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is it the one that’s currently being investigated for sex trafficking
On the left, we have "Lil Nas X" twerking on Satan.
On the right, we have Andrew Tate, who teaches young people to think critically, to take care of their physical health and build financial security.
Guess which one is deemed controversial and which is hailed as a role model.
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When the right talk about “going back to normal”, they mean low-paid workers going back to service jobs where they can’t social distance and middle class people continuing to work from home but with an expanded range of leisure activities.
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A sign of a healthy economy is when you tell a whole generation to sit tight and wait for their parents to die.
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The UK government tackling climate change with 5p plastic bags while still subsidising fossil fuels. nitter.app/jhonawhins/status/1176…
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A funny, funny man.
Congratulations to @realDonaldTrump on your victory.
The UK has no greater friend than the US, with the special relationship being cherished on both sides of the Atlantic for more than 80 years.
We look forward to working with you and @JDVance in the years ahead.
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If you got £1 every 10 seconds, you’d be a millionaire within 4 months.
If you got £1 every 10 seconds, you’d have to wait 310 years before you hit your first billion.
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The whole notion of your own personal carbon footprint is fossil fuel propaganda - literally!
The first carbon footprint calculator was developed and popularised by BP in a $250 million campaign. Why? To individualise the problem, and let big polluters off the hook.
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If I was Bob Vylan, I'd be sending Times Radio a lengthy legal letter. They didn't say 'death to the Jews'. Nobody in the crowd said 'death to the Jews'. This is an outright lie.
"I was going to say that they sometimes seem to have more in common with the Nuremburg rally, but even the Nazis didn’t say 'death to the Jews.'"
Andrew Neil rips into Bob Vylan's Glastonbury set.
#TimesRadio | @afneil
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I, for one, did not see it coming that a woman whose £500k branding deal is built on the backs of garment workers paid £3.50 an hour, might have horrific views on poverty and social mobility.
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One of the things that's really striking about this Harry and Meghan documentary is just... the total lack of awareness that there's a tension between wanting a progressive, modern & diverse royal family, while still participating in an institution based on bloodline superiority.
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Not really much of a price cap if it can go from around £1,200 to £4,200 in the space of a year is it.
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This war is being framed as between Israel and Hamas. But in the West Bank, which is not governed by Hamas, Palestinians are being killed by settlers, sometimes under the watchful gaze of the IDF, and by Israeli forces. Israeli airstrikes have targeted Jenin refugee camp.
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As you can see from the headteacher wearing a loose-fitting maxi dress, it’s not actually about the clothes. It’s about forcing Muslims to choose between expressing their culture, and participating in public life.
Female students in France will no longer be allowed to wear the loose-fitting abaya dress favoured by some Muslim women 👇
The move comes almost 20 years after France banned headscarves from state schools.
Read more: trib.al/qOAJD4d
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Remember when Meghan Markle went to meet her future in-laws for Christmas, and one of them wore a racist brooch for the event?
Imagine how racist you’ve got to be to just be able to whip out SPECIAL OCCASION RACIST ACCESSORIES.
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Long story short, a trans woman said "Oh I'll just wipe my hands on my jeans" to someone in the ladies toilet, and they went running to the Daily Mail to allege that she said "I'll wipe my hands on my penis".
Embarrassing, gutter journalism.
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Just been forced out of a pub by men threatening me and my friends w/ violence, and hurling abuse, because one was wearing a Palestinian scarf and another had a flag. Staff were very apologetic about it, but the fact is the media and politicians have whipped up a frenzy of hate.
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I wonder what drives this kind of violence. Is it cultural? The kind of music he listens to? A lack of strong male role models in the home?
I want to hear from the community leaders on this!
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Not sure how I feel about adultery being used as a reason to discredit someone's political career. Matt Hancock's done enough to be sacked 1,000 times over, having a messy personal life is the least of it.
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Fascism doesn’t arrive in jackboots. It’s men in suits looking calmly over overcrowded cages full of people, and deciding to turn their backs on human suffering.
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The right look at students coughing up £9k a year to be taught by underpaid PhD students, just to get a job which has 0 to do with their degree and spend half their income on renting an ex-council flat, and think the reason why the young don't vote Tory is cos of cancel culture.
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Forced migration at the threat of unspeakable violence is ethnic cleansing.
