Daniel Finkelstein
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Times columnist, Conservative peer, Director Chelsea FC, Dad of 3. Author of Hitler, Stalin, Mum & Dad Quite openly Jewish.
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The US Edition of HITLER, STALIN, MUM AND DAD is now available for ordering. TWO ROADS HOME is coming to the US on September 19:
#TwoRoadsHome
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This is my youngest son, Isaac. It is his Barmitzvah tomorrow and there was to have been a party afterwards. But now the party has had to be postponed. But he will still be reading from the Torah, albeit online from home. I know how much he’d love to see your likes and messages.
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Welcome to Chelsea.
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My friend was in an airport lounge when a man came in and said “is there an economist in this lounge?” My friend, startled but pleased, announced proudly: “Actually yes I’m an economist”. The man gave him an odd look and said: “...the magazine”.
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I’m so proud to have been named a director of
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I’m in an unaccustomed position with Katie Hopkins. My normal attitude is sympathy to almost anyone in trouble. But she’s different. She hypothesised she could make a fortune by saying awful things, becoming a horrible racist. It’s important for public discourse that she failed.
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Thinking of Mum today
#HolocaustRemembranceDay
This is her star, which she always took with her for school talks.
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To try to suggest that what Mr Cummings did was not a breach of the lockdown is never going to work. It drags everyone into making completely unconvincing statements and (ludicrously) claiming the issue is being politicised. This diminishes everyone.
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The Rt Hon Sir Jake Berry went to private school, became a lawyer, was in Cameron’s No 10, was a remainer, was chairman of the Conservative Party & was knighted for his services. It is embarrassingly ridiculous for him to start attacking “the establishment” as if that wasn’t him.
Your elected parliament voted for the Rwanda Policy - the establishment blocked it.
Who’s in charge - the voters or the blob?
#blobonomics
#Rwanda
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@CharlieBeckett
Home of great football. Home of Osgood and Nevin and Zola and Vialli and Hazard and Lampard and JT. Home of the team that’s won it all and is going all out to win it all again. Home of the Shed End and Matthew Harding. Home of the Pride of London. Home.
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The man who wrote this poem, Pastor Martin Niemöller, wrote it as a confession. He became a friend of my grandfather, Alfred Wiener, and they corresponded about racism and the Pastor’s errors. I think he would have viewed this use of his words with disgust.
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade…
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Welcome home, Enzo.
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We are looking to the future. And what a future we have.
Aston Villa and Chelsea can confirm that the clubs have reached an agreement for the permanent transfer of Carney Chukwuemeka.
The 18-year-old has been given permission to travel to London to discuss both personal terms and undergo a medical.
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Do “cakes” matter given Ukraine? In Ukraine we are defending democratic norms, such as “there is one rule for both the government and the governed” and “those who make rules must follow them”. If we don’t defend these at home, we undermine the point of our Ukraine position.
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This week I will be tweeting about my mother’s release from Belsen, 75 years ago.
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Just to be clear what it meant to my family. The confiscation of their property, years in hard labour camp for my grandfather, exile to the edges of Siberia for my Dad (aged 10) and my grandmother. Never going home again. All this happened because of October 1917.
The meaning of October 1917. It was a beacon to the rest of humanity, no matter how short lived.
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I’m so upset by this graffiti attack on my grandfather’s library. Alfred Wiener had a PhD in Islamic studies and cared deeply about Arab people. To see his Holocaust archive vandalised in this way suggests an attack on Jews not a critique of Israel. It’s dismaying.
.
@metpoliceuk
and
@CST_UK
alerted after graffiti attack outside world's oldest Holocaust studies library and research centre.
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Love this.
CLUB STATEMENT: MARC CUCURELLA.
Following reports from numerous media outlets this week, we can confirm an agreement has been reached with Brighton and Hove Albion for the signing of Marc Cucurella.
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I was actually at the BBC at this time, having arrived at 9.50pm to do appear on the election result programme. Not only is it untrue but it is also, as it happens, totally unbelievable.
the story *might not be true* but I’m going to tell it regardless
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A reader from Dunfermline suggests a new word has been created. A “Kwarteng”. The minimum amount of time you can be in job to be able to say you did that job.
