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Oct 4, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
@MarinaHyde Oooooh me too, idolise him. Thanks for posting.
@MarinaHyde My dad’s best friend Steve produced Stoppard’s script “Squaring the Circle” on Solidarność being made into a TV film with Bernard Hill as Lech Walesa & Roy Kinnear directed by Mike Hodges m.imdb.com/title/tt018657… and...
The PM ‘justifies the bill’s repudiating clauses on the grounds Brussels threatens the “territorial integrity” of the UK. He conjures the prospect of a “blockade” – vindictive obstruction ...It is a depiction too twisted by mendacity to work even as a caricature of the facts.’ /1
‘EU state aid regulation would make it harder to divert taxpayers’ money into a British Google, or national unicorn-breeding facility.’ /2
Sep 14, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
@mrjamesob Three points I hope you’ll cover this morning. One, law needs to be certain – publishing the new regs _at 23.45 the night before they come into force_ doesn’t qualify. See this👇
‘Within Mr Johnson’s inner circle, it is a private boast that they are “tearing up the rule book” of government. One of the rules they have been shredding most aggressively is the concept of ministerial responsibility. Under previous governments of many different complexions /1
...this idea has been central to how democratic politics is supposed to work. When things go wrong, the minister is accountable to parliament and must answer to the public for his department’s failings. When things go badly wrong, the minister resigns. /2
Oct 26, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Poor Mr Orwell must be rolling in his grave this week alone. Anything in this thread strike a chord? All eerily apropos: ‘The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.’ /1
‘The insularity of the English, their refusal to take foreigners seriously, is a folly that has to be paid for very heavily from time to time.’ /2
Aug 3, 2019 • 127 tweets • 64 min read
If we stay in the EU, we can eat Xmas food at Xmastime. If #ChaosBrexit happens, “This could leave British shoppers having to turn to the likes of turkey, stuffing and pigs-in-blankets as regular fresh food supplies run low.” H/t @MrSandy_P
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If we stay in the EU, cancer patients can continue to have treatment with certain radioactive isotopes. These are as unstable as a Slytherin Tory cabinet minister and cannot be stockpiled. H/t @Dr_PhilippaW
