Early reviews are in!
Sister 1: “Another mucky book!”
Sister 2: “Aye. Why can’t you just write a NICE book, Aidan?”
#SomeServiceToTheState
is out tomorrow, 8 Dec.
You can make up your own mind.
The conscience of England is now carried by Lineker, Rashford, Southgate, Voderman.
@Keir_Starmer
and
@UKLabour
keep their gobs shut for fear of upsetting racist potential voters
I don’t imagine
@BBCNews
or
@BBCr4today
will report this tomorrow but it’s another case of fantasy
#Brexit
colliding with reality:
A hard border between Ireland & Northern Ireland would prevent US-UK trade deal post Brexit - Nancy Pelosi
Good news everyone: there can’t be any rioting in Belfast because
@BBCNews
at 10 pm hasn’t mentioned a word about it... I mean it can’t be that they don’t give a stuff or have no editorial integrity, can it
@bbcpress
?
Dear
@RishiSunak
@10DowningStreet
In 2017 I was awarded an honorary OBE in recognition of my services to the eradication of slavery. I am now returning this as it is something which I can no longer, in good conscience, keep”
This is not what Britain is - and not what British police are.
This is our police being used as government enforcers for a government over-obsessed with controlling culture whilst preaching an alarm around the protection of free speech.
You’ll know
@BorisJohnson
that when Malta was awarded the
#GeorgeCross
during WW2 graffiti appeared on the walls of Valletta: “Bread not medals”.
#NHS
staff using food banks may feel the same thing.
By putting lunatic right wingers like Melanie Phillips and Nigel Farage on
@bbcquestiontime
its editors seek to normalise the mere far-right that is the Tory party
Poor
@BorisJohnson
!
All he ever did was
- destroy the economic prospects of the U.K. for a generation
- jeopardise Irish peace
- vandalise the prospects of his country’s young
- undermine rule of law
- cause the needless deaths of 10s of thousands
#NoConfidence
Dear
@SamiraAhmedUK
@newswatchbbc
Perhaps you could enquire of the Powers That Be, why
@BBCNews
is giving more attention to a story about cheating in sport, than one about cheating to undermine the foundations of British democracy?
@CharlesTannock
@Matthew_Kupfer
@olex_scherba
A key issue in 1961 was Kennedy’s effort to find a way to let Khrushchev back down by offering a quid pro quo with Turkish missiles.
What let’s Putin back down?
Some years after the publication of
#Catch22
Joseph Heller was interviewed:
“You haven’t ever written anything as good as Catch 22 these past decades have you?”
“No. Neither has anyone else.”
So currently the UK is under attack in a trade war by the US, and a real war by Russia. Aren’t Russia and the US the only 2 countries in the world supporting
#Brexit
?
#BrexitShambles
Brexiters “would have Britain stand before the world, knee-deep in shredded treaties, and say, “Sign here, trust us!” One can but wish them the best of British luck with that one,” by the great
@fotoole
Lots of English people who were fine with Johnny Mercer’s grotesque posturing around unlawful British Army killings in the North of Ireland…
…are losing their rag with him for being a bit rude and stupid on Question Time
Occasional reminder to English Tweeps who’ve just found NI on a map but haven’t gotten round to reading a book on the subject yet:
When Kate Hoey talks about Northern Ireland, she only means DUP voters.
“Woe betide you... you hypocrites! You’re like whitewashed graves, which look very fine on the outside, but inside are full of... uncleanness of every kind. That’s like you: on the outside you appear to be virtuous & law-abiding, but inside you’re full of hypocrisy & lawlessness”
The same folk who think it an affront to their civil liberties to have to wear masks during a pandemic seem noticeably mellow about
@pritipatel
’s plans to reintroduce concentration camps.
@BrexitClock
@DPJHodges
You are, of course, right. And if Dan ever bothered to learn his history he’d also know “taking the knee” originates with the British anti-slavery struggle
#Brexit
hardman
@SteveBakerHW
tells the Paddies it’s okay for him to promote unionism but it’s not okay for the Micks to talk about wanting a New Ireland
When I was a kid, loyalist paramilitaries planned to attack my primary school to kill all the teachers & pupils in reprisal for an IRA atrocity
Still surprised how many folk are fine with
@netanyahu
doing x1,000s something that was even too horrific for the Glenanne Gang
#Gaza
Anyone who ever says Britain stood alone in 1940 is insulting every
South Asian,
African,
Australian,
Kiwi,
Canadian,
Czech,
French,
Irish and
Pole
who bled alongside the British in those dark days.
On this day 23 June in 2016 my beloved
@klaraskriv
was kind enough to marry me.
We wouldn’t have met without Freedom of Movement in Europe.
The personal doesn’t get much more political.
