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Paul Fanning
4 months
The next few years are going to see a lot of people trying to reconcile their view of themselves as intelligent, rational, analytical and above all sensible with the fact that they fell hook, line and sinker for one of the stupidest ideas in human history.
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Paul Fanning
7 months
@drew_garland I've taken communion. Can confirm. Absolutely delicious.
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Paul Fanning
5 years
@trustednerd You’ve no ovaries to produce the eggs whose maturation makes your uterus lining thick and spongy. Indeed you’ve no uterus that needs to shed that lining once per lunar month. You’ve no vagina from which this discharge can emerge. Talk us through the mechanics of your ‘period’.
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Paul Fanning
6 months
@metpoliceuk @ExploringAlway Tell you what, we'll stop being hurtful when you stop putting incompetent, unprofessional bullies who don't understand the law they're supposed to uphold into uniforms. Deal?
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Paul Fanning
9 months
So a day after The Guardian issued a strongly-worded rebuttal of a Jewish staffer's claim that her colleagues' attitudes made her feel unsafe, we have one of the people mentioned in the piece having to offer a 'sincere' apology for retweeting overt anti-semitism and Owen Jones
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Paul Fanning
11 months
@KeithOlbermann @Riley_Gaines_ Really starting to wonder why you - a weird old man - are so invested in denigrating a successful female athlete. I mean I have my theories, but maybe you'd like to give your side of the story?
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Paul Fanning
10 months
@PLCPolice @stanleyblunt2 A home win against nine men.
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Paul Fanning
2 months
I actually have to live in a country where a supposedly serious political party makes arguments like this.
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Paul Fanning
2 years
Can I just say how much I'm enjoying the English, middle-class 'I wish I could vote for Nicola Sturgeon' crowd getting their long-overdue wake-up call.
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Paul Fanning
1 year
It is with profound regret that I have to inform you that Kirstie Allsopp is at it again.
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Paul Fanning
14 days
The fucking Messiah complex on this cunt.
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Paul Fanning
4 years
@alextomo 1. Not his second home, but an official residence of the PM and thus - like Number 10 - a workplace. 2. No, it’s not illegal 3. He is following medical advice based on where he is likely to recover best, which it’s quite important he does as he’s PM. Now stop being a tit.
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Paul Fanning
2 years
@glubold Several points: 1/ Biden isn't Irish 2/ What? 3/ No, seriously, what?
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Paul Fanning
4 years
@Channel4News Oh, the rampant snobbery in this thread! “He’s just a plumber! How dare he exhibit pragmatic good sense?! He should get back to unblocking the toilet I’m too ‘educated’ to understand.”
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Paul Fanning
9 months
@UKLabour @Keir_Starmer This is amazingly crass, insensitive and utterly tone deaf.
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Paul Fanning
1 month
@jk_rowling It's the nearest he'll ever get to having a female part.
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Paul Fanning
4 months
He'll soon change his tune when he finds out about our planning laws.
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Incestuous rapist Josef Fritzl 'wants to emigrate to the UK' if released from prison.
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Paul Fanning
5 months
@louistheroux The fundamental flaw of these discussions is always that they are predicated on the idea that the culture wars are something other people do. There's never a serious attempt to examine what their own roles in the culture wars might be.
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Paul Fanning
6 months
@VanessaHeron @bbcquestiontime @ClaudiaBoleyn You're a disgrace to your profession.
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Paul Fanning
4 years
@JamesBlunt If he struggles with the difference between '-ake' and '-unt', one wonders what he sticks candles into on his birthday?
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Paul Fanning
8 months
Let's be very clear here: Newsnight's credibility was fatally undermined when it was allowed to become a platform for activism with Maitlis, Goodall, Sopel and co. If anyone wants to start hand-wringing, just have a look what that did to viewing figures.
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Paul Fanning
7 months
@mirondie @RedCollectiveUK Commercial ships transport 85% of the world's goods. Without them being able to travel freely through international waters, life as we know it becomes impossible. So yeah, they're kind of important.
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Paul Fanning
8 months
@AlexCrawfordSky ...and nothing of value was lost.
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Paul Fanning
3 years
@sander_jennings You can eat meat and identify as a vegetarian if you like. Just don't expect other vegetarians to accept your self-definition.
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Paul Fanning
6 months
I have to say, watching Jonathan Liew getting his arse handed to him by the likes of JK Rowling and Martina Navratilova isn't getting any less amusing. Time for Aggers to weigh in, I reckon.
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Paul Fanning
29 days
@LBC Hmmm. Have we noticed anything else about this cohort of intimidating and aggressively misogynistic men, I wonder? Anything they have in common other than their sex? Anything at all?
