@StephenArkley @AlexSmith90014 @jk_rowling Do they overwhelmly support shaming homosexuals for not sleeping with members of the opposite sex?
Any evidence for the implied trend?
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Ian Turton
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@AlexSmith90014 @jk_rowling I care about statistical trends not what rando's say on x and the statistics show LGB people support trans rights overwhelmingly. And the biggest supporters are bisexual and lesbian women. Rowling is living in la la land to not acknowledge this
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The gay rights movement is currently host to a cannibalising ideology that blames and shames homosexuals for not sleeping with members of the opposite sex. Amnesty International is on the side of the persecutors.
Gethin Chamberlain@newsandpics
Amnesty International is accusing lesbians and gay men of ‘transphobia’ in its LGBTQI+ Rights teaching materials available for use in schools.
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This from my sister Juliet about lessons from last night’s England men’s defeat. She has a point. “Also the positive thing England men's football could do is to consult with women at all levels and in all positions and in more team sports than football, to find out how they win and continue to win. There is of course the Lionesses, but also the England rugby girls who never get beaten and of course they could talk to Tamsin Greenway.
The other people they could also talk to, look into what they do, are those involved in Australian team sport. They have the winning formula in just about everything.”
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Coventry care company ‘Momo & Tarek Care Ltd’ assigned 648 certificates of sponsorship for the ‘Skilled Worker’ route from 21-24. As a comparison, Apple assigned 687; Microsoft assigned 505.
According to 24/5 accounts, Momo&Tarek had 6 employees (avg.) In 23/4; 0 employees🧵1/6
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“And I want to pay my tributes to Ann, who we all remember as someone who was always passionate about introducing new regulations to tackle hate online”
“I want to join you in paying tribute to Ann. We all know the cause she most believed in was banning VPNs - I think it’s really important we begin drafting new legislation to that end in her memory”
“Ann just couldn’t bear to see people exposed to the kind of content you see online today. We may have disagreed politically but it’s only right I think that we honour her by protecting people from it”
Lucy Powell MP@LucyMPowell
Earlier today I paid tribute to Ann Widdecombe, called for more civility in political debate and for further action to tackle hate propagated online.
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Bit of an ideological Turing test here. Can Polanski really not think of *any* reason other than ‘cruelty’ that the government (annual deficit: £23bn) might want to stop spending billions per year on benefits for people who are not citizens?
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What did she mean by ‘bin men’? Is this a slang term I don’t understand or was she just shitting on low status work?
Natalie Fleet MP@NatalieFleetMP
Apologies for offence caused by my earlier tweet, which I’ve now deleted. My thoughts are - as they have always been - with Ann Widdecombe’s loved ones at this awful time.
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Ian Turton retweetledi
I’ve unveiled a secret project today. One that we’ve been working on for the past year.
Something that can add a billion pounds a year to the economy of the north while making the environment better.
And we think we can deliver it at no cost to government.
Ambitious, right?
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I wish to point out that the money raised by the Secret
Policeman's Ball writers and casts was intended to
be used for work against political imprisonment and torture
Not for the purposes of the mob who have taken Amnesty over
J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling
Translation: oops, didn’t realise people outside our ideological bubble are THIS pissed off about the loss of sex-based rights. We remain implacably opposed to any organisation fighting to retain them, but shove in the words ‘rights of women’ to keep the bigots happy.
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@Jimsbiggermouth @abathingek @BertieFandango @TurkTalksFC When you think about it, winning isn't really about winning. They should call it something else.
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And why does that make a difference you fucking idiot? The point (which you have obviously missed) is that you can win stuff and not be ‘a winner’. The wider point is that here people are saying Tuchel is a ‘winner’ for saying the team played dog shit … while somehow ignoring the fact they are playing shit is partly because HE IS THE MANAGER. Winners get players playing well - that what winning looks like.
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@mrianleslie @dsmiffy55 JB had an easy out that he seemed quite keen not to take.
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@dsmiffy55 People seem very keen to dump on the journalist! I thought his question was fair but even if not JB’s answer was revealing of how he feels about TT. No harm in acknowledging that, it’s not a criticism of him.
