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Paul Sharp

6 years

There used to be four police stations in Hackney. There is now one. And who closed them all? Boris Johnson. And who cut funding for the Metropolitan police by £600m from 2010-16? Theresa May when she was Home Secretary.

Andrew Pierce

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Is Labour Mayor of London @SadiqKhan going to say anything about the fact murder rate in Capital now higher than New York

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

2 years

Remember the golden rule. If a Tory says something is a non-story it’s a very very big story indeed. The reverse also applies.

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Paul Sharp

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3 years

I'm Jewish. For centuries my people were told they didn't belong. For centuries they were expelled from their homes and told to live in another country. This is why I find the government's policy of telling EU citizens to leave the UK to be repugnant.

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Paul Sharp

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3 years

Memo to Liz Truss. Most Australians have no idea who Ian Botham is. 1981 was a long time ago.

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1 year

Headline on BBC Breakfast. “Excitement is building ahead of the Coronation…” No, it isn’t. It really really isn’t.

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Paul Sharp

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3 years

Just finished reading the Ladybird Guide to Lorries so I’m pretty much ready for my HGV licence.

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Paul Sharp

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2 years

@AidanCTweets 19 year old students and 60 year old miners want the same thing. To be able to afford food and heat their homes. Why is this guy trying to drive a wedge between them?

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

7 years

Finding a free U2 album sitting unasked for in your iTunes library. #ThingsThatLeaveBritainReeling

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

4 years

Edward Heath came under machine gun fire during the Spanish Civil War, manned anti-aircraft guns in Liverpool during the Blitz and was an adjutant in Normandy on D-Day. But yeah, Boris Johnson. What a guy. All those battles.

Peter Shilton

@Peter_Shilton

4 years

Boris has fought more battles over the last 18 months than any other Prime Minister l can remember as well as nearly losing his life to COVID-19 l think he deserves a break with his wife and newborn I can’t believe some critics think he should be back at his desk! @BorisJohnson

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

3 years

The BBC headline "Is the EU ready for No Deal" would be funny if it wasn't so tragic.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

3 years

Who is Julia Hartley-Brewer?

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

5 years

Brexiters 2016: We can cope with Brexit, we're the 5th largest economy in the world. Brexiters 2017: We can cope with Brexit, we're the 6th largest economy in the world. Brexiters 2018: We can cope with Brexit We're the 7th largest economy in the world. Brexiters 2019...

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

3 years

Nicola Sturgeon found guilty of not being a Tory.

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1 year

@LaurenWitzkeDE There is literally nothing a trans woman or man can do that won't incur your hate, is there. Even this.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

8 months

@notCursedE Criticism is this: “Tenant’s Hamlet, while technically excellent lacked the emotional depth to make it one of the truly great portrayals.” Calling someone a groomer and a paedophile is libel. 100% defamation.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

7 years

Surely the Manchester police must have noticed something suspicious when they saw someone under 70 at a Tory Party conference.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

2 years

@RozKaveney Judging by what I saw at Pride yesterday those 70s feminists are in a tiny minority and are mostly ignored by younger feminists. I suspect this is making those 70s feminists even angrier and even more petty.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

2 years

@Arron_banks I would sum it up as: you lost. You’re a loser. Carole won. You lost. That makes Carole the winner and you the loser. Winner = Carole. Loser = You. Welcome to Loserville; Population - You! Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

6 years

Those (un) Magnificent Men In Their Lying Machines #BrexitChristmasMovies

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@Petersbrooking

6 years

@TheMichaelMoran @guypratt @Baddiel My surname is nowhere near it.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

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The three stages of Susan Hall 1. Who is Susan Hall? 2. Oh God, not Susan Hall. 3. Who is Susan Hall?

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

2 years

@tattooedselkie Also the “it’s all about me” attitude. No, Joanne, it’s not all about you.

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@Petersbrooking

2 years

@ChrisWaller @rickburin What do you say to a philosophy graduate? “Big Mac and fries, please” #OldJoke

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

4 years

So. Which discredited piece of pseudo-science is the next Downing Street advisor going to support? My money is on Chem Trails. Or Naturotherapy. Any other ideas?

