign bishops who hath no jurisdiction in this realm of England. You may as well have asked him to make tomorrow Saturday.
I was saying to the Pope today in Italian:
“Prega per noi nel nostro dibattito sull’aborto in Parlamento.”
He replied in English: “I will.”
Powerful support for the unborn this week.
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Hi James
Happy to help with this one. While I can appreciate why you might have thought this, they didn’t actually buy the hat for the occasion. In fact, the royal family has owned parts of the hat for over a thousand years - so is starting to get some decent wear out of it.
Government really got this guy to sit there and talk about easing the cost of living crisis while wearing a hat worth more than Kent
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• Build the King a yacht
• Normalise hereditary peerages
• Repeal the ‘99 HoL Reform Act
• Abolish Youth Parliament
• Make regional and local votes FPTP
• Abolish Welsh/ Scottish Parliament
• Restore grammar schools
• More private health
• Cut taxes
• Abolish min wage
•Abolish the monarchy
•End the honours system
•Get rid of the House of Lords
•Votes for 16 year olds
•Change the voting system
•More political power to the regions & nations
•Abolish private education
•Nationalise essentials
•Save the NHS
•Tax wealth
•£15phr min wage
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This is where we end up. We can’t have a nice, wholesome, English, Anglican religion in the public space because we need to secularise to stop the liberal left setting up a Caliphate.
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I really don’t think this is what the welfare state was designed for.
Spare a thought for Mrs R (not that Mrs R!) who bought a second retirement home, and then also a flat, which has now depreciated. Her state pension was going to cover the running costs of these additional properties...
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@supersilverfox
WW1 is no more complicated than that. Germany had near total control over Austria’s foreign policy and pushed it toward war so Germany could go to war with France.
On WW2, you’d want to move on if you were them wouldn’t you.
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The vicar who confirmed me told me that, as a young priest, he had visited an old woman in a hospice. She remembered her grandmother telling a story about how soldiers had tried to enter her home at night and had frozen outside. That was Napoleon’s army retreating from Moscow.
Sir David Butler, the father of psephology, who’ll be 98 next month, remembers as a small boy, his great-grandmother Alice telling him how she and her sister, as young girls, watched the Duke of Wellington’s state funeral procession in 1852. They had grandstand seats.
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Lord Warner was appointed by Blair in 1998 and is still sitting in the legislature where voters can’t touch him.
Would the noble Lord explain why he is less of an “anomaly” than the Bishop of Newcastle, appointed by Sunak in 2023 and who will leave when she ceases to be bishop?
Bishops in the House of Lords are "as much as an anomaly as hereditary peers" and should "join them at the exit", says Lord Warner. Quite right. No religion or its leaders should have a privileged role in the legislature.
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Or maybe it’s a world where A-levels are based on performance against a standardised national metric and universities can hand out whatever they like.
Imagine a world where students’ prospects are not locked-in with A-levels at age 18 and where university can be a place for personal growth & development…
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We’re so deep into the age of Puritanism I only hope I am still alive to see and enjoy some of the Restoration.
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Man who works in Central London tries to use public infrastructure “for some bizarre reason”, apparently unaware that to do so now requires the consent of the mob.
There was just a mad pile in at London’s Victoria station as Michael Gove appeared, for some bizarre reason, in the middle of a sit in protest for Palestine. He was greeted with screams of “shame on you!”.
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A timely reminder that the only national anthem from any UK nation which refers to defeating its neighbour in battle (and doing so again in the future) is in fact Flower of Scotland.
There has never been a line about crushing rebellious Scots in any official version of the UK national anthem. For a man who stands against disinformation, Stewart is surprisingly keen on deploying it when it suits.
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@DavidOkinogo
Yeah I love your attempt at moral equivocation with Naziism. You must be a great guy.
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Is this even allowed within the terms of their charter? Surely their charitable aim is to preserve these collections in the UK, not to… dissipate them.
National Trust chair René Olivieri opens door to restitution of colonial treasures
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Why can’t we stop being nostalgic like back in the good old days?
A reminder of a time when this country looked forward and did big things in partnership with others - rather than chase its tail into wistful, nostalgic oblivion.
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I just walked home from my club along the Strand after a game of squash and a woman (probably seeing my expression) ran up to me and shouted ‘Free Palestine’ in my face.
I really feel I am entitled to walk through the capital without being accosted by terrorist sympathisers.
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It must have been very comforting for the Islamists to have had the Met shilling for them all day on Twitter. I’ve never seen anything like it.
@hurryupharry
The word jihad has a number of meanings but we know the public will most commonly associate it with terrorism. We have specialist counter terrorism officers here in the operations room who have particular knowledge in this area.
