On se lasse de tout, excepté d'apprendre.
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The last of Churchill’s Few returns to Dublin school 87 years after he left irishtimes.com/history/2023/…
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“We were late to the game, we were complacent, and we assumed saner people in government would shoot it down,” Element’s Matthew Hodgson nails it. politico.eu/article/whatsapp…
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This is the 3rd time I’m retweeting this but another thought; this puffed up little Lord is addressing someone who arrived on the Kindertransport - his response is vile at every possible level, including its insensitivity towards & disrespect for Lord Dubs, who is visibly shaken.
Asked by @AlfDubs about disgraceful actions of @ukhomeoffice to remove cartoons from Kent reception as they are 'too welcoming for children', Minister says:
'It is the correct decision these facilities have the requisite decoration befitting their purpose'
📢Shameful cruelty
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Literature isn’t lovely stuff. It’s unsettling, painful, shapes your morals, shows you the sublime and the foul rag and bone shop of the heart. And it can console and inspire those who get to a certain age and wonder if it was worth spending so much time in the office. – at Lewisham, London
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This is totally disgusting. @elonmusk should retract. It occurs as British Conservatives are told that the problem with the Nazis was that they “mucked up” the case for nationalism. This normalization of the heinous is a disgrace, washingtonpost.com/arts-ente…
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No-one in the UK has voted to withdraw from the ECHR. It was not in the 2016 referendum, and nor is it in the manifesto on which you were elected in 2019. And there is no evidence of majority suppprt for such a move. You have no electoral mandate for this whatsoever.
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The letter claims that millions of UK citizens voted to leave the European Convention of Human Rights. This is not true.
Millions voted to leave the EU, the EU is not the same thing as ECtHR.
libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/what-is-…
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The NatCon trailer for its 2022 European far right conference uses Marion Maréchal le Pen, who left Marine Le Pen's party (it not being sufficiently anti-immigrant) to support Zemmour. Roger Scruton is aired to give respectability but NatCon is plainly a movement towards fascism.
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Europe Day, just three days after Cartoonists Day, apparently, which passed me by uncelebrated....
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Government spying on lawyers? You don’t need to know says….Government.
We are opposed to this, spying, monitoring, #blacklisting of lawyers and workers. This is fundamentally wrong.
opendemocracy.net/en/freedom…
#spying #lawyers
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‘Bad information’. Speech is not a rotten egg. Nor is it a tripping hazard. Nor is it an oil spill. Nor is it an unguarded circular saw. You don’t protect freedom of expression by treating speech as a risk, not a right.
The #OnlineSafetyBill is back in the House of Lords for its Committee stage on 19 April.
Here @FullFact sets out how the Bill must be amended so it effectively tackles the harms caused by bad information and ensures our freedom of expression is protected. fullfact.org/about/policy/re…
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Politicians of all parties should be responding as if this was an urgent crisis and the greatest miscarriage of justice of their lifetime. Because it is.
A state-owned company using the resources of the state to prosecute people it knew were innocent.
Act now.
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Not snobbery. If you had an ounce of journalistic integrity you would have refused to go because other outlets, including the BBC, were banned. You are a loss making propaganda machine funded by the far right and your hosts are often conspiracy theorists, hate mongers & cranks.
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Limited realism and the limits to realism. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog analysing the week's developments including IR23, CPTPP, arsenic in baby food, science policy, and the IM Bill. Plus how investment data is a measure of Brexit's failure: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot…
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This is a thread about an important High Court judgment which was handed down yesterday. It concerns the decision of Dominic Raab to try to control the conduct of parole proceedings and to prescribe how his officials provide evidence to the Parole Board.
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Imagine a former Attorney General not knowing this.
Lot of love for Suella Braverman for telling @GaryLineker that the difference between the UK now and the Third Reich is that our laws are lawful. One snag with that: so were the laws of the Third Reich.
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This fella is completely taken apart by the brilliant @jonstewart
State Sen. Nathan Dahm (R-OK) has penned several bills loosening gun restrictions, including the nation’s first anti-red flag law. He thinks these bills protect the Second Amendment – and that they make us safer. We think it's probably one or the other. Watch it on @AppleTVPlus.
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We have to challenge the lies around that incident in Knowsley. Please RT
togetherwithrefugees.org.uk/…
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Anybody who supports the death penalty is by definition supporting a system which results in the state killing innocent people.
Only somebody with no understanding of history or criminal justice could fail to understand this.
And such a person has no place in politics.
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NO.
Strip illegal immigrants of the rights to asylum, says Grant Shapps thetimes.co.uk/article/strip…