Coffee Man

Fan of coffee, the source of all that is good and true in this world.

[David Wolfson @DXW_KC]

I remember Lord Mackay of Clashfern saying to my late father:
“Of all the cases I heard, I found the family law disputes the most difficult because there was so much at stake; so many lives”.
A man of deep faith, a true Conservative, a great lawyer and a courageous statesman.
RIP

[Coffee Man @LondonCoffeeMan]

@ANNVYSHINSKY “anyways”

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

“This is the most authoritarian government we have seen in living memory.”

The last couple of days have reminded the Free Speech Union that the threat to free speech in this country has never been more acute.

But if we think things have been bad under Sir Keir Starmer, they are only set to get worse under Prime Minister Andy Burnham.

His close ally, Lisa Nandy, is spearheading plans to force social media companies to prioritise the promotion of what the Government deems to be “trustworthy” news sources.

When Josh Simons — the former MP for Makerfield who resigned to allow Burnham to return to Westminster — was head of Labour Together, he oversaw a project that targeted journalists who wrote critically about the think tank and his political master at the time, Keir Starmer.

Now, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Lucy Powell is calling for the effective censorship of social media platforms during election periods.

This is deeply authoritarian, and we must be alive to the threat it poses not only to free speech but also to our ability to have open political debate in this country.

Watch FSU External Affairs Officer @_ConnieShaw on @GBNEWS below 👇

[Coffee Man @LondonCoffeeMan]

General "Buck" Turgidson: "Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?"

Dr. Strangelove: "Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race... the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature."

[Coffee Man @LondonCoffeeMan]

@ANNVYSHINSKY @allie__voss I don’t know that I could bring myself to watch it — I haven’t been this heartbroken since Watership Down.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Plenty of meetings in Washington over the next few days - our American friends are watching Britain with genuine astonishment at how fast we are falling.

I am making the argument that it’s not too late to turn it around. Just.

[Coffee Man @LondonCoffeeMan]

@gvnhill_vmpir @ANNVYSHINSKY @kenthecowboy_ I agree with that. There’s a vein in the belief system of this society and in the behaviour — ‘stay in your place’. It’s a hangover from the class system and its resentments

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

When you are a old white guy in the UK and migrants harass a woman in the queue but there is a female cop.

[Coffee Man @LondonCoffeeMan]

Likely PM who attained position through manipulation of the process without mandate talks about not implementing the removal of 500 year old constitutional protections being pursued by the Minister who didn’t mention any of what he’d try and go ahead with in the platform on which he was elected…. Just checking I’ve got this right…🤔

[Coffee Man @LondonCoffeeMan]

@Rainmaker1973 We can’t build a train line from London to Birmingham. This is cuckoo fantasy land.

[Coffee Man @LondonCoffeeMan]

@ANNVYSHINSKY @kenthecowboy_ It’s slightly different, isn’t it? The crab bucket thing is a common expression in India. Because the Crabbe is focused on keeping each other down dynamically and in real time…. Whereas isn’t the Poppy thing about chopping someone’s head off after the fact?

[Coffee Man @LondonCoffeeMan]

@EmmanuelMacron @RachelMoiselle You’re too polite to mention your Nation donated the Statue. I wish more Americans appreciated that.

[Coffee Man @LondonCoffeeMan]

I must say, I find it quite opportunistic that the United States of America has timed its 250th anniversary to coincide with Taylor Swift’s wedding…🤔

[Coffee Man @LondonCoffeeMan]

@UKinNewYork @redarrows @rafredarrows This is very nice. 👍

[Coffee Man @LondonCoffeeMan]

This backtracking but no simple apology or anything we’re only right you’re always wrong, we’ll tell you what to do and what you must think type of communication that comes to an authority i.e.. the police it resembles that in the Soviet country in the 1980s.
It would be a mistake to think that can’t and isn’t happening here.

[Coffee Man @LondonCoffeeMan]

Oh Mary - was that the quality of analytical argument that you brought to your GCSEs? Impressive.

The polls show that her opinion has expressed is correct. And I’m grateful for people to pointing me to those polls, such as they are.

There’s a number of deeper points I was making: Perhaps if you want to go for extra marks in your GCSE, you might think about that.

[Coffee Man @LondonCoffeeMan]

@David__Osland I broadly agree with that conceptually… the question is the allocation mechanism and the management of it… as a purely financial point one only has to look at Singapore and how the well HDB system works there.

[Coffee Man @LondonCoffeeMan]

@DonnaDlm71 It’s a new and novel approach to optimal policing: if they arrest all the victims, they’ll be no one for the criminals to attack, right?

[Coffee Man @LondonCoffeeMan]

@andyburnham On @andyburnham, I was kind of hoping you were going to say firstly going to an airport and secondly buying a one-way ticket to somewhere far away — If you did that you’d have my support forever, you Little Democratic Winner, you 🏅

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

When you are a white guy having a picnic with your girlfriend in the UK and migrants harass her but there is a female cop.