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London, Belgrade, Kavala. Occasional sightings at @unherd , @newcriterion , @ftweekend , @thecriticmag .

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Joined February 2009
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7 months
@DaveAtherton20 Question: why does such a family keep having children?
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3 years
So it seems we’re gone from being a country where everything is permitted unless specifically banned to everything being banned unless specifically permitted, in the very year when were supposed to be casting off European legal codes!
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@JamieJBartlett “We’re doing this to protect human rights”. I mean, how many takes to get though that line with a straight face 🤔
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@Saul_Sadka @CherylWroteIt Because Arab states are allowed to secure themselves; but the Jewish one is not.
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2 years
@MrAndyNgo “I was a completely healthy individual” is quite a reflection on these people’s world view (which they are trying to get everyone else to share…)
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10 months
@AllisonPearson Deported where? It's incredible the way otherwise-observant people conflate immigrants with second and third generation non-integrated minorities.
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2 months
@ZacGoldsmith Boris and his acolytes sold out Britain to an anglophobic Civil Service for an easier ride in power, abandoning any minister who took a stand. Now those remaining are throwing up their hands in dismay. But voters know where responsibility lies and are acting accordingly.
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4 years
If you designed a programme to take a prosperous liberal democracy and turn it into an impoverished socialist police state, it would hardly differ an iota from what we’re seeing in Britain today.
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3 years
@henrymance He loves lowering the bar to make sure he can still get over it himself
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@AvonandsomerRob @BenedictMPWhite Imagine your identity first being imposed on you, then reduced to a sandwich
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4 years
A brilliant innovation from @SpectatorUSA opening with a brilliant first submission.
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7 years
Cut a girl's hijab in Canada, the head of state intervenes and it makes global news. Cut a girl's face in France, and it only makes the Jerusalem Post.
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4 years
@guyverhofstadt Utterly grotesque after your organisation abandoned Italy to its fate in contradiction of decades of EU messaging. A risible attempt to benefit politically from suffering the EU did so little alleviate. The phrase ‘no shame’ doesn’t even begin to cover it. Sickening.
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@paulrubens The amazing thing is *only now* do they inplicitly admit that Israel has been providing all these things in the first place
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5 years
My thoughts exactly: two weekends of tear gas from the wicked Chinese and it’s leading the evening news. Six months of the same in Paris, and nothing...
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@Holbornlolz Unpopular opinion: New Labour’s open-door immigration policy is responsible for this by setting up Britain as the no.1 global destination for migrants. Before 97, it wouldn’t have occurred to anyone illegally to ship themselves halfway round the world to the UK.
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@VictoriaPeckham Isn’t this what Biden is promising in the US?
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@NickBoles It’s fairly obvious the problem started with him not respecting them
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@KingBobIIV Well he did wear a pink and purple spotty tie to announce the death of the Queen Mother
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1 year
@BernieSpofforth New socialists just the same as the old socialists: starve people and you can control them. Stalin and Mao would be proud!
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@AllisonPearson And why did the court award full custody to the father with no apparent visiting rights?
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3 years
@PoliticsForAlI How fond they are of following in Austria’s footsteps - and doesn’t it always end well!?
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4 years
@darrengrimes_ Is naming a global brand organisation after their 11 month old baby the latest blow in their tireless fight for him to have a normal childhood? Asking for everyone. 🤔
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@MrAndyNgo We spend our lives watching dystopian cinema then fail to realise when it becomes true.
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@christiancalgie Odd to discover that someone who spends their life pretending to be fun… is also fun.
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5 years
@Dannythefink I’m reminded of the flight to Israel recounted by Howard Jacobson: “Could any doctor on board please come to the front of the plane?“ 3 minutes later: “Ok, we have enough doctors! Could any further doctors please stay in their seats!“
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@JohnSimpsonNews That’s the awful thing about you BBC cohorts: your idea of morality is just legalism, which is precisely why it generates the need for more and more rules around behaviour.
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3 years
@Simon4NDorset You mean those of us who haven’t from a position of power backed the appalling expansion and abuse of state power we’ve seen over the past 18 months? Well I’ve never done that, so I’ll cast away thanks.
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@ZacGoldsmith Raab, Patel, Bravermann: because addressing the above issues meant stepping outside of the sandbox which the Civil Service had operated for Conservative ministers more or less since Cameron and certainly under May. (The delivery of Brexit being the one exception).
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@garamchaiii France didn’t have any colonies in the C12th. It didn’t event control all of France.
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@campbellclaret Only in your Remainiac mind would someone want to film themselves throwing something at an 80 yr old man.
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2 years
@JustinWelby Wrong, as usual. Jesus commands us to serve everyone unconditionally, not to instrumentalize the people you consider to be vulnerable and penalise those you consider to be strong. And NOT to enter into politics as the zealots around him continually urged, and you willingly do.
