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2 months

@PoliticsJOE_UK I don’t care how old they are this is appalling vandalism. If BL decides it’s no longer safe to public display it’s a loss to hundreds of thousands of children, students and scholars. I took a group of US visitors 3 weeks ago who were thrilled you could walk in and see it.

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Inquiry doesn’t appear to find anything but reveals that BBC News doesn’t know what prima facie means. Acoba did a real enquiry and concluded that no rules were broken. Please amend this inaccurate headline ⁦ @BBCNews ⁩

Sue Gray broke civil service rules over Labour job, government says

The ex-official was cleared to work for Labour by Parliament's advisory appointments body last week.

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@Puzzledbyadream My mother could not understand why she was suddenly expected in her late 70s to acquire an interest in Bingo and day time television and what she saw as childish group activities. A fifties film noir club, a Frank Sinatra impersonator and decent food would have been fine.

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@itvnews @tombradby If you’ve fallen out with your family what are the odds it will be resolved by repeatedly denouncing them on television?

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That ‘not’ is pretty clear. (BBC Social media guidelines).

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@jessphillips @BethRigby Staggering that 169 people think that someone who’s been arrested shouldn’t be suspended. Have these people never had a job in the real world?

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@NickyWoolf @sarahchurchwell I did the 'are you willing to take part in an ONS survey on the trace service?' (Which is overlong.) I asked same question and got same answer. By the end of 20mins of Qs on "how well you understand the rules?" (A: "better than number 10") I felt really sorry for the questioner.

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5 years

@AdamWagner1 @CathyAshley Trump and Hopkins also wrong on US vs UK cities violent death rates.

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2 years

@BBCPolitics Grant Shapps is being so incredibly rude. He seems to have forgotten that he has an obligation to answer the questions properly and respectfully. And Darren Jones is a very competent and patient chair... Once again - no-one ever behaves this badly outside the House of Commons.

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@RogersHistory Lots of schools do employ people to go and ‘knock their pupils up’ to deal with absenteeism. Maybe everyone in DfE should do a term of knocking up to understand how hard it is to break ingrained habits of non attendance.

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@campbellclaret @BorisJohnson Am in West Highlands. Today torrential rain. If he's got a baby in there someone should call social services.

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@ConnorGillies @SkyNews She’s actually at pains to make clear that she would not impose her personal view about children and marriage on others. Interview is determined not to allow her that space. Which many will find is also intolerant. (Speaking as a single mum.)

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1 year

@Martina Here’s some of what GG said. Uncontroversial, common sense.

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1 year

Listen. This is feminism.

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4 years

@Lucywwatson The correct answer to this is "no I'm a lawyer, mainly prosecution.". Keep them on their toes.

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6 years

@NickBoles Said it before but if you talked or behaved like this in a normal workplace you’d be explaining yourself to HR. A child who spoke like that would be in detention. Why can’t MPs match normal behaviour standards ?

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@metrofire @VictoriaPeckham Doesn’t matter if is queen or anyone in their nineties. Has no grace or respect.

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1 year

@ConnorGillies @SkyNews She would avoid ‘for her personally’ she was clear that she would not impose the beliefs her faith requires on others. You are misrepresenting what she tried to say.

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7 months

@lewis_goodall @lostindisco I wonder why any member of the BBC board (or indeed its DG) would want to weaken and destabilise its flagship news programme just before a general election? 🤔

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@alfresca @DPJHodges I have to admit I can't see why he shouldn't be there. Important that key advisers understand what advice is being given and what is based on. I go to loads of meetings that I'm not needed at as a decision maker but I need to understand why we are doing something to explain it.

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@simonjedge @OldRoberts953 It’s missing the line “we have apologised to the young woman and her family for their distress.”

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2 years

@RuinousHugh @huwbtaylor Train catering has gone downhill since

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@tnewtondunn Batista visas, care home visas, nurse visas, teacher visas, retail visas, fruit picking visas, dentist visas maybe civil servant visas

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@Real_Royal_Male @lostindisco That’s an older person’s writing. Perhaps Patrick’s mum or grandma and Emmeline’s great granny. Hope she gets it back.

