V interesting - shows that that Brexit-y Labour areas have shifted towards regret more than Brexit-y Tory areas. Again indicates Starmer probably has more room for manoeuvre than he realises. https://twitter.com/TomMcTague/status/1619972362585227264
Exclusive new mega poll (10,000) for @unherd. Introducing “UnHerd Britain 2023.”
⛔️ Trigger warning: if you’re a Tory, look away now! https://unherd.com/2023/01/introducing-unherd-britain-2023/
Douglas Murray on the AFD
"The public can see that these people often called racists and Nazis are – whatever else you might think of them – clearly not Nazis or racists" https://twitter.com/PinchasRabbi/status/1619776175978725376
Fifty three members of the AFD far right party in the German Parliament left the plenary, when a Holocaust survivor spoke during International Holocaust Day. Sixteen of them, on the 24th of January, introduced a law to ban Shechita in Germany. Achtung Antisemitismus!!!
It’s nearly a year since Putin launched his brutal full-scale invasion of #Ukraine.
Throughout this time, Russian forces have been committing widespread atrocities.
There must be justice.
A long, slow 🧵 on what Human Rights Watch has worked on & documented so far…
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Another unsung hero of the Holocaust. Born January 28th in 1911 - teacher Johan van Hulst saved 600 Jewish children from certain death.
Sylvia Syms died today.
Every actress who was asked to play Laura in Victim turned it down without even reading the script.
Syms accepted the role on moral grounds. She was friends with John Gielgud and knew of a gay family friend who'd taken his life.
RIP, you wonderful woman.
This is truely desperate framing from the Telegraph - near donkey 🐴 sanctuary levels of accidentally making Starmer look good/normal...
'If he truely wanted to cut public subsidy to private education, he should have... stopped people making different choices for him as a child'
Yes, because the man who falsely claimed "I was never warned" about Windrush, and who lied about Theresa May's responsibility for the "go home" vans, is *exactly* what the Home Office needs..
Rishi Sunak has pledged an investigation into sleaze claims surrounding the appointment of BBC Chairman, Richard Sharp
For this week's column, I looked at the remit of the man investigating. The limits to his powers mean Downing Street is dodging scrutiny
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/bbc-cronyism-inquiry-why-run-man-deep-family-ties-tory-party-2108603?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1674816744
"The real problem here is libel law, and how it can be used by the powerful to silence people who criticise them"
To me that’s the most important lesson from the Zahawi affair. Tax law worked fine. HMRC did it’s job. Libel law is broken. https://twitter.com/timesradio/status/1619715745881161728
"I had no idea that a senior politician could say things that were just not true and take legal action or threaten to take legal action on that basis."
Nadhim Zahawi used libel law to stop journalists from exposing his taxes, says @DanNeidle on #TimesRadio.
My God, you’d curl up and die with shame if you’d got something this wrong…unless of course you’re Hannan, in which case you get a peerage and publish articles in the Telegraph blaming the people who got it right for it not turning out as you’d claimed it would.
More people than ever realise that people like Daniel Hannan sold them a complete lie, as illustrated here in this 2016 Newsnight piece in which he describes our totally false future under Brexit. They took back control. He ended up in the Lords, it should have been prison. https://twitter.com/brexit_sham/status/1464140391582687241
Merci à toutes et tous pour ces nombreux échanges sur l’avenir de notre système de retraites.
Comme ici à Vire, je continuerai à débattre avec tous ceux qui le souhaitent.
Je crois au dialogue : grâce à vos témoignages, nous allons enrichir ce projet avec la majorité. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1619465909005090819
2. The lamestream media missed this story because they were useless/corrupt!
I'm going to leave the politics to others. The tax part of the Zahawi story, and therefore my role, feels over. But I wanted to sign off by correcting three takes which we’re going to hear a lot of, and I think are wrong. https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/01/29/three-wrong-takes-on-the-zahawi-affair
@BethRigby "There has been a serious breach of the Ministerial Code" and "you should be extremely proud" shouldn't really be two phrases in the same letter.
Any decent boss would tell him to be extremely ashamed.
@JMPSimor Also he will get a ministerial pension and severance pay from the Treasury- it is rotten and the whole thing stinks #Conservatives
You can hold the Tory whip if you don’t pay your taxes, supporting the PM from the backbenches. And you can probably also hold a Ministerial post provided, that is, you are transparent about not paying your taxes. Another day in the life of Tory Britain. #broken
Ivory is a really gorgeous app, I heartily recommend it. Look at these screenshots. https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274
Bailed, Failed, Should Have Been Jailed, Failed Still Faster, Tried
Dear @ThierryBreton, dear @vestager, dear @vonderleyen,
NOW it‘s your turn. Unless you were just joking about the bird flying according to our rules.
Best regards. https://twitter.com/JanAlbrecht/status/1603716688905752582
So #twitter is blocking me from posting this tweet. That‘s unfortunately the end of it. 🪦
Journo pals. Come on over, the water’s fine. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/15/media/twitter-musk-journalists-hnk-intl/index.html
Dear @TwitterSupport, as much as we enjoy our excellent bilateral relations and close alphabetical vicinity with Nigeria, we would much appreciate if you could label us as Norway😉
P.S. That also goes for Prime Minister @jonasgahrstore and Foreign Minister @AHuitfeldt 🇳🇴
@WarMonitor3 Newsweek of 12-12-2022 headed that Russia complains about Ukrainian agression 🤣🤣 The nerve 🤬
Gaming folks.... Where should the "jump" button be on a standard 4 button diamond configuration (that is the controller sused by XB, PS & Nin)
English.
😘 https://twitter.com/3YearLetterman/status/1601787579916963840
I literally cannot name one thing that England does better than America
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