Matt Kilcoyne
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This is the biggest lie I've ever seen on an Instagram story
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The Queen with a single tear in remembrance of those she served with now gone, of family lost to terror, of the men and women who have fought and died in her name.
Should be seen as of the most iconic photos of her ever taken.
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You know what. It's a disgrace that no national decided to cover this.
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Pulled down a poster on the tube about "Israeli apartheid" and was immediately surrounded by a bunch of people, one of whom threatened to "punch your lights out, if I wasn't with my daughter". I raised the number of dead of October 7th and hostages, and they went mental.
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When your mum says you can have chippy tea but changes her mind last minute.
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Just seen a friend of a friend on Instagram complain of how she and her boyfriend, having flown to Argentina on the 15th March(!!!) are having to pay extra to get home to the UK on new flights.
Well, yes. You took a high risk. You got stuck. It is not for us to bail you out.
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Jon Snow is an ignorant bully who whose partisanship is so utterly on show that it really makes me wonder what the hell we're doing still allowing him to present the news of a publicly underwritten broadcaster.
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Or do not. There is no try. 🤓
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In which case, he should be fired.
Police chief says officers WON'T stop statues from being toppled by Black Lives Matter protestors
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If you've ever wondered what a petty bureaucrat is: it's the one that has taped off a log in Victoria Park.
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This man was campaigning with antisemites in December.
"I have real concerns about Tony Abbott and I don't think he's the right person for the job."
Labour leader
@Keir_Starmer
says he wouldn't appoint the former-Australian PM to the UK's Board of Trade if he was prime minister.
Read more:
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This is as big of if not bigger a deal than the vaccine.
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#Brelcome
. A love letter from Portugal to Britons and a celebration of the oldest alliance in the world.
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The SNP have banned the Union Jack from Scottish government buildings except on Remembrance Sunday. But has demanded the EU flag, an organisation they're not a part of, be flown from Scottish government buildings every day.
Trumpy Trumpy Trumpy Sturgeon
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We have a duty to the people of Hong Kong. If China wants to destroy the city and her freedoms, we in Britain should give these British Nationals a new home here.
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I think my favourite bit of the next few days will be the SNP trying to claim both that the deal is a sell-out, but also needed, but also that it must be rejected, but also needs to be implemented, but also that they'd get a better deal in indy
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I condemn in unequivocal terms the moves by some on Edinburgh Council to try and wipe Adam Smith out of history. His record on slavery is one of condemnation, he wrote the moral case against it and the economic case against it.
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I asked Bing to design a city hall for Dublin and it chose violence.
Asked Bing to design a city hall for a new North English capital city. Absolute banger.
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Whether you liked Maitlis' explanation or not, it's editorialising. Deliberately including certain analysis and excluding others. It was exceptionally telling about her views. It undermines the impartiality of the public broadcaster. She was not clear it was a viewpoint.
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The Turing Scheme gets its announcement as the replacement for Erasmus! 5 Eyes, D10, European unis included.
Big news, great news.
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I think we should start to agitate for French Guiana to be returned to Brazil.
The UK suffered a diplomatic defeat recently when the EU referred to the Falkland Islands as Islas Malvinas
So whose sovereignty do Europeans support?
🇪🇸 52% Argentina / 14% UK
🇮🇹 32% / 21%
🇩🇪 30% / 24%
🇫🇷 27% / 23%
🇸🇪 23% / 28%
🇩🇰 23% / 31%
also
🇺🇸 24% / 35%
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As ever the BBC is basically refusing to cover an enormous story because its reporters didn't get the scoop. But Scotland's democracy is in utter peril today and the nation's public service broadcaster is failing in its duty to cover this story with the gravitas it deserves.
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Great thread on British attitudes to giving British Hong Kongers rights to live and work in the UK.
Unsurprisingly, every region, every demographic, every party allegiance is more pro than anti.
When parliament resumes, this is an issue our politicians will have to tackle. 🇭🇰🇬🇧
BREAKING: New
@SavantaComRes
polling shows emphatic British public backing for BNO right of abode. The polling found that UK voters are more than twice as likely to support granting right of abode to BNO Passport holders as they are to oppose it.
