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Neoplatonism, When Magic Made Sense - My personal favourite of my videos http://t.co/NJhuN8GJMs

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As "katie hopkins" is trending, lets not forget that she got one of the all time great apologies in print.

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More people travelled to London to protest against Brexit than have turned out for the Queen’s laying in state.

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It's a 280 character limit on Twitter. You could thank them all by name.

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Thank you to all the people on March to leave campaign against the Brexit Betrayal, thank you

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@DianeTurnshek If they had ordered a neutron as well it would have been a cheap night out. No charge.

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If I was a billionaire I would book the Cure to play somewhere and Placebo at the same time in a similar sized venue nearby.

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Just a reminder that even if we cancelled it today first thing after breakfast, Brexit would still be the most damaging thing that has happened to the UK economy since the war.

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Ok, it's high time to look at the REAL effects of Brexit 1/50 #marr #ridge #pienaar #bbcsp #bbcnews #BBCPolitics #C4News #itvnews #skynews #5news #bbcr4today #gmb #goodmorningbritain #r4today #bbcbreakfast #victorialive #politicslive #LBC #bbcpapers #skypapers #peston #Newsnight

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Blaming remainers for how rubbish Brexit is might be nonsense, but at least Brexiters are acknowledging that Brexit is rubbish.

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This response needs some kind of award.

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@2songsStevie @SkyNewsBreak @Rachel_Lynchx Whatever the big picture, this particular incident is a consequence of the chaotic leave process. Even if Brexit were a good idea rather than the crock of shit it actually is, we'd still have this problem because the leave side don't agree on what they want.

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@james_easton @KateWilton1 You are wrong. A true patriot is happy to see both union jacks and EU flags.

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Do any leavers on Twitter actually have a proper job?

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I didn’t actually read Rousseau’s Social Contract. I just scrolled to the end and pressed the accept button.

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The first rule of Renaissance Club is nobody is really sure when the meetings begin or end.

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Do what?

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If a tree falls in a forest and nobody hears it, it’s probably a GB News outside broadcast.

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@Britain_People I think you are portraying Leopold in a rather more favourable light than he deserves. It was the workers’ family members that were mutilated. So it was blackmail not just brutality.

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@RupertLowe10 Brexiters knew what they were voting for.

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I am calling on all members of the idiot community to condemn Rupert Murdoch. Otherwise I will hold all idiots responsible for him.

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Kiev is the Russian spelling. Kyiv is the Ukrainian spelling. It’s a bit like Nigel Farage is the BBC spelling and That Treacherous Lying Bastard is the normal English spelling.

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So it turns out Chris Grayling hasn't done anything to get trending. Someone else has done something stupid and CG has become the reference point by which these things are judged. He's become the type specimen for idiots.

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Tom Gauld has provided us with a useful calibration for tweets. It could become as famous as the Beaufort Scale.

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@SimonBruni It's not even close. Thatcher single minded pursued some policies that were very harmful to the country. But she believed in them. They were coherent. And they were implemented effectively. This shower are making it up as they go along.

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@KarlTurnerMP @darrengrimes_ @ReasonedUK @SpeechUnion @metpoliceuk If we don't let racists make racist remarks how will we know they are racists?

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@guardian If anybody publishes a theory of evolution in the next couple of years, we’ve got them.

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I can't see anyone making the point that Zadok the Priest is an example of a migrant making a great contribution to British culture. I might as well myself then. Zadok the Priest is an example of a migrant making a great contribution to British culture.

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Just think, if we revoke it the whole thing is over. How great will that feel!

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@BorisJohnson_MP Keep up the good work. It can’t be easy trying to parody somebody who is already a parody of themselves.

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Okay this is a bit far fetched, but suppose Johnson claims a Road to Damascus conversion and proposes to lead us back into the EU. Would he get enough followers? Would you follow him?

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@LED5991 He is now only able to take the piss.

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A former Chancellor of the Exchequer, a leave supporter, a long standing Conservative Party member and a man who has no track record of hyperbole is saying that the PM is motivated by financial backers who have shorted the pound. Do you think we should be taking this seriously?

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2 years

You will hear stories like the one linked to here everywhere you go in the UK.

