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Simon J Gleaden

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9 months
@amandajplatell I've long ago ceased taking any notice of, or giving any credence to, anything H&M say or have published in their names. They are pathetic, pitiable and past their "sell by" date.
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@calvinrobinson I will continue to use the long established British name for the capital of *the* Ukraine, Kiev. I say Rome, not Roma, Munich, not Munchen and Copenhagen, not Kobenhavn. And if the French want to say & write Londres, I'm not going to object.
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@DVATW Let's give the man a chance.
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@Bren4Bassetlaw Sir Keir has more support from the membership of his party than Mr Sunak has from his.
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@GBNEWS He brought the legal action, he decided to give evidence in court, and (it seems) he decided to go into the witness box inadequately prepared by his legal advisers. I've no sympathy for him.
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@NoContextBrits That we drink warm beer. A classic real ale is served at *cellar* temperature, which is somewhat below the ambient temperature in the bar. Yes real ale is not artificially made ice cold before being served, but it's certainly not served warm or even as room temperature.
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@DrLoupis From left to right: Cheat; 1st placed woman; 2nd placed woman.
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@thattradgal Having to wait until after other people? It puts me in mind of "the last shall be first and the first last". Matt 20:16
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@garylfrancione As a Catholic, I believe in transubstantiation, but I don't demand that non-Catholics say they agree with my belief.
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@jk_rowling What rights are in question here?
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1 year
@gs777gs777 And the way he still seeks to trade off the sympathy that followed his mother's tragic death - more than a quarter of a century ago!
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2 years
@GBNEWS Note "Kate Middleton". She's The Princess of Wales. She's never used her maiden name since marrying Prince William TWELVE years ago. She might be Queen this time tomorrow. Would you still name her Kate Middleton then? It's Catherine not Kate anyway.
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@theblade113 As a barrister he was professionally bound to take the work offered to him on the long-standing "taxi rank" principle. He simply did his professional duty and did his best for his client.
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@darrengrimes_ If the police won't do their job, the public will just have to do it for them.
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@iseult The irony is that, in many respects, Elizabeth turned out to be a great monarch and her father would surely have been very proud of her - apart from *her* failure to produce an heir.
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@ReduxxMag We need Roger Federer to identify as female and dominate women's professional tennis for a few years.
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2 years
@CardinalBCupich I will NOT celebrate this pontificate! Its hallmarks are the persecution of faithful Traditionalist Catholics devoted to the TLM, the introduction of pagan idols into Churches and the covering up the crimes of sexual abusers in the clergy.
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@CatholicSat In the last couple of years I have moved to receiving Holy Communion only on my tongue and kneeling. It's the traditional way of doing it, just as St Thomas More and St Margaret Clitherow (two of my favourite saints) would have done.
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10 months
@ripx4nutmeg Banned for stating the truth. The scientifically verifiable truth.
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1 year
@FreedomsBritish What happened to the principle of English Law that "ignorance of the law is no defence"? Everyone one is deemed to know what the law is.
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@Docstockk @OxfordUnion I'll watch the video to hear again what you said, although I was there at the OU to hear your talk live. I was impressed by your calmness and self-control during the rather childish protest.
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@thereclaimparty @LozzaFox @GBNEWS @Bushra1Shaikh This woman is talking rubbish Anyone, of any race or ethnicity, can be a racist. Anyone, of any race or ethnicity, can be a victim of racism.
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@molllyelizabeth She is lovely, and she hardly looks 30, let alone 40!
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1 year
@CatholicArena @DonnellyStephen @HMcEntee What has happened to Catholic Ireland? "Faithful Ireland" as John Paul II put in on his visit there in 1979. Such a shame.
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@DurhamWASP I do remember at primary school, many of the girls wanted to become housewives and mothers just like their mothers. A girl who aspired to being a wife and mother was not then denigrated as unambitious or a hand maiden of the patriarchy.
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@toadmeister It might also be evidence of masculine, heterosexual men who kept mementos of their late mothers or wives with them when they were buried.
