Norrie MacQueen

Write about - and did - UN peacekeeping. Lusophile. Archaic left and (restrained) Scottish Indy. Volunteer CAB employment adviser.

[Norrie MacQueen @NorrieMacQueen]

@pauleholden @andrewfeinstein Murdoch predicts winners and losers, invariably correctly. It’s nothing personal, but Farage is out.

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@David__Osland Except Scotland.

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@MiddleEastEye @DalrympleWill We await the German parliament’s legislation making the denial of Palestine’s right to exist an imprisonable offence. Likely to be a long wait.

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@JohnOBrennan2 This started before AI - with the internet itself. For my age group it went full circle. Student in the 1970s: get rid of unseen timed exams, they just test memory not comprehension. Academic in the 2000s: unseen timed exams are the only guarantor of integrity of assessment.

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@LordIanAustin Do you have to be so abusive? It hardly raises the tone of the discussion on a very important issue.

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@MrJohnNicolson Sadly, unlikely. But then again, there’s a nihilistic, terminally alienated element among Reform voters. Some of them might be quite taken with a vote for the Count.

[emily m @maitlis]

Greens confirm they WONT stand a party candidate in Clacton. So far the by election has two candidates. @Nigel_Farage and @CountBinface

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@BBCNewsnight @vicderbyshire This was not good television.

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@peterjukes You wonder how far he gamed the move out. Did he even think about the main parties not playing? If so, how did he think that would play? He couldn’t possibly have projected a fight to the death with Count Binface. Could he?

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@_CatintheHat @longitude0 It was glamourised in the 1950s and 1960s. By the 1980s and 1990s, definitely not. By that time it was just the addiction acquired in the 1950s and 1960s that sustained it. I know whereof I speak.

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@DAaronovitch Restore/Lowe wouldn't play, of course. But that's fine - ferrets in a sack.

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@reformexposed @Nigel_Farage Maybe a bit of Prince Andrew and Emily Maitlis. Misjudged self-righteous, self-pitying pitch for sympathy - likely to fall on deaf ears.

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@bbcnickrobinson Wonder if he’ll take questions.

[Philippe Lazzarini @UNLazzarini]

A doctor who saved lives in #Gaza is now fighting for his own.

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya - detained without charges for over 500 days- is reportedly being tortured & at an imminent risk of death in Israeli detention.

Abu Safiya is among 14 Gaza doctors (pediatricians, surgeons & other specialists) who remain detained without charge, many for more than a year.

Their continued detention deprives patients of vital care & further undermines Gaza’s shattered healthcare system.

Their release is essential to saving lives + restoring Gaza’s shattered healthcare system.

@DrTedros

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@pauline4glasgow Can't really see "Britain's commitment to the rule of law" on Gaza having been particularly "resolute" up to now.

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@krishgm My wife thought they'd offered him Buckingham Palace because none of them live there.

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@GerryHassan Mind you, just by four seats in 1964. Remember it (just).

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@philipmurraylaw Not sure what the triple lock has to do with it, but a fair point. If anyone wants to keep on being an academic post-payroll no one’s stopping them. Plenty of honorary possibilities. (And USS pensions for that age group aren’t ungenerous).

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@johnauldwebster Lowering the tone, I know, but I’d also put in a word for Trivento Private Reserve Malbec.

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@novaramedia How Starmer came to be seen as a diplomatic colossus bestriding a troubled world is a mystery for the ages. Supine and profitless sycophancy towards Trump, timid in re-engaging with the EU, genocide complicit. Hardly the Metternich de nos jours.