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Air fògradh (gu neo-oifigeil). 'S toil leam feallsanachd, poiltigs, ceòl, ball coise 's a dùsgadh gach madainn.

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Iain MacIain
2 years
On Newsnight Caroline Lucas repeatedly calling LOTO by his first name. How very cozy and in sharp contrast to how she referred to Starmer’s predecessor.
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@fraubalhorn @andrewfeinstein A Tory MP would have still claimed on expenses.
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@AngrySalmond John has a good sense of fairness and justice and is always willing to call out blatant hypocrisy. He also does his homework!
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@SaulStaniforth "using their Jewishness"! Isn't that antisemitic?
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@SaulStaniforth It’s not a boycott “against Jews” - that would antisemitic. To conflate Jews with Israel is in fact antisemitic. Wait till Luke Akehurst hears about this!
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Iain MacIain
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@AaronBastani They demand that Corbyn apologises for something he didn't do but never themselves apologise when they they are caught lying.
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@K4rmaRules Is this the same David Atherton, "Chairman of Freedom2Choose a libertarian lifestyles organisation, journalist and frequent contributor to the BBC, ITV, BBC Radio"?
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@BillyVacant Ironically, Gullis described people protesting outside a foodbank he was visiting as a "baying mob". He also voted against extending free school meals.
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@ScotNational Wasting police time and making a false report! When do the tents go up outside his house?
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1 year
@Britain_People "Seized"! Could it be that, having resigned, she was obliged to hand back office equipment and they kindly came to pick it up?
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Iain MacIain
3 months
David Baddiel talking on Radio 4 about comedy. Tomorrow Tony Blair on pacifism.
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2 years
@Taj_Ali1 Sexually transmitted wealth and privilege. But there is a cure for this disease.
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2 years
@SaulStaniforth @RMTunion An intelligent, informed and committed class warrior! Absolute working class legend!
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3 months
@90percenters Jacobson tries to suppress copious evidence of genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza yet complains of rife UK antisemitism producing absolutely no evidence. Why was he allowed a BBC platform? Rhetorical question really. Establishment lies are the only really protected speech.
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@SaulStaniforth More Toryism. More targeting the poor and vulnerable. Labour has lost its soul and is losing its core supporters.
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3 years
@devisridhar We’ve been here before. Unfortunately tens of thousands of others did not survive to see this government repeat its lethal mistakes .
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@SaulStaniforth It could be that Burley is a competent journalist except for all the evidence to the contrary.
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Iain MacIain
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@doctoriaindarcy @Battlebridge_ Even when the "Left" are right, they're wrong!
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@RaggedTP Getting desperate Lisa. Millions have condemned the IDF atrocities. I have condemned them. Of what are you accusing us. Say it!
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@RichardJMurphy Currently the Private Sector (PS) is too small to make a significant difference to NHS waiting lists. The PS business model does not include spare capacity - that would reduce profit margins. From where does Wes think the staff will come to do PS work?
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Iain MacIain
3 years
@Channel4News Heartbreaking. They say the time travel is impossible but the Tories have managed to take 21st century UK back to the 19th century and told us that this is progress.
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@D_Blanchflower Because it's not in their nature. Remember when they claimed that, "shrinking the size of the state", would allow more efficient private enterprise to step in? In reality it caused a disinvestment in people and infrastructure and a bloated financial sector.
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Iain MacIain
7 months
@schneiderhome @alexnunns Wait a wee minute here. Kyle said, Labour suspending Corbyn for his reaction to the EHCR rather than antisemitism "was six and two threes"! That's still calling Corbyn an antisemite! Lawyer!
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Iain MacIain
9 months
@SaulStaniforth Adil demonstrates that a wee bit of prep by an interviewer is so educational. Ed Sec well and truly schooled!
