Simon Forrest
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Simon Forrest
@SimonForrest11
Engineer, entrepreneur, footballer?, treehugger, beekeeper, music-lover, internationalist, optimist - at heart, a happy curious bairn - pronouns Reilly/Dalglish
Katılım Ağustos 2019
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@SimonForrest11 Does that mean let them kiss my ass?
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This is the problem with our mainstream media. This is why we no longer trust them... and Channel 4 is not the worst offender, not by a long way.
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To see a Palestinian woman cradling the skull of her son, says Annie Lennox @AnnieLennoxoo: this is the israeli genocide that “we” support
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Michelle Mone owes £188m to the Government, in the last 9 months nothing has been done to collect it.
If you owed £188, they would have fined you thousands of pounds and sent the bailiffs round.
For the rich they do nothing.
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Why we are contractually obliged to support Argentina this Wednesday 🇦🇷🏴
We’ve prepared this official guide so every Scot understands why Argentina’s footballing success is, in several important ways, partly our fault.
Failure to comply would be disrespectful to 130 years of very selective history.
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"The Romans occupied England in the 5th century, so anyone of Roman descent has a historical claim to the land."
It's one of the best sketches I've ever seen, it is so accurate and highlights the situation in Palestine.
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Cruel Britannia. 💔
Artur Nadolny@ArturNadol7566
THE WHISTLEBLOWER WHO WENT TO PRISON Colin Wallace was a psychological warfare officer for British Army Intelligence in Belfast. In 1974 he wrote a memo telling his superiors that boys at Kincora Boys Home were being systematically abused and some were being supplied to prominent unionist figures. He wanted out of a dirty tricks operation called Clockwork Orange and he wanted something done about Kincora. Nothing was done. The housemaster running the abuse, William McGrath, was already known to MI5. He led a loyalist paramilitary group called Tara and by multiple accounts he was an intelligence asset. MI5 monitored the abusers instead of stopping them. Fellow intelligence officer Brian Gemmell later confirmed he was personally ordered by MI5 officer Ian Cameron to drop his own Kincora investigation in 1975. Wallace kept pushing. He got sacked from his job in 1975. In 1980 he was convicted of manslaughter after a colleague's husband was killed. Evidence used against him at trial came partly from an anonymous American security source, according to a Home Office pathologist. He served 6 years. The conviction was quashed in 1996 once new forensic evidence emerged. McGrath was eventually jailed in 1981 after the Irish Independent broke the Kincora story publicly, years after Wallace first raised the alarm internally. The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry under Sir Anthony Hart reported in 2017 and criticised MI5 for obstructing police and destroying Kincora files, while somehow finding no fault in the actual cover up. Convenient. In 2020 it emerged that police records on Kincora from 1980 to 1983 had been destroyed right around the time that inquiry was set up. In 2023 Wallace's own military service file went missing, the same year his lawyers filed a High Court case against the Ministry of Defence for negligence, misfeasance in public office and deceit. That case is still ongoing. Fifty years and counting. A man tries to stop child abuse and gets convicted of murder for his trouble. The institutions responsible get to lose the paperwork and call it a filing error. Sources: @declassifiedUK @IrishTimes @itvnews and others.
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The 2016 sale of ARM to Japan’s SoftBank was a prime example of how the UK’s laid back approach to foreign takeovers has harmed economic sovereignty.
We handed over one of our most strategic tech firms with barely any scrutiny. So short sighted.
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This is now reality.
El Niño is now likely to be stronger than anything we’ve seen in recorded history, and probably stronger than anything in the last 50 million years.
Global temperatures are very likely to reach new, unprecedented levels in the next 1-2 years with far reaching impacts.
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Are they, aye? Oh well, I expect that’ll happen, then.
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