I have been struck by the poignant messages I've received all week from Jewish friends, neighbours and even total strangers. But all saying how scared they are and how fearful they are that they are alone here in the UK, that we won't stand up for them in their hour of need.
1/ They are bewildered by the hatred directed at Jews and at Israel despite them being the victims of the horrific massacre of Israelis by Hamas terrorists.
One friend said simply "If Israel isn't safe - the one place we always knew we could escape to - then nowhere is safe."
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I waited to see the Dispatches/Sunday Times investigation of @rustyrockets before forming an opinion on the allegations. Crazy idea, I know.

I also want to hear #RussellBrand's defence. Without a police inquiry or court case, we can't know for sure what really happened. 1/4 The reality is that there have been and still are many, many men in the showbiz world who behave in the way @rustyrockets is being accused of - and they are surrounded by men (AND women) who allow it, cover it up and even enable it. 2/4

When you have two bathrooms and one of them still works but is irreparably leaking and needs to be replaced so you book your builders in to start the work while you're away on holiday but, just before you leave, the other bathroom gets a blocked Saniflo pipe so is unusable... 1/ ... and you ask the builders to mend that bathroom before they start demolishing the working bathroom but they ignore you and rip out the working bathroom anyway and fail to mend the blocked pipe in the other bathroom so you come home to... NO BATHROOM AT ALL 2/

Hey @ryanair, tell your ground crews to stop telling your passengers to France that they are required to wear a face mask on the flight. They're not. Under UK, French, EASA & ECDC rules and your own CEO's policy, passengers do not need to wear masks. You're welcome. Just spent 10 minutes arguing with a very rude @Ryanair gate staffer who insisted that if I refused to wear a mask, I wouldn't get on the flight. She told me: "What is your problem? No one else is complaining."

It IS a problem. Always complain. Always.

Does Partygate matter?

No, of course it doesn't matter if the PM and his staff had drinks together in their offices or in the No10 garden.

But it DOES matter if they did it while at the same time they imposed laws banning the REST OF US from doing the exact same thing.

1/ And it DOES matter if the people who partied at No10 claimed that the lockdown laws they imposed on us were needed to save lives when they clearly didn't believe their own drinks gatherings would kill them or anyone else.

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Oh, well fancy that 👀. I've been shadowbanned by @twitter. I guess I don't hold the correct opinions approved by the about-to-be ex-owners. 🤷🏻‍♀️ @JuliaHB1 It says that I'm not, but meanwhile, at a time when other unroll requests are being acted on in seconds, @threadreaderapp is failing to see mine for almost an hour, now, in some cases.

Shoplifting is now legal. A thread: ⬇️

I went to my local high street chemist and yet again they had almost bare shelves of the make-up brand I use (yes, Artex, of course). I asked the store manager if they were having delivery issues because, y'know, Covid. Apparently not.

1/ What happens is that every time the staff of this store (a well known high street name, but he asked to be anonymous) put the make-up products on the shelves, shop lifters turn up, raid the shop and steal it all within hours - and sometimes even in minutes.

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She's at it again. @jujuliagrace keeps claiming I've posted inaccuracies about her. I posted ONE factual tweet 2 months ago. No abuse, no lies. Yet she keeps tweeting about me. It's almost as if I'm good for business, isn't it? 😉#RollUpGetYourVeryExpensiveUselessMasksHere 1/

Every now and then she writes another "oh, woe is me" tweet about being abused online, then handily mentions her @EveryDoctorUK website for her private limited company selling over-priced masks for £12.50+ a pop and business booms once again. I'm just glad to be of service 🤷🏻‍♀️. 2/

.@JujuliaGrace is the director of a limited company @EveryDoctorUK which sells cloth face masks "not intended for medical use" for £12.50+ to punters. She is *still* complaining about a tweet I posted about this two months ago and the reaction to it. 1/ It is of course utterly unacceptable that @JujuliaGrace has received personal abuse on Twitter. But I'm still perplexed as to why me pointing out a simple matter of fact makes me responsible for anyone else trolling her about her mask-selling business. 2/

Over Xmas @JujuliaGrace tweeted that I was "trolling" her and threatened legal action over a tweet I posted pointing out that she sells face masks. She claimed my tweet was inaccurate - but only after she & her company @EveryDoctorUK blocked me so I could not see those tweets. 1/ I texted @JujuliaGrace to politely ask her what was inaccurate in my tweet and explained that if I had been factually wrong "I will be happy to apologise and correct it". She did not reply.

She did, though, tweet to her followers about my text message six days later... 2/

The entire British media (except @talkradio) appears to think the key question about today's Health/Science committee report on the Govt's handling of the start of the pandemic is:

"Will you apologise for not locking down earlier in March 2020?"

