Richard Torné

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Richard Torné

@ZRicht

Writes and plays a bit. Past bylines in The Sunday Times. Co-author of ‘David Lean’s Dedicated Maniac - Memoirs of a Film Specialist’. All views my own.

UK Katılım Ağustos 2014
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Richard Torné
Richard Torné@ZRicht·
@alanrosca @McFaul @grok The US is using bases in the UK from which to launch criminal bombing raids on Iran. You're also relying on intel from the UK, sadly. You are a bunch of hoodlums who started an illegal war, not to defend your territory or to claim it back but to bring chaos to the ME.
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Alan Rosca
Alan Rosca@alanrosca·
@McFaul @grok , summarize the significant support that US provided to UK military operations during the Falkland War. Also, did UK at the time have military bases in the US intended to protect the US against an attack by the Soviet Union?
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Michael McFaul
Michael McFaul@McFaul·
Did we join the UK in support of their war against the Falkland Islands? no.
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Constantly Underfoot
Constantly Underfoot@ConstantUnder·
@McFaul We gave them use of our bases, weapons and logistics. - We weren't an obstacle, like they were.
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cinesthetic.
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic·
In 1995, Paul Verhoeven turned up uninvited to the Razzies knowing Showgirls would get roasted, and personally collected seven awards — including Worst Director, Worst Picture, Worst Music, and Worst Acting.
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Richard Torné@ZRicht·
@jonlis1 It's going to backfire badly. Maybe it's a deliberate attempt at self-sabotage. Starmer seems to have acquired a taste for it.
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Jonathan Lis
Jonathan Lis@jonlis1·
Absolutely unconscionable that the King is about to make a state visit to this President.
Arnaud Bertrand@RnaudBertrand

Trump right now in his live address: "We're going to hit [Iran] extremely hard over the next 2 to 3 weeks, we're going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong." Pure savagery. And textbook genocidal: saying the Iranian people "belong" in the stone ages means he's targeting them as a people, which is the definition of genocidal intent. That's where letting Gaza happen without consequences gets you... Also pretty ironical to call others primitive while sounding like a barbarian king on bath salts.

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Richard Torné
Richard Torné@ZRicht·
@TheScobbler @_BrianMankin_ @implausibleblog If you think only politicians should, you have the government you deserve. Writers, filmmakers & philosophers often have far more valuable things to say about the world we live in. This is why someone like Shakespeare is still revered & the clowns who profess to lead us are not
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Farrukh
Farrukh@implausibleblog·
Cathy Newman, "Trump smashed up the old world order, the UK and EU are wondering what to do about it" "Keir Starmer offered closer ties with the EU, why not go the whole hog and rejoin the EU, with the majority of the country in favour?" Sir Michael Morpurgo, "It was the greatest mistake this country has made since the war, I have no doubt about that at all" "I mean to turn our back on our neighbours in that way, not just in terms of trade but in terms of culture and everything" "It was a ridiculous decision" "Somehow we have to understand when we make a mistake, we admit it and make a change"
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Richard Torné@ZRicht·
@GovPressOffice The world sees you for what you are - you're all the same monsters, except you wear different masks.
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Farrukh
Farrukh@implausibleblog·
President Macron scolds the US and Israel for attacking Iran, "The day you say I don't like your regime, I consider you threatening your neighbour so I will intervene and bomb you, you open a Pandora's box" "Iran is a very bad regime, no discussion about that. I disagree with on a lot of topics" "But I don't agree we will fix the situation just by bombings or military operations" "Look at what happened in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya - we never delivered. Never" "You have to respect the sovereignty of people, if people want to change a regime, they can do so" "Having an agenda shared by Korea, France, the other Europeans, Canada, Japan, India, Brazil, Australia, you start having a third way" "Those who don't want to be dependent on China, or aligned by definition, on the US"
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James Melville 🚜
James Melville 🚜@JamesMelville·
2005: George Galloway’s “pack of lies” speech in front of the U.S. Senate Committee with regarding the Iraq War. A tour de force. Sadly, the lessons of recent history appear to be forgotten by some.
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Richard Torné@ZRicht·
@Channel4News Utterly predictable. He's always going to criticise the Mango Mussolini because he fell out with him, but he was never going to reject the call for war. He also didn't respond to the question about Suez - he's such a moron he probably doesn't even know what the reference means.
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Channel 4 News
Channel 4 News@Channel4News·
John Bolton was National Security Advisor during President Trump's first term, but later fell out with him. He’s also a well-known hawk on Iran and tells Channel 4 News that ‘regime change is within reach’.
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Super 70s Sports
Super 70s Sports@Super70sSports·
Name a great television theme song. I’ll start:
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Roger Gall
Roger Gall@Shambles151·
All the MPs who have been loyal 'Labour Friends of Israel' -have NOT left this organisation in protest - as a result of Israel imposing 'one of the world's most extreme death penalty laws' on Palestinians only. Please RT this until they do.
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George Tsakraklides
George Tsakraklides@99blackbaloons·
“As long as this planet continues to be run as a for-profit business rather than a community of 10 million species, most life on Earth is destined to vanish” open.substack.com/pub/georgetsak…
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sandra
sandra@mrsDugskullery·
British doctor tells MPs how IDF drones and quadcopters shot children lying injured on the ground after airstrikes. And still... not a single one of them has left Labour Friends of Israel.
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Richard Torné
Richard Torné@ZRicht·
@_BrianMankin_ @implausibleblog Morpurgo's a compassionate man & a humanist. Those themes run through his works. I'd rather listen to him that hate-fuelled fanatics. BTW, accusing him of not being an expert on Brexit when you've relied on charlatans like Mogg and Johnson to sell you a lie is quite revealing.
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Brian Mankin
Brian Mankin@_BrianMankin_·
@ZRicht @implausibleblog Careful now. Your snobbery is showing. Sir Michael’s literary success doesn’t make him an expert on Trump or Brexit. Newsnight treating him as one is dodgy as hell.
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