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Oliver Kamm

4 months

Have had much feedback for my essay on the late John Pilger, originally published in @CapX & reproduced in full by @Telegraph . Numerous journalists who worked with or closely observed Pilger over decades confirm my judgment of his sharp practice & fakery.

John Pilger was an apologist for genocide – we should not celebrate his journalism

I am sorry for his family’s loss but sympathy does not necessitate sentimentality when his career showed a disregard for human rights

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Oliver Kamm

@OliverKamm

2 years

She is absolutely right because her grammar is not “incorrect”. Her speech contains non-Standard constructions, and these are no less “proper English” than the PM’s dialect or mine. It’s an immense benefit to public life that she stands her ground n this.

Telegraph Politics

@TelePolitics

2 years

🗣️ Angela Rayner has revealed she refuses to allow Hansard to correct her grammar in Parliament in order to stay true to her working-class roots

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4 years

It is not very sensible that the MPs concerned have fallen silent. When you mess up this badly, the apology needs to be abject & immediate.

The Independent

@Independent

4 years

Health minister Nadine Dorries and two other Tory MPs share edited 'far-right' video smearing Keir Starmer

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3 years

I can recall when Conservative MPs closed ranks round Neil Hamilton to change the law to enable him to sue @guardian (it did not end well for him). Today’s events are far worse: a party tearing up the rule book to protect one of their own. Decent Tories are, I know, appalled.

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5 years

No, Sadiq did exactly the right thing. London is a great cosmopolitan capital city and his message of openness is vital to its ethos and future.

LBC

@LBC

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Sadiq Khan has dedicated the fireworks this evening to celebrating the capital's relationship with Europe. @ianpaynesport asks: has the Mayor of London politicised the New Years Eve celebrations?

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2 years

Splendid.

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6 years

Anthea Bell OBE, Order of Merit of 🇩🇪, died this morning aged 82. She was a literary giant: among great C20th/C21st translators, whose work included Kafka, Sebald, Zweig, Freud, Willy Brandt, Simenon, Goscinny et al. @richkamm & I will miss our mother a lot. Cc @GermanEmbassy

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5 years

You just know he hasn’t done the research, has no idea what experts in language say, and is making a thinly veiled insinuation that foreigners are a problem. What a disgraceful man he is.

The Times and The Sunday Times

@thetimes

5 years

'Too often there are parts of our country where English is not spoken by some people as their first language'

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Oliver Kamm

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10 months

I recall Paddy Ashdown once describing John Major as a decent man at the head of a truly appalling party. You could say the same thing about Rishi Sunak, apart from the first bit.

Rishi Sunak

@RishiSunak

10 months

This is what we’re up against. The Labour Party, a subset of lawyers, criminal gangs - they're all on the same side, propping up a system of exploitation that profits from getting people to the UK illegally. I have a plan to stop it. Here’s how 🧵

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4 years

If you have a record of taking large sums of money from Iran’s state propaganda apparatus and referring to Hamas and Hezbollah as “friends”, you inevitably lack credibility in criticising Trump’s reckless actions.

Corbyn tells Government to stand up to US after Iran general death

Read our live updates HERE

www.standard.co.uk

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2 years

I don’t mean to pick on this Tory MP but this is getting silly. Brexit is “anti-growth”, which some people think is a reasonable trade-off for securing other goals. I don’t, but it shows not even the PM believes in growth at any cost. To claim to be “pro-growth” is just vapid.

Suzanne Webb OBE MP

@Q66Suzi

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It’s pro Growth Conservatives v The Anti Growth Coalition I know which side that I am on.

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9 months

My view, fwiw, is that even if the death penalty could be proved to deter murderers like Lucy Letby (it can’t), and even if there were zero possibility of a miscarriage of justice (there isn’t), it would still be a moral abomination. Thankfully Britain will not restore it.

James Heale

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9 months

New: two-thirds of the public back capital punishment for Lucy Letby following her sentencing

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4 years

I don’t understand why people like this are given air time. It’s not a free speech issue but a competence issue, on a matter of life & death.

