Niall Gooch 👍🇻🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🚅🏏✒ @niall_gooch Twitter profile

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Niall Gooch 👍🇻🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🚅🏏✒

3 years

In response to overwhelming* public demand you can now get my little poetry book in paperback form. *Two people

All Manner Of Thing: Poems 2013-2019

A short poetry collection, with poems in a variety of forms and styles reflecting on family and history, the consolations and challenges of Christian faith, and the inevitability of loss and change....

www.amazon.co.uk

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@niall_gooch

7 years

Can't help but feel we're playing with fire here.

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1 year

Genuinely laughing out loud at some of these awful purse-lipped tin-eared changes to Roald Dahl. Hilariously terrible.

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@niall_gooch

2 years

Keep thinking about the loads of contemptuous, mocking responses to this guy, and have a tentative theory that honest sincere enthusiasm has a kind of purity & power that certain kinds of people find threatening.

PA Media

@PA

2 years

William Single, 19, said he got up at 5am to travel from Coventry in order to secure a spot outside Buckingham Palace to pay tribute to the Queen. “I’m here because she served for 70 years and worked every day of her life, and I just want to say thank you,” he told @PA

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@niall_gooch

1 year

Useless white male pilots.

Sky News

@SkyNews

1 year

RAF recruiters were advised against selecting 'useless white male pilots' to hit diversity targets

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@niall_gooch

4 years

Nothing makes me realise my fundamental conservatism more than seeing so many members of the intellectual classes justifying street violence with sophistry & jargon. I hold the stupid unsophisticated bourgeois view that setting fire to other people's stuff is bad.

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@niall_gooch

3 months

I think we should occasionally remind ourselves that a teacher from Batley will probably have to spend the rest of his life under police protection because he showed his pupils a cartoon of Muhammad.

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@niall_gooch

1 month

@LemanWalters "Thank you Sonic" kills me every time

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@niall_gooch

2 years

Parents! Read your children historical adventures & old-fashioned history with battles & kings, so they don't become dreary in later life and ask for the business of the nation to be conducted by lawyers in lounge suits sitting on swivel chairs under fluorescent strip lights.

Kevin Maguire

@Kevin_Maguire

2 years

Hereditary prince in a ridiculous Ruritanian uniform on a golden throne in Parliament’s unelected chamber reading out a Government’s annual plan. Welcome to modern Britain.

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@niall_gooch

1 year

I venture to suggest that, if you find yourself protesting while some schoolchildren welcome the King to a library on a sunny weekday afternoon, it should be a trigger for a review of what you're doing with your life.

BBC Merseyside

@bbcmerseyside

1 year

Protestors chanting “not my King” are drowned out by children chanting “he’s our King”

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@niall_gooch

1 year

A glimpse here into the mindset behind so much failed social policy in the last sixty years, i.e. an essentially adolescent disdain for the achievement of a peaceful, stable, orderly society, & an immature desire to destroy it, to spite some long-dead resented authority figure.

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@GeorgeMonbiot

1 year

I was brought up in a village that was almost exclusively white and Christian. It was the most boring and stifling place I've ever known.

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@niall_gooch

1 year

Forty-five heirs to peerages were killed in the first eighteen months of WW1. Perhaps as many as 10% of army officers killed in the first year were Old Etonians. Whatever your view of the war, in those days the ruling class led by example, from the front.

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@niall_gooch

3 months

Took Girl to her riding lesson today and it occurred to me, has horse stuff always been as girl-coded as it seems to be now? Almost all the students at the stables are girls, all the stable hands are girls, all the instructors are women. Surely it hasn't always been thus.

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@niall_gooch

1 year

But should say too that it's not really funny. It's grotesque and immoral and a concession to fanatics. Buy proper Dahl books secondhand everyone!

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@niall_gooch

1 year

Incredible vignette of modern Britain. The mostly elderly protesters, smugly obstructive. The frustration of the productive working man. The bored, disengaged policemen looking the other way but leaping into action as soon as a politically convenient target appears.

Politics UK

@PolitlcsUK

1 year

🚨 | NEW: A builder loses it with Just Stop Oil protestors and begins throwing them out of the road before he is jumped on and ARRESTED by the police

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@niall_gooch

7 years

This is supposed to be a pro-choice talking point, I think, but it's literally what almost every pro-lifer I know thinks.

