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Apr 11, 2019 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
How to spot a Russian bot. A linguistic guide. Russian bots tend - like many Russian speakers - to be unusually direct and aggressive when trying to speak English.
Russian bots will often defend Putin/Crimea/ conspiracy theories somewhere in their feed. The Russian language has no articles (a, an, the) so they often muddle these
Finally there's the "so called" thing. Russian speakers overuse the phrase. And wrongly. It's a mistranslation.
And that my friends is how we know that this supposed "Arsenal supporter" who backs Brexit is almost certainly Russian. Cc @lord_sugar @20arsenal
@Lord_Sugar @20arsenal Russia currently just 2 hours ahead.
Also if that's a UK train seat I'm Norma Major

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Jan 31
Confronted by @krishgm over Boris Johnson using a conspiracy theory about Keir Starmer in the House of Commons today, Nadine Dorries says:

"The Prime Minister tells the truth."
Hard to decide what Johnson's biggest error was today. Spreading fake news about Jimmy Saville or sending Nadine Dorries in to defend him.
The noise near the end is my son banging a pasta bowl and not the rattling of Badines brain
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Jan 12
"Is the Prime Minister so contemptuous of the British public that he thinks he can just ride this out?"

Starmer has Johnson on the ropes. #PMQs
Starmer goes on to say that the British public think Johnson is "lying through his teeth" causing outrage on Tory benches. They know it's true but you're not allowed to call liars "liars" in our arcane parliament.
Boris Johnson looking utterly ridiculous.
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Jan 5
The whole argument about having to leave statues up so we can appreciate our history is neatly dismantled by the Colston saga. The opposite was after all the case. Most people hadn't heard of him until his statue was tossed in the harbour. That moment started the conversation.
I was only aware of who he was - albeit dimly - because I'd visited a friend in Bristol in 2019 and he'd told me about it.
The affair shows the lessons that can be learned from questioning what's about us. And chiefly - why should an effigy to a ghastly person become immutable simply because some bunch of merchants decided to put it up 100 years ago?
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Jan 4
So much to enjoy here. If you click on the Boris Johnson Shakespeare book it:

A: Tells you it's now coming out in 2050

and

B: Tells you it's written by "Anonymous"

waterstones.com/book/shakespea…
Only discovered this weekend that Enoch Powell was a fully paid up member of the "Shakespeare didn't write the plays" club and that his biographer Simon Heffer believes the same
telegraph.co.uk/culture/116857…
Enoch Powell also believed Christ was stoned to death not crucified
upi.com/Archives/1994/…
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Jan 4
Do not understand why history becomes an optional in year 10. Such a fundamental subject. Lies at the heart of so much of our lives and politics but kids can basically opt out.... meanwhile they are obliged to learn all manner of mathematics and science that most will never use
And that's not a dig at science or maths - but where is the logic in children learning algebra (for example) while basically giving up on a subject that lies at the very core of who we are.
I was I confess absolutely useless at science and this might be bias on my part. Science is absolutely fundamental too. But I don't think kids should be dropping history that early.
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Jan 4
Dan Hannan is said to be the "brains" of Brexit. He appears to have borrowed them from a guinea pig.
And to misquote Groucho Marx "I doubt the guinea pig wants them back"
Also astonishing that 56 people were able to quote tweet him. He's blockier than a phalanx of primary school kids playing road blocks.
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