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13 Dec, 9 tweets, 1 min read
Is this right or has Mogg conflated St Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury - wife of King Edmund I - with Æthelgifu - Alfred's daughter.
Will the real St Æthelgifu or Ælfgifu please stand up
I'm putting my faith in you twitter history people... I'm off to Tesco... or TÆSCO as they called it in the 9th century
He's right apparently so I'm wrong again
Jury is out. Could be FÆKE HISTORY
Well it's looking more likely that I'm right. If I wasn't doing important things I'd dig right in. But I need cheese.
I didn't know anything about Saint Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury until a few hours agi and it seems - neither did Mogg. The difference between us is that I looked it up and he just went with the first source/meme/on this day happened thing he encountered. Check people. Then check again
If you are following Æthelgifu-gate it seems that Mogg got it completely wrong. And does seem to have confused two different people. I strongly suspect, based on a bit of fairly light research, that he's lifted this 'feast' off a Catholic website which throws up 'notable dates'
Mind you, I have really enjoyed reading about Ælfgifu so not time wasted.

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13 Dec
Does this mean that Rodd Liddle can only understand the people he so frequently lambasts, if he first sits through an after dinner speech by one of them? Or does it only go one way?
People have always walked out on stuff. In the 90s I saw people walk out 'in disgust' at the in-yer-face plays of Ravenhill and Kane. In the 80s someone invited an ANC representative to my school and several right wing boys walked out on him... go back in time and you get same
In January 1969 students at Rutherford College of Technology disrupted and then walked out on a speech by racist Enoch Powell
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Excellent piece. All that is wrong essentially boils down to Johnson's utter contempt for "ordinary" people.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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I cannot think of a government in modern history that has visited so much grief and division on this country. For almost 12 years it's been chaos and disaster of Conservative misrule.

We can't go on like this.
They've stoked nationalism, culture wars, regional division and inequality. They've made Britain a pariah on the world stage and a laughing stock in Europe. They've increased inequality and done nothing at all to level up the country beyond hot air. Meanwhile cronyism is rife...
..peerages are doled out to their mates like candy. There's no vision. There's no big plan. Brexit continues to be nothing more than a pyramid scheme that only the gullible still buy into. It's like a bad joke or a terrible nightmare
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It was perfectly legal to take cocaine, marijuana and opium even into the 20th century. Queen Victoria like to chew cocaine laced gum and once shared some with a young Winston Churchill. Gladstone supposedly put opium in his tea before big speeches....
People have and always will take stimulants. If you make them illegal they will buy them illegally. Was ever thus and will ever be thus. Rather than fighting an unwinnable war on drugs we need to manage them and live with them and accept that people like them.
As to weed getting "stronger" that's a result of the Iron Law of prohibition. It's a result of government policy and the drugs being illegal.
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Johnson says food and drink 'export market is growing all the time' in fact according to the Grocer, they were down '4.5% to £9.2bn in the first half of 2021 compared to 2020, and down more than 17% from the first half of 2019.' So not true.
2: Johnson says the 'Americans are lifting their ban after decades on British beef and lamb.' That ban had nothing whatsoever to do with membership of the EU and was a result of BSE aka mad cow disease. As it is lamb exports to the US generally are negligible. They don't eat it.
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And Beth Rigby
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