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Paul Fanning
2 years
@KevinRothrock @michaeldweiss 'Ah, so you're angry with the state are you? Well in that case, we'll give you a gun and military training and put you in a barracks with a bunch of other guys who feel the same!' Not sure they've thought this one through.
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Paul Fanning
3 years
@adamlangleben @IainDale Laughs aside, it's really quite a serious matter that this bookend is an actual Labour MP.
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Paul Fanning
4 years
@calebsivyer Middle-class lefties viscerally hating, dehumanising and demonising the working classes because they won’t do what they’re told by bearded eunuchs is my favourite thing.
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Paul Fanning
4 years
@MPSHackney You bowed down and now you’re wondering why you’re treated with contempt? You did this. Own the consequences.
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Paul Fanning
6 months
@GaryLineker @leekern13 The last two places you were more than happy to do well-paid World Cups from were the slave state of Qatar and Putin's Russia. Pipe the fuck down, you disgusting hypocrite.
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Paul Fanning
3 years
@Spinglespot @PoliticsForAlI Because he's the future King. Next stupid question?
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Paul Fanning
6 months
My favourite thing about JK Rowling is her absolute and unashamed understanding of the concept of 'Fuck You Money'.
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Paul Fanning
3 years
@LinahAlsaafin He's half-Irish, but I guess we all look the same to you, eh?
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Paul Fanning
2 years
@TheHevo @drlouisejmoody @TrippyPip Yup. There is only ever one reason for them to request a voluntary interview and that's for them to try and get you to incriminate yourself.
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Paul Fanning
17 days
Tipping ashes outside No. 10? Mass die-ins? This guy's fantasies are getting more and more baroque.
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Paul Fanning
4 years
Irish English replaces British English as EU working language
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Paul Fanning
3 years
@RichardJMurphy You've gone mad. It's important that someone tells you that.
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Paul Fanning
10 months
@MetPoliceEvents 'Protestors' = 'Terrorist supporters taunting Israelis over the rape and murder of their compatriots and making London's streets unsafe for Jews'. You're a disgrace.
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Paul Fanning
7 months
@Onorpik @CENTCOM When did you arrive at the incredibly odd notion that the implementation of military force should only ever take place on a level playing field?
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Paul Fanning
1 year
@BBCNews Way to refute all those suggestions that wokeness is killing good comedy, lads.
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Paul Fanning
6 months
@jonathanliew So perverted men popping on frocks in order to invade female spaces and steal female sporting achievements *aren't* starting a culture war, but anyone objecting to them doing so *is*? Right. Gotcha.
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Paul Fanning
2 months
I see Paula Vennells is going for the old 'I was absolutely terrible at being CEO and had no idea what was going on in the company I was being handsomely paid to run' defence.
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Paul Fanning
3 years
@campmarylu "You see there's this meme where this English guy is like in a club or something and he's shouting in a girl's ear and she just looks really bored and unimpressed..."
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Paul Fanning
1 month
@FFS_WhatNow @MissLauraMarcus I still can't quite believe this man is going to occupy the same office as Palmerston, Wellington and Castlereagh...
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Paul Fanning
1 year
Let's be 100% clear: if Lineker had expressed right-wing opinions even half as extreme as the left-wing ones he's expressed, nobody would be showing 'solidarity' with him. It'd all be 'The BBC has rules and he broke them. Bye. LOL'. And that's how you know this is all bullshit.
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Paul Fanning
1 year
@innocent @Mermaids_Gender Doing the corporate equivalent of clambering aboard the Hindenburg even as you can smell smoke and hear the screams is a genuinely amazing decision.
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Paul Fanning
1 year
@Wilsonfooty Happy to work in Qatar, though, weren't you? But hey, those were just dead slaves and persecuted gay men, not a millionaire being asked to abide by the terms of his contract. So we can see what your moral priorities are. Absurd hypocrites.
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Paul Fanning
2 months
@flightradar24 @hiltonholloway Still, on the plus side, they didn't end up in Houston.
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Paul Fanning
11 months
@OldRoberts953 @TheSpeakingRog @Glinner Did similar last night and was struck again by the sheer childishness of a world view in which one's cultural likes and dislikes are contingent on the fantasy that you and the artist/writer/actor/singer/comedian you like would be mates and agree about everything in real life.
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Paul Fanning
2 years
Are we finally witnessing The Great Cockwomble Migration?
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Paul Fanning
2 years
@noclador @OlafScholz I think we can now conclude that much of the German political and industrial class would basically like Ukraine to lose this war as soon as possible so that they can go back to doing business with Putin.
