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4 years

Edward Colston ran a company that shipped 84,000 kidnapped African men, women & children to the Americas - 19,000 of these are estimated to have died during the crossing. He was a mass murderer as well as a slave trader. The statue in Bristol should have come down years ago.

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If you're concerned about the BBC and political bias, it's Robbie Gibb you should be worried about, not Gary Lineker.

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Well blow me down! Rishi Sunak's main election strategist Isaac Levido is also a very highly paid lobbyist for Palantir, the dodgy US firm owned by a far-right billionaire that"s just been given a huge NHS data contract. Small world, isn't it? #Newsnight

Rishi Sunak's lobbyist election guru represents firm bidding for huge NHS deal

The PM brought in lobbyist Isaac Levido to help with election strategy - but the Sunday Mirror can reveal his firm, Fleetwood Strategy, lobbies on behalf of Palantir - who the PM praised warmly last...

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When UKIP won 166 councillors (but no councils) in 2014 the BBC called this a "political earthquake". @TheGreenParty just gained 200 councillors, taking the total to 737, took control of a council & became the biggest party in several others. But 0 Green guests on #bbclaurak .

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Graham Smith of Republic says the police would not tell him and 5 others the grounds on which they were being arrested. This would therefore seem to be an illegal arrest. This government has *no* respect for the most fundamental principles of the rule of law.

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3 years

Nor surprised to see a 'Trump 2024' flag at the so-called #freedomrally in London. These crowds always include a large far-right element, as well as deluded #COVIDIOTS who have watched too many dodgy Youtube videos.

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Slaves who became sick in the unbearable conditions of the Middle Passage, or who were otherwise judged to be of no commercial value, were often thrown overboard. Which makes the fate of Edward Colston's statue seem quite fitting. #BlackLivesMatter #BlackLivesMatterUK

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9 months

. @metpoliceuk - is this tweet from Laurence Fox not a fairly clear example of encouraging or assisting a crime as defined in the Serious Crime Act 2007?

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Hey @BBCNewsnight , I see you have Richard Tice of the Reform Party to comment on migration. His party has 0 MPs & 5 elected councillors. @TheGreenParty has 1 MP & c. 780 elected councillors. We also have an excellent spokesperson on migrants & refugees, @greenbenali . #Newsnight

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4 years

I have no idea if #TrumpWearsAdultDiapers , but this Norwegian cartoonist was certainly on to something.

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Britain is not Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany was not Nazi Germany until it became Nazi Germany. It became Nazi Germany because a lot of people mistook an assault on human rights and democracy as a patriotic project that would restore national pride.

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4 years

Has there ever been such a damning & devastatingly well sourced exposure of a Prime Minister's failings as tonight's #Dispatches ? Boris Johnson & Dominic Cummings are responsible for so many deaths through their arrogance & negligence. They should be in jail, not in No. 10.

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My daughters' (v. good) primary school was taken over by a head who got rid of the best staff & replaced them with supply teachers from an agency run by her own husband. She drove a 4x4 with personalised plates & the kids called her "Umbridge". She had earlier worked for Ofsted.

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4 years

Reminder: Dominic Cummings used a sister company of Cambridge Analytica (AIQ) to target millions of UK voters in 2016, illegally overspending to do this. We know a lot of the material used to influence them was disinformation. But was voter suppression another objective?

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4 years

The Cambridge Analytica saga breaks wide open again. The proof is finally being revealed. We always knew the truth was right there in the data.

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4 years

Actually, Mrs Gove, it was "sniping" by large numbers of epidemiologists & other scientists with relevant expert knowledge that pushed this wretched government into more decisive action. Many lives will be lost as a result of its delay.

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4 years

To all those sniping at a government trying to cope with one of the fastest-moving national emergencies in a generation: you haven't got a fucking clue. Not an iota. Either come up with something constructive, or zip it. Ideally the latter. FFS.

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. @MargaretAtwood - she's 83. Today, she wasn't doing casual racism, she was refusing to attend a graduation ceremony at St Andrews University in a show of solidarity for striking @ucu staff.

