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As a regular London bike commuter, once again let me say that Jeremy vine is an absolute prannock. Its very simple, if you are on a bike, don't put yourself in harms way. No the bus shouldnt have tried to overtake, but accelerating up the inside is just fucking stupid.
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Unhinged, obsessive, deeply prejudiced and a pattern of behaviour going back years. Owen Jones is a thoroughly unpleasant individual with morally repugnant political views, at least they are now fully out in the open and not hidden behind an "all-out war".
Schrödinger's apartheid state
Explainer: Arab voter turnout could make or break Netanyahu in Israeli election buff.ly/OXI9lRv
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The Greens have singled out the Jewish state as the one ethnonational project that is racism. Not Japan. Not Armenia. Not the Arab states that expelled their Jews. Can’t say why.
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Why am I a Zionist? Because Israel is the ancestral Jewish homeland and it's non-negotiable that Jews have their own country. 'But Netanyahu' - yes, he's awful, but so are most leaders. Hell, if you want to play the 'bad leader=country shouldn't exist' game, look at Palestine...
Sad thing is, when this lying, boob hypnotising chancer is unceremoniously dumped by the greens, the next leader will be even worse.
Polanski said his family 'fled the Nazis'. But all four of his grandparents were born in Britain - long before the war trib.al/cEIekAl
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Bill & Ted should go back in time and get Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins. He'd fit right, he'd be having a whale of a time.
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To understand why the assisted suicide bill failed, start with this exchange between Danny Kruger and Kim Leadbeater.
Again and again opponents pointed out the disturbing consequences of the bill, and supporters just tried to avoid talking about them:
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If you think this is artistic expression and blackface is racism, you are a hypocrite and a bigot.
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When I first saw the situation involving Macklemore being dropped from Ed Sheeran’s concerts, I thought: Well, if the headliner doesn’t want an opening act because the opening act is too political, that’s the headliner’s right.
But if it is the case that Sheeran didn't want him removed at all, and that decision instead resulted from outside pressure due to Macklemore's outspoken political advocacy, I don't think that's something that should really be celebrated. I think we were a lot healthier when people were more comfortable saying, “I hate his opinions, but he's entitled to them, and I'm not buying a ticket to his show.”
Of course, people have every right in the world to protest speakers or performers they dislike — and I would vigorously defend that right. But when the goal of that pressure is to prevent someone from speaking or performing because of their political views, and the campaign succeeds, you can't really say that's a win for a culture of free speech.
