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🚨 BREAK: Brianna Ghey's father has told Sky News that Rishi Sunak should apologise for his "degrading comments".
Peter Spooner said the PM's comments in parliament were "absolutely dehumanising".
More here:
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@RachBlevins
@TwitterGov
@TwitterSupport
You literally host a show on RT - Russian state media.
Not entirely sure how you can complain that you don't speak for the Russian government when it literally pays your wages.
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🚨 BREAKING: NUS president Shaima Dallali has been SACKED following an independent investigation into allegations of antisemitism, the JC understands.
It is thought to be the first time in the 100-year history of the NUS that a president has been fired.
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What’s interesting here is that this statement implies Lee Anderson MP would not have been suspended had he apologised.
But not even two weeks ago, the Tories were demanding (rightly) that Labour suspend Azhar Ali, despite a grovelling public apology…
💥Lee Anderson suspended
A spokesperson for Chief Whip Simon Hart said:
"Following his refusal to apologise for comments made yesterday, the Chief Whip has suspended the Conservative whip from Lee Anderson MP."
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🚨 BREAKING: Rabbi Alex Goldberg has resigned from the FA's Faith group.
He said: "After 16 years at the FA, I resign, not in retreat but in protest.
"For in silence, we sideline solidarity, and in omission, we risk our morality.
"May our separate paths prompt reflection and…
BREAKING: Wembley Stadium arch not set to be lit in colours of Israeli flag
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🚨 BREAKING: Speaker Lindsay Hoyle blasts Sunak for failing to make his statement on net zero policies in Parliament.
Spox: “If he had the power, the Speaker would recall the House immediately.”
🔥 “Ministers are answerable to MPs - we do not have a presidential system here.”
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I really hope that Jeremy Clarkson hears this call to
@mrjamesob
. If the pain in this mother's voice doesn't make him realise just how utterly despicable his column was, I really don't know what will.
This James O'Brien caller says Jeremy Clarkson is 'attention-seeking' and 'arrogant' just like boys who threw excrement at her black daughter when she was 14.
'I hope you are listening Jeremy Clarkson. I hope you are listening The Sun editors. You are bullies.'
@mrjamesob
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🚨 BREAKING: Scott Benton, the MP for Blackpool South, has been caught indicating that he would be willing to break parliamentary lobbying rules for money in an undercover sting operation by the Times.
Read more:
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Not sure that Alan Dershowitz is the best choice for impartial analysis on the Ghislaine Maxwell verdict
@BBCNews
…
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This is definitely the best meme going round the Department for Health's group chats right now 👇
#matthancock
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🚨 BREAK: Three people have been found guilty at Westminster Magistrates’ Court of a terror offence after they displayed images of paragliders at a pro-Palestine march in central London a week after Hamas militants attacked Israel.
Via PA
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@MattP1Gallagher
FIA trying to avoid giving Pierre Gasly a race ban for having too many penalty points?!
Only thing I can think of.
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🚨BREAKING: The CPS has DROPPED drop hate charges against two men on the May 2021 “Convoy for Palestine”.
This means that no one is currently charged for the incident that saw protesters honk horns and scream “F*** their mothers, rape their daughters.”
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Students from the Arab Society at Leeds University refused to play against the Jewish football team as part of a regularly scheduled fixture.
"To us, this is a blatant act of antisemitism," the Jewish society says.
The football team I used to manage at uni (Hapoel Hyde Park of
@Leeds_JSoc
) had their game on Wednesday postponed as some of the Arab Society players refused to play against them because they are Jewish! That is outrageous!
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I just received this disgusting statement from David Miller, a lecturer at
@BristolUni
.
@TheTab
could not publish it in full, but everyone needs to see this. As a Jewish student myself, I cannot tell you hard it is to read this from a staff member at my own uni.
#antisemitism
Yesterday, Prof. David Miller, a lecturer from the
@BristolUni
, criticised Jewish students and the Jewish society for daring to speak out about antisemitism. His comments will only succeed in making our campus a more hostile environment for Jewish students.
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🚨 Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey did not hold back on the SNP when speaking to
@KamaliMelbourne
just now.
He said the SNP yesterday was "more interested in domestic political politics in Scotland than in making sure the House could come together".
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The Liz Truss lettuce is truly a global meme…
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Senior government minister Michael Gove mobbed by protesters at Victoria Station in London to chants of “shame on you”.
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🚨 NEW: Antisemitic incidents in the UK are up by 324% since Hamas attacked Israel,
@CST_UK
says.
*This is a provisional number*.
