Boris Johnson: “It did happen & I’m not ashamed of it”

Angus Deayton: What aren’t you ashamed of, Boris?

Boris Johnson: Whatever there is not to be ashamed of

[LAUGH]

The laugh is crucial

He manages to make people laugh even while admitting his crime
In this 2013 interview, @BorisJohnson admits he’s not really “bumbling”

It’s just an put on act

In reality he’s “hard as nails”

He also tells us “a terrible truth about politics & human nature”

That you can “make a good case for any course of action”
“It’s often useful to give the slight impression that you are deliberately pretending not to know what's going on - because the reality may be that you don't know what's going on but people won't be able to tell the difference." @BorisJohnson #BorisJohnson
"I've got a brilliant new strategy, which is to make so many gaffes that nobody knows which one to concentrate on” @BorisJohnson 2006

In 2018 Bannon rptdly said:
“The real opposition is the media & the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit”
The strategy seems reminiscent of that used by Putin’s puppet master, Surkov, who it is rumoured Cummings spent time with

He turned Russian politics into a bewildering, constantly changing piece of theatre

A ceaseless shape-shifting that is unstoppable because it is indefinable Image
"When Europe's house is on fire, US nationalists will have achieved their goal”

Steve Bannon was Vice President of #CambridgeAnalytica, a company that’s thought to have had a big part in the Trump & Brexit victories

Cummings & Vote Leave also had links with Cambridge Analytica. Image
”I’ve been talking to him all weekend about this speech”

Bannon calls @BorisJohnson “one of the most important persons on the world stage”

In 2018, Steve Bannon told a far-right crowd in France:

“Let them call you a racist. Wear it as a badge of honour”
In 2015, Bannon told #CambridgeAnalytica’s @chrisinsilico to build a psychological warfare tool to hollow out democracy & rive open divisions in societies

It worked

The far-right have almost finished pulling off a well-planned, well-funded bloodless coup
“Forget the myths, follow the money”

The parallels btw UK & US, Johnson & Trump aren’t coincidental

It is a global power-grab

Control through data & genomics

And what of the role of #Palantir, founded by right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, rptdly linked to #CambridgeAnalytica ImageImage

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Jan 16
Full moon over the Thames in London

The January moon is sometimes called the “Wolf Moon,” appearing when wolves howled near the villages in hunger or the “Old Moon” or in North America the “Snow Moon” #FullMoon #WolfMoon #SnowMoon
This moon is not fully full

The #FullMoon will peak tomorrow (17 January) at about 11.30pm UK time. #WolfMoon
Earlier, there was drama by the river when a man came rushing up to me looking for his dog

“I forgot all about him,” he said

“I can’t believe forgot all about him!”

I’d seen a sad looking old pug way down the Thames path so we went back to look for him...
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Jan 16
1/. In 2018, when freezing temperatures hit, we put a clothes rail outside a church with a sign:

IF YOU'RE COLD, TAKE ONE

IF YOU CAN HELP, LEAVE ONE

What happened next was miraculous

Four years on, this simple, sticky idea is still going & is spreading #TakeOneLeaveOne #TOLO
2/. If you’re feeling the cold tonight, image what’s like to be homeless, sleeping rough or struggling to heat your home

Why not drop off some warm clothes at your nearest #TakeOneLeaveOne rail or set up a #TOLO rail where you are?

See @Take1_Leave1👇
Insta @take_one_leaveOne
3/. To set up a #TakeOneLeaveOne rails

1 Get a rail
2 Find good location
3 Get👍/help from locals
4 Make a sign or order one from print@adelphigraphics.com £30+p&p
5 Hang clothes
6 Make it COVID safe
7 Contact local media
8 Post on social media #TOLO+
See TakeOneLeaveOne.org
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Jan 14
On 13/3/20, @Telegraph ran this piece by Bobby Friedman:

“Anyone questioning the govt's COVID strategy is not only wrong, they're a danger to us all"

From the early days of the #COVID19 pandemic, the heat was being turned up on those journalists who were trying to do their jobs
“Forget the myths. Follow the money”

Following the money is key to good journalism

It means not being distracted by the army of “dead cats” scattered across the landscape, but focusing on the REAL motivations driving those who make decisions #THREAD👇
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Jan 14
A growing number of parties

Scores of suspects

Hundreds of witnesses

Hours of CCTV footage

Pages of notes & visitor logs

Thousands of email chains

It is absurd to expect Sue Gray to complete this investigation into her seniors in a week

This should be a @metpoliceuk matter
This was Kit Malthouse on 6 December👇

He starts by saying no rules were broken at the No.10 party & finishes by saying he doesn’t know if there was an event

@kitmalthouse has been glued to @BorisJohnson’s side since before he was mayor of London.
An inquiry into illegal gatherings is one thing, but many of the BIG questions are still to be even asked, like:

“Which Minister authoritised sending people from hospitals to care homes without testing?”

I broke the #CareHomeScandal on 13/5/20 but am still waiting for an answer
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1/. “Everything I know about morality & the obligations of men I owe to football” (Camus)

Football teaches us about team work & camaraderie, courage & fair play but most importantly it teaches us that some things are more important than winning #AFCON2021
2/. The lessons offered by football extend beyond our individual & collective behaviours

Just as FIFA sets the rules of the game on the pitch, so bodies such as the UN, set out rules on the world stage through a framework of intn'l law #AfricaCupOfNations
3/. Just as the rules of football ensure fairness on the pitch, so human rights ensure fairness around the world

Footballers should be free to express themselves on the pitch in the same way we should all be free to express our views & beliefs. #AFCON2021
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Wow! I’d never seen this French advert with #DavidBowie before #Bowie #BowieForever #Bowie75
...And this photograph of David Bowie, taken by Nico Van Der Stam, in 1971. #BOWIE75 #BowieForever #Bowie #DavidBowie Image
David Bowie & @MickJagger at the wedding reception of @EricIdle & @TaniaIdle (nee Kosevich) in 1981

Eric Idle at the Jones’ wedding with #DavidBowie & @The_Real_IMAN in 1992 (images from Eric’s autobiography, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life)

#Bowie died 6 years ago today ImageImage
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