Dan Waterfield
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PhD History / ein Geschöpf der Sprache / Interested in lit, theology, history, software, systems, &c. ✡️
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Isn’t primary sex education ‘this is how a baby is created’, and ‘don’t let anyone touch you’?
I do not want primary school children full stop to have sex education. Nor do I want children to be taught about changing gender. We need to protect their innocence and childhood.
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Airbus: ‘Hey you’re back from your intercontinental flight early’
Turkish airlines: ‘aircraft’s conscious’
Airbus: ‘what’
Turkish airlines: *handing loaded gun to pilot* ‘aircraft’s conscious.’
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What a way to discover I a) have a child, b) they already had my number but only now decided to get in contact
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‘I use he/him pronouns and I’m speaking to you from the unceded lands of the Squamish people, and I’m here today to persuade you not to join a union’ is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard.
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The idea that ‘childhood trauma’ means you have a unique and useful insight into the human condition, and that it is somehow a prerequisite for ‘good writing’, is one of the most horrid americanisms
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i would argue that this is what state collapse looks like btw. A slow inability to build new things, to look after the populace, to repair infrastructure. Essentials get more expensive. The elite retreat to enclaves and gated communities.
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In 2 years time there’ll be an article where she is baffled she didn’t get in to Cambridge or Oxford yet someone with A*A*A did, because the latter did something interesting with all their free time.
28 A levels is silly. Nobody, not even the most gifted person in the world, needs 28 A levels.
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'i'm going to a taylor swift concert, but - and it's critical you know this - I'm a good person, a good and moral person with excellent seats'
Before I leave for NYC, here is my thread on seeing Taylor this weekend while she is dating a racist, Islamophobic, anti-semitic overall problematic white man. While I don't necessarily "owe" anyone this thread, it is important to me to take my public leadership seriously.
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Incredible, perhaps peak, levels of Ireland on display here.
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Small child to everyone in the shop: ‘eh up!’
Child’s mother in RP: ‘please stop doing a Yorkshire accent. None of us are from Yorkshire. You’ve never BEEN to Yorkshire.’
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Getting kicked out of hell for saying the n word
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He placed the corpse of an aborted baby on an altar, posed with it for photos, then posted it on social media with a caption urging people to vote for Trump
Father Frank Pavone has been removed from the priesthood for “blasphemy”. I’ve never heard this accusation against him. What is the Vatican talking about in particular?
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Encountering this at night in a forest and immediately running an ultramarathon to the nearest catholic priest
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I’m begging everyone to please, please, please be normal.
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Found a second hand copy of Trotsky's biography of Stalin in Heffers yesterday, which as far as I know is the only biography interrupted by the subject murdering the author.
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The purest distillation of American liberalism, straight from the Californian springs & bottled at $5 each.
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> no benefits
> council flat
‘No benefits’
In 1979 I divorced an abusive man, left a lovely home to live in a run down council flat with my 2 young girls. Had help with rent. Worked full time and a 2nd job. No benefits and I wasn't depressed 🤔😆
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This is just enlightenment-era racism.
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The more you live in the world, the more you realise just how downright spooky it is.
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Every now and then I remember Kermode’s review of sex and the city 2, which he began by saying he wasn’t going to rant and then sang the internationale before ending by describing them as imperialist American pig dogs.
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I think it’s also a pretty dim thing to do to be in the newspaper saying ‘oh yes I’m so bright I’m so much better than my teachers behold my enormous brain genious IQ’
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State becomes less and less able to respond to natural disasters.
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‘I had to google Disraeli and Gladstone’
You couldn’t waterboard this out of me
Nixon once called Lee Kwan Yew “A big man on a small stage, who in other times and other places might have attained the world stature of a Churchill, Disraeli or a Gladstone”
I had to Google Disraeli & Gladstone
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I don’t think people in their 20s should have to live in halls
Two things govt should immediately do for young people:
1. Build student halls-type housing for subsidised rent for yp in their early 20s in areas where lots of jobs - modern version of 1970s London hostels.
2. Big expansion of degree apprenticeships.
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YOU LET TONY BLAIR LOOSE IN THE MIDDLE EAST?!
Report: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will head a team for voluntary evacuation from Gaza and locate countries in Europe that will agree to take in Palestinian refugees.
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It also strikes me as oddly American: ‘look how generally clever I am’ rather than ‘I am interested in maths. Obviously I have too marks in my A levels but so does everyone else, so here’s some cool stuff I built’ which is what the uk universities look for
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Found Simone de Beauvoir
When I lived in Paris I dated a man who was scrawny, ugly, shorter than me, broke, an alcoholic, lived in a shitty apartment, etc etc. Why did I do this? Because he was good at arguing
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‘Every murder is a tragedy. None should be trivialised by political point-scoring’ I tweet, before diving in with some of the rankest, most contemptible political point-scoring imaginable.
