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I see now why they came after me & my modest little radio show with big shot lawyers & an obvious determination to silence questioning & criticism: they rightly thought they were on the brink of getting into power & making the worship of unaccountable wealth government policy.
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What is the age above which it's officially OK to be blatantly racist and is Nigel Farage above or below it?
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The conflation of ‘free speech’ with the whims of the richest man in the world is weapons grade dystopian. twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…
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Amazing that a Home Secretary under Johnson can be found by his own ethics adviser to be a massive bully - and then cost the taxpayer a fortune in compensation - but keep her job. While under Truss, a dodgy email merits the immediate elbow. What an absolute shower.
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It's hard to pinpoint precisely when Trump's depravity made supporting him disgusting & unforgivable. The 'muslim ban', 'pussy-grabbing', attempted coup etc. For me, sitting down with Alex Jones was a point of no return. UK & US media is still full of people who waved it through.
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What fresh hell is this?
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They could call it ‘Insulate Britain’… twitter.com/business/statu…
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Hard to argue with this. Not just a media, either. A government too. twitter.com/brokenbottlebo…
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Would you believe that this is only my second 'favourite' example of Nadine Dorries, who seems to have disappeared from Twitter today, trolling me on here?
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Has anyone else ever left *three* separate governments in disgrace? Needs to be different Prime Ministers to qualify, obvs.
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Another Brexit benefit. theguardian.com/environment/20…
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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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A thoughtful & important thread. If this abject, unconscionable cruelty is not called out, it will continue & get worse.I have no intention of stopping. twitter.com/AndrewPRLevi/s…
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Oh dear. twitter.com/vicderbyshire/…
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Liz Truss's farewell speech was an attempted lap of honour after seven weeks of unprecedented self-inflicted catastrophe. It was, in many ways, the most perfect Brexit moment yet.
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If I prioritised my own political preferences & prejudices over the national interest, as most Tories & all Brexiters currently do, I’d want Johnson to have another go. I don’t because I care more about the country. It’s his colleagues who want *more* chaos, corruption & scandal
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This magnificent thread, in which I’m very proud to have a walk-on part, cuts to the heart of a very British malaise. Our society depends not just on the repression of emotion from the top down but upon a dangerous *reverence* for that repression. We prize it even as it hurts us. twitter.com/suzannezeedyk/…
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I often think about this interview, possibly more than any I've done with a serving politician. We recorded it in February & his quiet but steely confidence in his own competence & integrity has become more relevant & important with every passing month. He feels like an antidote. twitter.com/xtattsbox/stat…
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And the secretly-funded IEA’s herbert-in-chief just tried to stop journalists asking Kwasi Kwarteng about ‘politics’. These self-styled ‘libertarians’ never seem very fond of liberty. twitter.com/AdamBienkov/st…
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