@andyydnaandy1 @Acyn “A volume thing?” Can you share what you believe this means?
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@si_rubinstein @AdamPollock Cnut has to be up there - true, he wiped most of the Saxon aristocracy, but was prosperous & peaceful enough time for the rest
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@AdamPollock The Unready?! He was the one unambiguous Bad King. Unsurpassed till maybe Rufus or John.
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This Athelstan business is starting to get a bit silly.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: The proposed names the Government is considering calling its new towns - Elizabethtown (after the Queen) - Pankhurst (after suffragette Emmeline) - Attleeton (after ex-PM) - Athelstan (first King of England) - Seacole (after nurse Mary) [@thetimes]
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@CalJamieson Stop saying ‘read a history book’ you ridiculous pseud. Lots of us have ‘read history books’ to point we can acknowledge complexity without becoming literal apologists for terrorism.
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@JP22TwentyTwo @Tilt2Life Oh please. Go and read a history book. What are all these weirdly named accounts anyway - who exactly are you?
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Today is the 33rd anniversary of the day the IRA bombed Warrington town centre and killed my son Tim and 3 yr old Johnathan Ball. Words can never describe how losing a child leaves a huge hole in your heart and your family. Eternal love Tim ❤️❤️
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@Charloch0506 @EdwardJDavey Suuuure you do. And evensong in the summer, no doubt.
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@TimperleySunset @EdwardJDavey Twice every Sabbath, and mostly every second Wednesday, actually
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Imagine seeing British people at prayer and thinking “this is a great chance to stoke fear, hatred and division”. People who do that should have no place in British politics.
Freedom to worship is a fundamental British value – one the Conservative Party used to believe in.
Nick Timothy MP@NJ_Timothy
Too many are too polite to say this. But mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination. The adhan - which declares there is no god but allah and Muhammad is his messenger - is, when called in a public place, a declaration of domination. Perform these rituals in mosques if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions. And given their explicit repudiation of Christianity they certainly do not belong in our churches and cathedrals. I am not suggesting everybody at Trafalgar Square last night is an Islamist. But the domination of public places is straight from the Islamist playbook. Trafalgar Square belongs to all of us. It is a national memorial to our independence and our salvation. Last night was not like a televised football match or a St Patrick’s Day celebration. It was an act of domination and therefore division. It shouldn’t happen again.
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@Charloch0506 @EdwardJDavey If it’s so fundamental, why do you only go to church at Christmas?
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@EdwardJDavey Protestant Christianity is a fundamental British value. Its constitutional privileges are enshrined in the Treaty of Union. Islam has no rights here.
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@plastikspork @EdwardJDavey Did it make you scared? Are you traumatised? Do you need to talk with someone?
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@EdwardJDavey Muslims do not pray outside like this in Muslim countries they're doing this for intimidation purposes only.
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@gorbalsgoebbels @TrentTelenko Or he never liked Cuba, never had sex with Farage and Stormy Daniels is the new Ambassador to NATO
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@TrentTelenko Don’t talk shite.
In a few weeks the Trump Show will have moved on to Cuba and he will be saying he never liked Farage, he never had sex with Stormy, and Walt Disney is his new Secretary of State.
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This is after PM Starmer broke US faith in the "special relationship."
There will be long lasting strategic repercussions for this British domestic political theater that rival PM Anthony Eden's performance in the 1956 Suez Crisis.
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Faytuks Network@FaytuksNetwork
BREAKING: The UK has approved U.S. use of RAF Fairford and Diego Garcia to carry out strikes on Iranian missile sites targeting shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, under collective self-defense, The Times reports.
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@ScottDoesShit_ @almurray @TrentTelenko It’s hard though. You can’t dismiss the bluster of an idiot if he has the levers of the most powerful country in the world at his disposal. Lawrie Freedman did a piece at start of administration: how do you deal with unserious people in charge of a really serious country?
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@almurray @TrentTelenko Under our regime, do not underestimate our ability to be ridiculous and silly.