They have assessed this video, filmed at the Hizb
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In part because the mid-20th century US had the driving out of British and French interests in the Middle East and Africa as a key foreign policy objective. You succeeded and then found out it was really quite expensive. Well done.
Share of NATO countries in NATO defence expenditure in 2022
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Why do we pay for everything for everyone else? Why can’t Europe pay more to defend Europe?
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In case you’d like to see what’s going on at the Universities, here is a professor of history at the University of Cambridge joking in public about the academic potential of a history student in his faculty who has written an article criticising strikes.
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You shouldn’t eat curry in the library
We are truly sorry for any distress or upset that has been caused by the sign that was put up in our library at York Hospital.
As soon as we were made aware of it, it was removed. It was absolutely not in line with the values and behaviours of our organisation… 1/2
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I have to admit to being intrigued by whether the 4000 people who have liked this actually think the Duke of Cambridge and his team were pondering how to travel around Tuvalu and some bright spark had the idea of getting the locals to carry him.
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Your regular reminder that it is entirely appropriate for a member of the House of Commons to question the application of the law by public servants and that Secret Barrister’s view that mere mortals are not entitled to views on the judicial system does not speak for most lawyers
Your regular reminder that an MP attacking independent judges for decisions made in accordance with the laws passed by MPs is not only dimwittedness of the highest order, but an egregious attack on the rule of law.
Ask this MP why he thinks this behaviour is acceptable.
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The Germans invented the bicycle?
Achtually the wheel was invented in Mesopotamia, rubber tyres in Belfast, chain in Ancient Greece, the saddle was first used in the Asian steppes, and the earliest bells date from China.
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British colonialism. Responsible for slavery in *checks sign* ancient Egypt.
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So human rights and the SC have created a communist system where pay is based not on supply, demand, or even the requirements of the job, but on a centralised decision of what the relative value of a unit of labour is worth — and we haven’t even been asked about it.
Every supermarket in the country is currently being sued because the Supreme Court decided it is illegal discrimination to pay warehouse workers more than shop assistants
Just in case you though Birmingham going bankrupt was as wacky as equal pay lawsuits were going to get!
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No matter the Twitter cudos you might receive, taking pictures of fellow members and guests at your club is not on - and in the long run will downgrade the quality of the people you bump into.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Chief whip Mark Spencer and Paymaster General Michael Ellis dining at the national liberal club
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This is bizarre from Emily Maitlis. Coutts itself admitted that it had closed Farage’s account for this reason, as did the CEO of the NatWest Group - all supported by the internal documents released under subject access. The FCA did not report on any specific cases.
“No one should have their bank account closed because they’re not politically correct” - says the chancellor - ignoring the findings of the report by financial authorities who reported last month this was NOT the reason behind the Farage Coutts closure ….
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@Steeplemaster
@badger_buff
The suits (colour, material, cut, and fit), ties, shirts, and belts all look like strong lower middle class signifiers to me. Unless they are exceedingly thrifty aristocrats making a point of dressing terribly.
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Just so we’re crystal clear, is this the European Union threatening a hard, closed border in Ireland?
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House of Lords Reform (Repeal) and Miscellaneous Constitutional Provisions* Act 2022.
* Repeal of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, HRA 1998, Scotland Act, Northern Ireland Act and Wales Act 1998, Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, Life Peerages Act 1958, Hunting Act 2004.
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@WalkerMarcus
Derbyshire Police said: "It is up to each individual officer on a case-by-case basis to decide what is reasonable as the legislation does not proscribe [sic] a distance."
Oh well I’m glad the people taking it upon themselves to legislate by fiat can’t even use English properly.
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Lots of QTs and replies pointing out the inconsistency of the Shinners on this; but attempting to annex a smaller neighbouring population which has expressed no wish to be so treated seems cleanly from the playbook.
Where bold Willie Bulfin wrote,
‘The Irish still support you, Argentina’,
With the Empire tumbling down, let no Paddies back the crown,
Las Islas Malvinas, Argentina
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@George_Simkin
Yep. Either it actually relates to them, in which case it’s rude but they’re Nazis, or it doesn’t relate to them in which case why take offence. You do know why those German bombers were in the air right?
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Someone needs to explain what Putin has bought. UK has been training Ukrainian army + providing lethal aid since 2014. US is also providing lethal aid + a Marshall plan level of finance.
His only successful investment in western influence was NS2 - bitterly opposed by UK + US.
It's December 2016, and Ben Bradshaw MP is trying to warn us that we're sleepwalking into Putin's interference in Western democracy
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@KrisHuntSocial
@BBCNews
@SkyNewsBreak
It’s the station but thanks for the uninformed and potentially distressing fake news.
