Whitewashing history.
Simon Shepherd 🇪🇺
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Cruciverbalist, veggie, passionate European, enjoy words, language, cooking, wine, music: part-time genius & amateur human being (possibly vice versa)
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It would be intriguing if someone could come up with a crossword composed entirely of embeds, inc reversed, with plausible surfaces.
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Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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In the age of monarchs, kings issued decrees. Tsars of imperial Russia proclaimed ukases. Dictators of the 20th century made diktats.
Trump issues executive orders. They make him feel powerful.
But arbitrary power depends on the acquiescence of everyone subjected to it.
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Questions that should have been asked today:
Why is an American president taking election advice from a Russian dictator?
Why are you so focused on preventing Americans from voting?
You’ve been President for seven months and Putin has doubled strikes. When does this become your war?
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Quite.
The main point of course is that Jenrick isn’t interested in judges being even-handed or apolitical: in fact the opposite - he’s part of a naked and orchestrated attempt to intimidate judges into making decisions which reflect his political biases.
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It’s worth remembering that at one time UK membership of the EU was “enshrined in law”.
Look where that got us…
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Jenrick has overshot Reform and ended up at the National Front. Under a leader less pathetic than Badenoch this would be a sacking offence
Robert Jenrick, the Tory Shadow Justice Secretary and former Home Office Minister, joining protesters outside an asylum hotel is one of the most disgusting acts by a frontline British politician in living memory.
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This has Vance's dirty fkn fingerprints all over it.
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#EthnicCleansing #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Warcrimes #Genocide
Time for it to stop
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Israeli plan to displace 1 million Palestinians spreads fear in Gaza
Population devastated by repeated displacement, hunger and lack of medical supplies braces for further humanitarian disaster
