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The latest salvo in the "common sense" bullshit-get-out-clause, which the Tories always mobilise to avoid taking responsibility or being held accountable.The last time Boris Johnson spouted this shit & it

So here we are again.A #THREAD on some lessons for @Keir_Starmer & @UKLabour from when John Smith became Labour leader back in 1992, after another humiliating defeat.How does Labour become

#THREADIn January, Gavin Williamson announced that our increasingly authoritarian Govt of philistines intends to cut University funding by 50% to performing & creative arts, media studies & archaeology, with further

A headteacher suggests “good morning everyone” should be used instead of “boys & girls”, because it's more inclusive & doesn't create a gender divide, & all the usual unhinged divisive

I want to say something about #antisemtism within the two main UK political parties - @UKLabour & the @Conservatives - & the grotesque disparity in responses to each, from Jewish

"Boris Johnson can change from bonhomie to a dark fury in seconds. His normally jokey demeanour flashes into a sarcastic snarl, his skin reddens and blotches, his eyes dart into

I'd never heard of Boris Johnson's senior advisor & one of Carrie Symond's "favourite people" 'chatty rat' Henry Newman, but I've been looking at Andrew Neil's connections to the Orbán

#THREAD about Boris Johnson, dead bodies, Brexit, & Andrew Neil's TV Channel & power.The news is full of claims that last year, Boris Johnson said “No more fucking lockdowns: let

Boris Johnson is ‘constantly lobbied’ by text, sources admit.Of course he is. The man is a corrupt opportunist liar.Short THREAD about when he dismissed as 'Lefty delusion' allegations that he

THREADHitler won mass support because a major economic crisis had driven Germany into a deep depression: Banks crashed, businesses folded, & millions lost their jobs. Hitler offered voters a vision

We need to understand the *real* Boris Johnson. He's not the bumbling clown act we're presented with, which has been cultivated to hide his grotesque incompetence, sociopathic lying, fragile ego

“It’s just a horse, a dumb, unfeeling creature, unaware of pain, unaware even of its own existence... When you whip a horse it doesn’t think “This is so painful &