classical music audience member since 1976, insufficiently gay, greenish-socialist, CPTSD survivor #InsertTibetanFlag
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Such a deliberately stupid and misleading post from a far-right anti-science pressure group. People are embarrassing themselves by liking it.
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Very worried now about the future of the BBC's classical music funding, performance, and broadcasting.
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Moaning about chocolate packaging? But happy to buy choc eggs made with child slavery? Your kids enjoy choc at Easter, while one million children aged 5 and up work in cocoa farms using highly toxic chemicals, sharp metal objects, heavy loads, often trafficked, zero pay or rest.
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Great piece
Mar 22
The row over the Trafalgar Square iftar has seen Jews and Christians coming to the defence of Muslims.
My thoughts on a fascinating and important trend:-
comment.press/iftar
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Andrew Mitchell π³οΈβππΊπ³ retweeted
Mar 22
The Bourne Identity (2002) / The Hidalgo Legacy (2026)
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Andrew Mitchell π³οΈβππΊπ³ retweeted
Mar 22
Almost every sentence here is wrong
Wind farms allow farming to continue around them, their land footprint is small, &they produce the cheapest new electricity available
Turbines are steel, concrete & copper, & much is reusable or recyclable
Calling it a scam doesnβt make it one.
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Meanwhile in the UKβ¦.something something solar panels ate my homework but it was just the one time something something β¦
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Andrew Mitchell π³οΈβππΊπ³ retweeted
Mar 21
Some food for thought in case anyone is believing the words of Farage or Nicholas Timothyβ¦
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Another dimwit conveniently forgetting the 26 Lords Spiritual, who do in fact impose their views on us as unelected, theocratic voting members of the legislature.
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Extraordinary that right-wingers think this disingenuous crap advances their argument. 5 cantons (3 of them among highest canton GDP per capita) have a minimum wage, 5 more are considering. 1/2
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Collective Labour Agreements/Federal Standard Employment Contracts also mostly include minimum wage. CLAs cover ~50% of Swiss workers, are legally binding across a whole labour sector. Why misrepresent this, unless you are a shill propagandist? 2/2
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Andrew Mitchell π³οΈβππΊπ³ retweeted
Mar 21
@lisanandy It is your duty as the Media and Culture Secretary to act on the breaking of broadcasting rules and regulations by @GBNEWS which is @reformparty_uk TV. The country has had enough of hard right politicians and wealthy foreign billionaires breaking broadcasting rules.
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Andrew Mitchell π³οΈβππΊπ³ retweeted
Mar 21
The decision to drop charges against IDF soldiers accused of raping a male Palestinian prisoner is immoral and depraved. It also collapses the defence against genocide charges made by Israeli lawyers at the Hague. Irfan Chowdhury and I write for MEE:
middleeasteye.net/opinion/hoβ¦
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Sack @Ofcom CEO Dawes with no pay-off or pension. Hold a judicial inquiry into their collaboration with the far-right. @cj_dinenage @lisanandy @CommonsCMS
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Andrew Mitchell π³οΈβππΊπ³ retweeted
Mar 20
Have the media forgotten about this?
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Andrew Mitchell π³οΈβππΊπ³ retweeted
Mar 20
LBC EXCLUSIVE: 'Strip his knighthood': Minister backs review of ex-environment agency chief's honour over toxic water scandal.
James Bevan presided over the utter decimation of the Environment Agency and every river in the country. Current project is that by next year just 6% of England's river will be in good ecological condition. That is his legacy.
Should we show him any deference? None whatsoever, strip him of his knighthood.
lbc.co.uk/article/calls-to-sβ¦
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Andrew Mitchell π³οΈβππΊπ³ retweeted
Mar 20
Johnson and Sunak and Hancock and Gove and Tory Collective Cabinet
#democide negligence whilst in public office
They should be prosecuted and justice seen to be done
The impact of Covid was βdevastatingβ because the NHS was in a "parlous state" before the outbreak.
A decade of underfunding by the Tory government.
How many people died because the Tory Party deliberately tried to destroy the NHS.
@KemiBadenoch @Jeremy_Hunt @Conservatives
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RT @JohnCrookes7: Must admit the Tory government worked really hard to gift billions of taxpayers money to their friends via VIP lanes, tesβ¦
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Andrew Mitchell π³οΈβππΊπ³ retweeted
Mar 20
Another nail in Johnson's coffin. Why isn't be in prison? Or at least in court?
Sir Paul Nurse explains that his institute and many other laboratories had the willingness and capacity to roll out Covid-19 testing to the nation. He wrote to government at the time with that offer βWe didnβt get any response from David Warr or the Prime Minister, no we did notβ
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Andrew Mitchell π³οΈβππΊπ³ retweeted
A reminder that the Conservatives gave Β£4.7 billion in Covid contracts to donors supporters and their associates.
Mar 19
π¨ WATCH: Kemi Badenoch says people "who are stronger" have an obligation to stop shoplifters
She says she would do so depending on "how big they are"
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Andrew Mitchell π³οΈβππΊπ³ retweeted
Mar 20
In Operation Cygnus @Jeremy_Hunt deliberately cut funding for PPE stockpile against recommendation
This led directly to 1000s of preventable deaths of NHS staff
This was reported in #CovidInquiry & then covered up by Tory-run @BBCNews @BBCPolitics because its critical of Tories
Well worth a knighthood.
Wrecked the NHS,
Undermined pandemic planning,
Stopped the bursary for nurses,
Stopped vaccination,
Deliberately ruined public finances for the next government,
Lied to the OBR.
@Jeremy_Hunt @KemiBadenoch @Conservatives @MelJStride
The tip of the iceberg.
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