Simon Marshall

Writer, historian, liberal, francophile. Author of novels The Long Drawn Aisle & The Passing Tribute. #sdp

[Simon Marshall @LongDrawnAisle]

@FraserNelson I thought the article was good, if a little over-tepid given your true views - perhaps too much guided by the previous day's leader and the multitude of letters seeking Johnson's public hanging...

[William Clouston SDP @WilliamClouston]

Strewth…

Only present day Britain could spend over £200m on a Covid inquiry presided over by a judge who lacks a basic grasp of the limits of inferential reasoning from models.

[Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA 🗽 @SteveBakerFRSA]

🚨Join @BigBrotherWatch in their campaign against Digital ID🚨

https://t.co/dsYz0CDTZW

[Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA 🗽 @SteveBakerFRSA]

🗽For November's Tyranny of the Month for Voices for a Free Future, I have focused on Digital ID.

📑We should be under no doubt that this will be the start of a “papers, please” society.

🙏Thank you @BigBrotherWatch for fighting against this tyranny.

https://t.co/50omHyBxbf

[Simon Marshall @LongDrawnAisle]

All the good the @BBCNews @BBC has done in the past...many of its problems can be crystallised in this: https://t.co/L1h2sQgwzf
As 'news' and 'culture', the BBC is writing articles on a celebrity reality tv show on ITV. Definitely not Reithian.

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

🆔The Government has announced plans for a sweeping mandatory digital ID scheme.

Everyone in the UK should reject this.

Here are 5 reasons why⤵️| https://t.co/Y6P1zIjshN

[Simon Marshall @LongDrawnAisle]

@lukejcr That's all light entertainment. That's not all that the BBC is - or should be - for.

[Simon Marshall @LongDrawnAisle]

@DeborahMeaden Just like the bloody immigrants to Australia, and South America, and, and, and

[Simon Marshall @LongDrawnAisle]

I remain a fan of the principle of the BBC - despite it's shoddy output of late. But there's no excusing @guardiannews @guardian whatsoever the doctoring of videos during an election campaign. It's an attempt to subvert democracy, pure and simple. #bbc

[Simon Marshall @LongDrawnAisle]

@PippaCrerar I don’t understand how so many Guardian journalists keep quoting Sumption when during Covid they dismissed him as a lunatic. His complaint about authoritarian drift comes as much (if not more) from the left as from the right.

[Simon Marshall @LongDrawnAisle]

@steverichards14 The Guardian loved it…

[Simon Marshall @LongDrawnAisle]

@guyadams Like so many these days

[Simon Marshall @LongDrawnAisle]

@owenjonesjourno Re Trumpian behaviour: If you keep turning right, you end up going left.

[Daniel WhetstoneSDP @WhetstoneSDP]

@yelseldusty @reformparty_uk @LeeAndersonMP_ @Nigel_Farage @SarahForRuncorn @GoodwinMJ The SDP said it.

https://t.co/pzPclfrcKA

[Simon Marshall @LongDrawnAisle]

The BBC finally admits what we *all* knew from the start...
"If you feel unwell with a bad throat and a temperature you may well have caught one of the new strains of Covid circulating...Experts say these do not appear to pose any bigger threat than previous types of Covid..."

[William Clouston SDP @WilliamClouston]

How can we trust you?

Key question on Labour's plans for Digital ID...

@SDPhq

[Social Democratic Party @SDPhq]

SDP condemns plans for digital id system: statement below:
https://t.co/9w1ZYf4KdS

[William Clouston SDP @WilliamClouston]

Mandatory ID cards are un-British. If forced on us it will be yet another embedded freedom lost due to the cultural chaos and abuses of mass immigration.

It always brings to mind this wonderful piece of writing by A. J. P. Taylor ⬇️

[Simon Marshall @LongDrawnAisle]

@labourlewis This is great. Well said. It would have been better said if you had done so somewhere between 2003 and 2025 though. Instead you and many others have been outspoken in your generalised tropes about people concerned about the 'atomisation' causing by globalising immigration.

[Simon Marshall @LongDrawnAisle]

@spikedonline In the same way London could after 2011? Riots may become traditional JO warm up