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Ben A

@ukbababa

"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions”

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Joined January 2010
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The trouble with delivery aggregators like @JustEatUK is if there’s a problem you’ve no idea if they’ll get back to you quickly or just leave you starving. Have a live chat option!
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.@TheBARPod afterparty a good chance to demonstrate that there is no faster drinker than a man with a babysitter racking up an hourly rate.
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Things I’ve long believed likely will happen but rebadged: HS2, Customs Union, EU Mobility Scheme.
Robert Ford (@robfordmancs) profile pictureRobert Ford@robfordmancs10 Jul 2024
In other words bring back something that does the main job of HS2 but ditches the branding which is now toxically associated in the public mind with overspending and failure
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I cannot stress this enough. The Russians besieged, bombarded & starved Aleppo, and all the international community did was plead with Russia via the UNSC to allow an aid convoy in. One aid convoy. Russia agreed. Then they bombed the UN aid convoy. teapawt.org/EliotHiggins/status/18…
@eliothiggins.bsky.social (@EliotHiggins) profile picture@eliothiggins.bsky.social
@EliotHiggins8 Jul 2024
If there's one thing to understand with Russia, unless there's true consequences to their terrible actions, you can be sure they'll do it again and again, and get worse and worse.
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Your reminder that Raab stayed on holiday while Kabul fell to the Taliban
Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps (@grantshapps) profile pictureRt Hon Sir Grant Shapps
@grantshapps1 Jul 2024
Virtually every military intervention we’ve carried out has happened at night, partly to keep our servicemen & women safe. The British people will wonder who would be standing in for Starmer between 6pm & 9am – Angela Rayner, David Lammy, Ed Miliband? Defending Britain's security isn't a daylight hours only job. teapawt.org/iainmartin1/status/180…
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As all is lost, you may as well go down with a giggle. How about KEIR STARMER WILL BUM YOUR CAT ? Nowt to lose now, lad.
Rishi Sunak (@RishiSunak) profile pictureRishi Sunak
@RishiSunak1 Jul 2024
Labour's taxes would be for life.
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It's crazy how many mainstream journalists are apparently perfectly fine with the mass disclosure of the medical records of vulnerable people; which is just one of the things Julian Assange and Wikileaks did, unapologetically.
John Simpson (@JohnSimpsonNews) profile pictureJohn Simpson
@JohnSimpsonNews25 Jun 2024
Delighted Julian Assange is free, though he has served 5 years under often unpleasant conditions for doing what journalists do every day. Great praise to his wife Stella and their legal team. But the US Dept of Justice still holds the Espionage Act over journalists worldwide.
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Farage a Putin simp? Shocked, shocked I tell you.
Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) profile pictureNigel Farage
@Nigel_Farage21 Jun 2024
I am one of the few figures that have been consistent & honest about the war with Russia. Putin was wrong to invade a sovereign nation, and the EU was wrong to expand eastward. The sooner we realise this, the closer we will be to ending the war and delivering peace.
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I am one of the few figures that have been consistent & honest about the war with Russia. Putin was wrong to invade a sovereign nation, and the EU was wrong to expand eastward. The sooner we realise this, the closer we will be to ending the war and delivering peace.
Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) profile pictureNigel Farage
@Nigel_Farage16 Sep 2014
Stop playing war games with Putin. My latest speech in the European Parliament on Ukraine and EU-Russia relations youtube.com/watch?v=PjC6UhAM…
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“When I said I’d shit the bed if daddy didn’t buy me a Ferrari, the goal was the sports car; I didn’t expect to be sat here covered in shit.”
City A.M. (@CityAM) profile pictureCity A.M.
@CityAM19 Jun 2024
“The goal was to get Baillie Gifford to divest; it was not to get the festivals to lose their sponsors.” @NaomiAKlein defends Fossil Free Books in an interview with City A.M., calling Baillie Gifford "thin-skinned" for putting festivals in jeopardy cityam.com/naomi-klein-thin-…
Naomi Klein: Thin-skinned Baillie Gifford has put arts festivals in jeopardy

Naomi Klein: Thin-skinned Baillie Gifford has put arts festivals in jeopardy

Naomi Klein has called Baillie Gifford “thin-skinned” for putting literary festivals in jeopardy, as she defended Fossil Free Books.

cityam.com
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Image from Godspeed You Black Tamperer (ft Maya) (@twlldun)
Conservatives (@Conservatives) profile pictureConservatives
@Conservatives19 Jun 2024
Don’t let Labour put all this progress at risk.
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The absolute state of some of the quotes in this
Gravesend Messenger (@KMGravesend) profile pictureGravesend Messenger@KMGravesend18 Jun 2024
Residents staged a protest over plans to house unaccompanied asylum seeking children in their street. Click image for more kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/n…

Residents protest over plans for home for asylum-seeker children

Residents of a quiet residential street fear what will happen when unaccompanied asylum-seeking children are housed in a former care home.

kentonline.co.uk
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British politics is four years of people asking 'why don't we have the vision to make difficult decisions in this country?' Then six weeks of demanding that political parties rule out making any difficult decisions.
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There is an increasing “revenge of the centrist dad” vibe to this general election campaign and I am totally here for that.
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Lol an absolutely matchless headline, fair play
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Fossil Free Books (@fossilfreebooks) profile pictureFossil Free Books@fossilfreebooks30 May 2024
Replying to @fossilfreebooks
5. We sympathise with the struggles faced by organisers of literary festivals when it comes to accessing funding, however we disagree that the blame for EIBF’s funding situation lies with us.
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Dear BBC, 'volunteering' is inappropriate if it's mandatory...
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If nothing else, calling a meeting for 4pm shows what a total prick of a boss Rishi Sunak is.
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I fear I’m going to be overusing this gif for the next 12 months
Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) profile pictureIan Dunt
@IanDunt21 Oct 2023
Looking more and more like a complete collapse. A party just giving up the will to fight. theguardian.com/politics/202…
Jeremy Hunt ‘set to quit as MP’ in fear of a Portillo moment

Jeremy Hunt ‘set to quit as MP’ in fear of a Portillo moment

The chancellor will stand down before the election as likelihood of defeat in new Surrey seat looms, senior Tories say

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There's a statue of him at Chapel Allerton Hospital in Leeds that needs to be pulled down like a 2003-era Saddam effigy
Metro (@MetroUK) profile pictureMetro@MetroUK17 Oct 2023
BREAKING: The Captain Tom Foundation is set to be closed down following a series of financial scandals as his daughter Hannah-Ingram Moore fights to keep her controversial spa complex. trib.al/8kyAewI
Captain Tom's charity to close down while daughter fights to keep her spa

Captain Tom's charity to close down while daughter fights to keep her spa

A barrister claimed the Captain Tom Foundation was 'unlikely to exist' in the future during a hearing attended by Hannah Ingram-Moore.

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