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...It’s gazed out the window, seen a younger and beautifully endowed Bulk market two doors down. It’s penned a Dear John letter and it’s closed the door gently on its way out.
Freedoms haven’t driven innovation, they’ve caused the market to go do something else.
@jeffprestridge
Amnesty lost all credibility with me when its staff stood clapping as a Labour councillor called for people’s throats to be slit. You don’t get to choose whose human rights you support, doesn’t work like that, it’s been captured by the same idiots as the greens. @PatrickCorrigan
If a great Irish writer’s books can no longer be published in the UK because she stands with Palestine, the question isn’t what law might Sally Rooney have broken, it’s what sort of country has Britain become. irishtimes.com/culture/books…
Could it be that because she has been charged with a criminal offence the press is bound by rules to prevent compromising a criminal trial?
@narindertweets is not very bright, far more interested in race baiting than facts…
Monday morning deserves a brutal wake up call today.
Because, forgive me- I couldn't sleep all night WONDERING why a black man was crucified to death for allegedly copying some work and a former girlfriend of Michael Gove (they broke up weeks ago reportedly) and Oxford University professor..has been GRACED with what looks like a partial media blackout for being charged with possessing INDECENT IMAGES of kids.
Why aren't you all having a frenzy over this? Pray tell...I'm waiting with coffee in hand.
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Police again very clear. No suggestion Anne Widdecombe's death terror related. Or that it is politically motivated. And that speculation on motive is unhelpful to their investigation.
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🚨 BREAKING: The Government says the two Iranian men charged over the alleged terror plot against Jewish people in Manchester entered the UK by small boat in 2020 and 2023
One was granted asylum and the other has a live asylum claim
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An MP named Ribeiro-Addy asserts that "black voters" should pressure Andy Burnham to cough up re the reparations malarkey.
She is of Ghanaian descent.
Her forebears were never enslaved.
Mine were.
We are now doing fine & are happy not to be in Africa.
So, it seems, is she.
Scam.
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If we had frozen the price of fish and chips in 1850 the British people would be saving over a billion pounds a year. Thanks, Greens. You guys are fucking geniuses.
This nutter believes trans men should be allowed to box professionally as women.
He said that then blocked me. Keep drinking the Kool Aid Liam, the evidence is you just don’t relent care much for the safety and rights of women……. @LiamMurray
I’ve struggled to find her tweets criticising the Palestine action protestors hitting a woman with a sledgehammer?
Watch this brutal assault.
A woman heckler at the Reform party conference is attacked by the attendees!!! Aka Reform voters.
Watch the man with the walking stick and the woman. Who attacks women like this?? Horrible.
@WMPolice please take a look
Funny how you don’t allow replies. This says he planned to do it. It provides no evidence he did do it.
Here he is lying about having an MSc in psychodynamics from Birkbeck. Watch him break eye contact and look away as he says it.
Birkbeck say he was never even a student there
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Jason Arday shouldn’t be dead.
But he is dead - because he didn’t tell the truth.
And Cambridge University didn’t look for the truth - because he’s black.
And fellow black professors didn’t ask for the truth - because he is black.
Jason lied repeatedly.
And he told the exact lies that allow one to excel in the system that elite universities have adopted.
A system that factors in race, hardship, and lived experience under the banner of equity, instead of pure performance.
Nearly everyone in these institutions ignored Jason’s lies, to try and protect black people.
They called the people seeking the truth racists.
Of course there were some racists.
But the majority of people just wanted the truth.
Avoiding the truth didn’t help black people.
Double standards in academia aren’t helping black people.
They hurt the perception of black people who are truly the best, and would have held prestigious positions at elite schools, solely off the merits of their performance.
Double standards always backfire.
Even when well intentioned.
Even when intended to correct for past oppression.
Race-conscious hiring and admissions have created a situation where it is rational to wonder whether a black person has achieved their position because they were simply the best, or because they were good enough, and black.
This is not a racist thought.
It’s a rational thing to wonder when a system promotes people based on race.
It’s a thing I’ve wondered about myself, as someone who graduated from Harvard - which had race-conscious admissions.
No amount of insistence that it’s racist will make it racist.
It’s no more racist than it would be to wonder whether a white player got into the NBA off of just performance, if the NBA decided to focus on “fixing” the underrepresentation of white people.
This is the logical downside of race-conscious hiring and admissions.
You can think the downside is worth the upside.
But the downside remains.
Calling people with legitimate concerns racist didn’t protect black people.
It didn’t protect Jason.
It hurt black people who have earned their positions.
And it allowed a troubled man who built his career on lies to rise to a height so great that his fall from grace killed him.
We could have just had the truth.
Instead, we have a tragedy.