The Israeli military warned the United Nations that more than a million people in northern Gaza should evacuate south within 24 hours, a move that the U.N. considers impossible “without devastating humanitarian consequences." Follow our live updates.
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The sectors being ratfucked the hardest - pubs, venues, arts and culture - are the only things which make living on this cursed island bearable.
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Here we have many of the same features as the Titanic submarine story – peril on the sea, human lives at stake, a race against time. Will we be getting the same wall-to-wall coverage of the search and rescue?
Migrant boat from Senegal carrying 200 people missing off Canary Islands bbc.in/46EweYc
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I’m waking up to death threats because Twitter has decided that a photo of myself eating an orange lolly in Hackney is a mockery of the people who were stabbed in Reading.
It’s deranged stuff, but nasty all the same. I’d appreciate if people could report some of these tweets.
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This you?
Just your regular reminder that the lives of the rich and powerful are carrying on as normal while ordinary people live under Covid lockdown rules.
Australians stranded abroad are angry as elite tennis players arrive in country despite travel restrictions news.sky.com/story/covid-19-…
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So glad the railways were privatised – for £60, I’m crammed in a vestibule without a seat on a delayed train, safe in the knowledge that billions have been paid out to shareholders rather than being invested to improve the service or pay workers more.
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Remember: it was fine to call Jeremy Corbyn a "terrorist sympathiser", "a dangerous antisemite", and claim that he wanted to "reopen Auschwitz", but totally unacceptable for a political leader to say she detests the Tory party.
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Chucking that statue in the harbour has educated more Brits on the history of the slave trade in this country than leaving it up for 150 odd years did. Can’t argue with the end of season stats bro.
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How’s your morning going? Had a quiet one myself.
In an extremely fiery debate, we discuss the thousands of people who are expected to protest against President Trump... @piersmorgan @susannareid100
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This morning we said goodbye to my beautiful, mischievous, powerful grandmother.
When she came here at 17, India had been independent for less than a decade; Bangladesh would wait almost another 20 years before becoming a country.
The rock on which our whole family was built ❤️
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Absolutely gutted for my sisters in the states. Abortion bans are an attack on all women, but that disproportionately impact women who are poor, women of colour, and women trapped in abusive relationships.
Abortion bans are barbarism.
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BREAKING: This morning, dozens of trade unionists under the banner ‘Workers For A Free Palestine’ have blocked both entrances to Elbit Systems, an Israeli arms company in Kent.
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I’m not saying that Boris Johnson’s victory is a victory for fascists.
But fascists are.
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I dunno guys, but maybe cutting 17,000 hospital beds from the NHS since 2010 was a bad idea with or without a pandemic.
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3 Labour leaders - Brown, Miliband, Corbyn - have lost 4 elections in a row. Their politics were different from each other’s. The political contexts were different. But they all lost.
There are deeper questions here beyond Brexit.
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How many children and infants does the IDF need to kill for it to go from "trope" to "fact"?
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Rashford forced the government to feed impoverished kids, and earned a spot in the starting XI at one of the most prestigious football clubs in the world.
What have you done with your life?
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The decision to call off the BLM protest in Central London might have been contentious, but it was stategically smart. It kept antiracist activists safe - and the far right have humiliated themselves.
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"I'm proud to be working class, and I'm proud to be anti-racist working class as well!"
Love this woman - interviewed by @novaramedia in Barnsley today ❤️
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Women being snatched by police at the vigil for Sarah Everard. Shameful, shameful scenes.
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I'm old enough to remember Suella Braverman's principled resignation for having breached the ministerial code less than a week ago.
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Gosh, my life would be so great if "racism" was just someone doing an exaggerated curtsey.
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Nancy Astor was a Nazi sympathiser who speculated that Hitler could be the solution to the “world problem” of Jews.
Why, in this political climate, do the Conservatives get a free pass to celebrate notorious antisemites?
When Nancy Astor became the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons, our country and our democracy were changed for the better.
I was proud to unveil the @LadyAstorStatue on the centenary of her election #Astor100
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If any other group of football fans had gone to a foreign city, chanted racist stuff, torn down flags, and then got attacked by locals... would they be presented as victims of a pogrom? I mean come on.
