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@SpectatorOz Europe Correspondent. Former 🇦🇺ambo Brussels and Budapest and international advisor to PM @HonTonyAbbott . Blocked by @SusanMichie . Pronouns: ő.
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This does not inspire much confidence in those who are supposed to protect us and to prevent anarchy.
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The Sunak government needs to explain urgently why the UK head of the Islamist extremist group Hizb ut Tahrir, who celebrated the 7 October Hamas massacres, is employed by the taxpayer-funded NHS as a doctor.
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A criminal whose deportation to Jamaica was stopped by a last minute legal challenge supported by Labour MPs went on to murder. It would be interesting to know who those MPs were. Their names should be publicised.
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Met officer agrees with
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Who were the clowns who appointed this extremist to the prestigious post of rector of St Andrew’s University? Among her ludicrous claims in an email sent to students is an allegation that Israel killed its own citizens on 7 October. She should be sacked.
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Around 33% of voters are open to backing a party led by
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@reformparty_uk
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Melbourne police masked up while vigilant about an anti-lockdown protest but unmasked and mingling with the crowd 24 hours later for an LGBT rally.
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Ringo Starr bravely stands out against the UK celebrity/arts establishment anti-Brexit consensus: ‘to be in control of your own country is a good move.’
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Shameful: Ireland women's basketball team refuses to shake hands with Israeli team members. Fantastic news that Israel won.
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Worshipping the new religion of diversity, Britain long ago gave up trying to integrate immigrants and to ensure that they understand and accept its culture and ways. That has consequences, as in the unhinged, disturbing views on display here.
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Liverpool has five mosques. Why would Muslims want to use the city’s Anfield Stadium for worship instead?
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Who would guess that all these buildings were constructed in 2019? Clockwise, Budapest Castle’s rebuilt garrison building & stables, faithful to the originals which were badly damaged in WW2 & demolished in 1971; and the Szabad György offices next to the Parliament
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On what grounds would people complain if another mob also unilaterally decided to tear down this statue and throw it into the harbour?
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Today is 75 years since the end of World War II in Europe.
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The new series of Spitting Image helpfully includes a weather forecast.
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The Left’s astonishing capacity for vicious hatred. Chair of Warwick University’s Labour Society celebrates Boris Johnson being tested positive for coronavirus.
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A couple getting married in London this weekend have sadly abandoned plans for a wedding picnic for 30 people, given that rules say more than 6 mustn’t socialise outdoors. So
@MayorofLondon
why did the police not intervene to stop this last Friday?
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Happy 103rd birthday Dame Vera Lynn, born 20 March 1917 - much loved heroine of the Blitz.
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It’s a tough call, but it was probably Titoist Yugoslavia that produced the most hideous buildings in post-World War II Europe. Here, a bank in Tuzla, Bosnia, built in 1977. Via the grim site Socialist Modernism on Facebook.
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The increasingly bizarre Rishi Sunak: warns that unless leaders crack down on illegal immigration, the West risks being overwhelmed…after ignoring
@SuellaBraverman
who kept pressing him to do something about the border chaos and then sacking her.
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Tories who think Penny Mordaunt is the answer to their woes have lost their marbles. Like Labour she’s been captured by trans extremism and she’d mean no change to the issues the Tory base cares about - immigration, net zero madness, useless police etc.
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BBC London tv news this evening ran long reports about the start of Ramadan but didn’t bother to report that today is England’s national day, St George’s Day. Shocking judgment, as so often. The BBC never forgets to remind us when it’s St Andrew’s, St David’s or St Patrick’s Day.
A very happy St George’s Day from Downing Street! 🏴
Thank you for staying at home this
#StGeorgesDay
#StayHomeSaveLives
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Decisions by Renault, Volvo, Volkswagen and Ford to reduce electric vehicle production show the West’s EV dream is quickly unravelling -
@mattlynnwriter
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Why did the presenter on yesterday’s
@BBCNews
- of all days - appear in an Iranian regime uniform?
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The Jewish Labour Movement, which has been affiliated with the Labour Party for 100 years, won’t support the party in the campaign - unlike in 2017 - because it says Corbyn is unfit to be prime minister over his ‘failure of leadership’ on antisemitism.
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Media hysteria on ‘record’ heat in Europe has been fed by the European Space Agency which recently switched to using ground temperatures rather than traditional air temperatures. So it claimed eg that last weekend in Sicily was 48, not 32 as it really was.
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Across Europe, ‘Net Zero is collapsing as the public refuses to impoverish itself’ -
@RossjournoClark
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Does Davey also ‘regret’ being paid £833 an hour - £220,000+ in total - to advise lawyers helping the Post Office go after terrified, innocent people? Or refusing to meet Alan Bates? Or overseeing the appointment of the disastrous Paula Vennells as CEO?
