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Buys too many books, listens to too much music, watches too much cricket, and reads far too much politics. Fair warning. Will debate when challenged

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@Snowden As inevitable as it is grim.
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@BriannaWu It can be made very simple if one looks at through a prism of power. The problem is, this is something Liberals are very reluctant to do. Theories of power, and the understanding of power and how it determines relationships (geopolitical or otherwise), are Kryptonite to Liberals.
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@mikegalsworthy @ShippersUnbound @HarryYorke1 @cazjwheeler This is mass fraud. Every single person involved should be investigated, charged, tried, and convicted. With all assets seized and put to good use. I hear we have a health service that needs extra funding.
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@kattenbarge Now you know how Roald Dahl fans feel.
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@daft_m0nk @jeremysmiles Yes, her own mother. No really, she was vicious.
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@lapatina_ What frustrates me about Germany is that it has this limitless capacity to be a force for good. Yet chooses self interest, and does so every time.
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@jdcmedlock What leads to what? The Fascism to the anime or the anime to the Fascism?
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@leslieleeiii If I had a pound every time some young male got the wrong message...
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@cons_owned A tenner says that Mrs Ivey is right there in the background.
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@NoContextBrits Even the Germans are laughing at us, and they don't laugh.
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@johnharris1969 What puzzles me is that don't they realise how unsustainable this is, even in the medium term? Science doesn't go away, no matter how much propaganda you throw at it.
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@spargles It's because we read a history book.
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@WholesomeMeme Whoopi Goldberg.
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@SebastianEPayne Please don't make me tap the f-ing sign.
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@queendurag Someone's never read 'The Broken Earth' Trilogy.
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@LeftieStats And then some. It was the first time those of us under 45 felt we had a party that gave a crap. But, let no good deed go unpunished.
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@GeorgeMonbiot Do you have any idea what a Labour term would mean? Seriously George, let's look at this in the long term. Neither party has a clue how to deal with the post 2008 world. Neither party has anything in the way of vision or ideas or the talent to implement it.
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@StevenEdginton It really upsets you doesn't it. Seeing ordinary working people grouping together and standing up for themselves. Worse than that, then seeing because of their efforts, they get fair salaries and so decent standards of living.
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@eddiemarsan I grew up with men like Eddie Marsan. They seemed all in favour of socio-economic reform. Until the moment it looked like it could actually happen. In reality, they're fine with the status quo. They just want to pretend that they're progressive.
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@shaun_vids The problem can be boiled down to one simple question. When was the last time anyone told her 'no'?
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@CowPowMonly @mena_ganey @cons_owned That would be one heck of a project. See who they were, see who their descendants are, and what their 'views' are. Some things have never been sorted.
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@AlbnskYY @westofmain_ They got free, and they succeeded.
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@OVargas52 I have a question for to answer but there is a catch. You cannot use the following words:- NATO USA Iraq Israel Okay? So here we go. Do you support Russia's invasion of Ukraine?
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@LeftieStats That man is a traitor. No more, no less. Those who support him, equally so.
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@broseph_stalin The US certainly has its hands full right now. What with: Bolivia now once more independent Chile going that way Colombia rising up to an extent not seen in decades Brazil seemingly set to go independent too. The CIA is clearly not the force it once was.
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@DPJHodges You know this is about the ICJ ruling. You know the US (and associates) are lashing out because an international body has dared to step out of line. You know the misery this will cause will be immense. You also know that to admit any of this risks you all important career.
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@DailyMailUK Why have you never apologised for supporting the Nazis?
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@DaddyWarpig The director started reading the book, put it down in disgust. Then decided to make a film that purposefully undermined everything that its source material stood for.
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@HistoryThat @mrjamesob Who would have thought it? Man with compassion talks about poverty like it matters.
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@MichaelRosenYes @RebeccaFiler Of course she can. Jo Bird is a Socialist, a Democrat, and views Muslims as human beings. None of which applies to Rebecca. Or New Labour as a whole.
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@Mendelpol Tell me you've never heard of the late Dawn Foster.
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@TimesRadio @MattChorley Seriously though, do these people appreciate that, outside of their cosy little bubble, how despised Peter Mandelson is?
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@CerdynJones @RMTunion They refuse to have Lynch on because he is handing their backsides to them. So Eddie Dempsey steps up and does the exact same thing. Bit of a trend developing.
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@WeAreAllOther @jacobdharen I disagree. Iron Man is Elon Musk having been visited by Scrooge's three ghosts on a nightly basis. For three months. Hence he is actually aware of the dreadful person he once was.
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@NoContextBrits Pet Sounds is at 20.
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@ToryFibs Ban the French from protesting? You might as well ban the tides from coming in.
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@simonjwarner @OwenJones84 Sure, they are. Which is why New Labour have purged everyone to the left of Augusto Pinochet. I get that you don't want to talk about policies, or the views that drive them. If you did, you'd reveal what your true opinions were. I.e. unreconstructed Thatcherism.
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@dasomenu @TheFabledAesop Who was the landlord? Do we have a name, a photo, and address?
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@johnb78 The cracked a lot of things in the Post War period. Problem is, they didn't make rich people even richer at a fast enough rate.
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@AllyFogg Forget that. It's this that gets us singing The National Anthem.
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@TheGreenRob0t @AaronBastani Problem is:- 1. There are a lot of them 2. If current socio-economic trends continue, that number is only going to get bigger So it's up to Macron to pull his finger out. Give the young a reason to support him. I take it you know the kinds of problems Biden is having right now.
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@mrmarksteel Possibly the best film review of all time.
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@tweetd99 @mcash Get back in your box.
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@GeorgeMonbiot Shame that Werner Herzog didn't say "Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3, while 1/3 watches" Because the man had a point.
