@BorisJohnson Don't you have something inane to say about Cyrus the Great, and leave the serious stuff to people who know better
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Eoin O'Connor
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Eoin O'Connor
@eoinvoconnor
not woke, because I wasn't asleep in the first place
Broxbourne, East Katılım Ağustos 2008
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We can’t pretend the Iran war is not our war too
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@Frances_Coppola Surely the majority of the straits have Spanish and Moroccan borders. Gibraltar is a small blip on that map and only significantly British while the locals want it so. Gibraltar has moved closer to Europe at every available step since Brexit.
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Because the tollgate is British.
Epic Maps 🗺️@theepicmap
Why hasn’t Spain put €2 million per ship toll here to finance their 52 billion/year deficit?? Are they stupid??
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@afneil Equinor is 67% owned by the Norwegian government. While their product is sold at market rates, they keep the majority of the value. It's a big difference to the UK.
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Nearly all Norwegian gas is sold into the European market at prevailing market prices ie it’s a free market. It is not sold ‘cheaply’ in the domestic Norwegian market.
The Norwegian people benefit from taxes on gas, the jobs it generates and the boost to the balance of payments, just as the British people similarly benefit, now on a smaller scale, from gas extracted from our part of the North Sea.
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@afneil Norway own theirs and use it for the good of the people we chose to place ours in the hands of free market capitalists , we can however control the price of renewables that we produce ourselves , not saying we can’t do both but don’t see the long term solution is anti net zero
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@revpaulwhite I'm an. Atheist and impressed. To have a 'western' religious leader be so clear about right and wrong is really painting the fake bible study sessions in the Oval Office as what they are.
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I am not a Roman Catholic but, wow, Pope Leo just gets more and more impressive.
camillao 🕊️💙@Mar90490
On Tuesday, Pope Leo explained why he decided to carry the Cross himself today along the entire Via Crucis : “I would like to invite all people of goodwill, people of faith, all Christians to walk together”.
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@YvetteCooperMP This law is just the latest injustice. Do something REAL instead of writing letters. You have powers. Stop selling arms. Bring the matter to the G7, UN and even work actively with your European colleagues to sanction people live Ben Gvir and Netanyahu.
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My statement with France, Germany and Italy on our united opposition to Israel’s death penalty law.
The death penalty is wrong and we oppose it around the world.
gov.uk/government/new…
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Eoin O'Connor retweetledi
Israel must immediately repeal the discriminatory death penalty law passed today by the Knesset, as it contravenes Israel’s obligations under international law.
The United Nations opposes the death penalty under all circumstances. The implementation of this new law would violate international law's prohibition of cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment.
Additionally, this law further entrenches Israel’s violation of the prohibition of racial segregation and apartheid as it will exclusively apply to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Israel, who are often convicted after unfair trials.
Read @UNHumanRights earlier statement and analysis about the death penalty draft bill:
ohchr.org/en/press-relea……
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@chris_kratovil Ah. The value of an Eton education. Quotes the classics freely but behaves dishonestly - lies, gives our money to his tart, illegally prorogued parliament, gave his friend Darius journalists personal details to have him beaten up.... What a fucking star!
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It’s not every day that one gets to listen to a former British Prime Minister recite from memory the opening passages of The Iliad in Ancient Greek, with no notes, in response to a random question from an undergraduate—and all while wearing what appear to be Thomas The Tank Engine socks. But today was one such day.
My thanks to my good friend Brad LaMorgese for the opportunity to see the colorful and comic Boris Johnson speak tonight at the University of Dallas.
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@LindseyGrahamSC @POTUS You're all barking mad. Start a war, no real plan. Wonder why no one else wants to join.
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Just spoke to @POTUS about our European allies’ unwillingness to provide assets to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning, which benefits Europe far more than America. I have never heard him so angry in my life. I share that anger given what’s at stake.
The arrogance of our allies to suggest that Iran with a nuclear weapon is of little concern and that military action to stop the ayatollah from acquiring a nuclear bomb is our problem not theirs is beyond offensive. The European approach to containing the ayatollah’s nuclear ambitions have proven to be a miserable failure.
The repercussions of providing little assistance to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning are going to be wide and deep for Europe and America.
I consider myself very forward-leaning on supporting alliances, however at a time of real testing like this, it makes me second guess the value of these alliances. I am certain I am not the only senator who feels this way.
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@WestminsterWAG It'll be the genocide. The fear is as irrational as the old 'no blacks, no dogs, no irish' sentiment but no one wants to accidentally share a house with a Zionist
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One in five university students in Britain say they wouldn’t share a house with a Jewish student - and yet many voice their support for an Iranian regime whose soldiers gang-raped two nurses so violently they had to have their internal organs removed.
How have we arrived at this point?
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@PressSec This is embarrassing. Stop killing people in a war you started.
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@SaulStaniforth @BBCNews why do you seem Israeli lives are worth more?
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As Israel slaughters hundreds of people in Lebanon and Iran and forces hundreds of thousands to flee their homes in terror, & while it continues its genocide in Gaza, Yolande Knell reports on the disruption to the daily lives of Israelis.
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@sahouraxo Marjorie Taylor Greene seems proof of the cult. When aligned to Trump, barking mad. Now she's outside, fairly reasonable positions. What's in the KoolAid?
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Marjorie Taylor Greene:
“If your church leaders and elected leaders tell you the way to bring Jesus back is by killing innocent children of innocent foreign people, in a foreign land you’ve never been to, then you’re believing the lies of wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing.”
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@DocAhmadMalik Maybe they could launch missile strikes against all the people/perps mentioned in the emails. I have the coordinates for Mar-a-Lago right here.
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@FullFact Even if it were true, we should celebrate that a largely non-muslim population are happy to appoint people from any background to mayoral roles
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Claims that 75% of England’s mayors are Muslim have gone viral online.
We could only find evidence that three of the country’s 27 directly elected mayors are Muslim, and there isn’t an official complete list of all the civic mayors.
fullfact.org/culture-and-so…
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@TomLondon6 @owenjonesjourno Interesting that Wes Streeting would rather it be known that he knows Israel is committing genocide than be exposed by his close relationship to Mandleson.
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Yes @owenjonesjourno
This is HUGELY IMPORTANT
Do not let this news be buried under the Starmer-is-still-there headlines tomorrow
Owen Jones@owenjonesjourno
Wes Streeting has admitted that Israel is committing war crimes. In doing so, he has admitted that his government has broken the law. The government is legally obliged not to sell combat aircraft components to states committing war crimes. middleeasteye.net/news/wes-stree…
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@Alonso_GD I remember Robin Cook resigning in protest against the UK going into the Iraq war
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BREAKING: Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance
"People aren't more productive working from home - it's a load of nonsense”
Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM
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@CamillaTominey I've never seen a picture of Epstein with a tie either. Must be significant.....moron
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Call me old fashioned but on the day the PM is fighting for his political life in Hastings - once the scene of a great British battle - he declines to wear a tie? Strange
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@narindertweets Mandleson was a bet, even a protection, against Trump. No one can say that but out loud in govt for obvious reasons. It went wrong, but putting a rat in the sewer was politics. Hold your nose.... Not a resignation issue for Starmer
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Starmer isn't in the Epstein files. Farage is.
Yes Starmer's appt of Mandelson was a dreadful decision but
the British press seem to think that we must hold Starmer to account because he is the PM but at the same time we must completely ignore Farage's mentions because he might become one?!
Can someone explain this to me?
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