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@TalkTV

4 years

Broadcaster Denise Welch: "I am not prepared to listen to the mainstream media narrative" on coronavirus. Watch the full interview ► @danwootton | @RealDeniseWelch

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5 years

Whenever Rees-Mogg tries to show cleverness, he gets it wrong. Aquinas maintained that for happiness of the saints in heaven to be perfect, they will be “allowed to see perfectly the sufferings of the damned”. It’s a vile notion. Tusk OTOH expresses sympathy with us who suffer.

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5 years

Worth recalling the valiant efforts of 47 Labour MPs who voted against triggering A50, unlike their titular leader who urged this course immediately after referendum.

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2 years

We report today the further activities of Tim Hayward, an academic who’s previously spread pro-Assad disinformation & conspiracy theories and now does so with the foul & preposterous notion that Ukrainians are shelling themselves.

University of Edinburgh academic Tim Hayward accused of spreading propaganda

A university professor has been accused of spreading Russian propaganda about the war in Ukraine after tweeting a link to an article suggesting that the attack

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Oliver Kamm

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3 years

A statement of the merest common sense, by the only Labour leader born within the last 100 years to have won an election.

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4 years

One hard truth that Labour figures are already evading is Corbyn’s personal responsibility for the disaster. It took colossal vanity to cling on to the leadership in spite of record negative poll ratings & an inability to even understand policy issues, let alone articulate them.

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2 months

It’s past time @Ofcom revoked the UK broadcast licence of @GBNEWS . The salient issue is not discrete (and frequent) breaches of broadcasting rules on impartiality but the very nature of the channel. It’s a propaganda organ.

GB News has paid more than £660,000 to Tory MPs since its launch

Labour MPs received just £1,100 from channel in same period, as concern mounts over its impact

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

Alice Mahon appeared as a witness for the defence in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic for genocide & war crimes, where she suggested that the Račak massacre of 45 Kosovan Albanians in 1999 may have been a US false flag. She debased public life and disgraced @UKLabour .

Jeremy Corbyn

@jeremycorbyn

1 year

Today, I said goodbye to a dear friend, Alice Mahon. Much-loved by the people of Halifax and beyond, she was a fearless working-class woman who loathed inequality, racism & injustice in any form. Alice was one of the most caring & friendly human beings I ever met. Rest in peace.

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2 years

This whole thread is devastating for the reputation of @GBNEWS and demands the urgent attention of @Ofcom & @CommonsDCMS . I’m thankful never to have appeared on this station.

Matthew Sweet

@DrMatthewSweet

2 years

As for the bigger problem of the sympathy between @GBNews and online conspiracy culture, that is a matter for the regulator, and, I’d suggest, requires the urgent attention of the @CommonsDCMS .

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2 years

Indeed. This doesn’t look like a winning strategy or a thoughtful one. Brexit is now an accomplished fact where the demonstrated costs greatly outweigh any speculative benefits. And while Corbyn was electorally catastrophic, he is not a Labour MP and no one likens Starmer to him.

John Stevens

@johnestevens

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Rishi Sunak appears to have two stock answers for every Starmer question at #PMQs regardless of topic 1) You backed Remain 2) You served under Corbyn

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4 years

It won’t trouble JK Rowling but it troubles me very much that this ad has been taken down on grounds that it could cause “offence”. I am, so to speak, offended by the illiberalism & intolerance this dismal episode evinces.

JK Rowling: Edinburgh rail station advert in support of author removed

An advertising poster reading “I love JK Rowling” at Edinburgh’s main railway station has been removed for being too “political” and potentially offensive.

www.thetimes.co.uk

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2 years

Matthew Parris in @thetimes , 19 August.

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4 months

I’ve written an assessment of the career of the late John Pilger. It’s titled “John Pilger was a charlatan and a fraudster”. Regrettably the facts do bear me out in this judgment. My thanks to @CapX for publishing it in full, for it is necessarily long.