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@wideawake_media They build mansions in England in the Medieval Warm Period with 30’ high rooms, and then had to modify them into several stories to keep warm during the following temperature decline. (A friend lives in one…)
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Arab govts have been mystified for years about why the UK alllows this; to the point they were legitimately able to complain about us exporting terror back to the region in recent years.
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5 years
@KateHoeyMP Surely the end of an era. How often did I look at you and Gisela Stuart and think what the Labour Party could be. Fare thee well!
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3 years
V sad to sit on a flight and hear loving families getting frayed with each other over the new travel bureaucracy. A friend who lived under Yugoslavia once told me the whole point of ‘the system’ was to stress people’s relationships: well, now it’s come to the West.
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@TomHourigan @marksandspencer It’s not just copywriting… It’s M&S copywriting.
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@Qasam_Soleimani @DVATW We are all patiently awaiting your blue tick 😅
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@JustinWelby You manage to combine being both absurd and sinister in equal measure.
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@arisroussinos What could possibly define our era better than fear, boredom, hopelessness, lack of belief, and lack of confidence.
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@PadraigBelton @iskinnylegendz Apparently she used to request specific officers for guard duty at Balmoral whom she knew could stay the course with her on the whisky 😂
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@nick_kapur @dailyportalz This has revolutionised my view of Japan.
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@TitaniaMcGrath Welcome back. I am however concerned about the internalised misogyny of the first syllable of your name. Had you considered this??
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3 years
Funny that the more aggressive and unaccountable the public sector becomes, the more bad apples shelter there.
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And Britain too. We will not rest until a private individual can do a handbrake turn in a tank on The Mall. ✊
This is the America that libertarians want
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@SAshworthHayes As if you needed any more evidence that migrant crime is state-terror-by-proxy.
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@MrHarryCole This has to be the end of lockdowns, doesn’t it? Feels like a massive turning point in the country’s history if the police attempt to continue implementing these bans now.
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@OxfordDiplomat You claim to be concerned about polarisation and radicalisation in British politics, and yet through an almost total lack of self-awareness are doing more to drive those things than any party conference-speech could...
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@richardaeden Because they’ve stopped being royals and started being celebrities who expect to have it both ways.
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@GuidoFawkes So we are now in a Con-Lab coalition? Asking for anyone who ever voted for Boris.
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@prwhittle The context is decades of ‘anti racism’ PR vindicating purely race-based violence.
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5 years
Glad someone ( @allisonpearson ) has finally written this long-overdue piece.
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@edencohentweets Britain has meanwhile told Jewish schools to close instead of protecting them
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@LOS_Fisher @JakeWSimons @TimesRadio Oc course it is: you can't have someone being at war with you without being at war with them!
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@lisaduffy1968 This is what happens when the police fail to act first time around because thy happened not to like the victim - just as people said it would. Elsewhere Macdonalds have stopped selling them.
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@siemaiqbal @RmSalih It is damaging to all the causes under discussion for the statement ‘words have consequences’ to be selectively applied. If he says that, he must also take responsibility for his own words; else others will not take responsibility for theirs and everyone is back to square one.
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@NoContextBrits That’s enough truth for one evening, thank you! It’ll be Liberace next, no doubt
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@CharlotteEmmaUK The Jeremy Vine show, presented by Jeremy Vine, does a piece on Jeremey Vine.
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@Resist_05 I seem to remember Obama has a very similar sea-level home?
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@BBCNews The cops are discussing motive and @BBCNews calls it an accident. The disrespect to victims is just incredible. #naturalhistorymuseum
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@CharlotteCGill Politicians will consider ‘Natasha’s Law’ or ‘Briana’s Law’ based on a tenuous causal link to a single death, but won’t lift a finger when multiple violent deaths are directly causally linked to the same source.
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@edwinheathcote Moreover, why would it *not* be empty in any other European capital. That is the really scary thing about London and the UK at the moment.
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@JAHeale "Effective immediately" really stings. The thought of BYC rudderless during this critical time, having to appoint head-hunters etc, should pain us all.
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@Francis_Hoar Congratulations. We will drink to this tomorrow!
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Define entitlement: Establishment Old Etonian who’s about to get booted out of their constituency casually kneecaps self-made London youthworker in the race he’s been preparing for all his life. Cute. 👌
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@Holbornlolz @BanTheBBC Thank goodness there wasnt a burly copper present, as that might have upset Cressida Dick by giving the impression law enforcement is about enforcement. Phew!
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@MetroUK @g_krasteva Imagine an illness so severe that world must stop for it... yet so elusive that youl need to read a newspaper to work out if you've got it.
