Dave Marchant

By day, boring IT bloke. By night, boring fan of history, science, books, cricket & tennis. Left of Centre; skeptic; humanist; father of two; husband of one.

[Dave Marchant @Marchad1]

If farmers don’t want to pay inheritance tax, why don’t they become a business?
Sorry if that’s a naive question

[Dave Marchant @Marchad1]

@carolvorders To be fair to Welby, his boss, King Charles III has also struggled to deal with an abuse scandal.

[Dave Marchant @Marchad1]

@SophCowan @LouiseRawAuthor His boss, King Charles.
Who also has had his own problems dealing with a child sex offender.

[Brendan May @bmay]

That’s quite the angle. The fact he failed to deal with a child abuser is obviously Meghan’s fault. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Dave Marchant @Marchad1]

@Harryslaststand He reports to King Charles, who also hasn’t shown a great track record of dealing with sex offenders.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

The West is, essentially, trying to erase a group of people from the Earth, while congratulating itself publicly for being ‘morally superior’ to those it is destroying

[. @LouiseRawAuthor]

Seems most people don’t know, so here’s the full, ironic tale!

-Kemi’s parents came to London for her birth, so that she would be British.

No longer legally possible because her heroine, Thatcher, stopped it!

And if it WERE: exactly the sort of thing she’d rage about 🤦‍♀️

[Nico Reznick 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🌍 @NicoReznick]

@Fairyview170420 We can't do nuance any more.

The number of people who seem to have interpreted this as an endorsement of Trump.

Two things can be simultaneously true: Trump is a monster; Biden's response to the pandemic was unforgivably poor.

[Smithsonian Magazine @SmithsonianMag]

From the 1950s to the 1970s, researcher John Calhoun gave rodents unlimited food and studied their behavior in overcrowded conditions. https://t.co/Gyf6Gs90sl

[Dave Marchant @Marchad1]

@nw_nicholas It appears to mean a riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling your own ethnic or religious group.
If it’s against a different ethnic or religious group it’s called legitimate defence.

[Dave Marchant @Marchad1]

This reminds me of when Professor Slughorn disguised himself as a sofa.

[Dave Marchant @Marchad1]

@dave43law It reminds me of when Professor Slughorn disguised himself as a sofa.

[Dave Marchant @Marchad1]

Now that a precedent has been set, I think all American jobs should be open to felons who are the offspring of immigrants. Especially those of color (orange for example).

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

Trump's apparent victory has 5 big implications for the UK: 🧵

1️⃣ It can happen here. He will back Farage, the Musk propaganda machine will crank up against Labour; the Tories will remould themselves into Trump-lite Islamophobes ...

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[Dave Marchant @Marchad1]

The poppy is an optional way to show that we remember their sacrifices.

The second best way is to stop sending them halfway around the world to get blown up in unnecessary conflicts and then forgetting about them.

[Dave Marchant @Marchad1]

The best way to respect our Armed Forces is to end them having to rely on charity, and to give them the income, pension, medical support, and mental health care that the politicians who dictate their lives receive.

[Dave Marchant @Marchad1]

Come on America. It’s a big day tomorrow.
This shouldn’t be a hard choice.
Look at the calibre the U.K. has managed to elect to high office in recent years.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Watching the BBC coverage of the people throwing mud at the King of Spain. I dont believe any government is prepared for the forces global warming has unleashed. Almost no politicians understand the climate crisis - or the anger. Only 10% of UK MPs even attended a briefing on it.