Stephen Everson
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Armchair Aristotelian. ‘There are distinctions to be made, and it’s important to make them well.’ (T. M. Scanlon)
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Michael Dummett’s despairing judgement on the degradation of academia and the need to avoid complicity in that is well worth revisiting.
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A good 8-minute compilation of Mick Lynch's triumphant progress across today's television studios
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@JackEDeakin
This from someone who’s just now tweeted sympathetically about *David Cameron* and doesn’t mention the destructive effects of austerity once in assessing his record. Makes you wonder if he’s in politics for the right reasons.
For all the failures of David Cameron's government, and there are a lot, he made some attempts to right some historic wrongs and to continue the Britain we knew then - at ease with itself as a modern, socially liberal society where a majority understood the direction.
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It’s rather like getting a notice from Amazon saying that they’ve made a delivery and when you get home, the door has been kicked in, the house has been meanwhile been ransacked and there’s a package with some cheap toy lying smugly in the doorway. Yeah—they’ve delivered Brexit.
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@g__ferris
Vitamin D deficiency, which most people have at this time, makes one more susceptible to respiratory infections and, at least in the case of influenza, more likely to develop acute respiratory distress. Socially-distanced sunbathing actually promotes personal and public health.
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@michaeljswalker
'socially appropriate' is a very odd mode of evaluation there. Here's a question. Should one behave in a way that puts others at significant risk of catching a disease that might disable them and seriously increase their risk of heart attacks and strokes for the next year or so?
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@christapeterso
You wait till you hear what they've been writing about Russia fot the last decade.
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@timfarron
@tompeck
I remember a time when the politics of the liberal party were principled rather than cheap. I guess those times died with Charles Kennedy. (Can one imagine his having composed or sent that tweet? Nah.)
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@OliverKamm
So, I’m missing a step here. How does proposing that every Jewish citizen of Israel should have absolutely full civil and political rights, as indeed should every other citizen of Israel, amount to proposing a second Holocaust?
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@JohnRentoul
Which should surely be applauded, given that the membership confirmed that he was the best candidate. Or is it important to you that they should have been deprived of that choice?
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@AaronRHanlon
In Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, she reports from a small Balkan town where the same man is both the editor of the local newspaper and the govt censor. He would publish something as the first, censor it as the second, and then as the first write a letter of protest.
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@ChantelChantelm
@alisagrossutti
"Failure to recognize and prevent its [c auris] spread may lead to an eventual epidemic or even a pandemic during the current COVID-pandemic, which the exhausted healthcare system can most definitely not handle."
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@AmyHeckathorn
@ezraklein
And, of course, for reporting on conditions inside animal factories, sentimentally still called ‘farms’.
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@Harryb22
@PhillipsBarrie
At the risk of eroding the last vestiges of my sense of self by saying something in defence of our SoS Education, isn't the relevant description that he was wearing it in an enclosed space and removed it in the open air?
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@JackEDeakin
I’m a gay man too and very much of rights. I’d like it if your Labour Party were much more committed to rowing back the authoritarian anti-liberal policies of the last decade. It’s still astonishing to assess Cameron sympathetically without acknowledging his immiserating the poor
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@Liam_Holman99
Is Labour going to risk a Tory government by putting up a candidate in Brighton Pavilion and splitting the anti-Tory vote? Will you condemn them if they do?
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@butwhatifitsall
@MikeSegalov
And wouldn't it have been wonderful if Starmer and his cronies hadn't forced that choice on everyone? Too late now though.
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#bbcaq
Claire Fox is right to identify that national broadband raises issues about data protection—but this will be better safeguarded by a regulated national provider supervised by a properly resourced ICO than it is by private companies keen to profit from anything they can.
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@SatbirLSingh
Good policing requires a precise understanding of the law that is to be enforced and sufficient judgement not to enforce it officiously or unthinkingly. This is now turned on its head: the police are idiosyncratically making up the law and then rigidly enforcing their creation.
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@BJMbraun
@mashagessen
It's depressing how often 'liberal' has turned out to be a tribal label rather than a description secured by a commitment to liberal values.
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@MrBrendanCox
@GeorgePeretzKC
Fine. And I'm sure many would want to express solidarity with Muslims and Arabs, Jews (religious and secular) and all civilian populations But it would seem self-indulgent to express solidarity with the civilian population of Gaza without calling for end to their mass slaughter.
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@JimMFelton
@AllyFogg
And, tragically, the motorcyclist will always think it was his own fault.
