Will Goddard

28 year old interested in interesting things. Chinese and Arabic graduate, general language nerd, former teacher, now cabin crew.

[Richard Johnson @richardmarcj]

Why can't he justify it? They're not salaried. If you elect members of the upper chamber, you will have to pay them proper salaries.

[Bill Bishop @niubi]

“QQ, WeChat, Pinduoduo, and Douyin proclaimed “system maintenance,” guarding against any indirect protest signals by freezing the ability to change profile photos, nicknames, or signatures from June 2 through June 5. Baidu Netdisk suspended file-sharing until June 6. Xiaohongshu ran an anniversary cake-design contest with an explicit instruction: no candles. That would be too much like commemorating the dead. A celebrity-merchandise shop revealed that a plush doll priced at 89 yuan had been ordered to change its price — 89 as in “1989”, being a “sensitive integer” — and reprice at 89.01.” https://t.co/cMDmMEt2Gb

[S. I. Rubinstein @si_rubinstein]

Interesting admission of what I think is still a widely underrated fact: that the George Floyd hysteria is only intelligible in the context of the pandemic & lockdown.

[Will Goddard @willpaddyg]

@pabloloverfrvr @julesw1lko @TypeForVictory It's hardly surprising that someone would wonder why Sri Lanka given that it's not a particularly Muslim country and I don't think people know the details of the ethnic origins of every single person involved in 5Pillars, but your first response was to call someone thick.

[Thomas @calciferion]

Painful to watch the gymnastics here

[James @jhallwood]

If only there were some way we could formally recognise established relationships in law

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

A Collins classic here where she joins Dems in the failed vote to block Trump’s slush fund so she can say she was against it, but when they needed her vote to get it over the top she was there for them.

[London New Liberals @LondonNewLibs]

I mean I guess that’s “technically” a correction…

Definitely put my mind at ease that everything’s going okay

[Will Goddard @willpaddyg]

@danielneljack I don't think it's unreasonable to think that people who perpetrate rape at that age should be imprisoned. These are not people who should be in society

[Will Goddard @willpaddyg]

The replies are all, rightly, cross that a curfew counts as equivalent to being remanded in prison, but I'm baffled by 18 months still being considered acceptable for rape such that they're not currently in prison

[Matthew Scott @Barristerblog]

Until Joshua Rozenberg pointed this out, nobody else, as far as I know, had reported that 2 of the Fordingbridge rapists had already served the equivalent of 17 & 18 month custodial sentences whilst awaiting trial. A relevant fact, & a pretty dismal failure of court reporting.

[Ben Williams @FaringForwards]

A good example of how even the best lawyers can be dazzled by process. Yes, in law each day of 8pm curfew on bail deducts half a day from your custodial sentence. But many people will regard that as just another way in which sentencing has become a fraud on the public.

[Intarabus🇱🇺 @Intarabus333]

Literally all those other countries could fit inside of Luxembourg and there would still be plenty of space left lmao.

[Matt Kilcoyne @MRJKilcoyne]

Wow what a gotcha. She's totally destroyed these facts and logic. Her point (totally accurate) left totally and utterly laid low (never been more correct).

Thanks Full Fact.

[Will Goddard @willpaddyg]

@2peartrees Me too

[Will Goddard @willpaddyg]

@TypeForVictory Why Sri Lanka?

[Will Goddard @willpaddyg]

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[Robert Ford @robfordmancs]

This all strikes me as rather odd behaviour. What exactly did these anonymous MPs think Burnham was going to do if he arrives in Westminster - go on an open top bus sight seeing tour?

[Maria @mlstrat]

my favorite example: in 2012, rand paul went on the senate floor and mocked a research grant studying the sex life of the male screwworm, which at that time was only located outside the US. it’s a flesh eating parasite that’d devastate the cattle industry. but now it’s here!

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Ishaya_]

It's absolutely baffling to see the backlash against this announcement.

Imagine complaining that the UK is securing a multi-billion-pound private investment.

Let's look at the actual numbers: taxpayers are funding £1.3bn for local roads & a new rail station. In return, Universal is spending £5 billion to build the park and another £1 billion operating it.

Bedford(& the UK) gets 28,000 total jobs, a massive revitalization of a former industrial site, & a projected £50 billion economic boost.

The sheer cynicism around projects like this is exactly what holds the UK back. If we treat massive, job-creating investments as something to be outraged about, we only guarantee our own economic stagnation.

[Will Goddard @willpaddyg]

Good to see Nancy endorsing a Democrat in California!

[Nancy Mace @NancyMace]

If you were born in some hell hole country and moved to America, you have NO RIGHT to tell us how to conduct our business.

If your ideas didn’t work back home, they won’t work here.

Foreign born people do not belong in public office. Period.

America First.