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Lord WarGit, Spicy Detective

1 year

Genuinely wouldn't be surprised if within five years we start seeing The Science People talking about "de-normalising" cake as a go-to celebratory medium altogether and demanding that Colin the Caterpillar be re-packaged in a plain box and sold behind a counter.

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Lord WarGit, Spicy Detective

@WarGit

5 years

LIAM NEESON: I'll tell you a story. ME:

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The idea that Whitehall is run on the principle that each service bid should be dealt with as a blank slate where a bidder's track record of under-delivery and terrible performance shouldn't be considered as a factor in awarding a contract is both mind blowing and ah of course.

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lol

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Can't wait for the Goodnight, Sweetheart reboot starring Laurence Fox where he goes back in time to the Blitz and is all "Fuck this, If I can't have a house party with the lights blazing and no blackouts up without the street getting levelled it's the fault of our air defences."

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1 year

The Traditional Masculinity Discourse is extremely weird. When I was a kid you'd meet men who had been mentioned in dispatches twice and lost a lung at Monte Cassino and they'd spend their free time mowing the lawn and building model railway sets.

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17 days

The feeling always passes, but there are days when it feels like everybody under the age of 40 should just emigrate and leave these people wallowing in their own shit and wondering what happened.

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@WarGit

7 years

When you've had a genuinely lovely family Christmas and then you decide to pop online at the end of the day to see how things are going

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@WarGit

3 months

The Art Of British Governance: Finding the prospect of introducing water rationing less intimidating than forcing through the construction of a reservoir in a seat currently held by the Liberal Democrats.

The Rest Is Tw*tter

@rorymeakin

3 months

England hasn’t built a new reservoir since 1991

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@WarGit

2 years

She's his mum, he's her son and it's the memorial service for his dead dad.

Jeremy Vine

@theJeremyVine

2 years

Just getting my head around this. #PrinceAndrew

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@WarGit

17 days

Yet another reminder that a willingness to actually build stuff (or even, perhaps more specifically and simply, to allow things to be built) gets far more done than all the cant and hollow targets and professed good intentions in the world.

Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

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Texas is now crushing California in clean energy. Chart includes solar, wind, nuclear, hydro, and biomass.

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@WarGit

1 year

The Japanese are planning to build a 438km high-speed rail line under a mountain range, with a 67-minute journey time, for almost exactly the same amount of money as it's projected to cost us to *cancel* much of HS2.

Harry Cole

@MrHarryCole

1 year

EXC: Inflation blighted HS2 in chaos with delay or scrap of it arriving at Euston. Construction costs pain means scaling back of the project under live discussion in Whitehall. Spent last few weeks under bonnet and it's not looking good

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@WarGit

6 years

Just gave my name in starbucks as 'Yog-Sothoth, Lurker at the Threshold, Opener of the Way, child of the Nameless Mist'. As the (remain) barrista screamed out my 'name' repeatedly, the sky churned and blackened and the whole place erupted into frenzied caterwauling as [1/372]

EU Flag Mafia 3.5% 🇺🇦

@EUflagmafia

6 years

Just gave my name in starbucks as 'stop brexit,. As the (remain) barrista screamed out my 'name' repeatedly, the whole place erupted in to applause. Result. Try it. #FBPE @Starbucks

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@WarGit

4 years

When Rowling was slagging off Toryism, the Potter series was a deep well of progressive wisdom. Now she's Auntie Wrongthink and all at once it turns out that every aspect of the Potter books is retrospectively laden with darkly problematic subtext. You people are fucking nuts.

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@WarGit

4 years

"Daniel Craig says No Time To Die is about 'relationships and family'" But I don't want a Bond film to be about relationships and family. I want it to be about laser beams and explosive decompression and kicking the Queen's enemies into a pond with an angry crocodile in it.

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@WarGit

2 years

The correct response would, of course, have been "I can't magic the money out of my arse, madam, and apart from anything else most of it's tied up servicing your triple-locked pension"

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3 months

These tributes are always fascinating by what they omit. She was killed undertaking reconnaissance in preparation for planting a massive car bomb in the centre of Gibraltar at the point of peak busyness with the intention of killing as many people as possible.

