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Fact is the fulcrum of balanced reporting. A lie does not need balance by journalists, it needs correction. With lies, there is no balance.

@maureenjohnson it me for realz

It's like Tory ministers have cruelty competitions. Today's contender: Robert Jenrick, who ordered cartoon murals to be painted over in a welcoming centre for child immigrants because "it was too welcoming" Never vote for these fucking monsters.

FIFA can go fuck itself.

@Bensedits Odd, that.

Wasn't Jeremy Hunt Health Secretary for a long time before the pandemic? Or did I hallucinate that? 🤔

I love how Tory ministers keep insisting that "nothing untoward happened" because they're totally fine with being unethical. They really don't think they do anything wrong.

Let me fix that headline: "Kemi Badenoch blinkered by her own buttocks after sticking her head up her arse for a decade"

Fuck it, I'm getting a curry.

Annoyed that today is a Bank Holiday and I can't get the next two volumes of #Heartstopper ❤️❤️❤️🐶❤️ from @winstonebooks (the indie bookshop here). I could go to a chain, but I'm not going to. Even though they have them. And I want books 3&4 sooo badly. 😭

Are there any Johnson appointees that HAVEN'T resigned for ethical breaches?

Why is it "travel chaos" not just "travel delays"? What's chaotic about it?

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As Boris Johnson tells MPs it was absolutely "essential" for him to hold repeated drinks events and leaving parties during lockdown, here's a reminder of what he wrote to a seven-year-old girl about cancelling her own birthday party during that time.

We didn't have parties to "boost morale" We didn't have quiz nights We didn't have champagne We watched our colleagues die though We were STEEPED in death We kept going We had to We kept on So don't you DARE say your parties were "necessary" @borisjohnson You make me sick.

"Hand on heart" would be more compelling if there was evidence of a heart.

@PaulaSimone I need to find a way to cross the Atlantic in comfort without using fossil fuels. ("In comfort" necessitated by Greta Thunberg's excellent but I'm-not-doing-that example. I'm too old and disabled!)

@PaulaSimone Bit far to travel, but I'm tempted.

Between Truss and Dorries, the Conservative clown car is definitely driving in fantasy land this week.