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Honestly, I don’t think you get to call yourself a British patriot if you’re funded by Russia to espouse distinctly un-British viewpoints.

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The dangerous decline of child vaccination in England. Such a worrying trend at several levels.

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"The eyes of a serial killer, but the mouth of a pensioner still waiting for his soup" -- Felicity Ward, The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4

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Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉

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A thread that's well worth reading.

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NEW The European Convention on Human Rights needs practical reform, not quitting Why the Conservatives have the wrong solution to a political problem By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

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Alien vs Predator Trouble in ParadICE It's the PNG Courier's overseas correspondent on what happens when a pair of high agency males really go at it. open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

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Incredible: 0% of studies funded by the meat industry have found a link between red meat and cardiovascular ill-health. 73% of studies not funded by the meat industry have found a link. www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

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The public certainly saw through you. They never chose you to be their Prime Minister, and at the first opportunity to vote on your catastrophic bin fire of a premiership they kicked you out of one of the safest Tory seats in Britain. Do stop continually embarrassing yourself. 🥬

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An exciting battery project - based on rusting iron! - is being developed in Donegal, one of Ireland's most remote outposts. It's a new ultra long-duration energy storage tech, and the subject of my latest column: www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

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On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made a series of claims about the BBC's coverage of events in Gaza on Sunday. We've looked at the claims - and the number of misrepresentations and untruths that they contained. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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Does The Human Brain Have A Finite Memory Capacity? “It’s not some hidden dimension of space that’s limitless.” www.iflscience.com/does-the-hum...

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Brexit sovereignty means we can’t afford to spend v much on defence… or in fact anything… Here’s the new slogan for the side of that bus… “Rejoin the EU and spend the increased GDP on what we want” (Letter, Times) (Not sure about “unaffordable luxury”… More an “unaffordable idiocy”)

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Perspicacious from @rafaelbehr.bsky.social who points to the similarities between Liz Truss and Badenoch and Farage. Liz Truss whose bizarre speech in Budapest, blaming globalists like the IMF and WHO for the downfall of the West, was faithfully summarised (& no doubt celebrated) in Russia’s Tass

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"South Florida weatherman tells viewers he can't accurately predict hurricanes because of government cuts" Source: old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

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The hallmarks of Twitter are now: * replacement theory * obsession with nationalism and ‘treachery’ * obsession with perceived ‘enemies’ and ‘invaders’ * blatant racism said out loud * ‘two tier justice’ (definition varies) All of it unchecked and unchallenged. They’re grouping and gathering.

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There's a Robin Williams quote involving NASCAR drivers that seems relevant, what is it again?

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Overheard: Apparently Zelenskyy had some cards, and he didn’t need a suit.

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Christ… red lines are so expensive. (Private Eye)

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I do think that a better media would be interrogating how a Leader of the Opposition has ended up arguing that we shouldn't prosecute people for calling for burning down hotels with people in whilst people are burning down hotels with people in.

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"I am getting very sick & tired of having to go onto news programs because journalists aren't allowed in to point out what is happening here... this is a televised slaughter. History will not judge us kindly." I spoke today to Dr Tom Potokar, UK surgeon in Gaza: Full intv: zeteo.com/p/televised-...

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Do Reform voters know that Farage favours replacing the nhs with an American insurance system. The Americans pay twice as much per head for healthcare yet millions are not covered. The largest healthcare company queries 1/3 of claims. #reform #nhs #farage

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That sound you can hear is Werner von Braun singing the Star Spangled Banner.

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A glowing commendation for Durham county council’s new Reform UK leader Andrew Husband from his party’s spokesman: “Andrew is a business leader with a proven track record of growth in start-ups and building successful teams.” 🧵 1/3

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The X-Ray from Trump's last medical just leaked #TACO

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People ask 'Are you sure the 🇬🇧 govt released Japanese POWs to fight under British command in 1945?', because it seems so unlikely given how we like to remember WW2. It wasn't exactly a secret at the time but my bet is that hardly anyone in the UK today knows this story from my book. Am I right?

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Healthy but tired cynicism being expressed in this letter (to the i Paper). We’re all so bloody sick of the failure… of being lied to like this… of politics for simpletons who think the stuff they don’t like can be swept away with a magic wand and who have no clue how a country works.. or doesn’t.

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TACO the British way #TACO #Badenoch #Tory

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All you need to know about Elon Musk’s stunning success is that he lasted 2.65 Liz Trusses and lost 150 billion dollars.

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Also, UK publishing is worth £11bn and yet our IP and creative resources are being given away...

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Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain needs a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily need universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

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Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

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Who wouldn't trust someone who doesn't like fact checking?

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While I think that it is a real problem when politics are a more and more risky career choice for anyone except the independently wealthy, I struggle to ignore the irony of Steve Baker, admirer of radical market forces, finding out that he is, in fact, not that marketable outside politics.

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The Bear is always excellent, but he’s outdone himself with this superbly insightful article. A long piece, but I urge you all to read it.

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Bank robbers say asking banks for permission would kill the heist industry.

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Interesting thread - the law of unintended consequences strikes again.

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Reinstating the winter fuel allowance is vital, but Farage’s plan to pay for it by cutting the Net Zero budget is madness - locking us into higher energy bills by increasing reliance on costly gas imports, rather than supporting cheaper green energy to get bills down for all of us 🙄

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A fascinating listen for the info on Neanderthals, but if that's not enough, the last quarter hour or so discusses the anti-science (and pseudo-science) problem that's exploded recently.

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NEANDERTHALS: Origins, Culture, Interbreeding, Extinction, the anti-Scie... youtu.be/kY50wzIJFKs?

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Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia

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