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“Britain is, in short, undergoing a shock to the supply side of its economy that, as the pandemic retreats, appears largely of Brexit’s making.”

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@jackalsbynight @RichardBentall Not only no arrests, there wasn’t even any litter. I’ve never known such a well behaved crowd.

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@andrew_lilico I haven't researched it, but I've no reason to disbelieve this tweet that says he shipped nearly 100,000 slaves to America, with over 20% of them dying in transit. Is this really a hill you want to fight on?

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Whatever you think of the statue and the manner of its disposal, there’s no doubt that working for the Royal Africa Co. Colston made a lot of money by appalling means. He was involved in the transportation of 84,000 enslaved men, women and children, 19,000 of whom died en route.

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@ElliotElinor Make eye contact, and stare intently at them. Repeat everything they say back to them, but raising your voice at the end - almost but not quite like it is question. From time to time glance upwards - act surprised - then stare at them again.

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When I was a kid, on the south coast, we used the word manky to describe something rubbish or broken. It's just occurred to me it was a loan word from the French manqué. I don't remember ever hearing or using it since leaving school. I wonder if it was used beyond my school?

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You might be having a bad day, but at least you haven't paid a load of shills a lot of money to tweet a rubbish joke about Lord Lucan, only to find it trending and giving the game away.

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No googling. Largest city in Europe in 1020?

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@petertimmins3 @jacqdodman You are quite right. It makes no difference whether beer is imported from inside or outside the EU at the moment. So if there are cheaper beer sources outside the EU they can already be tapped into.

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@ArchRose90 I can't see what the problem is?

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It's the conspiracy theorists I feel sorry for. There's no outlandish notion they can come up with that is crazier than what the govt are actually doing.

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@james_easton @richardpauptit @KateWilton1 You are missing out. It is a great thing.

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@PeteNorth303 @Real_Adam_A I see your point, but leavers have had the mandate to leave since 2016 and they still haven't come up with a plan on how to do it yet. If this thing is so desirable how come nobody has thought through how to do it?

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Even I as a remainer thought that Trump would give the UK special treatment. Brexit is proving good for learning humility about UK's place.

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Trump puts EU ahead of UK in trade queue. Brexit delusions of instant global trade take another huge blow from practical reality.

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Remember, a Brexiter is just a stranger you haven't met yet who has nonetheless fucked your life up.

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@nicktolhurst Brexit is consistently turning out worse than remainer Twitter was predicting.

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Bloody foreigners. Coming over here, buying our football clubs and political parties.

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Just realised the parody Richard Dawkins account I follow is actually him.

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@2songsStevie @Rachel_Lynchx @SkyNewsBreak I don't think EU budget contributions would be that onerous even if Britain did leave. I can't remember the exact figure but I think it something like 30p a day at the moment for UK tax payers.

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@JackCade1381 @BluehandArea @UKLabour @ElectoralCommUK @covcampus It would be criminal offence. It would also be criminally stupid. The chances of your one extra vote making the difference in either constituency are negligible. But there chances of getting caught are very high - you will literally have left a paper trail of your actions.

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@LlamaInaTux Are you advocating digital time? Not on my watch!

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I've been avoiding the Today programme for years as it seemed to come straight from Conservative Party central office.

Nick Robinson blames ‘news avoiders’ for Today programme’s ratings slump

Presenter claims decline is not down to listener dissatisfaction, but insiders suggest show has 'lost its mojo'

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I don't know why Leo Sayer is trending. I do know that the backstage staff at the seaside theatre I worked in the seventies rated him as the nicest celebrity they'd encountered.

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Oxford has a comma? This is too much. It's already got a dictionary, bags and a fictional detective. Other towns need stuff too you know.

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The Conservative Party started as the monarchists, transformed into the landowners party and then allied with business interests. It has now changed again and become representatives of the nutters on the bus.

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I'd suggest respectfully reburying them all. But that would be a mammoth undertaking.

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Bones of SIXTY Columbian mammoths discovered during airport construction work in Mexico City 📷 Patricia Ruiz Anchondo

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@abcpoppins Biggest difference being if Johnson selected a horse as a member of his cabinet it would be an improvement.

