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Graduate of engineering and science. Married father of two. Expat Scot. I don't stand with the latest thing.
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As we have elections, local and national, coming up this year, these are some of the things I'd like to see in a party manifesto.
I've probably forgotten lots of stuff but it's lunchtime and I'm hungry and in any case this lot would keep a new government busy for about 15…
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I remember before COVID and Brexit, I could have a civilised conversation with pretty much anyone about current affairs. We might not agree but there would be some common ground and we'd have a good debate. Now I struggle to have a conversation with anyone who still relies on…
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I like to observe the media and look for patterns.
Patterns I've noticed about coverage of the "climate":
- Weather used to be a two minute affair at the end of the news.
- There are more news stories about the weather than ever before.
- There are more stories about the weather…
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About twenty years ago I used to buy printed newspapers and watch television news to find out what was going on in the world.
About ten years ago I gave up on both but still kept an eye on the digital versions of newspapers for the news.
These days I read the digital versions of…
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"Get a diesel car", said Gordon Brown. So people did, and govt put up the price of diesel.
"Get an electric car", said Boris. So people did, and govt put tax on electric cars & failed to provide enough electricity.
"Get a heat pump" said Rishi.
"Sod off". Said the public.…
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I see Caroline Dineage MP has been going in heavy on social media companies who publish Russell Brand's "conspiracy theories", trying to tell the likes of rumble what they can and can't publish online.
Meanwhile in other news her husband is a former Deputy Commander of the Army's…
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There's been an epic Twitter Space going on for the last five hours on the topic of revolution, hosted by Neil Oliver, Laurence Fox and various others. I dipped in here and there in between trying to eat and get the kids to bed so missed a lot of it unfortunately.
But I think the…
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It's shocking how school children are being taught to demonise Carbon Dioxide, as if it's a toxic pollutant, when anyone who went to school before the Climate Cult began knows that it's essential for life on the planet via its role in photosynthesis.
Greenpeace co-founder, Dr. Patrick Moore:
"There is no definitive scientific proof... that carbon dioxide is responsible for any of the slight warming of the global climate that has occurred during the last 300 years."
"But there is certainty beyond a reasonable doubt that CO2…
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Sat in the far right pub earlier eating my cod and chips with the wife and kids. The sound of happy drinkers launching merry banter at their mates, the clink of glasses, the sound of the all you can drink tea and coffee machine breaking again. Outside the open doors people…
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Yesterday I pointed out that there is no UK "Conspiracy Movement"; rather there are a lot of individuals seeking out alternative news sources because they have noticed that almost everything the mainstream media had told them about the pandemic for the last 3 years has turned out…
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@10DowningStreet
Three years ago you told us all there was an emergency and that we must stay home.
In the beginning I believed you. But within 6 weeks it became apparent it was a tissue of lies.
Despite the evidence from proper scientists, not the charlatans at Imperial College, that the virus…
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A thread.
I have an engineering degree. Engineers spend their lives solving problems. I've also got some experience in crisis management. So when SARS-COV-2 reared its head I remember asking myself: if I was managing the response, what would do first, what would I prioritise?
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I'm still shaking my head at the wording of this tweet.
"Wherever you are, this Sunday at 3pm you're getting the Emergency Alert".
Let's unpack it a little.
Firstly, the presumptuousness of it. How does the government know what I'll be doing at 3pm on Sunday? How does it know if…
Wherever you are, this Sunday at 3pm you're getting the Emergency Alert.
You will receive a message on the home screen of your mobile phone, along with a sound and vibration for up to ten seconds. You don't need to take any action.
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Thinking back to the beginning of the lockdowns in 2020 and the desperate days where it felt like I might be the only person in the world who thought it was all nonsense, there were a few people who I encountered online who were instrumental in sharing sceptical information and…
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For those of you who are unvaccinated, what's the current state of play in your conversations/relationships with people who you know well and who you advised against being vaccinated but they went ahead anyway?
For my part, there are only a handful of people in this category…
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On masks.
Surgeon Destroys Myth: 'If Masks Don't Work, Why Do Surgeons Wear Them?'
By Dr. Jim Meehan I March 10, 2021 I EST
"A response to people who use the classic fallacious argument, "Well, if masks don't work, then why do surgeons wear them?"
"I'm a surgeon who has…
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I've got an engineering degree. It was quite a long time ago and I've not done any hands-on engineering for a while but it's a way of thinking which never leaves you.