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Paul Fanning
10 months
@muchachobrotha @PLCPolice @stanleyblunt2 They'll probably release a DVD.
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Paul Fanning
10 months
@DreyfusJames Lol! Yes. British law in 1936 outlawed homosexuality. 1. British writ has not run there since 1948. 2. I'm pretty sure we didn't chuck gay men off tall buildings.
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Paul Fanning
9 months
@IncMonocle @AschRonald A complete failure @metpoliceuk You value nothing. You protect nothing. You are the enemy of decent, law-abiding people. You will therefore be treated accordingly.
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Paul Fanning
4 months
@AnnelieseDodds Screenshotting this so you can't pretend you didn't cheerlead for the worst medical scandal since Thalidomide. You're a disgrace.
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Paul Fanning
3 months
@OldRoberts953 @Gillian_Philip This 'Oh, it's only a tiny number of people. Why make such a fuss?' argument sits rather oddly with the 'We must dismantle societal norms and sacrifice women's safety and dignity to accommodate them' argument that Tom otherwise espouses.
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Paul Fanning
5 months
The Starmer years are going to be epically awful.
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Labour will: 🌹 Legislate for a trans-inclusive conversion therapy ban 🌹 Make anti-LGBT+ hate crime an aggravated offence 🌹Modernise Gender Recognition processes 🌹 Appoint an international LGBT+ envoy
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Paul Fanning
3 years
@MENnewsdesk B-b-b-but the narrative! Won't somebody please think of the narrative!? Frauds.
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Paul Fanning
3 years
@cmclymer "Don't think of it as having your penis and testicles removed under threat of death. Think of it as having your trans affirmed."
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Paul Fanning
20 days
Imagine having had the better part of half a day to respond to an attempted political assassination and *this* being your take, though.
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Paul Fanning
1 year
@rodemmerson You, right now.
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Paul Fanning
11 months
@godblesstoto We are all this woman.
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Paul Fanning
4 months
@Badabimclub @jk_rowling Yeah. Just letting awful people get away with their awfulness definitely stops them being awful. History has taught us this.
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Paul Fanning
8 months
@STVNews Awww! Is the pervert sad because he can't perv anywhere he wants to? Diddums.
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Paul Fanning
2 years
Well this pretty much sums it up.
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Paul Fanning
3 months
Just in case anyone in the Conservative Party needed reminding of this: if your MPs are ideologically capable of defecting to Labour, it's because they never should have been Tory MPs in the first place.
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Tory MP Natalie Elphicke defects to Labour, hitting out at the "broken promises of Rishi Sunak's tired and chaotic Government" For more on this and other news visit
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Paul Fanning
2 months
@narindertweets @SirTFireball Jesus Christ. First of all, wrong war. Second, overall British Empire military deaths in the First World War were under 1.5m - and the vast majority (880k) were UK nationals. Empire military losses in WW2 were much lower. Either way your numbers are horseshit.
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Paul Fanning
5 years
@rickygervais @ben_pensant Because we allowed an obvious absurdity to be enshrined as an undeniable truth. Once you allow an objective untruth to become dogma, you must necessarily go to ever more extraordinary and draconic lengths to protect it from the harsh light of reality.
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Paul Fanning
2 years
@godblesstoby What this does is tell every Monsoon employee who's doing their best to safeguard their female customers that management not only doesn't have their back, but will very probably discipline them for doing so. Disgraceful.
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Paul Fanning
7 months
@y_alibhai 'Goods on ships' are strategically vital to the smooth running of this country and every other country in the world. Stopping Israel killing terrorists, not so much.
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Paul Fanning
4 years
@EmmaManzini @Misanfrog Yeah, that ‘drop in energy’ at 3pm might be something to do with the fact that she has consumed roughly 400 calories in 9 hours and is basically metabolising herself.
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Paul Fanning
2 years
@Salon Brace yourself for the sheer exoticism of...The Sami. Yes. They wear funny hats.
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Paul Fanning
1 year
@PoliticsJOE_UK @KNEECAPCEOL 'Lads, it's Paddy's Day, how shall we celebrate our nationhood and cultural confidence?' 'I dunno. Sit around slagging off the Brits same as every fucking year?' 'Perfect'.
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Paul Fanning
2 years
@DavidParr1980 @GGrimalda Can we also consider the comic genius of 'My health is, of course, paramount. My hunger strike continues'?
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Paul Fanning
8 months
@MattChorley Extraordinary that either of you think you come out of this well.
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Paul Fanning
3 years
@Markgsparrow I think it's nice that for once the weird, knife-wielding chap isnt the most sinister-looking person in the video.
