I wrote a thing about Orwell and "patriotism"; the odd and interesting "love" part in "love of country", that isn't dinner dates but might be to do with possession and jealousy. You should read it because it is amusing, some think insightful.
@ElliotElinor
@carolecadwalla
It is. But not (just) in the way you think. Note that this sponsorship is a form of subsidy for some very hard up tax-avoiding owners who just happen to be both powerful and sympathetic to the government's political philosophy.
@IAPonomarenko
Do Russians even know that they fought WWII with American supplies and trucks, supplied through a Nazi blockade by British sailors, or those that survived as far as Murmansk?
@StevePeers
@theAliceRoberts
@chrischirp
One of many crucial points. Key for me:
Marking anyone who disagrees with govt. policy as an "activist" is an attempt to use "balance" to prevent the contamination of political debate by factual information.
Every such move is a ratchet to insanity.
#Newsnight
on the collapse in the Ambulance/Hospital system due to the collapse in Social Care.
Reminder that Johnson boasted of having "sorted out" social care, and sold your rights on a promise of more money to the
#NHS
@AidanReilly
@PhillipsPOBrien
The Northern Ireland Protocol doing what it is supposed to: keep Ireland out of this shitshow. It's pretty clear HMG now intend ruining this bus maker as well.
@DmytroKuleba
France has not called for Russia not to be humiliated. Macron has spoken about how the West should engage with a defeated Russia. Not then "in the spirit of" humiliation.
@GoodwinMJ
#Brexit
Popular with people who think they won't have to suffer the consequences.
What were they thinking? That a pension pot is a vault somewhere?
That healthcare works best without a workforce? What?
@JGForsyth
Real wages have gone down. ONS figures. The gamble he's taking is that journalists will not report the facts, and instead waste tweets on matchplay commentary.
Which gamble you are rewarding.
@KirstieMAllsopp
@oisinck
Twitter can be unkind, but on the whole it seems like fair comment to point out that some of us spent six years warning about things like this, and that when we did we weren't exactly greeted with the milk of human kindness, or thought, from the advocates of this bright idea.
@ProfJeffKenner
@ntrickett16
Galeev's threads have the rare merit of accurately predicting events on a battlefield, a month in advance. I think that should count for something. And for more than credentials or methodology.
Not sure why others disagree.
@StevePeers
@SophyRidgeSky
@RishiSunak
He doesn't just buy a journalist. He buys a place in the heads of an entire network of journalists. As a potential employer.
The sort of stuff about How Britain Works that the clamour for a written constitution is about.
@AliAlbrecht5
@MichaelRosenYes
This lie is heinous. It denies any country bordering Russia can have national sovereignty. It further denies that NATO specifically refused Ukraine's application as not meeting universal criteria that they had not even requested to join NATO at the time of the 2014 invasion.
@RestoreTrustNT
Go on then. Show us a sample of him "encouraging racist abuse". Because given the evasions ("original ethos") and falsehoods ("forum", "grassroots") that usually come out of this account, a terminological inaccuracy in this case also would surprise precisely no one.
@badbrainAJ
@Mij_Europe
@gavinesler
It is _brexit_ that insists on this. We tried toexplain what being a third country is, because most brits have no experience of it. The Turks tried to explain. Now t is reality and people are STILL sodding "debating" it. Absolute bloody madness.
@ThamarSmit1
@kimwillsher1
@shashj
18 Caesars in theatre, it takes 2weeks to train crews on every batch of six. They have never indicated a maximum number and deliveries exceed initial announcements.
@JMPSimor
@JamesCleverly
1. "Stop telling me Trump is a fascist"
2. "I will not believe that Trump is a fascist"
3. "I cannot believe that Trump is a fascist"
4. "I could not believe that Trump was a fascist"
5. "Why did no one tell me that Trump was a fascist"?
.
@JamesCleverly
@devisridhar
"Shielding the vulnerable" sloganeering, however, is extremely effective at justifying inaction against the virus, and making illness sound like the fault of your more vulnerable citizens and their families, rather than of an inept or non-existent public health response.
@DavidTennantUK
@bbclaurak
Just extraordinary that the Govt itself from the front benches describes it's actions as "will break international law" and a Journalist
@bbclaurak
, who is supposed to be independent, is putting a more No.10 gloss on this than their own sodding ministers at the dispatch box.
