Charlie Davies
@cgdav135
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International security and social democracy 🇬🇧🌹 | I occasionally write things 📝 | Likes/retweets ≠endorsements
Joined June 2024
I wrote for @youngfabians mag about how Ernest Bevin, Britain's most consequential post-war Foreign Secretary, should be Keir Starmer's foreign policy lodestar. Labour's past can guide its future.🌹
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Marinakis let his ego blow up a project that had Forest knocking on the doors of CL football last season.
Nottingham Forest Football Club can confirm that after a series of disappointing results and performances, Ange Postecoglou has been relieved of his duties as head coach with immediate effect. The Club will make no further comment at this time.
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The levels of discrimination disabled people come up against when seeking employment is criminal and should be utterly condemned. Many have their willingness to work exploited with unpaid placements that lead nowhere - pathways to a permanent job should be there for all of us.
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Turns out "holding the government to account" just means entrenching the boomerocracy.
Tells me cutting winter fuel payments and not compensating the WASPI women were “big mistakes”
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No, Peter. When a foreign aggressor is bombing your country you may legitimately strike back by sabotaging the aggressor’s ability to finance the war. It is called self-defence.
Scandalous: according to Poland, if you don’t like an infrastructure in Europe, you can blow it up. With this, they gave advance permission for terrorist attacks in Europe. Poland has not only released but is celebrating a terrorist—this is what European rule of law has come to.
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Think you have something useful to tell the Lords about Leadbeater’s bill? Think again… “the Committee is not seeking or accepting written evidence other than from invited witnesses”! Anyone aware of any precedent for this? To actively say “we don’t want to know”?
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When tankies are talking about why Russia attacked Ukraine, it reminds me of this map
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At one point in our history we built a 380-foot floating iron dry dock weighing over 8,000 tons which was dragged from England to Bermuda as Britain needed a solution for ship repairs in the Atlantic. Now we celebrate a shite digital clock design and make merch out of it.
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Irrespective of one's views, the Independent Alliance MPs are growing increasingly confident. They have momentum. If they grow to a dozen or so MPs who are elected as part of a fragmented hung parliament in the future, such a group/coalition could be both powerful & influential.
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What is a “community leader”? How do they get their mandate? To whom are they accountable? How can they be removed? And why are they always men?
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The reputation of Maccabi fans is notorious, and policing should be ramped up accordingly. At the same time it is impossible to ignore the blatant sectarianism that has bled into this issue.
Britons tend to think it was the right decision to ban fans of Israeli football club Maccabi Tel Aviv from attending a match against Aston Villa next month, a fixture classified by West Midlands Police of being 'high risk' Right decision: 42% Wrong decision: 28%
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Per those familiar, Putin did in fact ramble about a 9th-century Varangian chieftain directly to Trump for an hour during the Alaska meeting, -FT. Trump was reportedly “taken aback.”
I'm starting to think that Putin actually did ramble about 9th-century Russian history and Rurik's ancient claim to Kyiv at Trump for an hour during the Alaska meeting.
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I should've guessed what constituency this MP represents...
It is beyond dispicable that the @BBC (aka the Israeli Propaganda Corporation) and other mainstream media are more upset & foaming at the mouth by the banning of violent racist Israeli football hooligans from a football match than they have been about the 2 year+ genocide, mass
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BREAKING: China warns Keir Starmer he faces “consequences” if he doesn’t approve its embassy in London Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian launches a broadside against the UK as Starmer’s thaw with Beijing threatens to break down. Olly Robbins’ meetings in Beijing do not appear
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A scheme that may have been conceived with good intentions has ballooned to an unfathomable scale. Those with severe needs (like members of my own family) have too often been conflated with chancers who have abused this flawed system. The state simply cannot afford it.
EXCLUSIVE from @Smyth_Chris Rachel Reeves is preparing to save more than a billion pounds by targeting disabled people’s capacity to get cars through the benefits system Tax breaks worth about £1 billion a year are set to be scrapped in the budget, dramatically reducing an
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Worth remembering the UK has nowhere near the levels of polarisation elsewhere on Ukraine - in fact 67% of Reform 2024 voters think it matters to the UK that Ukraine defends its sovereignty - and the comments during the last election undoubtedly spooked some away from Reform
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Hard to know whether these people are evil or just bonkers. The sectarian bile flowing tonight is utterly depressing
Next UEFA must ban all Israeli teams. We cannot have normalisation with genocide and apartheid.
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🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has condemned the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from the Aston Villa match “This is the wrong decision. We will not tolerate antisemitism on our streets. The role of the police is to ensure all football fans can enjoy the game, without fear of
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Shameful.
I welcome the news that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans will not be permitted to watch the match at Aston Villa! Well done to all those that signed our petition!
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Unsurprisingly, the authorities have backed down in the face of intimidation.
Welcome to modern Britain. Away fans from Israel banned from Villa Park because the police cannot guarantee their safety in Birmingham. I am sad, angry and ashamed. #avfc
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