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"I am not defined by my scars
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Lemn Sissay
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Noted. Thank you (it's still a damn good quote, although I've had it used against me by anti-vaxxer!)
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It's surprising that big Pharma isn't making a huge fuss about the destruction of the US's medical research industry. There's trillions to be made from successful treatments for eg, HIV or cancer vaccines, now all that research will be lost, and China will benefit. Madness.
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This Karl Popper quote sums it up:
"True ignorance is not lack of knowledge but the unwillingness to acquire it."
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jointhepeoplesunion.com
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It's a bit pathetic really because he's thoroughly discredited. There'll always be a sad little band of 'bring back Boris' diehards but he's now just a fat, faded irrelevance that most people despise. Let's hope the US survives and same fate awaits Trump.
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It's just beginning to dawn on him that being a Trump apologist and sycophant doesn't go down well with the centrist Tory voters he's hoping will eventually get him back into No 10. Someone once said he always watches which way the crowd's going, jumps infront and shouts "Follow me!"
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Surely it was Atlee's? The welfare state and the NHS happened under him, and he pushed for Indian independence.
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Hi Lady Bee, I get follow requests from people claiming to be Palestinian refugees crowd funding for desperate relatives. I already donate to a relevant charity and there's no way of knowing if they're genuine or not so I block them. I'm pretty sure it's a scam some ppl will fall for though
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Pity he wasn't on the BBC Question Time panel last Thursday, Trump's surgically enhanced campaign manager automaton would have had a heart attack.
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No, sorry, don't want to see any more images of brave Yanks pummelling the Nazis. They've joined forces now.
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Trump hate America? No, he just loves money, power and flattery. Trump has allegiance to no-one, he is loyal only to himself and his own ego and desires - Trump, and Musk, are the very definition of 'amoral'.
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The dystopian world of the Handmaid's Tale was not simply prescient about the destruction of women's rights, Robinson foresaw Gilead, an America that had totally cut herself off from the rest of the world, a pariah state. Let's hope she was right that somehow Canada managed to remain sane and free.
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Oh, how we laughed when he bought Twitter...we're not laughing now, are we? It was a very good investment.
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Thanks for the subtitles! Very glad Macron's not holding back. All Europe's leaders need to be as robust as this.
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You forgot the criminal abduction of tens of thousands of Ukrainian children sent to be raised as Russians, brutally separated from their families, language and culture, their identities erased.
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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"Badenoch seemingly unaware" sums her up. She's seemingly unaware that students on a gap yr VSO in Rwanda aren't like asylum seekers banished there, that 6wks work in McDonald's doesn't make you working class, or that maternity pay's a real issue for women not married to merchant bankers.
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Like Musk buying Twitter so he could influence the US election and become de facto POTUS, GBNews is a means to end and it doesn't matter to its owners that it's losing millions, they have very deep pockets. We are living in shark infested waters.
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Sorry I can't join you all for this, but let's hope lots of people can.
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It's losing money hand over fist, but bankrolled by Sir Paul Marshall, British hedge fund tycoon, and Dubai-based Legatum Ventures. Rabble rousers and Putin apologists Farage, Dan Wootton and Laurence Fox are all shareholders, so naturally it's a cesspit
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Quite, racists assume all scientists are white. Of course, predominantly they are because of systemic racism in education, hence the importance of DEI, but that's OK, President Musk has fixed it for the US.
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So, says another one on the Trump/Putin payroll, if Putin had meant to go to war he would've sent more troops in at the beginning. No, what he hadn't bargained for was the absolute rock solid determination of the Ukrainian people not to surrender their sovereignty to the butchers of Blucha.
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Little steps. Can you imagine the outrage from the Brexit mob if there were no restrictions? My guess is they'll be gradually and quietly eased, especially as the gangsters in the White House drive all European nations into ever closer co-operation again.
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Offering visas to scientists fleeing the US after Musk destroying the US's internationally respected research industry would be a good thing too.
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He's lost his marbles.
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Farage is forgetting that Britons hate bigheads and love an underdog. It's Eddie the Eagle, The Bank of Dave and a David versus Goliath thing built deep into our culture. With luck it'll wipe the crocodile smile off his face before too long.
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Unfortunately Jesus hasn't been very reliable about emphasising the message over the centuries. He's tended to outsource it to some very unreliable people.
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Good article, thank you.
"Does anyone seriously believe Trump would now honour Article 5 if it were invoked?"
That's the question I've been asking myself for the last few months. Could we be sitting ducks now the UK's not so special after all relationship with the US is well and truly over?
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We need him in Parliament.
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Farage is keeping his head down about the Dear Leader just now. Trump is hugely unpopular in the UK and we Brits hate bigheads and like an underdog. It's not a given this will turn out well for him. He's a slippery customer though...