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Benedict Spence

@BenedictSpence

6 years

Imagine needing 280 characters to demonstrate you don’t have one.

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Benedict Spence

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3 years

I’m still staggered that the death of a woman who was set on fire in a street in England isn’t the biggest story in the country.

Sarah Hussein: Tribute to Bury woman found on fire in street

Sarah Hussein's family say she was "kind and hard-working" and they are "devastated" by her death.

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“Firstly, are you ok? I hope so.”

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Justin Trudeau?

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Quiz — Who am I?

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You think Churchill was racist? Holy shit, wait until you hear about the guy he beat...

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4 years

“Just a straightforward eye test drive to Barnard Castle.”

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5 years

Wanna feel old? This is what Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman look like today.

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10 months

“I hope this email finds you well.” How the email finds me:

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2 years

Is it James Cleverly’s fault that homosexuality is illegal in Qatar? Or is it his duty, as Foreign Secretary, to give UK nationals the best advice to help them avoid persecution abroad?

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4 years

Something’s really been bugging me about this #thick trend. It’s being spread by people really upset that they lost... Guys, if the folks who beat you are thick, what does that say about you? Why would you want to advertise that you’d been outwitted by halfwits?

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I see a lot of talk about Sunak being under pressure to sack Braverman, but even if it wasn’t far too early to do so without rupturing his delicate premiership, she’s the only one speaking the public’s language on immigration. It would be abysmally stupid to sack her now.

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Labour: “Our MPs are being physically threatened because of our stance on Gaza.” Labour, 24 hours later: “Islamophobia is the real problem, it’s all the far right’s fault.”

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4 years

I almost admire Neil Ferguson. His lover is a hardline climate activist, so he shut down all air travel, locked everyone in their homes and trashed the global economy for her. It’s quite sweet! I think a ‘home workout’ was the least she could do to say thanks.

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If the response from the Tories to increasingly tedious demands to remove/replace/rename anything created before 1990 was just a curt “no, fuck off,” I suspect their polling would skyrocket.

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4 years

Imagine if North Korea got a female leader before the Labour Party...

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The audacity and pomposity of British commentators proclaiming Boris Johnson is the worst PM the UK’s ever had, even as Tony Blair’s spin doctor is invited on national TV at every opportunity.

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Benedict Spence

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5 years

Whatever your thoughts on Boris Johnson, he’s royally pissed off all the right people.

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Politicising an U8’s football match over a very complex foreign war that is used as an excuse by bigots to ostracise and intimidate the Jewish community in this country is repugnant.

Queens Park Crescents FC

@QPCrescents

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Today, our U8s coach told us the opposing team forfeited the game over our Palestine corner flags. No issue with displaying them; confirmed with the FA. However, we view this incident as an opportunity to enlighten our followers about the gravity of the situation.

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Nicola Sturgeon: “Aye, it’s no a good thing, but Margaret Ferrier wouldnae have been in this situation if Scotland were an independent nation, not sending MPs doon to Westminster, and that’s why I believe it’s time for a second refer—

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3 years

No, they shouldn’t. And fortunately, that’s not what happened. Why are you implying it did?

Diane Abbott MP

@HackneyAbbott

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Black activist #SashaJohnson in hospital in critical condition after sustaining a gunshot wound to the head. Nobody should have to potentially pay with their life because they stood up for racial justice #BlackLivesMatter

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Of course the Guardian would say that there’s a racism problem in the British press. Just look at how they depicted Priti Patel.

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If Labour MPs are facing physical threats to the point it influences their voting, a line has been crossed and we should immediately stop things encouraging this thuggery. Starting with the constant pro-Palestine rallies in London.

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The Met arrested a man protesting Hamas’s terrorism not because he did anything wrong, but because it momentarily made their day easier. Thats what the British state does. It makes life easier for itself in the very short term, and to hell with the long-term consequences.

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Jesus Christ, a former carpenter of some repute, social media influencer and rambling enthusiast, died today at the age of 33. #WaPoDeathNotices

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The Telegraph story about @darrengrimes_ ought to anger you and terrify you in equal measure, regardless of your politics.

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Today an archaeologist has complained the Roman legionary exhibition at the British Museum contains “unrelenting fascist imagery” and once again I am proposing we just close half the universities, the experiment has clearly failed.

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It starts with inanimate objects, like statues and property. The police don’t intervene, for fear of escalation and their own safety, but people say ‘that’s fine, it’s not people.’ But that’s how it starts. That’s always how it starts.

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Lee Anderson is *still* the top story doing the rounds. Not MPs being threatened with violence, or antisemitism, or even any of the other very real problems afflicting the country. Not even Israel/Gaza. Lee Anderson. News is just a circus in this country.

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4 years

What’s that? A pandemic? This calls for immediate virtue signalling!