- 6 Assaults
- 3 Damage & Desecration to Jewish property
- 14 direct Threats
- 66 Abusive Behaviour.
56% of incidents were in Greater London.
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We have just left Auschwitz I. The silence on the bus is palpable. Everyone knows what happened at Auschwitz, but to see it in person, to stand in the exact spots where tens of thousands of Jews, Poles, Roma, and more were exterminated…
@HolocaustUK
@UJS_UK
#Antisemitism
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BREAKING: David Miller has been FIRED from Bristol Uni
He has a right of appeal, but the university has terminated his employment.
@SabriSun_Miller
@michaeldickson
@CST_UK
@UJS_UK
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🚨 BREAKING: Inquiry into the National Union of Students brands it a "hostile environment" for Jews.
The NUS itself described the report as “a detailed and shocking account of antisemitism” and has pledged to implement the KC’s recommendations in full.
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🚨Second year
@BristolUni
student, Olisa Odukwe, is missing.
Last seen leaving his house in Redland yesterday (Saturday) on a bike at 7am wearing all black.
Contact 101 & quote case number 5221094539 with any info on Olisa's whereabouts.
PLEASE RT!
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After condemning the October 7 massacre, Jeremy Corbyn refused multiple times to label Hamas a terror group and nor would he acknowledge Hamas’s goal of eradicating Israel.
All amid a blazing row with
@piersmorgan
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I’m not sure
@jessphillips
was particularly impressed with the Home Secretary’s performance in the Commons…
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🚨 BREAKING: No10 Downing Street and UK government buildings will be lit up in blue and white tonight to show solidarity with Israel.
Public buildings have also been asked to fly the Israeli flag.
NEW
London’s City Hall will be lit up in white and blue tonight, the Mayor’s office confirm.
Follows displays for 🇮🇱 in Germany, Italy and the European Union.
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🚨 NEW: The UK Parliament will be lit up in blue and white tonight to show solidarity with Israel.
It follows No10 being lit up last night with the Israeli flag.
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🚨NEW: A Twitter spokesperson has confirmed that Kanye West’s account has been locked.
“The account in question has been locked due to a violation of Twitter’s policies.”
This follows a tweet where he said that he’ll go to “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE”.
#Kanye
#Antisemitism
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This is turning rapidly into a serious crisis for Rishi Sunak.
Not two weeks ago, his ministers and MPs were on the airwaves criticising Labour for being slow to act on Azhar Ali’s comments.
Sunak is very close to making the exact same mistake himself…
Current ministers are now pushing for Anderson to be suspended and believe Truss should be too…
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@ElizabethDrewOH
A lapse?! Are you shitting us?! Apologise for the disgusting sentiment, not just a brain fart. Have some decency.
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🚨 Sir Keir Starmer has given his reaction to Anderson's defection exclusively to
@SophyRidgeSky
.
Starmer said this is "not just about Lee Anderson -it's about 14 years of failure".
"Forget about Lee Anderson. Let's have a general election."
In full:
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@MarcusRashford
@JewishChron
Hey
@MarcusRashford
- I’m a fan of yours and a lifelong fan of Man United, but what is the context?? You don’t explain it in your statement, and all I’m seeing right now is you posing next to a man who hates me and other Jewish people to his core. Please help me understand.
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@wesstreeting
clearly feeling punchy at the
@JewishLabour
conference today.
He blasted both the hard-right and hard-left, describing
@jeremycorbyn
and
@Nigel_Farage
as "two cheeks of the same backside".
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BREAKING: Adidas has terminated its partnership with Kanye West.
The company said: "Ye’s recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous."
#KanyeWest
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@MarcusRashford
@JewishChron
Thank you, Marcus. That makes total sense. I really appreciate you replying. All the very best.
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NEW: Labour Party chair Anneliese Dodds has written to Lancashire Police demanding an investigation into Mark Menzies MP for fraud and misconduct in public office.
Sky News understands the letter says there is a "clear public interest" in a probe.
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🚨 BREAKING: All four of the Colston 4 have been CLEARED OF ALL CHARGES at trial.
They were charged with criminal damage in regards to the toppling of the statue of slave-trader Edward Colston in Bristol in June 2020, but have been cleared.
#colston4
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Full clip of Kim Johnson MP apologising "unreservedly" for her comments at
#PMQs
describing the Israeli government as "fascist" and calling it an "apartheid state".
I understand the apology follows a meeting with the Labour Chief Whip.
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UJS cont: "Jewish students across the country will be asking how an individual deemed unfit for office by NUS was elected in the first place. We await the findings of the substantive inquiry into NUS’ treatment of Jewish students."
