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Johnson didn’t just normalise bullying, he defended & promoted it by leaving Patel in the Home Office & accepting Alex Allan’s resignation. It would’ve been such an easy win for Sunak to turn the page but, even *after* sacking Williamson, he’ll be covered in the same corruption.
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Perhaps one news editor will have the wit to understand that dedicated royal correspondents are the very last people who should be reporting on the Meghan & Harry documentaries. It's like asking the accused to report on their own trial.
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Whose turn is it to be Chancellor of the Exchequer today?
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I genuinely don't know what to say. Which is awkward because I'm live on the radio for the next three hours.
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There are at least three plausible explanations for Braverman’s departure. But only one reasonable reaction: relief. Her gleeful dreams of deporting refugees to Rwanda soiled the public space quite horribly.
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By popular request, here is the collection of Dominic Raab saying things out loud that prompted Dominic Raab to block me on here. Also features @theousherwood understandably playing Candy Crush while I wang on... twitter.com/LBC/status/110…
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How it’s going versus how it’s going…
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Bollocks. Pretty sure Rose West wasn’t in Game of Thrones. twitter.com/JeremyClarkson…
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Absolute masterclass in bullshit repulsion. twitter.com/DrMatthewSweet…
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What's Fleet Street finds most unforgivable is the fact that Harry & Meghan are, objectively, a much better fairy tale than the Prince & Princess who will occupy the thrones. It makes a mockery of the whole system. twitter.com/LBC/status/159…
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It’s politics built on belief. It has been since 2016. It will always fall apart when it encounters reality. The only question is how quickly.
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This is why it's satire at its subversive best. He's ridiculing a medium so debased by lies that fact-free gibberish like Truss's is ordinarily treated with respect. Obviously, people with a vested interest in behaving as if the Emperor's fully-clothed are going to get the hump. twitter.com/MitchBenn/stat…
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A sad but helpful reminder that our national corruption, denigration & degradation does not depart with Johnson. His sycophantic supporters will always pretend that he was something other than demonstrably disgusting. twitter.com/Geoffrey_Cox/s…
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There is literal & unapologetic terrorist apologism all over Twitter & in the comments sections of national newspapers. I fear it's only a matter of time before it pops up in parliament, columns & op-eds. Suella Braverman's words yesterday provided an enormous green light for it.
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Truss resigned while still talking about 'the freedoms of Brexit'. That will entertain historians in years to come.
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For the avoidance of doubt, a Boris Johnson return is the best case scenario for anyone hoping for a Labour landslide at the next election. Objections to the notion are born of genuine patriotism & concern for the national interest.
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This Andrew Bridgen? 'A Conservative MP lied under oath, behaved in an abusive, arrogant and aggressive way, and was so dishonest that his claims about a multimillion-pound family dispute could not be taken at face value, a high court judge has ruled.' twitter.com/BestForBritain…
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This is a grimly marvellous read. It’s very hard to shake the fear that, even as the country suffered & the grip on power loosened, they still saw it all as a glorified parlour game. ft.com/content/e6d6c2…
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For a long time now, performing poorly in a government role has been no obstacle to promotion. Quite the opposite in fact. In ordinary times this would concern everybody. In Brexit Britain, however, ‘loyalty’ & ‘complicity’ are the only qualities that matter to Prime Ministers.
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With Johnson, honesty & integrity disqualified people from Cabinet roles. Because he had neither. With Truss, intelligence & expertise disqualify people from Cabinet roles. Because… twitter.com/ShippersUnboun…
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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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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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Rishi Sunak, meanwhile, is vowing to reduce the number of foreign students coming to the U.K. to pay through the nose for a degree… twitter.com/GermanEmbassy/…
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I think most of us would welcome a minimum level of government service. twitter.com/bbcbreaking/st…
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Watch the bottom right of the screen. Looks like the disgusting old fraud has got a fag on the go… twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/s…
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