By day, boring IT bloke. By night, boring fan of history, science, books, cricket & tennis. Left of Centre; skeptic; humanist; father of two; husband of one.
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If farmers don’t want to pay inheritance tax, why don’t they become a business?
Sorry if that’s a naive question
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That’s quite the angle. The fact he failed to deal with a child abuser is obviously Meghan’s fault. 🤦🏻♂️
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Seems most people don’t know, so here’s the full, ironic tale!
-Kemi’s parents came to London for her birth, so that she would be British.
No longer legally possible because her heroine, Thatcher, stopped it!
And if it WERE: exactly the sort of thing she’d rage about 🤦♀️
ALT Wikipedia entry on Kemi Badenoch’s birth
ALT Extract from Guardian piece on Badenoch’s birth
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We can't do nuance any more.
The number of people who seem to have interpreted this as an endorsement of Trump.
Two things can be simultaneously true: Trump is a monster; Biden's response to the pandemic was unforgivably poor.
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From the 1950s to the 1970s, researcher John Calhoun gave rodents unlimited food and studied their behavior in overcrowded conditions. bit.ly/48LRQTN
Now that a precedent has been set, I think all American jobs should be open to felons who are the offspring of immigrants. Especially those of color (orange for example).
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Trump's apparent victory has 5 big implications for the UK: 🧵
1️⃣ It can happen here. He will back Farage, the Musk propaganda machine will crank up against Labour; the Tories will remould themselves into Trump-lite Islamophobes ...
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Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.
The best way to respect our Armed Forces is to end them having to rely on charity, and to give them the income, pension, medical support, and mental health care that the politicians who dictate their lives receive.
Come on America. It’s a big day tomorrow.
This shouldn’t be a hard choice.
Look at the calibre the U.K. has managed to elect to high office in recent years.
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Watching the BBC coverage of the people throwing mud at the King of Spain. I dont believe any government is prepared for the forces global warming has unleashed. Almost no politicians understand the climate crisis - or the anger. Only 10% of UK MPs even attended a briefing on it.
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I will translate this for all the Western liberals who don't understand anything: Ramallah is not Gaza, it is in the West Bank, it's a beautiful cosmopolitan city that is Christian, Muslim, and secular, and it is not governed or controlled by Hamas.
🚨BREAKING: A horrific night in Ramallah, in the West Bank.
Hundreds of Israeli terrorist settlers launched a brutal attack on the city of Ramallah, setting fire to numerous Palestinian homes and vehicles.
After setting Palestinian homes and cars on fire, they moved to the main road connecting Ramallah to other cities, where they targeted Palestinian cars passing by, injuring a woman by hurling stones at her vehicle.
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You’re telling me that the multi-multi millionaire who claims his mission in life is to end homelessness is a slum landlord, charging rents for substandard housing? Well, slap my thigh & call me shocked.
#C4Dispatches
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