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

3 years

Allison Pearson: "Don't wear masks, ignore the rules, protest against lockdown." Also Allison Pearson: "How come China has tackled the Coronavirus so much better than us?"

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

6 years

@JamesMelville I don't need to watch this. I have a perfectly decent floor where I can store ALL my clothes...

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

2 years

@AITA_online My dad wanted me to like jazz and support Arsenal. But when it turned out I didn’t like jazz or support Arsenal he accepted it. Because, you know, he’s normal. For an Arsenal supporter.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

2 years

@Simonhooper @itvnews It's not true anyway. Coldplay die every time they walk on stage but they still come back again.

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@Petersbrooking

2 months

@ThomasWillett9 Unsurprisingly being Jewish I have strong feelings about this. If you deny one part of the Holocaust you deny ALL the Holocaust. You can't pick and choose what parts of the Holocaust you believe.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

2 years

@AdiDee_Gee @UglaStefania @jk_rowling The great thing about Eurovision is that it is completely inclusive. Everyone is welcome. I wish people here in the UK could follow that example.

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@Petersbrooking

2 years

@Emms2021 @snigskitchen There seems to be a trend in UK education where some people believe the only way to teach kids is to treat them like criminals. They’re doing to children what Barbara Woodhouse did to dogs 40 years ago. It’s appalling.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

4 years

No booze and Anne Widdecombe singing. Those Brexiters are in for an absolute treat on Friday night.

Mr Ethical

@nw_nicholas

4 years

Looking forward to the Brexit Celebration on Friday

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

2 years

@void_if_removed @JaneWardenGray @jk_rowling No. The LGBA does nothing charitable. By all means they can be a political organisation or a pressure group but in order to be a charity they need to do acts that are charitable. And they don’t.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

2 years

@Antiochean @VickyMiller74 Teaching children is not a battle. If you think it is there is something wrong with you.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

7 years

@jamesgerrard @davidmweissman @Chazman1989 @piersmorgan As a Jew living in London I have to say I'm more concerned about the crass xenophobia coming from the Tory Party. It's destroying lives.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

1 year

@designs_william Interesting how this person claims to be all in favour of free speech until she gets offended and then it’s, “ you’ll hear from my solicitors!”

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

12 days

@bleakachu_ Rowling's terrible punctuation is genuinely painful. I mean obviously the rest of it is painful too, but for crying out loud - she's supposed to be a writer.

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@Petersbrooking

2 years

@andrew_b72 @MForstater @cwknews If a child entrusts a teacher with a secret that teacher should think long and hard before betraying that trust. This really isn't an issue Forstater should drag into her ongoing vendetta against the trans community.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

4 years

Richard Tice: The Coronavirus is costing jobs! Also Richard Tice: Unemployment is a price worth paying for Brexit.

Richard Tice 🇬🇧

@TiceRichard

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Prets are cutting 2,800 jobs because firms & office workers have made it clear they are happy to work from home much of the week. These are the consequences to home working; hundreds of thousands will lose their jobs in city centres.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

5 years

"Do you know who I am?" "No." "I'm Owen Paterson." "Who?" "I'm an MP." "Oh." "Can I talk to you about Brexit?" "Do you have to?" "Yes." "Oh for God's sake. Just get on with it."

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@Channel4News

5 years

"People come up to me on the tube, on the trains, saying 'just get on with it'." Conservative MP Owen Paterson says "people would be dismayed" if the UK fails to leave the EU.

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@Petersbrooking

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@irestar6 @YorksMan82 @theipaper If only the state provided free education for all children in brilliant schools staffed by dedicated and professional teachers. That would be Amazing!

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

4 months

Anyone who thinks one person can’t make a difference should take a look at the Tory response to Carol Vorderman’s tweets. They are terrified of her. An entire party is terrified of one woman.