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@JohnLeBrocq @OwenJones84 Reminds me of Noam Chomsky's comment to Andrew Marr - "You wouldn't be sitting where you sit right now if you didn't genuinely believed what you believe".
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@echetus Nothing wrong with a renter. Means they're more likely to be normal and 'in touch'.
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@shaun_vids At least Dahl had the decency to keep his outbursts in single figures.
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@w41gy @jasonhickel Yep, these last 40-50 years have been like the Counter-Reformation. Where once it was Papal Infallibility, now it's the Market.
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@benjarom3 @jeremycorbyn Brexit was a symptom of a much deeper malaise. But you'll never understand that.
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@NatConTalk @Miss_Snuffy Rule of thumb. The more someone claims to 'love their country'. The less they give a damn about:- 1. The people who live there 2. Its green and pleasant lands 3. Its society and/or economy 4. Its institutions All these people 'care' about is them and theirs.
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@spectator But this is what you wanted. A world where ordinary people are priced out of raising children. This world is your doing, so own it.
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@GeorgeMonbiot Let's be honest here George, Labour doesn't deserve to win. Let's be even more honest. If the 'crisis' that the Labour Right manufactured in order to win back power ends up bringing down the whole party. This benighted world will have some justice for once.
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@PoliticsForAlI Still unsure as to why they didn't shut the Daily Mail down in 1945.
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@BriannaWu 1/ Can't argue with any of those five points. As for Hamas, neither terrorists nor freedom fighters. They are a symptom. An ugly symptom of an ugly situation. Question is two-fold. 1. what would it take for those in office to say similar things, AND have the policies to back...
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@EL4JC John McDonnell: "I got a phone call: saying 'I'm a journalist from the Sun.' I said look you can be one or the other, but you can't be both"
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@yugopnik Always puzzles me when Italians 'hark back' to the 1930's. Don't they realise they were that era's comic relief?
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@PolitlcsUK This isn't going down well with the Liberals. Almost as if their man isn't as popular as they had hoped, and that his lead was due solely to the Tories imploding.
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@ydsTrey At that moment, she knew she had fucked up.
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@PolitlcsUK That's like asking what kind of venereal disease you'll be wanting.
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@PaulEmbery I think you need to have a sit down and watch this. You might learn something.
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@NoContextBrits When two people of any nation that isn't England meet.
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@simonjwarner @OwenJones84 Which begs the question, why would any Labour leader wish to continue it?
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@adb0wen Isn't he some Private Health Care appointee? But God forbid we talk about substance or intentions. Serious question. Are you in favour of the privatisation of the NHS because that's what you believe? Or because you think it will benefit your career?
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@SaulStaniforth @BBCNEandCumbria So @JennyChapman . So if a political party isn't a place where you do politics, what is it for? What is its purpose? Except being a vehicle where you and your buddies hook up with business interests, and you all get very rich. At our expense.
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@simonjwarner @OwenJones84 Things were very different prior to 2008, I'll agree. But then The Crash happened, and that was that. You do realise why Austerity was not only cruel and barbaric, but economically moronic, and ultimately counterproductive.
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@thotcrime101 @jdcmedlock That makes sense. The one thing missing on the (radical, possibly extreme) right is some Roman statue or bust. We've all seen them.
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@jewdas Also imagine if Jerry Seinfeld had zero talent.
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@YoungLabourUK I've just realised, is there anyone in Labour's base that it hasn't actively alienated? Ethnic minorities, working people, the young? Has no one told them that the urban middle class only makes up a small portion of the country's population?
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@lmharpin @AyoCaesar Then what are you trying to do? Except fill the void left in the Hard Centre once Nick Cohen got outed as a serial sexual abuser.
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@fuckyouiquit There's a reason why Kenneth Grahame chose him to be the way he was.
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@deportablediz @ForcePao @biggestjoel Just what is it about anime and the Far Right? Has not one of them ever watched Ghibli?
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@fesshole Personally, this should be a nationwide program. Forget vaccination against Covid. We need something to protect our parents and grandparents against The Sun and the Daily Mail. Maybe then we'll have a better country.
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@abcomedian If you get called 'A Centrist' by someone on The Left, it usually means:- 1. You're a Thatcherite in denial 2. You dislike Muslims 3. Both of the above
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@IanDunt But this what you wanted Ian. The grown ups in power.
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@JewishLabour You have taken a noble, righteous cause. A cause that I would defend to my dying breath. And have turned it into your personal political football, and for what? Are your careers that important to you? Is Austerity so in need of continuing?
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@AaronBastani The thing about this Aaron is, I can understand why so much of this country finds your narrative so hard to believe. If you are white, middle class and come from the right areas. They will never even hear of this side, let alone witness it first hand. Hence why it needs telling.
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@KateAndrs @spectator Not at all. Being sick is bad enough, but having to worry that you might also go bankrupt? It's almost as if a society is investing in itself. But I guess if it was private, the people that pay your wages would be happy. They'd be raking it in.
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@LBC Fiona Bruce defended domestic abuse live on air last night. And you're leading with this. How very noble of you.
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@AlanRMacLeod Hard what to make of this. On the one hard screw the two-faced hypocrisy of the US etc. But on the other, if you start defending the Iranian government and how it treats its subjects. Especially its female half. Have a word with yourself.
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@guardian Maybe you should then take them to a Tony Blair Rally. Show them both sides, teach them about 'Start the War' as well. Then let them make up their own minds.
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@brianoloughlin9 @JasonSCampbell I think we need a variation on this.
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@cjcjc @DPJHodges Parts where these kind hang out?
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@OwenJones84 I'm curious. Who actually reads Allison Pearson? What kind of person listens to what she says and agrees with it? It would be helpful to identify this type of person so I can avoid them. Back in the day it was really easy because they wore these really distinctive brown shirts.
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