
David__Osland
@David__Osland
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Somewhere on the left. My views and not those of any publication for which I write.
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Joined August 2015
Earlier this year, it was widely reported that Prince Andrew met a Chinese spy to discuss unspecified 'business dealings'. Anyone know when the trial starts?
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Look at how the vet industry is ripping off pet owners. Then think what private healthcare providers will do once they get their hands on the NHS.
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The rates of both murders and knife attacks in Sadiq Khan's crime-ridden Islamist hellhole are now at the lowest levels ever recorded. That's what we Londoners have to put up with under a Labour mayor.
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If you're expecting to struggle with your winter quarter energy bill, remember that a quarter of it will be pure profit for Britain's privatised gas and electricity monopolies
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On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, don't forget that she called Osama bin Laden a freedom fighter, Nelson Mandela a terrorist, General Pinochet a friend. And Jimmy Savile 'Sir'.
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On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.
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Thatcher's 'achievements' include the destruction of industry, mass unemployment, poll tax, rip-off privatisations and the end of social housing, employment rights, adequate funding for the NHS, social care and schools. Nothing to celebrate today.
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Thames Water dumps sewage in rivers in Britain. Then it pays huge dividends to shareholders in Canada, China and Abu Dhabi. That's how privatisation works, silly.
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I reckon Nigel Farage has met Nathan Gill more times than he's ever been in Clacton
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Two million people using food banks is hardly a marker of social progress
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Britain now has 1970s levels racism without 1970s levels of secure well-paid jobs, social housing, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition, student grants, final salary pensions and affordable rail fares
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I'm sure BBC investigative documentary strand Panorama is even now working on an incisive exposé of Reform's financial links to Russia and it's just that they haven't announced it publicly yet
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Corbyn meeting a Czech embassy official was a major news story more than three decades after it happened. Reform's Welsh leader pleading guilty to bribes from Russia is somehow not worth reporting.
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As Toby Young points out, Black people are over-represented in advertising. He somehow forgot to mention they are over-represented in poverty, unemployment and homelessness statistics too.
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Abolition of stamp duty would be worth £80,000 to the average person whose girlfriend buys him a £900,000 fifth home in Clacton
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Kemi Badenoch's plan to abolish stamp duty will be worth £5000 to those who buy the average home. And a million quid to those who buy £10m homes. That's all you need to know.
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Kemi Badenoch's leader's speech points out that thousands of young people graduate each year with 'crippling loans and no real prospects'. She's right, of course. But remind me which party trebled tuition fees.
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