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Kate Bingham calling it as it is

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@Martina And this (even more on the nail)

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"I think misogyny plays a big part in this... That a man will be a better woman than someone who was born a woman." "In your view, can he be a woman or not?" "No." "Do you understand how people feel that's insulting?" "I don't care." — Germaine Greer

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@C43LOcDWUss58oc @RealSarahIdan Where are the men?

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@jessbrammar "The neighbour said they recorded the altercation from inside their flat out of concern for Symonds. On the recording, heard by the Guardian..." Neighbours who tape your rows and play them to the Guardian?!!

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1 year

@BBCNews BBC this is not news

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@NicholasPegg @StephenMossGdn Brilliantly but she did not try to reclassify him as a woman.

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1 year

@davidyelland And it’s not a tragedy (like drowning at sea or a tree falling on you) it’s an unthinkable crime.

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4 years

@anitathetweeter Isn't "I've never been happier" a bit publicly unkind to the person you were married to for years?

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@oliviasolon @RKWinvisibleman What if a child saw Mickey Mouse drown as he couldn’t manage the weight of his costume in the water? They don’t seem to have thought this through.

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4 years

@efrogwraig @NickCouncillor @Keir_Starmer If he were being funded by Tony Blair that would be another reason to support him.

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5 years

In a few months, after a gen election, many MPs will wake up seeking employment in the real world. Like every grad who regrets sharing their drunken adventures on Facebook they might bear in mind that HR depts will take a dim view of conduct in the chamber and advise avoiding.

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@electra_rhodes I don't understand how your bio says "emerging writer" you're fully a writer, definitely emerged. This is a wonderful story, beautifully told. You're also clearly a lovely person. Poor Tim. But he's right about the 30 years. ❤️.

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@DPJHodges The PM'S daughter can order whatever she likes. She is a private citizen. It she helps keep a big fashion brand in business whose Italian workforce will want the work that's fine.

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@matthaig1 They die. (The upside is this is that your pain does not last. But is of course replaced by another kind of pain. And guilt. Also hamsters are a gateway drug. You will have cats and dogs as replacements.)

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@QandLgbt @LordLucasCD @HeatherRoseRya1 @glaad People with penises are not women.

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@Puzzledbyadream Or bridge or canasta. At which she was a demon.

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3 years

@_IanMoss @janemerrick23 Agree. She's taking the fall but it's far from fair. It's not uncommon to laugh at finding yourself in a disastrous situation.

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3 months

“Cass’s vision is what gender-questioning children deserve: to be treated with the same level of care as everyone else, not as projects for activists seeking validation for their own adult identities and belief systems.” @soniasodha as ever clear headed (and courageous) on this.

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The Cass Review replaced heat with evidence for gender questioning children. But as new legal advice on schools shows, there’s a long way to go yet in unpicking the harmful influence of an adult ideology on services for children. Today’s column

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@OnjaliRauf @Baroness_Nichol @PGHosp @MakeHerstory1 @WomensRightsNet @Womans_Place_UK @centreWJ @WOWisGlobal Presumably the Hospital is subject to some form of regulatory inspection and supervision? (Care Quality Commission? Health Service Ombudsman?). I hope the noble baroness will be copying her letter to the appropriate regulator?

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1 year

So, trying to get through to my GP surgery. “You are currently number 18 in the queue.” And a message about “national staff shortages” delaying their answer, which doesn’t quite tally with the many local mums looking for part time reception work….

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@glosswitch It’s basically back to an early 20th century “Should women be allowed to meet on their own without us?” debate. Only that don’t want it to be a debate.

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1 year

Germaine Greer has been right for 50 years

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1 year

"A profoundly disabling notion" God this woman is an intellectual giant. I would say the same of masculinity in reverse.

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@oldvictheatre @loureviewsblog If you can reply to congratulations why not to criticism

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@maggivaughan @PickardJE Les Voyageurs, by French artist Bruno Catalano, in Marseilles, France, is an enigmatic sculpture thought to evoke memories and parts of themselves that every traveler inevitably leaves behind when they leave home for a new shore.

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Silver lining

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BBC Scrapping Audience for Question Time

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@francesbarber13 I was afraid this would happen. Poor @TracyAnnO this is just appalling.

