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Just batting ideas around here, America, but maybe someone with a rapsheet as long as that of @laurenboebert should never be able to run for office or own guns? Crazy idea, I know, but humour me.
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I’ve learned that there’s a Baby Viking Summer Camp, and I have questions and also may become obsessed.
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I don’t retweet this nearly often enough.
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This is not a tapestry, or weaving, or painting.
It’s the most detailed image we have of a human cell, obtained by radiography, nuclear magnetic resonance, and cryoelectron microscopy. We are works of art ✨
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I don’t know about those interests as they’re my wife’s, says @RishiSunak. As I wrote for @BylineTimes last year, the Ministerial Code REQUIRES him to. He either doesn’t know the Code, or thinks we’re dimwits. Or both, I guess.
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I’m going to bore you by continuing to spread this article, you’ll be seeing loads of it. Because way too many people think Penny Mordaunt is a ‘safe Tory option’ as she’s pretty. Think she has ‘no baggage’. Keep labelling her ‘socially liberal’. No no NO
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I see the PM had a little sinus op. How unexpected.
By the way, have you seen my latest @BylineTimes article about parliamentary #cocaine? What, why? Oh, no reason.
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I used to own a number of them, as did my parents, grandparents, great-grandparents. They were our investment, our inheritance, ours to bequeath, and were run for us as well as by us, not for sick offshore wealth hoarding brigands. They were stolen from us, and I want them back.
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A friend just came across this. Taken when I thought I was fat, old, and unattractive.
I was 28.
Why are we such idiots?
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It’s a significant marker of how compromised many believe Kuenssberg to be - and have for a long time - that few appear to believe this explanation. Regardless of the truth, that alone should be examined seriously by the broadcaster we pay for, with a code we expect it to honour.
Tomorrow’s interview with Boris Johnson won’t be going ahead. As Laura has explained, interview briefing notes meant for colleagues were inadvertently shared with him. This makes an interview tomorrow untenable. Under the circumstances, both the BBC and Mr Johnson’s team have agreed this is the best way forward.
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I’ve theorised here before that Priti Patel was bullied at school, contributing to her sociopathy now. Having dug deeper, it seems ‘Rita’, as she was known at school, and her Dora the Explorer haircut, was not bullied but a bully. Surprise surprise.
That’s her on the far right.
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You’re calling HIM flustered? He was calm and polite throughout your how-not-to-interview interview. You seem to have caught Tory Projection Syndrome, it’s definitely infectious in recent years. Should’ve worn a mask, Kay!
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I wrote to @RishiSunak over a month ago to ask by what authority @BorisJohnson was travelling to other countries while Parliament was in session, what he was saying or arranging in our name, and who was paying for it. I’ve yet to receive a response. Please RT to give him a nudge.
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This is all a dream, isn’t it? Everything since around 2016. Just a terrible, increasingly rancid and dimwitted dream. Someone wake me up please.
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Natalie can be a ‘journalist’ at the White House without being able to spell her own job title.
Only in America.
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There are times when I really wish I could risk using certain terms on Twitter. There’s no way she doesn’t know. What a desperate, sick, pathetic, odious individual, unfit to be anywhere near education.
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‘Why are we destroying economy for people who will die anyway soon’
‘Bed blockers’
Notes by Boris Johnson’s private secretary, 19/3/2020. Johnson’s defence? They weren’t intended for public consumption. He should be tried at The Hague, with all who humoured him.
#Breathtaking
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Remember when people said this arrogant twunt was “good for a Tory”? There are no good Tories. Not any more. That party is dead, buried under avarice, corruption, lies, and sociopathy. And, frankly, just plain rudeness.
#GeneralElectionN0W
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As I reported last year for @BylineTimes, the “40/48 new” hospitals, plans for which are now admitted to “lie in tatters”, could never actually have existed. They were part of a Johnsonian conspiracy of lies in which the @DHSCgovuk participated.
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A deep google dive about Carrie On Spending Johnson shows there’ve been just 2 stories about her in 2022, in both cases delivered by a ‘spokesperson’: the ‘birthday party’ fine and non-apology, and being the ‘victim of a briefing campaign’. No new photos of her. She’s left him.
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Bank: We’ve no way of knowing if you can keep up mortgage payments of 650.
Buyer: I’ve paid my landlord £950 a month for 3 years.
Bank: Save up and pay a £30k deposit so we know you’re good for the 650.
Buyer: I can’t – I pay my landlord 950 a month.
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The cognitive dissonance an entire generation has worldwide about the housing crisis needs to be studied for a century:
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This is what happens when relatively normal, sane, likeable people with a public service ethic who don’t seem to hate most of their fellow human beings run for office.
Florida must be absolutely covered in ketchup right now.
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I stand with @GaryLineker, not the odious, venal lunatic fringe in power with no mandate. RT if you agree.
