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Nebraska farmer asks pro-fracking committee to drink water from a fracking zone near his farm. 😂
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My brother-in-law
@ImranKhanPTI
is a good and honourable man, motivated only by a strong desire to do good by his country. His record as PM is exceptional, most of all on the biggest issue of our time: Pakistan under Imran is now a world leader on environmental restoration.🙏
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Deliciously satisfying video. [There are two kinds of people: those who leave their plastic litter all over the place and don’t care, and those, like this hero, who risk getting hurt removing it from wriggling, suffering wildlife.]
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It hasn’t rained in Somerset for months. And yet, there is coolness and water along every ditch and stream because we have beavers. How did it take us so long to figure out that this humble animal is the answer for breathing life back into our landscapes.
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Remember those times when Israeli soldiers went on the rampage, executing old ladies at point blank range, brutalising, raping and murdering teenage girls and parading their bodies on the backs of vans, kidnapping children, beheading young men in the street? No, because it has…
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To alleviate the current shortage of lateral flow tests, how about people who aren’t ill stop testing themselves every ten minutes?
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It would be hard to find a less progressive movement anywhere in the world than the slave-owning, child-marrying, blasphemist-beheading, Jew-hunting Houthis of Yemen. But western progressives love them all the same. It’s all so revealing.
The chanting for Yemen is all across the demonstration
"Yemen Yemen make us proud turn another ship around"
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This layer hen has been rescued from a factory farm. She has never previously experienced sunlight, fresh air, grass or kindness. Factory farming is among the greatest crimes ever committed by humanity.
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Steve Hughes so funny on the kind of people who are endlessly offended:
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We need a majority of people to know 5 things, which they largely do not:
1. Pollution from oil, coal and gas is heating the earth and causing dangerous weather.
2. All the climate scientists agree.
3. We must move quickly if we are to save a livable climate.
4. There are…
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“... every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” George Orwell, 1984
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Dear God, please can I have my beautiful, brilliant, kind little girl back, please God. And if not, please take extra special care of her. I love her so so much and I’m so proud of her. It hurts me so much I can’t describe.
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This young elephant spots a man he thinks is drowning in the river, and rushes across to save him, so tenderly. We are so lucky to share the world with such creatures. They are so unlucky to share it with us.
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How did it come to pass that Western progressives, after decades of success advancing liberal values, came to be in thrall to an imperialistic jihadist movement which violently opposes every one of those liberal values? Isis, Hamas, the Houthis, the Iranian Ayatollahs, Hezbollah,…
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This little monkey spent some weeks in captivity recovering from injury. His family waited the whole time in the vicinity for him. Watch their reunion (and consider that modern science currently does not recognise the sentience of non human animals)
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I’m not sure any country has taken up the challenge to restore nature with more energy and ambition than Pakistan has in recent years under
@ImranKhanPTI
Prime Minister
@ImranKhanPTI
planted a sapling as part of
#MonsoonPlantationCampaign
during his visit to Peshawar earlier today.
Federal Minister for Climate Change
@Aminattock
briefed the PM on the occasion.
#Plant4Pakistan21
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The science of global warming is so very simple. Please spare a few short minutes to watch Carl Sagan explain it beautifully clearly nearly forty years ago.
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For those wondering what “from the river to the sea!” actually means, it’s a genocidal call for the elimination of all Jews between the river Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea. This, on the streets of London today, and every day in universities and cities across the West. 🤢
Oh my word, this is London. I didn’t realise at first when I saw the video. 🫣
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Now Frankfurt. Our organised civilisation cannot persist for much longer without immediate and dramatic global action to end the use of fossil fuels and to restore nature. The only remaining people who say otherwise are mad, moronic or corrupted by money.
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"I loved her with the utmost love of which my soul is capable, and she is taken from me.
Yet in the agony of my spirit in surrendering such a treasure, I feel a thousand times richer than if I had never possessed it.”
William Wordsworth, after the death of his child.
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Remain, Leave, don’t care? You’ve got to watch this. This is the entire British Establishment, from Left to Right and everything in-between, telling us that the referendum result would be respected. No ifs, no buts. And here we are, utterly cheated.
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Is it legal to make another person (or people) live under the threat of having details about their private life spilled out in public unless they do this that or the other? Isn’t this blackmail? Legal or not, it’s grotesque.
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This is the single greatest threat bearing down upon the lives and livelihoods of you, your children and all future generations. Why this isn’t the biggest political issue of today and every day is beyond me.
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And just like that, after two years of insanity, New Zealand gives up on Zero Covid, a policy that anyone could see was as delusional as it was dangerous.
