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Interesting thread with (mostly) interesting replies. Twitter, being Twitter, tended to forget how many thoughtful people were in the middle—or weren't even in the middle, but were still open to

I must start a collection of replies like this. My tweets are mostly about what a nobody I am, yet the hordes of people who nevertheless feel it's important to

My wilfully perverse hot take I promised not to bother you with yesterday: The Labour Party made a mistake in suspending Corbyn for his remarks, and I suspect this decision,

I almost never do this, but *please* stop sharing tweets by Devi Sridhar. She is a "professor of public health" who has no medical qualifications. I say this only to

Sheeran, Drake, Styles, even Mars and Bieber, aren't ugly, but they're not *beautiful*. We haven't had any ridiculously good-looking A-list male pop idols for *years*. Where is the contemporary Elvis,

I share this, not to claim that the UK is doing well at controlling COVID-19—my position remains that that it's too early, the data are too poor, the regions are

This is the start of my new Black Lives Matter "Reverse Ferret" thread, where I'll be cataloguing the incidents of and techniques used to back out of previous enthusiastic support

I will confidently take bets with the "Pulling Down A Statue Of A Slave Trader Is Not The Hill To Die On" brigade⁠—who have a powerful point⁠—that, if no one

Apropos of nothing, a book could be written on prominent figures in the UK whose mental health was negatively affected by Brexit, and on the extent to which superficially supportive

Imagine how offensive it must be to thousands of Jews, after all they went through, to find themselves only at NUMBER THREE on a list of Corbyn's opponents. ALL THE

Looking forward to the #CaptainTomMoore press conference."Why didn't you start your sponsored walk earlier, when people were in a better financial position to donate?""Don't you think your military medals fed

It's harder for it to happen these days, but have you ever assumed that a famous person was one colour and found out, years later, that they were another colour?