“Were you at UBS?”. “Only for a Kwarteng”.
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My grandfather had an entire library of books by and about the Nazis. It was the core of his anti-Nazi work. It was a collection central to the prosecution of the Nuremberg defendants and Eichmann, So, to put it gently, it really isn’t that simple.
@wienerlibrary
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I’ve been watching Chelsea at the Bridge for more than 50 years and not once have I left before the end. I understand why some do it, but for me it’s just a thing. And all the queuing for Fulham Broadway, every second of it for 55 years, was made worthwhile by last night alone.
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I hadn’t appreciated the role Mr Banks played at Dunkirk. Maybe he provided the insurance.
We managed to arrange the evacuation of 100,000’s troops from a beach in France using thousands of small craft , under massive military pressure , in a few days but we can’t fill in a few new forms in 2019...
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Just to be clear what a ceasefire means, it means Israel unilaterally stops defending itself against this.
Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat the October 7 Attack Time and Again Until Israel Is Annihilated; We Are Victims - Everything We Do Is Justified
#Hamas
#Gaza
#Palestinians
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A lot of my politics over the last eight years can be explained by the fact that people tried to make this man prime minister.
Corbyn: 'The idea that an organisation [Hamas] which is dedicated towards the good of the Palestinian people, bringing about long-term peace and social justice... should be labelled a terrorist organisation... is really a big, big historical mistake.'
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I wonder if it’s ok when condemning the behaviour toward Owen Jones & Anna Soubry, to gently point out that John McDonnell called for Tory MPs not to be able to show their faces in public without being challenged by direct action. And this shows at least the problem with that.
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Today I spent three hours outside my synagogue providing security. It was cold and (save for the excellent company of one of my best friends) a bit boring but tragically it obviously wasn’t a waste of time.
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These guys are amazing. Great banners at both ends in fact. These really contributed to the atmosphere and helped the team. Thank you!
The artwork and a close up of the One Step Beyond 'album cover' in The Shed today featuring Todd Boehly, Tommy Tuchel,
@masonmount_10
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@tsilva3
,
@ReeceJames
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@nglkante
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Designed & paid for by Chelsea supporters
Artwork by
@CFC843
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He is…and he is.
Can confirm that Todd Boehly is at the bridge....can also confirm that he is an absolute gent!
#Chelsea
#ChelseaFC
#ToddBoehly
#CFC
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On the night of the referendum result I was waiting with Toby to go on ITV. It looked like Leave would lose narrowly. Toby told me that this wouldn’t be the end of it. He told me of plans to press on, call for another referendum and use the loss as a springboard for leaving.
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My grandmother, a refugee from Lwow (now Lviv) and political imprisonment, always used to say that "while the Queen is safe in Buckingham Palace, we are safe in Hendon Central".
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What is happening upstairs while downstairs I’m in leader conference
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I think Mr Farage may have forgotten the Treaty of Paris of 1783. The United States did not leave without a withdrawal agreement.
"This week marked the 243rd anniversary of the 4th of July, when a colony on the western edge of a Union deciding to leave without a deal. That colony turned into the United States of America. "
@Nigel_Farage
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He’s going to make a big difference.
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Owen Paterson voted against the Withdrawal Agreement three times. So he doesn’t mean just get on with it, he means we must leave only on terms he finds acceptable. And if anyone else holds out - just as he does - for terms they find acceptable, that is delay.
During a debate on Principles of Democracy, I asked
@OwenPaterson
if he shares with me the frustration and anger that I hear every day in my constituency. We asked voters for their opinion, and they gave it to us.
He agreed and said that we just need to get on with it.
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Corbyn adviser Andrew Murray argues there’s “no evidence” that in the 30s the Soviets were "an imperialist power brutal in foreign conduct." Given they invaded Poland, imprisoned my grandad, shot his friends & deported my Dad to Siberia I beg to differ.
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The brilliant response of
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A prime minister is not a President. Conservatives believe in parliamentary democracy.