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@ZacGoldsmith

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Carol Vorderman bombards people she dislikes with hyper aggressive accusations often based on misinformation & crazy theories. If they answer back, they are misogynists. I have been on the receiving end. This for example: England is one of the world’s most nature depleted…

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

7 years

@DarrenJHarris @HenryReillyNOEU However in 140 characters he has shown 100% brilliance at: 1. Ignorance 2. Bigotry 3. Racism 4. Stupidity Be fair to the guy.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

3 years

And on Christmas Day you got the treat of a Slightly Bigger Picture!

Siob, Princess of Yorkshire #FBPE #FBR

@Sillyshib

3 years

I just want to inform the young folk that the advent calendars we had in the 70s only had a picture behind the cardboard door. No chocolate

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1 year

@KirstieMAllsopp Yet more transphobic bigotry in the comments. They prove your point every time.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

2 years

@WardlawSteve @PeeBeeJayBee @thetimes @RobbieTimes Joanne Harris spends much of her time composing long threads on the art of writing. They are hugely helpful to people from professional writers to students. Rowling does nothing of the kind. Millen should take time out from pursuing his agenda to research what these matters.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

2 years

@Otto_English I used to run my university debating society (not Oxford) and competed in the World Debating Championships and I can say for a fact that Boris Johnson has no debating skills whatsoever. His rebuttal ability is incredibly poor. And he can't think on his feet.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

7 years

@gwynbcfc @johnprescott Corbyn said the UK needed to negotiate with Sinn Fein in order to achieve peace. This is what happened. He didn't "support" the IRA.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

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I see Rishi Sunak is taking time out from hating on migrants to hate on people who are unwell. What makes him think this is going to improve the Tories' rock bottom poll ratings?

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

5 years

Mike Huckabee can't get his head around the fact that you can be a German while at the same time not being a Nazi.

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@GovMikeHuckabee

5 years

Must have been an "awkward" moment for Angela Merkel to sit in ceremony as the Allies commemorated D-Day that broke the back of Nazi Germany.

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5 months

@WayneGb88 It’s interesting to note you’re Tory. The Tories have decimated mental health services, failed to do anything about social care and are forcing people with mental health issues back to work. So I doubt you care about these issues as much as you claim.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

6 years

@flo_jo_mo @JamesMelville Ah, a chairdrobe. A worthy alternative to the floordrobe.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

2 years

@phurstclass @JolyonMaugham I used to work in Parliament. It’s not the eight bars. It’s the kind of environment that thinks setting up eight bars is normal that’s the problem.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

2 years

Quentin Crisp played Elizabeth I in Orlando in 1992. Elizabeth I wasn't erased as a result.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

5 years

I queued up at midnight outside my local store not to buy Cameron's book. I look forward to many opportunities not to buy his book in the future too.

Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓

@MichaelRosenYes

5 years

It’s going to be a struggle but I’m going to try very hard not to buy Cameron’s book at any time in the next 50 years.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

7 years

Very sad Brian Cant has died: an unremittingly nice man he has now gone through the round window which we must all eventually go.

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@Petersbrooking

2 years

@RozKaveney Someone, I can't remember who, recently said there are only three hundred transphobes in the country but they all have a newspaper column.

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Paul Sharp

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2 years

@Luiseach I'm not just a "trans rights activist." I am a Jew who is seeing history repeat itself. Pointing at a minority and blaming them for societal ills that have nothing to do with them is where it begins.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

4 years

Reminds me of when Thatcher announced she was taking personal charge of the Poll Tax.

Becky Barnes

@BeckyBarnesB

4 years

Boris Johnson will take personal charge of the next phase of Brexit negotiations, Downing Street announced

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2 years

@Luiseach I'm Jewish. My grandparents were driven out of Russia because of a pogrom perpetrated by people who told my grandparents they were a danger to safe spaces, who told them where they could and could not go. It started with 'legitimate concerns' and ended with their home being burnt

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Paul Sharp

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@FrauBobble @MsDaisyC @Weeto_boy @MForstater Says someone whose entire Twitter feed is full of transphobic lies…

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4 years

@Eternal_mother @NeilClark66 Wait until you read about this thing called the Coronavirus. That is really horrific.