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Dame Edna’s ungenerous obituary of Barry Humphries, published in the London Daily
@telegraph
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80% of the French want no more immigration and 74% want a referendum which, if approved, would compel the government to enforce that. Europe’s woke establishment is of course horrified by the idea. Macron has ruled the idea out.
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Government admits electric cars are hazardous, esp on motorways, as they ‘stop very suddenly’ when they cease to function, rather than coasting. A fundamental fault which you’d think should have been ironed out before they were let loose in traffic?
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Scenes of young men using violence to try and force their way into Europe aren’t exactly brilliant PR for these would-be migrants. The NGOs will find excuses for them but the sympathy of most Europeans will be with Greece trying to defend its borders.
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Rory Stewart, who ran for the Tory leadership in 2019, would be interested in serving in a Labour government. Further proof that the metro-liberal ‘One Nation’ end of the Tories are in no sense conservative and are interchangeable with Labour/Lib-Dems.
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‘Climate migration’: we need to be more aware that young men are leaving Albania and paying people smugglers to take them to Britain to work in criminal gangs because of increased temperatures in Albania. They are climate refugees.
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Tony Blair’s target of 50 per cent of young people going to university was achieved last year.
@DouglasKMurray
: ‘Is our country noticeably smarter or more successful as a result? Many would say not. In some ways I would say it is noticeably stupider.’
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George Handel’s glorious Zadok the Priest was the star of the show.
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Outlaw gas boilers by 2035 or Britain might not achieve net zero by 2050. The sort of bonkers advice the Conservatives need to start ignoring if they want to stay in government.
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You can’t trust Labour with national security. Soleimani was behind the death of many Western troops in Iraq & in 2007 the SAS had an opportunity to kill him. Labour foreign secretary David Miliband blocked the operation.
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Hyde Park deep in rubbish left by yesterday’s pro-cannabis protesters, many of whom came from the
#ExtinctionRebellionLondon
. Interesting way of showing your care for the planet. Park workers now spending Easter Sunday cleaning up their mess say it’s the worst they’ve ever seen.
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Labour is threatening to block new North Sea oil and gas production completely. ‘The North Sea currently delivers the equivalent of 83% of UK oil demand and 54p% of our gas use. What are our plans to replace those supplies?’ -
@LiamHalligan
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Belgian immigration minister Theo Francken on why third world would-be migrants choose Britain ahead of other European countries: ‘you don't have identity cards, your black market is very lucrative, you have a lot of English speaking migrants already’
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‘BBC’s new Agatha Christie drama is ‘an allegory of colonialism’, director reveals’.’ Yawn. Many might have been thinking of giving it a go but now won’t bother. Why choose woke propaganda when you can watch a Suchet or Ustinov Christie classic instead?
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The May-June 2020 BLM protests and rioting across the US caused an estimated $1 – $2 billion in property damage and dozens of deaths. Who said of them ‘They’re not gonna let up and they should not.’? The next Vice-President, Kamala Harris.
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The Queen is going to be made to wear a mask throughout her husband’s funeral tomorrow. Can we have an explanation for why that’s necessary when it wasn’t for this indoor meeting last week?
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Second UK newspaper reports that Professor Susan Michie, a member of SAGE, is a member of the British Communist Party. Does the government think it’s OK for a member of an extremist organisation to be advising on sensitive poicy issues?
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Poland’s refusal to be bullied by Putin into ignoring Stalin’s conniving with Hitler 80 years ago to destroy Poland is admirable and should be supported internationally. Polish PM Morawiecki is also right to draw attention to Putin’s sinister attempts to rehabilitate Stalin.
Statement by the Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki.
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This is scandalous. Modellers who forecast a ‘tidal wave’ of Omicron deaths - prompting renewed restrictions and masks in schools - admit they were wrong. Why did they ignore the South African experts who told them it was less deadly than they thought?
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It’s hard to think of a more beautifully preserved ancient town in Central Europe than Česky Krumlov in southern Bohemia, magnificently situated on the River Moldau (Vltava). Not a single building newer than 19th century and entirely pedestrianised.
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Good to see London’s Brixton coming back to life as the lockdown eases.
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Scene on a Hackney street yesterday showing what a tough job the police have. All the members of the public are either hostile and violent or passive, filming the scene on their phones. Imagine the anarchy if
#BLMUK
got their wish of abolishing the police.
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David Cameron must insist on the dismissal of the Foreign Office official who signed a petition dismissing reports of the 7/10 Hamas rapes as ‘propaganda’ ‘to justify Israel’s “genocide” against Palestinians’ - & explain how such low life can be recruited.