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Suella Braverman, Therese Coffey, Gavin Williamson, Dominic Raab all back in cabinet. It took Liz Truss just over two weeks to completely blow the credibility of her government. It's taken Rishi Sunak less than 12 hours. #Newsnight

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Boris Johnson, as Foreign Secretary, trying to secure a highly paid job for a woman with whom he was having sex, while supposedly at work in his parliamentary office, is *not* a joke. It's more clear evidence of corruption & gross misconduct in public office. #BloJo

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. @BylinesEast : At 3 polling stations in East Suffolk staff confirmed they'd been briefed to head off voters without voter ID before they entered the polling station, to "save on the paperwork”. Potentially in breach of electoral law. #PhotoID

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The Daily Mail continued to publish articles - like this one by the reliably wrong Melanie Phillips - well after the scare stories about the MMR vaccine had been scientifically debunked. The Daily Mail bears a large share of the blame for the resurgence of measles.

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This is what happens when you activately promote anti-vax nonsense.

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4 years

Iran has an incredibly rich and diverse culture (not that Trump would know anything about it). Here's the Bedkhem (Bethlehem) Church in Isfahan, one of many Armenian Apostolic churches in the country, It dates back to 1627. #IranianCulturalSites #Iranattack

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Did I hear that correctly? Government ministers are refusing to appear on the main radio news programme of the largest public-service broadcaster, even to explain what's going on with the #COVID2019 crisis? This is political spite raised to an absurd & dangerous level. #r4today

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Fujitsu made the faulty Horizon system, which led to 700+ blameless sub-postmasters suffering unjust criminal convictions that ruined their lives. Why am I not surprised that the Chair of Fujitsu is a major Tory donor? When will those who presided over this scandal face justice?

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Simon Blagden, Chairman of Fujitsu, donated £376,000 to the Conservatives So they made him a member of UKHSA which advises the Department of Health on hundreds of Billions of spending, a nice VIP lane for Fujitsu. They now get £10bn a year in Government contracts. Corruption.

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UKIP were on a quarter of all BBC Question Time shows between 2010 & 2018. They never had a single MP elected on a UKIP platform & never had more than half of the Green Party's current number of elected councillors. Someone at #bbcqt *really* liked UKIP.

Ukip Appeared On A Quarter Of All Question Time Shows Since May 2010, Huff Post UK Reveals

The Greens only got a look in 7% of the time

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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3 years

Lucy Frazer claiming that there are no fuel shortages because there's "plenty of fuel in the refineries". Like claiming there is no poverty because billionaires have plenty of money. Poverty in the UK is also a distribution problem. #Newsnight

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Michael Gove just claimed on #Marr that the UK is doing more testing than any other country. This is an easily disprovable lie of Trumpian proportions. This was the situation yesterday. #Gove #MichaelGove

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2 years

I know there's a lot going on, but does anyone know what's happened to the Met Police investigation into the Downing Street parties? Or the Sue Gray report?

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8 months

Haaretz is Israel's oldest & probably most respected newspaper. Its editorial blaming the horrific violence of the last 36 hours on Netanyahu's cruel & reckless policies is quite something. Fascism breeds on war, & vice versa.

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"Many are mystified" why a Czech billionaire wishes to buy Royal Mail for £3.5bn. Hmm. In 2022 RM had assets of over £5.3bn. Buy up privatised public services, make assurances, break assurances, asset strip &/or load with debt... See water & sewage.

Many are mystified why a Czech billionaire wants to buy Royal Mail's owner

Long-suffering shareholders will doubtless jump at the offer as in-depth discussions on the deal have evidently been taking place between IDS and Daniel Kretinsky's EP Group.

news.sky.com

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2 years

If you were thinking of a stay at the Camelot Castle Hotel in Tintagel, you may like to know that its proprietor, John Mappin, is a big fan of Putin's invasion of Ukraine. There are other reasons you might want to give it a miss, as I described here:

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Michelle Mone boasted that, unlike MPs, "I'm a Baroness for life". Perhaps she'd forgotten the House of Lords (Expulsion & Suspension) Act, which enables the HoL to expel members for conduct committed after the Act came into force in 2015. Shouldn't it be used now?

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Thank goodness Tory MP Mark Menzies is not a working-class northern woman. Otherwise there'd have to be a major police investigation.