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1 year
@sharrond62 Well said, Miss Davies: "it's cheating". There are no two ways about: it transwomen competing in female sports are cheating.
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@LGBwiththeT @LindaLawPOW Those words are absolutely true. I fully support Linda Law.
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1 year
@KemiBadenoch @AnnelieseDodds The law on gender recognition could be made very simple: don't recognise "gender" in law at all. Recognise in law only *sex*. Immutable, biological sex. Simple.
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@JR42845598 I hope the King does not invite them. They would be too much of a distraction.
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@cavakaggy I'm not denying that India Willoughy (ne Jonathan Willoughby) is a real flesh and blood person that really exists. I do deny that he is a woman: he is a man pretending to be a woman.
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@DrLoupis It's not a disease. It's a disorder caused by gluttony and idleness. I write as someone who is overweight. I blame no-one or no thing except myself for being overweight.
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@King1611James Psalm 104 v. 15 "That he may bring food out of the earth, and wine that maketh glad the heart of man" The Psalmist praises God for the wine he enjoys.
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@Sachinettiyil Lay people cannot give a blessing. Only priests and bishops can bless people and things.
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@DVATW In the sense that homo sapiens ultimately originated in Africa, so that all humanity is of African heritage, she may be right. There's only one race of people: the human race. Would Martin Luther King jr. disagree with me? But I don't think that's what she means to say.
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@ProtecttheFaith The diffidence & lack of courage of bishops when confronted with tyranny are well-known phenomena. Just look at how few English bishops vocally opposed Henry VIII's takeover of the Church in England.
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@Docstockk I was at the OU yesterday evening & was very pleased to hear you speak. I was impressed by your coolness during the protest and your return to the interview half an hour later as if nothing had happened. I shall buy and read your book Material Girls. Best wishes.
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@ramonagusta Was she simply a "diversity hire"? I know she had no retail experience. How can a board of a retail company appoint as chairman some one with no experience of retailing? It's like appointing a head of engineering someone with no engineering qualifications or experience.
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@reader_shubham @meghaverma_art So India was a prosperous, democratic, egalitarian paradise before the wicked Europeans arrived, was it?
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@Jenny_1884 It was right in principle that state pension ages for men & women should have been equalised, but the way it was done, with inadequate given notice to the women who would be disadvantaged by the change, was little short of scandalous.
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@NickWestbyNew @WMPolice @StaffsPol Because, as a Christian country, we tolerate other faiths and believe in and practise religious liberty? In any case, "Allah" is simply the Arabic word for God, so as a Christian I could agree with this this statement. Arabic speaking Christians use the word "Allah" for God.
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@JandJNaylor I call the show "I'm Not a Celebrity but I hope to be one when I Get Out of Here".
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2 years
@GOVUK It's not Government money you're spraying around like a drunken sailor on shore leave - it's TAXPAYERS' money.
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@Elizabe13014545 The state pension age will keep creeping upwards as life expectancy rises. My wife spent the first 14 years of her working life expecting to get her state pension at age 60. As things stand, she'll be getting it when she's 67.
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@salltweets I absolutely agree with you. It's a mad world we live in when your statement of a straightforward dictionary definition leads to your being denigrated, insulted and threatened. I'm pleased to support you in standing up to transgender ideology.
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@HazelAppleyard_ My SEXual orientation is based on SEX, not a potential partner's imagined "gender identity".
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@HJoyceGender A man can *act* as a mother - in some ways - but cannot actually *be* a mother. A trans-woman is a man. Therefore a trans-woman cannot be a mother. QED.
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@ArchRose90 25? Wing Commander Guy Gibson was 24 years old when he led 133 617 Squadron aircrew into battle to attack several dams in Western Germany.
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8 months
@salltweets Further confirmation of a conclusion I reached 20 years ago: the UN is not fit for purpose. It is a waste of time and money and Britain should withdraw from it.
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1 year
@JeremyVineOn5 No. This news also leads me to resolve never to support Amnesty International.
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@MaggieMobrules And don't forget that George VI's father, George V, and PH's great-great-grandfather, was also the Spare until his mid 20's, when Prince Eddy (Duke of Clarence), his older brother, died.
