Matthew Lees

[Matthew Lees @matlees]

@trivet1806 Not going to cut it. Saying ‘we dropped the ball’ after narrowly missing apprehending a suspect might be understandable. Not after ‘we spent 4 months actively investigating someone for spurious reasons’

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@ifellonithonest I’ve enjoyed seeing all the usual suspects (Andrews, Lester, Mitchell) beclowning themselves to defend an obvious fraud, while unwittingly admitting that their fields of study are complete garbage.

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@Daniel_Sugarman To be expected when they hire morons from the PoliticsJoe clown show

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@VeritasVin74759 @LordWalney Yes. Being old doesn’t make you above the law

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@bartramsgob *Levant. Stupid autocorrect

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@bartramsgob Didn’t predict that sweaty oaf making the case for a Reconquista-style decolonisation of the Levantine.

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@OilSheppard Actually, Scotland does win on that metric if you include all the wins at the Chip on Shoulder World Championships

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@bartramsgob @hellothisisivan It’s quite sad seeing people who would normally see right through a guy openly professing to be the “greatest trader/economist in the world” being wilfully blind just because he’s offering up a semi-plausible bogeyman to pin their problems on.

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@btharris93 It’s the kind of insightful analysis we’ve come to expect from the FT.

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@bartramsgob @London__Smoke I had an excellent history teacher in high school, but I used to regularly see him manning the communist party stall on Buchanan Street

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@bartramsgob @London__Smoke I wonder how much of the negative spin is essentially down to who teaches history to you in school. From personal experience (and anecdotally) history seems to be the subject with an over representation of teachers with Marxist leanings.

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@BrianSpanner1 Was she even crossing her fingers? Could just be an arthritic Trekkie

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@v_j_freeman The writer edits the dreadfully ostentatious HTSI. Which is basically Buzzfeed for people who desperately want to be part of the ‘in’ crowd. In that respect, the article is entirely in keeping with their shtick.

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@WarGit They dislike Trump and are therefore good. The other people like Trump and are therefore bad.

That is the entirety of their thinking on this.

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@John_Stepek A lot of this is downstream of the energy windfall tax nonsense. When government thinks it can decide what is or isn’t an acceptable level of profit for a company to make, what stops them from thinking they can control how much they charge for individual goods/services?

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@BenRamanauskas @ajwillshire Not to mention levels of wage compression that the Soviets would have been jealous of

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@v_j_freeman Not sure why everyone is talking so hysterically about Burnham, as if it’s the second coming of Christ.

From memory, he was a mediocre MP who ran two unsuccessful leadership campaigns.

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@bartramsgob The venn diagram of morons and performative mask wearers

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@London__Smoke @bartramsgob @TimmyODanaos His lack of action and mealy-mouthed condemnation can only be read as his acceptance that these acts are an unfortunate but ultimately necessary price to pay for living in his ideal society