Simon Tuffen

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Simon Tuffen

Simon Tuffen

@SimonTuffen

Radical supporter of reality.

United Kingdom Katılım Aralık 2011
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Simon Tuffen
Simon Tuffen@SimonTuffen·
The government's worst-of-all-worlds policy of allowing unlimited, unchecked immigration into the UK via flimsy rafts is going to result in a terrible tragedy. Either a large number of people will die at sea, or a there'll a terrorist incident on a scale never before seen.
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Simon Tuffen
Simon Tuffen@SimonTuffen·
@GSpellchecker I think this could probably have been easily resolved if only 1 person has gone to the house (instead of 4 all yelling at once), explained that their mother has a health condition, and asked if they could kindly leave the space free in front of her house whenever possible.
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Stephen Knight 🎙️
Stephen Knight 🎙️@GSpellchecker·
You'd be amazed how many endless feuds this causes with neighbours in Britain. There are two types of people. Those who just park where there is space. And those that think they own the bit of public road closest to their house and make life hell for everyone else.
G R I F T Y@GriftReport

Woman knocks on students door over them parking in the streets and it all blows up this is one of the most funny and ridiculous encounters I've ever seen 😂😂

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Simon Tuffen
Simon Tuffen@SimonTuffen·
@LauraTrottMP Don't just blame Labour. The Batley school incident happened under the Conservative government, and the entire leadership of the Tory government and almost all Tory MPs remained silent and did nothing to help the teacher or condemn the hate mob.
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Laura Trott MP
Laura Trott MP@LauraTrottMP·
Five years ago, hundreds of Islamists protested at the gates of Batley Grammar School all because a teacher showed a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad during a Religious Education lesson. Within days, he was forced into hiding. Threatened with death. His family targeted and children forced to miss school. Five years on. He is STILL in hiding. Still living in fear. In Britain. And what’s changed? Instead of defending free speech, Labour are now debating new definitions of “anti-Muslim hostility” and appointing a tsar to police it. This amounts to blasphemy law by the back door and it will have a significant and chilling effect on how people live. Labour councils in the north of England have issued advice to teachers warning that children’s drawings may be deemed “idolatrous” under sharia law. That music and dance lessons might breach religious expectations. Teachers are effectively being told to be careful. Children risk being labelled blasphemous for drawing a nativity scene. 
 No religion should be above the law. No belief should be beyond criticism. The Batley teacher was cleared of any wrongdoing and an independent report said he was badly let down. But it didn’t matter. His life was already torn apart. His children forced out of school. His family still in hiding. So ask yourself, if this happened again today, would anything be different? Or would we fail him all over again? We must stand up for our teachers.
We must defend children. 
We must say no to extremism and no to blasphemy laws in Britain. We MUST fight for free speech.
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Simon Tuffen
Simon Tuffen@SimonTuffen·
@BBCNews You mean boys told to leave the Girl Guides. Makes sense when you think about it.
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Simon Tuffen
Simon Tuffen@SimonTuffen·
@michaelshermer Intelligent species capable of technological advancement would have to have a tool-making capability and be adaptable to living and working in different environments. Bipedal primates with opposable thumbs are well-adapted for this in a way that dolphins and dogs aren't.
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Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer@michaelshermer·
I have often said aliens/ETI won't look anything like us (bipedal primates) given the billions of species on Earth that aren't like us, but what if I'm wrong? Skeptic breaks it down for us: skeptic.com/article/family…
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Sall Grover
Sall Grover@salltweets·
Excuse me?
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Simon Tuffen@SimonTuffen·
@henrywinter Why do you sports journos always feel the need to whip up a lot of misery, bitterness and depression around the England squad before every major tournament? Why can't we just go into the tournament full of positivity and support for the team and enjoy it for as long as it lasts?
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Henry Winter
Henry Winter@henrywinter·
Mood amongst some England fans is that Ben White didn’t deserve a recall after his self-imposed exile. “Mostly (the mood is) that he shouldn’t be in the squad. He’s made his bed…” says one top-capper. #ENG 1/2
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Simon Tuffen
Simon Tuffen@SimonTuffen·
@Alonso_GD Being "radicalised" would be to do something like belong to an ideology or culture that treats women like 3rd class citizens and forces children to marry their cousins. Objecting to such an ideology or culture is to be completely normal and civilised.
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Simon Tuffen
Simon Tuffen@SimonTuffen·
@Stephenmevans1 @soniasodha Does indoctrinating children into Islam (combined with a apostasy law meaning they can never leave), forcing women to cover their faces, and forcing young men and women to marry their cousins fall under Islam or Islamism?
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Stephen Evans
Stephen Evans@Stephenmevans1·
Good piece from @soniasodha. So often, debate around Islam is polarised between demonisation of Muslims and attempts to shut down any criticism. We need space for an honest, open conversation about a religion with increasing influence on the country's social and political life.
Sonia Sodha@soniasodha

