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28 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
This is fairly shocking from this @Telegraph cartoonist
Yes fairly is the wrong intensifier. There's someone who's fallen down a rabbit hole. No excuse for tweets like that.
Telegraph now trending on Twitter for all the wrong reasons. Hope someone there has a word.
He's doubling down.

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29 Sep
This is that University of Kent "white privilege" course that the Times and Telegraph have picked up on.... except... from the look of it.... it's not a white privilege course.
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Key words "University of Kent" birthplace of the Revolutionary Communist Party ... forerunner of Spiked... I'm willing to bet a frozen bag of broad beans that one of that lot are behind this story. And the module seems to be over a year old.
'Woke student" outrage comes round every September. It's almost as if Hallmark invented it to fill the gap between Easter Egg outrage and poppy outrage
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27 Sep
Amazing find this. Liz Truss as a Lib Dem in the early 1990s opposing the concept of the Monarchy.

(Yes people are entitled to change their opinions over time. Great pity in this case.)
Here's more of what she said.
Truss was actually President of Oxford University Liberal Democrats.
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22 Sep
It's great news for British farmers that they'll once again be able to export lamb to the USA. But this has nothing to do with Brexit and is only worth £37 million over 5 years.
thegrocer.co.uk/meat/us-to-lif…
It's another case of Johnson desperately trying to look like he's making some kind of deal. Exports of lamb to US were suspended in 1989 in the wake of the BSE (mad cow disease) crisis. Presumably protectionist attitudes have kept it so.
For reference £36 million is roughly akin to the revenue of Eds Easy diner's handful of restaurants in 2015.
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21 Sep
Wait til Mike learns about George Orwell, Cliff Richard, Mark Twain, John Le Carre and Cary Grant. Wait til Mike reads my twitter bio.

Pray for Mike's mentions.
Fun fact. Mike is actually called Archibald. Suspect Archibald doesn't have that man of the people zing.
Ah I think I've worked out why Archibald is touchy about mentions of Piers Corbyn
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20 Sep
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Johnson claimed that VAT on energy could be slashed if we left the EU. I've just looked at it seems to be set at exactly the same level as it was in 2016.
Yes. It's not just in the UK. But Boris Johnson promised cheaper bills and a VAT cut as specific post Brexit wins.
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16 Sep
Hot take here - quota quickies in the 1920s and 30s were partly responsible for the subsequent genius of Michael Powell, Alfred Hitchcock and others. It gave them space to hone their art and experiment.
inews.co.uk/news/john-whit…
Quota quickies were a result of the Cinematograph Films Act (1927). The government was worried that nasty foreign imports would destroy the UK film industry and corrupt youth etc... so a law was passed requiring that a certain percentage quota of films be shown in cinemas.
To meet the requirement studios knocked off low budget, quickly made B movies - a prerfect training ground for the likes of Powell - Hitchcock etc. But the act became an irritation to studios and requirement was eventually dropped in 1938

Nothing changes under the Sun.
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