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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

8 years

A hugely important lecture by @nfergus about History & the disservice Left wing academia have done to her

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Howard Jones

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2 years

It is worth remembering that the UK Government put £16billion extra into the railway system to sustain it through the pandemic. It is normally subsidised with £4 billion a year. This strike totally ignores what this Government did to support the railway system

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Howard Jones

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3 months

24000 postal votes in Rochdale. That is on you Blair. You opened up postal voting because of disappointing turnout in the 2005 General Election. And now we have 24000 postal votes in a by election, that is nuts

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Howard Jones

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5 years

Lady Nugee, wife of High Court Judge, sister in law of a Lieutenant General, daughter of former Deputy UN Secretary General Who has a nice little property portfolio ‘Champagne Socialist’ just doesn’t cover it

Mirror Politics

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Emily Thornberry says she'd rather die than join a party other than Labour

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Howard Jones

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5 years

Can we agree that the EU having an anthem is kind of creepy ?

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Howard Jones

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5 years

Dominic Grieve is committing political kamikaze, he cares not whether he is deselected. Ditto Soubry

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

5 years

The Supreme Court have erred in my opinion. They could have stayed neutral and found the matter non justiciable. The Lord Chief Justice made such a judgment in the Miller case in the High Court. The Supreme Court would have avoided appearing to side with the stop Brexit ultras

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Howard Jones

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5 years

Hmmmm. Did Shamima Begum’s family or lawyer know that she had dual British - Bangladeshi citizenship ? Did the fawning Sky and BBC News teams know ? Or were they just played ?

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

2 years

He’s funding bursaries for under privileged kids out of his own money

Zarah Sultana MP

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2 years

Rishi Sunak will help his old £43,000-a-year boarding school, but not families who can't afford to heat their homes. That tells you everything about whose side he's really on.

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Howard Jones

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5 years

I am no fan of Farage but he has no way near Corbyn's level of skeletons in the closet

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

7 years

Dear @Twitter please publicly justify suspending @GodfreyElfwick And 'a humourless social justice warrior advised us to' really won't cut it

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

6 years

Dear Left wing blowhards, has Jeremy Corbyn sued anyone for defamation for any of the 'smears' ?

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

7 years

The tweet that the BBC really didn't need today

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

7 years

Everything through the same tedious, joyless feminist prism. Many of us are utterly sick of it

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7 years

. @dunkirkmovie feels like an excuse for men to celebrate maleness—and don't they get to do that enough already?

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Howard Jones

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3 months

Something similar happened in a Rotherham by election a few years ago. The numbers just reek of an abuse of the system. The @ElectoralCommUK just have to look at this urgently before the next General Election

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Howard Jones

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6 years

@guyverhofstadt The EU is a multinational trade bloc with a powerless Parliament elected on a ghastly party list system with all legislation initiated by unelected ex politicians & Eurocrats (Commissioners/Commission)

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

6 years

@guyverhofstadt Britain spent centuries facing down European hegemons. When the United Kingdom was formed in 1707 we were already involved in a war defending the Dutch & others from the French

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

7 years

7 years ringfencing the NHS budget & giving it increases. You are dishonesty personified

Jeremy Corbyn

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7 years

After 7 years cutting our NHS, the @conservatives are planning another £85 million in cuts to public health budgets

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Howard Jones

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6 years

@guyverhofstadt Linking Brexit campaigners to an attack on democracy, when 17.4 million votes was the biggest vote for anything in the UK’s democratic history

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

6 years

@guyverhofstadt Is it too much to ask that show even a smidgeon of gratitude ?

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

5 years

The Supreme Court has now become part of the Establishment trying to Stop Brexit. It was their decision & they could have avoided it. I expect the Lord Chief Justice is spitting feathers

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Howard Jones

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6 years

Empire Apologist. It's not a term I accept. I am a huge fan of the British Empire. On balance, it was a force for good in the World

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

7 years

The SNP wanted every child in Scotland to have a Named Person. But filling in a form with a health professional to claim benefits. Hysteria

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

7 years

Public inquiries have been part of U.K. Life for decades. Due process. An independent judge. Back off Steptoe

Jeremy Corbyn

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7 years

To ensure trust of Grenfell community, government must accept their demands & change way disaster is being handled.