1/ This is the same British media that continues to ignore all the evidence from around the world (not just Sweden, Florida & Texas) that shows that lockdowns don't save lives, they merely delay Covid deaths while also causing many more non-Covid deaths.

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Well, we've made it onto the plane to Mallorca. According to the boarding pass given to us by the lady at check-in, I'm going on holiday with 2 kids and a bloke called Adam Wall. Which may come as something of a surprise to my husband. #HisNameIsNotAdamOrWall Good grief. I've just had to hold up our plane when we spotted TWO of our bags being offloaded because a passenger didn't board - in the name of Adam Wall. The useless check-in lady had checked in TWO of our 4 bags in his name despite being told repeatedly that we weren't him...

A message to all those who think that people wanting an end to lockdown is selfish and don't care about their fellow citizens. Please share this thread... 1/ You can clap for carers, put a blue heart in your Twitter bio & a kid's rainbow drawing in your front window all you like, but if you support an extension to this lockdown, YOU ARE SELFISH. 2/

Just like they predicted that sending millions of kids back to school would cause Covid cases and deaths to go up after March 8? Uh huh.

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1393474008000176128

Let's have a look at what actuallt happened after the "experts" predicted that millions of children returning to school on 8 March would lead to a surge in cases and deaths...

This first graph shows cases from 1 March. Where's that big surge in cases? 2/

What an extraordinary exchange on @skynews this afternoon between the presenter and Fatima Ibrahim of Green New Deal UK.
Do you remember agreeing to radically change how you live your life to tackle the "climate crisis"?
I don't. 1/ Sky presenter: "In terms of what we need to do as individuals... everyday things, how we heat our homes, what food we eat, that all needs to change radically as well." 2/

What’s going on @GavinWilliamson @BorisJohnson? You promised pupils would only wear face masks in classrooms for this term before a review over Easter. So why does new guidance say masks will be reviewed AND that they “will continue to be in place AFTER Easter”. Which is it? Ok, re masks in classroom... a Govt source tells me that they don’t get the data until next week and will do the review then, adding: "I don’t think the wording had changed on the guidance from last time." We shall see...

A helpful message for Remoaners and #FBPE folk:

One of the strangest things about our Brexit battles is the willingness of those on your Remoan side (ie. not the vast majority of Remainers who accepted the 2016 democratic vote) to dismiss the views of Brexiteers because...

1/ You claim we are stupid, poorly educated & ignorant of the facts.
Not a day goes by when you Remoaners don't tweet about how stupid & ill-informed I am.
You're entitled to think whatever they want, of course, but I'm not sure it's the winning argument they seem to think it is.
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It is absolutely terrifying how many people in this country think France has somehow brought these Islamist extremists & their beheadings on themselves by refusing to condemn the Charlie Hebdo magazine cartoons of Mohamed. 1/ If you think people in western democracies should not do anything that might offend Islamist extremists, please answer these questions:

When the Islamist extremists start demanding we execute people who want to leave the religion of Islam, what are you going to do then? 2/

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT: Matt Hancock told me on @talkRADIO that the False Positive Rate of Covid tests in the community is "under 1%". Sounds good, doesn't it? WRONG!
An FPR of 0.8% when the virus prevalence is so low means that at least 91% of "Covid cases" are FALSE POSITIVES.

https://twitter.com/talkradio/status/1306916231170191361

This FPR means that thousands of the people testing positive for coronavirus in the community are NOT in fact currently infected with Covid and they CANNOT infect others with the virus. That's why the "rising Covid cases" is not translating into mass deaths. 2/

Oy @VodafoneUK why don’t the options for titles on your online forms include “Ms”? The only options I have are Mrs, Miss and Mx. One says I’m married with my husband’s name, one says I’m single, one says I’m gender neutral. I’m none of those. I’m a Ms. Why isn’t it an option? A tiny number of woke souls may use Mx as their title, but *millions* of women use Ms to denote the fact they’re women but their marital status is irrelevant. Why would @VodafoneUK choose Mx over Ms? Sort it out and sharpish or I’ll find a new phone provider.

I’ve just had an epiphany that explains why so many people on the Left behave like stroppy toddlers. It all makes so much sense now.
The Left largely live in echo chambers - on social media, the news they consume, their jobs (largely public sector or woke media) - so they 1/ don’t engage with people who think differently from them on a typical day, as the rest of us do.
This has led many of them to believe that what THEY think, feel or experience about something is what EVERYONE thinks, feels or experiences about that thing.
So whether it’s Brexit 2/