Every murder is a tragedy. None should be trivialised by political point-scoring. As a mother, I can imagine the trauma that Esther Ghey has endured.
It was shameful of Starmer to link his own inability to be clear on the matter of sex and gender directly to her grief. (1/2)
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It implicitly demands to know why someone who’s been traumatised in their childhood hasn’t done something useful, beautiful. It’s like reducing ‘mental health’ to light anxiety or moderate depression. All it does is further marginalise those who are very much not coping.
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This is the worst historical take on the Ottoman Empire I’ve ever seen
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23k is a good salary for a first job, let alone an internship.
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Did airbus get a genie or something
BREAKING: United Airlines Boeing 777 loses tire while taking off from San Francisco, crushing cars on the ground
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I cannot emphasise enough how Liverpool isn’t in the Middle East.
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It’s going to be a sex cult isn’t it
Millionaire biohacker Bryan Johnson (who already has a cult-like following) plans to start his own NATION for anti-agers... where pizza, donuts and alcohol will be illegal
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Is this you?
We need more homes for local people, not empty office space.
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A sterling example of middle England bourgeois anti-intellectualism.
Always wanted to know more about this. Sound £879,525 taxpayer investment.
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You are not ‘be gay, do crimes’ you live with your long term partner in a townhouse in London. One of you works in consulting.
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@clownesvanzandt
@LarryGoosetrain
every time i try to explain something to my very offline wife, I realise how completely and utterly insane this website is.
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‘I’m not racist because I have a black dog’ is a new one I have to say
I'm not a racist. I have two mixed race grandchildren and a black dog, but I am getting really pissed off. Almost every advert on the tele these days show a black bloke with a white woman. It doesn't reflect society as it is. Why are they trying to brainwash us? It won't work.
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Huge fan of the CEO of Ukraine’s railways laughing at Scot rail’s ‘our trains don’t like snow :(‘
If you're traveling this week, please be aware that we're expecting
#russians
shelling Ukrainian railway infrastructure again and again. Actually they didn't stop for a day. So we regularly find shit like this on our tracks, demine it and
#KeepRunningOnSchedule
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I'd quite like to see this, 99% because we'd be watching someone gradually realise they're resolutely screwed.
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She’s still in a prison which she won’t be leaving alive. Pretty relaxed about murderers having access to filter coffee, decent food, and entertainment seeing as *they are still in prison*.
Baby killer Lucy Letby 'has a key to her cell' as prison insider describes her cushy new life as 'just like a hotel - except you're surrounded by criminals'
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He obviously existed and if you believe he didn’t then you’re so committed to radical scepticism that you’d best argue half the medieval kings, Plato, Aristotle, etc didn’t exist.
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Incorrect. It’s intensely cool that we get to fly anywhere in the world within 24h.
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have they tried cutting back on avocado on toast? what about cancelling netflix?
A historic moment - the first protest inside the new City Hall, AFAIK.
Over 60s Londoners are pushing to win back their free TfL travel before 9am
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There should only be one class of British citizen and that includes Shamima Begum.
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I’m sorry, is this supposed to make her look bad? ‘Some nice coffee, sushi for lunch, and some wine after a long day please’
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‘We’re having a conversation about men’s mental health’ in that we’re calling you a workshy malingerer and characterising crushing depression as ‘sadness’ so we can force you back to your minimum wage job
GP’s will soon be stripped of the ability to sign people off work as part of a major government inititive to crack down on ‘sick note culture’
Rishi Sunak says people should stop 'over-medicalising the everyday challenges and worries of life'
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‘Why is labour antisemitic’ the spectator asks, somehow deciding the answer is ‘because they’re socialists, and socialism is Jewish’ in what can only be described as a galaxy brain take.
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I mean as someone with quote unquote childhood trauma all it gave me was severe anxiety and difficulty functioning in society.
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Cheers, GCHQ’s crying, nice one
William Wragg's photo shoot for the Times, with his wifi password on full display.
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Cambridge should have a population of a million, with a metro, and a dozen new colleges, skyscrapers on the outskirts & Georgian townhouse density within. All on tree lined streets.
Specifically to spite the Liberal Democrats.
Yes we need some more housing - especially affordable housing.
Yes we need to help support the amazing tech sector here.
Yes more investment in public transport is needed, desperately.
But 250,000 more homes by 2040 would break Cambridge and destroy what is special about it
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We shouldn’t build gleaming towers drenched in the blood of slaves.