The thing about engineering systems and processes is that:
1. There are usually only a few correct solutions and…
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I started doing Tesco Click and Collect for my shopping 3 years ago so I could avoid having to walk round stores full of masked zombies but I'm giving it (and Tesco) up today and going back to face to face shopping. Sorry Tesco but while your Click and Collect people are great, I…
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The COVID lockdowns were a catastrophe for so many people in so many ways; it's hard to overstate what a disaster it was.
But I am grateful it happened in one small but very important way.
In January 2020 I was made redundant (nothing to do with COVID, at least I don't think…
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I imagine some of the more unpleasant vaccine zealots might be watching the news belatedly come out about vaccine injury and imagining that the unvaccinated must be feeling pretty smug or delighted about being proved right.
I can't speak for every unvaccinated person but I know…
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Is it my imagination or are the authorities becoming ever more desperate in their attempts to persuade us there is some sort of catastrophic global warming happening?
Twenty-five degrees? In June? Unprecedented... not.
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The Common Cold Unit in Salisbury spent more than 40 years trying to come up with a cure only to conclude that the viruses which cause it (which include four coronaviruses) mutate very fast, resulting in many circulating strains and making development of a consistently reliable…
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@NHSEngland
This tweet is a disgrace.
You'll be offering kids sweets and puppies in return for jabs next.
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When the UK media learned, to their horror, that the summer weather at home was going to be wet & cold, they decided to scour the world to find somewhere, anywhere, that could be used to justify their preconceived narrative about a catastrophic climate emergency.
Change my mind.
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I've had a few run-ins with the climate science people today.
As usual, "you're not a climate scientist/astrophysicist, you're not in a position to challenge The Climate Science™" features heavily. In much the same way people say "you're not a virologist/epidemiologist, you're…
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This is very interesting.
When Bob Moran was at the Telegraph towards the end of 2020 and he wanted to take a sceptical approach to the vaccine rollout he was told in no uncertain terms that this wouldn't be tolerated at the Telegraph. That the vaccines were going to "rescue us…
Cartoonist Bob Moran's (
@bobscartoons
) criticism in the
@Telegraph
of the Covid lockdowns was funny, ruthless and, we now know, on the money.
So too was his stance against the vaccines.
But the Telegraph sacked him for that.
Why? asks
@FredPawle
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I've watched nearly half of this now.
Putin spent 54 minutes 😲answering Tucker Carlson's first question. Amusingly Putin asked at the beginning whether this was going to be a serious conversation or a talk show and Carlson said "serious" so Putin treated Carlson and the…
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Hello
@Ofcom
How do I report the BBC for misinformation?
BBC tweets a temperature for Sicily which is 10°C HIGHER than the BBC app for Palermo, Sicily. What's going on?
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In 2021 I was taking my daughter to a swimming class. There was a small viewing room for parents to wait in during lessons. I sat there maskless with other, masked, parents, one of whom had a toddler. He looked at me and smiled. I smiled back. He began to laugh and I laughed. He…
Just when you think he can't say anything stupider...
"Masks ruin lives"???
Can someone please point to one life ruined by a face mask?
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I've received two texts from "NHSVaccine" " inviting" me to have "my" seasonal COVID vaccine.
How nice of them to invite me. Will there be vol-au-vents and cocktail sausages? And they've set aside one special vaccine which already has my name on it!
But hold on a minute. I've…
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@DowdEdward
To become highly educated involves, for the most part, memorising what people in authority have told you, repeating it back in exams, and gaining status (and money) as a result. And after that, retaining status generally means complying with the narrative and the authorities and…
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@RishiSunak
Quite agree, all of those students wasting their lives doing PPE at Oxford and Cambridge & becoming puppets for global big business & the WEF in Westminster when they could do something helpful for humanity.
Let's give them apprenticeships in hazardous waste disposal instead!
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@NobelPrize
The Nobel Prize for Medicine should have gone to Dr Peter McCullough
@P_McCulloughMD
& his colleagues for finding a way of using cheap generic medicines to heal sick people instead of abandoning them to die while we all waited for a "vaccine" which was neither safe nor effective.
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Baffling.
When I was still doing systems engineering rather than trying to get other people to do it, and we were wondering why a system that had been working well had suddenly stopped, the first question we would always ask, accusingly, of everyone in the room would be "has…
Why ARE so many young people having heart attacks? They had seemingly healthy lifestyles... but all these people suffered heart problems
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Excess mortality of British people is unprecedented and, judging by the attendance below, our MPs seem uninterested in the topic.