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@Craghopper283 @mikewilliams_v Even in the private sector toasters seem to be seen as a to threat to life/office insurance premiums 😪. If you can't trust your staff to make toast maybe review hiring guidelines?

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@katie_martin_fx So they mustn't hear views that the government of the day disagrees with? Which would rule out many former government ministers?

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3 months

@Telegraph That’ll be why the @Telegraph has had her on the front page several days this week

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1 year

@SheffCouncil It doesn’t explain what they were trying to achieve in the first place or summarise the present and future tree strategy which would be helpful.

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@Samfr Sadly @ChrisMasonBBC made a poor judgement call too.

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@tpgcolson @treesey This is such a nonsense story

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@AnnMroz Why? Why do children need to know anything of adult sexual fetishes?

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@palliewallie_ @BennyEngelbrech @CarlaHSands Even ours (who now lives at work) bicycled to work as London Mayor for years.

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@Daniel_Sugarman @treesey In addition to being antisemitic the poster appears to be semi literate. But the post alone would surely merit bringing your employer into disrepute and likely dismissal from most employers?

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@nicolelampert 17 yo deemed it “so inappropriate” that she didn’t let neighbours kids for whom she was babysitting watch UK act. If 17 yos condemn you you’re doomed

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@ShowerAbsolute @Direthoughts How did they confuse scrambled eggs on toast with toad in the hole?

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1 year

@Gabrielle48602 @vulgadrawings @TheCallyPub There haven’t posted since 2014 but @islingtongztte might want to take a look at this thread or @HamandHigh

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@Political_AlanS @treesey @NicolaSturgeon One wonders what they do talk about at home given that she and Peter never seem to talk about problems at work.

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@suzanne_moore Surely someone took a picture? Ideally she’d have arrived with a glass of champagne in one hand and a cigarette in a long black holder (à la Audrey Hepburn) in the other.

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In what other job are you not even suspended during the investigation if arrested for rape? HR experts?

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@pourfairelevide @LettersOfNote Even people who do bad things have good elements too. I’m glad you got it back.

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@ModernJunius @BBCNews Well if they didn’t see any evidence they can hardly draw the conclusion that there was any.

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@LeftWingScot @Steven_Swinford @SkyNews Civil servants have drawers full of economic plans in different sizes and colours in case a new minister comes along who doesn't like the old one.

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@paulwaugh @alanbarnard1 She’s a total star. Very reassuring to see her there.

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Kevin Costner and Sienna Miller to play Bruce and Anthea in the remake of the Generation Game

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@oxfamgb Please can you explain your offensive and ugly characterisation of feminists (including feminist allies and lesbians ) as TERFs in your pride video? @oxfamgb @Oxfam

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@BruceReuters Lenny Henry and Dawn French? Wonder which recycled it?

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@Miss_Snuffy Not sure many parents did. Kids were largely left to find out from other kids. That’s why sex education was introduced in the first place as most parents found out for themselves and left their kids to do likewise.

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@RichardBaker15 @PositiveaboutDS 1 she’s gorgeous. 2 just been abroad where one of the waitresses was a cheery young DS woman who gave me directions and explained the menu to me in (enthusiastic) English and was clearly an equal in her team.

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@RainbowStephan @VenetiaJM @MooseAllain My grandparents took in evacuees all through ww2 and my dad kept in touch with all of them until he died ten years ago

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@susanpenhaligon @capbyrne Greatly to her credit that she's also an ex barmaid. Useful way to learn early how to weald authority firmly over the tired, emotional, pompous and indignant. Explains a great deal.

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@DPJHodges @robertshrimsley But we liked Ken Clarke and John Prescott going to Ronnie Scott’s. What’s the difference? And it looks like a good set and it’s in Manchester. Explain the problem. Also she goes to Glyndeborne. Something for everyone. Truly the people’s party woman with a purpose.

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@LordKirkhope @RhonddaBryant @AnthonyGlees @LordRickettsP During and after Brexit, Government said repeatedly that it would not diverge from GDPR because it would create additional business burdens and barriers...