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@WarGit

7 months

👇 This. You don't get credit for filling potholes. It's expected that existing roads will be maintained as viably functional. Taken for granted as priced in. Filling potholes is not "levelling up", it's a bare bones demonstration that state capacity hasn't completely collapsed.

Tom McTague

@TomMcTague

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We’ve set out long-term plans to go on holiday to your Nan’s, kids, using money saved by not going to Disney.

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Lord WarGit, Spicy Detective

@WarGit

5 years

In ancient Rome, during a triumphal parade, the Emperor was accompanied in his chariot by a trusted slave. The slave carried the Emperor's laurel wreath, but his more important task was to remind him of his mortality by whispering over and over "You should have passed the deal."

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@WarGit

9 months

It remains bizarre to me that the Stonehenge tunnel is apparently the sole piece of infrastructure development for which the government seems to be seized with an absolute focus and ruthless determination to get done under any circumstances.

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

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Stonehenge tunnel plan "should not proceed in its current form," Unesco says, as it urges government to make amendments to controversial plan

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@WarGit

5 years

Not really fussed about Diane Abbott drinking a tinned mojito on public transport, to be honest. Somewhat more concerned with her having repeatedly defended Chairman Mao on national television. But I have come to accept that my sense of priorities is apparently quite eccentric.

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@WarGit

1 month

Expressing support for a cold blooded massacre carried out by a proscribed terror group is reasonable grounds for revoking somebody's student visa.

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@WarGit

5 months

As others have noted, the fur is a by-product of organised culls to stop the bear population ballooning out of control. This won't change anything. You might as well suggest all venison meat should go in the bin as a point of principle.

Sky News

@SkyNews

5 months

Stephen Fry urges end to 'cruel' use of bear fur in King's Guard caps 🔗

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@WarGit

19 days

WHITEHALL RUMOUR MILL: [*all this election shit for hours*] RISHI: I have gathered you here today to announce that the Network North levelling up scheme that has replaced high speed rail for the North is now ready to commence pothole-filling across the Thames Valley.

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@WarGit

5 months

"Do most UK homebuyers realize how different the market is from other countries?" Absolutely not. There's a number of policy areas in this country where the way we do things is a complete outlier, yielding terrible results, yet it is just treated as the natural order of things.

Matthew Brooker

@mbrookerhk

5 months

The UK’s new-build property market is more Stalinist than Thatcherite - dominated by big developers churning out a uniform product of mediocre quality. Other countries don’t do it this way. We need to learn from the self-build markets of Germany and Japan

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@WarGit

4 years

@OliverJia1014 This happens *all the time*: PERSON: My grandparents had their home confiscated by [communist regime], my aunt was shot trying to escape and my uncle died in a gulag. 20-SOMETHING LEFTIST WITH 62,000 FOLLOWERS: Yeah, well maybe they had it coming, did you ever consider that?

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@WarGit

4 years

@jessesingal One of the first exchanges I saw in the election aftermath was: PROGRESSIVE TWITTER: "Successful progressive Latinx Congressman, please, help us understand how we can rebuild Latinx support." CONGRESSMAN: "Ok well first off drop this Latinx stuff and-" PROGRESSIVE TWITTER: "No."

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@WarGit

1 month

I hate this so much. It's like a microcosm of everything that's driving this country into a ditch. Tweaking and fiddling and micromanagement and accretions of complexity because we refuse to face up to getting the fundamentals right.

Arena and stadium ticket tax needed to save local venues, MPs say

A report recommends a levy on arena and stadium concert tickets to help struggling small venues.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@WarGit

5 years

GOING FOR AN EXTENSION, LADS

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@WarGit

2 years

There are plenty of things the US has over the UK, but I am quite glad that "building weird personality cults around senior judges" isn't very much of a thing here.

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@WarGit

5 months

@duncanrobinson The fact that Whitehall apparently works on a bureaucratic principle that a track record of terrible performance is not something that is allowed to be taken into account when giving out contracts feels like some sort of mad cosmic joke.

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@WarGit

1 year

I learn from the 21st Century that "Traditional Masculinity" means arsing around like a tit and then getting brung low on a human trafficking charge.

