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Ben Cooper

1 year

What’s happened to Moments? They still exist, but are very hard to find. Anyway, recent discussion about a certain cook made me dig out this Moment about Preppers: “Preppers”

Preppers

The big thread of Doomsday Preppers

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Ben Cooper

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3 months

Dude, gummy bears are also made of the annihilated bones of huge strong cattle.

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6 years

Drink! Feck! Girls! Brexit!

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3 years

This country really needs to see a therapist.

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5 years

@brandondarby Why was it ok to criticise one 49-year-old but not the other.

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6 years

@Nicole_Cliffe He’s an odd duck, that Piers. I loved carrying my daughter about.

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10 months

There’s two telling points about this: 1: He thinks he should be treated differently because of stereotypical ideas about clothing. 2: A unisex changing room - which is for anyone - isn’t good enough. Ask yourself why. Any suggestion this is ‘progressive’ is absurd.

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3 months

Drinking watery soup before beddybyes to own the Libs.

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8 years

The comprehensive Brexit plan: 1: Get our country back 2: We haven't thought this far ahead

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4 years

We’ve got foxes in our garden. We’ve also got chickens. And I’ve got a baseball bat. We’ve also got proper chicken netting so the foxes can’t get stuck in it, and I’m not a psychopath. I mean, look at them.

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8 years

How about we don't leave the EU, but tell Leave voters we have? They believed all the other lies, after all.

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2 years

Funny how the message is always “women aren’t the only people who can get pregnant - trans men and non-binary people can too”, and not “men aren’t the only people who can cause pregnancies, trans women and non-binary people can too”.

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7 months

An underappreciated component of CS Lewis’s badness as a writer is his utter lack of understanding of how wardrobes work.

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7 months

An underappreciated component of JK Rowling's badness as a writer is her utter lack of understanding of how systems and organizations work. That's not how schools work. That's not how government ministries work. That's not how newspapers work. That's not how sports work. That's…

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3 years

@thesarahkelly Well, no, I’m not confused in the slightest - because no-one in the ‘80s thought Grace Jones turned into a man when she wore a suit. It’s the people who think that your clothes and mannerisms are connected to your sex who are reinforcing gender roles, not us.

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2 years

I don’t understand how you can remove the requirement for a medical diagnosis, while keeping the demand for medical treatment.

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11 months

There’s an old joke from Glasgow: “Are you Catholic or Protestant?” “Neither, I’m Atheist.” “Aye, but are you a Catholic Atheist or a Protestant Atheist?” That’s the problem with ‘cis’ - it buys into the belief system, it assumes you have a ‘gender identity’.

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11 months

Listening to that teacher yelling at a couple of schoolgirls, I’m struck that she doesn’t sound like someone having a disagreement (with children!) about facts. She sounds like a religious person who’s having her faith questioned.

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2 years

@stonewalluk Oh, stop it - at 2 years old, kids don’t even have enough sense of self to play hide-and-seek effectively.

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2 years

An actual associate professor, specialising in the radical far-right, said that JK Rowling was worse than Marine Le Pen - that’s how much this mess is rotting peoples’ brains.

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4 years

Lisa Nandy on Radio 4: “Antisemitism is a particular kind of racism, that punches up instead of punching down.” Um, what?

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1 year

What rights did men lose when women gained the right to vote? Billy is making the classic mistake of confusing rights and privileges - a common error that MRAs make.

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29 days

@jk_rowling @billybragg It’s funny (though not really) how the PMCWs always expect women to do the actual work of welcoming trans people, budging over in their spaces and sports, not minding if language changes. There’s never a suggestion from PMCWs that men should do anything to help trans people.

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5 months

If nothing else, someone should sit Dawn Butler down and quietly explain that a. It’s just a website for mums b. Almost all of whom vote

Dawn Butler MP✊🏾💙

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Oh I wondered where these nasty vicious inhumane people were coming from. Time for me to unfollow and report Mumsnet to @metpoliceuk Thanks for the info Tom

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3 years

@Reuters Is it normal in most sports for a 43-year-old to be competitive against people 20 years younger?

