James Cottrill

Founder of Accessium - We simplify access management for businesses.
Lover of skiing, SCUBA diving, climbing, gin, cooking and good food.

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So pleased to be able to say that googleTagManageR is now available on CRAN!
It's been a great learning curve developing my first package, hopefully it's useful to someone! https://t.co/hPTCJaxSHN

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@haveigotnews At war

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@LeeAndersonMP_ https://t.co/jsnoFRNYYt - Which? Answered this for you almost 5 years ago.

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@TorstenBell So replace him with any of the vast majority of the 200k family farmers. The point on IHT vs income still stands, your policy is ill thought out, poorly executed, should be reviewed. Is farming only for those with a 2nd job? Acknowledge you’re wrong rather than shifting the blame

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@Dannyrobyn22 @PolitlcsUK @guardian Maybe the actual realisation everyone should be arriving at is that Government isn’t easy. It’s very easy to sit on the outside and judge when you don’t have the whole picture, it’s much harder actually doing it and having to make the choices.

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@Nad5raf @TfL A breach doesn't have to involve any data exfiltration. It could be ransomware, a worm, a breach of some non-customer related system such as their code repositories. If your data aren't taken there's no compensation, even if they are there still might not be any.

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@RobToro2 @MayorofLondon Well they probably have a major cyber incident because they've been hacked… They're not going to know anything conclusive for weeks, months or years, depending on the complexity of the attack. Most likely cause - some form of user attack with privilege escalation.

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@CrowdStrike I tried to register on my laptop but I just get this random Blue Screen Of Death… any ideas how to fix it?

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@crandycodes What a great day to start!

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@noolivesthnx @Socialistdawn @PolitlcsUK @SkyNews Such a petty action by @Socialistdawn, reply then run away and not listen to any reasonable opinion because it doesn’t agree with his already decided position. This is a major problem with the far Left, they won’t hear opinions different to theirs no matter how right they are

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@PolitlcsUK @guardian Surely this is the more interesting comment. “I Remain convinced…” this isn’t I know, this isn’t I’m certain, it’s that she’s convinced it’s true. That doesn’t make it fact. It may be, but what she is saying isn’t that it’s true. This post wildly misrepresents that.

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@PolitlcsUK @guardian “remain convinced the government has completed its updated assessment on whether Israel is demonstrating a commitment to international humanitarian law, and that it has concluded that Israel is not demonstrating this commitment, which is the legal determination it has to make”

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A reminder that civilians can lie. This doesn’t negate all testimony, but just because it’s in a major news outlet doesn’t mean it’s true

[ياسر أبوهلالة @abuhilalah]

◾️◾️تبين من خلال تحقيقات حركة حماس إن قصة اغتصاب النساء في #مستشفى_الشفاء مختلقة، طبعا العدو لم يتورع عن جريمة إبادة .
◾️◾️بررت السيدة التي تحدثت عن الاغتصاب مبالغتها وحديثها غير الصحيح بأن الهدف أستثارة حمية الأمة ونخوتها ! وكأن أكثر من ثلاثين ألف شهيد وتسعين ألف جريح ونحو مليون نازح والدمار الشامل غير كاف !

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@aust1816 @WFHWORLD @implausibleblog And she’ll pay it back at 9% over 27K. Yeah, it’s not great and does add up, but it’s not debt in the same way that a loan is. It doesnt affect your credit score, can’t be called up and if you don’t earn enough you just don’t pay. How is she disadvantaged?

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@zarahsultana Evidently not islamophobic. No mention of your religion, or suggestion you’re responsible for their actions because you’re a Muslim. Everyone can & should call for the release of hostages and removal of Hamas. You’re just playing the religion card here when you know you’re wrong.

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@RickDronkers Absolutely no problem. Running a website costs something, even a basic one. VC funding for startups has given customers the idea that software is free, and they don’t want to pay for it. This says “it costs this much do you want to pay, or see ads? It needs to be paid for somehow

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@samowencoaching @Lowkey0nline When you say things like the “beheaded babies lie” you undermine yourself. You claim to show humanity, but dismiss the treatment of Jews as lies… that’s antisemitism. If you want to show humanity, that’s everyone, not everyone but the Jews. Doesnt mean you have to support Israel

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@simonmaginn @mfra666 @TaliChilson @philbotski @leftywright44 @DanielaNadj I never gave a number. There is an eyewitness account in there “Yossi Landau, the head of operations for the southern region of Zaka, Israel's volunteer civilian emergency response organization, told CBS News he saw with his own eyes children and babies who had been beheaded.”

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@simonmaginn @mfra666 @TaliChilson @philbotski @leftywright44 @DanielaNadj https://t.co/8rgkw5a2P1

[Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis @chiefrabbi]

Words matter.

A number of media organisations have editorial guidelines directing them not to use the term 'terrorist' in their reporting of the conflict between Israel and Hamas. 

These guidelines may be borne out of well-intentioned aspirations to appear accurate and impartial. But there is a point at which the failure to use the term 'terrorist', is itself a failure of accuracy and impartiality. 

The depth of the terror that Hamas has inflicted upon innocent people across Israel in recent days is not in doubt. The murder of babies where they sleep is not the act of a 'freedom fighter'. The performative desecration of dead bodies for the benefit of social media, the rape of women and the beheading of civilians in their homes, are not the acts of 'militants'.

The true motives of Hamas could not be clearer. It seeks the murder of Jews and the annihilation of the Jewish state. Their charter says as much. Hamas is no different to ISIS. Did decent, moral people seek to justify the actions of 9/11, 7/7 or the Manchester Arena bombing?

It should be painfully obvious that there is no moral equivalence between those whose motive is to deliberately target innocent civilians in cold blood, and those whose motive is to remove the threat of such murderers. The fact that this discussion is necessary at all is a clear sign that we are losing our moral compass and of the warped nature of the depths to which discourse on Israel has sunk. 

And so I call upon broadcasters to urgently change the way they describe Hamas. Further, I call upon all decent people to have the courage to call out this terror for what it is. We must all be unequivocal that the loss of any innocent life is a tragedy, and that the barbaric, murderous terrrorism of Hamas cannot be denied or obfuscated. It is a matter of deepest regret that some feel otherwise.

This is not 'resistance' or 'struggle'. It is terrorism. To purposefully avoid that word is to wilfully mislead.

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@simonmaginn @iankemp07123743 I’m very open that I stand with Israel. They’re fighting an organisation that wants not just Israelis, but all Jews, exterminated. Reminds me of one 70 or so years ago. Even though I disagree with the Allies re Dresden I couldn’t possibly support the Nazis. This is the same