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Enjoyed gorgeous Durham today and its welcoming folk and its socialist history. Tonight another performance of @ETOpera’s universally acclaimed Seraglio. So nice to be on the road with such a hit show. A handful of tickets still going @GalaDurham.

Do say hello after. x
I especially enjoyed this cheeky chap. Spotted him yet? #Durham
I must admit, walking around Brexity Durham, today of all days, with a @RemainiacsCast big button on my jacket, felt a bit defiant.
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You’re about to sign a job contract. You were in two minds about the job in the first place (let’s call it 52-48), because this particular employer has a terrible reputation, historically, for lying and fucking over employees. 1/
But they have promised you AMAZING money and benefits. On the day you’re meant to give notice to your old job, THAT YOU LIKE A LOT, you notice that in the latest draft contract the phrase “your salary will be” was crossed out and “we hope to be able to pay you” substituted. /2
When you question this, the employer says something incomprehensible about “getting this done” and “no more dither and delay” and presses you to sign. You ask whether you can seek legal advice. The employer gets very offended and questions whether you want the job at all. 3/
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I didn’t mean to pick on any BBC journalist, especially not someone I admire. The point I was making was that the “I voted Remain BUT” voter is STATISTICALLY one of the rarest creatures in our political landscape but is somehow overrepresented in every BBC sample.
Basically, the professional trolls and botfarms are targeting the BBC with this fictitious voter (just like they target twitter) and the BBC in its maniacal quest for a sort of inane chocolate-box balance (let’s have one of everything) falls for it every time.
Only that’s not balance. If you end up representing X and Y view in every programme, even though X and Y are wholly niche, you end up propagandising them as being mainstream. And pretty soon you create a feedback loop.
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Three MPs - ERG, Labour and former Tory - who have declared support for PM’s stitch-up.

I want you to REALLY LISTEN to what they say on a 2nd Ref. All acknowledge it would probably be a Remain win, but that’s too messy. They all know they push this through AGAINST the majority.
Can you imagine, can you fucking FATHOM it? Three elected MPs in a mature democracy, appearing on national TV, and saying OUT LOUD: “Well, yeah, we know this is a HORRIBLE idea, we suspect we’re shoving it through AGAINST the wishes of the country. But fuck it. We’re bored.”
I kept waking up in the middle of the night and thinking about this little exchange. Genuinely.

I know we’ve become jaded from so much BIG STUFF happening.

But it’s in these little, seemingly innocuous exchanges that the soul of the country is slowly suffocated.
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