simon haslam

late to adopt; mad keen fan of rugby and lover of classical music - and perhaps just a bit interested in politics. Following doesn’t mean agreeing

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@cityoflondon They have made a significant mistake

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@unisonldnlgbt Why isn’t Unison putting more focus on the needs of its members who were born female?

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@FoxNews Why bother - when all they have to do is slip $1m or so to the President’s PAC or one of his family’s businesses and they will get a full pardon

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@littlerich007 @MaggieAlphonsi @JulesPR_ The issue is not ‘someone’ not liking Maggie’s commentary; it is the fact that a member of council is saying that a woman cannot commentate on a men’s game

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@andywightman Bad process if the bureau member binds all their MSPs even though they weren’t part of the discussion

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How do I get X to stop messaging me to install the Grok app? I want to tell them to stuff Grok where the sun doesn’t shine!

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@dontdelay And many other services; it should be a legal requirement that you can cancel any service by the same means that you signed up

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@narindertweets She’s not been ‘cleared’ of anything - police passed evidence to the Crown Office who decided not to bring charges; not the same as ‘clearing’ her by any stretch of the imagination; and she was party leader - her husband’s boss - who therefore failed in her duties of oversight

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@Douglas4Sandra @theSNP Even though they have taken no steps to fix the massive governance failures which allowed him to steal from the party for years and years?

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@JunebugMalarky @Strandjunker Man of his word? Are you kidding??

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@TareanSmiley @Strandjunker But he isn’t doing any of them - he is just a massive grifter making money for him and his family, while the US economy struggles.

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@DAaronovitch If Zia actually stood for election I might have a tad more respect for what he says

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@dontdelay Strongly agree - commercial rates need a radical rethink

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@RobR44133618 @PeterWillsman Who are these people who ‘sold it’ to us? I’ve always understood how it actually works - and I started work nearly 50 years ago and have no recollection of anything being sold to me

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@ShannonBDouglas @valdombre No responsible head of state makes jokes about annexing another country

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@Jebadoo2 Well - on one level it is true; it is not the job of the First Minister to do anything in relation to party accounts; but since the same person who was First Minister was also leader of the party - the party leader persona absolutely had a responsibility to sign off accounts.

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@rchieyes The issue here is that they lied about their background - not just a small ‘tweak’ to their life story but a complete falsification of their background. Once that lie is exposed then their whole back story is fair game.

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@Catesby1924 @ZiaYusufUK Um - it’s complicated; when built and first let to a tenant then yes - clearly subsidised. But thirty or forty years later it can be a harder argument to make. If someone is on housing benefit - in public sector or private rented, then yes clear subsidy.

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@sky_trees_ @ZiaYusufUK He is so good he has stood for elective office - oops, no - he doesn’t believe in exposing himself to actual electors