I've written for today's Times on how both right and left have got it wrong on Islam. The right conflates Islam with Islamism to turn British Muslims into a lightening rod. The left is in denial that there are any issues at all with our multicultural society. (🔗 up next)

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Simon Tuffen
Simon Tuffen@SimonTuffen·
@pepel_klaasa Yep, and we never had a problem in the UK with German, Italian or Japanese terrorists after WWII.
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Pepel Klaasa
Pepel Klaasa@pepel_klaasa·
I would note again that Ukrainians abroad are not burning down Russian cultural centers or Russian schools worldwide. Even though they certainly have plenty of reasons to do so. But “anti-Zionists” (sic!) burning ambulances in London just because they have a Star of David on it – that’s always on the table. That’s why I don’t believe in any “anti-Zionism.” It’s simply antisemitism that has once again become acceptable. I myself, to put it mildly, am not thrilled with Israel’s policies in recent times. And many people aren’t thrilled with U.S. policies either. So what – are people burning anything American in Europe? Not really.
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Simon Tuffen
Simon Tuffen@SimonTuffen·
@DurhamWASP British people were so much more softly spoken then. They could be opinionated but not antagonistic.
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Mark W.@DurhamWASP·
A mere half-century ago, yet how far we have fallen.
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Simon Tuffen
Simon Tuffen@SimonTuffen·
@adamsummerton If we have learned one thing about Tuchel, it's that he is not going to put players in the England squad just because they are considered stars. Tuchel is building a squad to play a certain way. TAA is very talented but his style would require the whole team to play differently.
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Adam Summerton
Adam Summerton@adamsummerton·
There’s not a single other nation in the world that wouldn’t have him a squad of 35. One of England’s most technically gifted players and a proven winner at the highest levels of the club game, who’s in his prime years (27). Madness
Football on TNT Sports@footballontnt

Trent Alexander-Arnold hasn’t been called up for England’s upcoming friendlies… Despite Reece James being injured, Kyle Walker and Kieran Trippier retiring internationally, and Jarell Quansah withdrawing from the squad.