Israeli soccer fans attacked in Amsterdam, authorities say... video geolocated by NBC News showed fans of Israeli soccer team Maccabi Tel Aviv singing “Death to the Arabs” and “Let the IDF win. We will f*** the Arabs,” and tearing down a Palestinian flag.
nbcnews.com/news/world/israe…
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Nowhere in this article does it mention that Allegra Stratton's husband, James Forsyth, is the political editor of The Spectator.
The phoney war on Allegra Stratton
✍️ Freddy Gray
spectator.co.uk/article/the-…
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The "most moral army in the world" bombed an ambulance crew they'd previously said would be permitted to rescue a child trapped in a car with her dead family. The paramedics, and the little girl Hind, have all been killed.
Despite prior coordination to allow the ambulance to reach the location to rescue the child, Hind, the occupation deliberately targeted the Palestine Red Crescent ambulance crew.
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This is a big day for people who feel like they personally fought in WW2 despite being born in 1958.
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People scoffed when we said stripping Shamima Begum of her citizenship created a dangerous precedent, and now look: the Nationality and Borders Bill passed last night creates second-class citizens out of millions of Britain’s dual nationals.
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If MPs struggle to maintain their lifestyles on £81,000 plus expenses without taking lucrative second jobs, then how do they think the rest of us are managing?
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The Express is losing its mind because I used the word... “bro.”
No, I’m not joking.
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It's quite funny watching the same right-wing headbangers who shat themselves because I'd said you shouldn't snitch on someone in poverty shoplifting food, now falling over themselves to insist the Prime Minister can have a little bit of law-breaking as a treat.
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Roman Abramovich - described as having a "father and son" relationship with Vladimir Putin - has amassed a British property empire worth £200 million.
Not a penny of that is being touched by Boris Johnson's announced sanctions.
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In December Julie Burchill accused me of worshipping a paedophile and called me an Islamist.
After legal action, she has apologised in full for these falsehoods, for playing into “Islamophobic tropes” and making “racist and misogynist” comments about my appearance and sex life.
On 13 December 2020 I made defamatory statements about @AyoCaesar, which I sincerely regret and retract and have undertaken not to repeat. I have agreed to pay substantial damages to Ash Sarkar and her legal costs. Here is my full and wholehearted apology. Please retweet
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As stricter lockdown rules are announced for parts of northern England, Conservative MP Craig Whittaker told LBC: "It is the BAME communities that are not taking this seriously enough."
@ianpaynesport | @CWhittaker_MP
l-bc.co/39HGmCp
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Hang on; this woman’s story is very sad, but what’s the solution here? She began socially transitioning at 20, was put on a waiting list for a gender identity clinic a year later, and had surgery two years after that. Are we saying that 23 year olds can’t medically consent?
A heart-breaking story that demands to be read to understand what has been going on in our country:
“I was pushed to have a double masectomy and I bitterly regret”ithttps://mol.im/a/12366421 via @MailOnline
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It shouldn't have taken someone dying for The Jeremy Kyle Show to be taken off the air. For nearly 15 years it profited from exploiting addiction, poverty and human misery. It's a damning indictment of how deeply sadistic our society is when it comes to the poor and vulnerable.
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Why would any nation, now, trust diplomacy?
Iran agreed to curb its nuclear programme in 2015 – Trump wrecked the deal in 2018. Iran signed up to a round of talks, only to be bombed by Israel two days before. Iran agreed to negotiate with the European 3 – the US bombed them two days later.
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Look, I never thought I’d say this either, but @piersmorgan is doing what every broadcaster ought to at this time - holding the government’s feet to the fire over their botched pandemic strategy.
Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
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A government who doesn't like it when people say institutional racism exists appointed a panel of people who don't believe institutional racism exists, and they've produced a report which argues that institutional racism doesn't exist.
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I can’t “walk a mile in the Queen’s shoes”, on account of it being a hereditary monarchy. Which I want to abolish.
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This is a lot of words to say "nothing happened".
I was walking through London last night when someone called out of the dark at me, "Are you Jew?"
I froze and turned around.
It was two school girls. They asked again if I was a Jew. They had something in their hands. I panicked and said no.
I was expecting them to launch into an angry "Palestine" rant and thrust pamphlet material at me.
It turns out they were handing out candles for Hanukkah.
