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[BBC Question Time @bbcquestiontime]

Not true. Fiona Bruce and the team have always made clear that Question Time has robust vetting procedures in place. Everyone who applies to be in the audience is interviewed and has to provide links to their social media accounts. If they don't - they don't get in.

[richard @rizzzzch]

@YourSouthend Crete or anywhere in Greece

[richard @rizzzzch]

@Lord_Sugar @Dawn83903655 1. Yes. 350m for the NHS. We will hold all the cards etc
2. No
3. No
4. No but I know companies that have suffered
5. Yes

[richard @rizzzzch]

@premnsikka But what about the all important free speech they bang on about

[Kadi🇪🇪🌻 @TheFl0orIsLaVa]

Apparently the French, Dutch, German and Danish mothers all had the exact same thought, in the exact same order, on the exact same day. Remarkable.

[Yorkshire Victor Meldrew+his dog @TheMeldrew]

What the fuck is happening in this country, idiots monitoring a lifeboat and spreading false rumours and intimidating the crews

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

This is truly a great man. He has invested more in Ukraine than 185 countries combined.

Meet Howard Buffett, Warren Buffett’s middle son. He is 71 years old. He dropped out of college three times. He drinks Dr Pepper and looks for a McDonald’s wherever he travels.

Since the beginning of the war, his foundation has become the largest private donor to Ukraine: $1.4 billion.

Over four years, he has personally visited Ukraine 27 times.

In April 2022, he saw burned-out agricultural machinery and called the president of John Deere:

“How many combines are available in Europe?”

“Fifteen. All of them were supposed to go to Russia.”

“I’ll take them all.”

Then came all the available New Holland equipment in Europe. Altogether, more than 100 tractors and combines were provided to Ukrainian farmers.

He even tested demining equipment himself - on his own farm in Illinois, detonating explosives beneath rollers. When a Ukrainian deputy minister expressed doubts, Buffett told him:

“Stop counting my tractors. If necessary, I’ll blow up a thousand of them.”

Andriy Stavnitser initially asked him for $1 million for Superhumans. Buffett asked how much was needed to build the entire center.

“$14 million.”

“Okay. And what do you expect in return?”

“Nothing. Build it.”

Today, his support for Superhumans has reached $77 million, and the center has treated more than 1,700 patients.

But his largest area of spending is neither agricultural machinery nor prosthetics.

It is food: 642 million meals.

And that is only part of it:
* 344,000 windows replaced after Russian attacks;
* 9 bridges, 4 power plants, 2,500 generators, and 18 DNA laboratories;
* Much of Bucha rebuilt with his funding.

“I already have more friends in Ukraine than I do at home,” he says.

He celebrates birthdays in Ukraine, comes for Christmas, and even has a Ukrainian godson.

Friends, this is truly a great man - someone who understands that he cannot take all his money with him when he leaves this world.

I simply want to thank him and wish him well.

Whatever else one may say, this is real help from a person who had no personal obligation to Ukraine.

He simply chose to help.

Source: translated from the original text by Oleh Bairak.

[Churchill The First @AlbionicLoyalty]

You can dislike the British Empire. What you cannot seriously do is reduce centuries of world history to “looting, pillaging and stealing” and pretend you have made an historical argument.

Of course the Empire involved conquest, coercion, exploitation and abuses. Nobody with any knowledge of the subject needs to deny that.

But it also built enormous transport, communications and administrative networks, spread institutions and legal traditions across much of the world, helped make English a global language, and connected territories into an international commercial system whose consequences are still visible today.

Britain was also heavily involved in the slave trade before becoming the state that abolished its own Atlantic trade in 1807 and subsequently committed considerable naval resources to suppressing that trade internationally.

That is precisely why serious history is difficult: the same civilisation can contain exploitation and achievement, injustice and reform, conquest and institution-building.

The modern world was not created by saints. It was created by complicated civilisations, and the British Empire was one of the most consequential of them.

So no, Britain does not have “no history, only crimes.” That sentence tells me far more about the limitations of your understanding of history than it does about British history.

If your entire understanding of the largest empire in modern history can be condensed into three words “looting, pillaging and stealing” you are not exposing the Empire.

You are exposing the limits of your own historical knowledge.

[richard @rizzzzch]

@Physicsastronmy A

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@Physicsastronmy B

[Bob Morgan 🇬🇧🇺🇦 💙 @Bbmorg]

How many on the left have tried to kidnap the wrong man over a drugs dispute?

[richard @rizzzzch]

@Physicsastronmy B

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@ZiaYusufUK Don’t be such a silly idiot all the time

[richard @rizzzzch]

@Acyn He is either completely delusional and deranged or lying

[George Richardson @ga_richardson]

Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK already run very similar institutions. That makes the coordination costs of CANZUK cooperation structurally lower than for any other group of democracies.

The commercial case is simple: make it easier for businesses to grow seamlessly across all four countries and you drive the economy.

CANZUK nations are not looking to one another as a closed bloc to duke it out with the USA, EU, China and India. That would be laughable.

No, we want to act like one big country commercially while keeping our relatively free trade with CPTPP nations, the EU, India, and democracies primarily — the USA too, if they’ll have us — and with the rest of the world when it serves us.

That’s the piece to remember — political versus economic institutions. Grow the economies together, keep the politics separate.

@CANZUK #CANZUKsociety

[richard @rizzzzch]

Police launch criminal investigation into Reform UK donations https://t.co/KcyHFMAwq8

[richard @rizzzzch]

@BBCr4today Jeez another thicko

[richard @rizzzzch]

@Miggins_Pies @drumz3606 @DrNeilStone @MakisMedicine Classic

[G.T @gingerrtom]

this you?

[Shuttleworth @ShuttleworthTru]

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