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“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in a scornful tone “it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.” “The question is” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is” said HD, “which is to be master – that's all.”
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“As George Orwell said, ‘freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two is four. If that is granted, all else follows.’ If a man can be a woman, there is no such thing as a woman. That might not matter to you personally, but it matters to millions of women who don’t have the luxury of pretending that their sex doesn’t matter.”
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Rob Pointon
English painter Shelter in a Café Oxford Road
2023
Plein Air artist ( outside) in Oils
@helen_warlow
#Art
It would be brilliant if you could talk a lot about this Rosie. This is an absolutely fundamental existential issue and therefore a uniting cross-party issue. I can't think of a better advocate than you.
There are so many things wrong with the Greens' narrow echo chamber, but one aspect is their absolute determination to alienate decent voters of all political persuasions who care deeply about their local environment, climate change and our planet...
They've assumed that only the most extreme ideological zealots are worth courting. Not only very arrogant, but politically really dumb.
In Kent, I know many farmers, grandparents, those involved in the Cathedral, many traditionally Tory voters, who would site biodiversity, the overdevelopment/housing in Kent, loss of vital green spaces, as their top issue. Yet their concerns fall on deaf ears from most main parties, and unless they buy into all this other aggressive madness, the Greens don't appeal at all. As I'm Independent, I get to choose which aspects I know concern my constituents the most, regardless of Party lines I disagree with. And that's so much more reflective of this country's mostly tolerant, caring, sensible and balanced outlook in my experience.
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What Burnham has achieved here is politically sensational.
With the Triple Lock reform set out accurately and the savings hypothecated to a National Care Service, a clear majority back it:
64% support it and 15% oppose: net +49.
Support outnumbers opposition in every age group, including those most affected:
-> 55-64: 61% support, 16% oppose
-> 65+: 55% support, 27% oppose
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It's marvellous how this king can make public statements to clarify what he feels like! can write letters to make his point! but cannot say anything over the last 10 years calling out the blatant abuse and hounding of his son and his family
#AbolishTheMonarchy
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Nigel Farage still hasn't said anything about what happened in Middlesbrough. Neither have Suella Braverman, Robert Jenrick or Tommy Robinson.
If two police officers had died after a head-on collision with five Brown or Black men who were driving the wrong way down a road while trying to get away from another police car somewhere like Birmingham, and more than 200 extra police officers from forces across the UK were deployed because of gang-related disorder, I promise you Nigel Farage would have come out of hiding and called for "pure cold rage". Robert Jenrick would have been calling it a "no-go zone", Suella Braverman would have been pretending that she had tried to do something about it, and Tommy Robinson would have been inciting another racist riot.
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“I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.”
- Dolly Parton
Oscar Wilde could never.
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An amazing video of Dolly Parton singing one of her most famous songs in Páidí Ó Sé’s pub in Ventry Co. Kerry 🇮🇪 in 1990
How did Páidí pull that coup off
#RIPDolly
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The time Dolly Parton and Kermit jammed to Sly and the Family Stone.
This is always how I will remember her.
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Three days in a row that #BBCBreakfast have headlined Harry and Meghan as their top story. The BBC has been well and truly captured by rightwing Daily Mail type salacious gossip journalism. It’s embarrassing how damaged the BBC’s brand and credibility has become in recent years.
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There should be a hall of residence for MPs. Each MP has access to a small apartment with sitting room, double bedroom, bathroom and small kitchen. When the MP loses their seat they move out and the next MP for that constituency takes over the residency. No need for second homes.
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I’ve travelled all over the world. I’m fortunate to have done so. When I’m abroad I have had text alerts to risk.
Nobody started losing their fucking minds over it. They appreciate the heads up.
Honestly, it’s like living in a country with toddlers. Grow the fuck up.
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The real scandal isn't one bad academic; it's the failure of Cambridge, the academic community, and the media to deal with obvious academic misconduct and fraud. And every day they deny or minimize it, the scandal gets worse.
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The Arday saga is amusing but the institutional rot at the heart of the university system is another thing altogether.
