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@fromarsetoelbow Crace is particularly superficial and not remotely amusing.

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@bat020 @alex_callinicos @FT Da yoof won't have a clue who he is.

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@bat020 @alex_callinicos @FT Cleese is hardly a major 'influencer' though is he? Why use him?

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@fromarsetoelbow So we're in for a rerun of the 2007/2008 global financial crisis?

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@fromarsetoelbow Lib Ddem supporters were amongst the most cultist of Starmer supporters.

[Tom Gann @Tom_Gann]

It’s wrong, I think, to read this as a mistakenly archaic piece of English nationalism. It’s surely a species of disingenuous anti-reparations argument: “by your logic, France should be paying us reparations for the Norman Conquest”.

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@paulewart23 Dumb, venal and corrupt.

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@paulewart23 Everything that is wrong with our political and, by extension media, class summed up in this one individual.

[A whiff of grapeshot @paulewart23]

One last lie from one of the world's great liars.
A complete sociopath chasing freebies across the globe.

https://t.co/9s0WLxrxQH

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@fromarsetoelbow Emblematic of our rotten, political class.

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@bat020 Sounds about right.

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@tonyannett Wasn't he lacking in ideas and generally intellectually inferior to Zinoviev, Kamenev, Bulgarian, Trotsky et al?

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@bat020 Rich person advises government to not tax rich people is a story as old as time itself.

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@bat020 @SimonPeterGreen Is that Baudrillard?

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@ejhchess @fromarsetoelbow It means exactly that. It always has.

[rupertnewton @bklyn_newton]

@Simon_Nixon @thetimes This thread.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

To the bad faith “So it shouldn’t have been covered at all?” brigade. You know that’s not the point. The point is that it shouldn’t have been covered in a wildly disproportionate manner, it shouldn’t have been subject to breaking news alerts, there shouldn’t have been scores of sneering columns and dirt digging, there shouldn’t have been TV discussions in which right wing rent-a-gobs were given free rein to spout thinly-veiled racism, it shouldn’t have gone on for weeks, and it shouldn’t have been ignored that there was a fallible human being at the centre of it, or that we’ve been here with others before. The sheer amount of coverage, and the tenor of much of it, was clearly not in the public interest and points to a profoundly broken media environment.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

One well-known rightwing journalist famously only got into Oxford because his father, a Labour peer, happened to an old friend of the admissions tutor. That hasn't stopped him telling us that the Arday affair highlights the slide in standards at Cambridge.