I'm not Jewish. But I shan't forget that volt of panic I felt in the moment I realised I was being viewed as a Jew, and not knowing if things would end well or end badly because of it.
I cannot imagine what actual Jews in London and Europe are going through at the moment. I felt paranoid for the rest of my trip.
Whilst their offer of candles set my mind at rest and the world became a better place for a moment, it is easy to imagine such an interaction going in the opposite direction...
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I’m not sure slut-shaming people just for dancing is the best look for a professional racist who got caught shagging a married man in a field.
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The first player to score in five World Cups is Marta Vieira da Silva. Ronaldo is only the first man to do it!
BREAKING: Cristiano Ronaldo has become the first player in history to score at five World Cup tournaments ️⚽️
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Jess Phillips put it well, and simply, on Radio 4 this morning - “I’d have got in the car.”
Most of us would. I would. And that’s because I’d be too scared of what would happen to me if I was deemed to be resisting arrest.
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Andrew Tate – who you're interviewing about 'free speech' – thinks women are a man's property, that we shouldn't be allowed to drive, and boasts about only dating teenagers to "imprint" on them.
Misogynists are disgusting whether they're in Afghanistan or a swanky London studio.
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I’m terribly sorry you had to be reminded of the people your policies killed. Truly, a lamentable coarsening of the discourse.
Unfortunately this is what we’ve walked into this morning. All opposition candidates must condemn such intimidation & criminal behaviour. I have news for these democracy-hating thugs: this will never stop us from campaigning & delivering a @Conservatives majority government 💙
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Austerity killed people. It continues to kill people. And the politicians who voted for it should be reminded of what they’ve done every single day.
BBC Question Time
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If you see someone shoplifting food, and you can afford it, pay for it.
If you see someone shoplifting food, and you can't afford it, you didn't see anything.
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46% of London households don’t own a car. And the average a London commute is twice as long as is it is for the rest of the UK.
Don’t blame commuters for trying to get to work when they’ve been told it’s safe to work.
Buses in London are packed with passengers this morning, despite the govt asking people to avoid public transport if possible when the #coronavirus lockdown eased.
Follow live as England gets back to work: trib.al/fANtpdg
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I asked Bernie Sanders three times whether he thinks Israel's assault on Gaza constitutes a genocide.
Here's what he said.
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Oh yes, very silent.
For 56 years, Eric Clapton remained silent about politics. But when covid struck, the guitarist took a forceful — and controversial — stand. wapo.st/3oh6wDS
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The Titanic submarine is a modern morality tale of what happens when you have too much money, and the grotesque inequality of sympathy, attention and aid for those without it.
Migrants are “meant” to die at sea; billionaires aren’t.
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This is Rosie Duffield, a Labour MP, liking a tweet that contains Holocaust revisionism. Trans people and gay people were sent to die in concentration camps by the Nazis.
This is a historical fact, and it is disgusting that a sitting Labour MP would approve of its denial.
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A hero for our times.
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Gentlemen, you can't ceasefire here! This is the Armistice room!
My statement on the disrespectful protests planned for Armistice Day.
ALT To plan protests on Armistice Day is provocative and disrespectful, and there is a clear and present risk that the Cenotaph and other war memorials could be desecrated, something that would be an affront to the British public and the values we stand for. The right to remember, in peace and dignity, those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for those freedoms must be protected. I have asked the Home Secretary to support the Met Police in doing everything necessary to protect the sanctity of Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday.
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Not understanding tipping culture made my visit to the US so stressful, my god.
It’s not the server’s fault (obviously!), but it feels insane to a Brit that tipping isn’t actually a gratuity it’s basically a secret tax that isn’t on the listed prices.
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I'd like to thank Piers Morgan for paying me more attention than my father ever did. There's something comforting about knowing that even when I feel alone in this world, Piers is somewhere turning a shade of puce and crashing about like an enraged walrus because I did a tweet.
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Liz Truss, god bless her, has the demeanour of someone who’s accidentally scoffed an edible and is trying to make it through a workplace appraisal.
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This is no different from asking British Jews if they have any special warning about settlers attacking Palestinians. Outright racism from Richard Madeley.
Richard Madeley asks British Palestinian MP Layla Moran if she or her family knew about Hamas's attack before it happened #GMB
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