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1 year

Any murder is a tragedy - the murder of a child doubly so. But the cynic in me wonders if the Scottish Green Party held a candlelit vigil for any of the 107 women and girls murdered by men in 2022? If not, they’re using this horrific murder as a political stunt.

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4 months

“But when is Men’s Hour?”

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4 years

@AmnestyUK_LGBTI Next, you should mention Gaius Julius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC) dictator and general of Ancient Rome. Born a man, used male pronouns, but presented himself as a woman wearing a skirt.

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2 years

If you’re worried about, say, a rapid increase in child obesity, and you say “we need to reduce the number of obese children”, no-one who isn’t totally out of their gourd would think you’re proposing killing kids.

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3 months

“Where is this culture war coming from,” I ponder to myself, as I write another article claiming anyone who disagrees with me is funded by a secretive right-wing think-tank.

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2 years

@The_Globe Sounds great - I’m really looking forward to the production of Shakespeare’s Julie Caesar, about the Roman emperor who used she/her pronouns probably because she wore a skirt.

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3 years

If your main complaint about a protest is that you think the people protesting look old and ugly, maybe consider what that says about you.

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1 year

A self-made woman funding support services for women has certainly triggered a lot of people, hasn’t it? Well, almost entirely men.

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2 years

Watching a Lucy Worsley documentary about Scottish Witches - and how the Scottish Government of the time introduced an act making witchcraft illegal, without actually defining witchcraft. Any resemblance to current events is entirely accidental…

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2 years

@billybragg @Jane66588568 @void_if_removed @twtomwilson The first rule of comparing things to the Holocaust is you NEVER compare things to the Holocaust. Especially women defending their existing rights. I mean YIKES, dude - I had low expectations of you, but this takes the biscuit. What happened to you?

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3 months

@eadingas Deep Bovril.

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2 years

A tale as old as time…

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3 years

@SimonFRCox @MatherinJoel @Steph__Wilkins @Susanshox Dude, you’re a white middle-aged lawyer - nothing puts you in danger apart from cholesterol and a lax attitude to pedestrian crossings. Certainly not women with opinions.

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@SwiftOnSecurity We’ve always been like this - the stories of our nuclear deterrent are hilariously terrifying. We couldn’t afford a “football” device, so if the Prime Minister was travelling, he was supposed to find a pay phone to call the Ministry of Defence (reversing the charges).

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23 days

Congrats on discovering misogyny.

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5 years

@PaulBrandITV I’m guessing it’s not the first time he’s treated a woman that way.

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7 months

@StephenKing First thing I did was look up a map to see how close it was to family. About 30 minutes drive away. Here in Scotland we had one horrific school shooting, then banned guns. No more mass shootings. The answer isn’t difficult.

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8 years

On the left: an actual Nazi propaganda film On the right: Nigel Farage, today

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2 years

@PoliticsJOE_UK Me, Googling you guys for 30 seconds:

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1 year

@GreaterGlasgPol Those are NOT the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010. Please urgently review this information, the @EHRC will be happy to help I’m sure.

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1 year

@alisonthewliss Hi, you were pictured in front of a sign calling for people who disagree with GRA reform to be beheaded - just wondering what you think about that?

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10 months

Matt Walsh and Dylan Mulvaney are two sides of the same coin - both grifters trying to make money out of telling women how to be proper women, both based on sexist stereotypes.

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3 months

@RockLeeSmile That’s why I screenshot instead of quote 😉

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3 years

It’s rare to see this stated so clearly.

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4 years

As a socialist, it’s unbelievably depressing that Piers Morgan appears to care more about women’s rights than Billy Bragg.

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1 month

So the science community response to Cass is: - a letter from a bunch of academics condemning it, but they’re all Professors of Restaurant Management and the like. - actual scientists who write popular science books suddenly pretending that it’s not really their area.

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5 years

@britainelects @YouGov It takes real talent to be 6 points behind the worst British government in modern history.