John Pilger was a charlatan and a fraudster

‘I admired the force of his writing, even when I often didn’t support what he wrote, and he was always warm when we met.’ So wrote John Simpson, the veteran BBC foreign affairs correspondent, on news...

capx.co

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1 year

Absolutely don’t want to start pile-on but I note one or two comments asking for recognition of Jeremy Corbyn’s role in GFA. For the record, it was exactly zero, and he voted against the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985, which provided Dublin with a consultative role in NI affairs.

The Labour Party

@UKLabour

1 year

Securing the Good Friday Agreement is one of the Labour Party's proudest achievements. Today we pay tribute to the incredible Mo Mowlam, who was instrumental in making it happen. Labour will always work to secure peace and prosperity for future generations in Northern Ireland.

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6 years

Wonderful @guardian obit for my mother, the translator Anthea Bell, who died today. I’m very touched by this and by the many kind messages I’ve had. @thetimes obit will follow.

Anthea Bell obituary

Translator best known for her witty English rendering of Asterix, the popular French comic book series

www.theguardian.com

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@OliverKamm

4 years

Just despicable. What a dismal election this is.

The Times and The Sunday Times

@thetimes

4 years

EU migrants have been able to “treat the UK as if it’s part of their own country” for too long, Boris Johnson said yesterday as he reprised the core message of Vote Leave’s 2016 EU referendum campaign.

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@democracynow @jeremycorbyn He’s not a Labour MP and his claim is flatly untrue. Some wars end without peace negotiations (eg war in the Pacific, in which the Allies demanded Japan’s unconditional surrender), and it’s desirable they do. The war in Ukraine is like that: lasting peace requires Putin’s defeat.

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2 years

Please note this statement by Dawn Butler MP.

Dawn Butler MP✊🏾💙

@DawnButlerBrent

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3 years

Brexit is not merely a remediable mistake but an act of self-harm, irrationalism & folly. The notion that the issue is settled presupposes that it’s not really a big deal. For those who weren’t old enough to vote in 2016, it’s a huge loss, which is why the argument will return.

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2 years

A long-overdue sanction would be to revoke the UK broadcasting licence of this state-propaganda outlet, whose editorial policies are obviously dictated from the Kremlin.

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@OliverKamm

4 years

Brutal.

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6 years

That's a noun phrase, not a pronoun.

Julia Hartley-Brewer

@JuliaHB1

6 years

Since we’re all allowed to self-identify as whatever we want these days, I’ve decided my new preferred pronoun is “your imperial majesty”. If you don’t use it, I’m going to report you for hate crime. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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3 years

“We do not endorse the call for any worker to be summarily sacked…” No, just discreetly & deniably harried & defamed till she understandably gives up. This is shocking indeed.

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4 years

I did not expect Rebecca Long Bailey to be sacked from the shadow cabinet for indulging an antisemitic conspiracy theory. I'm impressed & thankful that she has been. Symbols matter, and Labour is back in the hands of genuine anti-racists.

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5 years

No one puts it better.

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

5 years

Tony Blair on #Brexit : Literally why are we doing it? Former PM, who supports a #PeoplesVote , tells #marr the choice is between “painful and pointless” Read more:

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17 days

This addendum to a column by Owen Jones is quite something.

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4 years

One lost a seat held by Labour since 1950 on an 11% swing to the Tories. The other “led” the party into electoral catastrophe. Lavery himself barely retained, with a majority of 814, a seat held by Labour since 1945. Priceless.

Ian Lavery MP

@IanLaveryMP

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I love this photo. Thinking of you both tonight. The political contribution you’ve made......priceless.

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5 years

I’m posting again Matthew Parris’s fine column today, urging MPs to do their duty & tell the voters they were wrong to opt for Brexit.

MPs must be brave and tell us we were wrong

An ennui hangs over British politics and the prime minister is depending on it. Like a thin, wearisome fog it does not quite obscure but it blurs and greys, softening edges and dulling our reactions...

www.thetimes.co.uk

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4 years

The MP, @zarahsultana , wrote that she would celebrate the death of Tony Blair. She is unfit to be a member, let alone an elected representative, of a constitutional party.