Sadiq Khan

@SadiqKhan

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#Coronavirus : The coronavirus is not ‘Chinese’. Viruses do not have nationalities. Thank you @unmeshdesai for raising this question. #MQT

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Benedict Spence

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4 years

The more this pandemic drags on, the more I am convinced Brexit - or at least a catalyst for change - was sorely overdue. The way we run the NHS, social care, the way the police conduct themselves, our mad tax system, the justice and education systems — so much is badly broken.

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Benedict Spence

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As bad a job as he’s doing, how do we think the Guardian would react to a female politician, recently hospitalised in an ICU and with a new baby, being told to get off their backside?

Angela Rayner: 'Boris Johnson needs to get up off his backside and lead'

Pregnant at 16, no GCSEs, takeaway queen: Labour’s deputy leader is not your average politician – and that’s her big advantage

www.theguardian.com

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Even when talking about Islamists, he *has* to also mention the far right. It’s like he’s contractually obliged, or else the Times readers and Radio 4 listeners won’t clutch their pearls hard enough.

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3 years

Donald Trump waiting to the last seconds to bid on the NHS like an eBay master.

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5 years

Khan’s fireworks were a deliberate provocation to Brexiteers, at the expense of the taxpayer. That’s who he is. But you already knew that. If the 40% of the capital that voted for Brexit vote against him, he’ll be out. If you tweet about it, remember to vote about it.

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I too am left traumatised and violated when asked where I’m really from, and am forced to confront the fact over and over again that the answer is Norwich.

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The 40,000 who crossed the Channel this year could have come in longboats seeking Valhalla, and parts of the press would still label you far-right if you called it an invasion.

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@LFCZA Atletico sell Saùl to Liverpool, raising funds to buy Luis Alberto, from whose transfer Liverpool receive a 30 percent cut. Lazio then replace Alberto with Shaqiri. Edwards, 4D chess, etc.

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4 years

Seeing as obesity is a much bigger killer than the police, maybe everyone should defund Ben & Jerry’s?

Ben & Jerry's

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Defund the police, defend Black communities! This #Juneteenth , it’s more important than ever that we dismantle the racist and ineffective model of American policing. Learn more about how defunding the police works and why we so desperately need it:

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The activity of dead people you never met in a place you’ve never been at a time before you were alive means you should pay the climate grift more money to cleanse your sins. No sane society would listen to this horse shit.

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3 years

Remember all that hullabaloo about how Britain’s approach to vaccine procurement and rollout would see us unlock and emerge ahead of Europe and the US? That was a nice fantasy, wasn’t it?

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4 years

James, you’re shouting at breakfast.

James O'Brien

@mrjamesob

4 years

A ‘patriotic breakfast’? Sausages were invented by Sumerians circa 3000BC; all beans used in baked beans are native to South America; pork was first salted in ancient China & hens were first domesticated in ancient Egypt. ‘Patriotic’ What an awful joke Brexit is making of the UK.

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2 years

Suspect more people will die of rage-induced aneurysms on account of Boris Johnson than from the Omicron variant.

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For the sake of the Labour Party, Rupa Huq ought to have the whip removed if she doesn’t apologise for her remarks about Kwasi Kwarteng.

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4 years

Let’s see how the FBPE types spin the birth of his son as a conspiracy so that Boris Johnson avoids PMQs. Anyone seen Carole?

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3 years

Cressida Dick should resign, sure, but people should be angrier at the politicians who happily waved through law after law that allowed the police to operate in this manner — and some who even said the laws weren’t strong enough. But nothing will happen to them, of course.

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Shamima Begum was a child when she left the UK. She was too young to legally renounce her citizenship. She should be brought home, and if accused, tried. She was radicalised in the UK: she is our responsibility. I don’t think it’s civilised to abandon her and her unborn child.

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3 years

Can we please not? He was great, but can we please not let this strange performance theatre become normal?

Laura Kuenssberg

@bbclaurak

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PM confirms national clap for Captain Tom at tonight at 6

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Going outside for a walk, using a park for exercise, that’s fine. Upping sticks and relocating to an area with more elderly people and no cases is taking the piss, especially if you’re leaving London. Incredibly selfish.

Linda Grant

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Friends in Cornwall reporting the arrival of second home owners for the Easter break. Like angels of death riding Chelsea tractors.

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I’m just amazed that, after everything that’s happened, Alastair Campbell still gets booked to go on TV.

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Yeah, it’s don’t eat the fecking bats.

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The French withdrew their ambassador to Italy two years ago because Salvini and Di Maio were rude to them, basically. Flouncing off in a huff is just part of French diplomacy.

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3 years

Ah yes. Cummings took the culture war too far. Not the people pulling down statues, trying to get people fired, trying to reforge the national curriculum et al...

