Michael Walker
@michaeljswalker
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Host Novara Live Mon, Wed, Fri at 6pm @novaramedia / Podcast at https://t.co/fzt6Gg39S5
Joined July 2014
I explained why its uncontroversial to say Israel is committing grave war crimes. Hen Mazzig tried to change the subject again, and again, and again.
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This is an absolutely psychotic way to talk about your child (who is very much alive) in public.
MUSK: I was tricked into giving puberty blockers to my son. These are sterilization drugs. My son Xavier is dead. They call it deadnaming for a reason. Killed by the woke mind virus. This is the reason I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus.
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Tearing down the statue of Colston will do more to educate people about Britain’s history than leaving it up ever did.
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Thrilled to learn that my taxes are being used to clean Joana Lumley’s car.
"At Sandringham your car is taken away but by the time it's brought back to you at the end of your visit, it's filled with petrol and been cleaned". Dame Joanna Lumley recounts her experience of staying with the new King and Queen. . 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube
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The decision by BLM to call off today’s demonstration was smart. Leave these guys to pretend they fought in WW2 as they scream at a boxed up statue on their own.
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Have you ever heard a government minister say landlords should hold rent below inflation? Or told business owners they should hold down prices and take a hit on profits? Because we’re hearing a lot of them demand that of workers today!.
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Statues aren’t about history they are about adoration. This man was not great, he was a slave trader and a murderer. Historian @DavidOlusoga brilliantly explains why BLM protestors were right to tear down the statue of Edward Colston.
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I also attended this screening and, as Giles says, the footage was distressing. It also confirmed my belief it should be passed to news organisations who can verify & report it independently as opposed to it being packaged by IDF and shown to influencers who can tweet afterwards.
Went to private IDF screening of unfiltered footage of 7th October earlier tonight. Seen things that I can never unsee. No words. But I am going to have to try and find some. Too much even to cry. Body still shaking.
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All the gotchas are like “but she’s at an event for rich people” . That’s the point. .
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Germany and UK COVID-19 response compared:. Ventilators.🇩🇪: 25k, with 10k on order.🇬🇧: 5k, plus a Twitter shout-out. Tests per week.🇩🇪: 160k.🇬🇧: 35k. Social distancing.🇩🇪: Social venues closed.🇬🇧: ‘Advice’ to socially distance. Deaths.🇩🇪: 48.🇬🇧: 144.
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Average deposit for first time buyers in London in 1997: £5,200. Average deposit for first time buyers in London in 2021: £150,000.
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The photo choice helpfully reminds us it was a protest against bombing civilians that prompted this drivel.
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Gary Neville calling out Johnson’s anti-migrant rhetoric live on sky sports is a must watch. A very brave man!
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BBC is going full North Korea. Even if you’re a royalist, isn’t this embarrassing?.
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When they’re defending billionaires, we’re winning. This is excellent from @ParkerCiccone 🌹
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Matthew Parris has finally found a minority he thinks are worth protecting…
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1.45pm and we’ve been shuffling for 30 mins just to get onto Park Lane (where the march actually starts). This is huge.
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People in parks don't send epidemics out of control, refusing to offer proper sickpay or pay businesses to close do.
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A guy from apartheid South Africa bought Twitter for $44 billion and now you get banned if you advocate for decolonisation. The sign of a healthy public sphere.
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Nope, he’s in prison for undermining a trial to convict paedophiles. Muppet.
Sadiq Khan is trying to lecture the world on “free speech” while Tommy Robinson is locked in a London prison for speaking his mind.
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I'm sorry, but there is never any reason to have the same broadcast on BBC1 and BBC2 at the same time.
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It’s genuinely so cool that a randomly picked jury of representative people decided this was the right thing to do.
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In case you had any doubt as to why Diane Abbott was crying in the toilets, as party staff mocked her and passed on her location to journalists. Check the dates.
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Plotting to suspend a democratically selected Muslim candidate for liking a tweet acknowledging the existence of an Israel lobby, while imposing the director of “We Believe in Israel” as a candidate elsewhere. All in a days work. Labour aren’t being subtle!.
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We all saw the clip, Keir.