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With just 28 seats, the CDU's poor performance means that with 29 seats that the Brexit Party will be the largest party in the EU Parliament.
#EUelections2019
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@BlairPScott95
I don't think pulling down posters calling Israel an apartheid state is equivalent to those pulling down posters of kidnapped children by Hamas. And if you do if suggest you check yourself.
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No they don't. The three lions passant guardant represent Richard I's principal three positions as King of the English, Duke of Normandy, and Duke of Aquitaine.
The Three Lions are at the heart of England Football.
It symbolises progression, greater inclusivity and accessibility in all levels of the beautiful game; from grassroots to elite.
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This headline should read "British Nationals from Hong Kong fleeing communism start new lives in the UK."
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But I thought that Huawei had nothing to do with the Chinese Government or the Chinese Communist Party?
BREAKING: China's ambassador to UK warns that the impact "might be many" if UK U-turns and decides to reject
@Huawei
from 5G network. He says such a move will damage the UK image as a business-friendly environment and signal it doesn't have independent foreign policy
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Ian Blackford just admitted to the House of Commons the real reason they're opposing the Internal Market Bill is to reject a Single Market for the UK, and raise barriers to trade across the UK.
Then dares to pretend he's worried about free trade and business confidence!
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We all use socks
We all use phones
We all use stock cubes
We all use kettles
We all suffer the stupidity of grand standing politicians
Public ownership is about us all having a say in the running of services.
@labourlewis
is on point 👌
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My comment for the
@ASI
today after Corbyn's appearance on the Pyramid Stage at
#Glastonbury
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Remember, whatever you are doing tomorrow, you're at least not threatening your 93 year old grandmother while your wife dials in on a conference call so she can do the same.
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"Let our people on the other side of the ocean know: as China dims the torch of freedom, that we keep it here lit for them — and that they have a home here."
My plea to
@BorisJohnson
@pritipatel
and
@DominicRaab
: let our people have a home here.
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"I lead a nationalist party by mistake!"
NEW: SNP leader Humza Yousaf says -
“I’ve never really been comfortable with the fact we have ‘national’ in our party’s name.”
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This could've been us but for twenty years instead of investing in machinery we've had a financial class that said "you can't compete with China in manufacturing coz of the labour costs"
Visited this factory in China.
Before they needed 10 people, now only one is in charge🤦♂️
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There was one woman who was genuinely not threatening violence, her partner on the other hand started chanting "From the River to the Sea".
These people know exactly what they're calling for.
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We can all see the Republic of Ireland for what it is.
“The EU wanted to issue a harsher statement but Luxembourg, Ireland and Denmark refused to call Hamas a terror organization,” a diplomatic source tells i24NEWS in reference to the EU statement on the Hamas attack on Israel
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This is a show trial for women they don't know, for crimes that aren't real, and paid for and promoted by a state broadcaster.
#SaveTheArts
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I see the BBC is continuing in its role as joint campaigner for Marcus Rashford.
Apparently "Where they can, it's a parent's job to feed their children." is offensive to the BBC's sensibilities. Sorry guys, this is not a controversial statement.
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We shouldn't have to pay for this 🥴 organisation.
What is white privilege?
We asked
@JohnAmaechi
, psychologist, best-selling author and former NBA basketball player to explain it for us.
👉
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I don't know
@Keir_Starmer
, but I thought you'd know. Given you lead the party that introduced devolution in the first place.
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Just gonna leave this here.
It's Saturday night and I can't begin to give this the thoughtful energy it deserves. Just always know they look after their own and don't give a toss about anything but making sure their mates have jobs. My mates are builders and midwives so people with actual skills.
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BBC thinks the price of your home should determine the cost of your licence fee?! Netflix doesn't. Amazon doesn't. Apple TV doesn't. YouTube doesn't. Newspapers don't. For good reason, their product has nothing to do with the state of the housing market.