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Unbelievable story from The Times, Tory MP accused of misusing party funds after being locked in a flat in the early hours

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A reminder that @BorisJohnson is *still* suppressing publication of the #RussiaReport . And the UK media seems to have forgotten all about it. #Marr #Ridge #SundayMorning

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Hey, Sarah Vine - I've managed to get through my mid-life without resorting to cocaine, sexual harassment or 100K loans from dodgy Russian businessmen. Does this mean I'm not potential Tory MP material? #SundayMorning

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Car crash of an interview between Suella Braverman & Mishal Husain. Braverman forced to admit that she has not actually watched the full video of the interchange between Gideon Falter & the police. She is clearly twisting what happened to her own malevolent purposes. #r4today

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Never mind the milkshake. The real #Clacton story is that Nigel Farage is being escorted by fraudster & convicted felon "Posh George" Cottrell. More on Cottrell and various other crooks with whom Farage has close links in this by me for @BylineTimes .

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Marina Litvinenko"s husband was murdered in London with radioactive polonium in 2008. It was entirely obvious who had ordered the killing. Conservative Friends of Russia was founded in 2012 with help of a Russian intelligence agent. She has every right to be angry. #C4News

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It's beyond ridiculous for Chloe Smith MP to claim that privatising Channel Four is one of the "people's priorities". It's a vindictive attack on a broadcaster that's not afraid to hold government to account. #C4news

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Elderly vicar sitting in the road in central London. Just one of the millions of people Priti Patel would like you to believe are "eco-extremists". #EverybodyNow #ExtinctionRebellion

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Isabelle Oakeshott on #bbclaurak , again. Why is this woman such a frequent guest on @BBCPolitics shows? She's never been elected by anyone & she's not even an "independent" journalist, her partner being the leader of a far-right party. Why so few Green guests on these shows?

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Last year South West Water paid £45m to shareholders. These companies see sewage fines as a minor business cost. They should not be allowed to make any profit at all while polluting our waterways & beaches. @TheGreenParty wants to see them taken back into public ownership.

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"South West Water fined £2.1m for pollution offences." That is the 161st time @SouthWestWaterhas been fined over the last 10 years, a total of £4,573,634. Fines don't work, something else needs to done. @NickFerrariLBC was right, time for jail.

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German Green MEP @TerryReintke : "I'm going to say this very clearly once again - we want colleagues from the UK to be re-elected into the European Parliament, into the chamber, as soon as possible!" #RejoinMarch #MarchForRejoin #RejoinEU

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Hmm.. That would be Robbie Gibb, former head of BBC Westminster & in overall charge of the BBC’s political programme output - Daily & Sunday Politics, Andrew #Marr Show, This Week and Radio 4’s Westminster Hour. Well I never. #Brexit #StopBrexit #PeoplesVote

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5 years

. @CarolineLucas makes the case for a #PeoplesVote with admirable clarity: "The only people it seems who aren't allowed to change their minds on this are the public." A breath of fresh air after the fudging & prevarication of Labour's Rebecca Long. #Marr #RevokeArticle50

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It appears that @nhs_susan - one of many fake NHS staff accounts uncovered by @jdpoc & seemingly set up at the govt's behest - used the photo of Mia Magklavani, a paediatrics staff nurse from Greece. Staggering but very familiar dishonesty & manipulation.

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So Jacob Rees-Mogg's main Brexit benefit is that the UK is not now ruled by a "corrupt cabal". As the lady in the audience points out, this is laughable. The government in which Rees-Mogg was a senior minister presided over the most gargantuan corruption in British history.

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Since the Bullingdon Club is trending, here's a lesser-known pic. The "R. C. Soames" is Rupert Soames, now CEO of #Serco . To which Boris Johnson's government has handed a large chunk of the £37 billion it's spaffed on its failed test & trace system. Small world.

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"Democracy is more fragile than we think" says the man who lied to the Queen in order to prorogue Parliament and has endorsed Donald Trump, who tried to violently overturn a US presidential election. Boris Johnson is completely devoid of shame.

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Kompromat is trending. A good time to remember this photo of a dishevelled Boris Johnson at Perugia airport returning from bacchanalian "hospitality" at Evegeny Lebedev's castle, where he met "former" senior KGB officer & Putin associate Alexander Lebedev.

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Ken Clarke: "They've decided to bring an Act of Parliament to overturn a finding of fact made by the Supreme Court of this country." This would allow government to insist that someone acquitted of a criminal charge is guilty. The #RwandaBill is incompatible with the rule of law.