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I am neither Israeli, nor in fact Jewish (my grandfather was), but like so many others from all backgrounds in Britain I am quite simply appalled by the the atrocities inflicted on Jewish civilians in the pogrom of 7 October in Israel; and even more so by the celebratory reaction…
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If you cheered two years of lockdowns, which crippled global supply chains as well as triggering a tidal wave of money printing by governments, you may look somewhat foolish now to be complaining about inflation and the rising cost of everything. This is a little bit on you.
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Funny to see this Labour front-bencher
@RichardBurgon
shrieking in one meeting that Zionism (aka Jews and the right of their home, Israel, to exist) is the enemy of peace, and then flat denying he ever said it in another. These are truly appalling people.
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I’ve never visited anywhere so beautiful as the northern mountains of Pakistan.
Under our vision of promoting
#EcoTourism
the historic
#Monroe
hiking trail has been restored in
#KP
under our
#10BillionTreeTsunami
- traversing 50 km of pristine natural forest with two overnight
#glamp
sites.
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In quiet moments, do you wonder a little why your social media friends are so frantically posting and spreading misinformation about just one conflict thousands of miles away? Does it seem strange to you that they are so fixated on this one comparatively tiny conflict when they…
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“No borders!” says fortress Glastonbury... itself enclosed within an eight foot wall patrolled by guards.
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If you have hedges, please don’t cut them in autumn if you can possibly avoid it. The nuts and berries are on the outside, and cutting them all away at this time of year deprives birds and wildlife of vital food in the winter months. Fat, unkempt hedges are paradise for birds!
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The irony of humans complaining that rats, pigeons and flies are ‘disgusting’.
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In Australia, and all over the world, Covid lockdown chickens are coming home to roost. Excellent analysis from this South Australia senator.
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Coercing people into having a Covid vaccine they don’t want, and telling lies about why it’s *necessary* for society that they do, is a pretty good way of turning people against all vaccinations, including the ones we really do need everyone to have.
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We are far from perfect, but poll after poll shows British people to be among the most welcoming and the least racist anywhere.
At the start Meghan was adored. Crowds thronged the streets at the wedding.
Meghan is disliked because she is a manipulative bully who got found out.
Let’s be abundantly clear—they don’t like Meghan Markle because she’s a Black Woman.
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After decades of deforestation, suffering ever more flash flooding, drought, erosion and landslides, democratic Costa Rica took the decision in the 1980s to turn the tide. Since then, in one generation, forest cover has more than doubled, from a quarter of the country to half.…
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I’ve never been anywhere more beautiful than Pakistan’s mountainous northern areas. I’ve been three times. With the new British Airways flight to Islamabad, and
@ImranKhanPTI
transforming the country, go. Seriously. Best trip you’ll ever do.
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What’s happening in Canada is truly remarkable.
The capital of Canada is gridlocked tonight with anti-mandate protestors.
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Huge property in Portugal acquired by
@PangeaTrust
to be a sanctuary for Europe’s last remaining circus and zoo elephants. Given elephants were here just 15,000 years ago, and there’ll only be 20-25 of them on 1,000 acres (with more land to be added soon), this will be a really…
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What was the original problem again, cheese and wine? A birthday cake? A guy pinching another guy’s arse at a bar somewhere?
Is it possible some Tory MPs are now feeling a little duped? Millions of voters did choose Boris after all.
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Happy birthday to my brother-in-law
@ImranKhanPTI
- the very definition of perseverance and determination. Here’s to the coming ecological and economic restoration of
#Pakistan
under his leadership!
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It’s hard to think of any Prime Minister who has had a tougher gig than
@BorisJohnson
. The nightmare of Covid; the intransigence of the EU in coming to an exit deal; everyone from all sides sniping. Let’s hope he has the courage and the strength to see these months through.
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Imagine this; more than 100 of your civilians are held hostage in underground cages in a city not far from your national border, by a terrorist organisation which has recently committed Mansonesque crimes on your territory. Dozens more of the hostages are known to be dead. Is…
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Oh my word, this is London. I didn’t realise at first when I saw the video. 🫣
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Ireland is the most antisemitic place in Europe. During staunchly Catholic times, the Jews were hated for their religion; then for their racial characteristics; now it’s for daring to have sovereignty in their tiny ancestral homeland. Big companies with HQs in Ireland, look see.
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@BellaWallerstei
Every single one of these people should be arrested. These are the brownshirts of our time.
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To produce 1.5 million tonnes of salmon the Norwegian salmon farming industry needs 2 million tonnes of wild fish, nearly all caught off west Africa. That’s enough to feed 33 million people. The immorality of it is just breathtaking.
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Pakistan is planting TEN BILLION native trees, as well as restoring landscapes and wilderness on a grand scale.