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Yes I think it’s a bit more than ‘creative tension’ or misunderstanding etc; the way JB spoke indicated personal dislike of Tuchel, that might be a problem at some point
Miguel Delaney@MiguelDelaney
One thing on Bellingham-Tuchel is that it feels needless, especially before an emotionally intense game Bellingham basically questioned Tuchel's playing career, which can be a sore point I do think it's fine, creative tension etc, but if they go out... the-independent.com/sport/football…
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Ian Turton retweetledi
Health & social care and pensions spending has simply consumed the British state (+ Debt service) All other functions of state are near post WW2 austerity nadirs.
Even mismanagemed national projects like £100B HS2 over its 20 yr construction only account of <0.1% of spending.
Fraser Nelson@FraserNelson
Never has UK government spent (or taxed) more. Yet - Newly-released prisoners sleep rough - Special-needs school provision is tanking - Defence is decaying Austerity is back - driven by out-of-control spending (welfare, HS2, SEND etc) My column:- times-comment.com/austerity
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As with the corruption of the once-liberal Amnesty, progressivism is the parasite: infecting the nervous system of a once-socialist organisation, forcing it to climb upwards to die on a hill, where it explodes its original secular, anti-racist, feminist, anti-authoritarian brain.
Subversive Force@SubversiveForce
Fantastic to see the immense Palestinian contribution to the mining community being recognised. Durham Miners’ Gala today.
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@guitar_al @rcolvile @alexmassie I wish some on the Left would understand what 'some on the Left' means
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@rcolvile @alexmassie Please don't blame "the left" for his fuckwittery.
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I wish some on the Left would apply a basic sense test to their 'research'. If landlords really were making a 70% pre-tax profit margin, as this report claims, people would be flooding into the sector - instead, they're fleeing in droves.
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My take on the UK Government’s new anti-vaping measures.
clivebates.substack.com/p/uk-governmen…
They have no idea what they are doing and will make everything worse. They misunderstand youth vaping and don't care about the far larger numbers of adults at far greater risk.
@jamesmurray_ldn
@DHSCmedia
@DHSCgovuk
@CMO_England
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@_AashishReddy @AaronBastani No mention of the word in the linked Substack article either.
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@AaronBastani You’re not responding to a tweet that says he’s stupid, but one that says he’s wrong, which he is, and which is consistent with his degrees. Weird motte-and-bailey.
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Something these guys struggle with is Gary Stevenson sounds like he does, while having a first in maths from the LSE, and a masters from Oxford.
20 years ago the right would have pointed to that as evidence of grammar schools working. Now we just get nonsense.
Kristian Niemietz@K_Niemietz
"He appears to have confused his online fame with knowing things. But Gary is a political campaigner, not an expert. He’s the Greta Thunberg of tax." konstantinkisin.com/p/gary-stevens…
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Someone who gets a first in maths, from the LSE, in their first two years, isn’t ‘stupid’.
They can be wrong, of course - anyone can be wrong - but pointing to a lack of intellectual aptitude, or lack of credentials, is plainly idiotic.
Like I say, big part is his class.
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Oh look. Dan Needle explaining why nothing can ever change because sensible. What he never seems to understand is that if nothing changes eventually Lenin comes along and hangs sensible from the nearest tree.
Anglo Futurism Capital LP 🇬🇧🐿️@RollingHedge
Tax’s final boss @DanNeidle nails @garyseconomics here. Dan is probably the last man in Britain you’d want to have an argument about tax with, what he doesn’t know fits on the back of a grain of rice 🤣
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I think the fairest way to put it is this: Ukraine has finally found a thread that could potentially lead it to victory over fascist Russia in this war, and it is now beginning to follow that thread slowly through the dark and horror.
Mattia Nelles@mattia_n
As everyone, I am at awe at the successful Ukrainian mid-strikes. The hundreds of strikes by few units (!) are changing the perception of how the war is going. But claims that 🇺🇦 has already “seized the initiative” across parts of the front are, for now, premature. A 🧵
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@ZenquorLabs @DanNeidle He wasn't, as you claimed '"ambushed" by questions on a wealth tax', was he? There is no complaint about those questions.
The ambush was the irrelevant/desperate/plain stoopid 'you deleted your/other people's tweets'
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@turtmcfly @DanNeidle No comprehension issue—you just missed the point. Dan literally called the interview an "ambush" and said he "considered walking out" over a tweet thread dispute. Calling a tax lawyer fragile for crying ambush isn't a reading problem; you're just deflecting.
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I don't usually write personal stuff, but a few words about my experience of being interviewed by Gary Stevenson.
It started with a nice chat, comparing taste in hoodies... then the tone changed. He demanded to know why I'd deleted a tweet criticising him.
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