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Lord Ken Clarke: " I always fear... about the risks of moving towards an elected dictatorship in this country. The sovereignty of Parliament has its limits, which are the limits of the rule of law... in a liberal democratic society such as ours." #RwandaPlan

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Arnold Schwarzenegger: "Mr President... your most important responsibility is to protect the people" #ParisAgreement

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Priti Patel's illegal Rwanda scheme is literally a #UKIP policy. Patel's father was a UKIP candidate. So was George Eustice. The Tories "defeated" UKIP by becoming it. #shameful

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Gavin Williamson is getting a knighthood? I can think of no other explanation for this than fear of blackmail. What a truly contemptible government we have.

Gavin Williamson's A* record of cynical manipulation and deceit

Trying to justify the chaotic mess around the way A-level students have been graded, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson appeared on multiple media channels and in the pages of the Daily Telegraph...

westcountryvoices.co.uk

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Whether or not Carrie Symonds dislikes Lee Cain is irrelevant. The real story is Number 10 appointing a man at the heart of Vote Leave's outstandingly dishonest campaign at a time when public trust in government has never been so crucial.

Vote Leave's Lee Cain tipped as next Downing Street chief of staff

Appointment would cause ructions in Westminster as many hope for outsider to take key role

www.theguardian.com

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The problem isn't that Charlotte Owen is young. Lots of people have done remarkable things by the time they're 30 & the upper house could do with more young people. But the only remarkable thing she's done is to work in a very junior role for a deeply corrupt prime minister.

Dr Martin Opposes Gov’t Corruption

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She will be Lady Owen. She has not yet distinguished herself in any public service in any way whatsoever. She may yet do so but she should not be entering the House of Lords now. Something is wrong. Surely, this needs to be investigated.

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Richard Tice says "Reform UK is the party of the working class." Can this be the same Richard Tice whose multi-million £ property development scheme with the [checks notes] Earl of Bathurst uses Bermuda to avoid paying capital gains tax in the UK?

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Sunday Times reveals that Vallance and Whitty refused to do the #DailyBriefing as they wouldn’t back Dominic Cummings. And has this quote from a Vote Leave source. Our country is in the hands of criminals. #dominiccunmings

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"Build Build Build" From Boris Johnson, this does *not* mean #BuildBackBetter . It means tearing up planning laws, letting cronies & Tory donors profit from shoddy housing on greenfield sites & throwing more billions down the HS2 drain. #borishasfailedtheuk #borisjohnsonspeech

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The Royston Vasey Conservative Party wishes it to be known that its members are LOCAL CONSERVATIVES and have absolutely NO CONNECTION with the Conservative Party currently in government.

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Jacob Rees-Mogg has pocketed at least £7m in dividends since 2016, some of this from his firm's stake in a sanctioned Russian bank close to Putin. Hearing him lecture nurses on how they should accept poverty wages is utterly nauseating. #bbcqt

Jacob Rees-Mogg in line for potential windfall from sale of Somerset Capital

Sale of investment firm business secretary co-founded could result in multi-million pound payout

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Boris Johnson cheated on his wife while she was suffering from cancer, with a woman who was then handed large sums of public money. And then he lied about this. How will his supporters react? History suggests this may even raise him in their estimation... 1/ #BorisAffair

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I just turned over from BBC News when they started live coverage of Richard Tice talking b*ll*cks. To find #c4news giving Nigel Farage an extended opportunity talk b*ll*cks. Farage isn't even an election candidate. The media's lavish coverage of Reform is ridiculous & sinister.

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Sobering edition of #Newsnight . The global economic crisis is by a long way the worst of my lifetime. The countries that will weather it best are those with non-corrupt governments that feel a sense of responsibility for their people's wellbeing. The UK is not one of these.

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#NationalDisgrace is trending. It should continue to trend every day Boris Johnson & Dominic Cummings continue to occupy Number 10.

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Whose bright idea was it to put Stanley Johnson on #Newsnight as the voice of the environmental movement? Really, @BBCNewsnight , you're just making yourselves look silly.

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#ScumMedia - the hashtag being promoted by legions of far-right trolls, bots and apparently even some Tory MPs - is the contemporary equivalent of Lügenpresse - the term used by Goebbels & other Nazis to attack any media that failed to show them in a suitably flattering light.

