Andrew J. Willshire @ajwillshire Twitter profile

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Andrew J. Willshire

7 months

@HadleyFreeman I'm non-Jewish and was there on Monday. I wish there had been more of us. But you are not without friends. #IStandWithIsrael

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

10 months

To see this monstrosity squatting in the abandoned ruins of HMV's London flagship store is to bear witness to the decline of civilisation. Mankind is doomed.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

7 months

The ultimate tragedy is that it didn't have to be like this. In 2005, the leaders of the Palestinians had a choice - to build their own Tel Aviv in Gaza, or to continue to try to destroy someone else's. Imagine if all the aid money that has been siphoned off to spend on…

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Andrew J. Willshire

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4 months

How did the Irish end up on the wrong side of every geopolitical issue? Baffling.

Irish Independent

@Independent_ie

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‘We recognise China, and that Taiwan is part of China’ – Varadkar clarifies Ireland’s position ahead of Davos meetings

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

3 years

Fascinating column in @thetimes on the use of data in Timpsons by @JamesTCobbler

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

3 years

Does the Arctic Circle send £36b to Scotland to help during a pandemic?

Arctic Circle

@_Arctic_Circle

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"The most northerly part of Scotland is closer to the Arctic Circle than to London" @NicolaSturgeon at the #ArcticCircle2021 @ScotParl

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Andrew J. Willshire

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2 years

There's a nurse talking about underfunding of the Scottish NHS on #BBCQuestionTime . In a related point, the fiscal transfer from rUK to Scotland is greater than the entire Scottish NHS budget. So how exactly is independence going to solve this underfunding?

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

4 months

Absolute peak Telegraph - this may never be bettered.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

3 years

This is silly. As I understand it, this is a mine for coking coal, essential in steel production. Assuming we're not about to stop using steel, it makes no difference to the world where we dig the coal out of the ground. In fact we'll probably do it cleaner than anywhere else.

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

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PM Boris Johnson says he is "not in favour" of a proposed UK coal mine, but that the decision "is not mine to make", ahead of the landmark climate change conference in Glasgow #COP26BBC

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

1 month

Well played, @Telegraph

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

3 years

They're recruiting a data scientist to work in No 10. The importance of this job (and the demands) can scarcely be overstated. They should be seeking to recruit someone brilliant. The salary? £54,700. This is utter madness. Look at industry salaries for senior data scientists.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

4 years

. @Dannythefink speaks the truth in his column today:

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

4 months

Heartbroken - Pippin had to be put to sleep today after being diagnosed with aggressive pancreatic cancer. After a tricky start in life, he became part of the family in 2009. RIP, Pip 😭

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

20 days

It's amazing how long computers last when you can avoid installing updates...

Mario Nawfal

@MarioNawfal

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🚨VOYAGER 1 BACK IN ACTION! After months of silence, NASA has reestablished contact with Voyager 1, the furthest human-made object at 15.1 billion miles away. Launched in 1977, both Voyager probes continue to exceed their life expectations, exploring the depths of interstellar…

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

7 months

@McguigganPeter It's 37% Arab, still. Any Arabic cities 37% Jewish? Anyway, it doesn't change the fact that Gaza City could have flourished.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

10 months

What, all of us?

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

2 years

Surely, even on face value, the difference is obvious between people who are working together all day in the same office gathering at the end of the day, and potential vectors of disease entering a critical care unit?

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@MatthewdAncona

2 years

Just so I understand it: it was absolutely fine to say farewell to Number Ten officials in person. But not for families to say farewell to their dying relatives in person?

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

9 months

I find all this stuff deeply weird and, ironically, quite un-European. I simply cannot conceive of a French or German public figure openly conniving with a foreign power against their own country's leadership in this way.

𝕍𝕠𝕚𝕔𝕖𝕆𝕗𝕋𝕙𝕖𝔽𝕠𝕣𝕘𝕠𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕟 🇬🇧 🇿🇼

@GiftCee

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“What would help the Remain side in the UK, is if the EU can be very very tough and uncompromising to make the British people regret voting to Leave EU” AC Grayling when he met with Guy Verhofstadt.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

3 years

It's the SNP Conference today - "Putting the 'Jings!' into jingoism" once again... Looking forward to the new coherent currency plan, their method of joining the EU without being subject to the CFP, and explaining why a £12b fiscal transfer is holding Scotland back...

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

7 months

@RishiSunak Then it's time to do something about it.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

4 months

@tcoste110 Ah yes, cosying up to China and ignoring its belligerence against its smaller neighbour is a certain sign of opposing power. So brave!