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Politics is a bit like an episode of Columbo right now. We know how the victims died, and who killed them. We are just waiting to find out how they are brought to justice.

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Eric Hobsbawm walks into a bar. The barman says 'why the long nineteenth century?'

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We had no idea what he was really like. A bit odd but with his heart in the right place. Then he invades Iraq. http://t.co/7exNVH4gT4

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@Peston @theresa_may @realDonaldTrump Let's do a deal. He can pick our ambassador and we can pick the US president.

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So how many remainers thought Brexit would be bad, but had no idea just how bad? Happy to confess that the debacle is way beyond anything I expected.

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If there is anyone out there who hasn't got it that Britain will lose a huge chunk of its influence outside the EU have a look at this tweet.

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I obsessively collect psychology journals. I have a lot of issues.

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@DanielJHannan Didn't the book end with the hobbits happily joining a re-established multicultural continent wide political entity?

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Tweet Your Journey To Work

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@HPlaysPiano I’ve got some bad news for you. I write all the tweets. It’s just you and me on here.

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To be Frank, I braid my hair, pick up an axe and invade the Western Roman Empire.

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It's a shame we aren't letting any Ukrainian refugees into Britain. There are some big properties in Kensington that always seem to be empty where we could put them up very easily.

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I am not even managing to procrastinate this morning. I'm stuck at amateur crastinating.

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I can't think of anyone who is so universally loved and with so few detractors as Dolly Parton.

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Diane James latest to leave UKIP. Sorting out the numbers to book for the UKIP Xmas party must be a nightmare this year.

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I know there's a lot of exciting news around at the moment. But don't forget practicalities. All you anti-vax, pro-Brexit and general right wingery shills should be prioritising getting your invoices in to the Kremlin while there's still a chance of getting paid.

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@automan49_mike @fredsirieix1 I’m old enough to remember the campaign in the 70s. I even went to a meeting addressed by Cabinet ministers. It was not sold to us as a trade block.

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@DeborahMeaden @Michael57229696 I thought he would antagonise the Europeans, and cosy up to the Americans. It never crossed my mind he would antagonise both of them.

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Covid lesson. You can’t have a strong economy without a well funded National Health Service.

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I think Johnson's over-reliance on classical references could be his Achilles Heel.

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I know people mock Twitter, but remember we used to get our battlefield updates from people running 26 miles and then dropping dead.

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Don't search Twitter for "Gina Miller" right now unless you want to lower your opinion of humanity. A courageous woman.

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@ElliotElinor @andrew_lilico We all knew the Brexiters would blame the EU.

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Typical remoaner whining. It doesn’t matter that there is a shortage of chefs if there is a shortage of food for them to cook anyway.

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#Brexit is causing shortage of chefs and staff in the West.

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@sitsindustries @Independent My crustacean pun: "Brexit? I'd rather have a dose of the crabs."

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@GlennyRodge I've followed you for a long time. But this is the end,i've got better things to read.

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@sallonsax @theousherwood It’s a tradition thing. Like the no confidence letters needing to be sent by owl.

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I'm quite law abiding and I have a respect for deadly viruses, so I won't be breaking lockdown. But if I were going to, I'd rather do it to shag someone than have a racist rant by the seaside.

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@Jennyflower I was in a Chinese restaurant and I was approached by a duck in a tuxedo, who handed me a single red rose. Then he gave me a velvet ring box saying 'I want you to have this because the sparkle in the diamond reminds me of your eyes'. I said -Waiter! I asked for aromatic duck.

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@miffythegamer I think you've got a good point. We are so far from where I want to be that we might as well share a few bus stops with the people who don't want to be in the EU but who aren't crazy.

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I’ve been avoiding BBC news for b the last couple of years. But I wanted some unbiased information on the pandemic. Surely that would be okay? Tune into Newsnight and find fucking Nigel Farage being interviewed about it. Why?

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Thinking of signing off from Twitter and booking up a few days, perhaps a few weeks, in a hotel to get away from it all and finish my novel. Extreme perhaps. But I am a very slow reader.

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@Andrew_Adonis Good grief. It was a completely fair account. I am not sure I can cope with all the weird things happening at the moment.

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