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No one can be in any doubt that Alexei Navalny has been put to death by Vladimir Putin - simply because he had the courage to oppose the Russian tyrant. With this murder Putin plunges new depths of depravity and drags his country further into the darkness.
It would be a shame if Britain got to see it anyway by retweeting this RT
@Femi_Sorry
: This is the John Oliver footage they didn't air in the UK for reasons so stupid I'm going to have to just let him explain in the tweet below.
This is Britain. A privileged venal greedy professional liar puts on a money suit and gets tapped on the shoulder by
the magic wand of a privileged second-class hereditary jobber in a Pirates of Penzance costume and is thus graced with even more privilege....Pantomime democracy
It's heart-breaking to realise this was just a year ago, in Miami, at the Dinner that Kept Growing: I booked a table for 8 which became 15, & meeting Wess in person was the highlight. We talked books. A huge loss. RIP
#chriswesseling
Anyone who tells you there’s an easy answer to this situation isn’t being straight with you.
The Energy Bills Rebate is the fastest, fairest way to deliver help to millions of families.
"The Conservative government has manufactured an artificial humanitarian crisis on British soil.. So they can say at the next election that they can offer the solution to it.. But if they just made the decisions, there would not be a problem."
Hard truth from
@ZoeJardiniere
Can we point out that Pat Tillman bravely volunteered to serve his country ... Became disenchanted with the war he was pursuing... Was killed by friendly fire from US soldiers... And the Army lied to the public & Tillman's family about every aspect of his death.
#peace
If young tory chief
@bbcnickrobinson
can cheer a tory minister saying hungry kids can be helped better at local level, why not ask why covid testing is done by dido harding serco & rupert soames at a natl level, not locally by our NHS?
@bbcr4today
rhetorical question
Those nurses health minister Jeremy Hunt took bursaries away from? The ones who left UK after hostile environment and brexit he voted for? The reduced funding Hunt introduced for hospitals who wouldnt sell their land/facilities to speculators?
Health Committee chair
@Jeremy_Hunt
says the NHS isn't worried now "about the money, what they're worrying about is the workforce" as, despite increased funding from National Insurance rises, the "crucial people to deliver the care just aren't there".
@IvankaTrump
@marcorubio
Review it?! Are you a policy maker. Or is it just one scam artist to another? This is NOT paid leave. It is borrowing your own social security money early. Struggle now or struggle later. Just trying to figure how the Trump family will get their cut
.
@DrRosena
, who is working on the front line in A&E, puts a perfectly valid question to
@MattHancock
who suggests she watch her tone! We now have the highest death toll in Europe & one of the worst in the world! So no Health Secretary,you watch your tone
Natalie Elphicke, who has just been welcomed to the Labour Party by Sir Keir Starmer, cruelly and publicly tormented the victims of her sex offender ex-husband Charlie.
She claimed ***after his conviction*** that he had merely been punished for being "attractive and attracted"
@brianmoore666
It's a tower block. In fires the stairwells & elevator shafts are particularly dangerous, which is why standard advice is not to use them. Had cladding not been flammable, the fire wdntve spread. Blaming victims for their own deaths is even more venal than blaming firefighters
Today is the 45th anniversary of my arrival in the UK for a couple of years' trial stay. Turned into life without parole. It was a very different country in Jan 1977. The last ten years of decline and five years of national suicide have made it poorer than then in so many ways
Tory MP Scott Benton offered to table parliamentary questions, leak a confidential policy document and lobby ministers on behalf of gambling industry investors who proposed paying him thousands of pounds a month. Undercover investigation for The Times:
For those asking, I won't be on
#bbc
cvrg of
#SuperBowl
for 1st time since 2006 (incl a 2 year hiatus when I went with the game to C4 & back). My thanks to all the production team, esp
@RonChak
who brought me on board & to hosts & fellow guests w whom I had a great run of games!
@Haggis_UK
@mikegalsworthy
Love the way Bercow gets cut off as soon as he gets to facts which the presenters don't want because they have no idea of what they are & understand only political sloganeering which has to be bothsided for "balance" and to avoid research that would take away from make-up time
If Starmer responded to all questions about Durham by saying "I can't answer until Sue Gray finishes her report" would that convince the Tory media that he should be defended?
Lauren Witzke, the Delaware GOP's candidate for Senate in 2020, has nothing but praise for Putin and "his Christian nationalist nation": "I identify more with Putin's Christian values than I do with Joe Biden."
@AlokSharma_RDG
A vaccine developed in Germany by Turkish immigrants which we will need special dispensations to import from factories in Belgium after 1 Jan. Best Of British Sovereignty!
@BBCPolitics
@Geoff_McGivern
Carefully curated clip but the irony is it shows how sharply
@bbclaurak
snaps back to defend Liz Truss, who hasn't hinted at a plan throughout interminable hustings but now has a secret package she can't tell us about until next week. "liz has a package" is not unbiased hosting
Thoughts and prayers, plus NRA cash. 19 school shottings that hasnt stopped so far this year. Your thoughts are feeble, your prayers fall on deaf ears. But NRA money talks, your bullshit walks
Just spoke with
@POTUS
about shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. My thoughts and prayers are with the students, their families and the entire community. We will continue to receive briefings from law enforcement and issue updates.
The Pfizer vaccine was developed by a German company BioNTech founded by a man who's a turkish immigrant & wife whose parents were. Some of their team worked in Austria. It is being manufactured in Belgium. Not funded by US govt & your pres refused to buy massive doses from them,
@13sarahmurphy
He refused to talk about the job for Carrie Antoinette saying "he didn't propose to discuss his family". But she was his mistress at the time, his family was in elite liberal Islington. No reporter at least asked "which family?"
