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Lark Rise to Cancelford
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Lark Rise to Cancelford
@DanieldeRhondda
Rejected alts: Lark Rise to Cancelford; Sense and Sensitive Young Man.
Se unió Ekim 2023
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@DanieldeRhondda @Ameer_Kotecha @BrunswickGroup I would rather you keep out of it !
I do not want demand increasing at a time when stocks are dwindling - you had your opportunity and it is too late
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An update:
I spoke to @BrunswickGroup who handle media enquiries for ABF. The lady I spoke to hadn't heard of Mr George Weston, and nor had she tried Gentleman's Relish. On the plus side she did say it sounds like the sort of thing she might enjoy.
She also said not many people work on Fridays and that they may still be catching up with a backlog of Easter emails...Anyway, she was very nice and pledged to follow the matter up with ABF and ensure the letter gets to the right people.
More updates when I get them. We'll keep fighting!
If you come across one of those enigmatic white pots on your supermarket shelf, grab it before it's too late.
#SavePatumPeperium
Ameer Kotecha@Ameer_Kotecha
Here is the letter I have written this evening to George Weston, CEO of Associated British Foods, the parent company that owns Gentleman’s Relish. Can only hope!🤞🏽
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The peak narrative doesn't work that well with fptp - each poll lead and each council / by election victory solidifies the fact that Reform are the leading rightwing party in voters' minds. Especially when the Greens beat Reform to second (e.g. Cliftonville). The right should come together.
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Correct. Get ready for Kemi as PM, and the 2024 intake as the Tory cabinet.
It’s going to be epic 🔥
Samplo Corvodina of Streatham@TreborRhurbarb
Reform peaked too early. Greens will probably peak too early. My god the tories are going to win the 2029 general election. Small but workable majority.
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@Discoplomacy Yes. And motivating to be part of making that happen - it never happened automatically!
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@AndrewOrlowski What term would you use for the model that is furthest ahead in the AGI race? Or does my question itself carry the same ignorance!
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Fun fact: “Frontier Model” is a buzzword last heard in 2023 and was advanced by the EA cult. It’s a propaganda phrase. They borrowed it from Asimov.
I think Danny is a good man and sincere, but to find a UK politician echoing posthumanist jargon in 2026 is jarring, to say the least.
Danny Kruger@danny__kruger
I've written to Cabinet Office Minister Darren Jones to urge the Government to engage with AI firm Anthropic whose new frontier model Claude Mythos could present catastrophic cybersecurity risks to the UK
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@93vintagejones Yeah, I'm on the fence but the 'those who oppose it are conspiracists' line is so off-putting, even more than the populism line. Those are my uncle, hockey mate and twitter mutuals he's talking about!
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Any rightist saying there's merit to this proposal but they should focus on how much better it'll make public services... please LISTEN to how they are talking about it. They think being able to use an ID scheme to crack down on populism is the best thing to recommend it.
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Oh so it IS a tool of political suppression.
Financial Times@FT
Scaled-back digital ID scheme can combat populism, UK minister says ft.trib.al/Pc5pgf3
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Very fair. A note of thanks - my brother's wife was worried about him getting upset with engaging in online discourse and about the unrelenting negative stream. The Critic isn't sunny uplands but it is thoughtful and bounded. So I made a deal with him that I'd get him a subscription and he'd slow the doomscrolling. Reader, it worked! Thank you.
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@Hrushworth @andrew___robo . @Hrushworth and @andrew___robo I have found the contacts for the National Archives data on duties and powers of public sector organisations in legislation, and for historic Machinery of Gov changes. If either of interest, DM me and I'll put you in contact :)
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@Hrushworth @andrew___robo Let me get it to you after Easter weekend! Some cool stuff been going on behind scenes but only the raw data, so really valuable to combine with your more public work.
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The British Government is a complicated beast. Dozens of departments, hundreds of public bodies, more corporations than one can count...
Such is its complexity that there isn't an org chart for it.
Well, there wasn't...
Introducing ⚙️Machinery of Government⚙️
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@ElectionMapsUK @Moreincommon_ Any ideas why the difference between Greens and Labour is so extreme in different polls?
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Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 30% (=)
LAB: 20% (+1)
CON: 19% (-2)
GRN: 12% (=)
LDM: 12% (+1)
SNP: 2% (=)
Via @Moreincommon_, 2-7 Apr.
Changes w/ 28-30 Mar.