Mirror Politics

@MirrorPolitics

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Labour MP, 26, demands end to '40 years of Thatcherism' in first speech attack

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It is quite extraordinary that instead of posting Guardian copy, Owen Jones copies-and-pastes material that Sunday Times journalists have researched & written, and sees nothing wrong in doing so. I hope someone explains the issue to him.

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4 years

She lost a seat that Labour had held continuously since 1950, and it’s not hard to see why.

Laura Pidcock

@LauraPidcock

4 years

Love & solidarity to @jeremycorbyn , a good man with a beautiful soul. Now is not the time to be tearing each other apart. Jeremy’s suspension should be lifted immediately. I will work tirelessly alongside the hundreds of thousands of people for his reinstatement.

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“His sense of righteousness and humourlessness meant there were rarely apologies for questionable personal behaviour.” @thetimes obit gets to the heart of John Pilger’s personality & career. He was a fraudster & charlatan, as I’ll evidence in due course.

John Pilger, campaigning Australian journalist, dies aged 84

Controversial, left-wing documentary maker whose name inspired an unflattering verb

www.thetimes.co.uk

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3 years

The last Cold War - started by Stalin but then justly waged by the western democracies, under the auspices of Nato - did in fact bring peace, justice & human rights to the peoples of central & Eastern Europe.

Jeremy Corbyn

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Starting a new cold war will not bring peace, justice and human rights to the world. #AUKUS

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4 years

"It’s time to ask whether Boris Johnson is up to the job." Brutal assessment of the PM by Matthew Parris.

Boris Johnson needs to take control of the cockpit

Matthew Parris: This crisis is a flight into the unknown and we need the captain to stop the blustering and talk to us like grown-ups

www.thetimes.co.uk

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6 months

The edifice of antisemitism is not just xenophobia: it’s essentially a conspiracy theory, and has been throughout history.

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Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters on the October 7th Massacre: “We don’t yet know what happened” “Maybe there were some individual cases of civilians getting killed” “Israel is making up stories”

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@billybragg @Jane66588568 @void_if_removed @twtomwilson You should have the elementary sense of shame to depart from public life at this point.

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2 years

Laura Murray, former aide to Jeremy Corbyn, loses her appeal in the libel case brought by Rachel Riley. The judgment is well worth reading - and serves as a reminder, should anyone still be in doubt, that posting on Twitter is publication.

Former Corbyn aide loses appeal over Rachel Riley Twitter row

Laura Murray, who used to work for the former Labour leader, was ordered to pay £10,000 damages to the Countdown presenter.

www.independent.co.uk

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3 years

You tried to murder them.

Russian Embassy, UK

@RussianEmbassy

3 years

#Salisbury : UK failure to provide information on two Russian nationals is a clear violation of UK’s obligations implied in relevant international and bilateral agreements, let alone a disregard for universally recognised norms of diplomatic relations.

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@nytimes I don’t know why you pursue this vendetta but I wrote about it last week. Fwiw, I’m a liberal and an Atlanticist, and you’ve published me, and I’m baffled by your promotion of sectarian nonentities in order to depict this country as a Dickensian dystopia.

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4 years

I’ve known Julian Lewis for a long time & have great respect for him. He is a real expert on defence issues and we’ve cooperated in arguing the necessity of Nato & collective security. What a ludicrous & vindictive decision to deprive him of Tory whip.

Dr Julian Lewis has Tory whip removed after running against PM's security committee chair pick

Dr Julian Lewis is no longer sitting as a Tory in parliament after he ran against the government's nominee Chris Grayling and won.

news.sky.com

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5 years

What Twitter is for.

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3 years

A pleasure to be reminded, in @guardian ’s coverage today of lobbying scandal, of this truly great front page of a quarter-century ago.

