Retweet if you think big media channels have a responsibility, when women are dying every three days from misogyny and male violence, not to legitimise and embolden abusive misogynistic views.
ITV should fire Jeremy Clarkson.
Memo to the media: Please don't say inflation is at a 40-year high without also mentioning that corporate profits are at a 70-year high. Give the people the full picture.
A migrant detention centre has just been fire-bombed.
Any Home Secretary with integrity would use temperate, judicious language.
But no. Suella Braverman just referred to an "invasion on our southern coast" - disgusting, inflammatory & designed to whip up hate.
Shame on her.
Rishi Sunak - Have they looked after you?
Hospital patient - They always do, but it's a pity you don't pay them more
Rishi Sunak - We're trying
Patient - No, you're not trying, you need to try harder
@mcastagnaa@BullockJeremy@johnpaulUK@RussInCheshire@RoryStewartUK I might agree.But hard facts won't get you out of bed,only a faith-like certainty that,beyond the duvet,it's still a safe place!We all place a calculated trust in the available evidence.For history it's no different.True skepticism,I'm told,puts J Caesar and JC on the same level
@mcastagnaa@BullockJeremy@johnpaulUK@RussInCheshire@RoryStewartUK "just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses.. it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account.. that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught." - intro to Luke's gospel
@mcastagnaa@BullockJeremy@johnpaulUK@RussInCheshire@RoryStewartUK I think you're ignoring the weight of documentary evidence: all the NT writings, + Jewish & Roman historians. Not trusting claims isn't reason to ignore them entirely. "Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that.. have been accomplished among us...
So, Mo Farrah. Seeing lots of outrage and, understandably, confusion at the Home Office’s statement that they won’t be investigating him for any offences. The fuck do they mean offences? He was a victim of the trafficking. Well, let’s hear some uncomfortable truths today 🧵
“Seriously I can just come out and say it? Call him a liar?” asks @JonathanPieNews, a fictional broadcast reporter created and performed by comedian Tom Walker, in a satirical video about Britain’s Prime Minister.
“God bless America.” https://t.co/Hu6Q6q8TBp
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@tapanisimojoki@CartwrightLiam@Psephizo Liam has a point. Historical research has to be aware of bias – both author & commentator betray an absence of this. It's also crucial to understand your audience... as Liam argues, the critique doesn't seem to appreciate the significant sense of betrayal by the church in C18th.