Martin Moran

ex-Physicist, ex-Govt Analyst, generally ex-Asperated.

Truth at all cost. Humour at everyone's expense.

[Martin Moran @Martin_Moran_]

@raelbrav This presupposes they have remorse. Their capacity to commit the crime in the first place may suggest otherwise.

You might also ask, what do we really gain from their remorse? Why does their remorse satisfy anyone.

Their non-existence however, we do gain from that.

[Martin Moran @Martin_Moran_]

@SamCKx I'm not a particular fan of Farage.

But I hold in utter contempt people who lie.

You are a liar.

[Martin Moran @Martin_Moran_]

@SeanBrackstone I saw. That's my point.

The idea of protected characteristics is that you cannot discriminate on the basis of any of them.

Yet, here, they are discriminating on the basis of 'specific' ones.

The word 'protected' is intended in the exact opposite way that they are using it.

[Martin Moran @Martin_Moran_]

@NJ_Timothy Many who supported the abolition of the death penalty did so on the proviso that murderers would serve whole life sentences.

You could argue that sentences must evolve to reflect changing public sentiment.

I suspect though, that that sentiment would want capital punishment back

[Martin Moran @Martin_Moran_]

@LBC I'm confused.

Aren't these promotional clips supposed to make you want to listen to @LBC?

All you're telling me is that you employ deluded, inarticulate partisans that I have nothing to learn from. No reason to listen to, except perhaps to feel better about myself.

[Martin Moran @Martin_Moran_]

@spikedonline What a strange claim.

Success in one field has no bearing on whether a person is or isn't successful in another field.

If you believe he is not politically talented then the argument for that must come from politics alone.

[Martin Moran @Martin_Moran_]

@OliDugmore Liberals have long been obsessed with civilizational collapse.

They pushed eugenics. They use indoctrination. They cry Nazi at alternative viewpoints.

All to enhance & preserve their image of civilization, and to browbeat anybody who holds to a different vision.

[Martin Moran @Martin_Moran_]

@DAaronovitch @IamBalhamMatt @GoodwinMJ You can do both.

We have many government departments, focussing on hundreds of things.

Improving protections for children whilst at the same time executing those that would do them serious harm is well within our abilities.

This is obvious.

[Martin Moran @Martin_Moran_]

@MatNuclear Yes, I do.

If you claim someone split the moon in two and took a ride on a flying horse, I bloody well will take the piss, and have taken the piss, out of you.

The rapey, slaughtery, slave army stuff pisses me off as well.

[Martin Moran @Martin_Moran_]

@TheGreenParty They are, predominantly, not refugees. We all know this.

Until the Left are honest about this fact then we will continually be divided. Into those who are willing to lie and those who want to deal effectively with an existential problem.

[Martin Moran @Martin_Moran_]

@theipaper "question if the licence fee is with paying".

I know how to answer that question.

Fund the @bbc via a voluntary subscription and then you'll know beyond doubt whether the fee is worth paying.

[Martin Moran @Martin_Moran_]

@TrisOsborneMP @Covbluenose @Conservatives @afneil That doesn't make it true.

The counterfactual never actually happened.

Every single attempt to model what would have happened in the absence of us leaving the EU is just that - a model, not reality.

And that model is only as plausible as people choose it to be.

[Martin Moran @Martin_Moran_]

@BBCr4today Seriously, just fuck off.

Labour & the wider Left have spent years dividing us into different groups. Defining everybody according to characteristics they didn't choose.

People who disagreed with this were derided as 'nazi' & 'fascist'.

And then you talk about 'togetherness'?

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@AndrewHWestern DWP had ethnicity targets that discriminated against white people.

NAO have a disproportionately high number of ethnic minorities in their staff yet still give them preferable treatment on internships.

There are many other examples.

You don't know what you're talking about.

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@GBNEWS @CarverEmily "Could be...for private healthcare"

What? The benefits system is paying for people to bypass the NHS and go private? Something most other people can't do?

I do hope she meant 'personal healthcare'. A non-answer, but arguably preferable to the answer she gave.

[Martin Moran @Martin_Moran_]

@lancelachlan And yet we can find guidance, targets, eligibility criteria, correspondence and many examples of white people being treated unfairly solely because of their skin colour.

[Martin Moran @Martin_Moran_]

@haveigotnews The joke:

An equivalence is drawn between actions taken to counter child labour and actions asked of a tech company to verify identity & ages of users. The assumption being that manufacture of a product is equivalent to using the product.

Hopefully someone will enjoy this joke.

[Martin Moran @Martin_Moran_]

@Bushra1Shaikh Sexual predators from within the British population are not a policy choice.

Sexual predators from abroad, even if they are second generation, are a policy choice.

This is an important and fundamental difference.

[Martin Moran @Martin_Moran_]

@spikedonline Possibly the worst promotional paragraph for any article I've ever seen.