Douglas Thomson

To remain polite is a constant struggle. he-him

[Douglas Thomson @doug1as85]

@ZacksJerryRig @fuckyouiquit I don’t think he means this particular car has a blind spot, I think he means the area just behind the driver’s side window on all cars which is called the blind spot because a (human) driver can’t see vehicles in it with their mirrors so has to do an over-the-shoulder check

[Douglas Thomson @doug1as85]

@ProjectLincoln I’m in the UK and I don’t know anyone whose car runs on diesel

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@Mickqocl @tomhfh If this is something that concerns you then yes, it’s pretty clear from all the history books that your side lost WW2

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@_BoldPolitics Isn’t the Green Party’s name in French “the Green Party”, just like in the Urdu video? it’s a proper noun

[Douglas Thomson @doug1as85]

@sarrah_bellus @simon_schama How is the moose playing the piano with its hooooooves

[Douglas Thomson @doug1as85]

@mikeduncan I love that I got this through the “For You” tab

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

The term “witch hunt” is overused in politics. Perhaps not this time. Quite a bit of the British media should ask themselves some serious questions as to whether the tenor and volume of the coverage they gave to this man was remotely proportionate. Likewise there are questions for Cambridge- and whether they discharged their duty of care.

[Douglas Thomson @doug1as85]

@Vino_tintoo @DiscussingFilm This is exactly the analogy many classicists, medievalists, and other academics of oral literary traditions make to describe the performance of oral poetry. You see it in the rhythms of the words themselves.

[Douglas Thomson @doug1as85]

@NetflixBrasil A nude that’s not a nude?

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@lewis_goodall Bloody hell, I read this and thought he’d resigned already

[Douglas Thomson @doug1as85]

@BENCole1139477 @kitty_donaldson The best Chancellors have been those that understand the politics of finance, business, and economics – Rab Butler, Gordon Brown, Kenneth Clarke all came without any background in finance or economics.

Kwasi Kwarteng, by contrast, was a brilliant academic economist.

[Douglas Thomson @doug1as85]

@nerdyJohnConnor @owenjonesjourno Maybe there just isn’t a “side” involved? Or maybe there is. But given we don’t know anything about it yet, just cool it on ascribing blame until we’ve got more facts.

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@michael180966 @simonmontefiore I think the difference is that nobody in the UK is trying to argue that there is any philosophical continuity between any of those traditions

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@NickAhlborn @benrileysmith Do words have any meaning to you at all? Please describe by reference to Marx’s published works how the Starmer government has been at all Marxist.

[Douglas Thomson @doug1as85]

@DiscordAddamsX Who’s “they”?

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@warrior_ke86190 @JonathanPieNews Actually it’s not democracy to “suck it up” and accept defeat before anybody has even voted

[Douglas Thomson @doug1as85]

@NeilDotObrien What’s diversity got to do with it?

You could have diversity on the bank notes by putting Olaudah Equiano, Christopher Marlowe and Mary Seacole on them. History and diversity are not in conflict.

I think they just wanted something different this time! Animals will be nice!

[Douglas Thomson @doug1as85]

@romanhelmetguy If a church can’t support a congregation anymore and has to stop being a church, who cares what happens to it next?

[Douglas Thomson @doug1as85]

@RachelBitecofer @RoguePOTUSStaff Maybe rather than blaming people for being ignorant you should ask why people are so dissatisfied with capitalism that they’re interested in alternatives

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@TheNewsAgents @jonsopel @maitlis Richard III did have people questioning his family’s right to rule; those people were the House of Tudor and they killed him.