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9 months
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Iain MacIain
1 year
@JamesEFoster @rafaelbehr The unsubstantiated smearing continues and is promoted by the MSM. Interestingly, Sodha and Behr seem to be using almost identical language in this campaign. Guardian/Observer style guide?
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Iain MacIain
4 months
@Jackiew80333500 The Treblinka Memorial states, "Never Again". There are no exceptions!
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Iain MacIain
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@OwenPaintbrush There should be a Labour rule against making false and vexatious accusations of anti-semitism. Such charges deflect from us from eliminating real antisemitism and other form of racism.
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Iain MacIain
6 months
@LeftieStats For those who vote against a ceasefire, or abstain, we will remember them.
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Iain MacIain
1 year
@islainthewild Antisocial behaviour enabled and encouraged by the current tax system.
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Iain MacIain
2 months
@davidjrosenberg Interesting to see how completely at home this anti-immigrant right wing Tory is in Starmer's party.
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Iain MacIain
2 years
The only way the clean up the monarchy is to clear it out completely and establish a republic.
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Hmm
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Iain MacIain
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@TPOTD Overhyped. A plodding nag of a film
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Iain MacIain
1 year
@gsjosan And the Tories could not have won the 2019 election without the support of people like you.
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Iain MacIain
8 months
@UKaForceForGood @ScotNational Hamsa Yousaf has a democratic mandate from the people of Scotland. The monarch has absolutely no mandate from anyone but is merely the product of sexually transmitted privilege.
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Iain MacIain
2 years
@DrFrancesRyan She just opens her mouth to attack a different vulnerable group - and to change feet.
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Iain MacIain
2 years
@simonmaginn @Bonn1eGreer Bonnie Greer OBE, is a paid up member of the British Establishment. Using terms like "firing squads" and "shooters" is rather disturbing and highly inappropriate.
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Iain MacIain
1 year
@daveainsworth63 Perhaps even more importantly, he kept the UK out of the Vietnam War and was able to maintain the LP as a "broad church" party.
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Iain MacIain
3 years
@BeckettUnite A Starmer aide trying to give lessons to others on honesty. Now that takes some lack of self-awareness.
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Iain MacIain
6 months
@BarrySheerman Any threat is very upsetting Barry but how does your discomfort compare to just one Gaza family? Why have you no empathy?
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Iain MacIain
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@SaulStaniforth Well I didn't see this intervention from Mann coming but the CAA have made so many enemies.
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Iain MacIain
10 months
@Taj_Ali1 @ucu "Settle down!"? The arrogance of him!
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Iain MacIain
2 years
@ShehabKhan @AyoCaesar Just what part of the establishment was not involved in manipulating the GE result?
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Iain MacIain
11 months
@MrOkereke @Royal_Greenwich @TheO2 Who cares about the facts? Brownie nose points for a careerist!
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Iain MacIain
3 years
@jeremycorbyn Those, like the Shrewsbury 24, who were labelled “The Enemy Within” by the Tory government because they fought for workers’ rights and justice, are the real patriots. Victory at last but, as the saying goes, justice delayed is justice denied.
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Iain MacIain
6 months
@DanJarvisLeader It's not "intimidation". Being told you must flee from the safety of a hospital before some uniformed terrorist bomb it - that's intimidation.
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Iain MacIain
29 days
@OwenPaintbrush Is there not a Labour rule against conflating Zionism and Judaism?
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Iain MacIain
1 year
@GeorgeMonbiot @BBCPanorama Years too late and no admission of personal responsibility or that of the Guardian for the damage done.
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Iain MacIain
3 years
@AmmarKazmi_ Despite all the squealing and complaining from the Labour right that the left had “taken over” - the right maintained control throughout. Forde would provide some of the evidence of how they did it.
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Iain MacIain
2 years
@AlexMays90 I don’t agree with the term “spoilt”. If you turn up and register your protest on the voting slip, you have exercised you democratic right. Remember, MPs claim the right to abstain in the HoC.