'I was saying Israel had the right to self-defence. I was not saying Israel had the right to cut off water, food, fuel or medicines'. @Keir_Starmer speaks after sparking fury among Muslim Labour members in an interview about the Gaza crisis with @LBC
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The only Labour leader in recent history untouched by fatal character assassinations from the British press was so close to Murdoch he would become godfather to his daughter. That's not an excuse for failure. But it is an essential reality, and perhaps Labour's key challenge.
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Reducing public transport before closing non-essential businesses is one of the more bizarre decisions made by the government this last few days.
Someone sent me this photo of the @c2c_Rail this morning from Southend to London, who are running a reduced service so everyone’s crammed on the train. This situation is utter madness, the government has to announce a universal basic income and call a lockdown immediately
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.@BorisJohnson visited a hospital in Cambridgeshire today .💥 staff weren’t told about the visit. 💥 doctors weren’t allowed to ask questions. Watch this student doctor tell the truth about the Tory war on our health👇
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It’s quite grotesque that just 5 years after Grenfell multiple candidates for Prime Minister can assert they’re for cutting “red tape” without any challenge.
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The pressure to not admit this obvious truth is enormous. It’s impressive Stormzy just came out and said it.
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The co-owner of GB News has been found to have promoted far-right extremist content on Twitter. I was invited on to talk about Suella Braverman's fear-mongering about muslims, and read those tweets out.
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Does anyone have else remember when Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance warned we could have 200 deaths a day and our right wing press got outraged and accused them of scaremongering?.
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Laura Kuenssberg’s job is just to go on the TV and say “the government are trying really, really hard.”.
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Let people who want to mourn mourn, let people who want to get on with their lives get on with their lives. Why is that controversial?.
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This is really terrible journalism from @KayBurley and reminiscent of a playground shit-stirrer. You can't just make up provocative quotes and then demand others respond to them.
So in an hour Kay Burley has gone from, the Palestinian ambassador basically said Israel had it coming, to now claiming thats what he actually said. Amazing.
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The full ten minutes of @faizashaheen on #newsnight. Faiza gave this interview only an hour after being told her candidacy had been blocked for liking a tweet. The people of Chingford and Woodford Green have been done a terrible disservice.
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The ideological purpose of these screenings is to allow cretins like Douglas Murray to go on TV and say what he saw was worse than the Nazis (the audience's imaginations can then do the rest of the work). It's not a responsible way to report on war.
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The difference between how Britain sees its covid response and how everyone else sees our covid response is pretty huge
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Why have an interest in what anyone else says when you can just make it up….
Don’t message me Michael. I have no interest in anything you have to say.
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Hanging out with a guy who the world's highest court said plausibly incited genocide ✅. Referring to Israel's genocidal war as a genocide ❌. The UK Labour Party, 2024
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For an idea of the politics of the event, the handout complained Hamas doesn’t recognise Israel’s right to exist while also referring to the West Bank as “Judea and Samaria”. This is the language of a “greater Israel” not of two states.
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This is how Allegra Stratton spoke to a working class woman who *did* follow the rules.
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Average time between infection and death from COVID-19 is 23 days. The 563 people who died today were most likely infected on the day Patrick Vallance said this.
Chief Scientific Adviser: contradicts WHO to say no need to avoid pubs or churches, (unless you've got coronavirus of course). But we may advise the elderly to do this later.
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The Met Police won’t help you find a stolen laptop even if you provide a geolocation. They will however use thermal imaging to find people in parks after closing time.
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It will always turn my stomach that of all the leading politicians in Britain, it is Jeremy Corbyn who it's acceptable to call a racist.
Prime Minister: this is not sustainable and it will only get worse: for you, for the Conservative Party and most importantly of all the country. You must do the right thing and go now.
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Is everyone just memory-holing that back in October the head of Israel’s national forensic unit said babies were beheaded, our establishment press went along with it, anyone who didn’t was demonised, and then it turned out to be completely untrue?
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The establishment made us believe Corbyn was unlikable. They were wrong. We need him in front of as many people as humanly possible between now and 12th December. He’s a good man. Britain needs him as PM. #bbcqt.
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This genre of tweet - “if you don’t like dynamic ticket pricing you need to tell us the alternative” - is funny. The alternative is exactly what we had before. Everyone queues for the ticket and buys them at the advertised price. We’ve done this for centuries. It’s not communism!.
“Stuff is expensive because capitalists are greedy” is just such a mind destroying trope. If Oasis tickets were not priced according to supply and demand, some other means would have to be chosen to determine which of the large people who want them can receive the smaller.
