I think the assumption that working class people walk around constantly using foul language is a middle class prejudice.
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Reckon it has more to do with adults not wanting to bring children into a world where half their income goes on renting a shitty box room.
0 official rapes if you make marital rape legal and require four witnesses
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Where I grew up:
0% income tax
0% sales tax
0% VAT
0% capital gains tax
0% homelessness
0 murders
0 burglaries
0 rapes
0 overdose deaths
100% employment
100% intact families
Free healthcare
Free schools
Free public transport
Higher salaries
People: "buT it'S noT saFE!"
I think Helen Lewis’ point is perfectly reasonable. I find it hard to see how anyone could disagree with it without going full woo woo
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My triple-vaxxed, 92-year-old grandmother has just had Covid for the first time. The main symptom was a runny nose. Vaccines work, go and get your boosters 💉 🦠
My beloved grandma is very poorly. Please send prayers/love/good vibrations etc.
So successful they had to put up a 13-foot high wall to stop people trying to leave
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In 1990 the experiment of communist East Germany came to an end.
Yet for a time it was a successful project, raising living standards against the odds.
@aaronbastani speaks to @hoyer_kat about Europe’s most successful communist country, the DDR.
youtube.com/watch?v=sCbM1W
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
According to Angus Madison, East Germany's GDP per capita in 1950 was 65% that of West Germany. By 1970, it was 59%, and, in 1990, 27%.
East Germany, in 1961, also had to build a wall to keep its citizens in.
stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Pa…
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Embarrassing
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Rayner: “I’m sick of shouting from the sidelines, and i bet youse lot are too. We cannot get any worse than a bunch of scum, homophobic, racist, mysoginistic, absolute pile …of banana republic…Etonian…piece of scum…and I held back a little…that I have ever seen in my life”
“I can’t believe it’s happened.”
Really? Look at the rhetoric that’s been normalised in recent years. On social media in particular it’s become de rigueur for people to dehumanise their political opponents in the most vile language imaginable.
On rotation in my phone depending on whether I want to see the person
He makes the murder of six million Jews sound like forgetting to put the bins out
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"I see no reason why every other country in the world should be prevented from feeling pride in itself because the Germans mucked up twice in a century."
-@DouglasKMurray at the #NatConUK gala dinner
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This afternoon I lost my beloved grandma; she died peacefully in hospital in Somerset: instagram.com/p/CZAfb8IIgBH/
Lol Amazon, the ethical choice
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Neil Young is directing fans to Amazon Music, as streaming services that carry his music have been promoting it in the days since he pulled his content from Spotify over his criticism of podcaster Joe Rogan on.wsj.com/3HfZzed
You literally flew out to Venezuela to stan for a dictatorship mate
Nothing happened to Russell Brand. His latest incarnation is a vindication of those of us who said back in 2014 that the divide between his conspiratorial ‘left’ populism and the right-wing version was wafer thin.
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What happened to Russell Brand?
This once-sexy communist has become an American culture wars pundit, writes @finn_mcredmond. newstatesman.com/comment/2023/0
How can you even date somebody knowing that they were once a baby. Gross smh
If Margaret Thatcher and John Major are considered worthy recipients of a knighthood then I fail to see why Tony Blair should be omitted.
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Seen off Omicron. Wouldn’t even say it was ‘like a cold’ tbh. It was milder than that. Self isolation itself was worse than the illness.
Because of course you find a show of anti-fascist solidarity ‘weird’
Day 4 of Covid and I feel pretty much over it. Worst part was a fever I had a couple of nights ago but that went away with some paracetamol. Intend to work as normal tomorrow. A ‘mild cold’ was accurate. The vaccines did their job. 🙏🏻
It’s not your doctor’s fault you can’t get an appointment.
My latest column for on a crisis caused by the government and blamed on GPs.
One of the most baffling aspects of the pandemic response has been the restriction of peoples’ opportunities for exercise in the name of ‘public health’.
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CONFIRMED: Parkrun in Wales is to be suspended from the 1st January.
No cases have been confirmed from the weekly 5km since it restarted in August.
blog.parkrun.com/uk/2021/12/22/
You couldn’t even exist as an organisation in Russia or China, and still you behave as if democratic countries are the main obstacle to peace.
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We are a movement based in the UK. We have no influence over Russian or Chinese govt's. So we focus our energies on opposing the imperialism of our govt and its allies which have destroyed at least 5 countries in the past 20 yrs. It's v simple.