@mdouganlpool
"in fact admitting" would be to ascribe reason, or adulthood, or interest in reality, to a political movement dedicated to rejecting all three. cf
@chrisgreybrexit
@CAChalmers_
as a philosopher, my curiosity was peeked by your follow up
Might I ask a question? Do you think that there are, by definition, no physical things that exist, or are you making any special kind of exception for sex?
@DavidHenigUK
If only it were merely chaotic. The common theme is that if it is the PM's ego v. the health of nation it is the India jaunt every time.
Vaccines wasn't organisation- it was snaffling EU doses and banning out own exports, IE a prize for git of the year.
@ReemAmirIbrahim
@Sierra__Alpha
You are using "leftist" to spit at anyone who agrees with Winston Spencer Churchill about human rights law, or European Union.
There is something endlessly mad about that, and fantastically dangerous.
@ElliotElinor
Firtash.
Firtash foundation head Jake Wakefield. Mate1 of DC, brother of Mary Wakefield, wife of DC.
Firtash is known to security services as major organised crime figure &conduit for Putin.
Macron in China
An English translation of the
@LesEchos
interview so freely distorted by
@politico
PDF format with notes on the main translation problems, and the uncharitable/incendiary uses of them in anglo media.
.
@alexhallhall
@Seggitorial
@MrPMHarrison
@mrjamesob
He's taken it in order to be invited on the radio to talk endlessly about why he's taken it. This is why contrarian bullshit is now a career option.
Stop enabling.
@MarinaPurkiss
Didn't I read somewhere that Leigh is a descendant of the Romanovs, and takes his Russian family links extremely seriously?
Wouldn't be surprised if the patriotism at the bottom of his Brexit activism were actually patriotism for Mother Russia.
@carolecadwalla
We can guess that Cummings laid the criteria. To beat down grade inflation at all costs. His favourite tools and his favourite hobby horse in his old dept.
@Docstockk
Perhaps one of Owen Jones's more thought out syllogisms.
Fascists want to protect women.
THEREFORE
Protecting women is fascist.
There is a certain elegance to this drivel.
@skullnbonesgame
I know this is only a stupid ad but it is really ANNOYING when flags on ships are animated with wind from the opposite direction to that which fills the sails.
@Femi_Sorry
Such an incalculable tragedy. As bad as anything I was warning about in 2016 and daily I discover some new way in which it is worse.
The deliberate exploitation of those who could not conceive that lies of such a magnitude could be told them by that charming Boris Johnson.
@PPaulCharles
@NicolaSturgeon
@devisridhar
You need someone to blame, don't you- so you blame the one person who, if her advice had been followed in No.10 since last feb, could have saved your business.
Just your Koch bros sponsored
@iealondon
shill complaining that vindictively starving children for the sake of greed ought to get a better press in English Literature.
Also mad that anyone should "focus on the negatives of" the several million dead in the Great War.
@DavidHenigUK
@davidallengreen
The big plan with the fishing quotas we sold to the Dutch and the Danes is not that different to breach of contract, either.
Piracy with a Union Jack on it.
@DavidHenigUK
Likewise the folly of announcing or believing that you've 'fixed social care' when the main cost of it is labour and you've just initiated the biggest labour shock since the war as a matter of deliberate government policy.
@DalrympleWill
I gently suggest you read this, if you want to find out what "Amalek" means in Israeli talk. It is everywhere in Yadvashem as reference to the Nazis, not the Germans.
@Gordon_998877
@YouGov
Statisticians can call it. Objectively. By comparing all the other places in Europe that also had Covid and didn't have Brexit.
And I can call it. Who had my rights theived on a promise of increasing real wages. Which take a new dive for the centre of the earth. As predicted.
@Scotty_Pacheco_
@Mij_Europe
@EmmanuelMacron
@POTUS
Or doesn't want to lose a (very thin) chance of saving lives in Mariupol.
I don't think this unreasonable. Nor the phone conversations. Someone has to do that, just as someone has to speak as Biden did.
@ProbablyADick
@Otto_English
She is a protegé of Roger Scruton (the "conservative" philosopher and Orban apologist) who boasted of being so admitted into his family that he leant her his horse.
This I glean from a profile in French accurately foretelling her glittering career :
@DMSintheUK
@trussliz
@Telegraph
How is public life now just conservative party members screaming "left wing" at international bond markets?
How did this happen?
How is it even possible?
@MichaelRosenYes
It was a carefully worded tweet and in what he specifically said he was right. To watch the straw man deflections has been nearly as appalling as the the effort to get him sacked. What on earth are they thinking.
