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16 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This is so toe curlingly embarrassing.
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Seems he was offered the job so can't blame him for announcing it and updating his linked in.
So the appointment was withdrawn after an outcry over it
bbc.com/news/uk-politi…

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17 Oct
Long read on how British black propaganda and fake newsletters helped spark one of the worst atrocities in post war history. The events of 1965-66 in Indonesia and the purge against the PKI is little known here. Our part in them hardly known at all.
theguardian.com/world/2021/oct…
Undoubtedly the History Reclaimed lot will just ignore this stuff. Image
In my twenties I bizarrely found myself talking to Margaret Thatcher at a drinks party and somehow the subject got onto this. "The problem with Indonesia is that it was never colonised by the British!" She declared loudly at me - and having drunk enough I politely corrected her.
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16 Oct
Sounds impressive doesn't it. Cecil Rhodes the liberal who wanted to give "indigenous people" the same rights as white colonisers.

But take 30 seconds to fact check it and it falls apart like delicate tissue in a hot power shower.
Cecil Rhodes.... the reformer...
I went to school in Rhodes' hometown - Bishops Stortford - and they and we were all - then - very proud of him. The son of a small market town who had conquered Africa. I remember a very forthright teacher angrily lamenting the fact Rhodesia was being renamed Zimbabwe.
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13 Oct
Ken Livingstone voice: You know there was another world leader, who fancied himself as a painter Image
Of the other world leaders (and dictators) who have painted it's weirdly - General Franco - who had the proper talent. Horrendous human being as he was Image
And then there's George Bush jnrs efforts. Image
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9 Oct
As Britons face soaring UK energy bills, rising Covid cases, benefit cuts, empty supermarket shelves and a petrol crisis.... Boris Johnson jets off for a luxury break in Marbella
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
In August a senior Government source told The Telegraph: “The PM’s going to staycation this year." But that was two months ago wasn't it.
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5 Oct
I've managed to get my hands on 'Boris Johnson's conference speech' and its full of surprises.
bylinetimes.com/2021/10/05/lev…
Looking forward to that chap who always pitches up....coming along and berating me for missing the bigger picture.
Should point out that this is satire just in case Chloe Westley sees it and gets confused again...
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4 Oct
In 2013 Nadine Dorries reportedly employed her daughter on a salary of £40,000–45,000 as an office manager, even though she lived 96 miles from the office. Dorries later took on her sister as "senior secretary" with a salary of £30,000–35,000 source WIKI
theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
Source pressgazette.co.uk/tory-mp-tells-…
I know a lot of people who have worked or do work at the Beeb. Not one of them got there through family connections.
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