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Donal

@GrumpyOldDoc

20 days

Sixteen minutes of investigative truth on October 7th attack

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What Really Happened on October 7 @pularjs

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Donal

@GrumpyOldDoc

6 years

Now that I have recently retired as an NHS consultant I can safely speak out without fear of my employer or GMC ending my career and my ability to feed and house my family: . @Jeremy_Hunt is the worst Secretary of State for Health in the history of #NHS .

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@indepdubnrth For a microbiologist your understanding of how all those infections might be passed on is somewhat limited

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#poorboris #clapforBoris Thursday 8pm £150k isn't enough Help him pay his bills with claps

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A decade ago we lost a whole year of our local medical school graduates to Australia We were able to replace them with doctors from Holland I had to learn a lot of a new language for ward rounds but it worked. It won't this time. Every F2 I know has a job in Oz for August.

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@Peston Because we threw the Tories out a century ago

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SAGE knew nothing about "Eat out to Help Out" until it was announced It was clearly a political decision, and a dangerous one at that Ignoring the evidence CO and PM avoided discussion with SAGE as their meetings were minuted @RishiSunak under the bus #CovidInquiry

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. @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @Conservatives

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@GrumpyOldDoc

4 years

Sunday Times confirms Dangerous herd immunity notion Was pushed by him Cummings must go Cummings must go Cummings must go Cummings must go Cummings must go Cummings must go Cummings must go Cummings must go Cummings must go Cummings must go Cummings must go Cummings must go Now

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7 years

@Jeremy_Hunt Dear Mr Hunt arguing this point with Mr Hawking is like Trump mansplaning Einstein 1/2

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4 months

#Resign . Rape apologist When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time

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4 years

I'll eat here

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Melanie Phillips should never be back on #bbcqt Denies Israel blocks aid getting into Gaza, claims Israel are the victims Denies easily verifiable facts Denies collective punishment of Gaza civilians Claims hypocrisy and crocodile tears when Oct 7 condemned She is deluded

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6 months

Have you ever truly respected a politician? I'll start John Hume Barack Obama Mo Mowlam

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4 years

@daneshaddy @JonathanLanday Should he have kept quiet and let his crew die?

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3 years

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5 years

Anyone written a book? I'm starting Initially it was going to be boring, old anecdotal stories from an old fart who just happened to be a doctor, but a theme emerged So I've changed It's gonna be about Death - how to have a good one - more useful, to more people I think

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3 years

Is there a single ICU nurse in the country not silently muttering under their breath "we told you so"?

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"Just like flu" When did flu ever give us 4 or 5 waves of hospital admission in a year? Any wonder NHS is still crushed #CovidIsNotOver

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3 years

@thecoastguy That is not true A Cardiologist

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Carrie is heavily pregnant Stop the Covid inquiry Leave him alone OMG!

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#Ridge "Is Boris Johnson not responsible for any of this?" Andrea Jenkyns, "They need to leave Boris alone now, Carrie is heavily pregnant, just leave him alone."

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Dr Aseem Malhotra seems to have just deleted this earlier tweet Was it the Times article or Dispatches?

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3 months

@stephenpollard @LordIanAustin @MidlandHeart Had he said Hamas that would have been clear He didn't He made a clearly Islamophobic comment instead

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@GrumpyOldDoc

4 years

. @BBCPanorama made me feel physically sick tonight I've complained for a month about problems with #PPE About guidelines from @WHO and @ECDC_EU being ignored About UK guidelines being fiddled Now I know why @BorisJohnson and his cronies have blood on their hands

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6 years

I'm back Heart attack the morning after I finally retired and relinquished my license to practise was a bit of a bummer but was nothing compared to the nightmare of a new kitchen installation pre arranged for the same day Dust settling, in home straight, so back to Twitter 😎

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4 years

@MattHancock No of tests 115k No of people tested "unavailable" In what universe is this 200k?

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5 years

@MattHancock Sir, I agree every death from sepsis is a tragedy but is not preventable. Please stop spreading this mis-information. Yours The medical and nursing professions

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7 years

@Jeremy_Hunt Wise up. Every man should know his own limitations, you especially, as they are so widely and frequently publicised.

