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Mark Berry

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1 year

Luke Akehurst is one of the most repellent people I have encountered here, which is saying something. Unless and until the Labour Party were to dispense with him and his ilk permanently, I could not vote for, let alone rejoin, it. Nor should anyone else.

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Hi, I’m a cishet Times/Observer journalist, privately educated, and am here to tell you why everything my friend Nick Cohen did both does not matter and was entirely the fault of Jeremy Corbyn and trans people, who must answer for it.

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I have had a horrible thought. We are all pinning our hopes on a hung parliament, but… what if Starmer is planning a coalition with the Tories? Everything he has done and is doing suggests so. We then have a de facto one-party fascist state.

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If only there had been some leader and some movement absolutely committed to transformative change, who had not been smeared and slandered by the Guardian…

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Astonishingly, @WeAreTheMU voted to prevent Jeremy Corbyn from being considered for reselection as Labour candidate for Islington North. Now it requests support against the BBC’s onslaught on its orchestras. Fortunately, solidarity is not transactional. It should reflect on that.

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What an irredeemably horrible, vicious, inhuman person Lisa Nandy is. Seeing her vile treatment of John McDonnell makes me so grateful I shall never again be in the same party as her and her ilk.

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The way Keir Starmer behaves towards Jeremy Corbyn is the way he would behave to any and all of us, if he could get away with it - and largely he is already.

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The most monstrous thing about the current Labour Right is not its politics, not even its fascist-sectarian behaviour, abhorrent though both may be. It is the reason for them, something it took me years to understand. Everything is done in bad faith, out of careerist and…

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Extraordinary. These people really do not value human life at all. It is just a game to them.

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Centrists are terrified by Jeremy Corbyn. They tell 101 lies about him before breakfast even now. Extraordinary. If only they realised most people know, especially in the rest of the world. If they actually listened to Chomsky rather than shout like 5-year olds, they might learn.

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their bidding, of course; but they will also do anything to engineer the victory of their nihilistic faction. They have no scruples, none whatsoever, because they have no beliefs, just lust for power. Socialism is their enemy; they will do anything, and have, to defeat it.

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The Guardian quotes @AnnelieseDodds as having said 'Look, no one supports strikes.' This is the chair of the 'Labour' Party. Seriously?

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… mercenary motives. These people have no beliefs; their ideology is as pure a nihilism as you will encounter. They are often paid directly by external, neoliberal agents (privatised utilities, private healthcare), even by governments and their front organisations. They do…

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Tony Blair co-led the murder of more than a million Iraqis without Labour Party sanction. Britain's first black female MP, who receives tenfold the abuse of any other MP, expressed herself regrettably in a draft letter and is immediately suspended. Behold the hierarchy of racism.

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I do not feel relief at the departure of the repellent Johnson from Parliament, though perhaps one day I will; rather, I feel deep, even fathomless anger at what he, Cameron, Osborne, Sunak and their class are doing, have done, and will continue to do. No one, with the ...

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So it has been confirmed that, if all eligible take up pension credit, any 'savings' from £1.5 billion taken from pensioners will be lost. Yet the government says it wants 100% take-up of pension credit. So this will 'save' nothing yet cost many. Truly a parable of means-testing.

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The Arts Council’s incompressible, philistine attack on the Britten Sinfonia is adisgrace. One of the most open-minded, community-minded, artistically interesting and outstanding chamber orchestras in the world. Solidarity. We must fight this.

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Good Lord. What is wrong with these Dr Strangeloves?

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Please, please stop making excuses for these people. They are every bit as bad as we have told you, probably worse. No better than Tories.

Briefcase Michael

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1 year

David Lammy: "We can't come into office and start repealing Tory legislation. It would take up too much time." (Talking about the Public Order Act). #LBC There you have it. What's the point of @UKLabour ?