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Howard Jones

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7 years

Thinking you have a monopoly on kindness & compassion is part of the Left's intellectual poverty

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7 years

Are you actually suggesting that any Tory, anywhere, ever, could recognise kindness and gentleness, if they smacked them in the face? Nob.

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Howard Jones

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6 years

The SNP are a cheerless, negative bunch with very few exceptions @joannaccherry

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

5 years

Sad to hear that Greg Cook died. My favourite: is your real name Gregory ? Reply: Aye, I was named for a Pope not a pie shop Rest in peace

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Howard Jones

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6 years

A QC with no respect for our long standing system of justice & observance of the rule of law @joannaccherry

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Howard Jones

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6 years

@guyverhofstadt Or that Britain has been a significant net contributor to the EU for nearly every year of the last 45

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Howard Jones

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6 years

@sarahwollaston A Conservative MP who denies personal choice and individual agency is in the wrong party

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

5 years

@RachelEMwilson Nice one Rachel. Ask yourselves this : how on Earth did all 11 agree, meaning they all disagreed with the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls & the President of the Queen’s Bench Division ?

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Howard Jones

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5 years

Why is it so difficult to understand ‘net contributor’ for 40 + years ? The EU spends UK money in the UK but brands it EU money & asks for your gratitude

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5 years

So here is Nigel Farage in Nottingham with his supporters in Old Market Square asking what has the EU ever done for them? Back in 2005, the EC helped to fund the Regeneration of Old Market Square, Nottingham. The ground they are standing. @guardian @UKLabour @NottinghamPost

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Howard Jones

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7 years

So the Left, not content with protesting our General Election & the Referendum, are now protesting someone else's Presidential Election

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

4 years

If Ruttnam was blocking the release of the Grooming Gangs report he should have been dismissed for misconduct in public office

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

3 months

@stuartbridger1 The Rotherham by election was before Voter ID was brought in. This is industrial scale abuse of postal voting. Not being bothered about it is not a good look. Cheating is cheating is cheating

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

6 years

@guyverhofstadt We also liberated the Netherlands in WWII

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

6 years

@guyverhofstadt Waterloo was fought on a ridge line astride the road to Brussels, the Dutch were fighting alongside the British to defend the now capital of the EU

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

7 years

Dear Police Forces, knife crime, acid attacks, street robbery & homicide are up in the latest figures. Focussing on hatecrime is negligence

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

6 years

@metpoliceuk The appropriate time & place for floral tributes is at his funeral/burial not at the scene of the serious crime he was committing when he died, especially when it’s very near the home of his elderly vulnerable victims

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

7 years

@PC_Angry @mnpenny @JPY_Kurdish Call for back up. In vans & mob handed. The only way to deal with a hate mob like that

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

6 years

@guyverhofstadt And I don’t mind reminding you again that Britain fought its bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars astride the road to Brussels

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

6 years

So according to Remainers we should be ashamed of our history in general & our Empire in particular

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

6 years

You've almost no historical perspective at all @joannaccherry

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Howard Jones

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7 years

@GrayInGlasgow @TheCommonSpace Being anti IRA is not being anti Irish or anti Catholic. The core philosophy of the Provisional IRA was Marxism

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

6 years

@guyverhofstadt Or that Britain underwrote Belgium’s independence in 1838-9

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

6 years

@guyverhofstadt Or that XXX Corps liberated Brussels in early September 1944

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

5 years

Instead they have set a god awful precedent for judicial interference in the exercise of prerogative power and acts of high politics generally

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Howard Jones

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5 years

The idiocy of taking no deal off the table is palpable

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Howard Jones

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5 years

They also chose to ignore the ultra Remain credentials of those bringing the cases. It was everything to do with Brexit & only incidentally about constitutional propriety