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6 years

@arthurlawrence5 My dear Sir arthur, I wasn't playing politics. I'm just some bloke who sent out a tweet. If anyone's playing politics it's Andrew Pierce who is using his status to blame everything on Sadiq Khan when he knows how complicated the issue is.

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3 years

James Melville going to the butchers.

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2 years

@greeneyedsalad @womensmarch They are who they say they are.

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7 months

@genderskeptic @_celia_bedelia_ So you're going to vote Tory - a party that is throwing millions of women into poverty through austerity and inequality - because they support women? Tell me how that works exactly...

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2 years

@Streettough @PolicyWorkshop3 @colinbrazierGBN Absolutely. And the idea that we should fight Putin's fascism by becoming fascist ourselves is really grim. But it's what people like Shriver want.

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2 years

@BluskyeAllison @NationalNOW So a woman isn’t entitled to an opinion unless you agree with it? How very feminist of you.

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4 years

I hope Sajid will use this as an opportunity to say what a great job Sadiq Khan is doing as mayor of London. Otherwise he’s just making a cheap political point.

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The Left really, really do detest ethnic-minority Tory Cabinet ministers.

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4 years

@DylanPrice2 @A_Kovah Fabianski had so much time he was able to go off his line, go back onto his line, have a cup of tea, read a book and still save that penalty.

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2 years

@shirleyyoung2 @StevenEdginton My dad was in the RAF at the time of a polio outbreak in the early 50s. They quarantined his entire unit. My dad wasn’t allowed to go anywhere. He spent two weeks sleeping on the floor of the local cinema until it was under control.

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Paul Sharp

@Petersbrooking

4 years

No, Tom. Last weekend a few idiots turned up. Yesterday all of them were idiots.

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3 years

Good grief, this is like Logan’s Run. A stream of right wing Brexiters parroting a statistic to justify a policy of killing the elderly.

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Only 377 people under 60 without preexisting conditions have died of COVID in Eng. Tragic but when I've stated this as fact, often disbeleived. Such is fear, people think far more, that virus mortal threat for all. IMO restrictions on ALL can mean less focus on those most at risk

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2 years

@legalfeminist Only people who don't want an open and inclusive workplace would object to this advice. Oh...

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3 years

Remember the winter of discontent when the Tories won an election because of rubbish piling up in the streets? Well at least there was food on the shelves.

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2 years

@jessiegender They claim to be challenging but they wouldn't dare tell the same jokes about other minorities. Kicking an easy target isn't challenging or brave.

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@BrexitClock @sajidjavid It’s a bit like me opening a bag of crisps and saying I’ve opened a potato farm.

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@AlfredAlbion Totally supporting France after reading this.

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@RebeccaJones_03 @Mermaids_Gender Mermaids has nothing to prove here. Mermaids is not on trial, Mermaids is not the problem. The LGBA is a hate organisation trying to deflect attention away from itself. Mermaids excellent work speaks for itself.

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4 years

@HeleneBismarck @KitOfNowhere "Let me interrupt your expertise with my male confidence..."

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3 years

Compiling a list of organisations Brexiters now hate. The National Trust The RNLI The BBC Stonewall BLM Any others?

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@dirkdirk55877 @Councillorsuzie And it just so happens your Twitter feed is full of Boris Johnson love - and (weirdly) Joey Barton adoration. What are the chances?

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@doublehelix “Degenerates”. These people can’t resist using Nazi language, can they.

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@sbarber_678 @mcashmanCBE Women's rights are human rights. Trans rights are human rights. There is no conflict between the two.

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@apsamuelson @rhiannonlucyc @BBCRadio4 The Tories will weaponise anything if they think there’s a few votes in it. They don’t care about the consequences.