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Look, Carrie Johnson was eminently suited to a £100k FO job. Here she is in 2012 with the Russian Ambassador at the launch of Conservative Friends of Russia, set up by the later CEO of Vote Leave with the help of Russian agent Sergey Nalobin. #Carriegate

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Suella Braverman isn't just a security risk who takes sadistic delight in other people's misery. She's also pushing through the Public Order Bill - a vicious assault on our most basic civil liberties. Stop the #PublicOrderBill #LeakySue #SuellaBravermanOut #ProtestIsNotACrime

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Stewart Lee: "The Conservatives are a defeated army in vindictive retreat, robbing the museums & cathedrals as they head for the hills; setting fire to & laying waste to every institution in their wake; poisoning the rivers & destroying food supplies..."

Britain is a dying nation in need of new curators | Stewart Lee

The Tories’ scorched earth policy has wrecked our rivers, our NHS, our freedom of movement. Now even 6 Music is at risk

www.theguardian.com

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This Norwegian cartoonist nailed @realDonaldTrump as #DiaperDon all the way back in 2016.

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"We were expecting herd immunity to build. We now realise it’s not possible to cope with that." - Professor Azra Ghani, Imperial College "We *now* realise"? When WHO & countless epidemiologists were pointing this out? WTAF?

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Neil Ferguson was obviously wrong to break the lockdown & had to resign. But everything about this Telegraph story & the ensuing flood of right-wing hate for "Dr Doom" on social media screams that this is a *political* operation mounted by people who want an early end to lockdown

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Australia banned arrivals from India on 20 March. Many other countries followed. Not the UK. Boris Johnson wanted to visit India & on 18 April George Eustice blithely waved away concerns. Several flights from India are still arriving in the UK daily. #BorisHasFailedTheNation

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@CornsZtwt New to me - what does it signify?

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And to those protesting that Edward Colston was a "philanthropist" - well, so was Jimmy Savile. .

Sir Jimmy Savile statue removed from Scotstoun Leisure Centre

A statue of Sir Jimmy Savile is removed from a leisure centre amid child abuse allegations.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Whoever is using cat stickers to cover racism in Manchester deserves a medal.

Someone is using cat stickers to cover racism in Manchester

Brilliant.

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@carolecadwalla Without you, so much of what went on in 2016 would have remained shrouded in darkness, which is where truth & democracy die. Whatever the verdict tomorrow, we owe you a huge debt of gratitude for your brilliant & courageous journalism.

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Oh ffs Rishi Sunak. 20mph speed limits are not "anti-motorist". They're pro-safety of pedestrians, cyclists & children. In most areas they don't even make it slower for cars to get from A to B. This isn't a "war on woke". It's a war on sanity.

Ministers consider curbs on councils’ use of 20mph speed limits

Exclusive: moves against what PM terms ‘anti-motorist’ policies follow order of review into low-traffic neighbourhoods

www.theguardian.com

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If you were wondering what a "caretaker PM" is, it's a PM who does nothing whatsoever as half the population of the country stares ruin in the face & his would-be successors outline their plans to make things even worse.

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"Satire is angry & optimistic. It believes that the evil it attacks can be abolished." - W.H. Auden Ian Hislop is a satirist. The reason this Private Eye cover is infuriating some so much is that it suggests there may be a better way forward than an endless cycle of violence.

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5 years

Memo to @BBCNews : Please recruit some of these young people from Sheffield as interviewers on your flagship current affairs shows. They did a far better job of holding these politicians to account than most of your leading news anchors. #carcrash #bbcqt #BBCQuestionTime

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2 years

Things for which Boris Johnson has shown contempt: - Rule of law - Parliamentary standards - The Ministerial Code - Families bereaved by Covid - Parliamentary democracy - The intelligence of ordinary people - Public health & wellbeing - Honesty - Truth - Basic human decency #PMQs

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4 years

Steve Bannon indicted for fraud. Farage said of Bannon's role in #Brexit : ""Well done Bannon, well done Breitbart. You helped with this. Hugely." And indeed he did. Bannon was Vice President of Cambridge Analytica. Brexit is fraud from start to finish.

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5 months

The government is giving Ofcom more power over BBC services, supposedly "to give audiences greater confidence that the BBC is being held to account". While it's at it, perhaps @Ofcom could look into the role played by BBC board member Robbie Gibb?

