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An Englishman raging against the tide of decline.

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How Churchill’s early experience of Islam helped him to identify the dangers of the rising Nazi threat 🧵

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@NewCultureForum @Harry_pitt @DavidBe31099196 @david_oldbolt What form would civil war take in the modern age? The state is armed to the teeth, and the general populace has nothing with which to match.

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@andrewrsorkin @lahamed2 Any suggestions for someone just getting into finance/investing?

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@YuanfenYang @Jonathan_Hinder @FT Given that Paula Barker MP stated that the bond markets would have to “fall in line” with a Burnham premiership, I’m not sure they know what they’re talking about.

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@ClaireCoutinho Does anyone have a link to this guidance?

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@ST0NEHENGE @chapofwessex Looks like a still from a House of the Dragon trailer.

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@calvinrobinson “Causing division”. Politics is division by definition.

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@RobertJenrick There are few greater dangers to our country than wet Tories. The people who held open the gates for the barbarians.

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@Sargon_of_Akkad A justice secretary who does not uphold the principle of equality before the law. What could possibly go wrong?

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@DCBMEP Is there a greater example of this country’s rotting core than a Justice Secretary who doesn’t understand the value of equality before the law?

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@owenjonesjourno @Harry_pitt Islamophobia is a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

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I do think Rupert Lowe has substance. He is a clear and efficient communicator, and he has real courage. His contribution to shifting the Overton window has been considerable. But as for his prospects of getting anywhere near the levers of power — I would place that somewhere in the region of 0.

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@NJ_Timothy A justice secretary who does not understand the value of equality under the law. We are in good hands.

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@GuidoFawkes If your response to AI — the modern printing press on steroids — is to ask what the consequences will be for benefits, you really do need sectioning.

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@drhingram Some of us are consistent in our embarrassment of plumber politicians. We used to be a proper country.

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@GoodwinMJ Starmer is perfectly happy to politicise murder when it suits him. Murder which shines a blinding spotlight on his State’s failures? Not so much.

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@owenjonesjourno @Harry_pitt Islamophobia is a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

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@MillennialWoes Yet some bloke who pushed a bin towards a police line will be in Court within 24 hours. Funny how the Court backlog can disappear when politically convenient.

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@Harry_pitt @owenjonesjourno I have never understood this logic. No one has ever suggested we do not have home-grown criminals and psychopaths. The argument is simply that we ought not to import more of them from the third world. Yet another case of deliberately misunderstanding their opponent’s position.

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This is the consequence of electing low-grade politicians. They do not care about the future of Britain beyond the next election. All decisions are made to appease their voter base, rather than to improve the country over which they have been granted stewardship. Gone are the days of statesmen in Parliament.