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@Oakfra @Malachians BBC.

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@Run2Swim50 @afneil He had *pulled his own teeth out with pliers* prior to his death. I think he may have had rather bigger problems than not being able to feed himself.

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@PaulMaddison121 @afneil Congratulations, at least you've conceded that people who use food banks are not in fact "starving".

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@saebruary @afneil Are fifty-five million people starving in Britain?

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These stories are about (1) someone who had a diagnosed personality disorder who killed herself; (2) a very ill man who used pliers to pull his own teeth out; and (3) a woman who killed herself when her benefits were stopped.

What does this have to do with starvation? These were all very, very ill people who were failed by the mental health system. None of them were involuntarily starving.

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@HoldenMutevera @afneil You're a moron.

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@ADavies61517 @afneil Funnily enough, that's exactly what the MMT idiots do too!

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@PQuestion24804 @afneil Starvation strikes me as a gigantic failure of the British state.

Malnutrition strikes me as a parental failing.

But very glad to see there's no starvation in Britain!

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@DamCou Clowns, all.

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@GoldRobin_11 @afneil Nowhere in that report is starvation mentioned.

What it does mention is that those people who experience "severe food insecurity" are those who feel hunger as a result.

Hunger is not starvation.

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@julianHjessop @DavidGHFrost Wow! That crowd is almost one-deep in places!

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@afneil Why do Reform keep putting up such risible candidates, for by-elections Andrew?

(I don't mean to suggest that other parties don't field equally ridiculous candidates, by the way.)

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@Glinner Every time I see one of these creatures properly interrogated on their beliefs, I am reminded of Werner Herzog's observations on chickens. Every time.

https://t.co/aGvnqiMK2Y

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@IanDalton91488 @Handre Insulting to whom? It's a frequently used phrase by the Irish themselves every time new GDP figures are released.

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He takes it from anywhere. Defence is the sine qua non, the one utterly non-negotiable responsibility of the state. Everything else is secondary, including welfare, education and the NHS.

We understood this once. Alas we no longer remember it. It will be a very expensive lesson to learn again.

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@PolemicTMM That was a lovely read, thank you.

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@R1Nz20 @MarkHubbard33 @saltyreigns That isn't the Coach and Horses. It's the London Apprentice in old Isleworth.

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@hiltonholloway @DavidGHFrost Same in Godalming.

Most amusingly, it's the same story round Fraser's way in Twickenham where Waitrose now routinely protect steaks.

The kicker is that Twickenham no longer has a nick. Maybe that's why Fraser's stats are so dodgy?

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@Glinner He'll be along next week to tell us it was the Jews who put an 's' in 'lisp'.