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@WarGit

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Don't want immigration. But also don't want to pay the market rate. Solution: Simply service your own personal pet projects via the medium of conscript labour.

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@WarGit

1 year

The sole area in which the British state retains capacity for consistent action is lifestyle micromanagement. Everything you enjoy can be made subject to the most minute tinkering, even as the core responsibilities of the state visibly crumble around your ears.

Charlotte Ivers

@CharlotteIvers

1 year

joyless joyless joyless why is everything in public policy atm so joyless

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@WarGit

1 year

I return again to a thing on Radio 4 years (at least 15) ago when "local opinion" had stopped a Tesco being built somewhere and it was being hailed as a victory for people power over Faceless Corporations, but when they commissioned a local poll, a super-majority wanted the Tesco

Jon Stone

@joncstone

1 year

I would like to coin a new phrase to describe something that happens a lot in local government: 'Burger Bar Syndrome'. when it looks like there is local opposition to something, but its actually just the same Five Guys writing lots of letters and tweeting at councillors

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@WarGit

6 years

@MotoClark Was surprised to learn recently that they can make packing beads out of starch now rather than polystyrene. Does the job just as well and they actually dissolve in water.

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Lord WarGit, Spicy Detective

@WarGit

10 months

Absolutely wild watching people pivot from "The Prime Minister should travel everywhere by bus" to "We should abolish the monarchy because the Prince of Wales didn't fly to the farthest side of the world to attend a football match"

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@WarGit

1 year

Something very Americanised about some of this stuff. Not liking having to listen to people blasting their music in public being framed as white supremacy? Jog on, pal.

Tony Dowson

@TonyDowson5

1 year

You absolutely should turn off music outdoors. It's the height of obnoxiousness to blast out music when others are trying to enjoy quiet in the countryside.

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@WarGit

1 year

Cheap energy would: - enable easier travel - leave money in people's pockets to spend elsewhere - render our manufacturing sector competitive - lower food costs - remove heating worries - relieve pressure on the hospitality sector we should be going hell for leather for this

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@niall_gooch

1 year

Abundance mindset. Need more of this in British politics.

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@WarGit

2 years

Not TikTok, but I return to my brother's circle from his STEM PhD intake. The ones who decided to take a leap and go stateside are all on six-figure salaries. One who went to Italy isn't, but can afford a swanky flat in a nice part of a rich city. UK - crap money, crap housing.

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@WarGit

17 days

But remember, young people are grotesquely over-entitled for thinking they should be able to buy a three bedroom house on a bog-standard salary the same way their parents did.

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@WarGit

4 months

This can be seen in the intense opposition to reservoir building and the fact that pretty much everywhere that hosts a reservoir - including ones that are actually only a few decades old - treats it as a natural wonder and an enormous boon to the area's economy and ecosystem.

Anya Martin

@AnyaM8_

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I really like cooling towers but it's hilarious how the "monstrous blight on our community, must not be built at any cost" to "cherished & beloved community asset, must be preserved at all costs" pipeline is real

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Lord WarGit, Spicy Detective

@WarGit

3 months

After seeing a much needed new GP surgery opposed because people might drive to it and local residents could be disturbed by "the sound of car doors closing", I'm afraid it's going to take more than this to surprise me.

Anthony Cox

@Cox_A_R

3 months

UK nimby story. A plan to re-open a local trainline, chopped by the Beeching axe in the 1960s. Local residents & councillors oppose the station near us re-opening as people might drive to it. So people in our area will have to drive to somewhere else to use the re-opened line.

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@WarGit

3 years

I try not to be too critical of this stuff, but watching Westminster political journalists overwhelmingly abdicate any responsibility to engage in much needed scrutiny of the doings of the Edinburgh government but now troop out to amplify SNP talking points is extremely annoying.

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@WarGit

5 years

@twlldun "Foreigners of the world. Welcome to Global Britain. We're shifty af and we've gone completely insane. Our government is unstable and hitherto obscure politicians are lining up to shit themselves for attention on TV. Many dazzling investment and business opportunities await you."

