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17 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Anyone watching it without comment is no friend of human rights. Whatever else they do, however ‘kind’ they like to think themselves, however much they trumpet that they are ‘human rights advocates’, they have been tried. And they have been found wanting.
And maybe Germany next.
If only we did, eh @Keir_Starmer?

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10 Nov
Yes. His calibre relative to today’s tells you that in spades. And that was because of not despite his profession.
John Smith may be an extreme example. But my old head of chambers, Sir Ivan Lawrence QC, not only had a regular practice at the Old Bailey, he sat on standing committees (considering legislation), introduced a backbench Bill that became law and held the record for filibustering.
In other words, unlike the (largely) dross that sit in the House of Commons now, he was a legislator, giving his expertise and experience to explain what works, what doesn’t, what would he objectionable and why.
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17 Oct
Genius? If true he is responsible for more harm than any Englishman in at least 100 years.

thetimes.co.uk/article/7e00f9…
Look at the vacant expression on the clown.
Can we never again give any responsibility to wonks with no judgement dressed like 14 year olds.
Another one; and fixed.
So we delegated one of the most important decisions in peacetime to a bunch of scruffy youths who spend their time gaming in basements?
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12 Oct
In the light of the narrative that we didn’t ‘lock down’ early enough, here is a thread from last year in which I provide context. The submissions have been published here: committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc….

Casting aside all precedent, advice and proportion was never the right answer.
And the Commons report is a pile of arse-covering horse-manure too.
Another thread taking the Commons’ report apart.
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7 Oct
You really cannot stop. Lying and lying and lying again. As you know very well, the insane modelling of your cronies was so inaccurate it was worthy of the epithet ‘Fergusonian’.
Insofar as there is a crisis, it is a crisis of the casualties of lockdown. The victims of your lies.
In case you are fortunate enough to be blocked.
And it does not seem to be an exclusively English disease (modelling, that is).
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12 Sep
This is hardly a surprise. Cambridge has allowed itself to become a fiscal supplicant of the PRC as have so many institutions - including particularly universities & private schools. And don’t believe that this is a 2 way process by which our ideas travel to and influence China.
The critical mass of students from mainland China are not absorbing what used to be our values - not least because we have abandoned so many of them in our educational institutions. And even if they did, they’d have barely a hope of making an impact on the values of the CCP.
As for Huawei, that the British government was willing even to contemplate working with a front for the Chinese state shows an astonishing disregard for our national security and the motives of our No. 1 strategic rival.
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29 Aug
Western ‘democratic’ and ‘free’ states being shown up by Vladimir Putin. That really is quite something.
Obviously not. For the avoidance of doubt - that I didn’t think would be necessary - my entire point rests on the embarrassment he causes to supposedly free states by saying this when he quite clearly isn’t the leader of a liberal democratic state.
I really must cater for the mindless stupidity - or more likely fake credulity to make their obtuse points - of large numbers of Twitter users next time I tweet.
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