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I can get my head round the sociopathy, the truly vile nature of some. Have seen enough of it close up. What I still can’t grasp is how openly, even gleefully, it’s shared nowadays because they think it’s been sufficiently normalised. That’s surely down to the years of Tories.
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“The public will rightly question why schools raking in tens of millions of pounds in income each year were able to secure interest-free loans footed by the taxpayer when state schools have seen their funding slashed over the past decade”
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A Foreign Secretary trying to arrange for his Russia-connected mistress to be his chief of staff. Why is there no discussion of national security implications?
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An Asian Hornet seen in Kent. If you spot one please report to defra or via Asian hornet App. Take a photo of it and exact location so it can be tracked to its nest and destroyed. One Asian hornet can eat 50 honey bees a day. Look for yellow socks, deep orange head, black thorax.
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I’m 58, and live in fear that if I end up in a nursing home, the music will be Vera Lynn instead of Shriekback, Massive Attack, Funkstar Deluxe, Earth Wind & Fire, China Crisis, Durutti Column, Groove Armada, and Bauhaus.
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‘Thousands of people could die in the coming heatwave, experts warn, as the government triggered the first ever national emergency heat red alert with a record 40C (104F) … illness and death may occur among the fit and healthy, not just in high-risk groups’
But you know better.
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Starmer – who sometimes uses Chequers, like every other PM since 1921 – lost his younger brother yesterday.
On Twitter, as in life, sometimes you like and respect people, then have to block them after they appear to have had a soulectomy and SDS (Starmer Derangement Syndrome).
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Sale. It’s not just deportation, we’re paying Rwanda to take human beings. Done in our name with our money.
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Remember cocaine traces were found in 11 parliamentary bathrooms in December, including one next to the Crime Minister’s office, all accessible only by people with parliamentary passes. The Speaker said he referred it to the Met, but only radio silence since. We must press him.
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Just apologise for your misogynistic attack, your part in an unjust pile-on, your disloyalty to a fellow journalist and to the principles of good journalism. It’s the correct, mature, and professional thing to do. Why can’t you do it?
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Charles and his mother used, over a 1000x, a procedure to change laws to benefit their private interests. He stopped tenants on his estate from being included in right-to-buy laws, one of 4 times we know of that leasehold laws were changed.
#Dispatches
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There’s only one tweet today that made me actually physically ill from moral outrage for the first time in my 55 years.
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I’m 58 and “I’m voting Conservative” is what I’d say to signal to everyone who knows me even a tiny bit that I’ve been kidnapped.
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PS: Emily, I wrote to the BBC and Ofcom about the platforming of you and your ilk, opaquely funded, cuckoos in the nest. I said for all we know, you receive Russian money. They chickened out, but I’ll keep holding the BBC to their broken promise. Ram it.
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Dear USA:
Many British people joined in resisting Trump. Now we need your help with Britain Trump. 1820 dead today alone. Out of the EU. Media taken over by right wing. Bannon playbook. Industries collapsing. Please follow British resisters where you find them. Send hugs, memes.x
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Most up-to-date poll shows over 62% of Americans want abortion to be legal. SCOTUS, today and with yesterday’s ruling on NY concealed carry gun laws, is forcing minority dogma on a majority. You know that 62% is a majority, right? You managed the maths on the whole 48/52 thing.
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If you’d released them at the time, many thousands of lives could have been saved. It’s shameful and immoral how you’ve treated this a political game, when 1 of every 372 souls in the UK have died of Covid, most preventably.
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I haven’t lost faith in the NHS to take care of me.
I’ve lost faith in those who were supposed to be taking care of the NHS for me.
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When will authoritarians learn that you can’t super-injunct Twitter?
As an aside, in my view, the screenshot is one of the greatest inventions of all time.
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I know someone who’ll be very, very put out not to be Master of Ceremonies and centre-stage in the coming weeks.
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You know what many MPs did tonight instead of voting on the #PrivilegesCommitteeReport?
They partied.
#GeneralElectionNow
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It’s going to be very difficult if not impossible to decide upon one photograph which represents this era, but I’d like to nominate this one.
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It’s not even just people on low income, the market is so f&*%ed. Even with a well-paid job, without the Bank of Mum and Dad it’s hard to save a deposit for a 650pcm mortgage when you’re paying 1000pcm to a private landlord.
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They probably lifted the suspension at the request of the FBI because they’re still gathering evidence.
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I’m not great at maths, @premnsikka but I’ve done some sums:
🔴 334,000 killed by ‘austerity’
🔴 208,000: Covid, a great many avoidably
🔴 117,000: no hospital treatment
🔴 93,000: poverty
🔴 72: Grenfell Tower
Tories have killed 1 in every 89 people.
Why aren’t they in prison?
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