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5 years

Billionaire Crispin Odey chortles that MPs "have forgotten who their masters are". Odey is a major donor to both Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson. Those two have not forgotten who their master is, and nor has Odey. He's getting his money's worth. #ToriesAtWar

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5 years

If #Boris Johnson were applying for a regular job, he would no doubt have to supply a reference from a previous employer. Max Hastings employed him for longer than anyone else and, as it happens... #bbcpm #BorisJohnson #BorisJohnsonShouldNotBePM

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2 years

Parents complained to the Council's Education Department, to Ofsted & eventually even to the then Education Secretary Michael Gove. But it took years before she was finally forced to leave (she should have been prosecuted). I remember her whenever I hear the word "Ofsted".

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10 months

Keir Starmer scraps support for Ulez. Labour source: “Clean air zones are Conservative government policy... Labour is not in favour of extra burdens on drivers." Absolutely spineless capitulation to a Tory disinformation campaign.

Sir Keir Starmer scraps idea for Ulez-style zones across the country

Labour ditches commitment aimed at cutting carbon emissions from polluting vehicles after Uxbridge by-election defeat

www.telegraph.co.uk

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4 years

George Eustice defends the government's catastrophically poor response to the coronavirus pandemic: "Different countries have different circumstances." Yes, George. Unfortunately, our country has a govt made up of professional liars & charlatans. #bbcqt

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4 years

When the Black Death arrived in England, people across the land were instructed by their priests to pray for the health of Edward III. He survived & in 1349 passed the Ordinance of Labourers, fixing wages at pre-plague levels to protect wealthy interests. #prayforboris

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4 years

If you're asking yourself whether the BBC is worth defending, just look at some of the accounts that have been mobilised under the hashtag #DefundtheBBC . A motley selection of the far right, alt-right, climate science deniers, Putinbots, RT fans, etc. #savethebbc

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3 years

Priti Patel, who was embarrassed & then sacked as a minister when it was revealed she'd held unauthorised secret meetings with Israeli officials, wants to remove the public interest defence for whistleblowing. Who'd have thought? #ToryDictatorship

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2 years

The Green Party was last on #bbcqt one year ago. You can see why. It's awkward for the political establishment to see how resoundingly popular the Green message is with the public. So instead, we're treated to panels packed with right-wing journos & dark-money-funded lobbyists.

BBC Question Time

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“The nurses that are taking action are also taking it not just for themselves, but for the future of the NHS” The Green Party’s @carolinelucas says nurses voting to strike “haven’t done this lightly” and blames the Conservative government for the current stand-off #bbcqt

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Caroline Lucas: "Nuclear is very slow, hugely costly & it won't address the cost of living crisis that people are facing right now." She calls for massive programme of home insulation, big expansion of onshore wind & a windfall tax on 'obscene" oil & gas profits. #SundayMorning

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2 years

It is NOT the NHS that's letting cancer sufferers down. It's the government, which has failed to invest in staff & equipment. This is incredibly distressing for doctors & nurses, who are struggling to do their best for patients in impossible conditions. #Newsnight

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4 years

#TrumpIsAWarCriminal and Kellyanne Conway is his lying accomplice. There was nothing "hypothetical" about Trump's threat to attack cultural sites in Iran. It was concrete and explicit.

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2 years

Polurrian Cove on the Lizard Peninsula. My favourite beach in #Cornwall , polluted along with many others in recent days by raw sewage discharged by privatised water companies. @TheGreenParty says these companies should be publicly owned. Please RT if you agree. #TorySewageParty

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6 months

A long list of Tory MPs are under investigation for rape & sexual assault. When the Home Secretary thinks rape drugs are a laughing matter, is it any wonder his party is rife with misogyny & sexual abuse? James Cleverly needs to #resign .

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@Tom___Scott

6 months

My daughter tells me she & her friends no longer get drinks in clubs as spiking is so prevalent. And Home Secretary James Cleverly thinks rape drugs are a joke?

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Remember, Michael Gove is the man who wrote an editorial condemning middle-class drug users the morning after he hosted a cocaine-fuelled party in his Mayfair flat. Michael Gove should not be believed on this or anything else. #JohnsonMustGo #boristhebutcher

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4 years

Boris Johnson's gagging of Whitty and Vallance has not gone down well with journalists, including those on the right he can usually rely on. This could prove a bad mistake. #DailyUpdate #notmovingon

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