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Iain MacIain
3 years
@TheMattWain And they said Corbyn supporters were in denial. At least they didn’t deny what Labour stood for.
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Iain MacIain
6 months
@BlackJewishA So what will "Let us Pray", be in the ears of R Riley's and S Scharma?
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Iain MacIain
2 years
@FisherAndrew79 The problem with Blair and Brown was that the good things they did were easily reversible by the Tories who came after. Only systemic change will improve the lives of generations to come.
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Iain MacIain
3 years
@jeremycorbyn Why are so many journos silent about the the vindictive and extrajudicial treatment of one of their own?
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Iain MacIain
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@JakeWSimons Israel isn't Judaism and Judaism isn't Israel.
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Iain MacIain
11 months
@theclawsoftime And and even worse for some one who claims to be a feminist, has never spoken out against misogynist attacks against Diane Abbot.
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Iain MacIain
2 months
@KernowDamo Yep, who were present? Who called the meeting? What purpose was originally given for the meeting ? Why were the officials of the other parties excluded?
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Iain MacIain
2 years
@omnisophos @PhillipsBarrie @MattJLloyd It was Blair, Brown and unionist dominated Scottish Labour standing on the same platform as Tories against independence that gifted Scotland to the SNP!
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Iain MacIain
5 months
@nowtisfine Very well done Frank. Shame on everyone else present without exception.
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@HrmQueene How empty her life must be. Just what real contribution has she made to society. Like all the rest of them, she is a burden to us.
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Iain MacIain
2 years
Surely we can all accept without question that the head of the DPP would never have any involvement in the decision making process relating to accusations of child abuse against a high profile member of the British establishment!
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Iain MacIain
11 months
@montie @EvanHD Anyone who knows Jeremy and anyone with any humanity.
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Iain MacIain
3 years
@AngusMacNeilSNP Johnson’s visit will only confirm that the only way to keep him away from Scotland is to vote for independence.
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Iain MacIain
3 years
@JessicaLBarnard Why are we so reluctant to use the term Class War? Our people are being attacked. The least we should do is acknowledge the fact.
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Iain MacIain
3 months
It used puzzle me why anyone would join the Lib Dems or the Tory party. Why would they do that? Now I wonder - whatever possessed me to join the Labour Party?
@OcisaCorbyn
OCISA Corbyn Inspired
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If you're disgusted by #KeirStarmer 's lies, broken "pledges", cowardice, corruption, obsequiousness to the rich and powerful, weaponisation of "antisemitism" and support for Israeli war crimes, vote for @andrewfeinstein in Holborn & St Pancras instead.
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@KayBurley Kay, this is not Ofcom. On here you will be held accountable for bias, misinformation or lies .
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Iain MacIain
7 months
@RMCunliffe A quick search would have revealed that your tweet was was a lie.
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Iain MacIain
3 years
@OwenJones84 So revealing about AP - but we knew already. Crowd fund would get my support if it come to that.
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Iain MacIain
2 years
@Matt_building @wendysheil Whatever happened to the the idea of the Multiplier Effect? Government expenditure is more effective as a stimulation for growth than tax cuts and increasing the spending power of the poorest is similarly more more effective than cutting taxes for the wealthy.
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Iain MacIain
4 years
@TimesONeill @PeterKGeoghegan Sean - if you went head to head with Frankie on public trust you’d come third.
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@HrmQueene Time these expensive charlatans were out of our lives.
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Iain MacIain
2 months
@0Calamity It would seem that Hoyle was a victim of intimidation from his own party members at his place of work. Will HR get involved?
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Iain MacIain
9 months
@MrJohnNicolson @BBCWatchdog @OVOEnergy Energy companies can call out their dogs in the vicious pursuit of immoral levels of profit meanwhile customers have a toothless watchdog which doesn't even bark never mind bite.