Because you & more predictable media refused to hold Johnson to account for his policies, his failures in office or his shambolic management of everything from London to his own life. Consider the mirror
Why are Boris Johnson and his government not facing harsher criticism for their handling of this crisis? There are multiple explanations, but one of them is Donald Trump. Latest column
@Beany_1
@Dominic2306
250 mile journey each way, breaking regs. 30 mile journey to tourist spot on holiday, to "test vision" breaking regs. Stayed in house built on papa's estate, without planning permission, on which no council tax ever paid. Forgiven by Durham CC,no penalties. Tell us abt lies
@BarristerSecret
@mrjamesob
@MishalHusain
Filetting fish in a barrell. The question is why it took 50k dead before someone on the Toady programme ever dared fillet Dim Dom. Not thru 2 elections or whole of Brexit. He didnt suddenly go thick yesterday
Kevin Cadle died a year ago today. I went to link to the first piece I wrote, for , but the link no longer works. So I copied it into the second piece I wrote that day, for my...
@edwardpoole1975
@mikegalsworthy
When I mentioned this to one of my Brexit backing local worthies as we stood in a supermarket queue early in the lockdown he replied "but New Zealand is an island"
Four years ago today Kev was gone. This one was taken just about five years ago, after the NFL game at Twickenham, at a bar where after the game I interviewed Kev to help promote his book. I'd see you tomorrow at White Hart Lane, my man.
Listening to
@BBCr4today
daily update of US death toll, and reference to Italy's 67,000 as "harrowing" I wonder why our {unredacted) death toll, high as Italy's, isn't worth a mention amidst interminable dissection of who's in which tier
“A very formidable servile servant, Sue Gray”
…and in that little Freudian slip, the hand is shown as to why all the Conservative Ministers insist on tagging “integrity”, “respected”, “formidable” to her name. It’s a script. They’re sewing it up.
Dear Rishi Rich, I didn't realise restoring bonuses to bankers, subsidising energy company profits, refusing to pay workers whom you told us to applaud, poisoning our waters, spiffing billions to your friends family & donors and enobling spivs were my priorities, but thanks.
Serious question re
@DominicRaab
holiday; does parliament not have access to appointments/?meetings diaries and phone logs from ministers? Easy enough then to see when he was open for business
@KatzOnEarth
@JillFilipovic
They have become like the WSJ. Lots of solid reporting held back by ideological (or in NYT case, also timid} management, subservient coverage of white house, & an insane opinion page a la WSJ.
I remember when I commented on the more crucial aspects of life. I started when I was about 14. Had my first published protest at 16. While I played sport. I dont tell you to stick to fucking bricks, do I?
@daraobriain
@colettebrowne
This is as good as the Atlanta Organizing Committee refusing to send Olymic tickets to New Mexico because they could only be sent in US. The 'supervisor' told the customer "Old Mexico, New Mexico, I don't care: I'm not sending them to Mexico
@JamesMelville
On the off chance I might be asymptomatic spreading and to set an example for those who have not had both doses rather than encourage a tiered society. And wearing a mask in shops hardly makes me less free
@SenateGOP
Sorry, has Ted Cruz joined some other party? Has Hawley? Has Marco Rubio?
Has Kennedy? The fighting is EXACTLY what you fight for, if you can't get it any other way....
Here's the scary part: Johnson Out pick 'em: Dim Dom, Slithy Gove, Priti Awful, Jeremy *unt (NHS fire sale), Rishi Rich, Truss, Nadine Doris or greatest living Englishman Marc LeFrancois ? Im a Brit Get Me Out If Here
Just had an email from
#DAZN
telling me my payment for
#nfl
#gamepass
had been "accepted" .
Given I hadn't authorised it or ordered it, as I was not on auto-renew this was am amazing feat of efficiency. How many others had subscriptions "renewed" and "upgraded" without knowing?
@deirdreheenan
Why does Fiona Bruce jump to Stan's defence and assert his wife-beating was "a one-off"? Bruce ignores Charlotte Fawcett's claim in an interview that Stan "hit me many times over many years... I want the truth to be told." Not as long as Bruce is carrying the can for Boris
BBC's Laura Kuenssberg used the the word "generous" while describing universal credit. This an opinion and not evidence-based journalism. It gives the distinct impression people receiving the payment, should be "grateful"
@BBCr4today
An interesting thread on the now-forgotten Bush II scandal of firing US Attornies who refused to pursue persecution of people for non-existent voter fraud....
“In 2007, the Justice Department was upended by scandal because it had pursued a partisan [anti-voting] agenda on voting, under the guise of rooting out suspected ‘voter fraud.’” 1/
@implausibleblog
@ZoeJardiniere
When it was a 7 year old crying in a car where all her family had been murdered, and she was killed along with those who tried to help her, her death was ok because she wasn't british?
Labour's
@SteveReedMP
says “I like the idea” of the policy to stop care workers bringing their dependents to the UK, but 'the question is phasing it in'.
#PoliticsHub
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@Channel4News
On air story doesn't mention local party had selected her
Doesn't mention she nearly beat Ian Duncan Smith in 2019, one of only 6 labour losers to gain v Tories
Doesn't mention how "new" material came to the attention of NEC
Doesn't mention right NEC mems chuted into safe seats
Two years ago today I wrote about our losing
#KevinCadle
. Not long after I was privileged to speak at his memorial service. Where I discovered the family called him Michael. Still miss you, big guy.
Big news!!!
#bbcnfl
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@markchapman
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@JasonBell33
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