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@KingBobIIV @metpoliceuk I was there and literally everyone was wearing a face covering
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@Con_Tomlinson It is. The very fact she says she doesn’t know how far in advance of the shots the SS became aware but knew it was less than five minutes seems ground for perjury.
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@toryboypierce To buy him off from leaking something against Boris… would be one credible explanation.
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@JBickertonUK @TheTortorian This was my favourite. Internarionalism Brexit-style 🤔
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@BernieSpofforth Socialism is all about creating scarcity then using it for leverage over and between people.
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@morgandelmeier You should have said ‘but happily his invisible hand is still with us’ and seen how quickly they put down the phone
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@DickDelingpole The drug pushers of the state...
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@LanceForman He’s now motivated Hamas to double down on its efforts to put aid workers in harm’s way in order to isolate Israel further.
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4 years
I’ve found the main feature of living under government dictat is that time has acquired this weird elasticity. Whole months swallowed; things that happened last week seeming like months ago, and vice versa. I expect this is what it felt like under Communism.
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@questingvole Indeed. All this over 58k and not upsetting his GF. It’s all so puerile for a PM.
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@RE_DailyMail @richardaeden @netflix @WeAreInvictus @InvictusGamesNL Has Harry used his job and his foundation to make a film about... himself?
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Hearing stories about older people in Spain - presumably after months of on/off isolation - being turned away from the bars that have been their entire social life for years for lack of a smart phone. Kind, proportionate, and great for public health.
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Meghan has definitely grasped the ‘noblesse’ bit: it’s just the ‘oblige’ that’s escaping her. The expropriation of public money to live lives of private luxury is for quango bosses and state apparatchiks, not Royals.
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@JohnnyMercerUK Come on!! The world is in uproar about fake news. The guy has 270k followers: he has a duty of care not to spread it!!
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@SirBasilBrush @gypsydavecooper @bruce_bwkm @JamesDelingpole @iainmartin1 JRM is popular because he offers the electorate respect. Hence the pin quiet when he speaks on #bbcqt . Parris is the opposite type of MP.
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@sajidjavid @ObserverUK @SadiqKhan I’d another paper had done this, the Observer would currently be rushing out an column 😂
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Woke hippies, take note: just because the hard Left dislikes what you dislike, that doesn't mean it likes what you like.
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@BareReality Mankind’s oldest fear is to be cast into the darkness away from the campfire. Whoever wants power claims the social centre for a cause (these days climate change / Covid / Ukraine; previously nationalism, sectarianism etc), pushing others to the periphery.
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@DalrympleWill @Sathnam @JLFLitfest @britishlibrary Er, Turkey? It’s extraordinary how people are willing to expend their credibility on these sound bites
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Not to mention those who previously thought of themselves as Conservative, of course. 🤭
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I want voters who may previously have thought of themselves as Labour supporters to look at my government afresh.
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@camillahmturner It’s not just that: it’s because she has a holistic philosophy and doesn’t waste words or speak in clichés, like all the others.
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@Daniel_Sugarman “I’m frustrated that my calls for genocide have become a distraction from getting on with the genocide” is what he means.
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The entire country’s future is now being driven by Parliamentary spite against Boris, aided by the press. ‘And tell is why you don’t trust him?’ asks Sky of every passing MP. And yet Boris has now become the grown-up in the room; something grasped by Brussels but not MPs.
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@SamWhiteTky The moment when criticising the police's hate crime campaigns counts as hate crime can't be far off. Then the circle will be inescapable.
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@iainmartin1 This was my fave. Turning a pile-in into a virtue-signal in one easy tweet! And what type of rampaging poser talks about ‘acting in a space’ instead of, er, working.
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#ClapforBoris . This is a no-brainer: if he sees footage from his hospital bed, it will help him immeasurably. I’d actually like to do this by St Thomas’s, although the police would (of course) break this up.
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@FarrWard3 @Gillette I’m liking the fact that the one person who approves is... not someone in the target market. 🤔
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@Fionasstalker Would you pay one supermarket a subsidy in order to be able to shop at any other one? Of course you wouldn’t.
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@Fox_Claire It’s funny how nationalism has its uses when just *outside* the borders of the EU. You wouldn’t hear Western leaders saying ‘Glory To’ a member state now, would you..
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@bennyjohnson ‘We’re not doing this the way you want to do it’ is a pretty good summary of the ‘Democratic’ approach to government in general
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@HarrietSergeant @MorrisseyHelena I’m thinking of all the 10,000s of public sector workers on long-term sick-leave when the ultimate public servant was still working on the antepenultimate day of her life on earth.
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@timothy_stanley The irony of him being charged with an offence intended to preserve the dignity of churches...
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