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5 years

@HoarseWisperer My daughter has, since the day she entered high school, wanted them to have a dance team. In her final year school agreed. Today, weeks before their leaving exams, that team of girls entered local competition for the first time Ulster School Champions at first attempt 😍 😎😍

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@JamesCleverly Sir I realise it is more powerful than any documentary could ever be It tells the truth of the damage done by your government to those unfortunate enough to fall sick I was an NHS consultant physician with decades of experience treating those poor people

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6 months

@implausibleblog Rishi characterises war crimes differently. Don't be like Rishi.

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@GrumpyOldDoc

3 years

Brazil's COVID disaster has shown Politicians kill It's not seasonal P1 variants can be lethal The young are at risk too Ivermectin prevention failed Hydroxychloroquine did too High Vitamin D level's not enough A full house of political failure, of not following the science

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@PlanB_earth @LawyersAreResp @DoctorsXr "Guilty of professional misconduct despite her motivation to protect public health" While others lie about medical evidence, spread disinformation, and endanger public health because @gmcuk refuses even to investigate them when referred

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3 years

An ED nurse I know recently qualified as a HGV driver. Clever lady. Twice the money for a fraction of the hassle and shw can set her own hours. Genius.

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6 years

@Jeremy_Hunt @HPIAndyCowper Who do you think you served? Not patients or their families, Not the British public, Not the NHS Maybe

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4 years

@SandsUK A Mother loses her baby. Stripping away her name too is not an appropriate response. Motherhood is what she is grieving

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@CBSEveningNews @carterevans First Amendment Rights only apply if you tow the AIPAC line and don't speak out of turn Don't dare call out #GazaGenocide despite Israel's ongoing trial at International Court of Justice on charges of genocide There's $$$ to be made arming the slaughter of women and children

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@RishiSunak @SteveBarclay Who represented Nursing? Who represented Emergency Medicine? Who represented Acute Medicine? Who represented Surgery? Who represented Ambulance services? At your photo-op Forum What did it achieve?

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6 years

So I raise specific concerns Me: this SHO cannot possibly cover ED tonight alone Manager: tough, there is no-one else. We've tried. Me: shut then Manager: no way, you'll just have to cope Me: We'll fail GMC: Harm? See you in 🏛

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@revrrlewis Dan Bongino saying he'd shoot someone running away, no longer a threat, in the back Anyone surprised?

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3 years

As a physician with 40 years expertise of treating every infection on the planet, on four continents, and a personal history of an immune system cancer necessitating major recent upskilling I can assure you Prof Dingwall is spouting nonsense and should stick to Sociology.

lucy johnston

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“I think there’s a real danger if the human immune system is not regularly challenged by all viruses it will gradually wane and decay.” How effective will our immunity to non covid viruses be this winter? Podcast: @sketchnoteson @rwjdingwall

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@thomasdolphin Cummings has blood on his hands Irrespective of what he intended Whether or not he acted legally He destroyed months of Public Health work The lockdown will crumble Cases will rise Deaths will result Dominic's Surge is coming

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3 years

If I see one more Economics PhD giving Medical, Vaccination, Virology advice on this platform my fucking head will explode. You have been warned.

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2 years

@ALewerMBE @nadhimzahawi You didn't see today's ONS data then? Your policy of no mitigations in schools has caused a 37% rise in hospitalisations in 4-15 year olds compared to during January peak Every other age group is much lower due to vaccinations Do kids sick enough to be hospitalised not count?

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4 years

4048 Intensive Care beds in England 75% currently in use When do we need to begin to postpone elective procedures to start freeing them up?

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4 years

@Hanna_Jameson @paddydocherty Forget cancer Kids with Diabetes are dying as a direct result of the enormous profiteering on the price of Insulin

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@Haggis_UK @TheBonnyDoon I live close to the EU border, in NI, so had no problems today Don't lie Coffey

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2 years

@danwootton Fvck Off Dan The Nation

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3 years

Time for some fortune telling Though fortune telling is difficult, and unreliable 1. UK Government will U turn 2. They screwed up over winter predictions 3. NHS will be overwhelmed 4. Lockdown will come 5. Deaths will soar 6. Including in kids 7. Please God I'm wrong

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@Eyeswideopen69 It's just a deliberate dodgy edit. Click bait Whole speech on C-Span

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4 years

A visor is not a face mask Wear a mask Add a visor to your mask if you want but visor alone is not sufficient

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. @BorisJohnson before you fly off the Mustique for New Year what are you doing fo fix your screw up that left Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in jail for another Christmas?