"I always resolved that if I ever got the opportunity I would make sure that we preserve this God-given beauty of our country."
@ImranKhanPTI
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Covid nuts going nuts this evening.
Meanwhile England (once again) is the most free place in Europe.
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In many countries people who (for their own reasons) have chosen not to be vaccinated are banned from working, from public transport, hospitals, cafés, churches. They risk jail. If you are okay with this, you now know how you would have been during the darkest periods of history.
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The gov has splurged ~£400 bn trying to stop Covid, ~£150 bn subsidising energy bills, ~£25 bn on new core funding for the NHS 2019-23.
A measly set of proposed tax cuts (to a level still higher than they were under the last Labour gov) are not the cause of our economic woes.
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Brilliant piece by Imran. Pakistan is leading the world in its heroic efforts to tackle climate change and restore nature.
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If you are in charge of even the smallest piece of land, it’s important to remember that it’s the rough, untidy edges and corners that get wildlife through freezing weather; long grasses, fat hedges, wood piles. Ruthless tidiness makes life so much harder for wild creatures.
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Just imagine how they must laugh, behind closed doors, at all our western students, Lord Haw Haws, Leftist poseurs, ‘queers for Palestine’, Saturday marchers and all the others who *really* do think that these are their friends.
Hamas leader says the future plans of Hamas: "To create a world where Judaism and Christianity do not exist."
This radical religious rhetoric has no place in the twenty-first century.
Hamas = ISIS
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The Speaker John Bercow is worried that Boris’ deal might just pass tomorrow, so he’s preventing a vote from taking place. If you’re not appalled you’re either not paying attention or your such a fanatical Remainer that you don’t care what eggs need smashing to keep us in the EU.
Opposition parties expect John Bercow to rule a new Brexit motion / meaningful vote tomorrow out of order
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Rishi Sunak is a decent, hard-working, smart and honest man. We are lucky to have him working so high up in our government.
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Pakistan’s
#billiontreetsunami
is one of the most magnificent initiatives in the world right now. Pakistan will plant ten billion trees in next few years. Follow Pakistan’s marvellous Environment Minister
@aminattock
for updates.
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I keep myself busy
with the things I do.
But every time I pause,
I still think of you.
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If you were in favour of repeated lockdowns, furlough and all the rest of it, you are not in a position now to complain about the tax rises that inevitably follow.
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My friend Shahzada Dawood was a good and kind man. The loss of Shahzada and his young son Suleman is devastating. God bless them.
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“I used to think that the top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that thirty years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy, and to deal…
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Worth rewatching Phillip Lee MP’s sincere promises to voters back in 2017 that he’d ‘absolutely’ honour the result of the referendum, the same Phillip Lee who has just walked across the floor to join the Lib Dems who are committed to overturning it.
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There’s something terribly wrong in the psyche of a person who thinks it’s ok to do this.
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‘Northumberland named as UK's best national park’
It’s largely a barren, lifeless, treeless, depressing green desert, grazed to death by countless hopelessly subsidised sheep.
If you want to visit an actual national park go abroad.
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If this guy had been smuggling marijuana he’d have got twenty years. But it was (critically endangered) eels, and so he got a suspended sentence and a few hours’ community service. We’ve got our priorities wildly wrong.
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“It is extremely funny. Quite possibly the world’s healthiest man has been deemed a danger to public health in a nation where two thirds of adults are overweight or obese.”
via
@spectator
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Feeling a rising sense of anger at the sight of the queen made to sit ‘socially distanced’ wearing a grim little mask at the funeral of her husband of 73 years. It’s as appalling as making schoolchildren wear them all day in classes. Britain needs to get a grip.
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There’s something so vile, so ungodly about the idea of a factory farm for octopuses, which are solitary creatures of extraordinary sensitivity and intelligence, “like meeting an intelligent alien”. This repugnant plan must be stopped.
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The way the father of the boy killed on London Bridge is accusing Boris of using his son’s murder for political capital, whilst doing exactly that himself, non-stop, is just a bit gross, imo. The body’s practically still warm. Enough with the campaigning.
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A consensus will emerge in due course that the lockdowns and other restrictions were not only hopelessly ineffective, but truly, deeply harmful to innumerable people all over the world.
🚨 Breaking 40 p/c excess care home deaths were NOT covid, new report finds.
“Without visitors to intervene vulnerable residents left to die.”
“Neglect, thirst and hunger were and poss still are biggest killers.”
@collateralglbl
@relresuk
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Lovely compilation of
@jeremycorbyn
calling for a General Election over and over again this year. And now the PM has offered him one he’s running scared. Unbelievable. Labour MPs are (rightly) terrified of voters. Total wipeout coming.
