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I suppose he could argue that the authors didn’t *believe* all the experts & well-informed people who explained exactly what would happen, but to argue that they didn’t ‘understand’ is truly pathetic. twitter.com/standardnews/s…
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“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984 twitter.com/FT/status/1582…
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Far from perfect but an effective, committed & much-needed advocate for military veterans. I wonder how many other Tories who held their noses while hoping Johnson would quickly pass are going to consider their political futures now Truss has taken up the reins of ridiculousness. twitter.com/JohnnyMercerUK…
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Don’t even need to check. It’ll be the Telegraph. Their comment pages are now so hilariously batshit I’m beginning to think it’s a marketing ploy. twitter.com/thhamilton/sta…
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These ghouls will lie about anything. If QAnon and 'anti-vaxx' propaganda didn't teach us that, perhaps this will. twitter.com/BowenBBC/statu…
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Rupert Murdoch's new TV channel is attracting fewer viewers than drying paint & this is happening to the Mail.
“It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand." Brian Stimpson. twitter.com/scobie/status/…
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Yet another ‘Head of’ something or other at @iealondon! This one’s getting publicly owned by @OzKaterji… twitter.com/OzKaterji/stat…
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When the founder of Wikipedia says something like this, the rest of us should:
1) Pay attention.
2) Donate to a rare source of genuine information that, almost uniquely these days, is not promoting the prejudices, obsessions & bigotries of its billionaire owner. twitter.com/jimmy_wales/st…
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Very pertinent to yesterday's show... twitter.com/matthewteller/…
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Another breathtaking & heartbreaking report from @DanielHewittITV on @itvnews. This time on the plight of renters rendered incapable of paying their rent. Superlative & important journalism.
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See also: right-wing punditry. twitter.com/BarristerSecre…
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Oof. It's not as immediately damning as the lettuce comparison - but it will have a much longer shelf-life. twitter.com/Gilesyb/status…
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Here’s a whole hour of Miriam Margolyes being magnificent. l-bc.co/3uxIJn2
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And yet their ludicrous shills & clown cars continue to pop up all over the U.K. media without any mention of who or what pays their wages… twitter.com/opendemocracy/…
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One crucial point about PMQs is that the ebullience of your own benches is nowhere near as important as the moroseness of the other lot's. Textbook example here. twitter.com/BBCPolitics/st…
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The callous of idiocy of Tory attempts to demonise NHS staff; the Daily Mail’s maddest anti-Meghan moment yet & the consequences of Jeremy Clarkson’s depravity. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll never look at burgundy coats in the same way again…l-bc.co/3WenfHJ
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In case you didn’t know already, @BBCFarmingToday routinely delivers some of the finest journalism available anywhere in the U.K. twitter.com/mrjamesob/stat…
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Four years ago, Chapter 6 of this bestselling book, ‘Nanny States and Classic Liberals’, predicted, warned against & explained the events of the last four weeks with unerring precision. Chapters on Brexit, Trump, & more have proved similarly accurate… amzn.eu/d/6jv3sAP
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Relive the maddest day in U.K. politics since the last one, before it gets overtaken by the next one…
l-bc.co/3TjvOyU
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Today’s show was about blameless people drowning in the Channel hours after the government insisted that bigger deterrents are needed to stop people crossing it, all while tacitly admitting the absence of ‘safe & legal’ routes for the majority of refugees. l-bc.co/3YyWWgW
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Thread. twitter.com/BBCDanielS/sta…
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Really stopped me in my tracks, this call. The rhetoric surrounding refugees & death trap dinghies is utterly toxic. I don’t think Dan should have been so hard on himself… twitter.com/lbc/status/159…
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