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I suppose the crucial questions are:
Why can't the UK be a 'safe country where asylum applications are processed'?
Why don't Rishi Sunak & Suella Braverman want it to be?
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But he's always seemed so nice... twitter.com/LBC/status/110…
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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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“This isn’t the time for politics,” says the woman who spent most of her statement of condolence for drowned refugees trumpeting new government policies designed to delight people who celebrated their deaths. twitter.com/Haggis_UK/stat…
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What a time to be alive.
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The MP who stated on Irish radio that all British people were automatically entitled to Irish passports & who lied under oath in the High Court has turned his hand to cardiac medicine. Pretty much standard in Brexit Britain. twitter.com/TheBHF/status/…
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Suella Braverman is in danger of making Priti Patel look like Mother Theresa.
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And up next on almost every TV & radio show in the country, a journalist who wrote unhinged bile about Meghan Markle will be discussing accusations that journalists wrote unhinged bile about Meghan Markle in order to distract attention from other royals...
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Why it always the gammonburgers who whine endlessly about 'cancel culture' that prove daily they can still spout dangerous crap with impunity. twitter.com/FullFact/statu…
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It's becoming a regular occurrence, this. They *know* there are no safe & legal routes for most refugees & they *know* that the voters their policies are aimed at like it that way. They just can't admit it in public. Yet. twitter.com/Channel4News/s…
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Musk can do what he likes with this platform. He owns it. But it’s objectively incredible how quickly & completely he’s trashed any notion that he values or respects free speech. There are much cheaper ways to show the world you’re a tissue-skinned liar.
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I guess you can construct an alternative reality where you’re a ‘free speech absolutist’ genius & everything you do is brilliant when you only ever come into contact with people on your payroll. Bit harder to do it on Twitter. Even when you own it.
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Excellent stuff from @Freedland. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Theresa May's former Director of Comms lecturing BBC journalists on impartiality would be hilarious if it wasn't so serious. twitter.com/NewStatesman/s…
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Knighthood for whoever decided to play out with FGTH.
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That Jeremy Clarkson column is right down there with the Hopkins one about cockroaches. Gobsmacked that it got published at all and staggered that the editor of The Sun wasn't asked about it by @bbclaurak on BBC 1 this morning. What an absolute shower of shite.
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And those who buy it are the absolute worst. twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…
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Bollocks. Pretty sure Rose West wasn’t in Game of Thrones. twitter.com/JeremyClarkson…
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I honestly can't begin to imagine what the right-wing media would do if someone said any of that stuff about Kate Middleton. And you wouldn't even have to be a big public figure. If a minor academic or a Labour councillor said it, there would be blood.
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In the absence of any explanation from @bbclaurak for her dereliction of duty yesterday, you have to assume that she chose not to upset The Sun editor from fear of the consequences. This would also explain why she has never spoken up for colleagues monstered by right-wing papers.
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What an absolute weapon. twitter.com/Nevererdofher/…
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Very kind of Steve Barclay & the Daily Mail to prove this point beyond any doubt today… twitter.com/LBC/status/160…
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