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"Schools are safe! The problem is only households mixing!". It's offensive to have this guy in charge of millions of people's lives.
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Today Britain's daily death toll has exceeded the worst day in Spain, and is 18 short of Italy's. @BBCNews is leading with a story about good weather creating risks the public will break the lockdown this Sunday.
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@JSRafaelism News agencies have systems to receive footage that they can verify and report on without it being released to wider public. I also think your tweet shows the danger of these military screenings. Many will read it as evidence Hamas mutilated children. That is not in the film.
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Faiza Shaheen is a working class woman who has achieved extraordinary things (PhD, professorship, directed organisations). She has also devoted years to campaigning in the constituency she grew up in. She is the very definition of a candidate of the “highest quality”.
"I want the highest quality candidates.". Sir Keir Starmer discusses his candidate selection and calls Diane Abbott a 'trailblazer.'. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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The first thing Cummings did after returning from Durham was to edit a blogpost from 2019 so it looked like he’d predicted coronavirus. .
MORE: info on Way Bank machine internet archive corroborated by info on actual blog sitemap -hat tip @martbrow @exactlyaron and @jonwilliams80. edit that added “coronavirus” quote made “2020-04-14 T20:55:20”. So same day he returned to work, after Durham.
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Palestinians cannot “invade” Israel as they have been living under occupation for 56 years.
The correct genocidal comparison that you struggle to understand is Russia and Hamas. Ukraine and Israel are both defending their countries from barbaric monsters who invaded and attacked them.
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Happy to have my day in court on this one Mike.
Hey Michael. Just discovered your @novaramedia video where you called me a racist. Can you please furnish me with your address for legal correspondence? Thanks.
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The most mind-bendingly dishonest part of British politics (and there is strong competition!) is that no one is allowed to say the obvious truth that antisemitism in Labour was exaggerated.
"Jeremy only has his self to blame". "You know perfectly well what I said". Watch @leicesterliz and @jeremycorbyn clash over his suspension from the Labour whip. #Peston
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Labour’s rent policy is classic 2010 territory. Instead of saying “we must not let the poorest pay for the crisis they didn’t cause” they’ve said “we’ll give the poorest longer to pay for the crisis they didn’t cause.”.
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Western leaders might like to ignore the context of a decades long occupation. They might see Palestinian lives as worthless collateral. Their publics don’t all agree.
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Sometimes it takes an ordinary member of the public to be brave enough to tell the truth.
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Can you imagine the headlines if Corbyn had hired someone who'd worked for Russian military intelligence for five years 🤣.
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We’re in a very dangerous moment where simply calling for accuracy in reporting can get you accused of supporting war crimes, and where those institutions upholding reporting standards are under immense pressure to abandon them.
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This is insane.
Labour MP Kate Osamor has had the whip suspended following her Holocaust Memorial Day post
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“We went into lockdown at an earlier point in the epidemic than France” is just a straight out lie, no?.
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To suggest peace agreements were a live prospect until these attacks "pushed them back" is gaslighting to the extreme. .
“Israel has every right to defend herself”. Labour leader Keir Starmer says the “perpetrators of [the attack on Israel] have deliberately pushed back the prospect of peace agreements”. #BBCLauraK
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Coronavirus deaths in Denmark: 550. Coronavirus deaths in UK: 55,000. There might be a problem with George Eustice's argument here. .
“Other countries like Denmark have demonstrated how it’s possible” to bring schools back. Environment Secretary George Eustice on government plans for schools reopening . Latest:
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.@BorisJohnson visited a hospital in Cambridgeshire today -.💥 staff weren’t told about the visit. 💥 doctors weren’t allowed to ask questions. Watch this medical student telling the truth about the Tory war on our health👇
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The genius of the IDF screening:.- Sympathetic journalists can imply they’ve seen things in the film that aren’t in the film. That goes viral. - Less credulous journalists point out said things aren’t in the film. They get told they are obsessing about the detail.
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This is the UK Foreign Secretary openly endorsing a war crime.
James Cleverly refuses to condemn Israel cutting off water, power & food to the people of Gaza. A reminder that collective punishment is a war crime. There are one million children living in Gaza. Our government supports Israel starving them
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Labour getting a lower vote share than 2019 obviously doesn’t make this a worse result, obviously. It does though make it seem particularly unfair that 2019 led to a consensus that the Corbyn movement were all freaks and weirdos with nothing to say to the country.