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2 years

It will be obvious to all but dogmatists that Labour & the Tories (the only parties from which a PM will come) have done immense damage to public life & governance by widening the franchise for party leader beyond MPs alone. MPs need to say it rather than flatter party activists.

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10 months

Can we all do this? The independent MP Jeremy Corbyn attended a private prep school whose fees for Year 6 are £9,675 a year. His adviser Andrew Murray attended Worth School (annual boarding fees £43,170). His lieutenants Seumas Milne & James Schneider are Wykehamists (£49,152).

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I’ve read this back several times. Whether through political calculation or a lack of imagination, it’s gross & inflammatory. The Home Secretary insinuates, without having the gumption to openly state, that the victims of hooliganism helped bring it upon themselves. For shame.

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I condemn the appalling disorder in Knowsley last night. The alleged behaviour of some asylum seekers is never an excuse for violence and intimidation. Thank you to @merseypolice officers for keeping everyone safe.

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I’m glad to see Labour are running with this. For obvious reasons, no such critique would have been credible or even possible under Corbyn’s titular leadership.

Labour uses Tories’ IRA jibe to target Lady Brexit, Claire Fox

Labour is set to weaponise Boris Johnson’s decision to award a peerage to a controversial former Brexit Party MEP who has been accused of defending the IRA. Cla

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10 months

Your government tried to murder them, and did actually murder Dawn Sturgess. That may be why the Skripals don’t wish you to know where they are.

Russian Embassy, UK

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10 months

🎙Embassy Statement Still no news from two Russian nationals – Sergei and Yulia Skripal. It has been more than five years now since Yulia’s most recent public appearance. Her brief pre-recorded message in 2018, apparently translated from English, raises many questions. ❗Our…

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We can surely all agree that the main issue raised by the worst global pandemic since 1918-19 is the reputation for posterity of Jeremy Corbyn... The PM was wrong to flatter Corbyn as a man of principle. His main characteristic is a colossal vanity, unmatched by imagination.

BBC Politics

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"I was denounced as somebody that wanted to spend more money than we could possibly afford" Outgoing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says the government's coronavirus response proves he was "right" about public spending at the 2019 election @bbclaurak

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A govt without principle or direction encounters a Labour leader who is a far better candidate for PM than the incumbent & is not an antisemite. That about sums it up, I think.

James Endersby

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4 years

Opinium/Observer: The Conservative’s lead drops from 12 points to 4 points in a week, giving the government its lowest lead since August. 37% now approve of the job the PM is doing, down from 45% last week: @OpiniumResearch Con: 43% Lab: 39% LibDem: 6% SNP: 5% Green: 3%

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1/2 The vanity & sense of entitlement are off the scale. Corbyn destroyed Labour electorally & morally. He presided over & personally exemplified its antisemitism crisis. His pitiful grasp of public policy was cruelly exposed in A Neil interview in 2019.

Jeremy Corbyn accuses Labour officials of sabotaging election campaign

Exclusive: Former leader and allies say alleged diversion of funds in 2017 could be fraud

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

@ScottBentonMP Doubtless I’m being excessively fastidious, but there’s something not apt about an MP deriding the head of government of a democratic ally on the day she announces her voluntary departure. There’s a time & place for vigorous partisanship: this isn’t it.

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I hope @SalmanRushdie is all right. His cause is that of civilisation against theocratic barbarism.

Salman Rushdie on ventilator after being stabbed on stage at New York state event

Author attacked at event in western New York as police identify the suspect in custody as Hadi Matar

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“I think the way I’ve been treated is disgraceful, and the allegations that have been made against me are disgraceful.” A man lacking the capacity for introspection, let alone dignity or decency, descends ever deeper into self-pity. It’s pathetic, really.

Jeremy Corbyn urges west to stop arming Ukraine

Ex-Labour leader also tells Beirut-based TV channel he was criticised over antisemitism because of stance on Palestine

www.theguardian.com

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@IsabelOakeshott In New Zealand’s most stringent lockdown, she had an approval rating of 65 per cent. That doesn’t mean her policies were right (though I have little doubt they were), but it hardly suggests voters shared your assessment that they were being imprisoned by a sinister authoritarian.