@carolecadwalla
His answer is that there aren't lessons because he did nothing wrong.
And that his egoism makes it impossible to learn, because that would involve self-reproach.
@ElliotElinor
@carolecadwalla
It's part of the deal that you lose cash on newspapers- they are deployed by barons as an expensive lobbying megaphone. But as newspapers are much harder to sell in lockdown they hadn't bargained on the megaphone costing THAT much. Hence loonier "lockdown sceptics" in some.
@RishiSunak
You are at a meeting of the European Political Community. Which you don't name. That would be embarrassing. You are only person at this meeting who thinks it is about "illegal" migration. Moldova, which is hosting the event, is sure this is a meeting about getting into the EU.
@emmaroc33249448
@bbcquestiontime
@benhabib6
That part of the UK is on the island of Ireland, and that this creates a problem for any brexit border, isn't invented by "globalists". These are just facts.
@tcmbigcheese
@pete_sinclair
2) They overwhelmingly are staying in Poland and Germany.
3) the 1951 convention specifically says that refugees don't have to claim refuge in the first safe country, because any such rule 1939-1950 could have caused millions of deaths, and did.
@StevePeers
@theAliceRoberts
@chrischirp
Either is is raining or it isn't raining.
The pro-govt. move is equivalent to saying that if a meteorologist is contradicted by the Prime Minister, then the meteorologist is an "activist".
Same for everything from trade law to medicine.
@JamesCrisp6
@christopherhope
This does seem bonkers as HMG started metric& decimalisation long before membership of EEC was on the horizon and no EU law conceivably prevented dual measures or did anything to obstruct established imperial units in use.
Have I really lost my civil rights for this nonsense?
@RestoreTrustNT
@TweetTheArticle
@nationaltrust
"silence dissenting voices"
aka point out where your money comes from and ZG's short interesting career in right wing agit-prop.
We are not allowed to say these things?
@allisonpearson
@afneil
Ah yes, so THE NHS is responsible for telling the EU and their normal ventilators to go jump in the lake, is it?
Wondered how long that ludicrous lie would stay in lockdown.
Whoops, let it out there, Allison.
@JuliaHB1
@domdyer70
@BylineTimes
You are not mentally retarded. Quite the reverse. You are cleverly taking advantage of a national disaster (to which you have contributed) to construct and fan a culture war narrative (from which you personally will profit).
Diabolical.
😮Every operational leader has said that no-deal
#Brexit
distracted contingency planners away from pandemic preparedness.
Gove reckons that syphoning crisis staff to Brexit prep, so that when the pandemic hit they were distracted and exhausted, ACTUALLY helped train them! 👀 ~AA
@IAPonomarenko
@BorisJohnson
What's telling about this: he has only ever used Ukraine to win some internal battle in the UK that would help him get power or keep it.
So he was perfectly happy to treat the Maïdan as part of some EU conspiracy that needlessly provoked Putin, so long as that got him votes.
@ElliotElinor
@simon_schama
@joecocker15
It's horrific, all of it, but over the heads of many here sails the fact that Z is not a letter in the Russian alphabet. It is an invented tribe symbol, after exactly the manner of fascists
@rolandmcs
These people, the audience, are what is left in RW politics when you rip everything from a 1970s BNP manifesto, and start presenting that from the dispatch box.
Anti intellectualism on the far right has always been gendered. They specifically wish that fewer women get an education, in order that they spend more time getting pregnant, and we need fewer "migrants". Far right women MPs also say this, explicitly.
@devisridhar
You have twitter followers who come to you for reassurance that human life matters.
This explains, I fear, why so many of us take comfort in your thoughts even as these were ignored by Johnson- or rather because.
GPs who fulfil similar pastoral role. It is a sort of medicine.
@KirstieMAllsopp
@FurnessGirl
Quite a lot of your speaking publicly about brexit seems to contradict this statement, the precise claim in which perhaps I haven't understood.
You were notably critical of Remain campaign materials pre the vote. Apropos, would you say the country was more or less "kind" now?
@irgarner
@dreojs92
Ukraine, in planning to win back control of its own territory, has never relied upon western delusions about "liberal" opposition in Moscow.
Their advances deserve our support and are going to get it.
@FurnessGirl
@KirstieMAllsopp
The Honourable Kirstie M. Allsopp is being a bit less than perfectly frank with you. She is correct that she did not during the Ref. campaign tweet "vote leave".
