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He is a foul, vicious dictator — and yet, “Other leaders have dallied with this Putinesque strategy of sustained untruth.”
The lesson Putin teaches: ultimately, lies destroy your world view, your sense of reason, your conscience, everything.
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"This then is the great irony — that China and Russia didn’t become more like us. We have become more like them. As proof of that fact, you need only look to the unrepentant liar in No10."
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‘In the name of God, go’: has David Davis done for Boris Johnson? thearticle.com/in-the-name-o…
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To help you digest all that turkey, here's a piece I wrote, described by a reader as: "Totally bonkers reasoning full of non sequiturs and countless other logical fallacies."
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“Boris Johnson is not very good at politics — and by ‘politics’ I mean the governing part, rather than the scheming, power-grabbing part. I say this not out of malice, but with enormous regret. Because Johnson’s failures are our country’s failures.”
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"He came to power promising a seat at the top table. We ended up with a border down the Irish Sea and quarrels with the French about fish."
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Evergreen piece on @TweetTheArticle (if I say so myself)
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If you would care for something that is not about parties at No10 but that will almost certainly irritate you, then please see the below:
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thearticle.com/the-greatest-… The debate continues. @DanBJohnson's well-argued response to @JayElwes: Who is the Greatest Artist of the 20th century and why?
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thearticle.com/who-was-the-g… Am intriguing and provocative piece by @JayElwes on who was the greatest artist of the 20th century. You don't have to agree with his final choice to enjoy the journey.
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Social progress is necessary, and work and family have their pleasures. But neither can affect our nature and deliver us from our failings, passions, unsatisfied ambitions, the general endless of our requirements. But intellect can. My latest on the delights of intellectualism.
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I gave this the following rating on TheArticle @tweetthearticle: Well written 5/5, Interesting 5/5, Agree 5/5. thearticle.com/boris-johnson…
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"Trump’s electoral fraud claims are providing the kindling for openly anti-democratic ideas on the American right" - my latest for @TweetTheArticle thearticle.com/is-the-americ…
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Ahead of the Chancellor’s “Age of Optimism” Budget Speech today—how the optimists failed Britain:
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Rees Mogg has "achieved the remarkable feat of appearing both a drip and rather sinister at the same time. To discourage people from wearing masks is to encourage the spread of Covid — anti-mask arguments about liberty and oppression lack all proportion."
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2021 Contrarian Prize
"...it is contrarians that fight for plurality of thought & stand up for what they believe to be right. It is vital that they continue to do so"
As a previous nominee I'm looking forward to meeting fellow Contrarians
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A good read, we need realism, and we get deluded optimism, and that’s it.
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I wrote a thing...
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