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Howard Jones

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6 years

Austerity doesn’t work apparently. Yet the Government current account is in surplus for first time since 2001-2

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Howard Jones

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2 years

Apparently all £16 billion went into shareholders profits according to pro RMT twitter

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Howard Jones

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6 years

Anything to make a weak, snidey, anti Brexit point @joannaccherry

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Howard Jones

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6 years

Our mature representative democracy, constitutional monarchy since 1689, the rule of law @joannaccherry

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

5 years

The police are not there to police our language. They are there to detect serious crime & put serious wrongdoers in prison

Magistrates' Blog

@MagistratesBlog

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Man Prosecuted Over "No Shit" Comment

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Howard Jones

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5 years

@adamboultonSKY To suggest that any of the 17.4m people who voted Brexit & also identify as Conservative supporters = Far Right. It is politically & philosophically illiterate bilge water. Correct it. Don’t double down. Senior broadcaster showing such manifest bias. Dear me.

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

6 years

@guyverhofstadt And if it wasn’t for the invasion of Belgium in August 1914, the then Liberal Government of Britain may well have stood aside, at least in the first instance

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

8 years

How would you describe Pakistani males treating 'white trash' girls as easy meat, regardless of their age & vulnerability ? @GarySpedding

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

6 years

Utterly ignoring the context of desecrating a memorial on a Jewish ghetto in Warsaw to protest Palestine @jonlansman

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

5 years

They have also missed the opportunity to squash “lawfare”. Instead the arch proponents of lawfare will take this as a green light for crowdfunded vexatious court actions

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

6 years

Pre 1914 Germany, Russia (Tsarist, Communist or Putinesque), absolute monarchy in France, Revolutionary France @joannaccherry

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

7 years

Have you asked Philip Shiner to return his 2007 Solicitor of the Year Award ?

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7 years

#solicitor @AndrewJohnKidd explains how honesty and integrity drive everything he does. #useasolicitor

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Howard Jones

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7 years

As Philip Shiner is struck off, I am just waiting for all the human rights lawyers who defended his work to utter their 'mea culpa'

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

6 years

A long & continual legal profession & judiciary going back centuries uninterrupted @joannaccherry

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Howard Jones

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5 years

@RachelEMwilson And I was a practising barrister for 20 years. But you carry on snarking

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Howard Jones

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5 years

1984. Three large blocs covering the whole World. A dystopian nightmare

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Howard Jones

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6 years

@guyverhofstadt Ramillies, Oudenarde & Malplaquet were all fought to defend the Dutch

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Howard Jones

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5 years

What moral right did the House of Commons have to take Leaving without a crap one sided deal off the table ?

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Howard Jones

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7 years

@GrayInGlasgow @TheCommonSpace And since the IRA murdered/attempted to murder a no. of Conservative politicians, is it remotely a surprise that we're not fans of the IRA

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Howard Jones

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4 years

When your kids don’t really love you

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

5 years

Nothing could say this better. Lammy is charlatan. Not consistency, no objectivity, no fairness, no good faith. Just bundles of faux outrage

Alastair Thompson

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5 years

Not to say that David Lammy is a hypocrite or anything, but David Lammy is a hypocrite.

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Howard Jones

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7 years

Clearly because the Left wing Corbyn supporters have turned their bile & hate onto him. Headline fails to say that

The Independent

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Owen Jones quits social media, blaming 'frothing keyboard warriors'

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Howard Jones

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@dolleyolley @kelvmackenzie That is your only comment. Industrial scale rape and sex abuse in West Yorkshire. As a West Yorkshireman that is your only comment. Dearie, dearie me

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Howard Jones

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4 months

@kelvmackenzie It’s not just Davey. Vince Cable was his Ministerial Boss at the time and Jo Swinson was also a Post Office Minister after Davey. That is the current leader and 2 past leaders of the perpetually virtual signalling party

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Howard Jones

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3 months

@wceebee I am 6’3” with a deep, baritone voice. You are a presumptuous bore

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Howard Jones

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6 years

I am utterly bored of the arid, intellectual desert that is identity politics @DreyfusJames

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Howard Jones

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7 years

If you do one thing twitter, let's help the Norfolk Police catch these burglars.

