“I am holding Prince Andrew accountable for what he did to me. The powerful & rich are not exempt from being held responsible for their actions." @VRSVirginia
“#PrinceAndrew asserts he was ‘acting honourably’ in flying all the way to New York in 2010, supposedly to end his friendship with Epstein. But he has yet to regard it as a matter of honour to fly to New York to clear his own name.” @MarinaHyde@guardiantheguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Tonight on @Channel4News Virginia Giuffre's lawyer David Boise tells @krishgm that #PrinceAndrew & his lawyers "have totally stonewalled", & “He can ignore me & he can ignore, Virginia....but he can't ignore judicial process”
“Defend yourself Andrew, or be found be found guilty in absentia”
Interestingly, Virginia Giuffre “liked” this Tweet reply
“#PrinceAndrew has been backed into a corner. He has to defend himself or in absentia be found liable & pay up. They were hoping he would settle.” #Epstein
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1/. “If you go there as tourists and return with nothing, it's better not to return to the country. I am telling you this as the president...interpret it as you want". President Lukashenka to #Belarus’ #Olympics team:
So far, the Belarusian team won no medals at @Tokyo2020
2/. #BREAKING: "I couldn’t stay silent" (Alyaksandra Herasimienia, #Olympics medalist, detained for 15 days)
#Belarus athletes sacrifice their careers & freedom by speaking out against human rights violations
In this footage of @BorisJohnson from 2013, the then London mayor says that, in politics, you can “make a case for any course of action”.
He also admits that he isn’t really “bumbling”.
He’s “hard as nails”.
“They cover up crime with scandal & covers up malice with incompetence. They want to project an image of being inept, instead of as having a cruel & well-defined plan.” @sarahkendzior
His ‘bumbling’ persona is a carefully constructed disguise
“This morning’s police raids are a blatant attempt to intimidate a journalist who has made clear his intention not to be silenced by the designation last week of his publication as a ‘foreign agent’
“Greek authorities have been using tear gas and rubber bullets to repel the hordes.”
Language matters
Words such as “hordes”, “invasion”, “flood”, “swarm” are used widely - & for more a century
3/ Orwell’s 1984 opens with Winston Smith writing in his diary about a film he’s seen
“One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. Audience much amused by shots of a great huge fat man trying to swim away with a helicopter after him”
Twice a year he reads the courtroom scene in “The Fountainhead”, where the hero says he’d rather go to jail than submit to the collective will b/c the individual can bend the arc of history to their will.
“What Javid admires in Rand’s novel is the portrait of a steel-willed individual for whom tooth-&-claw capitalism is the best system because it places the fewest restrictions on such individuals. If illegal or unethical methods are required, what of it?” westcountrybylines.co.uk/sajid-javid-he…