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Dominic Minghella

@DMinghella

Mar 16

The problem with the Tories is where their money comes from.
The problem with the oligarchs is where their money comes from.
The problem with the 'think tanks' is where their money comes from.
The problem with the libertarian activist groups is where their money comes from.
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The problem with the 'taxpayer' advocacy groups is where their money comes from.
The problem with the schoolchild advocacy groups is where their money comes from.
The problem with the anti-vax groups is where their money comes from.
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The problem with the anti-climate action groups is where their money comes from.
The problem with the rightwing 'disrupter' political parties, and their donors, is where their money comes from.
The problem with some new (and old) media outlets is where their money comes from.
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Dominic Minghella

@DMinghella

Feb 28

Ukraine reopens the casebook on our recent history with Russia, and exposes the Vote Leave cabal, now in power, to a scrutiny they thought they had successfully avoided. It presents them with a bind - they harder they go on Putin, the more they risk undermining their own

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Brexit-dependent legitimacy. Putin's paws and cash were all over Brexit. The Vote Leave Tories are in power on a 'get Brexit done' ticket. They have literally done the bidding of World Enemy Number 1.

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But they won't have a choice. They will have to fall in behind world opinion on Putin, and even be seen to be tougher than others on him - which means they'll have to redouble their efforts to expunge Putin from the Brexit narrative, and move harder than ever

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Dominic Minghella

@DMinghella

Feb 23

Hands up if all those rubles sloshing round the Conservative party make you queasy.

Hands up if Johnson's off-grid Russian partying makes you queasy.

Hands up if you see a massive nesootvetstviye (discrepancy) between the Johnson regime's stern rhetoric on Russia, and its startling warmth towards Londongrad.

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Dominic Minghella

@DMinghella

Jan 5

It's 2022. Let's stop pussy-footing around and call the regime what it is... The Policing Bill, the Elections Bill, the Nationality & Borders Bill, media control, othering of migrants and lawyers, sweeping use of secondary legislation, brazen lies and wholesale corruption...

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You know where I'm going with this. If it makes you feel uncomfortable saying the word, or you think it's somehow "unhelpful", I get it. I've been there too, I've done that too, I've sat on my hands too.

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But I for one no longer have the stomach to keep giving them a free pass to pretend they are benign democrats, when I know beyond all reasonable doubt that they are not.

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Dominic Minghella

@DMinghella

Jan 4

In September we sent our kids back to school - with much trepidation, but at least with the promise of vaccination for teens (albeit 1 dose) by half term. That half-hearted teen vaccination programme essentially failed, and schools drove 50k/day cases throughout the autumn.

In January, as the focus starts to shift to 5-11 year olds, are we to send them back on a similarly unreliable promise that they will be vaccinated? Parents can have little confidence in this government's capacity or willingness to protect children.

We've endured all kinds of disinformation - from kids don't get it, to kids don't spead it, to masks don't work, to faux concern for mental health - and what it all boils down to is - sorry, but your government will not protect your kids.

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Dominic Minghella

@DMinghella

Jan 4

There's a terrible idea going round that I thought we had dismissed in all but extremist circles. But it was repeated today on Radio 4 by an august professor. It is the suggestion that kids are vaccinated more for the social good than their own good. Therefore the risks...
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... associated with vaccine for kids have to weigh more heavily in the cost/benefit analysis. The underlying thought is "they're getting vaccinated more for us than them" so we must proceed with great caution. Sounds reasonable, but it really is lousy thinking. Here's why:
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Forget, for a moment, that children do get seriously ill with covid and remember that, even if they were 100% invulnerable, it would remain in their palpable and direct interest to have healthy, living family members at home.
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