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Paul Fanning
1 year
@old_school_alps @Ryanair I'm afraid it comes under the category of 'But I didn't think the man-eating leopard would eat *my* face'. Anyone who buys a Ryanair ticket knows they've made a devil's bargain of cheap flights in exchange for being ripped off brutally if they miss the details. That's how the
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Paul Fanning
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Right, so everyone's got that, yes? Parental love means indulging your confused child's fantasies and helping to set them on a damaging and irreversible medical pathway for life. If you don't do this, you don't love your kids. Sorry, but that's just how it is.
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Paul Fanning
3 months
Fascinated to see how the usual suspects will reconcile the fact that Hilary Cass can no longer travel on public transport for security reasons with their cherished 'equal toxicity on both sides' narrative.
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Paul Fanning
6 months
What's that? Jonathan Liew has written another profoundly dishonest piece framing any objection to the erasure of female sporting achievement as 'right-wing'? Really? Honestly, what a ghastly little shit he is.
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Paul Fanning
2 years
@EggrollShogun I love the argument that people should continue to be forced to live in ugly squalor because some people who'll never have to live there have a purely academic hard-on for the type of architecture that houses people in ugly squalor.
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Paul Fanning
2 years
@JonnElledge @SP_Duckworth @timfarron I've got two Irish parents and am immensely happy and proud to be British. I certainly don't need anyone else to take offence on my behalf about such an anodyne statement, thanks.
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Paul Fanning
3 years
@v_j_freeman 'Sex work is work'. 'Martial law is law'. 'Dog food is food' It really is scary the way people are happy to use catchy slogans in lieu of actual thinking.
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Paul Fanning
1 year
If you want to know what went wrong with the Tory Party, track this guy's career arc from gauche Baby Thatcherite to Cameroon to wet-as-an-otter's-pocket, bien pensant, elder statesman mouthing all the fashionably specious platitudes for fear of being called nasty.
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“I’ll probably get a lot of angry letters now from WI members.” @WilliamJHague tells #TimesRadio the Women's Institute should welcome transgender women.
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Paul Fanning
8 months
@danwaterfield @LemanWalters People re-inventing the Ottoman Empire as some kind of benign co-operative because 'Hey, at least they weren't white anglos' is one of my favourite things.
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Paul Fanning
5 months
@Glinner @jonronson Buxton is just a common or garden coward desperate to be liked by the cool kids, but Ronson is something vastly worse.
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Paul Fanning
5 years
@ProfBrianCox The mask slips to reveal just another elitist having a tantrum because he hates the fact that those he plainly considers his inferiors are permitted just as much of a say in how they are governed as he is.
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Paul Fanning
10 months
@metpoliceuk @RonEng1ish @PSCupdates 'Reminded'? Not 'Immediately suspended from duty and later sacked'? There's the problem, right there. Useless, useless organisation. You need scrapping and replacing with an actual police force.
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Paul Fanning
9 months
@YvetteCooperMP Gaslighting bullshit. We all know that what's been 'inflaming community tensions' has been one 'community' being allowed to take to the streets every weekend and scream their hatred of another.
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Paul Fanning
3 months
In shocking news, our idiot MPs have chosen to ignore the absolute inevitability of future malicious exploitation of this legislation because there's a chance for some virtue-signalling. It's as if Carl Beech had never existed.
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@MatHempell @rachel__g0ddard I also think they miss the fact that she's realised that trying to dance around this shit and 'be respectful' doesn't work. It's just seen as weakness. The blatant lie at the heart of this absurd movement must be called out and confronted.
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Paul Fanning
11 months
English fans boo foreign anthem: 'A disgrace. Awful. Xenophobic. Racist' Scottish fans boo the British national anthem: 'Great banter. serves us right for Brexit. That's one in the eye for colonialism.' Just. So. Boring.
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Paul Fanning
4 years
@Ned_Donovan @edwest Go home, 2020. You're drunk.
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Paul Fanning
3 years
@v_j_freeman Never, ever trust the appeal to kindness. It's only ever employed by bad actors as a silencing measure and is never reciprocal.
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Paul Fanning
2 months
Do the people currently expressing their shock and horror that much of France now leans right realise they're telling us how little they know about France?
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Paul Fanning
2 years
@OldRoberts953 I'm old enough to remember when Abigail Shrier's book 'Irreversible Damage' was being pilloried for transphobia for asking these questions reo years ago and The Guardian didn't even deign to review it.
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Paul Fanning
4 years
@JackieDP @WeAreFairCop @stonewalluk The real scandal is that it took the High Court to finally be the grown-up in the room. Everyone - clinicians; the NHS; government; public health; media; child protection bodies, etc have just let it happen and in some cases cheered it on. This is a massive societal failure.
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