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@WarGit

3 years

I voted Remain, but, tabloid splutterings aside, I think a lot of people on both sides would think it's reasonable to preserve some sort of neutral ground *somewhere* for national events that don't involve the side in control trying to didactically rub their opponents noses in it

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Anyone else think it was pretty good? 🤔

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@WarGit

11 months

PROGRESSIVE TWITTER: Punching Nazis is cool and fun. SOMEBODY: It is a good thing that the Nazis, who were the bad guys, lost the Second World War. PROGRESSIVE TWITTER: [*pushing glasses up nose*] Actually... [1/4,729]

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@WarGit

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NARRATOR: The project would later be cancelled after it became apparent that the building required to house the British end of the cable would have exposed local residents to inconvenience from construction traffic and obscured a much-loved view of a field with a donkey in it.

Tom Chivers

@TomChivers

2 years

Help me with the maths here. This offers 10GW of energy. There are about 8000 hours in a year so that’s 80,000GWh. The UK’s total annual energy use is ~260,000GWh. So it’s like a third of total requirements? I guess the 10GW is probably peak output so probably less but still: wow

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@WarGit

4 years

The Left won't get a hearing on things like this Charles Moore stuff as long as they insist on maintaining a status quo in which right-wing appointments are treated as an outrage but left-wing appointments are treated as an apolitical expression of the natural order of things.

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@WarGit

1 year

Six people complained. Six people. Citing such horrors as "excessive noise from car doors shutting".

Kristian Niemietz

@K_Niemietz

1 year

-"No, we can't build houses here! We don't have enough GP surgeries!" -"OK, then let's build a GP surgery." -"ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!?!?🤬🤬🤬"

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@WarGit

9 months

Richard Coles has resulted in Oil of Ulay trending and I am reminded that Twitter can be a magical place sometimes. Occasionally. Very occasionally.

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@WarGit

3 months

@RadioFreeTom At least in a British context, the decline of mining was a social disaster because many mining areas were almost the equivalent of US company towns and when the mines went, there was nothing left. But equally "no son of mine is going down the pit." was a common sentiment.

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@WarGit

5 months

It's basically just the "person buys house five doors down from 200-year-old pub, consecrates next decade to trying to get it shut down because they don't like the footfall at kicking out time" phenomenon, but at a national-economy-hobbling scale.

Lawdy Gaga

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Recently worked on a case where these people who bought houses next to I-20 sued the city for nuisance because they could hear I-20 from their houses. Same energy.

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@WarGit

2 years

It's Very Low Status to say this, but when you've got people a) going heavily into debt to do courses b) that land them in the sort of jobs that used to be done by school-leavers and c) regretting having done so I'm not sure the instinct to hand-wave it away is good enough.

Ed West

@edwest

2 years

In the Road to Somewhere David Goodhart states there are 133 courses at British universities for media studies and the most common form of employment for graduates is 'retail, catering and bar work', while 10% are unemployed

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@WarGit

2 months

Very far from the first person to note this, but the Tufton Street discourse is rapidly turning into QAnon for Sensibles who think they are far too clever to be taken by conspiracy politics.

Yuan Yi Zhu

@yuanyi_z

2 months

My brother in Christ it's been a year since the review, just move on I beg you.

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@WarGit

1 year

Were I a Tory government with an 80-seat majority I would simply not appoint a former Green Party candidate and activist of long standing with a known hostility to my governing agenda to run Natural England.

Tom Witherow

@TomWitherow

1 year

My exclusive splash - Natural England rules block 160,000 homes as developers warn house building could hit lowest level in 100 years. 🏡 Tories tell Gove he’s not doing enough to break quango’s hold. 🏡 Comes as Starmer makes green belt and housing crisis stark dividing line.

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1 year

An interesting thing about the Belgrano situation is the fact that *the Captain of the Belgrano* said that the sinking was completely justified and militarily necessary and that he'd have done the same thing in the same situation and it just had no impact whatsoever.

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@niall_gooch

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I know Twitter is the home of niche ideologies but quite surprising to see someone who is vocally concerned about the Great Replacement *and also* thinks the sinking of the Belgrano was a war crime.

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@WarGit

3 years

Saw Robot Wars trending and thought it might be coming back. It is not.