My gran’s funeral today. Honoured to read the eulogy. Also, I love this photo. ❤️
If you want to ‘liberate’ men from chasing power and status you’re also going to have to have a conversation with women about why they consistently reward those things with sex
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Freddie Sayers believes Russia should be allowed to keep large swathes of Ukraine in the name of ‘peace’ and think ‘intemperate language’ is the main problem. gives his Putin apologia short shrift 👏
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Honestly just leave us alone
Beyond delighted to have produced my first documentary for and
The extraordinary story of Russia’s secret attempts to corrupt British politics, influence Government policy and undermine our democracy in the years before the invasion of Ukraine.
Reminder that there are some progressives out there waging a genuine war on masculinity and male bonding
Good we’re absolutely clear that when the right says they support freedom and don’t want the state interfering in people’s lives it’s a total lie
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People won't like this but it's the truth.
Islamic countries in the Gulf feel more 'Christian' to me in terms of values than most Western nations do.
Less Sodom & Gomorrah stuff going on. People are God fearing, conservative, and family oriented. No woke garbage.
A 'peace' compromise in which Ukraine gives up vast swathes of its land in exchange for the Russian dictatorship promising not to shell more hospitals. Fuck off.
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Obviously not what he’s saying. Rather that any peace settlement obviously requires compromise from both sides. Which is why it is sensible for Ukraine to be able to bargain from the strongest possible position (hence why it has a planned offensive).
These people are mad. twitter.com/J_Bloodworth/s…
Can’t we section these people or something. This isn’t normal.
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Anti-vaccine activist Michael Chaves and sovereign citizen "Jamie Freeman" served staff at Colchester Hospital with bogus legal notices today about the Nuremberg code and evidence that Covid is "an absolute plandemic hoax".
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Funny because it’s definitely less than 76% wearing masks in shops at present
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Miserable busybodies hit the jackpot with Covid. Enjoying a night out? SHAAAAME.
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..Why have you come to Carlisle from Glasgow?
..Because there are no restrictions and all of our friends have covid
#bbcnews #ToryCovidCatastrophe
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Either you are at the office, or you are with the terrorists.
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The British journalism awards should waive the entry fee if you’re from a working class background too.
I agree with all of the below; so why is social class completely left out of this interpretation of diversity? awards-bja.pressgazette.co.uk/how-it-works/
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Scam email alert. The scam scum have sent another batch of fake investment emails or with my picture in.
If you get one please forward it to [email protected]
Don’t want to shit on schemes likes this but if you believe in a ‘better representation of our diverse society’ you simply have to factor in class.
“The placements are unpaid”. Ah.
Her politics as pointless and ineffective as her plastic face shield
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Red brown alliance: first as tragedy, now reaching levels of farce
Weird how ‘real world experience’ always means lucrative consultancies rather than stacking shelves in Tesco.
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There is not a single person in this kingdom who believes that Sajid Javid took a £150,000 second job with a bank for the “experience”. twitter.com/tnewtondunn/st…
It’s the ‘fired for pronouns’ guy
Can’t even display a racist effigy hanging in a pub anymore, bloody world’s gone mad
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Home Secretary told the Mail online she is "furious" the police intervened on golliwog displays in an Essex pub.
Yet it seems the highly racist landlord had posted Facebook images of the Golliwogs hanging in his pub, writing "they used to hand them in Mississippi years ago"
Cancelling victims of genocide now
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Toronto District School Board superintendent vetoes student book event with Yazidi activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad because her memoir about being captured and sexually enslaved by Islamic State terrorists “would foster Islamophobia.”
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Just face up to the fact that nobody wants to live under your shitty communist system however much cringe Ostalgie you put out from London
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You’ll be shocked to hear we discuss that!
But given scale of DDR reparations to USSR, no Marshall Aid, & lack of domestic energy, growth it produced 1949-1970 was testament to its citizens.
Watch something before passing judgment on it, hard I know!
youtu.be/sCbM1WiV25o
Unsure why ‘progressive’ is treated as synonymous with ‘good’ when this seems to be what we’re progressing towards
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Lord of the Flies, The Handmaid's Tale, and To Kill a Mockingbird removed from some libraries in Canada as may be harmful to some staff and students.
Amazing how quickly the latter two of those books have gone from progressive texts to dangerous.
cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/boo
The feed of the editor of UnHerd is a full-on deluge of pro-Kremlin talking points.
Good, don’t be a scab
Every pundit and presenter boycotting Match of the Day after Gary Lineker axe
Capitalism got Americans angry at foreigners for not paying their wages rather than bosses for paying them $2 an hour. Here’s the tip: unionise. twitter.com/madisontayt_/s
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Can I reaffirm that you are unquestionably campaigning for those who don’t back independent trade unions if you “stand proudly” with the Cuban dictatorship.