Trying to remove an elected PM with a huge personal mandate, mid term, is anti democratic. Those who seek to do so are subverting democracy. If you respect democracy, Mr Major, Mrs May, Mr Heseltine et al, do it through the ballot box, not by abusing your power and influence.
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I remember after 1970 wondering if Chelsea would ever make the FA cup final again!
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This idea, common overnight among commentators, that last night was just embarrassing games and pomposity is quite wrong. If violent threat prompted the change in motion selection it could hardly be more serious.
Yet if it didn’t, it means the Speaker isn’t telling the truth…
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Going through my Mum's papers...the telegram that breaks the news to her Dad that his children are free from Belsen, but his wife has died.
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My politics was so different from Jeremy Hardy but he was always so friendly and welcoming when I was with him on News Quiz. And so open. I think he took seriously the idea that the most important part of being on the left was kindness and humanity. I adored him.
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It’s amazing how many people have persuaded themselves they actually voted not to have a deal. Something that they not only didn’t say in the referendum but weren’t saying two months go. The way the human mind works is fascinating.
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I thought we could bring together Labour's pledges and offer free broadband that only works four days a week.
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The Speaker of the Commons has announced that he ignored precedent & selected motions because of MP’s concerns of violent retribution if presented with the usual alternatives. This is not a Westminster issue, it’s a democratic crisis if it’s true. So we need to find out if it is.
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This is dreadful. Heaven knows my politics and Owen’s are different but if we allow this to happen and don’t defend each other we are toast.
This is a bit dramatic, so firstly I’m fine, but last night - when I was celebrating my birthday - I was attacked, along with my friends, in a blatant premeditated assault.
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I think the MP or MPs responsible for saying this are shameful. It is outrageous that
@AngelaRayner
has to put up with this and the Tory party should do it’s best to identify who was responsible.
Seriously? A story based on a woman crossing her legs? Truly awful stuff from the Mail on Sunday
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She was never bitter and neither was he. They loved life and freedom and this country. So it’s traditional to finish a thread with the word ends/. But at this moment of freedom I finish the thread with begins/.
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How can someone be Foreign Secretary, take themselves seriously as possible PM or even be a lead columnist on the Daily Telegraph and still think that there will be an implementation period without a deal? Here are the final 2 pars of Boris Johnson’s column this morning. Amazing.
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It’s such a fantastically thin theory this. Take his Battle of Britain analogy. The government conscripted people to serve. The government rationed tea. It forced people switch off lights. It taxed people to pay for it. It’s depressing he mistakes these cheap words for wisdom.
ICYMI: Neil Oliver: 'For the sake of freedom – yours and mine together – I will cheerfully risk catching Covid.'
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That amount of bullying fictitious, wish fulfillment nonsense that the BBC’s political editor has to put up with is truly shameful.
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Here is the receipt from the day the Russians came to my father’s door in Lviv on April 13 1940 and expelled the family. It lists the furniture left behind. Today is a terrible day.
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@georgie_grier
I went to Norwich to give a speech and it took me 4hrs of travel.There were only 2 people there. One of them was the person who invited me. I asked the other person to join the cause I was there to support. He said he would, but it might interfere with the terms of his parole.
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I would have thought the one advantage of isolation is that it reduced the chance of encountering Katie Hopkins
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A picture of my grandfather in his study posted just because I love it,
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When BT started its friends and family discount scheme they informed you who your top five friends and family were based on their records. It turned out that the closest friend that Nicky and I had was the Peking Garden restaurant.
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Hopeful sign. The last words of this song are “I can never, never, never go home again.”
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Yes. He was arrested when he was ten years old.
@TheMendozaWoman
@OurHiddenHistry
@Dannythefink
“It’s eighty years since Stalin attempted to starve my father to death in Siberia”
Can you honestly say that there was no reason for your father being sent there
and that you won’t be ostracized in UK if you attempt something similar against our regime?
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In this interview John McDonnell attacks my social class. He suggests that 100 years ago I would have been shooting grouse on long weekends. Did Jews shoot grouse in Galicia? 100 years ago in fact my grandfather was issuing his first pamphlet warning of the rise of antisemitism.
