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Owen Jones🌹
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Good to see the media debating the big issues of our time
Here's a list of things I am "offended" by:

😡 LGBTQ services being cut

😡 LGBTQ people being abused in the street

😡 LGBTQ refugees being deported

😡 Britain's key allies persecuting and killing LGBTQ people

A list of things I'm not offended by

🤷🏻‍♂️ A M&S sandwich
Ok, I can reveal that this is @thismorning and they are currently texting every LGBTQ commentator they can think of solely for the purpose of setting up an inflammatory debate about a M&S sandwich.
@thismorning They want a LGBTQ person who will kick off so they can be ridiculed for getting upset over a sandwich, don't they. That's literally the only explanation I can think of. Happy to entertain any other theories. @thismorning
@thismorning OK so update: having been rejected by all the LGBTQ commentators they got in touch with - because none of us were offended by, and I must stress this, a sandwich - they put on an anti-trans activist who used the platform to rant about trans people. Well done, This Morning! 👏
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To get this straight, it is a moral disgrace for Jeremy Corbyn to write a foreword to book by the liberal J.A.Hobson - my newspaper's former South Africa correspondent - but not for Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and countless other Labour figures to approvingly cite him.
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Wow. First TIG/Change UK brought us "funny tinge", now it's revealed one of their MEP candidates indulged in anti-Romanian bigotry independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
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