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We are extremely grateful for your support in all its forms, Ben, and your frank assessment of the situation. As you write, our party is far from the finished article. But I share your belief that the motivation is there to do the hard work, and that it is better to build something fresh and honest from scratch. I greatly respect people like you who want to get involved with making that happen rather than carping from the sidelines. Onwards!
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My op-ed in The Telegraph on why I am supporting Reform UK
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…
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@Fremond_ @JAHeale @Fox_Claire Large gap between being predisposed and being willing to part with hard cash!
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@JAHeale @Fox_Claire Is it a coup? Given he funds so many organisations that are either implicitly or explicitly in support of Reform, it seems quite a natural step?
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Quite the coup for Reform: Britain’s youngest self-made billionaire is moving back here to bankroll the party
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@AndrewGold_ok I think it should have been framed as much as being about Britain not having to give a visa to a non-Brit who repeatedly glorified the man so many of our greatest generation died to defeat.
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Genuinely think this was a mistake, will just make people blame Jews. And he has apologised - and did genuinely have a mad head injury. Meanwhile people from regions where Jew hate is common are immigrating to the UK.
What do you think?
Nicky Campbell@NickyAACampbell
Was the UK right to ban Kanye West for anti-Semitism? (Check first reply)
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2 was more about Britain generally not having to host pro Hitler foreigners in Britain when we lost so many fighting him, though British Jews have double the reason. Re 3, yes, I think that if he was a foreign white country singer who had repeatedly said the equivalent things about black people then, no I don't think he would be headlining a British music festival within the year (rightly). Is your sense really the opposite?
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@DanieldeRhondda @defossardf and as for no.2, well, the Jewish community here already lives under quasi-permanent siege, so I think the damage is done there already tbqh (and not because of Kanye or anything he's said)
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a. Headliner of a major festival gives a Nazi salute (which he has already done), sings HH (already done), etc.
b. Symbolic damage that we don't respect those who died fighting in WWII enough to stop someone who has publicly glorified Hitler, who is not British and we have no duty to, coming to Britain to make lots of money as a cultural icon.
c. Sense that if it wasn't grotesque antisemitism in question, he wouldn't have been invited in first place, and the question would not have arisen.
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@DanieldeRhondda @defossardf ok well yes but also what's the "risk" here exactly. We aren't exactly talking a famous former terrorist or something
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@defossardf Do you have any distinction between foreign nationals applying for a visa vs British citizens here? I am strong pro-free speech for British citizens in our society, but don't think that means we have to benevolently welcome non-Brits who glorify Hitler or jihad.
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@AndrewSabisky @defossardf Yes, which surely suggests a risk that he changes his mind again about whether singing HH and about Gas chambers is acceptable?
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@defossardf also hasn't Kanye been quite obviously mentally unwell for some time (including a bad bump on the head at some point).
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My answer would be that we have no duty, including under Freedom of Speech for British citizens, to allow in foreign nationals who glorify violent jihad or Hitler. I agree with you on the double standard, but would bank this win and double down on banning those who glorify violent jihad...
I slightly disagree with you on the motivation too. We can't tell, but I can imagine this harming Labour more than helping it, even if the right thing to do. The number of Wireless attendees alone is not far shy of the number of British jews.
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@DanieldeRhondda Britain defeated Hitler at enormous cost, absolutely.
But if we're suddenly strict on glorifying tyrants, why the open door for those who glorify violent jihad? Kanye is a chaotic American musician. The others export real violence.
The selective memory is political theatre.
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A disgraceful decision, especially given their repeated refusal to use this power against those who pose a genuine threat to the country and those who call the place home.
If Kanye West had been an IRGC member or outlaw Salafi-Jihadist ideologue, he would have been allowed in…
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 BREAKING: The Government has blocked Kanye West from entering the UK to perform at Wireless Festival because his presence would "not be conducive to the public good"
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@JewDahMac @JoosyJew Exactly. I have no duty to want a foreign rapper here who has recently celebrated my country's most evil and destructive enemy. British Jews have double the reason to tell him to bugger off, but we all should.
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@JoosyJew Also amazing there wasn’t more protest from the families of the 450,000+ British citizens that died in WW2 fighting for their country’s freedom.
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The government shouldn’t be blocking this gimp. No music festival should’ve invited him in the first place, or decent people could’ve boycotted him by not buying tickets to this event.
But now? “ThE JeWs CoNtRoL tHe UK!” / “IsRAeL DiD tHiS!”
Cheers.
BBC Breaking News@BBCBreaking
Kanye West blocked from travelling to UK, government tells BBC, after controversy over Wireless Festival booking bbc.in/4sjKUpg
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