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1 year

@RidgeOnSunday @HumzaYousaf You either believe in self-ID for everyone, or you don’t believe in it. If you say “apart from that guy”, what criteria are you using? This is what happens when ideology bumps up against reality.

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@TheBodyShop @jk_rowling @paisleycurrah Yikes. Are you really mansplaining to a woman who’s just written a nuanced and heartfelt article about being a domestic abuse survivor?

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2 years

@seangunn Dude, you’re projecting so much you could summon Batman.

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10 months

This is odd in multiple ways - firstly, hate speech is an aggravator, not a stand-alone crime, so what was the actual crime? Secondly, saying someone “looks like a lesbian” isn’t hate speech unless you think being a lesbian is a bad thing.

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2 years

@thomstark @helenstaniland 45-year-old bloke here - I’ve never had an erection caused by temperature fluctuations or muscle spasms in my leg. If you have, it’s not a good sign and you should probably see a doctor.

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1 year

@jmasseypoet The problem with masculinity isn’t feminism, it’s men like you and him telling men that the problem is feminism. If you think women fighting for equal rights is a problem, then that’s your problem not theirs.

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4 years

@PickardJE Schindler’s List - but the bit right at the end where all the people the real Schindler saved are putting pebbles on his grave.

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2 years

Why are they like this?

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7 years

I run a small business. You know what cost me £'000s recently? You lot tanking the Pound with your insane Brexit non-plan.

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The SNP’s obsession with independence has seen the confidence of small businesses fall for a 6th successive quarter

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@GeneticJen @carltonreid So it needs a greeter, an usher, and a driver? Is this a job creation scheme for unemployed techbros?

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@AdamRamsay @MorganeOgerBC @VPL @VancouverPD @R_Boissonnault Hello, I’m a bloke in Scotland who’s been donating every month to a rape shelter in Vancouver for over three years, ever since Morgane Oger tried to get them shut down. Just so you know who you’re talking to.

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1 year

I’m amazed that PR companies aren’t telling their clients, “Do NOT wade into this issue, you will get ratioed up the wazoo and end up with everyone on both sides hating you, which does not enhance shareholder value.”

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A note from us.

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3 years

There’s something ironic about Margaret Atwood discovering, in real time, that the mob will come for any woman who shows even the tiniest bit of a backbone.

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1 year

Bloke complains that a woman wrote about misogyny. Bloke quits because his complaint is ignored. 🤷‍♂️

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3 years

If I was in charge of a large pub chain, and an incident happened in one of my pubs which was causing a media and Twitter storm, I’d be looking closely at the security footage which undoubtedly exists.

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6 months

So are the Green Party really bad at candidate vetting, or do they think voters will actually vote for a former Tory with a sissy porn fetish?

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1 year

@Aidan_Baron Well done, Adam. A lesser man would be embarrassed to try to tell feminists that they’re doing it wrong, but you do you. Extra points for trying to equate women who want to keep their existing rights to slave owners, that’s a nice touch.

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The trouble with doing a proper interview is you can’t just call the interviewer a bigot, ignore the question and block them. The vacuousness of your ‘argument’ is clear for all to see. Maybe stick with “no debate” next time?

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Disagree with any of my beliefs, I don’t care. I’ll happily discuss with you, maybe try to persuade you. But I won’t think you hate me because you don’t believe what I believe. That’s because I don’t think my beliefs are my whole existence. Only religious fanatics think that.

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He’s comparing a men-only golf club to a women-only rape shelter. It takes a special hatred of women to think that is a valid comparison.

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11 months

“If I do the washing up, am I the mother?” “Only if you identify as a woman.” “How do I identify as a woman?” “By doing womanly things, like the washing up.” This whole thing is both deeply sexist, and an example of circular logic.

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@Calderbank @DalgetySusan @RosieDuffield1 @itvnews What’s a “mothering function”? When I wake up my kid, make her breakfast, lunch and dinner, take her to a doctor’s appointment and gymnastics, and do the dishes at the end of the day, am I a mother? Think carefully - if I wore a dress while doing it, would it change your answer?

