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We invented watches.
And we invented the abolition of slavery.
We're yet to invent the abolition of crap analogies.
A stolen watch doesn’t become yours just because you pass it down to your children. So why apply a different rule to stolen labour, wealth and land? Reparations are about inherited benefit and inherited loss. Time doesn’t erase injustice.
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But we buy ISIS commanders their Co-Op.
EXCLUSIVE: The commanding officer of the SAS was placed under criminal investigation and referred to prosecutors over anti-ISIS mission in Syria.
Unprecedented move concerned police request for classified evidence, but effort to charge him collapsed thetimes.com/uk/defence/arti…
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Henry Cavil should be Bond.
Obvious is Obvious.
The four finalists for James Bond are:
• Callum Turner
• Josh O’Connor
• Jack Lowden
• Mystery Actor
Final screen tests are set to take place next week.
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What is happening in France could never happen here.
France is run by a Tiny Man with no clue what he's doing.
« Ce qui s’est passé aujourd’hui c’est un tournant. C’est la première fois qu’il y a un acte terroriste planifié pour tuer nos compatriotes, nos enfants, a raison de leur couleur de peau ou de la religion qu’on leur donne » « Ne baissez pas la tête »
Emmanuel Macron à Trappes.
Community note
La déclaration citée d'Emmanuel Macron n'est pas exacte. Des attentats terroristes planifiés ont déjà tué des enfants en France en raison de leur religion, comme celui de Mohammed Merah en 2012 à l'école juive Ozar Hatorah de Toulouse.
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Law firms run on pretty simple metrics.
An Associate gets 1/5 of what they bill.
So if we opened the coal mines, and the same maths applied (why not? I could make it profitable)
Then every coal miner would earn £140,000
Who wants coal mines back?
US productivity is around 30 tonnes per employee per shift. At today's spot price, that's about £700,000 of coal production per miner per year. How much of that would be sufficient to persuade people to go down.
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Always honoured to talk to New Culture Forum!
Latest appearance on the @NewCultureForum.
Great to join @Emma_A_Webb and @SBarrettBar.
We discussed the riots in France, ‘clean up crews’, and migrant crime.
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As a family, I have instituted Family Classic Movie Night
Literally DVDs of the classics (DVDs are amazing value now)
Small Person has poured scorn on The Brady Bunch (which I love)
In favour of Jason and the Argonauts!
Happy Weekend 🥳
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We all see what this is.
11am on 11th November is sacred to our troops - including good Muslims.
The Islamist extremists can **** off.
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Pathetic joke of a Tiny Man.
"I'm not going to apologise".
Andy Burnham tells @MattChorley he's not sorry for his appearance on a special edition of Gogglebox.
He explains he wants to lead the country "with levity and positivity".
Listen to the full interview on BBC Sounds.
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The Charity sector has also been corrupted by a Marxist infection
Everything has.
I was supposed to get rich and not tell you. 🙄🤡
When people donated their hard earned money to a charity to build and maintain London’s bridges over the last 850 years - I can guarantee you that not one of them expected that their money would be diverted to organisations called:
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It appears the New Statesman is having a seizure.
Owen Jones has, for the last three years, revealed himself to be a man of enormous courage, integrity and truthfulness. No one should think for a minute that his relentless defence of Palestinian rights and historical truth is easy or comes without heavy personal costs. Throughout the genocide in Gaza, Jones remained a tireless bur rigorous and supremely decent voice. I suspect part of what initially moved him was the strong displeasure in being treated like an idiot by the official propaganda – a noble motive in itself – but there is no question he has been genuinely touched by the images of suffering arriving daily from Gaza. And yet, how does his intellectual fixation on a battle between left and right help us understand the horrors of Gaza, or move us to stop them? My impression is that the opposite has happened. People look at what is happening in Gaza and ask themselves what a person on the right or on the left should think. In many cases this is ideology. In most, simply careerism and group association. Jones shows how limited the perspective really is. How about, like the author himself, asking how a human being should feel? How about returning to the world of facts and feelings rather than our endless Marvel franchise? newstatesman.com/culture/boo…
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Modern political Lawfare is the equivalent of Private Armies in the late Roman Republic.
The future's grim.
Hundreds of lawyers are spending election week in war rooms & courthouses, ready to file at a moment's notice
More than a dozen national firms are in it w/ @DDAction_, & our complaints are already written
Bring it on
More @FT👇 -TN
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"Have we got a lot of time?"
Words spoken by Churchill, slightly before the war.
They chill me to the bone.
Have we got a lot of time?
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I consider @GBullstein one of my closest allies
Every day he posts calm and clear explanations of what a Communist/Socialist society is like
So you can see the features and realise *now* is a Socialist country
It's not a thing we might do - we are
Follow him - or miss out.
The Communist Manifesto put it bluntly: the theory of the Communists “may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”
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