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Jess Barnard at the Latin America conference 2021: “We must stand proudly with all Latin American socialist movements and Young Labour does.”
@JessicaLBarnard also reaffirmed Young Labour won’t campaign for those who don’t back workers & their unions in struggle.
Twitter is the main app for people who don’t have a social life. Extremist politics are a cope for extremely low status people who live out their lives on the computer
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This account is a good reminder of what kind of utterly unhinged people you can find on Twitter.
I’ve never encountered psychos like this in real life. I’m sure they exist, but you’re far less likely to encounter them compared to here. twitter.com/DelusionPostin…
Congratulation to the UAE for their purchase of the Champions League trophy
Not sure you get to be furious about this if you tolerate a ‘Cuba Solidarity’ stall every year at Labour conference
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EXCLUSIVE: The Conservatives will host the LGB Alliance at this year's party conference.
The charity has paid for a stall at the event, igniting a row within the party.
itv.com/news/2021-09-2
So-called peace groups are inverting the truth that subjugation at the hands of Russia has pushed countries towards Nato.
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BREAKING NEWS; A woman attacked by THREE loose & out of control dogs in a Park in Stepney East London today; such dogs have killed 29 people in Britain since 2010; as we can see this
lady was terrified as she came under a sustained attack by the dogs
lady was terrified as she came under a sustained attack by the dogs
Is not covid. She had a UTI which became a chest infection and then she had a fall. She’s strong though for a 92-year-old and today has actually improved on yesterday 🙏🏻
A decade on from Hitchens’ death, digital life discourages the free thinking and nonconformity that made him so compelling.
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Self-pitying to the very end. Amazing.
Mearsheimer spent 2014 parroting Russian disinformation, describing Euromaiden as an antidemocratic 'coup'. It was no such thing: the Ukrainian parliament acted against Yanukovych because his security forces opened fire on protesters. Yanukovych then fled to Russia.
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No it really wasn’t, hence all the warnings from Mearsheimer and other realist critics of Ukraine policy. twitter.com/J_Bloodworth/s…
Mehdi Hasan broadcasts in the US, has done for years and has practically zero influence in the U.K. these days
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The mafia might be problematic. Yikes. Not a good look.
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Are you sitting down? Tony Soprano might not be the "good fella" we all thought he was. Turns out he was a "problematic paisan".
How are you “interrogating” him? You didn’t even challenge his bogus claim that the Ukrainian government killed 14,000 ethnic Russians in Donbas! If you’re going to platform cranks, then actually interrogate them, don’t sit there nodding along when they tell lies
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…who is running for president and polling at 20% of voters of the governing party, so should be interrogated and better understood, rather than “no-platformed”?
Weird constituency of people in this country who think having a lethal allergy is a lifestyle choice.
The ego it must take to believe a musical superstar gives a shit about these endless milquetoast takes from factory-generated hacks writing for unviable clickbait outfits
The hedge fund billionaire-funded elites at UnHerd are heavily pushing a reactionary defeatist line on Ukraine
I don’t particularly care for this kind’ve thing but isn’t it interesting how much venom older women being sexual attracts twitter.com/HarmfulOpinion
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Humanity to Elon when we blast him into space in his own rocket and don’t let him return.
Reminded me of this
He’s correct and the others (especially purple hair) are as insufferable as you might expect
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The fact that you can fry people's brains with these classical-liberal centrist takes is a testament.
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“Woke culture” is an interesting translation of “30 billion black hole that I caused”
Classic UnHerd: lots of psychobabble followed by a call to give Moscow what it wants
The only way this could be any worse would be having to listen to her say it in that supercilious tone
Lots of unchallenged Kremlin propaganda in here, including the bogus claim that the Ukrainian government systematically killed 14,000 ethnic Russians in Donbas.
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Renegade challenger for the Democratic nomination @RobertKennedyJr tells me that only a coalition of Right and Left populists can "rescue American democracy."
Full interview here
unherd.com/2023/05/robert
unherd.com/2023/05/robert
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This is such a subjective thing that you can’t make blanket statements like this about it. Two parents are better - *when* they have a good or at least tolerable relationship. But no, you shouldn’t do *all you can* to keep people together. Sometimes it’s better to split up.
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My parents got divorced when I was five, so let me say this:
If somebody tells you that promoting strong families and doing all that we can to keep them together is reactionary, they have no idea what they're talking about.
@GoodwinMJ at #NatConUK