Paul Brand

@PaulBrandITV

3 years

One minister tells me they are hopeful of a more “open and consultative tone” in No 10 now Cummings is departing. There is a feeling among some that Downing Street took the so-called ‘culture war’ too far under Cummings. Many Tory MPs hope for less combat and more reaching out.

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Of Britain in 2020, that’s actually very representative. Of Britain over the course of its history, that’s massively over representative.

Kate Osamor Member of Parliament for Edmonton

@KateOsamor

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Only 5 out of 54 English Literature GCSE texts are by a Black or Ethnic Minority author. That is not representative of Britain in 2020. I'm proud to support @therightwritingg campaign asking @AQA to diversify their English Lit GCSE.

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If you aren’t a citizen of a country you shouldn’t get a vote in the country’s elections. This isn’t controversial.

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You’re probably not the one to lead it, then.

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Seven astronauts dead in otherwise successful Challenger shuttle launch.

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27 police officers injured during largely peaceful anti-racism protests in London

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If I ever become mayor I will rename all of these after very minor East India Company officials, provincial industrialists and men who fought at Waterloo.

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@BBCNews

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London Overground: New names for its six lines revealed

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I really don’t think it’s possible to look petty and vindictive when faced with John Bercow. The public don’t care for precedent — they want change. And they actively dislike him.

Rt Hon Alistair Burt

@AlistairBurtUK

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The decision to stand a Conservative candidate against Speaker Bercow is unwise, & I hope the party rethinks. Mr Speaker may at times have invited this, but it will look petty & vindictive to neutral observers. It will rip up precedent, and future Speakers will face the same.

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The joke is us: Our society, largely passive, has been allowed to be painted as evil by these hucksters through said passivity. What’s more, we pay for the privilege. A nation too awkward to be evil but too embarrassed to defend itself against the charge.

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I think it was rather telling that in a rant at @JuliaHB1 about keeping local schools closed, a Bury councillor was able to call his interviewer a bigot and a hypocrite, try to score political points, but studiously avoid talking about the needs of... er, the children.

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The only thing I’d take from the Huw Edwards story is that an awful lot of people who don’t think cancel culture is ‘a thing’ change their tone pretty sharpish when it’s someone they like.

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People in the UK will swear blindly that Germany is a mature and sensible country, and ignore its energy and foreign policies, which are amongst the most immature and asinine in the developed world.

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Germany will turn off three of its remaining six nuclear power stations on Friday as part of its switch to renewable energy

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If you boo whilst footballers take the knee, you’re a racist. Oh, and by the way, we’re going to fly in thousands of VIPs to attend the game most of you can’t afford, but you aren’t allowed on a plane, and if you so much as cough without a mask, you’re a murderer. Got that?

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You know, I’m starting to think the people of Chingford and Woodford Green might have been on to something not electing Faiza Shaheen.

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When things get heated on Twitter, remember to channel your inner Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.

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This is a disgrace. The WHO are not infallible, and we in the West, where YouTube is based, do not live in a world that forbids scrutiny or criticism.

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“Anything that goes against W.H.O will be removed from YouTube” YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki

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Vandalise a valuable portrait of a former prime minister, and we get some hand-wringing from the higher-ups and no consequences for the perpetrator. Hold a sign telling pro-Palestine demonstrators that Hamas are terrorists, you get accosted and handcuffed. Love it here.

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The only real scandal is that Capt. Moore isn’t still in Barbados in the middle of the bender to end all benders. The guy’s 100 and raised millions for charity. Let him see out his days however he sees fit.

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Break the law to enter the country and be punished with, er, subsidised housing and jobs. But sure, Rwanda will stop this.

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🔴 Channel migrants have been quietly given the right to work in sectors including care, construction and agriculture and can still retain access to state-subsidised bed and board under a Home Office scheme

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Like Boris Johnson, Kemi Badenoch is also formerly of The Spectator. That will do wonders for Alastair Campbell’s blood pressure, I’m sure.

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Well, that’s an interesting phrase to use.

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After demanding the PM introduce the lockdown, large swathes of the commentariat are now demanding to know why they can’t break the lockdown to see relatives. How this country became a global power, I’m not sure. How it lost that power, though, is less of a mystery.

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Three people murdered in Nice by a man shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’. Another man shot dead in Avignon who attacked someone else, also whilst shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’. A third man arrested for attacking a French consulate guard in Saudi Arabia. ‘Islamophobia’ is trending on Twitter.

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Few if anyone had any idea Nigel Farage banked with Coutts before they effectively ensured it was announced to the world. Even fewer cared. He posed no risk to the bank’s reputation. How many colossally, abysmally stupid people signed off on this madness?

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“Always remember, Sadiq. The Sphere is trying to get the planning decision overturned. It *wants* to be built.”