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@WarGit

1 year

@shashj "There's usually some truth to a rumour isn't there???"

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@WarGit

2 years

AZ-Oxford would, of course, have save more lives than it did had confidence in it not been systematically nuked by various political actors who have got off incredibly lightly for having done so.

The Economist

@TheEconomist

2 years

A new study suggests a tie for first place

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@WarGit

1 year

Sturgeon at home, kettle on, doing a bit of hoovering, unable to hear the phone as it rings and rings and rings.

Yuan Yi Zhu

@yuanyi_z

1 year

Imagine the libel suits if the unnamed 52 year old Scottish woman is someone else.

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@WarGit

4 years

@theJeremyVine Depending on the mask fitting, if the mask as already potentially been contaminated on the outside it's better to leave it in place until you get home or are completely finished with it. Taking it on and off and on and off again represents a contamination risk.

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@WarGit

6 years

Congratulations to @almurray for trending in the last days of 2017 without either being abruptly dead or having been bound over for sexual atrosmacy.

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@WarGit

3 months

Actually, peak taking the knee nonsense was when the (gleamingly toothpaste advert white) Scotland team took the knee but it was made clear that it was in solidarity against English racism and not to imply that there was anything to do with Scotland going on.

Niall Gooch 👍🇻🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🚅🏏✒

@niall_gooch

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The absolute peak moment of taking the knee nonsense was when we played the actual USA at Qatar '22 and they didn't take the knee but we did.

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@WarGit

1 year

"Meet the elite couples breeding to save mankind."

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I'd just add that I'm old enough to remember when we came into office in 2010 the line on austerity was that we owed the future generations a better standard and it was immoral to leave the finances in bad order. And we (some of us) believed it! Feels like a cruel joke now.

Sam Ashworth-Hayes

@SAshworthHayes

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After all the sacrifices of lockdown, the Conservative party believes the way to repay Britain’s young people is to ramp up taxes, enlist them into mandatory service in care homes, and use their hard-earned income to fund a "quadruple lock" for pensioners. The one common thread

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@WarGit

6 years

International Politics Twitter right now:

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This country is literally mad. The quangocracy will mandate new houses should have tiny prison-cell windows in case otherwise one day somebody falls out of one, then the council will pave the high street in textureless concrete slabs that when wet are like navigating an ice rink.

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We *must* start talking about the reservoir issue with more urgency. We're lethargically drifting towards a full-blown potable water crisis and no amount of remedial leak-plugging of existing infrastructure is going to resolve that. We've got to get something built, pronto.

Stephen Wigmore

@stephen_wigmore

1 year

As much as I dislike JHB, this probably has more to do with Thames Waters' problems than the evils of privatisation or whatever.

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Just seen something from an Oxford immunologist saying she's leaving for the private sector because the alternative involves spending her 30s living in a houseshare. I like the private sector! But it's deeply unhealthy that we are now as a society looking down this gun barrel.

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Small venues are being crushed by the same forces that are bettering loads of other people - sky high rents and energy prices. The solution is to increase capacity. But no. Instead yet another new baroque patchwork of compliance, VAT exemptions, taxes, subsidies and red tape.

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Having watched the British Left frenziedly tear itself apart over the past five years over Palentine, obsessively whirling into ever darker, more conspiratorial madness, it's almost surreal to see the degree to which in many circles this stuff barely raises a flicker of interest.

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“Leave no blind spots…Contain illegal births and lower fertility”: Xinjiang police were ordered to root out parents with more than two children as part of a campaign to slash birth rates among China's Uighurs.

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Lot of people cheering Cummings' neighbours having a go at him in the street outside his house. I dunno, I just keep thinking about his kid in the house who didn't ask for any of it and is now basically under siege not only from the press but from the people who live around him.

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@SarahDuggers TIRED: Method Acting. WIRED: Act, dear boy, act. INSPIRED: Just have a nervous breakdown on camera and see what comes up.

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@WarGit

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This is *insane*. Starts with it taking three months to schedule a meeting about the fact that the hospital's lead neonatal consultant is worried they might have a child murderer on staff and just gets worse and worse from there. Sackings and lost pensions, please. Now.