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Some good news. Following my stint as Head of Department, I shall be a visiting scholar at the Humboldt University for the academic year 2023-24. So excited, visa permitting - thanks, Brexit - to be able to return to Berlin.

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R.I.P. Kaija Saariaho, 1951-2023. Here (far right as we look at the stage) in April receiving an ovation at the British premiere of her opera Innocence.

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Max Reger modulates from C major to B# major.

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The ratio on Birbalsingh’s tweet is art. As is Audrey’s response.

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Salieri recognised at last.

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F. Murray Abraham realizing the fans at the Golden Globes are cheering for him and then doing a little pose 🥹

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How can anyone defend this absurd display when people live and die homeless on the streets around, when others barely avoid starvation through foodbanks? Sickening beyond words. All in attendance signal their priorities. This country is an absolute disgrace.

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Merry Christmas to all friends and followers.

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Muting this thread now. Please accept my apologies if you are engaging in an interesting and polite way. Just tired of puerile centrist abuse. It doesn’t hurt; it is just, like centrists, deeply tedious and time-wasting. If they can’t see by now who Starmer is, they never will.

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After nearly 15 months, I have been told my account suspension was 'an error. We've determined there was no violation and have restored your account ... We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.' Not sure I'll be here much; I have learned to manage without. We'll see.

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@EtanSmallman You write for the Daily Mail.

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Arnold Schoenberg, the most historically important composer of the twentieth century and one of the greatest of any century, was born 150 years ago today. Here is a piece I wrote a few years ago for @TheTLS as an introduction to him and his music.

The dramatic life and musical innovations of Arnold Schoenberg

Grace notes essay: Arnold Schoenberg | The dramatic life and musical innovations of a composer both vilified and acclaimed

www.the-tls.co.uk

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Vandalism. Manchester deserves an opera company; everywhere does. That does not mean ENO should be unceremoniously booted out of London, forced to 'maximise' the Coliseum 'as a commercial asset'. Still, at least Dido Harding got her £38 *billion* and we have nuclear weapons.

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@E_N_O

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A new chapter for the ENO. Read the full statement here:

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The end of an era. Daniel Barenboim has stood down as General Music Director of @StaatsoperBLN . No house and no musician have meant more to me over the past two decades. Sending my very best wishes and immense gratitude for performances from Gluck to Boulez, and above all Wagner.

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There is no one more dishonest, more racist, more hateful in British public life than Keir Starmer. And when you think about the fierceness of the competition…

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For goodness sake, bring this appalling, idiotic, racist nonsense to an end. Beg forgiveness from the EU. Do whatever it takes to rejoin at least the single market and customs union, preferably Schengen and the euro too. Try the liars who did this and lock them up. End it now.

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I struggle to imagine why, in a world torn apart by war, greed, inequality, injustice of all sorts, someone might decide the real enemy was amateur choirs. But anyway.

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Wagner’s birthday

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Delighted to report a triumph in every respect for #ENORhinegold . Difficult to believe this is the same Ring whose second instalment came first little more than a year ago. But enough of that: orchestra, singers, conductor, and production were all excellent. Review soon. #LoveENO

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This made me smile.

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Holocaust denial is ok on Twitter now, it seems. Not sure I’ll be sticking around much longer.

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Please ban these appalling things across the entire world.

Parisians vote to ban rental e-scooters from French capital by huge margin

Results show 90% support for ridding Paris of ‘self-service scooters’ whose riders are accused of flouting rules of the road

www.theguardian.com

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possible exception of Murdoch, is more personally responsible for all that has been done to us over the past seven years. No one will suffer less as a consequence. People will continue to die on the streets and in the hospitals. Johnson’s class will continue to wreck and to ...

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Here is @jeremycorbyn in the Metro six years ago:

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Christ’s message is communism. You can be a socialist or communist without being a Christian, but you cannot be a Christian without being at least a socialist.

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Mozarttorte oder Klimttorte?