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@niall_gooch

1 year

I too think I should be able to behave obnoxiously and then insinuate that anyone who asks me not to be obnoxious is a bad person.

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@niall_gooch

3 years

I like to imagine that the Suez canal is increasingly lined with local Dads all sucking air through their teeth and shouting suggestions at the captain based on something that happened to their car once.

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@niall_gooch

2 years

Widespread difficulties in understanding Putin, who has laid out his motivations, remind me a bit of being a student & trying to persuade others that people in history were often genuinely motivated by religious beliefs & weren't just faking it to cover up worldly concerns.

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@niall_gooch

1 year

Honestly don't know how a civilisation recovers when its elites have this level of demented self-hatred.

Anglo-Saxons aren’t real, Cambridge tells students in effort to fight ‘nationalism’

University aims to ‘dismantle the myths' around British and English identities as it seeks to make its teaching more 'anti-racist'

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@niall_gooch

9 days

The basic answer to this is that not all of us consider that simply living as long as we possibly can is the main goal in life.

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@AlexFinnX

9 days

Why do people in 2024 still drink? It’s proven to destroy you mentally and physically. It's proven to be a depressant It's proven to be literal poison It's proven to make you feel like shit Yet there’s still a massive drinking culture. Why are you still drinking in 2024?

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@niall_gooch

10 months

The Maitlis class, that is the people who mostly run the country now, are notable for a particular kind of stupidity - not lack of intelligence, but lack of curiosity, lack of wit, lack of reflection, reliance on third-hand fourth-rate cliches.

The News Agents

@TheNewsAgents

10 months

“The power of the populist is, somehow, to turn utter entitlement into victimhood.” @maitlis on Nigel Farage using his Coutts bank account closure to provoke a culture war. Coming to @GlobalPlayer

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@niall_gooch

2 years

I'm not wild about the Ottawa protest, but equally it is genuinely 10/10 hilarious to see people who spent summer 2020 telling us that riots involving arson and looting were no big deal getting upset about some guys parking their trucks.

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@niall_gooch

4 months

Often feels to me like immigrationism as an ideology is at least partly rooted in complex resentments and antagonisms directed against the existing population rather than any particular rational calculation about benefits.

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2 years

Genuinely baffled by this stuff, if ethnic minorities want to go walking, they can just...go? I mean I explore the English countryside quite a lot and footpaths are not heavily guarded by skinheads.

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@niall_gooch

2 years

That advert for the BBC with John Cleese, Michael Hordern, Alan Whicker et al which various Beeb employees & defenders are Tweeting today is fine as far as it goes, but I cannot help noticing that it was made almost four decades ago.

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@niall_gooch

1 year

"Traumatised by repeated questioning" is an insane framing for this story. The questioning was "repeated" because Ms Fulani decided, for her own reasons, to be extremely obtuse about an innocent attempt to start conversation by an 83 year old woman.

Prince William’s godmother quits palace over comments to black charity boss

Former lady-in-waiting to queen issues apology after Ngozi Fulani questioned over where her ‘people’ came from

www.theguardian.com

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@niall_gooch

6 months

One obvious conclusion: a parallel society is in operation in East London, openly defying the laws & norms that bind the rest of us. Children being given time off to attend a protest could not happen without the assent of headteachers, teachers, parents, & the local bureaucracy.

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@hearnimator

6 months

Hundreds of schoolchildren were given the day off, taken to a march and told to chant slogans about Gaza. They made their way to the office of Rushanara Ali MP (Labour) after she didn’t vote for a ceasefire last night.

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@niall_gooch

2 years

Not sure there's a more annoying YouTube ad currently in circulation than the one where a woman asks Google "Why is construction male-dominated?" as if it's some baffling mystery to which the only possible answer is "a nefarious conspiracy".

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@niall_gooch

2 years

That removal of the state regalia from the coffin before it was committed to the tomb was very powerful. We all go before God as equals. We bring nothing into this world; we can surely take nothing out.

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@niall_gooch

1 month

Bold assumption here from The Economist that anyone educated in British schools in the last half century or so was taught a coherent pro-Western civilisation worldview.

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@niall_gooch

1 month

Remember that if this man has somehow acquired a British passport or ILR he is quite literally just as British as people whose families have been here since 500AD.

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1 month

Muslim man holding a Palestinian flag dresses his son as a Hamas terrorist complete with a gun and ammunition in London.