@novaramedia
@johnmcdonnellMP
AARON BASTANI: "Do you think people like Danny Finkelstein and George Osbourne would have opposed the invention of the weekend 100 years ago?"
MCDONNELL: "They would have had long weekends and would probably have gone grouse shooting for most of August, wouldn't they?"
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Forty percent of Unite members voted Conservative at the last election.
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There seem to be 2 steps in the argument of the PM’s defenders. 1. What matters is not the widespread law breaking in Number 10, only what he did personally. Then argue 2. What he did personally is only minor since its one person breaking a law once or twice. Sorry, but no.
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A brilliant statement, showing immense moral clarity.
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Oh my God this is truly appalling. Even for the two individuals involved this was a new low.
Laurence Fox just did a whole speech on GB News on why men apparently won’t shag me ?
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I’ve had a few people tweet this. This is because it is the only argument left, all the others having been shown to be false. But gathering 30 people together in a room and then singing out loud is almost at the top of list of infection-spreading behaviours.
@Dannythefink
@jason_manc
Shock, horror, I bet the No 10 staff who, like many others, have worked closely together, in No 10, throughout the pandemic, also have lunch together.
Arrest them..
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OTD in 1944 My Aunt Ruth and my Mum spots Ruth’s school friend Margot Frank and her sister Anne through the wire at Bergen Belsen. She writes it down in the little diary she had won in a competition and kept with her when she was arrested.
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I want to say thanks to all the lovely people who responded to this tweet. Isaac was thrilled. His Barmitzvah was moving and special. And despite 3m views, we didn’t get one nasty reply & only maybe 10 contrarian ones. A counter to conventional wisdom about Twitter. Thank you all
This is my youngest son, Isaac. It is his Barmitzvah tomorrow and there was to have been a party afterwards. But now the party has had to be postponed. But he will still be reading from the Torah, albeit online from home. I know how much he’d love to see your likes and messages.
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On Chelsea. Why Boehly is the colour.
Todd Boehly, the U.S. dealmaker planning a takeover of Chelsea FC, has added a former U.K. government adviser and a celebrity PR executive to his consortium bidding for the club
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I was born in Barnet and lived in the Borough for 35 years. I ran for council in West Hendon (the ward Labour lost) and the West Hendon Labour Party used to meet in my parent’s lounge. I had my barmitzvah in a Barnet synagogue and was married in one. I picked up an idea or two.
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Thanks for asking my opinion. The availability of products in supermarkets should be primarily determined by what people wish to buy & what shops judge the most profitable use of shelf space. Rather than whether MPs think it’s the right time of year. That is a centre right view.
Just been to Tesco in Haslingden with my kids and there’s already Easter eggs in stock!!!
What is going on!!
Let me know down below if you think Easter is coming too early?
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At the Vitality FA Women’s Cup Final with Jonathan Goldstein and Barbara Charone keeping the Blue Flag Flying High
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People who think Mudryk couldn’t have meant that, don’t realise how good Mudryk is.
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This is an “but they made the trains run on time” tweet.
The Soviets legalised abortion in 1920 and gave military support to those fighting apartheid.
You can't say the same for America.
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This is breathtaking.
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Once chips came wrapped in newspapers, now newspapers come wrapped in chips.
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This adds another layer of complexity to my mask decision. Yes it might be socially responsible to wear a mask in a a crowded space. But on the other hand what if the person next to me is Right Said Fred and he was about to ask me to work with him, but then doesn’t?
I would like to thank everyone who is still wearing a mask.
It saves me a great deal of time.
Your mask tells me I don’t need to talk to you, know you, work with you, or try to understand your mumblings.
You are superfluous to requirements.
Many thanks XX
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This is truly truly amazing. These people are arguing that the Jews use our influence, power and media control to conspire to make - and here comes the hilarious bit - a FALSE argument that they are antisemitic! The sheer stupidity is staggering even before you get to the racism.
