cptr
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Maybe it’s best just to accept #PMQs are nothing more than theatrical knockabout. But there was a time when Prime Ministers were expected to tell the truth in the Commons & ministers resigned if they didn’t. Johnson in his own way is demeaning public life here as Trump is in US.
@Independent “The Missus” or “The Wife” are so 1960s #LesDawson or the language of #CarryOn movies. Incredibly patronizing even before #metoo . Only interesting thing about Dominic Raab is he looks like #Brodie from @Homeland - who got hung #ToryLiars
The entire story in 54 seconds. As told by Emily @maitlis
Some people on here seem more enraged that a slave-trader’s statue was pulled down (why was it still up?) than they were by George Floyd being slowly murdered on camera by a racist cop. This strikes me as a ‘problematic’ mindset...
Most of the Victorian architecture and monuments in Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds are there because of the wealth created by a cotton and sugar industry which relied almost wholly on slave labor in the southern US and Caribbean plantations. So how far do you take #BLM?
@robinince A rare gem in a pathetic @BBCNews: 8.40 today and Professional Northerner Dan with Louise sit in front of an image of post industrial decline, giggling about lettuce and a lack of toilets, while @kayburley covers heightening concerns in Brazil & @GMB praise ICU team #COVID__19