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It’s quite pathetic that Corbyn blames anyone for electoral catastrophe but himself. The media was in reality broadly fair & even generous to him. His failure was due to his own deficiencies: inability to grasp technical issues, blustering arrogance and, not least, antisemitism.

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We live in a world that is damaging itself through inequality, injustice, poverty, pollution and war. Surely we can do better than that. My interview with @DoubleDownNews .

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2 years

Hardly surprising as you tried to murder them.

Russian Embassy, UK

@RussianEmbassy

2 years

We are perplexed that for the past four and a half years the Russian side has remained in the dark about the fate of two our citizens, Sergei and Yulia #Skripal .No official information is available about their state of health, legal status & whereabouts 🔗

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1 year

@guywalters A deeply sinister figure in so many ways. The notion that he was some lovable rogue obscures a great deal.

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6 months

The whole is characteristic of Corbyn, who inspired widespread fear among British Jews during his leadership. He’s hopeless, ignorant & inarticulate, and - perhaps derived from his private schooling - has such a sense of entitlement that he explodes when asked a direct question.

Piers Morgan Uncensored

@PiersUncensored

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Piers Morgan asks Jeremy Corbyn 15 times whether the former Labour leader thinks Hamas is a terror group. Jeremy Corbyn refuses to answer. @piersmorgan | @jeremycorbyn

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@OliverKamm

2 years

Question Time is now going for expertise on a subject dominating the news. These are unusual times.

BBC Question Time

@bbcquestiontime

2 years

. @LawDavF , of King's College London, will be on the panel. #bbcqt

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@OliverKamm

2 years

Hmm.

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@OliverKamm

3 years

A mag called LM, a forerunner of @spikedonline , libelled honest journalists from ITN & Guardian by claiming they’d faked these horrifying pictures (the man in the foreground is called Fikret Alić). These people are still around & their defamatory lies should never be forgotten.

Remembering Srebrenica

@SrebrenicaUK

3 years

On April 30 1992, Serb forces forcibly took over the town of Prijedor which led to months of systematic abuses, massacres, forcible removal and numerous concentration camps. This month we’ll be discussing the genocide and ethnic cleansing in Prijedor. Follow along and join in.

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@OliverKamm

2 years

This is disgracefully stupid. Ukraine’s people aren’t living in fear of Nato imperialism.

Nadia Whittome MP

@NadiaWhittomeMP

2 years

Today I joined a demo in solidarity with the Ukrainian people. I said, “We must fight against imperialism on every front. We must demand that Russia dial down the threats, the arms race and the militarisation. And we must demand the same of NATO. Neither Washington, nor Moscow.”

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@OliverKamm

5 years

I bring @MarinaHyde the good news that Sir Richard Evans reviews Jacob Rees-Mogg’s new book on the Victorians in @NewStatesman . 😱

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Oliver Kamm

@OliverKamm

4 years

Durham NW was held continuously by Labour from 1950 to 2019. You’d imagine the person who lost it would be a bit more self-critical than this.

Laura Pidcock

@LauraPidcock

4 years

Attacks on @jeremycorbyn continue because they know his politics are powerful and that there are hundreds of thousands of people who still have deep and unwavering respect for what he was and still is trying to achieve. We will not stop in our pursuit for a better world.

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@OliverKamm

6 months

Fine piece by @simonmontefiore , a heavyweight historian, refuting the notion that the Jewish state is a colonial enterprise - a voguish fallacy that has “dehumanized Israelis to the extent that otherwise rational people excuse, deny, or support barbarity”.

The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous and False

It does not accurately describe either the foundation of Israel or the tragedy of the Palestinians.

www.theatlantic.com

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@OliverKamm

6 months

No. The fault does not lie with the reader but with the author and, I’m saddened immeasurably to say, with the JC, to which I’ve contributed over many years. It’s an abominable piece that grievously misunderstands history while needlessly inflaming community relations.