However, she criticised the remain campaign, expressed no such about vote leave& then joined 'we are all leavers now'
@SAshworthHayes
1. This is imagery fitting for a fascist
2. Unless you make the UK uninhabitable these rates of "born abroad" are normal for a modern economy, and necessary to sustaining an ageing population
3. If you sell Brexit on something that cannot be done, you have lied to the public
@KirstieMAllsopp
@FurnessGirl
Although your interventions pre referendum were notably one-sided (against the remain campaign), to be fair, the only sense in which you could firmly be pinned down as a brexiteer is the "we are all brexiteers now" sense, post referendum.
There's the rub. Lots of us never were.
@stevep_1973
@BritishAlba
@markjenkinsonmp
@UKLabour
No he is proposing we imprison union shop stewards for crimes against the Volk. There is a significant portion of twitter that takes "they came for the Xs, and I was not an X" as an instruction manual for fascism, and not a warning.
...
@OZZEY_H
@BriannaWu
In what law, thought system, or picture, does mere use of the word "occupied" suddenly disapply everything you know about right and wrong?
@Kinsellas
@andymacmichael
@JohnJCrace
Well that's just it, isn't it. The vandal _does_ understand the value of the artwork/vase/library/theatre, or he would not so gratuitously target it.
@BBCRealityCheck
@bbclaurak
Thousands die in Italy:
'UK is not Italy'
Thousands die in UK:
'UK is not Italy'
Tens of thousands die in the UK:
'UK is not Italy'
Almost as if you care more about not being Italy than you care about death.
@Sammon_En
@PedderSophie
He did not say "not humiliate Russia" in peace negotiations. He spoke about *after* Russia's defeat. The speech in French was completely clear about this. Anglophone media has taken him to mean not humiliate Putin. Nothing like this was said- after Russia's defeat, no Putin.
@howserob
@derverla
@UNRWA
Then you are knowingly funding an organisation staffed by terrorists and their supporters. 3000 teachers had access to that Telegram channel in which teachers celebrated and recorded their participation in murders. Did anyone object or report this? No.
Just a few bad apples?
Here is our saved copy of the UNRWA Telegram group of 3,000 UNRWA teachers:
There are 249,000 messages, replete with celebrations of Hamas terrorism:
There is not one case where an UNRWA teacher objected.
@RAF_Luton
All these projects are researched and developed at the Putitdown laboratory in Hertfordshire. For security reasons this facility is not shown on GPS systems or OS maps. Ministerial drivers are advised to ask in the local.
@jdportes
The final straw for those hospitals and the the ambulance service s that they cannot discharge the elderly into social care, because there is a sudden and massive shortage of staff.
Labour supply is a
#brexit
issue. It was warned about, discussed.
Brexit brexit brexit.
@Toddy_xgp
@johnsweeneyroar
Deploying trained army personnel to babysit teenagers for culture war purposes because that pleased an 80year old who themselves was too young to have done NS is everything except « useful ».
@BriannaWu
@Gem0614Ginger
@ReinceNiebuhr
The first crusade, passing through Mainz, committed there a massacre of the Jews. The news of the deaths sparked more antisemitism, not less. Because "the movement" could not accuse itself, it accused its victims.
"Progressives" have now entered this logic.
@globalhlthtwit
Great to see that Govt Health briefing today is in the capable hands of the Minister for Horse Racing, MP for Newmarket Matt Hancock, and a director of Cheltenham Racecourse, wife of Con. MP &NHS privatisation guru Dido Harding.
#neigh
qualification for COVID19
@jdportes
@annettedittert
Yes Austerity. Also Brexit. Brexit Brexit Brexit. Not tweeting about the unimaginable damage it has done to both public finances and public service recruitment doesn't make the catastrophe go away. It only lengthens it.
@KirstieMAllsopp
@FurnessGirl
It's not altogether a random inference given that you did publicly intervene in the referendum campaign, specifically to complain about the remain campaign as being 'divisive'.
Do you think the leave campaign was less divisive?
@sol_energy
@rolandmcs
Failing is the point. Revolutionary crisis. Hayekians want to produce a situation where the tax base cannot support state services. Brexit was an essential move in this vandalism, and everything else is stage 2.
@HashimMustafa19
@PPaulCharles
@NicolaSturgeon
@devisridhar
Because the vaccine will only work so long as transmission is kept down- otherwise mutation will generate vaccine escape variants.
You have been told this.
Were your fingers in your ears?
Were you singing "la la not listening"?