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@MsLesleySmith

8 years

best Brangelina headline - well done @CityAM

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1 year

@soniasodha And another offence against statistical accuracy. This is VAWG by a male bodied person and should be recorded as such. @YvetteCooperMP

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@MrMatthewTodd @PoliticsJOE_UK Perfectly well and I share their concerns but cultural vandalism isn’t going to advance them.

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@lmharpin Actually they did OK on both those metrics which is why Unilever bought them for $326m. Not just hippy ice cream making dreamers but capitalist hippy ice cream making dreamers.

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@glosswitch @void_if_removed “It’s a problem in terms of the perception of the conversation”. Eight words too many.

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@MsLesleySmith

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@DPJHodges @KatieCurtis @alastair10 @LauraPidcock Labour share of the vote in NW Durham well over 50% when held by Ernie then Hilary Armstrong and throughout Blair years. Only fell below 50% once Blair stood down. And Labour only lost seat under Corbyn/Pidcock. No-one else to blame.

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@SkyNews @BethRigby @rachaelvenables So having a live slot outside her home isn’t exactly leaving her in privacy yet is it?

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@DGusmac @rachelmooremd @YoSoyLaLay @jacasiegel I’m a mum. I do too. Was thinking the other day, in the snow, that I could use a keep it hot bag.

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@BuzzFeed She doesn't have 'anti -trans beliefs'

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@MattGarrahan @RoryStewartUK is an enormous loss to UK politics whatever party he is in.

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#NewProfilePic

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@HannahAlOthman Seems to live pretty cheaply "and claimed the £21.77 back on the taxpayer". Worth every penny. If we get out of this i'd be very happy to buy him a much more expensive dinner anywhere he likes. I'm pretty sure others would too.

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@soniasodha AEG still selling her 17 Feb show at Ally Pally - hope it’s a sell out. . @francesbarber13

Róisín Murphy - AEG Presents

The inimitable and boundary pushing Róisín Murphy returns today with a slew of additional tour dates across the UK. Having already announced a headline London show at Alexandra Palace, she has now...

www.aegpresents.co.uk

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Dear Sandringham press pack. It’s nearly tea time. Nothing’s happening and you’ve got no signal. Ten mins away is the Rose & Crown, Snettisham. Multi award winning pub and restaurant and WiFi! (Still no signal. It’s still Norfolk.) you’re welcome.

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Used to have to read this aloud again and again at bedtime. Pure pleasure. We talked every night about the things on the floor and it's how one small person learnt the joy of rhythm. Thank you @ShirleyHughes_

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All the house is quiet Curtains tightly drawn But someone sings a little song To welcome in the dawn It’s not time for breakfast Too soon to play... Heads deep in pillows Underneath the clothes But all the birds are wide awake And so is Annie Rose

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⁦ @caitlinmoran ⁩ on ⁦ @RevRichardColes ⁩ just my favourite two sentences all weekend. Lovely and deservedly affectionate piece.

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@ruskin147 Love the hall mat. It’s like v small children though. The bit when they discover that there’s a world beyond the kitchen… feels like a huge moment.

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@primevideouk @Mermaids_Gender @MindOutLGBTQ This is disappointingly bad judgement

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@MsLesleySmith

5 years

@WestminsterWAG @SadiqKhan @TfL @ImogenEJ @RachelSJohnson @AllieEsiri @KirstieMAllsopp I’m all in favour of trees but those on left of pic do not appear to be “historic trees”. They look about 5 years old.

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@MsLesleySmith

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@BBCDomC @treesey Do QCs become KCs overnight?

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" @Samfr : As it's Mother's Day + the first weekend of gay weddings + I'm a pedant... http://t.co/GOsn86YuLM" brilliant.

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This is an astonishingly bad move. Quite extraordinary that it wasn’t prevented.

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NUS have voted to expel the main Jewish student group. Anti Zionism is almost always antisemitic & this is a very clear example of anti semitic anti Zionism. This isn’t criticism of Israel. It’s punishing British Jews for not wanting Israel to be destroyed

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@IanDunt Even before the campaign started. Anyone who is brave and dignified enough to stand in the place her sister was murdered deserves everyone’s admiration.

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