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Strange. I thought the Irish Government said they'd never put up a border on the Isle of Ireland.
The Irish border this afternoon, between Strabane & Lifford.
Checking to ensure only essential travel is taking place.
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The UK treats Ireland like it has a special relationship, while the Republic offers no such warmth in return.
Irish Times
UK signs deal with Ireland guaranteeing any disruption to gas supplies would not affect the Republic of Ireland any more then parts of the UK
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WITHOUT GOOGLING name a famous historic battle
WITHOUT GOOGLING name a famous historic battle
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My favourite thing about brutalism is how they have to try and convince you that it's good actually. Neoclassicists don't have to bother, because you all actually love it.
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There is a Green and SNP majority on this committee.
[WATCH] Sturgeon Reacts: “The Opposition Members of this Committee Made their Minds Up About Me Before I Uttered a Single Word of Evidence”
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Honestly we should sack architects and just let AI design houses.
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It is hard to describe a policy with such universal support as
#CANZUK
free movement. Politicians would be pushing at an open door.
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I mean Rishi's parents fled the persecution of Asians in East Africa and were a GP and a pharmacist... but sure, don't let that get in the way of a snarky tweet.
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You run an airline mate.
The window of opportunity for humanity to avert the most catastrophic impacts of global warming is closing. I applaud students for reminding us what’s at stake - their future, and the future of humanity
#schoolstrike4climate
#FridaysForFuture
@thebteamhq
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My Mugabe story is the lovely lady who I used to work with at the garden centre when I was teenager. Her husband, son, and daughter were killed by a Mugabe mob who decided to burn her house down in the dead of night. They all died defending her.
He was a monster.
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A reminder that 93% of Wales is first language English speaking. That 80% of Welsh people don't speak Welsh at all. And that this requirement removes all migrants from job applications to public sector positions.
This policy is racist, exclusionary, and asinine.
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Once again. Hong Kong has 250,000 British Nationals living in it, a further 33,000 UK born citizens, and Beijing is about to extraterritorially impose its censor and law on Hong Kong, breaking an international treaty we supposedly guarantee, to shut down protest and criticism.
The national security bill isn’t even here yet and today Hong Kong already resembles a police state
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Has anyone ever rung a company that isn't "experiencing a high volume of calls at the moment"?
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Salmond accusing the gov that the choice not to concede, and the bill being racked up to the level it did, proves that the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon pursued him personally for political reasons using taxpayer cash.
Stunning accusation.
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Why are we funding her PR machine? This is pure politics, she's not a scientist. Feepayers deserve better.
BBC Studios’ Science Unit announces series with Greta Thunberg.
@bbcstudios
’ award winning Science Unit announces a brand new series with Swedish environmental activist
@GretaThunberg
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Isn't it a bit odd that we've all just ignored the fact that all the pro-EU groups share the same office? And that they get invited on shows as though they're all different and numerous and not at all working together in the same shared office?
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"In a moment of madness they throw a Molotov cocktail"
In my moments of madness I buy a twix, not set fire to police vehicles Richard.
A terribly sad story. Two young and idealistic lawyers, get wrapped up in the BLM protest movement. In a moment of madness they throw a Molotov cocktail into an abandoned police car and burn it. Now they face a minimum 35 years in a federal prison.
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Every day another reason to stare in disbelief at the intellects that manage to reach high office in Cardiff Bay.
'Wales would consider curfews for men to make women feel safer on streets at night'
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Meanwhile in Japan, you can now take your fish for a walk
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Are senior tories really going to sit back and just watch their party collapse?
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Does the New Zealand Labour Party respect the right to commit genocide?!
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Not a cloud or border in sight 👍🇬🇧
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Does she ever sleep?! Liz gets in one last trade deal of 2020!
Today we’ve reached consensus on the main elements of a deal with Ghana 🇬🇭, covering over £1.2bn of trade.
We are working to achieve full agreement very shortly.👇
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Absolutely PATHETIC reporting by the BBC on the aussie-uk fta.