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Sir Ed Davey also told Sky News that the Liberal Democrats DO have confidence in Sir Lindsay Hoyle as Speaker.
🚨 Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey did not hold back on the SNP when speaking to
@KamaliMelbourne
just now.
He said the SNP yesterday was "more interested in domestic political politics in Scotland than in making sure the House could come together".
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@piersmorgan
What exactly was incendiary? I'm asking in all seriousness. I watched the speech in full, and I really don't understand what was so controversial.
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In a statement, the Union of Jewish Students said: "UJS respects the decision of the National Union of Students to dismiss their President. Antisemitism in the student movement goes beyond the actions of any one individual and this case is a symptom of a wider problem.
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In good news, a Channel 4 spokesperson has just confirmed that David Baddiel's Jews Don't Count will not be removed from All4 and will remain on platform.
#jewsdontcount
@Baddiel
Many programmes on
@all4
remain available seemingly in perpetuity. Given the importance of the subject it's a disappointment that this seems not to be in that category, especially as there's a call for modern antisemitism to be taught in Schools.
#JewsDontCount
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Mike Freer, MP for Finchley and Golders Green, told the JC: “The CPS have a job to do, and whilst they may think the case does not have a realistic chance of success, sometimes we should take a chance and let a jury decide... [1/3]
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🚨 NEW: The National Union of Students (
@nusuk
) has opened its conference with an apology to Jewish students.
@chloenusvphe
: "On behalf of NUS today and the past, I am genuinely, truly sorry that it has taken us so long to address antisemitism head-on."
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Good morning from London Gatwick Airport where 150 uni students & campus leaders are checking in for a flight to Krakow, Poland for a day trip to
@AuschwitzMuseum
as part of a combatting antisemitism course w/
@HolocaustUK
&
@UJS_UK
.
Very intense day ahead.
@JewishChron
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“I’m gonna bring it up today because we’re meeting through phone, through telephone, telephonically as they say.” -
@realDonaldTrump
, just now
THE LOOKS ON THE FACES OF THE PEOPLE BEHIND HIM 😢😮
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EXCLUSIVE: Bristol Uni’s David Miller under police investigation for ‘hate crime or incident’
@ASPolice
say: "Our investigation is at an early stage and enquiries are ongoing to establish if any offences have been committed."
Have a read👇
#Antisemitism
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Extraordinary to say this, but the Lib Dems have won more council seats in these local elections than the governing Conservative Party, which trails in third.
Ed Davey says Tory MPs will be “looking over their shoulder terrified”…
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🚨Personal news...
After a brilliant time at
@BristolLive
, today is my last day. I'm so grateful to the fab team here - I'll miss them very much, but...
...I'm delighted to be joining the team at the
@JewishChron
in a couple of weeks - and I'm moving to London!
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🚨 BREAKING: The UK is pausing funding of UNWRA after several employees were fired amid allegations they participated in the October 7th attack.
The UK is “appalled” that UNRWA staff may have been involved in the “heinous act of terrorism”.
Full Foreign Office statement:
NEW: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has announced the suspension of several UNRWA employees alleged to have taken part in the October 7th attacks:
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🚨 Downing Street has told Sky News that Alex Chalk was speaking on behalf of the government when he defended Lee Anderson this morning.
Lee Anderson said: "If [illegal migrants] don't like barges then they should f*** off back to France."
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This week's JC front page is the incredible Nina Freedman, who spent her entire Bristol Uni career and beyond fighting for them to deal with her complaint about David Miller.
Over 3 years after her complaint, she received an apology and compensation for how it was handled.
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The word “antisemitism” appears 109 times in the Forde Report, but not once in Jeremy Corbyn’s statement.
The Forde Report casts an important light on events in the Labour Party in recent years.
Read my full statement:
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🚨 Labour's plans for campaigning in Rochdale have not changed, Sky News understands, despite widespread outrage over candidate Azhar Ali's comments.
Lisa Nandy has been campaigning in the constituency all morning.
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New year, new Lib Dem stunt!
The party has unveiled "Ed Davey's Tory Removal Service" at a campaign rally in Guildford.
Davey is campaigning in Jeremy Hunt's and Michael Gove's seats today as the election year gets under way...
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The statement from a spokesperson for Speaker Lindsay Hoyle in full:
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The Israeli flag is being flown above the Treasury and the Foreign Office 🇮🇱
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.