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Oh I do hope the public are watching all of this. I have a feeling very many of them are.
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New research has shown that the lockdowns, vaccine mandates and other Covid madness were a global policy failure of gigantic proportions.
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“Whether you agree with me or disagree with me; like me or loathe me, don’t bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British nation.” Guess who? Yep - Sir John Major, currently doing his best to bind the hands of the current PM as he negotiates with the EU.
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Climate change ‘doubters’ share one thing in common: they lack any understanding of risk. There is a not-insubstantial risk that the world’s climate scientists (and pretty much the entire scientific community) are right, and we are now facing a civilisation-ending threat. Any…
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Pakistan seems to be ahead of the curve in many ways
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My son (who somehow is still able to read and write after the best part of a year off school) is now back at home because there’s a chance he may have been in the vicinity of a child who tested positive for Covid. Illiteracy is a far bigger threat to our children than Covid.
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Don’t for one moment think that your more fashionable, intellectual friends *actually* care about suffering in the world when they post this weekend about far-off geopolitics. If these events were happening in Bolivia, do you think they’d be posting and marching? Has any one of…
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Spot the only country in Europe which didn’t go in for lockdowns of any kind. Draconian lockdowns are ongoing in the rest of them. Sweden, economy and liberty intact, is now reaping the rewards of having stood firm in the face of global opprobrium. Lockdowns are not the answer.
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What an honour spending time at the climate COP in Glasgow with Pakistan’s brilliant Environment Minister Malik Amin Aslam (
@aminattock
). Under the inspiration of Amin, his team, and his boss
@ImranKhanPTI
, Pakistan leads the world in the work of restoring nature.
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👀, the Guardian!
“Sweden now has a lower death rate than countries that went down the full lockdown route, including the UK, France, Spain and Italy… Economic recovery has been brisk… Sweden has not caused damage to the life chances of its children.”
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Can anyone point me towards an article, an interview or a thread which explains rationally what these lockdowns are trying to achieve? We know we can’t eliminate the virus this way. It will always pop back up when the restrictions are lifted. So what is the actual plan?
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“What part of democracy don’t you understand?
Parl voted by 6 to 1 to have the referendum.
You didn’t get the answer that you wanted and now you want to turn it round.
Start doing your job. If you don’t like it, clear off!”
Voter speaks for millions.
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For all those who have lost a child, this is beautiful, by Alexander Ivanovich Herzen, a Russian radical of the mid 19th century whose beloved seven-year old son drowned in a boat accident:
“Because children grow up, we think a child’s purpose is to grow up. But a child’s…
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Estimated cost to the UK gov of:
- trying to stop Covid: £360 bn
- supporting energy bills: £150 bn
- increase in NHS core funding 2019-23: £25 bn
- reversing NI hike: £12 bn per annum
- cutting basic rate of income tax to 19%: £5 bn
- removing 45% top rate of income tax: £2 bn
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Reminder – if Labour had been in power we’d never have emerged from the last lockdown. Small mercies.
Boris Johnson's recklessness means we're going to have an NHS summer crisis.
The Johnson Variant is already out of control - and we're heading to 100,000 cases a day.
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1) As far as I’m aware NHS funding has never been cut by any Government;
2) Certainly not by Boris, who has radically raised funding for the NHS;
3) This person (
@vornietom
) is the kind of total c**t that epitomises today’s rotten Left.
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This is surreal; this is not Afghanistan, these are scenes of thousands of ordinary Australians fighting their own Government’s stormtroopers on the streets of Melbourne. The Australian government has gone mad.
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Thoughts and prayers tonight with Israel 🇮🇱, a tiny beacon of light and democracy battling for its survival in a difficult and scary neighbourhood; attacked relentlessly by Hamas on one side and Hezbollah on the other, and now threatened directly by the puppet-masters themselves…
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I’ve knocked on a lot of doors this election (for my brother in Richmond) and without exception every single Eastern European voter I’ve met has confirmed that they’re voting Conservative, some of whom with the warning that living under communism is a misery.
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Everybody knows the vaccine does not reduce transmission. If it did, rates would not be higher now than they’ve ever been. The abuse directed at
#Djokovic
has nothing to do with the vaccine. People who believe in lockdowns and mandates do not tolerate dissenters, that’s all.
The unvaccinated are becoming an easy political target worldwide - but hounding or insulting them is likely to do more harm than good.
My Telegraph column, now online:-
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“Better educated people voted to Remain”. Hear that Leave voters? Labour MPs think you’re thick.
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Vainly attempting for two years to stop an unstoppable respiratory virus wrecked businesses, lives and the public finances. All the rest is noise.
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