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@AnyaM8_

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"The hospital's top manager demanded the doctors write an apology to Letby and told them to stop making allegations against her. Two consultants were ordered to attend mediation with Letby, even though they suspected she was killing babies"

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Lord WarGit, Spicy Detective

@WarGit

4 years

The most racially diverse part of the Republic of Ireland is less racially diverse than Bath and yet racist violence against minorities in the Republic is both higher than in the United Kingdom and amongst the highest in the EU.

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Lord WarGit, Spicy Detective

@WarGit

7 months

@sam_d_1995 One of the most striking things of recent times is the degree to which the previously commonplace refrain that the aim is for "our children's generation to have it better than ours" has turned into "lol suck it up snowflake my grandad didn't have central heating and he was fine".

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@WarGit

4 years

I belatedly see that Owen Jones is cheering on the rise of Sinn Fein in the Republic because of course he fucking is. Of course. Of course. Of course.

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Lord WarGit, Spicy Detective

@WarGit

1 year

My favourite bit is when Tiny Tim - who did NOT die - asks Scrooge what he has learned from the experience and Scrooge goes "I am communist now" and everybody cheers.

Godspeed You Black Tamperer (ft Maya)

@twlldun

1 year

A Christmas Carol is not “left wing” - charity and generosity are the themes, Dickens doesn’t want to replace capitalism, he just wants the people in charge to be more Christian

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Lord WarGit, Spicy Detective

@WarGit

10 months

This is at least the third case in the last six months I've seen of opposition to new GP surgeries, on various grounds, and I'm not exactly actively going out and looking for them. The buildings. The lighting. The traffic. The sound of car doors slamming in the car park.

Joxley

@Mr_John_Oxley

10 months

People say lack of infrastructure is the reason for Nimbyism, then you dig around and find stories like this:

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Lord WarGit, Spicy Detective

@WarGit

4 years

@kittypurrzog I have no dog in this fight, but the most intriguing thing here is the idea of Gervais as a "Posh Brit". His father was a manual labourer who worked on building sites and he went to a very ordinary English state school.

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@WarGit

26 days

Very sorry to hear from our friends in a country that routinely keeps innocent people on death row for 22 years and where the cops can nick all your stuff if you look at them funny that our justice system is most imperfect. We should commit to, as they say, "do the work".

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@WarGit

7 months

You can *still* argue, plausibly, that it doesn't justify the scale of the Israeli ground offensive against it, but if hospital footage being released by the Israelis is as appears, it raises very uncomfortable questions for a lot of people including NGOs, Red Cross and the UN.

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Lord WarGit, Spicy Detective

@WarGit

7 months

Had a conversation once with somebody who very peevishly went "People always talk about how awful and repressive the Berlin Wall was, but what they don't mention is that they *had* to do it because people kept leaving."

Anya Martin

@AnyaM8_

7 months

The argument went "it's a silly Hollywood trope that they did this; but they did it because they genuinely believed that the gods needed to be appeased with blood, and also because it was a useful way of disposing of captured enemy soldiers and striking fear into rival clans"

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Lord WarGit, Spicy Detective

@WarGit

9 months

I don't know who needs to hear this, other than, apparently, the Prime Minister, but "fixing potholes" is not Levelling Up, it's a bare minimum demonstration that state capacity is not in a condition of terminal necrosis.

John Roberts

@john_actuary

9 months

Sunak hinting that HS2 to Manchester might be replaced by fixing a few potholes. I mean, that literally is levelling up I guess.

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Lord WarGit, Spicy Detective

@WarGit

5 months

"I'm sorry, Minister, we can't simply not award people contracts just because every time we've awarded them one before it's turned out to be a disaster. That would be quite legally improper."

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@WarGit

2 years

@HadleyFreeman It's been interesting and strange to watch the high status discourse flip almost overnight from "Sometimes boys like to play with dolls too and that's fine!" to "If a boy likes to play with dolls it should be taken as a signal that he may actually be a girl".

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@WarGit

11 days

Feel a bit bad for Stephen Fry. Watching him grub around frantically trying to buff the tarnish off his High Status standing is a fairly sad experience. Overcompensation, too transparent. Just end up annoying more people. Calm down, it's alright.