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@richardodurrant I was going to say mixed messaging from HMGov is the issue then thought there's nothing mixed about it, they want this No PCR or LF tests Defund ONS and Zoe Everything is normal mantra Ignore all science 1000 deaths a week and an NHS destroyed is acceptable to them For profit

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6 years

NHS England have just shut down more elective services that the whole of the junior doctors strike did. They warned of the crisis and were ignored. #HuntMustGo

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NHS England Emergency Pressures Panel calls on hospitals to defer non urgent surgery for extra two weeks till end Jan - also temporary suspension of sanctions for mixed sex wards

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@woodsharp @juniordrblog Today I spend hours reviewing increasing cases, recent deaths, and how to keep patients in hospital safe - they have everything there normally is in hospital including cancer Bed occupancy country wide is 88%, look it up Please stop spreading garbage on social media - a doctor

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2 years

. @beverleyturner you recently tweeted about sudden deaths in athletes You did not provide any source for your figures As a consultant cardiologist with a decades long interest in this subject I can find no data to substantiate your figures Please provide your source

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@GrumpyOldDoc

6 years

That was the week that was Mon: Finally retiring Tue: Last teaching session Wed: License to practise 🏳️ Thu: MI + PPCI Fri: Echo good, home Sat: Retired Sun: ⁉️😕

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4 years

@Nightloom @daneshaddy @JonathanLanday He almost certainly has saved lives

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4 years

I think I'm out the other side Fingers crossed This bout of depression has been the worst in years but for the first time in months I think I see light at the end of the tunnel Anyone else in the shit hang in there It does brighten up, even if we often forget that 😉

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@dingo_1916 @Jimcorrsays Jim says the virus is all a con Jim's an idiot Don't be like Jim

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@derrymac @woodsharp @juniordrblog I've had enough If you spout garbage on social media about health issues I will call you out. It is my area of expertise for four decades, I don't care what the man in your pub said. It is dangerous to spread misinformation about health matters in a pandemic, bloody dangerous

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4 years

. @Bren4Bassetlaw Sir As a healthcare profession of 40 years standing I was disgusted by what you said in House of Commons today. Your words made me feel physically sick. That an MP is so ignorant of the link between poverty, malnutrition and ill health in children is staggering

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@Jeremy_Hunt @IpswichHosp Dear Ambulance Chasing Lawyers of Ipswich Jeremy says any incidents today on the three wards currently marked high risk, with lots of safety alerts, due to nursing shortages are fair game. Fill your boots, sue away, he won't contest cases, data is clear.

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@mikeysmith If he gets the oath wrong she takes him out, and William steps up

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2 years

I missed the anniversary of this beauty But others have picked up the mantle

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@surajlakhani My favorite though are the pristine white Reeboks - who endorse Jay-Z, 50Cent and sponsor multiple Asian sport teams

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Who did this?

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#thankyouNHS Recently discharged from Oncology follow up clinic.

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#ImInWorkJeremy 15 new patients by Fri 8pm, will see 80 more by Mon 6pm. Not bad for a lazy old consultant who doesn't work weekends.

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@BBCHughPym @HPIAndyCowper Too polite It is lunacy for Johnson to be releasing lockdown this early He knows it will cause more deaths He is gambling it will gain him political points and get #Cummings of the front pages He doesn't care about the deaths Or a second surge

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@rolling_enigma @Pamos19 See, even good doctors are bad fortune tellers. Wishing you many more years of proving us wrong.

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@tomhunt1988 As an NHS doctor for 40 years I can assure you that you are 100% wrong How dare you claim appointment delays are a consequence of "uncontrolled illegal immigration" They are a direct consequence of failed . @Conservatives NHS policies, causing huge staff shortages

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@JamesCleverly @andreajenkyns @educationgovuk This is appropriate public behaviour for a new Education Minister? Not even in a . @BorisJohnson Government, and that is as low a bar as it gets

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@BorisJohnson 4000 cases per day as you plan to ease the lockdown 1000 cases per day when lockdown was imposed R now 0.5 to 0.9 R then 3.1 My maths says Second peak + thousands dead