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@111meeuwis @bobhaigh13 @tominfrance @Ladycorvia @pixielation @DaveTenacious @Mayesey9 @DevonianMatthew @blEUfrenchbird @chriostoir_g @EvLenz @StephenOld @MaldenSaboteur @FirehorseP @Bearlykat @FranS199 @PaulTatum4 @Socialistdawn @ChubaKelly @NeilPollyTicks @tony_lockyear @E_Pamplemousse @redalphababe @IAmFrogPrincess @skiwithstyle1 @ColonelEscargot @nickynoo007 @IAmMardikins @LePlanRex @gordoncraig11 @libdemEdRhymist @PrivateBrowser5 @Rachel5742 @IncorrectEn @Firesnakious @ddale0000 @john196201 @eu_lover @Goddess1345 @Weeblebum @charlessr1956 @GrumpyScot @tmvmedia @Dissentra @lilienfan @mpharrisonHarry @JulietDavies @juliatanner @flumps263 @SimonSidleman “I am sick to death of Brexit, I am a European. I am not a stupid, colonial, imperialist English idiot.”

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@billybragg GC comments on this are: 1. Pretend it’s not happening 2. Post more transphobia. They prove your point every time.

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@RileyFaelan @CharlieXCaine I’m Jewish. I’ve been saying for some time that this language is horrific. History is repeating itself.

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"The only good Tory is a lavatory...

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@RealDJCthulhu @Thee_Roxy_Cox I absolutely agree. My grandparents were hounded out of Russia by people who thought Jews were a danger to their safe spaces, by bigots who decided they had science on their side. These same hateful tropes are being used against trans people today.

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If anything is failing Britain it’s the absolute refusal by the right wing press to hold the government to account. Democracies fail when the press becomes an instrument of the state.

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@tominfrance @Mayesey9R @pickpear @NeilPollyTicks @Bearlykat @hill_hillbill @StephenOld @Dissentra @JFRitte @skiwithstyle1 @Lomquiche @EUfrenchbird @vja1999 @dfarb @Roger_Xanth_Day @EvLenz @Socialistdawn @Rachel5742 @ColonelEscargot @111meeuwis @juliatanner @LcdViews @TonySloane10 @gordoncraig11 @flumps263 @sarahchantrey @IAmFrogPrincess @vandyke4ad @IAmMardikins @pixielation @MaldenSaboteur @Paulsquires62 @AilsaLaing @Xxander1968 @llanciawn @CantWeDoBetter @j_g_fitzgerald @A_D62 @NicolaJames007 @DaveTenacious @balis_nicky @bellabean2 @MightMaggie @Meshgees @SimpkinsIan @CadachLlestri @Envisaged @justinbellinger @FirehorseP “Matt Hancock did nothing wrong” say the same people who demanded Diane Abbott’s resignation after she drank a mojito on a train.

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@femmehonnete1 Trans people feel less safe when they see your tweets but I suspect you don’t care about that.

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I just popped into the Circle K in Dalston and the guy behind the counter said “Aren’t you Paul Sharp from Mastermind 2012? I love your tweets!” I said, “Thanks, dad. When did you start working in Circle K?” It’s hard being famous.

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May your Club Tropicana drinks never be free. #CurseDominicCummings

Bloke From Barnsley #Is #Sisu #Thorn

@NicolaJames007

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May you never get rid of that hair stuck in your throat. #CurseDominicCummings

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A brief history of Zionism. One hundred years ago very few Jews were Zionists. My great-grandparents weren't. Nor were any of their relatives. There were two reasons: first, the idea of a homeland was a pipe dream and secondly many Jews wanted to assimilate in their home nation.

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@carolJhedges @AdamBienkov @whyohwhyfather I think you're crediting the government with too much strategic nous here, Carol. As far as I can see they are absolutely clueless. They barely know how to get from one day to the next. They are so out of their depth it's barely credible.

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3 years

@HuntedTeamNick Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley were all villages in Trumptonshire. I know this because I've got them on DVD.

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2 years

With the resignation of the Northern Ireland Secretary and with the Northern Ireland assembly in limbo Northern Ireland effectively has no government.

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2 years

The saddest thing about the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict is that it’s not remotely surprising.

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