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turned away, deported, and murderered. We shall continue to be deprived of our European citizenship. The drumbeats of war will only louden. There will be no reckoning; there will be no trial; there will be no justice. There will always be Johnson.

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The coward knew he was going to lose and wanted to deny us the pleasure of his Portillo moment.

Dominic Raab to stand down as MP at next election

His decision comes a month after he resigned in the wake of a bullying inquiry.

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Admiration for Wozzeck is pretty universal, isn’t it? Rightly so, of course, but there really isn’t anyone with serious interest in opera as an art form who doesn’t esteem it to the skies and beyond.

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All I want for Christmas is my European citizenship (above all, freedom of movement) returned to me.

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Shame on all who aided and abetted Johnson in his miserable, corrupt, destructive career. It was always absolutely clear who and what he was. A child could have seen through him, as did my six-year-old nephew whose immediate, instructive distrust said it all. There is no excuse.

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@BioMickWatson Who are you, and why are you saying 'Bye bye'? We do not know each other. Very strange.

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Don’t blame me; I voted for Jeremy Corbyn.

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loot what little remains of the public realm. Socialists will continue to be defamed. Politicians, blue and red Tory alike, will continue to lie, to steal, to gain preferment in the sham ‘democracy’ some idiots will continue to refer to. Refugees will continue to be abused, ...

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Ligeti is 100. And his music sounds as fresh, ingenious, inventive as ever—because it is. Here is his Piano Concerto, played by @PLAimard .

Ligeti: Piano Concerto (1985-88) - I. Vivace molto ritmico e preciso...

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupLigeti: Piano Concerto (1985-88) - I. Vivace molto ritmico e preciso - attacca subito: · Pierre-Laurent Aimard · ...

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Tickets for Bayreuth this summer confirmed: Flying Dutchman, Parsifal, and Tannhäuser.

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‘A long-term fight for existence’ – full text of Simon Rattle speech on the crisis facing UK classical music

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Now this is what I call an opera house.

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@Keir_Starmer This you?

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Prost!

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Das Land ohne Oper. 😞

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On my last day as Head of Department at @RHULMusic , delighted to hear that the QS World University Rankings have placed Performing Arts at @RoyalHolloway twentieth in the world and sixth in the UK.

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Starmer isn’t just a Tory; he is a far-Right Tory. If you vote for him and his party, you vote for this—which is to vote against us.

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Barry Sheerman tweeted about silver shekels when two Jewish people did not become ministers . He was allowed simply to apologise, as has Diane already; he faced no action. Rachel Reeves campaigned for a statue to 'honour' notorious antisemite Nancy Astor; no one has apologised.

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I do not think I could be more horrified or terrified than I am by the picture of Braverman’s posed, maniacal laughter at a Rwandan camp. None of us, let alone those poor souls seeking asylum, is safe. The greatest darkness, beyond even our worst nightmares, is truly upon us.

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@alice_m_xxx This would never have happened if President Juan Guaidó had been properly recognised.

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Kissinger is 100 today; Ligeti would have been 100 tomorrow. There is no cosmic (or temporal) justice.

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110 years since the Skandalkonzert conducted by Schoenberg, so disrupted by the Viennese public (or one section of it) that it had to be abandoned during the Altenberg-Lieder. Some of the reactionary protestors ended up in court.

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Konzept: L’incoronazione di Poppea

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Winterreise, @wigmore_hall

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@PaoloIskandar64 You obviously aren’t familiar with Starmer. That is ‘ludicrous’.

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Richard Strauss died 75 years ago today. Here is a little piece I wrote on him ten years ago, on his sesquicentenary, for @ConversationUK .

Never mind the Nazis – at 150, Richard Strauss is more valuable than ever

Richard Strauss saw – and heard – it all. Born before German unification, he lived through two world wars and the division of Germany into East and West, dying that same year, in 1949. Musically he...

