sir henry

If I had all the money I've spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink

[sir henry @rawlinsonend1]

@MrKenShabby Your views tonight have been described as rabid, pig-ignorant and stultifying ill-informed. Thanks for those.

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

Whoever is speaking for LFI there is shitting on your slippers and telling you your house is muddy. You should treat it with the total contempt it deserves.

[Christopher Such @Suchmo83]

The great irony of 'lanyardian' becoming a synonym for 'out of touch with normal people' is that loads of normal people (e.g. shop assistants, teachers, etc) wear lanyards to work, and only someone startlingly out of touch with normal people would not realise this.

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

This is what I mean when I say: a certain kind of media arse cannot see a difference between “conceding you were wrong/made a mistake/behaved badly” and “being dragged screaming to the axeman”. The idea of conceding even an inch to the dirty hippies is an *intolerable* affront.

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

As I keep saying: there is a class of people who have radicalised themselves to very extreme political positions, completely taken leave of their senses. And we know about this because they write about it for a living, they can’t wait to tell us all about their new epiphanies.

[sir henry @rawlinsonend1]

@prescottcraig @TheGNPE The utter state of you. Just try and walk yourself back and think about what you were doing with this post, and what it says about you. Seriously. For your own good.

[sir henry @rawlinsonend1]

@ShippersUnbound LOL. Courageous marking of your own homework, against the most stringent of criteria (argument free Ad Homs and bare appeals to suthority). Par for the course. You wrote a whole book that was a glaze job of Cummings. But, yeah, you're doing a bang up job!

[Matthew Petti @matthew_petti]

This thread is really funny because he gives away the whole game of tactical nihilism: he’s telling you openly that he feels personally invested in Israel but embarrassed to defend it on the merits so he has to make you feel crazy for caring about Palestinians instead.

[Simon de Jever @de_jever]

Ironic really, when you think Toby Young only got into Oxford with his piss poor A-Levels because his old man pulled a few strings. There were people at Bogbrush Poly in the eighties with better grades than the old fraud here.

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

I’d say a profession that proudly announces *Rod Liddle* is among the best of them, then digs its heels in on their inalienable right to hound minor public figures to death just for fun - really, because they want to do it and they like it - is not bothering to hide what it is.

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

I have to say: “it is the sacred duty of the British press to expose liars and bullshitters defrauding the public” is one of the best and most insulting gambits yet. Amazing scenes.

[sir henry @rawlinsonend1]

@HadleyFreeman @mrianleslie Congratulations to you on your role in this. You must be very proud. Outstanding journalism. Truly, you are best of us. Bravo.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

If you think this was reasonable and normal media scrutiny — and you’re defending it — even in the wake of a man’s death then truly, you have surrendered your humanity.

[sir henry @rawlinsonend1]

@NickCohen4 Which journalists joined the mob, Nick? Including those who chose to do so on their own social media accounts, voluntarily? Are you going to name them to help hold them responsible? Or do you think they might be a risky strategy for you, personally?

[sir henry @rawlinsonend1]

@Aella_Girl @jonwu_ Of course you do, everyone does. What's not clear is how fantasies of "automating" the process helps them, So it invites speculation about the mind set that allegedly fears unregulated AI doom but also thinks every other social problem is resolvable by tech consumer choice.

[sir henry @rawlinsonend1]

@lewis_goodall Knew exactly why it was a Big Thing, and that it would never ever be a story if he was white. We also know why the story went on as long as it did, with an absurd level of international coverage. Everyone knows what this is.

[sir henry @rawlinsonend1]

@lewis_goodall Horrible news. The idea that this will result in serious reflection on the part of the British media is of course laughable. Arday was clearly substantially a fraud, and his exposure as such has led to his death. But EVERYONE involved in reporting this story

[sir henry @rawlinsonend1]

@deontologistics God's speed to you, comrade.

[sir henry @rawlinsonend1]

@xenocosmography Listening to much D&B these days, Nick? Or just the Archers theme tune, bemoaning Dear Old Blighty from Shanghai? What is Neo about this Reaction?

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

This investigation by the Financial Times is staggering in its findings and in its scope and methodological rigor. Some of the findings, backed up by incredible levels of forensic evidence:

1) Israel completed much of its systematic destruction across Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon after Israeli forces took control of already-emptied villages in mid-April, and after the April 17 ceasefire. The ceasefire was used to make these areas completely uninhabitable.

2) The scale of destruction is incredible. Roughly 85,000 housing units damaged or destroyed (likely an undercount); 62 villages and farms inside the "yellow line" occupation zone, covering ~6% of Lebanon and extending ~10km inland, with ~270,000 residents barred from returning. Over 20% of the south's farmland and forest destroyed, ancient olive groves worst hit. All Litani river bridges destroyed; at least 2,500km of water infrastructure gone.

3) This is stated policy and an intentional plan to make an entire area uninhabitable and never allow the population to return. Defence minister Israel Katz explicitly invoked the "Rafah and Beit Hanoun model" and later boasted of destroying "24 Lebanese villages… not house by house, but entire villages."

4) This is without a doubt a war crime. Destruction of property requires immediate military necessity and not speculative ideas that Hezbollah may use a building some day. Not allowing the return amounts to the ethnic cleansing of the area.

The lack of any real consequences for Gaza, meant that Israel felt free to do the same in Lebanon. It is now doing the same in the West Bank. This will stop unless we stop it.

[Tobi @TobiFrenzen]

YUSUF: "To protect road safety, Reform will make it illegal to use any vehicle for commercial delivery without a full British driving licence."

Protecting the supply chain by stopping it at the border certainly is a novelty idea.

These people have lost their tiny minds! 😆