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@niall_gooch

7 months

I feel like an under-discussed but interesting cultural trend in the last ~25 years is the fading of Guy Fawkes Night and the rise of Halloween.

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@niall_gooch

2 months

Akshally this happened all the time in the 1950s as well akshally, you're just looking back with rose-tinted spectacles akshally

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@niall_gooch

16 days

Another fascinating example of the almost pathological anti-gratitude that is encouraged and lionised by contemporary activist mindset. This gentleman is a guest in Ireland - is a student at one of its premier academic institutions - and he is vandalising the place.

László Molnárfi (SU)

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The Book of Kells is now closed indefinetly. No business as usual during a genocide. @tcddublin cut ties with the genocidal state of Israel!

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@niall_gooch

5 years

Marry young. Have lots of children. Don't worry too much about your own happiness. Read old books instead of watching the news.

Devon ☀️

@devonzuegel

5 years

What is advice you would give to your children but other people you respect would disagree with?

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@niall_gooch

5 months

I'd never heard of the Venezuela-Guyana border dispute before this week but all the Twitter Commies seem to be taking Venezuela's side, and the Guyanese play cricket and speak English, so it's pretty clear who's in the right.

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@niall_gooch

7 years

How have I never seen this story before? The last Byzantine Emperor went out like a man.

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@niall_gooch

2 years

An underrated advantage of monarchy is that it forces politicians to go to church at least occasionally and sit amid magnificent reminders of the power that is above even them - and indeed the judgment to come.

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@niall_gooch

3 months

I'm so rightwing that I believe people who explicitly model their aesthetic on a psychotic terrorist group shouldn't get almost the entirety of my household's annual income tax.

BBC News NI

@BBCNewsNI

3 months

The Belfast rap group @KNEECAPCEOL has been blocked from getting a £15,000 grant after the government objected.

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@niall_gooch

4 years

Imagine telling someone c.2001 that in less than 20 years' time JK Rowling would be increasingly hated by progressives and that some of her most ardent defenders would be conservative Christians, and that the point of contention would be whether women are a real thing.

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@niall_gooch

3 months

It's really funny how people furiously deny BBC bias, and then ex-BBC journos - Sopel, Maitlis, Simpson etc al - almost invariably turn out to have the most basic and conventional left-liberal views imaginable.

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@niall_gooch

2 years

McElwee burned to death a mother of three.

Francie Molloy MP

@FrancieMolloy

2 years

Thomas McElwee joined the Hunger Strike 41 years ago today. He was only 23. RIP

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@niall_gooch

3 years

Edgy atheism on Christian festivals is so incredibly cringe. It's like a fifteen year old at a family dinner trying to shock Aunt Mavis by saying "arse".

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@niall_gooch

7 months

I know this is a hobby horse of mine but it is just incredibly under-discussed that in Britain today you can be criminally prosecuted for remarks made in a private conversation.

Tony Dowson

@TonyDowson5

7 months

"Ex-cop found guilty of sending ‘grossly offensive’ racist parrot message"

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@niall_gooch

1 year

I would watch a TV show where these two solved crimes together.

Alexander Campbell

@AJMCampbell

1 year

Unlikely joint arrival of the coronation so far - Nick Cave and Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury.

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@niall_gooch

5 years

In 2015 Owen Jones recorded some interviews with political opponents, including P Hitchens & J Rees Mogg, which I found discursive, fair, open-minded, and relaxed. His transformation into an unprincipled pro-Corbyn propagandist and attack dog is a real cautionary tale.

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@niall_gooch

1 year

The "Why do we need a big fancy Coronation?" people are very annoying. No sense of occasion, mystery, grandeur, panache. Presumably they all wear jeans & T-shirts to weddings & don't bother attending their children's graduations because the kids have already earned the degrees.

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Reece

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Most of you don’t even realize you’re complete losers You live a below average life MAYBE 100k/year Gf is a soft 7 with makeup Only have new experiences maybe twice a year Basically the live of a peasant But somehow you think you’re living a great life If you only knew…

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@niall_gooch

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This is really, really bad. Will make the railways less safe, and less welcoming for people who for, whatever reason, aren't very tech-savvy. A further erosion of everyday human interaction, a move to a Machine society.