Nothing but complaints by the farmers unions. Nothing in there about the detail of the deal, nothing in there about the benefits consumers get, or anything on migration. Just NFU grievance.
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It's the 75th anniversary of D Day. So yes there is.
Gosh, that was easy.
There is no justification for the Trump state visit
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But I thought the EU wasn't a country? We were told repeatedly and explicitly it was not. It is only countries after all whose diplomats are afforded diplomatic immunity, and member states could afford such privileges to staff seconded to the Commission.
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Wera was selected for her seat after beating Chris Lucas. Who is black.
She didn't believe in all-ethnic minority shortlists then.
Today I am presenting a Bill to Parliament that would make it legal to draw up all-ethnic minority shortlists for the selection of candidates in elections.
We cannot hope to beat racial injustice unless the people making decisions genuinely represent our diverse nation.
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My mum (who often looks up my tweets to make sure I'm not being mean to anybody) broke her arm a couple of weeks ago in quite a few places in what I can only presume was a desperate effort to see Chester's cobbled streets up close.
I'm sure she'd appreciate some twitter love!
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The Falkland Islands will never be safe from gazes of colonialist argentine generals until there are 20m Brits living on the islands. New cities. New homes. A new start.
CPRE won't let us build homes and lives here, so give us a chance there
@trussliz
? Time for a new Hong Kong?
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If you want to get a sense of how craven Scottish political media can be. Here's the BBC Scotland analysis of the Sturgeon covid inquiry appearance so far:
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Italy blocking vaccine exports destined for Australia in the middle of the night for our antipodean cousins. Low blow, stemming from the EU's piss poor efforts to buy vaccines in good time with good contracts. It is quite frankly twattish behaviour.
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Rhetoric vs reality.
Mark Drakeford says that Wales is a better place to do business than England because the government in Cymru is "more stable".
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Not only does Attenborough want to cut the human population in half like Thanos. He also wants to steal your summer holiday.
What a cuddly national treasure! 😐
WATCH: David Attenborough says making air travel more expensive could be one way of protecting the environment ✈️
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I would like to take this chance to tell Westminster Council to sincerely f off.
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I'm not crossrail, I'm just disappointedrail
Crossrail opening delayed AGAIN to 2022 with £1.1bn needed to finish.
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Definition of a car crash interview by the Lib Dem candidate in North Devon to BBC Radio 4.
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America's President came to the UK, stood in front of men pledged to die for American citizens in any defensive war, and read out a poem about a bunch of Irish revolutionaries that used the First World War and British defence of Europe as the opportunity to lead an uprising. Grim
Addressing US troops at the RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, President Joe Biden quoted WB Yeats poem 'Easter 1916' - 'All changed, changed utterly; A terrible beauty is born' |
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So let me get this straight: when Boris says 'you might be allowed to leave your house more than once a day' that's mixed and confusing.
But when Sturgeon stands in front of a massive sign saying STAY AT HOME while saying you can go outside more than once that's brave and clear?
Nicola Sturgeon press conference now live on
@SkyNews
. Announces:
-Once a day exercise limit will be removed.
-No picnics or BBQs.
The background is... um... subtle.
#StayAlert
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BBC still using the term populist to describe Milei. Some of their journalists can't help themselves but editorialise and conflate while providing zero context for their readers.
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We go now live to artistes everywhere demanding the evil bastard Tories save them with a taxpayer grant after spending the last seven decades explaining how much they hate the evil bastard Tories and the people that vote for them.
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I don't want the BBC to represent my values, I want it to deliver news and it want that news to be as free from value judgement as possible.
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Please 🙏
I have had enough - e fucken nuff!!! - of idiotic, bad faith rightwingers popping up to pontificate on what’s communist and what’s capitalist.
Because invariably they haven’t done the reading, and get the answer wrong.
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Cool cool that's just a potential extra 20% rise next year for pensioners while the rest of us recover from a giant recession cool
Sunak confirms the pensions triple lock will stay in place:
"Our manifesto commitments are there. We care very much about pensioners... and that's indeed our policy."
@LBC
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