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‘The notion that Britain has some God-ordained mission to impoverish itself in order to make a tiny impact upon global emissions is mad’ -
@timothy_stanley
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The Conservatives have vacated the centre-right and if
@Nigel_Farage
leads
@reformparty_uk
into the elections, a political earthquake would follow. Reform UK could eclipse the Tories as the main conservative party. My article in the latest
@SpectatorOz
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NHS to spend over half a billion £ so Britain can have inferior electric ambulances. Range 70-80 miles; it should be at least 160 miles. The current ones often cover 800 miles a day. Hard to see how that’s doable when they’ll need four hours to recharge.
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How the blocking of a road in Shoreditch for over an hour by eco-loonies ended. The police never turned up.
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This appalling person - invited to write for the New Statesman - illustrates one of the many failures of Britain’s lax recent immigration policies: not only letting in absurdly high numbers but no serious attempt to ensure newcomers share British values.
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Wise advice from
@AllisonPearson
to Sajid Javid: doctors must see patients; stop testing; sack SAGE; stop the worship of the NHS and reform it; urgently attend to those on waiting lists; publish Covid recovery figures.
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Astonishing account from
@DouglasKMurray
of Chinese regime thuggery to countries which have angered it. After David Cameron met the Dalai Lama regime officials demanded in a meeting that British officials stand and read out an apology, which they duly did.
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Emily Maitlis, taxpayer-funded voice of leftist metropolitan orthodoxies. Here she unsuccessfully attempts a gotcha moment against Hungary’s foreign minister for his country’s temerity in not wanting to repeat Western Europe’s multiculturalism experiment.
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Some possible good news. According to
@CDM_Media
, ‘two sources close to the matter’ claim that the UK is planning to cancel Huawei’s involvement in the 5G rollout. Allegedly related to Boris Johnson being furious with China.
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Things looking a bit out of control today in Anderlecht, Brussels, 5km from EU headquarters.
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Barry Humphries was not only Australia’s great comic genius. His love of old buildings and campaigns against their destruction helped save, for example, Sydney’s magnificent Queen Victoria Building from being turned into a car park.
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‘Many politicians and advisers will admit privately that the policy change compelling people to wear masks was not really about the spread of infection at all but about the psychological effect that they would have’ - Graham Brady
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The NHS and the BBC, envied around the world. Here their map of England’s vaccine rollout: Manchester is in the Irish Sea, Birmingham and Bristol are in Wales, Newcastle has moved to the west coast and London is somewhere around Buckinghamshire. Surrey has become a city.
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Duncan Lewis Solicitors, who have blocked the deportation of many illegal immigrants, and who have pocketed £55 million in legal aid, offer ‘support’ to would-be immigrants in Calais. That sounds like they’re directly helping people-smugglers.
@DCBMEP
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Spain’s Queen Letizia and Princess Sofía celebrating with the Spanish team after their victory in Sydney. Many would have hoped for an England win until they made the dumb pro-BLM gesture of ‘taking the knee’ - which the sensible Spanish didn’t.
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A British government that calls itself Conservative allows a Communist to advise on the most important and sensitive issue it faces. And no journalist or MP asks Boris Johnson or his ministers if they think that’s ok. My article in the latest
@SpectatorOz
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Downing Street doesn’t think another four weeks of lockdown is a big deal because everyone who works there ignores the rules imposed on the rest of the country,
@JuliaHB1
writes.
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Nice police message to climate activists causing misery to tens of thousands on the M25. ‘If any of you are in any discomfort or need anything at all - just let me know’. Don’t recall such kind messages to eg anti-lockdown protestors.
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BBC bias on display this evening as tv news doesn’t mention it was Sadiq Khan who decided last week to reduce tube services to weekend levels - ‘to mitigate the impact’ of coronavirus. It let him claim unchallenged it was the public’s and Johnson’s fault the tube’s so crowded.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan warns that if commuters do not stop packing into trains more people will die from coronavirus
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The new right-wing government in Greta Thunberg’s homeland abolishes the environment ministry and makes the environment minister answerable to the minister for business, energy, and industry. €36 billion earmarked for new nuclear power stations,
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If he announced that Met Commissioner Rowley had been sacked for his astonishing call that beaming anti-Semitic messages onto Big Ben was ok, people might take notice. But of course the soft-left Sunak would never do anything as tough as that. So just meaningless waffle.
'You cannot call for violent Jihad, there's no context in which it's acceptable to beam antisemitic tropes onto Big Ben, and there is no cause that you can use to justify supporting a proscribed terrorist group like Hamas'
Rishi Sunak announces new measures to tackle extremism.