I asked my MP to attend and he responded by sending me a screenful of boilerplate text clearly given to him by the government to fob people off.
These…
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Thinking about this a bit more, I think there are a few reasons for this situation:
1. Changes in education. A whole generation having been taught what to think, rather than how to think. People can't debate any more - they think calling someone a "mong" is a decisive piece of…
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I don't get it. Lockdown "damaged a generation", she said, correctly. But then she said this:
“It’s clear that no one thought about lockdown. I still think we should have locked down, although a week earlier."
WTF?
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Seven years ago the Establishment had a double shock with a majority of UK voters voting for the UK to leave the EU, and Donald Trump being elected on a "drain the swamp" ticket.
Ever since then the Establishment has desperately tried to obstruct or reverse Brexit; Cameron threw…
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Big turning point yesterday in world history.
1. Biden's Presidency is over. His handlers have decided to cut him loose. They arranged a news conference for him long after his normal bedtime and let reporters at him. Plus a court basically found him unfit to serve due to…
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@BGatesIsaPyscho
When there's a pandemic, the Moon has to socially distance from the Sun, so only comes out at night.
But now that the pandemic is over, the Moon is free to come and go as she pleases. 👍
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@globalhlthtwit
"A betrayal of our children"
I have children too and I am delighted at this news, because Net Zero has nothing to do with protecting the future of our children and everything to do with transferring money, power and control to a tiny unelected and unaccountable elite.
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I've read enough about the Middle East to know there are no simple answers to its problems. Like in Ukraine, history didn't start last week,or last month, or last year. So I won't be commenting much on what's going on there at the moment. But I can say one thing for sure: those…
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Lately I've had a few people tell me: "COVID is over. Let it go".
I stopped thinking about the disease 2 years ago.
But will I let go of the catastrophic & totalitarian response, the unsafe & ineffective vaccines, the media lies, the censorship & vilification of good people?
No.
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@IanCopeland5
@stkirsch
@Jikkyleaks
@RobertFKennedyr
@joerogan
I predict this conversation will go like this:
"Anti-vaxxer": OK, here's one.
Dr Copeland: "Not a proper journal"
"Anti-vaxxer": What's a proper journal
Dr. Copeland: "A proper one, like the Lancet"
"Anti-vaxxer": "You mean one bought by Big Pharma?"
Dr. Copeland: "Lancet wasn't…
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@jordanbpeterson
The timing of it all seems remarkable too; each new indictment seems to arrive the day after the latest embarrassing revelation about the Biden family.
Still, I expect it's just another coincidence 👍🙄
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Myocarditis after a vaccine happened by chance but myocarditis after COVID was definitely caused by the virus.
An episode of unusually cold summer weather happened by chance but an episode of extreme hot summer weather is definitely climate change.
News reporting, or…
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Few people know I'm unvaccinated. At some point, friends, family & neighbours will find out, & having also found out how unsafe & ineffective the injectables are, they'll want to know why I didn't tell them I was unvaccinated or what I knew about the jabs. This is why:
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Often I encounter people on the "non-sceptic" side of the argument who point to the fact that vaccines aren't mandatory for everyone, or that mask mandates have gone, or that we don't need vaccine passports for travel, and say "Look! None of what you said would happen came true!…
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Only when the vaccines arrived and I saw the unnatural pressure for everyone to have one - even those recovered from the virus or those not at risk from it - did I realise that the entire response up to that point wasn't intended to treat patients and help them get better...
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We British are so much better at coups than the Russians. Ours involve wealthy bankers in suits with trousers that are slightly too short, spying on their neighbours from an upstairs window, planting photographs in the media, ultimately stabbing their boss in the back, then…
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If you go back to March 2020 and remember the calm and measured approach the UK government and the public health authorities took initially in responding to The Virus, it's still shocking to think of how suddenly everything changed.
But why did the UK government and most Western…
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But they didn't. None of this made any sense to me as an engineer and problem solver. The authorities seemed to be actively avoiding solutions which were obvious and could work or were already working.
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A thread 🧵
A while back, the BBC Verify people were going on about there being a "UK Conspiracy Movement" and I pointed out that in fact what really exists is a number of ordinary citizens disgusted at 3 years of blatant propaganda from mainstream media, doing their best to...1/
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Sorry, there was one other thing I meant to add in anticipation of comments.
I'm not saying any of this in hindsight. This information was available AT THE TIME.