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The husband of your sovereign, who has given a lifetime of service to his country in war and peace, is lying critically ill in hospital. And this is what you choose to write.
I'm not sure people are complaining that Prince Charles has been allowed to visit his father in hospital. They're complaining (quite rightly) that everyone else who isn't a royal prince has NOT been allowed to visit their loved ones in hospital for the past year.
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Went into a Westminster Hall debate on the cost of living crisis to make a brief contribution. Came out to a literal golden carriage…. and we wonder why the UK is so unequal and Westminster is so broken 🧐
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Another bunch of white boys
My 14 year old daughter’s description of the movie Dunkirk: “isn’t it just a bunch of white boys waiting for boats?”
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In a conference at Churchill College, Kehinde Andrews (Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University) tells us: “He actually lost the election after the war”
A seismic revelation which turns history as we thought we knew it on its head.
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Tell me your secrets, O sorceress of frugality
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I’m once again standing here begging Twitter barristers to understand that we do not have separation of powers and the judiciary’s authority derives from the Crown as advised (on judicial matters) by his Lord Chancellor.
Bully Raab in fancy dress.
What an insult to those who earned the right to wear judicial robes.
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If nothing else it’s absolutely outrageous that they would spend vast amounts of money on a top legal team and not even bother to record the conversation so that they can get actual value from the advice. Insanely blasé with the taxpayer’s money.
Extraordinary. Both the First Minister and the Permanent Secretary attended the November 13 meeting with counsel. Scarcely believable no minute was taken.
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If the Duchess really cared about her child receiving a grand title in recognition of his position as a great-grandchild of the sovereign, she could have styled him as the Earl of Dumbarton, which seems sufficiently important for a one year old.
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Now do New York
Turns out there’s not an international market in bankers pay to hire the best talent - just a self regarding UK cartel
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@DeptfordWife1
Not really ‘help’ when you’re boasting about rinsing the recipient though is it!
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@TypeForVictory
On the contrary. It’s been perfectly obvious that this has always been how they feel about us. Couldn’t be happier that we’re not degrading ourselves by association with them anymore.
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Approve of the sentiment but to be clear it will not “be a mess when [sic] she is gone”.
We have clear, lawful and unquestionable succession to a man who has devoted his life to the service of Her Majesty and her people, and the crown would be completely safe in his hands.
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It’s actually insulting that the Commonwealth Memorial College to Sir Winston Churchill, housing one of the most amazing biographical archives to anyone in the world, has hosted a debate where professors from BCU can use GCSE debating society non-sequiturs to degrade the college.
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“This is your church. It belongs…to the people of England”.
Absolutely right
@WalkerMarcus
. I just hope that the trustees of our inheritance start seeing the stunning beauty in what the ages have left us, and stop seeing an inconvenient liability.
'Once you’ve ditched the buildings, the clergy and theological education, you don’t have very much of a church left.'
✍️ Marcus Walker
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Strikes which, by the way, are going to result in students not receiving degrees in time to apply for professional jobs; and in a year group (matric year 2021 not having been examined and marked since Year 11, going into final year).
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Would you even get this in stations in Muslim majority places like Turkey? They’re literally laughing at us.
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It also isn’t entirely clear how she would have squared the conferring the title of ‘Prince’ on him with her insistence that he would be brought up gender neutral
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The Royal Family recreated itself as an upper middle family during the 19th and 20th centuries. The imagery went from the peak of court fashion to a lifestyle that would be recognisable to minor gentry - shooting, walking, stalking, sailing.
it was when someone told me that the Queen was middle class that I realized class in the UK is not a pyramid but an Escher staircase
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I think most people outside Number 10 managed just about to grasp that the purpose of lockdown was to prohibit “the norm” and office “prevailing cultures”. That’s just what the legislation was for.
Somewhat surprised this came as a shock to the people who took the decision.
"I think it gives a sense of the prevailing culture of the place and you know, that, that was how it was pre pandemic and it continued into the pandemic."
"it was the norm, it was continuing in the pandemic so I can understand why for some people it felt normal."
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Imagine listening to the words of God’s anointed and instead of reflecting how it might change your outlook or behaviour, instead thinking you could have done a better job.
'I wish King Charles held different views. There's a sense of wokeness to the King.'
Dr Gavin Ashenden analyses the King speech, and explains how the mention of faiths in the speech were 'inadequate'.
🔓 Become a GB News Member:
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Unless Mr Miliband can propose an immediate solution to the fact that it is currently impossible to manufacture steel at scale without coal, what exactly is the point of this statement?