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@VeraVanHorne
I think they're co-presenters—but you're right; the dismay in her expression is priceless.
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@EyalRubinson
@m4xim1l1an
@yanisvaroufakis
And one can never tell what someone in a coma might be dreaming about. Perhaps he was having terrorist dreams.
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@BriannaWu
@ryangrim
So have any accusations come from sources other than from Israeli reports of the results of its ‘interrogating’ prisoners?
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I'm not sure Donald Davidson's contention that dumb animals aren't capable of surprise fares too well here.
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@AydinDikerdem
It must take a particular cast of mind to believe that what other people think of him is a form of respect.
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@rafaelshimunov
@NatalieElsberg
As here in London, the most straightforward antisemitic abuse occurred from those on the pro-Israel not the pro-Palestinian marches
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@SaulStaniforth
@RMTunion
If the state is going to pay a portion of someone’s wages, it would better to pay all their wages and employ them to do something that’s of genuine social benefit. Letting employers profit from cheap Labour isn’t that.
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@saribashi
@TRyanGregory
That's absolutely right. But we should also require that Israel unconditionally release the Palestinians it has effectively kidnapped and detained (and where there is much evidence that they're subjected to systematic abuse in detention).
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@Klayhamn_
@JeffersonianAll
@mo_nasif17
@hrjm69
@nicolelampert
If an Israeli citizen marries a Palestinian spouse, do they have the right to live together in Israel? If an Israeli citizen marries a Jewish spouse, do they have the right to live together in Israel?
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@ItCorbyn
@PhillipsBarrie
@sarahsands100
@lewis_goodall
Doesn’t it depend on what she thinks she was politically independent from? I think one could make a very good case for thinking that the Today Programme became increasingly politically independent from the requirements of informed impartiality, for instance.
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@PhotograFixUK
@BennySoftcore
@bmay
Though given his advice was to listen trans kids and their parents and not to those whose voice is loud merely because of their celebrity, it’s clear on which side of that divide Rowling lies.
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"78% recovered German patients were found, 2 months later, to have suffered structural changes to their hearts; the study focused largely on those with asymptomatic/mild cases, and in follow-ups 76% exhibited a biomarker associated with cardiac injury following a heart attack."
For months, we've read about coronavirus "long-haulers" as though they are curious medical anomalies. But new research into long-term effects suggests that chronic illness may be a much, much larger public health trauma than even the horrific death toll.
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@peterjukes
@EmmaLBriant
@paulmasonnews
When you say that it's Russian-sponsored, are you claiming that the writers or the publishers of the piece in the GrayZone are paid by Russia? If not, what do you mean by sponsorship there?
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@christopherhope
@OliverDowden
would do better—would be doing his job—were he to spend his time defending our present cultural life and institutions against the destructive effects of Brexit and Home Office policy on visas rather than in working to diminish them further. It’s time he resigned.
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@FeyeraBender
Of course. But it’s difficult to judge how reliable a translator is if you can’t judge it against the original and, however skilled a translator, they can’t avoid making *interpretative* and not merely translational decisions. Their reader is ceding authority to them.
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@david_r_morgan
@veryvirology
The alternative view, of course, is that the ULEZ is a way of fighting back against the way our city air has been taken over and made poisonous by global car manufacturers. Having to breathe in fragments of other peoples tyres really isn’t a form of freedom.
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@Will_Radley
I wonder if you might be confusing the British Empire and the Hackney Empire? If you look into it, you'll find that they're actually very different kinds of enterprise.
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@christapeterso
It’s one of the rare conflicts which actually becomes simpler the more one finds out and thinks about it.
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@UB1UB2
The unintended effects of having a cycle lane outside some shops in Stevenage are just wild.
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@MaxAbrahms
@GeromanAT
So can one on the basis of this say straightforwardly that the IDF are rapists?
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@JohnFielder1
@JackEDeakin
@Battlebridge_
@OwenJones84
And we know that Jeremy Corbyn had been trying hard to get McNicol and the Complaints Unit to take her case seriously.
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@TheEconomist
Has San Marino been identifed as the one country in the region NATO could manage to subdue militarily without over-stretching its military capabilities?
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@hexkoton
@piercepenniless
Then you tweet, if you must, something along the lines of 'Actually, that's pretty tacky' or some such judgement. You don't use it as a way of trying to make out that the question of whether gays are perverts is somehow there to be addressed by anyone other than bigots.
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@michaeljswalker
Does the answer to that settle or not settle whether it's socially appropriate to do so?