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@westernexile One of my great grandfathers was a worker on the estate at one of the lost country houses, Clumber House, Nottinghamshire, which was demolished in 1938 and didn't even make it into the 1950's.
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@SusanLittlemore UN attitude seems to be: "But women are incapable of standing up for their own rights - they mustn't worry their pretty little heads about that. They must let a man LARPing as a woman do it on their behalf. Men are just so much more suited to this kind of thing."
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@ProtecttheFaith He *is* the pope. Not a good one, not a faithful one, but he was chosen by the 2013 conclave & has not been deposed. Therefore, he is the Roman Pontiff. I'm not at all happy about it, but until those with the relevant ecclesial authority say otherwise I must accept him as pope.
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@BladeoftheS Thank you for reminding me why I detest Miriam Margolyes.
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@MendyHowe12 @FFS_WhatNow It's not just women who care about women's rights: I have a wife, two sisters-in-law and a niece, as well as female friends and acquaintances. I'm very concerned for their sex-based rights.
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@people She hasn't been Middleton for over 12 years, and she's only ever been "Kate" in the imagination of the media. She's Catherine, the Princess of Wales.
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@CarmenGranddau1 "Kate Middleton"? No. She never was "Kate" (she's know by her family as Catherine) & she ceased to be Middleton on her marriage 12 years ago. Catherine, HRH The Princess of Wales.
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@Jebadoo2 Are there any LARPing transwomen claiming to be suffering from endometriosis, just as there are some who claim to menstruate and suffer from PMT? I wouldn't be too surprised.
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@bo66ie29 It might be a slum, but everyone in the picture looks clean and healthy, and their clothes are all clean & tidy too.
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@RealTayChaTLC @madeleinekearns On the contrary, Kellie Jay Keen is great! Standing up for the sex-based rights of women and girls to safe spaces - changing rooms, lavatories etc. Men, even those who pretend to be women, must be kept out of female-only spaces.
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@JustineClaire65 A better quality of intellect and character was shown *inside* the debating chamber of the Oxford Union yesterday. Student OU members (apart from c. 3 noisy protesters) listened courteously to Dr Stock and asked some intelligent, relevant and respectful questions.
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@ripx4nutmeg Sinn Fein seems to be working very hard to alienate Catholic voters, who I thought used to be the party's main bedrock of supporters.
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@Miahcombat_co Men have felines too!
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@afneil I work for an Airbus supplier here in Britain. We have other major customers in Spain, Holland and Austria. Brexit has had no discernible effect of our sales to the EU.
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@SattyMootien1 I'm obese, technically, but not morbidly obese. I don't feel insulted by being described with the correct medical term. I'm obese and no-one but me is responsible for that. No-one has forced any food or drink down my throat or prevented me from exercising.
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@NoContextBrits None of the new, post-1992 British universities are "proper" universities. The only "proper" universities are those that were universities (not polytechnics or colleges of higher education) when I was an undergraduate (1982-85). Academic snobbery - I admit it.
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@An7honySco77o @eva_kurilova Not quite. Male and female are not genders - they are *sexes*. Don't play the "wokeist" game by using their terminology. Stick to human biology.
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@Riley_Gaines_ This is the way to stop males competing in female sports: females refusing to join males on the podium - better still, refusing even to compete against males in events supposedly reserved for females.
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@Classicbritcom Back in the good old days when Lenny Henry was funny! His mission in life then was to make us laugh - not to preach wokery at us.
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@CburyCathedral Thank you for reminding me why I left the Church of England, which has become a protestant sect and has in effect given up any claim to be a branch of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
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@AmyNicks_ @JustStop_Oil All the flowers and plants on display at Cheslea need CO2 to grow. CO2 is not a pollutant - it's a natural and vitally important component of earth's atmosphere.
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@jes__si_ca It's been disappointing so far, but that's not because Brexit is wrong in principle. It's because of the useless fake-Conservative governments we've had for the last few years.
