Genius

I don't think she's a bot

10 of the 25 current cabinet members were active beneficiaries. This is not something confined to ancient history.

Well quite

I knew people who hold this view existed but I hadn't encountered one in the wild until today.

Mail still have stuff up about it so I don't think so

Wow. You think because his PhD research was a bit dodgy he deserved to be hounded by the press daily until he killed himself?

Got what he deserved eh?

Anyone who still thinks the way Jason Arday was hounded to his death was "fair comment by a free press" should read this brilliant thread from the Emma which lays bare that the "fair comment" and "free press" goes mute when it's one of their own accused of much worse than Arday ever was. 👇🧵

I know. Read the piece. I make this clear.

Indeed. I still remember it though. I think it was where I learned what the word "Conflict" meant.

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Fucking hell. At 52 looks like I'm not long for this world then.

Fox News spent four years diagnosing Biden from the angle of his left shoelace. Trump turns into a peeled nectarine and suddenly everyone’s a privacy advocate.

6,556 Twitter followers. No Facebook presence. Thanks for leaving your Weatherspoon bar stool long enough to make this valuable contribution, lads. *Definitely* equal weight to the prime minister. Great work, BBC!

This is an absolutely key point that so many on the winning side of the referendum seem happy to handwave away. If Russia influenced the result *at all* that matters hugely. If we don't all accept that as a principle we're in a dangerous place.

“No good reason to believe it” …except that the UK security service says so? At what point are these groups just transparently working on behalf of hostile foreign nation states?