But anyone talking about it was silenced or labelled a "conspiracy theorist. Exactly what the BBC is STILL doing.
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"The COVID vaccines are safe" said the Right Honourable Member for Moderna South West.
“Let me be unequivocal from this dispatch box .. that COVID-vaccines are safe …”
Rishi Sunak
House of Commons
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@jonsopel
"which is baseless"
There was a time when cigarettes causing cancer was thought to be baseless - in fact doctors recommended them. That Thalidomide causing deformities in children was baseless - in fact doctors prescribed it. In both cases the false "baseless" narrative came from…
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This is why the chamber will be empty on Friday for
@ABridgen
's debate on excess deaths. There is no appetite in Parliament to question the safety and effectiveness of the COVID vaccines, and the pharmaceutical industry has effectively bought the silence of MPs for 20 years at…
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How much time did you take deciding whether or not to have a COVID injectible product?
I spent about 30 seconds.
1. The disease was, for me, very low risk. I'm under 70, in good health.
2. The vaccine would not have completed its trials for another 2 years (at that time).
3. It…
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The sheer number of draft community notes denying the direct experience of this funeral director tells me that there is a huge issue with clotting in vaccinated individuals and the authorities are desperate to cover it up.
So it's my moral duty to retweet this.
🚨 Funeral Director John O’Looney on the Alarming Large Clots He is Seeing
“This young gentleman died suddenly…My embalmer called me…As he pulled it out with tweezers, the clot came out the full length of this man’s leg, maybe 3’ long…I believe that this will go down as a…
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I'd just like to say that the
@covidinquiryuk
is an expensive, time-wasting pantomime whose conclusions have already been decided and which exists only to let the Establishment off the hook. Everyone involved in setting up and running it should be deeply ashamed of themselves.
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@Telegraph
So, Daily Telegraph, what exactly was it that first attracted you to the billionaire Bill Gates?
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@GBNEWS
I'm getting serious deja vu here.
Is this an "expert" whose salary depends on there always being a pandemic, perchance?
It's a bit like the Diversity, Equality & Inclusiveness industry, whose continued existence relies on "racism" being found everywhere. So racism is found…
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Lots of tweets suggesting the farmers are protesting about issues which were directly caused by Brexit.
Why then, are farmers in France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Belgium, none of which have left the EU to my knowledge, also protesting, and have been for months and months?…
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And when I read science journals saying that many patients with serious COVID symptoms were vitamin D deficient, I thought: why don't governments just mass issue supplements? They are cheap and safe and could save many lives.
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This might not be a popular view, but I don't think it really matters if the virus was zoonotic,man made, escaped from a lab by accident or was leaked deliberately.
All of the biggest crimes against humanity happened afterwards. The overreaction.
The fraudulent PCR test…
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I was then even more suprised to learn that doctors like
@P_McCulloughMD
who were trying existing medicines in combination as early treatment were being told to stop by the authorities, and papers they wrote on the topic were being rubbished and not published.
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@JacquiDeevoy1
I think an important point is that they're generally not interested in their status in society or how other people view them.
Whereas all the experts, the clever people, really value status and therefore are more likely to espouse the fashionable, respectable, Establishment line.
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On one of the rare occasions I talked Brexit with my Remain supporting friends back in around 2018, I remember explaining that the real differentiator between people was between those who believed in sovereign independent nation state governments elected by the people, and those…
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Media going nuts about Boris. He broke rules, undeniably. Everyone in Parliament who breaks rules should be punished, without fear or favour.
But the media and politicians, quite deliberately in my view, is directing people away from the real scandal here.
The political and media…
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@DrEricDing
Show me the data for the people with "damaged immune systems" split into three groups:
"Had COVID, never vaccinated";
"Had COVID then vaccinated";
and "Had vaccine(s), then COVID".
Matched for age, gender, race, prior state of health.
Let's do some proper science.
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@GullisJonathan
The Conservative Party is so bad, we don't care any more.
Labour is worse, but we can only destroy one obsolete party at a time and for now, it's your turn.
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...or to end the pandemic quickly - it was to create a justification for universal vaccination.
Once I stopped looking at the vaccine as a solution to the virus problem...
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I love that
@MartinKulldorff
quote when he gave evidence in the US.
"We knew about natural immunity since the time of the Athenian Plague, then in 2020 we forgot about it, but now we know about it again"
Sums up the madness of "The Science™" perfectly.
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I have questions, before I shred this letter.