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

3 years

Today, as sadly too often, I am reminded of this magisterial column from @Dannythefink (possibly the best he's ever written):

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

5 years

@bagelpicbot It's an irregular verb in English: I am experienced. You are a boomer. They are fascists. We are being marginalised by our kids using weapons we crafted.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

4 months

I just listened to the @TheRestHistory series on what the Nazis did in power between 1933 and 1938. Apparently, the segments of society most enthusiastic about the persecution of the Jews were academics, teachers and children.

Geoffrey Miller

@primalpoly

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Gen Z is incredibly, catastrophically anti-semitic. DEI in public schools has taught a whole generation that whoever is successful must have oppressed & exploited others to achieve their success. Now those chickens are coming home to roost.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

3 years

I enjoyed writing this one - there's something cleansing about pointing out a colossal void where a policy should be:

Independence would spark a citizenship crisis in Scotland — and the UK

In the great debate around Scottish independence, one word is never far away: identity. ‘Who am I?’ is elevated from mere navel-gazing to expressive political allegiance. On one side are those who...

www.spectator.co.uk

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

4 years

@BrianSpanner1 You've misunderstood SNP economic policy: - Taxes will be lower to stimulate growth, but will also be higher for equality - Spending will be controlled to reduce the deficit, but increased to reverse austerity and more free stuff - It'll all be in Sterling except when it isn't.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

1 year

Who cares what his Dad would have wanted? He broke an ancient relic in two while engaged in theft. That doesn't exactly give him a special place in the constitution.

My dad wouldn't want Stone of Destiny at Coronation

Ian Hamilton, who died last year, was a student when he broke into Westminster Abbey and took the stone in 1950.

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@ajwillshire

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@twlldun "Do you have a "maximum French" President in stock as well?"

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

7 months

@FreyaHolmer I guess if you have enough 0.1s in your company, a 1 will appear to be a 10.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

3 years

This leads back to the question that all analytic projects should start with - "What are you actually trying to do/understand?" And it's amazing how often that is an afterthought compared to just implementing vast and complex solutions on the recommendation of a consultant.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

7 months

Or "Gary should choose whether he wants to stick to football or spout off about politics. But if he chooses the latter, he shouldn't be surprised by people calling him a massive hypocrite for being highly selective on the topics that concern him."

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@NickMotown

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“Gary Lineker should stick to football!” Also: “I see Gary Lineker is very quiet about the situation in Israel and Palestine!”

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

4 years

We got to this level of conversation. I'm suddenly very tired.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

2 years

I don't expect the Home Secretary to give me guidance on my choices of ice cream. And on the whole, I would prefer that purveyors of wildly over-priced, sugary goo of zero nutritional value didn't lecture the rest of us on migration policy.

Ben & Jerry's UK 🧡

@benandjerrysUK

2 years

Listen up folks ‘cos we need to talk about Priti Patel’s ‘ugly’ Rwanda plan and what this means.🧵

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

4 years

I've come to realise the error of my ways. There is no future in remaining part of the United Kingdom. Nor of a United Scotland. I've just joined the Kingdom of Strathclyde Independence Party ( @theKSIP ) - join us, and throw off the uncaring shackles of Holyrood!

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

7 months

@ruairidh_kerr Nothing has been more toxic for the area than the supposed right-of-return. I'm not saying they have to like it - what refugee does? - but nowhere else is refugee status inherited. In a few decades there will be no-one alive who can remember living in what is now Israel, but yet…

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

6 years

From the government that insists on Gaelic signs in places where Gaelic was never widely spoken and on promoting Scots as a language rather than a dialect.

Nicola Sturgeon

@NicolaSturgeon

6 years

The open, inclusive, civic, internationalist Scottish independence movement that I’m so proud to be part of could not be further removed from this insular, inward looking, blue passport-obsessed nonsense. Never has ‘stop the world, Scotland wants to get on’ felt more relevant.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

1 year

Health systems all over the developed world do all of these things. There isn't a crisis of untreated appendicitis in France, Germany or Australia. As for "it makes us better people"... on what basis? This stuff stops us having the necessary conversation about improving it.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

2 years

Spot on. @Madz_Grant in @Telegraph on @KemiBadenoch I hope the 170 or so Tory MPs yet to declare take this on board. Get her into the final two.

The Tory who is Labour's real worst nightmare

Kemi Badenoch is a robust conviction conservative. The fact that her election would enrage the Left is a bonus

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@ajwillshire

3 years

@Herne_TheHunter @NickHucknall @almurray Judging by the pronunciation of "trousers", it's definitely a mouse louse about this house.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

4 years

On my way to @GiveBloodNHS - first time on the tube in a month. I can confirm social distancing is in operation.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

4 months

It's really awful how Brexit has caused rampant populism in Germany, France, America, etc...