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Iain MacIain
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@IanMurr58938445 A trial first maybe! I want to know the names of all those who backed him financially and gave him access to power and influence. Then I want them all in jail.
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@paysupplystaff I'm OK with Starmer going and Labour getting right behind a ceasefire. That's a win win as far as I'm concerned.
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Iain MacIain
2 years
@skippy_0h They employed the tactics that fascists have always used to attack socialists - thuggery and media manipulation.
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@SaulStaniforth Under those conditions of censorship the professional response was to reject such an invitation.
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Iain MacIain
4 years
Why does Michael have to do a “Ladybird” guide to journalism for people who claim to be grown up journalists?
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Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓
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@hughbarnard @AndrewMarr9 If, say, a sociologist said, 'There's a problem that roadsweepers eat too much meat', the next question should be: do roadsweepers eat more meat than the rest of the society they live in? This basic rule of sociology hasn't been applied in the case of 'antisemitism in Labour'
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@kennardmatt How is this not amount to working as a foreign agent?
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6 months
@SaulStaniforth In the class war she is on the wrong side. Always has been.
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5 months
@AdamJSchwarz Unsurprisingly he doesn't seem very concerned about the loss. What attempts were made to recover the "missing" messages? I feel sure that the techies at GCHQ could sort this out.
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Iain MacIain
3 years
@PeterKGeoghegan BBC Newsnight just last week had Claire Fox on denying the dangers of COVID with no real challenge. Public Service Broadcasting my ass.
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10 months
@I_amMukhtar How are the BBC going to edit this one for royalist audiences?
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@Jessica06417705 @OborneTweets The last MSM journalist standing?
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@Bonn1eGreer @RootOz71 @PerkyWarbeck @Finkley1 @simonmaginn @royalcourt @Daddy__c0o1 @gotthetrotts @skwawkbox @andrewfeinstein Suggested reading - Forde report - one of the findings is racism existing at a high level within the UK Labour Party which was and continues to be ignored.
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2 months
@Cat_Headley Seriously Cat? Labour corruption and intimidation is the reality. The spinners have dealt you a very poor hand.
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@Jackiew80333500 Zionism has poisoned UK democracy.
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@gillian_crabb @KevinPascoe @jeansmith3359 @Lemur__X @silverrich39 1 EHRC didn't find JC guilty of anything. 2 JC accepted the report. 3 JC apologised on many occasions for the existence of any AS in the Labour Party. 4 The is no evidence that JC lied to anyone. It is you who have much to apologies for.
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Iain MacIain
2 years
@KerryBurgess @socialistsunday 'Test and Trace' operates only in England and Wales and so does cover not the UK as a whole making the waste of public money and effort even more of an outrage.
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4 months
@simonmaginn @Peston Peston seems to have caught a slight touch of journalism. I doubt the effects will last long.
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4 months
@MyArrse Well that’s bollocks. Their viewing figures are no where near 15 hundred!
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5 months
@FromSteveHowell Surely not!
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@Neilsocialist Oh dear Neil. That is so disappointing from you! Take a breath before you gloat! Who would have done any better? Who did any better? Give me a list!
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Iain MacIain
2 years
@FisherAndrew79 What a reflection on our political system it is that destructive and duplicitous characters like Blair, Cameron and Johnson are raised to positions of power and those like Cook, Corbyn and Abbot, who retain a sense of justice and fairness, are denied that opportunity.
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Iain MacIain
1 year
@AbdiDuale_ Say sorry real quick, acknowledge those who have gone before you and delete.
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@DrFrancesRyan Politically Parris hasn't travelled very far neither has he picked up any compassion or sense of social justice on his short journey.
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1 year
@greg_herriett Starmer still throwing elections!
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1 year
@medialens @IanJSinclair Marina clearly demonstrating the inverse relationship between privilege and self-awareness - yet again.
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@GeorgeMonbiot @BBCPanorama The tread doesn't really explain why, as a journalist of some standing, you were conned so easily.
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