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[Ben @welpmaster]

@BernardCornwell I have really enjoyed Sharpes Storm but I am saddened that Captain Carline died in the Battle of St Pierre (p234) and will die again at quatre bras in Shapes Waterloo.

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

So this is where we are this morning. Keir Starmer's position literally is:

a) Matthew Collins was asked to provide additional evidence on the China threat by the CPS.
b) Collins failed to discuss this with either his boss, or Ministers.
c) Collins unilaterally cut and pasted the Government's position from the Labour manifesto. Again, without any discussion with his boss or Ministers.
d) The CPS informed him they remained 5% short of the evidential threshold, and needed new evidence.
e) Collins took the decision not to provide that additional evidence, collapsing one of the most important espionage cases since the end of the Cold-War. And again, he did so without any consultation with his boss or Ministers.
f) Keir Starmer was told of the impending collapse of the case two days before it was announced by the CPS. He didn't ask why it had collapsed. He didn't ask if anything could be done to stop its collapse. He didn't even ask to see the witness statements that had precipitated that collapse.

As I wrote this morning, this whole story is quite clearly a bare faced lie. It's so manifestly untrue I'm genuinely amazed Keir Starmer is daring to even try and peddle it.

[Ben @welpmaster]

@christopherhope Digital ID cards is the biggest ‘Dead Cat’ in politics. Tell us what this has knocked off the news cycle… campaign funding admin errors perhaps?

[Rob Rinder @RobbieRinder]

When every opponent is called a Nazi, history is cheapened, debate is destroyed, and lives are put at risk. Abusing the word Nazi doesn’t only insult history, it poisons politics, fuels hatred, and costs lives. @GMB

[Ben @welpmaster]

@markwhiteTV If only there was a way for the authorities to find out where the launch sites are…..

[Ben @welpmaster]

@GuidoFawkes He has more jobs than Miss Rabbit from Peppa Pig!

[Ben @welpmaster]

@JoshReynoldsSL6 Talk about getting to the heart of the periphery.

[#Marcher @MarcherReborn]

You’ll love this:
Three children were withdrawn from my son’s school at Christmas as the parents sadly couldn’t make the fees after Labour’s 20% tax hike. All 3 have now returned to school as the local authority can’t find spaces for them….

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Following my meeting on Monday with the Education Secretary @bphillipsonMP my open letter to her is below and here:
https://t.co/O9T19eJaXr

My first open letter to her on 17 Jan is here: https://t.co/phAiybzQFx

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

My open letter to the Education Secretary ⁦@bphillipsonMP⁩

Many teachers and school leaders share my concerns with regard to her decisions but are scared to say.

If you can find it in you, please RT.

My letter is also here: https://t.co/phAiybAov5

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

Back in June, a fortnight before the government’s landslide election victory, I warned in my weekly "Economics Agenda" column in the @Telegraph that "ghosts of the 1970s haunt Labour’s economic resurrection”.

Would-be Chancellor @RachelReevesMP claimed ahead of the election that her party could significantly increase government spending “without raising taxes on working people”.

Labour’s “pro-growth” policies would deliver the economic expansion needed to allow the government to take on more debt to fund lots of extra spending, we were told.

The Tories had, of course, already pushed the UK’s tax burden to 100pc of GDP – a 60-year high.

But the argument seemed to be that Reeves could jack up government borrowing even more because she “used to work at the Bank of England” and her name wasn’t Liz Truss @trussliz

Here's my column from six months ago

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https://t.co/IYWmWc3QML

[Ben @welpmaster]

@ga_richardson Please can you edit to one of the following? CAANZUK, ACANZUK,CANZUKA, many thanks.

[Ben @welpmaster]

@QualityStreetUK I’m not disappointed I’m apoplectic let’s play nut allergy roulette shall we?

[Ben @welpmaster]

@QualityStreetUK what the hell have you done to the purple one!?! The purple one is not this shape. First you muck around with the wrappers now you muck around with the shape what’s next? nut free purple one for next year.

[Ben @welpmaster]

@AppleTV so I get a new iPad and it gives me an offer for Apple TV free for three months but when I click to redeem it, it’s only giving me one week and it also charged me as well. What’s going on?

[Ben @welpmaster]

@O2 I’ve received a cold call supposedly from O2 offering me 40% off my bill is this kosher or is this a scam?

[Ben @welpmaster]

@fairy_nonbio your product lies! It cleans nothing, if it did clean, the stain would be gone!

[Ben @welpmaster]

@V_of_Europe Why is he a better choice than @BenWallace70 ?

[Ben @welpmaster]

@EthicalSkeptic What would be the dzhanibekov effect on a planet and what would the new orientation look like?

[Ben @welpmaster]

@GMB @DrAmirKhanGP What is the point in prescribing a drug that pharmacies cannot supply? It’s been unavailable for months and months and alternates are also unavailable.