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The right to protest must be safeguarded, but no more than twice.
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So the unis pressured students into halls so they'd keep receiving rents and now they've locked them in with no food. .
These Manchester Met students have already isolated once when one tested positive for coronavirus, now they're under another lockdown, imposed by the university. Security guards 24/7 surrounding their flat, no food, can't wash their clothes. What a way to start freshers.
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David Beckham brought out the best in British journalism today
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Turning off the water for 2 million people - half of them children - is cartoonishly evil. Yet Western governments still cheerlead every action by Israel’s government as “Israel has the right to defend itself”.
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Because certain Israeli supporters like to selectively edit, I'm sharing the part of my debate with Piers Morgan they've all mysteriously cut out.
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The Houthis weren’t blocking ships before the bombardment of Gaza, and they stopped during the last ceasefire. Like them or not, they’ve have done more for the Palestinians than anyone in the Commons. Why does our debate on foreign policy have to be this juvenile?.
"I totally reject the Houthis claims that attacking ships from around the world is somehow linked to the conflict in Gaza. These attacks do absolutely nothing for the Palestinian people", says Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602
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Corbyn offered to save the Labour Party. The People’s Vote Campaign killed it.
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If you need this many jump cuts in your edit I’m not sure you won the debate….
What ethnicity are you talking about? Jewish. Just say it. It’s about Jews.
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Somerset and Avon police clearly felt humiliated after last Sunday and are taking it out on anyone who stands in their way. It’s how a gang behaves, not a professional organisation, and I’d hope to see an outcry across political spectrum, though I won’t hold my breath.
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Funny how @piersmorgan consistently spoke over @AyoCaesar but gave white supremacist Steve Bannon free reign to sermonise live on breakfast TV. Almost like he has an agenda!
'My fear about your white paper is that the guys in Brussel last night already said that there's no chance that we accept this.'. Steve Bannon discusses his concerns on the Brexit plan.
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Landlords really think you paying *their* mortgage is them doing *you* a favour 🤷♂️.
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Laura Kuennsberg on News at 10 “Boris Johnson has decided it’s better to take an imperfect action than do nothing at all.”. I’m not convinced those are the only two options. .
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Why can the French government provide for this basic precaution but ours can’t?
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Key Questions:. - Why did UK govt ignore the WHO & experience of China, South Korea, Italy and every over country hit by corona, in favour of a model developed by one London University?.
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Either they have more information or this is quite sinister? Imagine getting a cancer diagnosis and everyone suddenly changes into funeral gear!.
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I can’t believe Andrew Marr asked Sajid Javid whether omicron was more transmissible than other variants because “it transmits through the air”. He’s been interviewing the world’s top scientists every Sunday morning for almost two years now 😬.
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Blaming muslims for spreading covid on the day its revealed UK R rate is above 1 is sinister stuff. It's a helpful talking point for Johnson, unlike questioning why he's discouraging working from home. Tabloids and TalkRadio will love it. Real world consequences await.
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This has been viewed 5.3 million times since yesterday. The internet (plus @OwenJones84!) breaking the monopoly of sky/bbc to show how out of touch treating politics like royal affairs has always been.
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Owen started by describing the horrors inflicted on Israeli civilians, yet the moment he mentioned the horrors inflicted on Palestinian civilians Margaret Hodge switched off.
It should not be controversial to oppose the killing of both Palestinian and Israeli children. It should not be controversial to oppose war crimes. But Margaret Hodge tried to shut me down, and lied, on @SkyPoliticsHub. Here's the full interview. This is absolutely wild.
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It's been on the record and well-known for decades that Likud oppose a two state solution, but its unusual its said so clearly to an English-language audience. How long can Biden, Sunak et al keep pretending?.
"Should [the Palestinians] have a state?". Tzipi Hotovely: "The answer is absolutely no". A reminder that when students protested against Hotovely speaking at the LSE in 2021 Keir Starmer said the protests were totally unacceptable
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Rent is a waaaaay bigger imposition on my life than any tax. A sign of who makes up our political and media class that we hear so much more about the latter.
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On the multiple days when over 1,000 people died from covid we never got this tone from newsreaders or simulcasts across all the channels. Any death is sad, but I find all this all distasteful.
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Never forget our government gave the green light to these war crimes, and the opposition agreed.
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