@Christian4BuryS
just raised David Miller of
@BristolUni
in the House of Commons, referencing yesterday's
@UJS_UK
/
@BristolJsoc
rally.
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
said Miller's comments are "deeply wicked", and that government expects unis to be at the "forefront" of tackling antisemitism.
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Mike Freer MP: "...otherwise we continually let perpetrators think they will get away with it, and the people who are terrorised think that they are not going to be protected. [2/3]
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Fascinating observation from
@patmcfaddenmp
to
@SophyRidgeSky
in an (as yet) unaired interview.
"In my mind, 'the blob' has replaced Brussels in Tory demonology.
"They used to blame Brussels for everything. Now it's 'the blob ate my homework'."
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This comes one day after
@ukhomeoffice
figures showed that, despite making up less than 1 per cent of the UK population, Jews were the victims of nearly a quarter of all hate crimes.
The Met Police are believed to have dropped the investigation into last year's Oxford Street Chanukah attack on Jewish teenagers.
Police have said that after they were unable to identify the perpetrators, a decision was made in July to close the case.
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Mike Freer: “I think it’s a very disappointing decision, and I think they should have pursued it not only to send a message to those who seek to behave in this way, but also we may have discovered that the jury convicted them, so sometimes we should let a jury decide.” [3/3]
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🚨 As
@SamCoatesSky
reveals Rishi Sunak could call an emergency cabinet meeting during Tory conference to decide HS2’s future… (read here: )
…the PM was not keen on answering questions around half an hour ago about when we might get clarity…
#CPC23
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Watch as the DUP's Jim Shannon labels grey squirrels "the Hamas of the squirrel world" in a debate earlier today...
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🚨PERSONAL NEWS BELL🚨
So happy to say that I have accepted a job with Reach PLC here in Bristol as a Breaking News Reporter, covering Bristol and the SW, starting in two week time!
Really excited to join the fab team!
@BristolLive
#journo
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🚨 Some news... delighted to say that I will be joining the digital politics team at Sky News at the end of the month as a Live Politics Reporter!
I'm sad to be leaving the brilliant team at the JC, but I'm very excited for what's ahead.
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Hey
@Israel
, can someone please tell me where to send my bank details so I can get paid for all this lobbying I'm doing??
There seem to be a lot of us who missed the secret communication about how to get paid, so I think you need to jump on that!
#DavidMiller
#Antisemitism
Professor David Miller says the UK's pro-Israel lobby has being smearing him for a decade
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The UK parliament tonight, lit up in blue and white in solidarity with Israel.
🚨 NEW: The UK Parliament will be lit up in blue and white tonight to show solidarity with Israel.
It follows No10 being lit up last night with the Israeli flag.
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The whole question of the UK's position on the Israel-Hamas war has become a political game.
- The SNP wants to put Labour in a difficult position and embarrass the government.
- The govt wants to make life hard for Labour and embarrass the SNP
- Labour just wants to avoid…
Picking up some disquiet about this. Have spoken to no. of MPs fearful about tmrw cos of abuse MPs’ facing (Ellwood, Reeves, Reynolds, Rayner recent egs) & had hoped for less partisan politics & instead something enabling parly 2 signal support 4 bilateral ceasing of hostilities
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Bristol Uni has told students that David Miller is on sick leave, which he denies.
Bristol Uni refused to confirm whether Miller is teaching/working or not, citing privacy.
Students waited weeks for marks back.
Yet Miller is doing speaking engagements👇
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NEWS:
@BristolUni
has launched an investigation into Professor David Miller!
We recognise that this matter has caused deep concern for some members of our community, and also that people hold very different views on the issues raised.
#Antisemitism
@DavidHirsh
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"Either cancel him properly – take his books off the shelves, like we might the work of another unapologetically racist writer, or leave his writings be, but don’t fiddle whilst Jews burn."
This from
@Baddiel
on the Roald Dahl thing is bang on.
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Not sure Michael Gove covered himself in glory under questioning from
@afneil
there…
#Dispatches
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🚨 Some news… delighted to be taking on the role of Politics Reporter at the
@JewishChron
! Really excited to help develop our politics coverage as another new PM takes office and the legislative agenda resumes…
DMs open for stories/tips or if you wanna grab a coffee/drink ☕️
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A source close to senior Jewish community leadership responded, saying:
"The FA was contacted regarding the issue of tributes for the terrible murders carried out by Hamas in Israel.
"While mentioning that the waving of any flags in the crowd itself was likely to severely…
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For the first time since 1923, a Speaker of the US House of Representatives has not been elected on the first ballot.