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Simon Tuffen
Simon Tuffen@SimonTuffen·
@mart_brooks @GSpellchecker Thanks for the link. I can't see anything on the site that even describes the service as being "Jewish". In what way is it a Jewish ambulance service if anyone can work for them and they will serve anyone?
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Stephen Knight 🎙️
Stephen Knight 🎙️@GSpellchecker·
Ah yes, those sneaky Jews. At it again. Setting up volunteer-run, charity-funded ambulance services that treat anyone in the area. Truly, no depths they won’t sink to.
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Simon Tuffen
Simon Tuffen@SimonTuffen·
@2BeOrNot2BMe @GSpellchecker That's all great except I don't then understand why they are classed as Jewish if anyone can work for them and they serve everyone.
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Simon Tuffen
Simon Tuffen@SimonTuffen·
@Lewis_Brackpool A freedom of information request!? Outrageous! The peasants, erm, I mean citizens should not be entitled to information, unless it has first been filtered by #BBCVerify
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Lewis Brackpool
Lewis Brackpool@Lewis_Brackpool·
It has come to my attention that The BBC just aired a show portraying a character who sends FOI requests to the Home Office accusing the govt of covering up stats as an extremist. That’s literally my work as an FOI journalist. This is propaganda.
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Simon Tuffen
Simon Tuffen@SimonTuffen·
@conncarroll She's also completely wrong to state that polygyny is now considered socially acceptable - isn't she?
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Conn Carroll
Conn Carroll@conncarroll·
This is actually mostly wrong. Our species norm is not polygyny. We are not gorillas. Yes, 80% of cultures are polygamous, but polygamy only spread after agriculture. The hunter-gatherer bands we spent hundreds of thousands of years in before that were monogamous. Also, Christianity did not inherit monogamy from Rome. It is true that Roman wives were expected to be monogamous, but Roman husbands could, and were even expected to, have sex with courtesans, concubines, prostitutes, and slaves. Christian monogamy was a sharp break, a true sexual revolution, away from the norm of powerful men monopolizing women. Now Louise Perry is correct that “lifting the monogamous restriction produces worse outcomes.” Monogamy is far better for society than polygamy. But that is because monogamy is our natural state, it was just corrupted for centuries after the dawn of agriculture. We are a species designed to form pair bonds and raise families together. Now there are tons of things in the modern world that are making it harder and harder to do that, but that is our natural state and we should fight to return to it.
Camus@newstart_2024

Our species norm is polygyny: 80% of cultures historically let high-status men hoard wives while low-status men get nothing. Christianity (inherited from Rome) forced monogamy for 2000 years. Now we've mostly ditched it—and we're sliding back toward the old pattern. Louise Perry: Lifting the monogamous restriction produces worse outcomes—higher crime, domestic violence, economic inequality. Monogamy is better for women and low-status men. Monogamy isn't "natural"—it's an engineered cultural upgrade that tamed inequality and violence. Do you think monogamy is worth defending even if it's not the "default" human pattern? Or are we better off returning to the species norm? Your take 👇

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Simon Tuffen
Simon Tuffen@SimonTuffen·
@argyriou15 @theiaincameron True, but it's more about climate associated with the latitude than number of potential hours of sunshine. Much of USA is on a par with the Mediterranean and North Africa.
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Iain Cameron
Iain Cameron@theiaincameron·
As someone who lives in the 1200-1600 hours zone in the UK, I'm astonished at how much sun the south-west Unites States gets. I considered 2025 as a lovely summer in central Scotland, but we're sunshine peasants compared to some places.
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Simon Tuffen
Simon Tuffen@SimonTuffen·
@boswelltoday It’s a good thing we are such a large country with ample surplus farmland and thousands of square miles of wilderness to soak up this huge influx, or we’d be in big trouble.
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Bruce Bowman
Bruce Bowman@boswelltoday·
UK net migration, visualised as towns and cities 2005: Milton Keynes 🛣️ 2006: Luton ✈️ 2007: Plymouth ⚓ 2008: Swansea 🌊 2009: Colchester 🏰 2010: Aberdeen 🛢️ 2011: Portsmouth 🚢 2012: Newport 🌉 2013: Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon 🏞️ 2014: Hull 🐟 2015: Derby 🐏 2016: Nottingham 🏹 2017: York 🏛️ 2018: Wrexham 🐉 2019: Newry, Mourne and Down ⛰️ 2020: Inverclyde ⛴️ 2021: York 🏛️ 2022: Edinburgh 🏰 2023: Glasgow 🎸 2024: Coventry ⛪ That’s the scale.
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Simon Tuffen
Simon Tuffen@SimonTuffen·
@mehdirhasan Is the fact that Muslim’s are a racial minority in the West the reason why they force their daughters to marry their cousins, or why they put a bag over their wives’ heads?
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