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@niall_gooch

3 years

Everyone knows that hereditary monarchy is bad and that the only logical system is to spend billions of dollars every four years on an elected monarch whose key characteristics must of necessity include ruthless ambition and egotism.

Bill Kristol

@BillKristol

3 years

Hereditary monarchy “reverses the wholesome order of nature...In short, we cannot conceive a more ridiculous figure of government, than hereditary succession, in all its cases, presents.” — Tom Paine

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@niall_gooch

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There is a classic UK intelligentsia midwit move, along the lines of "Er, my dude, can you name a single component of so-called English culture that is actually unique to England? You can't? OK, well, have a normal one being an irrational patriot then!" Like this melon.

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@niall_gooch

6 months

There is something viscerally and profoundly upsetting and sinister about foreigners climbing on monuments to our war dead to wave foreign flags. More so because you know that they know what it signifies.

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@niall_gooch

1 year

A very obvious step to improve British policing which the Tories could take (but obviously won't due to lack of courage / wit): reinstate, by statute, sensible requirements around strength & height.

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@ket_amy

1 year

Welcome to London😭

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@niall_gooch

1 year

The British achievement in the Falklands in 1982 appears ever greater the more you learn how incredibly lame and defeatist most of the other free countries were at the time.

Germany thought UK was ‘out of control’ during Falklands War, secret telegrams reveal

Senior West German official said the sinking of the General Belgrano outside the Exclusion Zone was ‘out of proportion’ to the problem

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@niall_gooch

1 month

Useful reminder that for all the big talk, the left hate freedom of speech and association. This is not an exaggeration. They dress it up with all sort of cod-intellectual verbiage but fundamentally they want you to shut up and do as you're told.

Jack Elsom

@JackElsom

1 month

All giggles on the Labour frontbench over cops breaking up the National Conservatism conference

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@niall_gooch

4 years

The Class of 2019 must be one of the most intellectually negligible Labour intakes of all time. Fourth-rate hacks regurgitating half-understood theory spoonfed to them by charlatans.

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@niall_gooch

1 year

The Smart Set get very sniffy about "British exceptionalism", or any suggestion that we had an unusually free society, but also, until well into the second half of the 20th C you could literally walk up to the front door of our head of government without much difficulty.

Bobbie

@bo66ie29

1 year

London Police Officer at No. 10 Downing Street. Circa early 1950s. The arm band signified the officer was on duty. Downing Street was completely free for the general public to wander up and down the street.

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@niall_gooch

2 years

I really hope it's not true that the King wants the Coronation to be "slimmed down" and "modernised". Potentially fatal to the future of the monarchy if so. Huge mistake.

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@niall_gooch

2 years

The fact that this propaganda book has to draw underpants on a new born baby rather gives the game away about the so-called guess that doctors make in the delivery room.

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@niall_gooch

4 years

My view on what right-wing politics should look like has changed quite a bit recently but I do think one important aspect of it might be the defence of normal human interaction; the joke, the offhand comment, the private conversation, the provocative essay, the gentle mockery.

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@niall_gooch

1 year

"Look at Ugglug, that idiot try make stone round instead of just eat and sleep"

Howard Beckett

@BeckettUnite

1 year

Billionaires, Musk in particular, spaffed £3,000,000,000 on this rocket. It blew up within 240 seconds. If this doesn’t convince you that we must tax the billionaire class, nothing will.

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@niall_gooch

5 months

It is increasingly clear that the fundamental impulse behind a lot of Current Year politics across the West is a deep, violent resentment of the old Anglo-European civilisation & its outgrowths. If you believe this is still about slavery and the Confederacy per se, think again.

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@niall_gooch

7 months

She's obviously a horrible anti-Semite making a vindictive point here but tbh, settling several million of the smartest, most innovative, most accomplished people on the planet in Wales would be pretty good for Britain on the whole.

Bushra Shaikh

@Bushra1Shaikh

7 months

Here's an idea. Problem solved.

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@niall_gooch

4 years

Would be very sad if the chap from Buzzfeed whose job consists of ruining people's lives by finding odd or controversial things they said years ago, were to lose his job.

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@niall_gooch

1 year

Blaring noise in the countryside isn't "enjoying it in your own way"; it's forcing everyone within earshot to enjoy it in your own way.

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@niall_gooch

3 years

"Emerges". Really dislike the use of the weaselly passive voice here. It didn't emerge. You trawled his feed looking for it because you like sh*t-stirring (NB as they themselves admit the player was under 16 at the time.)