The Jewish Chronicle

@JewishChron

6 months

"Anyone who reads my column in the JC this week who can read will know exactly what I've said. And I stand by it." On the latest episode of the JC podcast, @DouglasKMurray discusses protests, Hamas horrors, and his latest JC column with @JakeWSimons

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@OliverKamm

5 years

The suffocating bipartisanship of “realism” regarding Bosnian war of 1992-95 was a low time in British politics. Paddy Ashdown was the most prominent MP who broke it & who understood the stakes involved. Much credit & respect to him; his high reputation will deservedly live on.

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@OliverKamm

2 years

This sententious farewell exemplifies the problem. She has no conception that her work was an intellectual & moral disgrace that would shame anyone more scrupulous. I’ve devoted some time & effort to exposing this conspiracy of fraud & am unsurprised it’s now ending in disgrace.

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@OliverKamm

3 years

Ought to be recalled that the misnamed Stop the War Coalition is so instinctively anti-western that it blamed France for provoking the Bataclan massacre in Paris in 2015 while the attack was actually taking place. The indecency of these people is hard to overstate.

Telegraph Politics

@TelePolitics

3 years

A small protest has gathered outside Parliament in protest of the Afghan war. The protesters are joined by Jeremy Corbyn, who has long been an ally of the Stop the War Coalition

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Oliver Kamm

@OliverKamm

4 years

What a sentiment, and what a day on which to utter it.

Nigel Farage

@Nigel_Farage

4 years

On a day of national celebration we are being humiliated on the South Coast. As I have predicted, a record number of illegal immigrants have been taken into Dover. All along the coast there are many more. This is the beginning of an invasion.

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@OliverKamm

2 years

Hayward, to be clear, is a professor of environmental political theory. He has absolutely no specialism in any discipline relevant to the conspiracy theories he’s spreading. We’ve exposed these people before and will keep on their case.

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@OliverKamm

2 years

The barbarism almost defies the imagination. This is not a mistake; it’s how Putin’s regime has conducted war against Syria’s captive population, and is what Ukrainians tragically now face.

Sky News

@SkyNews

2 years

BREAKING: Children are buried under rubble after a Russian airstrike hit a hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

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@OliverKamm

4 years

Let’s not be sentimental. Corbyn destroyed Labour as a serious electoral force & consigned it to moral ignominy.

Angela Rayner 🌹

@AngelaRayner

4 years

A lovely article summarising @jeremycorbyn spirit and the passion to which he has championed socialism and changed politics 🌹

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@OliverKamm

3 years

This is incitement and I hope Ms Shemirani, a prominent conspiracy theorist, is prosecuted for it.

Anti-vaxxer slammed for comparing NHS staff to Nazis in vile speech at protest

Kate Shemirani was struck off as a nurse in June. The London Mayor branded her 'utterly appalling' after she compared NHS doctors and nurses to those in Nazi Germany who were hung

www.mirror.co.uk

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@OliverKamm

1 month

Beyond ridiculous. You can’t sensibly make a television drama titled “I Wasn’t Paying Attention”.

Waspis need Post Office-style drama to shame DWP into compensation, suggests MP

‘Do we need another TV drama to embarrass them?’ says senior SNP MP, as Cabinet minister asks for more time to consider official report

inews.co.uk

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@OliverKamm

3 years

Plenty of pundits (including close friends & colleagues) I respect urged us Remainers to buckle down & work for a soft Brexit. I think they were wrong. Matthew Parris speaks for me.

Anti-Brexiteers should go down fighting

Nothing in politics is ever more than 70 per cent certain. It may (and does) look to me as though we British are about to get a draft free trade agreement with

www.thetimes.co.uk

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@OliverKamm

9 months

@BarristerSecret @Bren4Bassetlaw I’m not anonymous, @Bren4Bassetlaw , and I think your support for judicial lynching is evil. I’m amazed you have the lack of self-respect required to state such a position in public.