Just visited my friend Richard who is hunger-striking outside
@FCDOGovUK
to obtain
@trussliz
&
@BorisJohnson
action to
#FreeNazanin
In Irish culture there is no worse shame than having someone hungry on your doorstep when your action could prevent it
Dear
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
By now I’m sure you will have been made aware that Eoin Morgan is Irish, as was, of course, Wellington.
Surely the critical reception of your book, The Victorians, taught you pause before displaying your crass ignorance in public?
#eejit
Ireland’s interests, Ireland’s peace, will always be subordinate to English prejudices & xenophobia. The future peace & prosperity of Ireland, therefore, is dependent on the solidarity of EU 27 refusing to accept any more of England’s neo-colonial nonsense
UK is paying tens of billions of pounds in
#Brexit
to get a worse trade deal than the one they already have. And some English people still think us Paddies are thick.
#IronyIsDead
@tshep42
@NicholasTyrone
It’s only the speed of the collapse that has surprised me about Truss.
The collapse was inevitable in a country where Left and Right tell the people “You can eat a flag”
Given the choice between securing NI in the U.K. and a fantasy of reinstating the Protestant Supremacy there, Junior, never the sharpest of spoons in the knife drawer, goes for the latter.
(2/2) It was a close contest and
@realDonaldTrump
fought hard. Looking forward to working with the new administration – the UK 🇬🇧 US 🇺🇸friendship has always been a force for good in the world.
On the 23rd June 2016 I married the missus
@klaraskriv
(we had the date before Cameron decided on the unpleasantness)
We’d never have met without freedom of movement across our common European homeland.
I for one will never “embrace”
#Brexit
Am told Boris Johnson compared himself to Othello while addressing Conservative MPs tonight. He said he always sees the best in people, unlike Dominic Cummings (who he cast as Iago)
Irish political leaders understand 2 things about war:
1. That violence is a symptom of a political problem;
2. That all armed actors tend towards atrocities.
Few British political leaders know these things because
1. They know little of history; and
2. They know little of war.
BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨
Nicola Sturgeon urged to apologise after leaked WhatsApp messages describing Matt Hancock as “Weaker than a nuns piss,” Liz Truss as “About as much use as a marzipan dildo,” and referring to Suella Braverman as “Shitler.”
.
@BorisJohnson
: 'Without democracy governments will become corrupt and they will be run by an elite who will hand power to other members of that elite down the generations and that will have a terrible effect on the rule of law'
It now seems that the only real reason that
@theresa_may
is contemplating economically disembowelling the UK with
#Brexit
is because she’s afraid the UK will look a bit silly if it doesn’t go through with it.
That ship has sailed.
@grantshapps
Dear Grant,
Have you considered the possibility that your anti-strike bill is in contravention of the 1930 Forced Labour Convention by introducing a menace of penalty to extract involuntary labour?
It may not be big in the grand scheme of things, but I did get quite a buzz after a year and a half of plague walking into my hometown
@Waterstones
in Newry and seeing this
I was once intimidated by an immigrant.
It was Johnny Rotten himself in a juice bar on Venice Beach, California, where he had IMMIGRATED to.
Scary looking hypocrite!
‘You shouldn’t have accepted them in such vast numbers, it’s created real animosity in communities.’
The Sex Pistols’ John Lydon tells
@AndrewMarr9
that immigrants have created ‘division’, relaying his own adaption to ‘being British’ after his family’s relocation from Ireland.
@peterkyle
@RichardEmmins
@UKLabour
All due respect Peter, that’s a pretty vacuous sentiment when the source of the argument relates to the cause of the decline
So I watched
#BelfastMovie
1. I have no idea what sort of accent Judi Dench thought she was doing but
2. Liked it
3. It's a child's perspective on those days so it's fragmentary and at moments almost magic realist and
4. As ususal Ciaran Hinds is superb
There you go:
the
#GFA
was a munificent gift of the English in general and
@UKLabour
in particular.
Nothing to do with John Hume, the Irish
@dfatirl
or various Taoisigh who mapped it out for the Brits and showed them where to sign.
#BritsAtItAgain
The Good Friday Agreement, signed 26 years ago today, is one of Labour’s proudest achievements.
Courageous leadership like Mo Mowlam's finally ended the Troubles, bringing peace to Northern Ireland.
We celebrate the progress made since then and must never take it for granted.
So farewell then
@BorisJohnson
,
You let the bodies pile high,
You fucked business,
You got your flunky to lie to your Queen
And drunkenly danced on her husband’s grave.
Finest traditions of the British Empire really!
I’m sure the
@Conservatives
would love to have you back.
My 1st novel
#TheUndiscoverCountry
is published today with
@unbounders
It’s an investigation of murder & morality against the background of the Irish War of Independence in 1920
The Irish Times calls it a “smart & pacy debut”
Check it out 😊