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@niall_gooch

4 years

People often ask me to explain what I mean when I say the BBC kicks sand in the face of people like me and holds us in contempt. QED.

CBBC

@cbbc

4 years

"British things… turns out there’s hardly any.” @MrNishKumar and @HHTV_ are spilling the tea on British stuff in #HorribleHistories #Brexit special ☕️ Streaming now on @BBCiPlayer 👉 @RealMatBaynton

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@niall_gooch

4 years

This has really cheered me up, given the current strong pre-Reign of Terror vibes.

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@niall_gooch

2 years

Right, that's it. Definitely joining the Latin Mass Society. Not even a Trad but this ratcheting up of restrictions feels obsessively mean-spirited.

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@niall_gooch

11 months

The single most radical thing you could do with a Famous Five adaptation in 2023 would be to make a straight-down-the-line period-accurate series set in actual postwar Britain. This, on the other hand, is clearly going to be terrible.

Nicolas Winding Refn to reinterpret Enid Blyton’s Famous Five for the BBC

The Danish director behind stylish actioner Drive and ultra-violent thriller Only God Forgives will create a three-part series

www.theguardian.com

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@niall_gooch

11 months

Feel like "should people who disagree with me have access to banking services enabling them to take part in society?" is quite a basic test of civilised principles which a lot of people are failing.

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@niall_gooch

6 months

"The climate is objectionable, with frequent mists and damp, but there is no extreme cold." - Tacitus on Britain, late 1st century AD.

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@niall_gooch

4 years

I must admit I am genuinely surprised by the number of seemingly smart folks who cannot process the concept that social distancing is not for their benefit - & thus something they can decide not to do bcs they're a BRAVE FREEBORN BRITON - but for the benefit of *other* people.

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@niall_gooch

1 year

Would be tragic to see an ugly 1980s shopping centre, and one of the most distinguished giant car parks in South London, demolished just so that a few thousand people could have somewhere to live in a city with an acute housing crisis.

Aylesham Community Action

@ACAPeckham

1 year

Seriously, how can this be allowed? An extremely dense & high rise development plonked down in #Peckham town centre. This is for @BerkeleyGroupUK shareholders and has NOTHING to do with needs of local people. #NeedNotGreed . @PeckhamVision @peckhampeculiar @SouthwarkNotes

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@niall_gooch

4 years

It's time to question the social narrative that the point of life is to achieve what sociologists understand by happiness.

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@niall_gooch

3 months

One interesting idea in several of the replies is that riding has lost many of its old associations with danger and daring, hence the concomitant decline in male interest (and of course there's a negative feedback loop because most guys like doing stuff with other guys).

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@niall_gooch

1 year

Politics UK

@PolitlcsUK

1 year

🚨 | NEW: Matt Hancock tells Rishi Sunak to kill the culture war strategy and support socially liberal values that “people under 50” mostly support He says this is the only way for the party to survive or “it will die”

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@niall_gooch

2 years

It is genuinely quite funny to have fans of Brutalist modernism lamenting how their buildings are being thoughtlessly demolished.

We trash our modernist heritage on a whim: why is Britain so in thrall to the wrecking ball? | Owen...

Between destruction and conservation there must be a middle ground – perhaps a new life – for these eminent buildings, says author Owen Hatherley

www.theguardian.com

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@niall_gooch

1 year

Incredible ad on Facebook. Not one of these people could hope to prevail in a physical confrontation with an even moderately tough villain.

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@niall_gooch

6 months

There is a certain type of person who is stuck at this totally facile level of analysis - "my personal interactions with immigrants are mostly pleasant and convenient" - and totally unwilling (unable?) to think about trade-offs, second-order effects, long-term consequences etc

Keith Barry

@KeithpBarry

6 months

Today I was served my lunch by an immigrant, my coffee by an immigrant, met a concierge in a hotel who was an immigrant and had 3 hard working immigrant lads in my house putting in wardrobes and a new kitchen. They are all amazing and lovely people as well as hard workers.

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@niall_gooch

3 years

Reading the news about the Channel Islands.

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@niall_gooch

4 months

Interesting example here of normal stupidity meeting motivated stupidity and the result being a horrendous agglomeration of mega-stupidity.