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Historian Andrew Roberts rightly says the fact that a third of voters backed a pro-IRA anti-semitism-stained Marxist to be PM underlines the urgency of Johnson tackling the Left’s control of institutions from the universities to the civil service and the BBC.
Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny, offers advice to
@BorisJohnson
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Flanders follows Wallonia, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland and NZ in banning halal and kosher slaughter. All are on the receiving end of the unusual accusation of being simultaneously Islamophobic and anti-Semitic.
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Someone who won’t be invited back on the BBC. Says ‘a third’ of Hamas/Islamic Jihad missiles fall short, killing Palestinian civilians. You won’t hear that on the BBC. Also, refers to Hamas stopping civilians fleeing south, another story the BBC ignores.
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Disturbing piece of news. Professor Susan Michie, a member of SAGE and tireless fan of lockdowns, is highly influential over the UK’s pandemic policy and is regularly given a platform on the BBC and ITV. She is also a member of the British Communist Party.
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Budapest shows that we don’t necessarily have to put up with hideous modernist buildings.
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Muslims in the Netherlands try to bully King Willem-Alexander into boycotting the opening of Amsterdam’s Holocaust museum. Good on him for defying them. Chilling sign of the impact on Western countries of huge numbers of migrants hostile to our values.
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China gets nasty, threatening Australia with economic punishment if it doesn’t back down on its call for an independent enquiry into the cause of the Wuhan coronavirus. Good on Foreign Minister
@MarisePayne
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Rich celebrities like Steve Coogan and Hugh Grant sneering at Brexit supporters probably had the opposite effect of what they intended - like the Luvvie endorsements of Remain ahead of the Brexit referendum.
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Australia persuaded Muslim-majority Indonesia - its utterly different neighbour - to accept illegal immigrant boat turnbacks. But the UK can’t persuade France, a fellow Western member of NATO, the G7, UNSC etc to do the same. Incompetence or lack of will?
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Australia’s capital city shuts down for a week after *one* case. Pathetic.
There was panic buying at the supermarkets in Australia's capital Canberra after it was announced that the city would go into a snap week-long lockdown as it reported its first locally acquired case of COVID-19 in more than a year
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The British people will understand the authorities’ need to cancel Remembrance Day events this year while allowing demonstrations at the French embassy defending Islamist beheadings.
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RIP 24 year old Steffi, who travelled to Würzburg last Friday to buy a bridesmaid’s dress for her best friend’s wedding. She was one of three people killed at random by a jihadi Somali immigrant, known to the police as violent and with psychiatric problems.
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Pakistan won’t take back Qari Abdul Rouf, the Pakistani leader of the Rochdale grooming gang, who was (briefly) imprisoned and stripped of UK citizenship. Britain should stop giving Pakistanis visas until the country changes its mind - a technique France has used successfully.
Thanks to the Mail I learn, the pervert Qari Abdul Rouf, the taxi driving leader of the vile Rochdale grooming gang, is still here 9 years after we started the process of deporting him to to his native Pakistan.
Rouf , 54, got 6 years back in 2012 . On his release ( after a…
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A couple getting married in London a couple of weekends ago sadly abandoned plans for a wedding picnic for 30 people, given that rules say more than 6 from different hoseholds mustn’t socialise outdoors.
Thousands march along Oxford St, London, to mark Day of Ashura - when Imam Hussain, the grandson of Prophet Mohammad, was martyred. Despite social distancing restrictions, many gathered to show their devotion.
#Ashura2020
#Ashura
#London
#Hussain
#whoishussain
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How many people in Britain are aware that, due to the dictates of the government’s Climate Change Committee, consumers from January will be paying a tax of £5,000 on gas or oil boilers to punish them for their evil choice? When did the Tories spell out this policy to voters?
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Richard Rogers, architect of Paris’s Pompidou Centre, who has died, was once asked by a woman standing outside the building what he thought of it. When he told her he was the architect, she hit him over the head with her umbrella.
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Oddly, the BBC doesn’t seem to be very interested in the fact that there’s been the earliest winter snowfall for 15 years. Unlike its strong interest in heatwaves.
@BBCJustinR
must be preoccupied with other more important stories.
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The hypocrisy and bastardry of (Labour-controlled) Doncaster Council in Yorkshire - declared a ‘climate and biodiversity emergency’ and then chopped down 60 mature and healthy trees because they were worried about damage they were causing to pavements.
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A German Eurocrat trying to bully Italians about how they should vote on Sunday isn’t wise and will probably achieve the opposite of the hoped-for effect. A bit like Obama telling Brits they should vote Remain.
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One of the leading universities in the United States, Johns Hopkins, has concluded ‘there is no evidence that lockdowns, school closures, border closures, and limiting gatherings have had a noticeable effect on Covid-19 mortality’.
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