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@OliverKamm

4 years

What a man to hold the highest office of a state. And what a time to hold it.

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@OliverKamm

2 years

A fine resignation letter but my hostility to this sect goes back decades. The reason LM mag, the forerunner of @spikedonline , closed was that it libelled honest journalists who exposed the depraved camps incarcerating Bosnian Muslims in 1992. For shame.

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@OliverKamm

5 years

The symbolism of a courageous Jewish woman leaving Labour because it is institutionally antisemitic should shame the party. Many good MPs remain but this is a fundamental moral issue.

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@OliverKamm

5 years

Don't Know is having an absolutely stonking run - now 20 points ahead of the titular Leader of the Opposition.

YouGov

@YouGov

5 years

Which of the following do you think would make the best Prime Minister? Theresa May - 40% Jeremy Corbyn - 19% Don't know - 39%

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@OliverKamm

4 years

Mr Burgon is MP for Leeds East and is standing for the deputy leadership. Denis Healey held both these posts and was among the greatest intellects in British public life. Mr Burgon, you are no Denis Healey.

Richard Burgon MP

@RichardBurgon

4 years

After a break and discussions with MPs and party members, I’m announcing that I'm standing to be Labour's Deputy Leader🌹 Here’s my recent Tribune article with some thoughts on why we lost badly and how we rebuild: I'll be outlining more in the New Year.

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@OliverKamm

3 years

I can’t believe I’m reading this from a former Conservative minister. What has happened to this party? Why aren’t sensible Conservatives, who understand trade, running miles from this strand of opinion?

John Redwood

@johnredwood

3 years

There are big opportunities for U.K. business in import substitution. Let’s cut the food miles by growing more at home. We need to increase the amount of U.K. value added in manufactures by making more components here, simplifying supply chains and creating more jobs.

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@OliverKamm

3 years

This, mirabile dictu, is a professor at a leading UK university.

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@OliverKamm

3 years

A gracious sentiment about a political opponent - and I made the mistake of reading the replies. Social media is an appalling place.

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@OliverKamm

4 years

In these dark times, it gives me vicarious pleasure that my friend Beth Rigby causes such anguish for the minuscule cult of @spikedonline . Its forerunner mag libelled honest journalists for exposing the truth about Serb war crimes, and is no more.

Tom Slater

@Tom_Slater_

4 years

God, that performance was just awful. Self-important and pompous. I didn’t always think this, but now I feel a resignation is the only thing that will fix things and restore public trust. Beth Rigby must go.

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3 years

Extraordinary comment. It amounts to saying that the party’s investigation & procedures don’t matter & Corbyn should be able to do whatever he likes. Labour sustained huge reputational damage on the antisemitism issue, and it’s clear some MPs have learnt nothing from it.

Zarah Sultana MP

@zarahsultana

3 years

I'm very pleased to see socialist left candidates elected to Labour's ruling committees today. Winning the overwhelming majority of positions, it's clear the left is a significant part of the party. That needs to be respected, starting with Jeremy's reinstatement to the party.

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@OliverKamm

5 years

"Fire must sometimes be fought with fire..." I agree with Matthew Parris, and against @Dannythefink , on the need to oppose Theresa May's deal. Brexit will cause economic & social harm: I want to thwart & sabotage it, not help it on its way.

Remainers must reject May’s Brexit deal

If we could rewind, would we do it again? How many times must leaders have asked themselves this question. When was the moment, the last moment, I could have relented? The rest of us are not so...

www.thetimes.co.uk

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@OliverKamm

1 year

Corbyn’s incomprehension of his failings and a complete lack of contrition for antisemitism underline that he’s unfit to be a @UKLabour member let alone an MP. He’s debased the party & public life. (Note too how swiftly his superficial bonhomie falls away when he’s cornered.)

Peston

@itvpeston

1 year

"Jeremy only has his self to blame" "You know perfectly well what I said" Watch @leicesterliz and @jeremycorbyn clash over his suspension from the Labour whip. #Peston

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