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@Mij_Europe

4 months

Martin Wolf on 🔥 again - on populism and Brexit

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

3 years

If the Crown Office leaned on the Scottish Parliament because Salmond's evidence breached contempt of court laws, then they should have required other publishers to remove it as well. If they haven't, then it can't be in breach, but it does foul up the inquiry. Something stinks.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

4 years

@patrick_kidd @Dannythefink "Tell a man there's a trillion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him there's wet paint on a bench and he'll touch it to make sure."

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

7 months

Not many series stick an ending as well as @SHO_Billions . Masterful plotting.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

3 months

Perhaps the people who don't issue death threats to MPs deserve representation too? In fact, maybe issuing death threats should fundamentally undermine the cause that is being pressed for, with MPs refusing to be intimidated, and those making the threats sent to prison or…

Peter Walker

@peterwalker99

3 months

I know some people take Commons conventions very seriously, and opinions differ. But if we have ended up at a point where fewer MPs get death threats or demos outside their homes over a series of votes that won't change a thing in Gaza, that doesn't seem all bad.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

7 months

With regrets, Minister, I'm not going to risk being stabbed to save Tesco the price of a steak or M&S a cashmere jumper, especially while they've instructed their staff to not intervene.

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@ajwillshire

3 years

Shouldn't we all also take a breath and work out what the UK could become outside the EU, and what the EU is likely to become over the next decade without the UK before deciding that we should be a part of it again? If not, then it sounds more like a religion than a plan.

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@simon_schama

3 years

Dear fellow British-Europeans - you CAN grieve at midnight for what has been lost, what has been harmed, and when they tell you to "move on" DO move on - to the long, strong, campaign to rejoin; however hard the road, however long it takes; it starts now.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

3 years

@AgentP22 I also refuse to wait till I'm 81 before I see Halley's Comet again. It's unacceptable.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

7 months

It took no time at all for this to be reported as an Israeli missile strike by Al Jazeera and the BBC. The riots across the Middle East, and the resulting cancellation of a summit of Arab leaders, were fuelled by these reports. You can't be surprised by Al Jazeera, but the BBC…

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@IDF

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Islamic Jihad struck a Hospital in Gaza—the IDF did not. Listen to the terrorists as they realize this themselves:

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

2 years

Constitutionally speaking, everything the Blair government touched really did turn to shit, didn't it? Like a reverse Midas touch.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

11 months

Frankly, I'm appalled that the Glastonbury organisers don't believe in open borders.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

6 months

When people come out with this stuff, I do wish they would note the absence of a "democratic, mixed secular state with equal rights for every person" anywhere in the Arab world, and explain why they think this would be different.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

6 years

@Andrew_Adonis @DPJHodges Wouldn't it have been more dignified for this to remain a private correspondence? That you made it public indicates that you are signalling to the worst sorts of people to recruit them to your primary cause. There is more to life than the EU, e.g., basic moral decency. Shameful.

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@ajwillshire

4 months

I couldn't love this more.

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@HuinGuillaume

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i've seen crazy ads in my life but NOTHING compares to this.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

5 months

On a nice airbed in my brother's home office... #duvetknowitschristmas Please donate to Centrepoint who do fine work - details in the quoted tweet.

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Owing to being a parent of a small person who doesn't know what Christmas is yet but wakes up at 5.30am regardless, I must think about hitting the hay. But the #DuvetKnowItsChristmas hashtag is doing its thing in any case. And look, £20k raised already! ♥️

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There's a reason that Israel is inured to world opinion turning against it. It's because they don't believe world opinion will ever actually protect the Jewish people from existential threats. "If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad…

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@GavinBarwell

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As readouts of calls with leaders of friendly countries go, this is quite something. The Netanyahu Government's conduct of the war in Gaza is doing serious damage to Israel's relationships even with its closest friends

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

3 years

I am reminded of one of my favourite passages: "They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. But the man that is will shadow The man that pretends to be." TS Eliot, The Rock

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@ajwillshire

1 year

Scotland has one of the most powerful devolved administrations in the world. What's not proper about it? "Hard to see a peaceful way forward"? Shall we stop and think about what he's implying here? Twat.

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@ajwillshire

2 years

An extraordinary story from Max Hastings in @thetimes

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

4 years

I wrote a thing:

Why Scots south of the border should have their say on reckless Independence plans

One of the more infuriating aspects of Scottish politics is the “L’état, c’est moi” attitude of the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon. It is a conceit all too readily spread by a compliant media and a...