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4 months

Why don’t female humans eat the males after mating, the way spiders do?

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Why do women live so long after the menopause?

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You either believe in self-ID for everyone, or no-one. It’s like free speech - once you add an “apart from that person”, you no longer believe in it.

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3 years

@DoctorChristian Suck it up.

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11 months

@GoodLawProject “We lost on a few technical legal issues because the judiciary is transphobic, but we won a much more important moral victory. Please donate so we can continue our work.” There, done it for you.

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“Everyone has a gender identity, even if they don’t have a gender identity.” This is going to become law soon, and still the definitions are totally circular. It’s a new blasphemy law.

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5 years

@annadrezen @simonstalenhag Plus, don’t forget the best Wikipedia edit ever:

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6 years

@faisalislam I export all over the world - I still haven’t found anyone who can explain to me how the EU or CU is holding me back from exporting to the rest of the world.

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@fesshole I wanted to call my daughter Minnie. I was overruled.

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It takes some amazing elitist arrogance to know absolutely nothing about the history of working-class education, free museums and libraries, pit bands and factory poetry societies, all the other ways that working class people tried to do more with their lives.

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What working class kid in the 80s was playing flute and in a youth orchestra? Sorry lessons for instruments that require classical training COST MONEY. Being comfortably lower middle class and comparing yourself to very rich kids does not make you working class.

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The Green Party join a growing list of organisations that have discovered it’s illegal to discriminate against someone for believing in reality.

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♀️ JUDGMENT ⚖️ has landed! WE WON!! Wow! Just Wow! This is HUGE!! Our Gender Critical beliefs Are Worthy of Respect in A Political Party!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! 🙏💚♀️💚♀️💚 #AliVsGPEW Please Tell the World 📣

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@MatthewStadlen Misogyny is being recast as trans rights. It isn’t. It’s just misogyny.

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It’s interesting to break this down. A simple message of love for a well-loved author, in her home city, for her birthday, removed for being political and/or offensive. The complaint is that, while the message isn’t offensive in itself, it’s a ... 1/5

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

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

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@billybragg “She’s a sell-out”, says the guy who made £2.5m selling a mansion to an investment banker.

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I’ve seen it said that @EdinburghUni can’t remove people blocking access - this is incorrect. “Anyone refusing to leave the premises when asked becomes a trespasser, and can be lawfully ejected from the premises using only such force which is ‘reasonable’”

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@soniasodha @blablafishcakes I’ve decided to sever all ties with the Inland Revenue - wish me luck.

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3 years

Hi @guardian , I’ve just cancelled my subscription - this was an appalling juxtaposition, what on Earth were you thinking?

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4 months

Interesting edit there…

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If it can bring down two First Ministers in a row, is it really a niche issue that only affects a tiny number of people?

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@emily_m_arndt @francesweetman Is “socially transitioning” a euphemism for scaring everyone you work with into going along with your fetish?

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@Channel4News @Glamrou “Why should we believe in reality?” Well, because some of us have actual degrees in Physics and don’t fall for this kind of sparkly woo-woo. You may as well be talking about astrology and the music of the spheres.

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4 years

Reassure me, I’m not going mad, am I?

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2 years

@skepticCanary Secondly, conflating transphobes (people who hate trans people) with being gender critical (people who don’t believe in gender identity) is a false equivalence.

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2 years

Public announcement: I’m not Ben Cooper QC.

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The idea that you can criticise something, but NOT want it to be banned, censored or boycotted is really novel to lots of people.

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@eRestUK Why can’t you let women have just one thing for themselves?

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4 years

STV News tweeted, then deleted, this video. It’s making the usual frothing unionists very, very angry for some reason.

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I feel really unlucky to be the only person Owen Jones has ever blocked.

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@HadleyFreeman “If a strange man approaches you, find a policeman” “If a strange policeman approaches you, find a bus driver” “If a strange bus driver approaches you…” It’s creepy guy musical chairs.

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