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Why do politicians believe #Omicron will be the final wave of the final variant? It's suddenly going to stop? No more evasion of prior immunity, no more mutation to VoC? Just because you want something, even need it to hold onto your career, doesn't mean it will just happen

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PA? 1. Physicians Assistant 2. Physicians Associate 3. Physicians Alternative This is what scope creep looks like It is not safe

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Medical staff infection rates China 3.8% Italy 8.3% Why? Inadequate PPE "Soldiers die on the frontline without adequate protection"

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@realcalpol @MelanieLatest Denying a humanitarian crisis Denying a blockade Claiming well stocked Gaza markets Claiming no-one starving Claiming it's now a blood libel to disagree on this, will do that, every time

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The scapegoating of Israel Humanitarian aid has become the blood libel of the day

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@zatzi That you believe you are the centre is amazing Far right wing, No Deal Brexit, Neo-Fascism is nowhere near the centre

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@implausibleblog @WCKitchen Avi lied, repeatedly Denying famine won't wash As recently as 28.03.24 International Court of Justice ruled on Famine and Blockade of Aid into Gaza and imposed new conditions on @Israel for causing it

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@MattHancock Matt, there is zero evidence that it works outside of a hospital environment Stupidest photo op ever I'm Health Secretary but don't understand even the simple stuff they explain to me

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Todays news Slavery Kids going hungry Pandemic Rioting Whigs in Government What century did I wake up in this morning?

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Doctors, benefit claimants, immigrants, it's always someone else's fault

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THIS IS ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING As Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden admits post Brexit labour shortages are in part responsible for the UK’s stubbornly high inflation - PM Rishi Sunak shamelessly prepares to blame it on benefit claimants! WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE FROM UK MEDIA?

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@trishgreenhalgh My nephew wants me to explain to him why he is not allowed to wear one, sitting in an unventilated classroom with 30 others for an hour But he must wear one in the ventilated hallways for the 2 minutes walking to next class as he briefly passes others

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@JimMFelton @MattHancock 2015 manifesto had a clear promise to do this them #ToryLies

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#breathtaking is not even one episode in and I'm in tears, effing furious and wanting to strangle Johnson, all over again. Deja vu!

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@JohnnyMercerUK Lord Saville was clear David Cameron's Commons apology was clear Innocent civilians were murdered You know better? Who is rewriting history?

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@Gatesheadcolon @Jeremy_Hunt It does not exist in NHS. Speak out in the NHS and your career ends. I was a whistle blower. I made a protected disclosure, when safe. I'm still waiting to find results of enquiry into my claims. Multiple colleagues, still in post, have been threatened, repeatedly. I'm safe.

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@bbcquestiontime Yes Why not? Next question

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@David_Cameron @Conservatives @thetimes Diversity is one thing, competence quite another

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@SteveBarclay @BMA_JuniorDocs @Telegraph You haven't turned up to any negotiations yet. Let's start here.

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How about this for a starting point for negotiations: Match NHS pay rises with MP pay rises since 2010.

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@martin_oneill @chrissieburgess "Walking in possession of a sign, slowly" is now an offence? Coronation might be tricky There will be a lot of "Walking in possession of a flag, slowly" on Saturday

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@jayinneveh @Sammiyungzola Maybe time for IDF to stop slaughtering children and Netanyahu not to walk away from peace talks

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@BorisJohnson I don't want your clapping I want you to resign and take your SpAd with you

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@Hanna_Jameson @paddydocherty Slip of the tongue since I spend every day since 2016 trying to forget mine

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@TheHarryHaz @NanaVupNorth MPs expenses are a benefit from the public purse Monitor all their accounts too.

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. @gmcuk Jack Adcock died because of failings in our NHS He did not die because of the failings of just one junior doctor Until the failings of all those responsible are addressed he cannot RIP Pursing Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba alone while ignoring others is a scandal #bawagarba

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@jpxan71 @InaudibleMum The government has sent more Home Secretaries than migrants to Rwanda

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3 years

Parents Have you given permission for this Government to carry out it's current Herd Immunity Experiment on your children who attend school? Removing all mitigations, dithering over vaccination roll-out, and allowing uncontrolled spread can be for no other reason #Children

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@Peston He expected EU to cave. He expected it to be over by Christmas. He expected to save Christmas. He expected schools to stay open, yesterday, because they were safe. Have you learnt nothing?

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