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Julie warren retweeted
The two strikes that helped us to progress in the Cheshire Senior Cup 👌
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Crewe Alexandra are delighted to confirm the return of James Jones on a short-term deal 🙌
Welcome home, Jonah! 🏡
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Julie warren retweeted
How many MP signatures on my parliamentary motion rejecting slavery reparations/apologies?
One. Me.
It’s time for a new set of MPs.
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🚨WATCH! Andrew Neil has just delivered one of the strongest, most necessary interventions of the week on this absurd “mystery celebrity” high court injunction. He is completely right, and anyone in a position of power should be paying attention.
He is clear-eyed about the ruling itself: “I’m delighted he’s ruled that way. I’m not so delighted he’s kicked it into the long grass and we still can’t name this person.”
Then he gets to the heart of it: “It really is ridiculous to stop legitimate newspapers and broadcasters who’ve done a legitimate investigation into somebody’s behaviour which seems unsavoury to put it mildly, not to be able to publish because that person says he’s gonna kill himself. You might as well shut down the British media if that’s the case.”
This is exactly the point. We indulge this sort of nonsense far too often in Britain. A celebrity with the means to hire expensive lawyers should not be able to muzzle legitimate reporting of serious allegations simply by invoking mental health or the threat of self-harm. Money must not be allowed to buy silence, and threats of this kind must not become a reliable tool for suppressing scrutiny.
@afneil is equally sharp on the contrast with America. Speaking from the US, he notes that a case like this would never have seen the inside of a courtroom. The First Amendment would have stopped it dead. As he puts it, we need to stop allowing our media to be “cribbed and confined and intimidated by people who are trying to hide their own wrongdoing by muzzling the media”.
The whole situation is made even more ridiculous by the fact that everyone already knows who it is. The name has circulated freely in Scotland because the ruling does not apply there. Yet the English media remain gagged from publishing their own investigation and the allegations themselves. It is a farce.
We need to get much tougher on this. The more the courts entertain these applications, the more people will keep using them to bury inconvenient truths. Let the press do their jobs.
Julie warren retweeted
At what point do we stop focusing on who needs to pay more tax and start asking where all of our tax money is going.
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Burnham handing the moaning Caribbeans £40 million of OUR money following their slavery reparation demands is, and I don't use this word lightly, a traitorous decision.
Julie warren retweeted
This is indeed extraordinary. It’s fixed. This government is destroying Britain and doing it quite deliberately.
Who gave them such a stinking great majority that they can do it? 🤔 - you know who that was.
Extraordinary. Just 18 per cent - 36,000 - of the 202,000 people who responded to the consultation on the Home Office's crackdown on indefinite leave to remain were British citizens. Three quarters were "current visa holders". Critics now asking if it is any wonder Shabana Mahmood's immigration reforms were watered down. More now on @GBNEWS.
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Instead of such negativity please help us share love and positivity by sharing my beautiful boys picture ♥️
#CancerHasNoColours
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Labour warns the people to 'be ready' for an emergency when the government itself is not. It has no credibility on the matter. youtu.be/QjMry1I8Lf0?is=ZMdn… via @YouTube
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“The response from the players in the second half was really good.”
Lee Bell talks to the media about today’s 1-1 draw against Barnet FC 🗣️
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Agreed. British TV, for all its tedious boasting about being dominated by public-service broadcasting values, no longer even contemplates this sort of documentary series. It’s too busy with Strictly and Love Island.
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Diabolical officiating throughout, but a beautiful parting gift from one of our own gets us the very least we deserved out of that.
We weren’t the best at times, but once we got it on the deck we played some good stuff, certainly weren’t at our worst either when it was going against us, a step in the right direction after the last two results. Never seen a team so eager to cheat and go to ground as Barnet.
A week of cup games now, hopefully some needed game time for some Tuesday and a good showing and into the hat on Saturday.
I hope this is the start of another unbeaten run, let’s see. 👀
UTA! ❤️🚂 #CreweAlex
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Another top class gesture from the club today.
Not many EFL clubs have the Chairman giving a signed shirt away to a fan led podcast celebrating a milestone No. Of episodes.
Thanks to all at #CreweAlex for today! No better club, in my eyes
Julie warren retweeted
No wonder Putin, Xi and the IRGC think that, in the 21st century battle between autocracy and liberal democracy, they’re winning.
Bearded Oxford University lecturer teaches female students while wearing large fake breasts, low-cut tops, red lipstick and nail varnish trib.al/X2gLoBg
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The most amazing, heart-breaking, dramatic start to any documentary series ever. TV at its finest.
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I agree with every word of this.
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
Julie warren retweeted
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.