Kevin McCarthy didn’t get the votes of at least 11 of his colleagues so far. Making history already.
#118thCongress
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@DerbyChrisW
@TwitterSupport
It’s pretty self-explanatory, Chris. You work for Iran’s Press TV, and you spread lies and rabid antisemitic shite = Iran state-affiliated media.
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NEW: The NUS said in a statement that "significant breaches of NUS’ policies have taken place", and so the decision was taken to sack Shaima Dallali.
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Full article available here:
We have contacted the
@BristolUni
press office for comment. Does VC Hugh Brady / Deputy VC Judith Squires / Pro-VC Education Tansy Jessop / Head of School Esther Dermott think that this is acceptable?
@Baddiel
@SussexFriends
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Okay - this Tik Tok of a woman greeting a Ukrainian refugee and her young son at
@BristolAirport
has literally melted my heart 🥺❤️
#Ukraine
️
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@benshapiro
Serious question Ben: how do you interpret the “well-regulated militia” part of the Second Amendment?
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This isn't debate or "free speech" - this is misogynistic abuse and it's utterly vile. Beyond nauseating.
Laurence Fox just did a whole speech on GB News on why men apparently won’t shag me ?
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@maryamhaidar_
Who the hell are you to decide who should say something, what they should say, and when?! Despicable arrogance.
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This is getting spicy…
Margaret Hodge to Jon Lansman: “It wasn’t factionalism that made me see that Jeremy Corbyn was an antisemite and racist.”
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🚨 Reform UK has overtaken the Lib Dems in the polls for the first time, per the Sky News poll tracker.
Labour holds a 20-point lead on average.
Lab: 44.3%
Con: 24.6%
Reform: 10.3%
Lib Dems: 9.8%
Greens: 6.2%
SNP: 3.1%
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Lib Dem deputy leader
@libdemdaisy
calls for Scott Benton to lose the Whip:
"Rishi Sunak must strip Benton of the Conservative party whip immediately. Anything less would be make a mockery of his claim to restore integrity."
“The British public are sick of Conservative sleaze.”
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The people supposedly there to protect and support Semina just couldn't be bothered, it seems.
And Merseyside Police "declined the opportunity to discuss any of the family's complaints with Sky News".
I am so angry, and you should be too. Essential reporting from
@AlexMartin
.
Exclusive: A 12-year-old rape victim took her own life directly after an interview with a police officer who had previously discouraged her from bringing forward a criminal complaint, her mother has told Sky News.
Her story raises serious questions. ⬇️
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Hello from UCL where students are protesting against
@YosephHaddad
’s talk at the uni this afternoon.
They say he is a “war criminal” and they also want to speak out for Palestine generally.
“We’re not here to debate him,” they declare.
@JewishChron
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There maybe a voting marathon on the Rwanda bill coming up, but Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has made time to speak at the Holocaust Educational Trust’s parliamentary reception marking Holocaust Memorial Day.
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Genuinely stunned that there really are people like Carole Malone who so unashamedly say that Britain should be an exception to any rules on the basis of British exceptionalism.
Why should we be given special treatment having chosen to leave?! Pure arrogance.
#Brexit
#JeremyVine
"This is spite and divisiveness on the part of the EU"
British holidaymakers could be charged for entering the EU under new plans for a visa scheme.
Is it to be expected because of Brexit or is it unfair?
@OwenJones84
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@thecarolemalone
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#JeremyVine
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“All Lives Matter” protest taking place at the Cenotaph, just metres from the Colston plinth in Bristol City Centre.
#bristol
#blacklivesmatter
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In the wee hours of the morning, Sam Coates was in no mood for the Tory party spin.
Watch their discussion on Sky News below 👇
Do the Tories need to change after two byelection defeats? No, says this minister….
Do watch our discussion:
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@lewis_goodall
rolls out the receipts... 👇
Hancock's comments following Neil Ferguson's resignation from SAGE are particularly damning...
Government guidance advising against close physical contact with people not in your household was not lifted until May 17th. Pictures of Matt Hancock are from earlier that month. On May 16th, before the restrictions were lifted, Mr Hancock said this.
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🚨 France raises its terror alert to its highest level tonight after a security and defence council meeting, convened by Macron.
France’s PM says this decision is due to the ISIS attack in Moscow and “threats facing our country”.
À la suite de l’attentat de Moscou, un Conseil de Défense et de Sécurité nationale a été réuni ce soir à l’Elysée par le Président de la République.
Compte tenu de la revendication de l’attentat par l’état islamique et des menaces qui pèsent sur notre pays, nous avons décidé de…
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