More than 2000 people on the “We Support Jeremy Corbyn” Facebook page have endorsed a letter saying Monday’s protest was the “onslaught” of a “very powerful special interest group” using its “immense strength” and “history and influence” to “employ the full might of the BBC”...
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What a loss for football and the Chelsea community. A man we loved and who represented a turning point in our history, ushering in the modern era. He will be long remembered by us all.
Gianluca Vialli, the former Italy and Chelsea striker, has died aged 58 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
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I bought it and now we at least have one thing. Isn’t the internet amazing?
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This has happened to several of my diets, to be fair.
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A better route, since the prime minister doesn’t wish to lose his chief of staff, might have been a reprimand/apology. The government would then have been fighting a battle on proportionality. It wouldn’t have convinced everyone but at least it wouldn’t be flatly absurd.
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This paragraph in Dominic Lawson’s column is extremely important. It directly undermines the prime minister’s claim that he thought it a work meeting,
Quite striking from Dominic Lawson: not a natural opponent of the government or PM. For my part, I shall wait for Sue Gray's report before passing judgement.
#strangetimes
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Another attempt by the PM's defenders to advance a novel constitutional doctrine. Now it's not even voters directly choosing the PM, apparently it's the police! The police would not be choosing the PM. They would be applying the law. MPs decide who the PM is in the light of that.
A senior ally of Boris Johnson has said the Metropolitan Police will need to be 'very certain' that he has breached lockdown rules before issuing an FPN
'There is inevitably a degree of discretion here. Do you want the Met Police deciding who the prime minister is?'
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Opening a folder of cuttings about my grandfather that my Mum gave me in my teens, I found, as expected, obits on his work as the archivist of the fight against the Nazis. To my surprise I also found this: the original indictment of the Nuremberg defendants, a trial he helped.
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By the way, his assumption is that the high court was part of the “people” but the appeal court part of the “blob”. What is his theory on how that happened? Maybe it’s the other way round, and the high court was the blob. What absurd language.
Your elected parliament voted for the Rwanda Policy - the establishment blocked it.
Who’s in charge - the voters or the blob?
#blobonomics
#Rwanda
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My son captures all those guitar lessons (and all that practice) in one minute.
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I really think if we can’t write such article and read them with an open mind and sympathy then there is no way to have a political dialogue. So many people simply double down in these circumstances. It’s hugely to Martin Rowson’s credit that he hasn’t.
Bite the air in Britain and you can taste the prejudices that haunt us. I’m sorry I became part of it | Martin Rowson
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@AderNuradin
Thank you. Lots and lots of work still to do. Big privilege, big responsibility. We are on it.
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@NicolaRBartlett
I took over a desk from a female colleague who said I wouldn’t like it. A few weeks later I said I was puzzled, it seemed fine. She said “But you are sitting in front of Richard’s office, doesn’t everyone treat you as his secretary.” No. They didn’t.
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Visiting the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam I found this class list from July 1941 when the Municipal Lyceum for Girls had to list the pupils with “Jewish blood”. On the left is Anne’s sister Margot and on the right her friend Ruth Wiener, my mother’s sister, my Auntie Ruth.
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The idea that the Corbynites literally called their film The Big Lie and accused various Jewish organisations of orchestrating it is simply astonishing.
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Paul McCartney has the same first name as four Labour leaders, because he’s called James really you see and so were James Keir Hardie, James Ramsay MacDonald, James Harold Wilson and James Gordon Brown. But not James Callaghan because his first name was really Leonard.....
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Amazing how people don’t even realise they are antisemitic. Got an email saying “the Jewish lobby is getting desperate”. I suggested she might want to rethink that because it it was racist thinking. She was furious at being called racist adding “that’s a typical Jewish response”.
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The idea that the person responsible for the quote on the right was selected as a Labour candidate AFTER this became public is so appalling I genuinely wonder if I am reading a piece of invented news or have somehow misunderstood. But I don’t think I have.
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The comments under this post from Laura are breathtaking.
Hard time of year for a lot of folks. Suicide Hotline 116 123 (Samaritans) A simple copy and paste might save someone's life.
Would 3 Twitter friends please copy this text and post under their own name? Pass it on…
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