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@CircleBackPat @Abel_Hendriks @theglinchpin @ianbremmer @mdubowitz ‘Petulance’ as diplomatic strategy. He’s tried ‘greed’, ‘malice’, ‘sneering’ and ‘intimidation’, so this does feel like a logical step. Pretty un-American though
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@Abel_Hendriks @theglinchpin @ianbremmer @mdubowitz No NATO country is obligated to join, but Trump is allowed to express disappointment if they decline to help voluntarily. I don’t know how I can be any more clear about this.
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I’m a strong supporter of NATO but why is President Trump wrong here?
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47
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@CircleBackPat @theglinchpin @ianbremmer @mdubowitz And US launching a seemingly unplanned war against Iran, with unspecified goals, is not in its allies mutual interest. Reopening the straits is in allies interests, but only a fool would believe it would be an ‘easy task’
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@theglinchpin @ianbremmer @mdubowitz Right, it’s called “being a good ally”. NATO countries do favors in mutual interest all the time. ie: all Ukraine assistance was done voluntarily.
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@TheCrooksE @TCNetwork Dig with better tools then, you fucking idiot
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@TCNetwork The more digging you do on Churchill, the darker and darker it gets. Alcoholic, drunk, glory seeking brute who suddenly gets bailed out by a group of jewish bankers just in time to get Britain in a position to ally with the Bolsheviks in Russia against Germany. Scary stuff.
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This kind of stuff happens during war. We should be on guard.
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@backtivist @NaimeLuigi @frontlinekit True, but 'narrative' appears increasingly important strategic tool in modern war, to the point client journalists are active participants. TBH, here, I think you're right. rus not actively involved, so he deserves protection as journalist. If in Ukraine, he's legitimate target
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He may be British but he's working for the russian propaganda machine so I have no sympathy for Steve nearly getting blown up.
Karma is a bitch.
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@backtivist @NaimeLuigi @frontlinekit They hanged William Joyce. UK not at war with russia so not the same crime, but they are still a hostile nation & RT is a proscribed organisation, so his human rights are only russia's concern.
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@NaimeLuigi @frontlinekit Even if he is the worst of the worst we have to protect him if he is not holding a gun 🤞 human right above all 🏳️🌈
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@AlastairG8 @commons96055467 Then he would have been ridiculously lucky, we should celebrate the 100-1 shot win, but still remember he has the judgement and caution of a drunk gambling addict in a casino with someone else’s credit card
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@commons96055467 Sounds fair enough but suppose he sorts out Iran which ends up having the knock on effect of helping Ukraine and sorting Russia🤷♂️
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I’ll just drop this little nugget right here.
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@arckapone @jdpoc More “wa’er bo’-le” - Americans replace ‘t’ with ‘d’, we just do away with it al’ogether.
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She was probably just jealous that her neighbour was able to speak properly, use long words, construct complete sentences, and make total sense.
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@arckapone @jdpoc My Mancunian accent does remove a good few letters, but that’s just efficiency
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🚨UPDATE -- Declassified asked the UK Foreign Office to issue a statement about Israel's targeting of British journalist Steve Sweeney in Lebanon earlier today.
The Foreign Office has not bothered to respond.
Declassified UK@declassifiedUK
🚨BREAKING -- British journalist Steve Sweeney has been targeted by an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon.
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@CreativeDeduct @DPJHodges If we are a country shaped by Christian values, then those values will already, during 1,200+ years of common law, legislation and case law, have shaped the legal system in such a way that they are elevated. For various historical reasons that now includes religious freedom.
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@DPJHodges What if you believe that a country shaped by Christian values should elevate those values above 'foreign' values and treat them differently? I'm not saying I agree with that, but is it a valid and legitimate position to take?
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If you want to argue public spaces should not be used for worship - because that’s exclusionary - fine. But condemning just one religious group, in this case Muslims, is bigotry. I’m not sure what the debate is.
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@Inevry109 @MachiavelliBus1 @RealDonKeith Some of those prayer rooms are literally just small rooms in colleges. What is wrong with these neurotics?
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@MachiavelliBus1 @RealDonKeith Just for context, there are 16,000 Anglican churches, alongside 7,000 methodist/Catholic churches.
No. We are not being colonised.
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@RealDonKeith Obviously you're wrong (not your fault if you're American) but in a way it is a nice change to see you people standing up for an African immigrant against British policemen, even if you have no context for why he was being arrested or whether he was even charged.
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