Aylmer

@THoad58491

4 months

@BellRibeiroAddy claims that the asylum status of the acid attacker "is not the issue" and instead lays the blame at the door of "incel culture". These people truly believe that there is a pathway from microaggressions to dousing people in acid. I'm dumbfounded.

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@niall_gooch

3 months

Generally speaking, I suspect that most people who talk like this hold parties where a dozen white people who never go near a place of worship agree with each other about almost every important issue.

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@niall_gooch

4 years

For the record I am very, very happy to die on this hill.

OκULTRA XP🧿

@0K_ultra

4 years

@niall_gooch So your argument is that there should be more people with Down's syndrome? Now that's a hill to die on

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@niall_gooch

27 days

Imo the difference between this scene and the stuff that annoys contemporary audiences is that it's well-written, in-character and well-performed, & the narrative of the film actually vindicates both Bond and M to some extent, meaning that it doesn't feel like mere propaganda.

Oliver Jia (オリバー・ジア)

@OliverJia1014

27 days

Is M chastising James Bond as a “sexist, misogynist dinosaur and a relic of the Cold War” in GoldenEye now considered “woke?” I can only imagine what kind of uproar this line would cause if it was included in a modern James Bond film. Discuss.

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@niall_gooch

1 year

What I really cannot stand about these pious lectures is that they are mostly tilting at windmills. We already know all this stuff. "History is complicated" is not some kind of esoteric secret being hidden from the masses by the right-wing Illuminati.

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@niall_gooch

4 months

Finished reading Roger Knight's Britain Against Napoleon not long ago and keep thinking about the administrative & logistical sophistication that Britain had achieved by 1815. Just extraordinary. Some true Anglo excellence for the "what even is British culture then?" people.

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@niall_gooch

2 years

The framing of this story is quite extraordinary. Not even a hint that Brixton did actually exist prior to 1948.

'Windrush generation built Brixton, gentrification is erasing its history'

'They fail to realise if you participate in gentrification it is erasing the culture and the history of Black people'

www.mylondon.news

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@niall_gooch

1 year

Wow I hope this guy feels bad for having the temerity to be deeply interested in something and talk passionately about it in an age when real human connection is harder than ever.

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@niall_gooch

11 months

Whatever your views on immigration etc it's important to ground them in fact & the implication here that London has always been a highly diverse city, unreflective of Britain more broadly, is straightforwardly untrue. In 1961 London was 97% white.

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@niall_gooch

4 years

Feeling really owned by the revelation that Jesus probably didn't resemble a North European, probably going to give up Christianity now. And political conservatism. All this time I'd been assuming a Middle Eastern Jew c.30AD would look like Lucius Malfoy.

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@niall_gooch

2 months

Quite shocked to hear on the BBC that this didn't actually happen, very grateful to Marianna Spring for clearing that up.

Trump History

@Trump_History45

3 months

Donald Trump on his voyage to become the first person to circumnavigate the Earth - 1522

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@niall_gooch

4 years

One of the worst parts of any adultery scandal is the people sententiously intoning that "of course, it's not the affair we should be concerned by", as if having any regard for the integrity & importance of marriage vows was just too vulgar & bourgeois for words.

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@niall_gooch

3 years

Enjoy St George's Day everyone! The greatest Englishman of all time, born and bred right here in these islands, who invented algebra, chess, fish and chips, freedom and Parliament.

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@niall_gooch

2 years

A real difficulty in the debate over the Channel crisis is that a not insignificant faction of the commentariat are functionally pro-open borders but can't/won't admit it (to themselves or others). This means they're not really approaching the discussion in good faith.

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@niall_gooch

2 years

@fitzfromdublin Personally if I have to walk for more than twenty minutes I call in a support helicopter and carry military ration packs.

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@niall_gooch

4 years

This is delightful, I love seeing these tiresome people spoken to with the dismissive attitude they so richly deserve.

Chris Rose

@ArchRose90

4 years

The more I see of Dominic Cummings speaking to the press in a manner showing that he couldn't care less about them, the more I like him.

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@niall_gooch

3 years

One important takeaway from Hartlepool for me: having made big promises in the campaign, the PM now has to deliver on war with France, a key priority for voters in patriotic coastal seats.

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@niall_gooch

4 years

I am very interested in / troubled by the weird cultural expectation among the British commentariat that you should vaguely dislike and resent your spouse and children.

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