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Centrists are strange. Someone I have never encountered and surely doesn’t know me from Adam, appears out og nowhere not to engage meaningfully but simply to tell me I shouldn’t speak. I don’t especially mind; I just find it odd and slightly depressing.

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@boulezian Oh pipe down.

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Starmer, meanwhile, comes close to literally draping himself in the flag of British imperialism from Derry to Delhi. He supports the British Crown, declares himself a Zionist ‘without qualification’, and is so wedded to US imperialism that he has forbidden questioning of NATO.

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Rotten past three weeks, mostly given to flu and bronchitis. Meant I had to cancel all sorts of things: from Quatuor Ébène to visiting New Orleans, where I should be now. Now having first glass of wine in that time. Might I at last actually be starting to feel a little better?

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The state of the world is: well, I don’t have the words, any words… So I occupied myself cooking this evening. Here are the roast potatoes.

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Delighted, if more than a little surprised, to learn I have been translated into Turkish. The Turkish edition of Arnold Schoenberg will be published by Runik.

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Good evening

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New glasses

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Never. And how dare you even ask?

As Ukraine’s culture minister, I’m asking you to boycott Tchaikovsky until this war is over |...

Russia is trying to destroy our nation’s history. Alongside sanctions, let’s pause performances of Kremlin-favoured works, says Oleksandr Tkachenko, Ukraine’s minister of culture

www.theguardian.com

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First production pic of Frank Castorf’s new Tristan.

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R.I.P. Maggie Smith, 1934-2024

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To praise New Labour is to praise or to disregard the killing of at least half a million people in Afghanistan and Iraq. All the sophistry in the world cannot get around that. That a human being could do so lies beyond my understanding.

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Good evening

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Feels quite overwhelming to be back in this city I so love, after quite so long (2019!) Don Giovanni, @WrStaatsoper :

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Never become inured to this. That is their plan. They partied all the while others were dying, fearful, ailing, putting lives on the line to save others, living without seeing a soul they knew for months on end. Lock up the Johnsons and throw away the key.

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The Arts Council (sorry, ‘Arts Council England’, since articles are verboten in its dated, joyless realm) founds its sub-Maoist attack on opera in opera houses on a fall in audiences between 2017 and 2020. I can’t imagine what might have led to a decrease in audiences in 2020.

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Long-distance relationships aren’t easy. My partner and I won’t see each other this Christmas, though we did the last two. When we do so again in February, it will be the longest we have been apart since we met. Jobs and money, really. Cherish what you have, whilst you have it.

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Holiday time.

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@sophielouisecc So is your claim that those of us who worked all day every day, under incredibly stressful conditions, facing graver prospect of infection whilst Tory ministers partied and others baked sourdough loaves, should on top of that have had our pay reduced? Why?

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Roast potatoes. Beating January—and mid-week—blues.

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Now cooking…

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Reminder that the UK leaving the EU (at least the Single Market and Customs Union) was fundamentally incompatible with the Good Friday Agreement. This was clear in 2016 and many of us said so. Anyone supporting ‘Brexit’ since has been knowingly working against peace in Ireland.

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For late December babies:

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Sunset, Putney Bridge

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Eighty years old today. A life that has enriched and ennobled us beyond measure, nowhere more so than when it comes to Beethoven. Thank you, @DBarenboim .

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St Martin-in-the-Fields last night

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Good evening

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First carol service of the year, at @RoyalHolloway :

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Good Lord. This is a direct attack on the future of new music in this country. Shame on the BBC, as ever doing the Tories’ bidding.

EXAUDI

@EXAUDIensemble

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We are COMPLETELY shocked to learn that the BBC Singers are being shut down in the next few months. Just speechless. How could this be allowed happen? Feel like crying. Also, devastated for those EXAUDI singers who are members of the Singers (and for all the others too).

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Surely WhatsApp in no way constitutes a proper channel for Government business. If anyone, civil servant or minister, were carrying out such business via WhatsApp, that in itself, let alone the content, should be considered scandalous.

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