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@WarGit

1 year

It's weird how durable this talking point is given that prior to Begum the most high-profile case of stripping citizenship from somebody over a terrorism-related case involved a white bloke from Oxford.

The News Agents

@TheNewsAgents

1 year

“If she was white and called Sharon from Manchester, it wouldn’t even occur to the govt to take the passports of somebody ‘obviously’ British.” Ex Lib Dem leader @TimFarron says Shamima Begum’s UK citizenship stripping is a "reminder not everyone's equal." On @GlobalPlayer

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Lord WarGit, Spicy Detective

@WarGit

1 year

What we're going to see now with this wholesale re-editing of Roald Dahl issue is a load of people who won't defend the re-editing directly on its merits (because they know it's a losing case) but who will spend their time passive-aggressively sniping at people who criticise it.

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Lord WarGit, Spicy Detective

@WarGit

1 year

Figures here are extraordinary. Existing tenants guaranteed re-housing, plus a lump sum payment for the inconvenience. Approval ballot of residents returns 93% in favour of the development on a 91% turnout. And yet.

Tom Harwood

@tomhfh

1 year

A beautiful, dense, walkable London neighbourhood was proposed. It would increase the number of homes - both social and market rate - by a large degree. It would make the area far prettier too. The local community voted for it, then councillors banned it.

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@WarGit

3 months

These fuckers will be all "Our thoughts are with a hero of pure intention and deed, who kindled Ireland in his heart and died with the song of freedom on his lips" and then it'll be some lunk who set himself on fire trying to incendiary bomb a family of Protestant greengrocers.

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@WarGit

11 months

Every so often I am reminded of how, over the space of 5-10 years, it turned out that 80% of the foundational work of academic psychology was basically just a load of made up fairy stories and it was just like "Huh, that's weird".

Damian Counsell

@DamCou

11 months

The "Mickey-Mouse degrees" debate focuses on "degrees that don't pay off in the jobs market" and "degrees that aren't in conventional academic subjects". But we need to talk about the far-more-common "degrees that fail to meet basic standards of scholarship."

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Lord WarGit, Spicy Detective

@WarGit

2 years

@cjsnowdon It's remarkable how much of the discourse on here is basically people going "Hello, I am a narcissistic sociopath" while apparently being completely oblivious to the fact.

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@WarGit

3 years

lemasabachthani

@lemasabachthani

3 years

*GERMANY: UNITED KINGDOM NO LONGER A VIRUS RISK AREA

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@WarGit

2 years

Every day there's stories of the SNP doing stuff that would be (or is if they're doing that sort of thing too) damned as a sure sign of incipient fascism or democratic backsliding under a Tory Westminster government, complete with multi-day social media freakout. And nobody cares

Chris Musson

@ChrisMusson

2 years

We also report today how senior SNP figures have spoken about “clipping the wings” of Audit Scotland after its reports in recent years caused major discomfort for ministers over shortcomings on NHS, education and recently the ferries procurement fiasco

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Lord WarGit, Spicy Detective

@WarGit

4 years

Me at the start of the decade vs me now:

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Lord WarGit, Spicy Detective

@WarGit

5 years

Not sure Alan Johnson's right but absolutely no way would I bet the farm on him being wrong. But apparently I am seeing things very differently from a lot of people. Johnson also indirectly flagging up why scoffing at a second referendum taking a long time may well be misplaced.

BBC This Week

@bbcthisweek

5 years

"You are going to lose a second referendum by a bigger margin than the first one" Alan Johnson warns @heidiallen75 "Tell them again, louder" chips in #choochoo #bbctw #brexit #BrexitVote

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Lord WarGit, Spicy Detective

@WarGit

3 years

BRITISH TWITTER: "[light-heartedly joking about taking back the Suez Canal to distract from the voice in your head telling you that we definitely should take back the Suez Canal and now's the time]"

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@WarGit

4 years

I don't regret voting for Remain and I still think there's a strong chance that leaving is a mistake. But I'm also getting pretty tired of seeing friends and family who voted Leave getting sweepingly damned as a rabble of thick bigots when I know full well they aren't.

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