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@ajwillshire

6 months

But one might hope they could be arrested. It is simply not permissible for protestors of any sort to occupy a major train station like this, let alone ones who may intimidate a minority group. Imagine being Jewish and arriving into London to be faced with this.

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We cannot be silent or silenced This is Liverpool Street Station, London

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@ajwillshire

11 months

@timfarron @GoodwinMJ What led me originally to lean Leave was the way the EU institutions behaved during the Greek financial crisis. The way they behaved during the Brexit negotiations only reinforced that. I got 100% of what I wanted from Brexit - we left the EU institutions.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

2 years

I've got to be honest... I love Twitter. In particular, I love my corner of Twitter. In the space of an hour I can argue politics, pine for obsolete technologies, and get some really affecting expressions of support in a difficult time. If you're reading this, thank you. ❤️

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@ajwillshire

8 months

For me, the extent to which Brand is entitled to the "presumption of innocence" is that I wouldn't want to see him imprisoned on the basis of allegations not proven in court. But I have no reason to disbelieve the credible, well-evidenced, corroborative claims of his (many)…

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@ajwillshire

6 months

There is an alternative to a ceasefire. Hamas can release all of the hostages, turn in those responsible for 7th October, and disband as the terror organisation that they are, and have sworn to continue to be. That would save the lives of both Palestinians and Israelis.

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@ajwillshire

3 years

@fairycakes @MysteriosoX You only see the ones who have survived, though. The hundreds that have suffered jewellery-related deaths in the run-up to the Olympics are the unseen tragedy.

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1 year

Literally laughed out loud at this. Just amazing.

Rufus T. Firefly (sworn enemy of Rakell)

@hoggomcswineass

1 year

Holy fuck 😂😂😂😂

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@ajwillshire

2 years

I couldn't care less if Starmer had a beer and a curry. But I also couldn't care less if Johnson stopped for birthday cake. But I have little time for sanctimony. Maybe casting stones was a bad idea.

Guido Fawkes

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Durham Police Will Investigate Starmer’s Beer Party

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@ajwillshire

4 months

@whippletom I love that it's just "here's how adding works" - kind of like smuggling algebra. If you want a coffee, you have to answer, "Katie spent £21.75 - how many under-2s did she bring?"

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@ajwillshire

7 months

Looks like Hamas a) Were storing munitions in a hospital b) Blew it up by accident with one of their own rockets. I'm sure this will be met with the same level of condemnation from the far-Left as they would have directed at Israel...

Gaza Report - اخبار غزة

@gaza_report

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Reports continue to surface that a misifired rocket detonated a stockpile of munitions held on the hospital grounds. #Gaza

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6 months

Worth noting a distinction in the reporting on Suella Braverman's comments on homelessness: Reported: "Homelessness has become a lifestyle choice..." Full context: "We mustn't go down the road of some cities in America where homelessness has become a lifestyle choice..."

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@ajwillshire

4 years

@andrewkeates I know a few that would find that offensive, e.g., @graemearcher who has written eloquently about that for many years, including here: Declaring that sexuality should determine one's politics is not equality. It's just someone else telling you who to be.

Why does the Left hate gay Tories?

unherd.com

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@ajwillshire

6 months

Blair was right. From @TomMcTague

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@ajwillshire

2 years

Prediction: within 5 years the North Sea will be open for exploration again and fracking licences will be being granted in England.

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@arisroussinos

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“The gas is going out all over Europe, we shall not see low energy prices again in our life-time”

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@melspence2 The US seem quite firm on Taiwanese independence, I think largely because of the TSMC foundries.

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@ajwillshire

3 years

Reflecting on this and some of the replies... Timpson's can do this in part because their business model is simple. There is little need to use data for "discovery", i.e., understanding the underlying system. Other companies are not so fortunate.

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@ajwillshire

7 months

The company *never* loves you back.

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@Adam_Karpiak

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What’s something you wish someone had told you earlier in your career so you didn’t have to learn it the hard way?

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2 years

Heading out for the open sea!

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@tcoste110 I understand their view well enough. They wanted to sell more beef to China and the Chinese got a useful press release out of it. It's the combination of that sort of realpolitik while moral grandstanding that grates. For example, accusing Israel of genocide while lauding a state…

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@ajwillshire

2 years

The Cadwalladr case is a difficult one. Journalists shouldn't make claims without evidence. But journalists shouldn't be at risk of bankruptcy should they annoy rich people. Can't they both lose? (Alternatively, award £1 damages and let both sides pay their own costs.)

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@ajwillshire

6 months

I think a generally good rule is not to march or protest alongside people who are dressed in black, wearing face masks and intimidating anyone, but especially young women. How did we get to the point where this is tolerated?