While we fret about pronouns and prayer mats in schools, ambitious nations are building for the future
@visitdubai
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I’m very sorry, but Maisie passed away tonight. I’ll miss her.
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You should actually like the country you want to govern.
FFS - I don't know what to say except that Starmer is not just willing but eager to throw anyone remotely left under the bus to try and please the most reactionary Tory voters
This is really quite scary honestly
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Except he doesn’t say that at all, does he; ‘hey Muslims are missing out, the countryside is pretty great!’ doesn’t mean ‘inshallah we shall cleanse wales of the welsh’
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I swear to god, none of these people have ever grown anything successfully. Agriculture is difficult, specialised work. Feeding the entire world is a miracle of science.
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🔒 I say we have some fun with it and give the marbles to Turkey
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No, I’m still certain Rushdie shouldn’t be stabbed in the neck.
People in the West have to understand that the rest of the world does not necessarily want to or have to subscribe to their ideas about freedom of speech.
Do not assume that your way of thinking is de facto right or that everyone else must subscribe to.
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All I want is a nice trad architecture account that doesn’t inevitably reveal it thinks brutalism is a Jewish plot
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I went to Oxford. I went to the same college as the prime minister AND a leading historian. I went to Oxford. He needs to remember some intellectual humility and I will remind him because I, and I need you to understand this about me, went to Oxford.
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i live in a small village in a rural part of somerset. Pretty much every village around me has at least one ukraine flag. You do not - or do not want to - understand how much people support ukraine here.
Zelensky’s in town. Time for British taxpayers to make another generous contribution.
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I do suspect that, as others have stated, this whole fiasco is downstream of the government not really understanding what an ‘average salary’ actually is. This is going to destroy the chances of all international postdocs, who will just shrug and go to USA/Canada/EU.
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People should just lean in to this. Plato? Didn’t exist. Socrates? Fake. Julius Caesar? Made up by the senate. The senate? Made up by Octavian.
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I’ll be voting labour because I do not want the Conservative Party to be in power, and because the Green and LD parties are terrible NIMBYs. I don’t expect Labour to be in any way perfect, but I do expect them to be genuinely aghast at state breakdown.
i am genuinely deeply fascinated by and curious as to how people who consider themselves to be vaguely leftwing and yet still plan to vote Labour at the next GE justify that to themselves. i’m sure it’s same old “less of two evils”, but lesser on what grounds specitically?
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‘Parent or guardian’ was on primary school letters home in the early 90s?
'This is outrageous!'
Oxfam has instructed its staff to use 'parent' instead of 'mother' and 'father' in a new guide.
Oxfam's inclusivity guide also calls English the 'language of a colonising nation'.
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Huge fan of how Anoosheh Ashoori, when asked what he was looking forward to after 5 years of Iranian captivity, commented 'pints'.
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Genuinely funny outcome: the home office ends up running Rwanda.
EXCL🚨
Home Office staff have been asked to apply for jobs in Rwanda to help process asylum seekers sent there from the UK.
A team of UK civil servants is due to begin work in Kigali next month.
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‘Those islands belong to the large nearby nation state’ leads to some… interesting conclusions.
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If you don’t compartmentalise a bit, you will go balls to the wall levels of insane.
Middle-class white people actually pride themselves on being able to compartmentalize and avoid necessary conflict. They'll explain how they do it, how they don't watch the news and don't talk about politics. How they'll sooner abandon someone than have a difficult conversation.
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Extremely crumbling empire energy this.
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Lee Anderson has taken his seat on opposition benches next to George Galloway.
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‘I studied class at Cambridge’ is the funniest defence of middle class people speaking for the working class I’ve ever read
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Nancy Pelosi forced to drink Asda value tea in a succession of crushingly deprived Cumbrian towns, before inevitably losing her deposit in a leaky leisure centre at 3am.
truly, the most underwhelming American Democratic politician imaginable could clean up in the UK. Kathy Hochul or Gavin Newsom could humiliate the Tories in an election. Kamala Harris would be PM for a decade
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@christopherhope
How the literal hell did you manage to become the chief political correspondent of the daily telegraph?!
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Sunak:
🚨 BREAKING: Rishi Sunak's former special adviser is plotting to remove him as prime minister
Will Dry, who conducted polling for Sunak and quit in November last year, is working with a secretive group of 20 former advisers and MPs to force Sunak out
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‘Oh but what about fr martin’ well, fr martin doesn’t desecrate a corpse
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They colonised the tomato
They colonised the tomato
italians think they have the best food in the world when they colonized the tomato from south america and still can barely season that hoe? let’s be for real
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