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The Spectator Index

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BREAKING: Wagner Group chief Prigozhin has called on Russian soldiers from the National Guard to join his side

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I’ve just realised, The Muppet’s Christmas Carol is now going to have to be re-rated as an 18 and stuck on past the watershed this December. It’s brimming with foul and abusive language #Humbug

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@ProfBrianCox “The reality may be more complex, but that doesn’t matter - it’s about perception.” This attitude is exactly how the UK has ended up in the state it’s in. The politics of vibes. Clown country approach to life.

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Watching Labour conference is like watching a slow motion car crash test, except the test dummies are alive, and fighting for control of the steering wheel.

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But I’m not going to Uganda. I want to go to the pub at the end of my street.

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One Tory MP tells the FT: “Jeremy is a sensible choice, but he has no economic experience. I’m not sure he’s well equipped at all to deal with this crisis.” So… not, in fact, a sensible choice.

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I’m not for a second going to second guess what GB News is going to be like. But if you work in the media already and are that worried about it, maybe that’s a reflection on the quality of your employer, or, perish the thought, your own work.

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If Britain, after a China-backed international campaign, gives away the Chagos Islands, and with them perhaps the most important military base in the region, it will only embolden Argentina over the Falklands — again, with heavy Chinese support.

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If Brexiteers conspired to put a Marxist, antisemitic, terrorist sympathiser into No.10 to avoid a general election and facilitate leaving the EU, it would be unforgivable, and Remainers would be calling for physical resistance to it in the strongest possible terms.

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There are two types of people in life. There are the sort who, of their own free will, watch Richard Burgon on TV. And there are those, like me, who are not masochists, and have instead gone to the pub. #ITVLeadersDebate

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…and all you can do is pull faces because opening your mouth would give the game away.

The Green Party

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When you have to debate a climate science denier on Question Time... #BBCQT

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And have all those Europhiles taken a look at how little help Italy is getting from the rest of the EU? Almost as if the benefits of membership and solidarity are wildly overstated.

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@GaryLineker Ukraine doesn’t have a nuclear deterrent. It used to, and gave it up in return for Western promises of protection and Russian promises of non-aggression, both of which have evaporated. If anything, this is an argument in favour of nuclear deterrents.

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I thought calling people ‘traitor’ was tantamount to assault? I presume Labour MPs will now queue up to call for the arrest of all those Remain protestors doing it to Jacob Rees-Mogg?

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The UK will no longer publish welfare claims or tax take data for foreign nationals. I’m sure everything’s fine.

Neil O'Brien MP

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Following DWP's decision to stop publishing data on welfare claims by nationality, HMRC told me today they have stopped publishing data on tax contributions by nationality. > The data we need to have a more sensible conversation about migration is being deleted, not improved.

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The BBC’s climate editor not even trying to pretend to be an impartial journalist. Just a quivering, gesticulating activist in a suit.

BBC News (UK)

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PM Boris Johnson says he is "not in favour" of a proposed UK coal mine, but that the decision "is not mine to make", ahead of the landmark climate change conference in Glasgow #COP26BBC

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What’s the obsession with statues of racist old white men?

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@BenedictSpence

2 years

Were tuition fees at British universities to rise to £24k, at what point would schools, with a duty of care to their pupils, begin to tell them that actually, going to university may not be in their best interests?

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Benedict Spence

@BenedictSpence

4 years

Out of curiosity, did any of the people going after Darren Grimes go after the journalist at the Independent who didn’t take Maxine Peake to task over an antisemitic statement?

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Benedict Spence

@BenedictSpence

4 years

You literally can stop cancer developing if doctors are allowed to diagnose it in time. And if 50 percent of people now get cancer in their lifetime, not diagnosing it will kill many, many more people than if you let coronavirus run rampant.

Sky News

@SkyNews

4 years

'We can't stop cancer developing, we can't immediately prevent heart attacks and strokes but we can prevent the spread of coronavirus in the community and that is what we need to do' says Sir Simon Stevens. Read the latest here:

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Benedict Spence

@BenedictSpence

1 year

We are now at the stage where a criminal can commit multiple crimes on camera, get away with a negligible fine, and then go on TV that same day and mock the government, knowing they’ll do nothing. “UK laws are weak, simple as.”

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Benedict Spence

@BenedictSpence

2 years

@AyoCaesar Whilst I don’t doubt their quality or integrity, being of the left, users ought to beware they will inevitable split.

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Benedict Spence

@BenedictSpence

1 year

Decline is calling it the UK Space Agency when you could have used Royal Space Force.

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Benedict Spence

@BenedictSpence

1 year

It takes a special kind of chutzpah for a German to suggest their people’s behaviour in the thirties gives *them* the authority to moralise over others.

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Benedict Spence

@BenedictSpence

2 months

A brave Tory party would take Labour’s proposed Islamophobia definition change and hammer the point daily that it will mean a blasphemy law. So, no chance that happens.

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