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Pro-Palestine demonstators in Columbus Circle confront an Israel supporter who starts sobbing. “Cry, bitch! Cry!” a Palestine supporter yells at her.

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In the absence of actual cake decorations, I've resorted to Lego, approximating to the family.

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3 years

@LeanneWood Is the EHRC report not enough for you, Leanne? I'd always thought better of you.

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@ajwillshire

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@OldRoberts953 I had a friend on a dramatherapy postgrad course where, at the end of the final term, they all had to sit silently in a chair while the rest of the class were encouraged to say how they really felt about the person in the chair. And it was a 100% female class. I think that left…

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@ajwillshire

4 years

@Dannythefink My friends' grandfather ("Pop" to all of us) was among the first of the Allied forces to reach Belsen. It never left him.

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@ajwillshire

6 months

This seems ill-judged from the Met Commissioner... what's he doing on a podcast, anyway?

Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

@Haggis_UK

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Emily Maitlis - What is a hate march? Mark Rowley(Met Commissioner) - "You'd have to ask Suella Braverman that... she's picked two words out the English language & strung them together... I don't know whether she means everybody there or some of the people there.. "

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@ajwillshire

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Incidentally, if anyone is looking for a small Brexit benefit, being freed from having to coordinate a unanimous response to Russian aggression with the do-sweet-fas in the EU is a start.

Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

2 years

The UK are sending minesweepers. Germany won't even send rifles. If the EU are ever going to be a major geopolitical player, they need to come up with an actual strategy to help their near-abroad.

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Timpson's have found a model which doesn't burden their staff and doesn't relieve them of responsibility. Some other companies have systems which do burden their staff, but also allow the staff to evade responsibility if things go wrong.

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I have a vague suspicion that some of the UK observers who loved every moment of the Presidential inauguration will be among the first to decry the pomp and expense when the British crown their next Head of State. Coming to a Guardian article near you...

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@shashj @djrothkopf It is. Which gives the lie to the people claiming Hamas were justified in their actions because they were "occupied". What's the alternative now?

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@ajwillshire

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At the Trafalgar Square hostage vigil today, and this was the poster given to me. It must be unbearable for her family. #KidnappedFromIsrael #IStandWithIsrael

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@McguigganPeter I suspect that it wouldn't be if it weren't governed by Israel.

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@ajwillshire

2 years

Well now... This is a damning indictment of the giant PR boondoggle that "data science" has become in many sectors. Any company that classes AI as "useful" and "mathematics" as "not useful" is going to fail hard and deservedly so.

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The real reason the BBC shouldn't be using Lineker is the cost. Use someone else on a fifth of the money, then keep, e.g., the BBC Singers. Honestly, people watch MOTD because that's where the football is, not because that's where Lineker is.

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Anyone that signed this should be sacked. If they are foreign nationals, they should have their visa cancelled.

Bill # Support the IDF 🟦🧡🎗

@bostonbill1982

7 months

Screen shots of petition that Fiona is tweeting about. This is an absolute outrage and the @UHSussex needs to sort it now!

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Andrew J. Willshire

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1 year

Bit of controversy on here over Lord Frost's assertion that devolution in Scotland has failed. So, tell me - on what measure has it succeeded? Scotland is not better governed, nor is the Union strengthened.

David Frost

@DavidGHFrost

1 year

My @Telegraph column tonight. The SNP’s implosion is a chance to put failing devolution into reverse. "In its misgovernment and its control-freakery, the SNP has sown the wind and, let us hope, will now reap the political whirlwind."

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Was just reminded of this, which is clearly better in French than English.

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Andrew J. Willshire

@ajwillshire

2 years

Ah well, some personal news. My wife and I have decided to (amicably) separate after 17 years. Probably for the best ultimately but still more than a bit rubbish. Not a plea for sympathy, just letting friends on here know. #keepontruckin

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This is one of the extraordinary things about the whole case - the complete lack of evidence that the accused had actually taken the money. How can you secure a conviction without that sort of evidence?

Times Radio

@TimesRadio

4 months

“She died in debt. There was nothing, absolutely nothing to show for this amount of money.” Sharon Kerrigan, whose late mother was accused of stealing £44k from the Post Office, tells the heartbreaking story of how friends “turned their back”. @AasmahMir @StigAbell @eviledna195

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This is what happens when you let the existence of an "Irish" US President go to your head. In what way is Ireland "engaging with the World" beyond allowing US corporations to evade European taxes?

Georg von Harrach

@georgvh

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UK is "disengaging from the world" says Irish PM @LeoVaradkar #Taoiseach #EPC #Brexit #ECHR

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