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This should be on those moments of national self-revelation when we realise with horror what we've allowed ourselves to become and turn on those such as Jenrick who've encouraged us to become that.
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@HeathertheHeron
@marcusleroux
It's nice that the examples of leading Brexiters such as Zahawi and Rees-Mogg should so helpfully illustrate why we won't have taken back control of our economy without controlling the flow of capital.
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@hisnameisntbear
@JimMFelton
I haven’t seen a huge amount of both-siding around charges of antisemitism, and there’s more than enough easily available material on the Tories for them to have done so. Even the odd attempt to bring Islamophobia into the balance has been pretty half-hearted.
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@NAChristakis
@itaisher
If you want ideological diversity, you might like to start with the economics dept. As far as I can see, there's not a single course offered on Marxist economics, for instance.
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@lozgriff63
@PSCupdates
@OwenJones84
Perhaps you think that if only Michael Foot had been sufficiently devoid of moral principle to get the Labour Party to declare itself unbothered by apartheid in South Africa, it would have won power in 1983?
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@2Philosophical_
If you'd been a professor in a German university in the 1930s, would you have really made it a point of professional honour for your disapproval of the regime's antisemitic policies not to be at all apparent to your students?
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@MisterABK
@_RedFrog
I'm now half-way through Don Quixote and am keen to start the bottom half.
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@Otto_English
You don’t even need the BBC to photoshop that to give it the air of iron-curtain era Albania.
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@pissedboomer
@ChrisDYork
Not quite true. It profits from selling billions of dollars worth of arms to Saudi Arabia whilst stealing Afghanistan’s currency and gold reserves. It would be unfair to accuse it of just observing from the sidelines.
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@EmpiresOfWaste
@DMinghella
@MartinSLewis
I'm all for moving away from capitalism, but even in its own terms, this isn't free-market capitalism. Classically, free markets are those that are free from rent-extraction, not free from regulation. Twisting that meaning has been one of the great political confidence-tricks.
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@1goodtern
Seeing patterns of illness, e.g. cancer, in cats and dogs may give some indication of Covid’s longer-term effects on us.
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@Keir_Starmer
Will you condemn those who have worked to cement Hamas’ hold over Gaza? From Haaretz:
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@RobLanfear
It shows how those universities that want things to work as if the pandemic is over and isn't subjecting people to wave after wave of infection are risking the very resource on which they rely. Continual decerebration of faculty and students isn't sustainable for a university.
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@LeftieStats
@DeltapollUK
If Labour were as serious about winning the next GE as the Labour right are about keeping control of the party, they'd be replacing Starmer now that it's clear the electorate doesn't trust him. And that's only going to intensify with further exposure to him.
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@surfncruz
@sahouraxo
$72 million. Gosh. How does that compare with the value of the oil the US has stolen as a result of its illegal occupation of North East Syria? Or indeed the amount of money spent on Operation Sycamore to fund terrorist groups to turn Syria into a failed state?
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@Liam_Holman99
Of course they don’t own it. To think they did would be rather undemocratic. Just as is shouting down those who don’t think that Labour own any seats and whose vote will depend on what policies Labour’s committed to. Labour needs to appeal to people not to berate them.
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@meadwaj
I guess it comes from having serious researchers and policy analysts, listening to and understanding what they say, and then have the clearness of mind to say the key points clearly. Something sorely missing from Labour post-McDonnell.
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#politicslive
Andrea Leadsom has absolutely nothing to say in response to the point that people can’t afford to spend two weeks on statutory sick pay, except ‘everyone has to play their part’. The best way to achieve that is for the state to provide enough money to live on.
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@nazirafzal
They were probably discussing tech start-ups. Isn’t that the polite way to put it these days?
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@IBJIYONGI
Some of us are old enough to remember when the Socialist Workers Party used to decry the campaign for gay rights as an example of bourgeois decadence. After Castro apologised for his stance, you’d have hoped all that was a thing of the past.
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@captgouda24
@goofrider
I’m not sure how tightly you’re restricting what’s to count as a workers’ co-op, but here’s a summary of the academic literature given in a recent paper in the Harvard Business Review of companies with significant worker ownership
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@LePlonge
@emmamrevell
Exactly. And you also don’t get a vibrant economy with a failing state no longer able to administer essential services.
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@aaronjmate
@EliLake
Worth noting too that Efraim Halevy confirmed last week in an interview that in 1997 Hamas made a formal offer through the King of Jordan for a 30-year Cease Fire during which the borders of the Palestinian and Israeli states would be those of 1967. Again a major concession.
