People have argued over this for centuries but pretty sure I can crack this today on twitter via sarcasm.
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Left Outside retweeted
Re the UK's current immigration issues, the utterly toxic failure is primarily because the Tories throughout tried to do John Howard's evil-but-clever con-trick (as also successfully followed by Rudd, Gillard, Rudd, Abbott, Turnbull), but failed because of physical reality. (1/7)
Left Outside retweeted
Some good news*: they lost this battle and Bristol Street Car Park will be demolished! 🥳
architectsjournal.co.uk/news…
* Decision was made in March
NEWS // End of the ramp or green future for innovative Bristol carpark?
A historic 1950’s multistorey carpark in Bristol – the first of its kind in the UK – is currently threatened with demolition, prompting C20 to submit a listing application.
More: buff.ly/3kgANEK
ALT Image credit: Archidave - Flickr
Left Outside retweeted
Just insane that planning applications can be scuppered after a consent by these vandals. How many hundreds of thousands of pounds of value and hours of private and public sector time have been destroyed to save a glorified bus stop?
🚨UPDATE: We're delighted that 71 Whitney Drive in Stevenage has just been designated Grade II following C20's listing application, saving the house from a consented demolition.
Designed in 1966 by Derrick Shorten as his family home, Shorten was also project architect on the listed Coventry Railway Station (1962).
Left Outside retweeted
Harris: We must make the economy work for everyone.
Trump: Spaghetti? Have you heard of this pasta? Terrible pasta shape, Chef Boyardee was not a beautiful man.
RFK Jr.: When I was a young man I kept a dead chimp in my garage for 67 days.
Left Outside retweeted
Fantastic tidbit on the MEN's rolling coverage today from the sentencing of one of the rioters:
manchestereveningnews.co.uk/…
ALT Mitigating, Miss Black said: “My client said he was using this in relation to an abscess in his gums, for pain relief. He did not realise it was cocaine on purchase.”
Left Outside retweeted
it is really important to keep in mind the people involved in these riots, if they were all brought together, would not fill a League Two stadium. this is not class war, it is the same coked up thugs doing their stupid business all at the same time rather than one by one
Left Outside retweeted
It wasn't just that they failed it was that they *deliberately chose* not to process claims on the absurd basis that 100k people could be sent to Rwanda.
A decision cheered on by many of those now complaining about the number of asylum seekers in hotels.
Left Outside retweeted
even tho this was made by a hedge fund manager to dunk on me, it’s still insanely funny
Left Outside retweeted
I feel stupid and ashamed. In May, an expose came out on CNN detailing the abuses in Sde Taiman. Then, the NYT released their own article on it. Both were backed up with Israeli sources, crossed with Palestinian ones.
I dismissed them because my government sources and Israeli media denied them. My whole life I was told that the international media was out to get Israel. That they were all antisemites.
But today, I realized how much I was lied to. By my country. By my friends. By my media. Today, many of the people I talked to who denied these allegations admitted they were true.
And the worst part? None of this is coming to light because the IDF and government have changed their hearts about it. Its coming out because the pressure from the UK, ICC and ICJ was getting too great to ignore. This would get Netanyahu, Gallant and the Chief of Staff in serious trouble. So they finally said the truth. That Israel is routinely torturing inmates. That sexual abuse is fairly common there. That people have been tortured to death.
Worst of all, many of the people in this facility were innocent. Rounded up by accident. But there was no real verification process before they were subjected to this hell on earth.
This can't go on.
Left Outside retweeted
Hezza’s first campaign was 1959 and he likes to tell the story of an early visit to a town hall in a no-win seat where the list of mayors in the town hall had a lone Conservative in 1942.
Intrigued, he asked what happened that year
Lord Heseltine has Tory whip restored five years after backing Lib Dems over Brexit independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
Left Outside retweeted
This is one of the coolest photos I've ever seen
📸 Jerome Brouillet/AFP via Getty Images
Left Outside retweeted
I’ll admit, of all the possible wedge issues in Israeli society, I did not expect “should we pretend to care about the military raping and torturing detainees” to be what causes civil conflict