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@PRTrad1 Persecuted for telling the truth. Just as Our Lord Jesus Christ predicted.
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@jordanbpeterson "Scientists" will be proposing we do away with the terms proton and neutron next! We mustn't offend all those "trans", non-binary nucleons.
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@troonytoons I can't imagine any of the women I know being comfortable with this weird *guy* in their public lavatories or leisure centre changing rooms.
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@sharrond62 The only thing that will put an end to this nonsense is mass boycotts by female athletes of events that admit "trans women" into events supposed to be for females only. If *no* women get into the pool when Lia Thomas is in a women's swimming event, that will stop this outrage.
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@TorontoBlonde Mmmmm.... Nice!
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@BruvverEccles Scripture doesn't record which fruit it was that Adam and Eve ate. An apple isn't mentioned in Genesis - just the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
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@Biomaven @SoVeryBritish "Warm beer" is a myth. British ales should be served at cellar temperature, which is not ice cold, but is below ambient room temperature.
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@hunterengels_ Camilla was Princess of Wales. She never used the title - out of respect for Diana I think - but she was in fact Princess of Wales.
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@spikedonline Through her Harry Potter books, and the film versions thereof, J K Rowling has brought more joy to the world than any writer in many decades, possibly since Charles Dickens.
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@cnalive Back in the 1980's I was told by a right-on Spirit-of-Vatican-II priest that the ban on Catholics becoming freemasons was no longer absolute and exceptions could be made. One of many things he was wrong about.
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@sharrond62 So, Cambridge cheated? Not very sportmanlike. Or sportswomanlike.
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Just for the information of most British people and businesses that get this wrong every year: today is not "Mother's Day", it is "Mothering Sunday". Mother's Day is an American institution & and very fine one too, no doubt. It falls on the 2nd Sunday in May.
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@brianbarou @SadiqKhan @TfLTPH @Councillorsuzie @KeithPrinceAM @TheLTDA @CarolinePidgeon In London, I would never use a "mini-cab" or an Uber. I'd use only a licensed taxi, driven by a properly qualified driver who has done "the Knowledge".
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@SpeechUnion I'm planning to attend the event at the OU next Tuesday. I don't care how many TRA's there are picketing - they won't put me off going to hear this learned woman speak.
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@HJoyceGender Put in other logical terminology, if I can remember from nearly 40 years ago: Being a woman is a necessary condition for being a mother; it is not a sufficient condition for being a mother.
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@Docstockk "terven" - I like that, the plural of terf. Maybe there can also be a verb "to terf"?
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@GBNEWS Good news, as far as it goes. I'd rather PH didn't come either.
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@deves_katherine A mammal that has testicles is a male. End of.
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@Trinityknight6 @Paulgriff41 @JuliaHB1 Once male. always male. Sex is immutable. XY cannot become XX.
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@hen10freeman It's not about the intentions of "trans" personal carers: it's about their immutable male *sex*.
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@N17TaiGa @historyinmemes Reminds me of the trio: Hitler wasn't German [Austrian], Napoleon wasn't French [Corsican] and Stalin wasn't Russian [Georgian].
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@RonniNicole1 Are *any* women going to be inspired to buy Bonds underwear garments because they've seen a picture of a bearded bloke wearing them? I'd think it'd be more likely to put potential female customers off buying them. Go woke, go broke.
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@ReduxxMag In this case, "transgender" = "pervert".
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@RonniNicole1 Mr Sunak was right. He has my support in this matter. Reality must not be inverted just to protect the feelings of grieving parents. Truth is truth.
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@GBNEWS As grandchildren of the reigning monarch, in the male line, don't Archie and Lilibet *automatically* become prince/princess? Or has the rule changed?
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@jameswoudhuysen @antonioguterres This is an example of why the UN no longer has any moral authority or relevance in the world. All that needs to happen for the UN to be disbanded is for the USA to withdraw from membership & so withdraw its financial contributions.
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@DaveAtherton20 Yes, but she's white and so doesn't benefit from ethnic minority privilege. Police are paralysed by fear of being called racist.
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