Patrick Neylan

Writer and editor on maritime industry, trade, general business, music, books, society, history. Actor, author, photographer, single parent. White, no sugar.

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Starmer doesn't understand the constitution: "A No10 spokesman [said], "The prime minister will not walk away from the mandate he was given just two years ago."
Starmer has no mandate to be PM. He only has a mandate to be his constituency's MP.
https://t.co/KBu3nJW7a7

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@stellacreasy "It's pointless trying to debate on this platform when people who understand my job better than I do keep calmly explaining why I'm wrong."

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@nw_nicholas You do know that wasting police time is still an offence?

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@helenstaniland @ZackPolanski He's trying to hold his weird coalition of Islamists and fetishists together. Apart from hating Jews, the only thing they have in common is hating women so he's got to push that agenda as hard as he can.

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@Chiclanagirl I've never been stabbed. Why the fuss about knife crime?

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@hasanthehun If we had a shortage of barmy, conspiracy-theory-loving hate-mongers then we'd let you in. Sadly, we have plenty of our own.

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@supertolerant @NJ_Timothy @RussellandOzzie Happy to hear an explanation as to why the difference matters, but as far as I can see he was banged up _somewhere_ for the rest of his life.

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@BenGrahamUK Maybe Burnham is a silver bullet, but Labour aren't fighting werewolves so I don't see how effective he'd be.

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@tiredverytired @ikeijeh His point was that the law should apply to all or none.
I'm now imagining a troop of protesting bikers wearing only turbans being told by the police: "You're breaking the law if you're not carrying a knife."

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@prodnose I once wrote an editorial with the line "did our grandmothers burn their bras in vain?" The editor spiked it, saying, "That's my wife you're talking about."

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Interesting encounter in a bar last weekend. A clearly male colleague of a friend said he was his company's head of Pride and was non-binary. I called the concept "bollocks". The chat moved on to football and white pudding. Hands were shaken. Real life isn't like social media.

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Unsubscribing from Investors Chronicle emails. Almost every story is behind an FT paywall. Your @IChronicle subscription isn't good enough.

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@TheBritLad My great-niece is 1/8th Nigerian. Her black ancestors were probably slavers. Her white ancestors certainly weren't. What does she owe? What does she get?

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@PaulSchleifer @JohnCleese Cleese is wrong because slavery in England was abolished soon after the Norman Conquest.

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@TheBonniePrince @AngrySubEditor Just noticed your username. Charlemagne as our French friends would put it.

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@MichaelLCrick City and Chelsea won't be punished. If they were, UEFA would have to take a hard look at PSG and Real Madrid. That would never do. The Lance Armstrong sanction would never fly in football.

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@emollick As a parent, I used to say children aren't bored enough. As a child in the 70s, I was bored rigid and had to use my imagination.

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@throwitaway1800 @aliciakearns @enoughtoendrape In other words, "If supporting rape victims means agreeing with a Tory, the rape victims can go to hell."

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Sorry to see @ImWatson91 has been hacked by crypto scammers. Hope she gets her account back soon.