How can a coalmine be neutral for climate? 🤔 By ignoring the effect of burning the coal 👇 Just like cigarettes have no health effect if you ignore the smoking of them…
Absurd, indefensible and outrageous.
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Please excuse me while I ponder wistfully about what I could have done with the 9.5% increase in the council tax precept this year...
...which seems to be funding either institutional vandalism of the public space, or an incredibly elaborate joke.
Brilliant work from David Hockney in Piccadilly—the first of a series of major art projects we’ve commissioned as part of our brand new
#LetsDoLondon
campaign. Lots more to come very soon!
#DavidHockney
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Choosing 1945 for Germany rather than 1933 is a bold take.
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Radical polemicists with their notions of *checks notes* “parliamentary sovereignty”. When will cabinet ministers listen to the experts again?
"Suella is so radical that she [consulted one Oxford law professor and a Cambridge law fellow]."
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Kindly invited for lunch at someone else’s club.
Rudely ignored very well known dress-code.
Allowed in anyway through generosity of the porter.
Complains. How very, as you say, 2022.
I was taken for lunch to a gentleman’s club today, first time in years, and was barred for wearing incorrect footwear (my comfortable mid-top trainers, perfect for being on my feet all day). It was like going back 50 years. I had to borrow the porter’s spare shoes. 2022
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Both fun and wonderful to see Earl Spencer enjoy the wonderful Church of
@StBartholomews
where I worship, while I enjoy his fabulous book about its first patron!
St Bartholomew’s, in London, built as a result of the devastating loss of The White Ship: Rahere, buried here, was one of Henry i’s more raucous courtiers. After the shipwreck, he left England for Rome, & in a vision was told to build this church & the famous hospital next door.
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1 Parliament can make and unmake any law it wishes.
2 It’s not ‘universally accepted’ Parliament cannot abolish JR. It’s a fringe theory based on a throwaway comment in Jackson.
3 Judges answer to law; law is made by Parliament; the masses are represented in the dominant HoP
Me for
@JusticeGap
on how the government's less ambitious reforms in the judicial review bill reveal a
@UKSupremeCourt
that is vandalising, not protecting, the constitution - and how this moderation should be cause for even more concern.
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@tregovian
@SimonPulleyn
Dolly and Cissy both feature in Is There Honey Still For Tea, and Dolly is also in Never Too Old
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@K_Niemietz
I’m in the first class dining car overhearing a couple talk about how brilliant Brexit is. Apparently they voted leave while shorting the pound and made a packet. They’re telling the waiter there isn’t enough English beer on the menu. 1/8746
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@jonatmurp
Did you always want to defend Naziism on the internet or was it a late discovered hobby?
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If the objection is that you can only be an hereditary peer by being born as one, surely the answer is to create more! Let’s give anyone the chance to become one by re-integrating them into the honours system.
Don’t abolish privilege; spread it!
Every earl, duke, marquis, viscount and baron has the same passport to parliament: blood and, in most cases, their status as firstborn sons.
Whether measured by age, education or experience, they do not resemble those on whose behalf they make laws.
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To be fair if we’re not going to stand up for the principle of our sovereignty in the Chagos Islands, I’m not sure why we should expect anyone to stick up for us in the Falklands.
The salutary lesson is that we need to invest in the ability to put unilateral boots on the ground
The UK suffered a diplomatic defeat recently when the EU referred to the Falkland Islands as Islas Malvinas
So whose sovereignty do Europeans support?
🇪🇸 52% Argentina / 14% UK
🇮🇹 32% / 21%
🇩🇪 30% / 24%
🇫🇷 27% / 23%
🇸🇪 23% / 28%
🇩🇰 23% / 31%
also
🇺🇸 24% / 35%
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Keir Starmer worked on that 14,000 word political thesis for a year and… Ali just…. he tweeted it out!
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The NHS could have its own nuclear Continuous At Sea Deterrence and a carrier battle group for good measure and it wouldn’t look like much more than a rounding error in the budget.
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An enormous victory for the anti-semites.
The Chief Rabbi gagged from speaking out on a range of issues that concern British Jews because his voice needs to be preserved to speak out against domestic violence against Jews.
The lesson: attack the Jews and they’ll shut up.
@DavidMarkHerman
@FT
@henrymance
It's a worse day for those of us who need the "leadership" of anglo-jewry to carry credibility when they raise concerns about antisemitism at home. This intervention was unwise
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This is the equivalent of turning up for dinner in Madrid at 6pm. We are actually allowed to have different customs in London.
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I honestly feel so stupid that until the last couple of months I assumed generally intelligent and engaged people had a basic understanding of the constitution.
Shameful. Parliament shouldn't ever be bypassed - and certainly not when it comes to military action.
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