1. Why is the NHS offering £10 for everyone over the age of 18 to give them a DNA sample?
2. What is going to be done with the DNA sample besides what they say they are going to do? Will I be asked for my explicit permission before it…
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Looks like some BBC people are finally speaking out about their role as Big Pharma's, sorry I mean the UK Government's propaganda unit.
Better late than never.
An apology to all the people who were censored, ridiculed and gaslit wouldn't go amiss though.
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@richardpbacon
I suspect, as is often the case, that she's a nice person who is kind to others, charitable and considerate, a model, law-abiding citizen but someone who has committed the apparently inexcusable crime of having political opinions which are different to yours.
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It's nice having even one MP in the House of Commons who is able and willing to speak his mind and tell the truth.
15 minute low-traffic neighbourhoods are "basically a detention centre"
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Translation:
"The Government and Bank of England have received an overwhelmingly hostile response from the public to launching a 'digital pound'. This has resulted in them pausing its introduction while they consider how they can find a way to sneak it in unnoticed".
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@GBNEWS
Hi
@SirGrahamBrady
, is it possible for the leadership campaign rules to be changed to disqualify any candidate with a prior relationship with the WEF, Gates Foundation, Bilderberg group, the Soros Foundation or any other globalist NGO? We need a PM who will be loyal to UK only.
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@grantshapps
"Every nation must now do the same and ensure freedom triumphs over tyranny."
No. Just no.
This war isn't about democracy and freedom. It's about money laundering and enriching US military-industrial corporations. Everyone can see that now. It's over, Michael, sorry I mean Grant.
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...and started seeing the virus (and deaths from lack of treatment) as the solution to the vaccine problem, everything suddenly became clear.
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@bbcweather
Why are you so excited about records being broken?
Almost as if you're scouring the world for somewhere, anywhere, that might deliver data which fits your preferred narrative.
Have you heard of "confirmation bias"?
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And a slide showing an early treatment regime for COVID which saved many lives but could have saved so many more.
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Have you noticed that whenever it looks like there's a danger of ordinary people uniting and starting to realise that governments are the real enemy, events suddenly occur to create new divisions & have us all fighting amongst ourselves again?
I expect it's just a coincidence. 🙄
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@MattHancock
The State, and especially people like you, should play no part in deciding when people die.
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About 4 years ago my son, having finished an apple, announced that he wanted to plant the seed. Now! In that urgent "nothing is more important than this!" way familiar to all parents. So I found a pot, filled it with compost and helped him plant the seed.
Four years later, the…
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I had someone call me an "anti-vaxxer" today. Again. So tiresome. 🙄I mean, I love cheese, but I wouldn't eat a camembert that fell down behind the radiator two years ago. Or a new type of experimental "cheese" made from toenail scrapings. Does that make me "anti-cheese"?
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"We still don't understand the full long-term health impacts of the COVID vaccine, so it is right that we take strong action to mandate it for everyone".
‘We still don’t understand the full long-term health impacts of vaping so it is right that we take strong action to stamp this out.’
Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, explains his motivations behind banning disposable vapes.
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This is a good example of how subtle the BBC's bias can be.
On the face of it, a sad human interest story about an elderly person's death having failed to follow advice labels and taken too many supplements. And some valid concerns about poor labelling
But underlying it, a…
Surrey's coroner is calling for change to supplement packaging rules after an 89-year-old's fatal vitamin D overdose.
Tap below to read more:
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Even Dr Campbell's had enough of this nonsense.
Dr John Campbell usually so cool, calm and collected can no longer hide his contempt!
‘I’ll pause and explain what the speed of science means, they haven’t got a flipping clue’
🔥😂🔥
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I remember thinking that if I was a doctor, I'd try using existing medicines to treat symptoms. So if fever was a problem, use drugs used to treat fever. If breathing was a problem, use drugs used to treat asthma and COPD. If blood clotting was a problem, use anti-coagulants.
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@nick_pope
I don't think there is a single reliable news source. You have to get news from lots of places, compare it all and then try to make sense of what's happening yourself.
Which, I suppose, is what good journalists used to do.
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@sequi_simon
The government wants to know if you're laundering money.
Because laundering money is its job.
And it doesn't want competition.
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I think we should stop flu vaccines and COVID vaccines being given to children at school.
If there are any parents who still want their kids to have them, despite their lack of efficacy, lack of safety in the case of the COVID vaccine, and tiny risk from the diseases, they can…
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