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Family speak of horror after beloved puppy was drowned in bath by burglars near Great Yarmouth

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Howard Jones

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4 years

What is telling here is that slavery & colonialism are being conflated deliberately. The slave trade was abolished by UK act of Parliament in 1807. The institution of slavery was abolished in 1833

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Howard Jones

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6 years

Remainer MPs, with straight faces, pretending they could be trusted with confidential material re the Brexit negotiations

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Howard Jones

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Administering, refining & respecting the law & the principles of justice @joannaccherry

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Howard Jones

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@PC_Angry @mnpenny @JPY_Kurdish I accept that. But the Met have gone softly softly on leftist protesters regardless of how appalling their behaviour is

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Howard Jones

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6 years

Do grow a pair. He led the free World against Nazism, Italian Fascism & Japanese militarism @StationCDRKelly

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Howard Jones

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@AyoCaesar It means that the Jews will be removed so that Arabs occupy the land from the Mediterranean to the River Jordan. It is literally a call for, at best ,expulsion of the Jews. At worst, it is a call for genocide

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Howard Jones

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6 years

All dead Polish Jews are responsible for post 1948 alleged misdemeanours by the Israeli state @jonlansman

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Howard Jones

@hjoneshojo

8 years

Who are you ? Who funds you ? Who operates your twitter account. Who should we credit for this attack on the free press ? @StopFundingHate

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Howard Jones

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2 years

Why didn’t the DPP have oversight of the Savile case ? Surely there was no more high profile case with a greater public interest than Savile at the time. It must have crossed his desk & he must have taken an interest. Did he decide to leave it alone ? That is still a decision

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Howard Jones

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6 years

@BarumDean Go to bed Dean, you’re being embarrassingly ludicrous

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Howard Jones

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7 years

The reason the State needs to prosecute multiple voting youngsters is that they must understand due process matters

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Howard Jones

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6 years

Try Brexit is an opportunity & Jeremy Corbyn is a threat to our country @mpharrisonHarry

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Howard Jones

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Philosophy is philosophy.History's a subject where context & understanding is vital.Not to make shallow modern political points @acgrayling

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Genius

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Howard Jones

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8 years

I am pretty confident that 17.4m is more than have voted for an election winning party in UK electoral history @conversiontales

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Howard Jones

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5 years

How is it unBritish to give a state visit to the Head of State of our principal ally, who when the chips were down, twice came to our aid ?

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History teaches us of the danger of being afraid to speak truth to power. Across the world, the far right is on the rise. Against this backdrop, London stands out as a beacon of hope. And that’s worth defending.

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Howard Jones

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I went into a pub yesterday full of ordinary men & women. We all talked endlessly about white privilege & intersectional feminism

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Howard Jones

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Why our two main TV news channels are such unreasonably credulous ‘click bait’ purveyors that they fail to spot when they are being egregiously played

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Howard Jones

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6 years

Who funds Stop Funding Hate. And please God tell me they are not receiving any public money

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Howard Jones

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5 years

Then one of their dads, one of the most vocal & apparently sincere complainers, had been filmed at an angry pro Islamist right behind someone burning a US Flag

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Howard Jones

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3 months

@ElectoralCommUK I am not playing any more. Everyone is replying to the original tweet and not reading the answers I have already given to dozens of people making the same or similar points with snark I have posted links to two election court judgments about industrial scale postal vote fraud

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Howard Jones

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7 years

A recap of Corbyn's top endorsements: the Communist Party of Great Britain, the Trade Union & Socialist Alliance, the Morning Star

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Howard Jones

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7 years

@GrayInGlasgow @TheCommonSpace The fact the Scottish Greens are allied with the SNP who have several pro IRA/Sinn Fein/United Ireland councillors is highly pertinent

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Howard Jones

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Pre 1865 United States, pre 1960s United States. Ottoman Empire, Ataturk's Turkey, Erdogan's Turkey @joannaccherry

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