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@tompeck
I agree; total crank—those concerns about international law and the dangers of subverting its constraints on the use of military force. It was all so pre-Blair. You’re right to ridicule the attempt to respect legality.
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Illuminating 🧵, which should remind us of the very basic point that how we tax and, more importantly, how we regulate things is just how we organise ourselves so as best to flourish. Our current way—aka rentier capitalism—allows hardly any of us to flourish and makes for misery.
#FuneralHomes
were once dominated by local, family owned businesses. Today, your local funeral home is likely owned by
#ServiceCorporationInternational
, who bought hundreds of funeral homes (keeping the proprietor's name over the door), hiking prices and reaping vast profits. 1/
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One thing that
@Keir_Starmer
's sacking of
@RLong_Bailey
has achieved beyond doubt is that social media is now suffused with documentary evidence of the brutality of Israeli security forces in maintaining their illegal occupation. No-one is going to be able to say they don't know.
Israel routinely deploys a knee to the neck of Palestinians. It’s a fact.
This widely-reported reality is now being denounced by UK MPs and press as an “antisemitic conspiracy theory.”
This is a crime against anti-racism, journalism, and truth itself.
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@JolyonMaugham
Even with Test and Trace, Labour has generally preferred to criticise its over-centralisation rather than the way it has been so casually and profligately outsourced to favoured and inexperienced companies.
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@michaeljswalker
The point is that it makes it sound as if it's about social expectations rather than a duty of care to others. If someone had antibiotic-resistant gonorrhoea, wd we ask whether it was socially appropriate for them to engage with others in a way that made transmission likely?
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@MikeMcKenna_
@SatbirLSingh
It was clear that my asking him to justify himself made it the more likely I would get a ticket. That’s abuse of power.
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@Mike_Palicz
@lee_kovarsky
The reason they give us the need to protect all students — and here it’s worth keeping in mind that it’s the anti-genocide protestors who have been were subjected to, and hospitalised by, chemical attack at Columbia by those opposed to their protest.
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@JolyonMaugham
This doesn’t explain why they’d want to ignore it, but part of what explains why they’re able to is that the opposition has been notably reticent in attacking the govt for this. Unless one’s cynical, duly or unduly, that’s at least as puzzling.
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@nhs4brexit
@Adam_SH69
Assuming that being a rentier capitalist doesn't count as being economically active—it's certainly not economically productive—most Tory MPs owe it to the nation to go off and pick fruit. That would be national service.
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@drivelcast
@Tony_Diver
@jlsinc
Or concerned for hers. She hasn't been very effective this time in protecting him and he does sound like he might be the sort to punish failure.
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@Brusselspout
@vivamjm
I'd say the country is beginning to find itself again (despite the concerted efforts of our front-bench politicians)
Something historic is happening in London right now
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@gsoh31
Their moral character and concern for justice and freedom has certainly been shown by the careers they've pursued since leaving parliament. Who is it that Chris Leslie works for again? Ah yes—he's CEO of the trade association of the debt collection and purchase industry.
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@truthshamesthe6
@Gab_H_R
@chrischirp
@jpsalvesen
@aleksj
"Ten patients were newly diagnosed with psychosis, and six had cognitive issues akin to dementia, according to the study, published in the Lancet Psychiatry."
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@verokins
@GarySPRUCE3
@LaurenLloris
@doctorow
One of the great tricks—cons—perpetrated by neoliberals is to corrupt the old and valuable concept of a free market as one free of rent-seeking and monopolistic abuse and persuade people that it's one free of regulation. Genuinely free markets require serious regulation.
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@ClimentQD
@PrincetonEcon
Just out of interest, what was Wiley's revenue in 2020? The bookseller has it at $1.8 billion in 2019. I guess there wouldn't be much left of that if you paid graduate students for work you ask them to do for you or forgave them the $42 you charge to download an article.
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@peterjukes
@EmmaLBriant
@paulmasonnews
Surely if the claim in your tweet was worth making, it is worth clarifying so that people know what you were actually saying. If you think the writers or publishers were paid by Russia, that's an important claim to make: similarly, if you don't think that, it's also important.
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@Femi_Sorry
@JohnHol32019188
The protestors of Just Stop Oil believe—no unreasonably—that their cause is so urgent and so significant that they're willing to go to prison to advocate for it in the way they do. Would you be willing to go to prison for your cause?
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