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The government's affordable housing obligations increase the sale price by one-third. Remarkable system we've designed here.
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Irony is dead.
Powerful men use the law to intimidate women they’ve abused into silence.
But it’s time to flip the fear. Help us to fund cases that turn the tables on these men, empower women to speak out – and get justice:
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Jolyon Maugham, the director of the GLP, has a history of harassing women that campaign for sex based rights.
This includes Sarah Phillimore who has had to take legal action against him. crowdjustice.com/case/protectio…
And recently he made derogatory remarks about the appearance and age of Barbara Rich. x.com/barbararich_la…
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“2000s lad culture” was not in fact wearing high heeled boots, skinny jeans, jewellery, eyeliner, and hairspray while trying to start a global love revolution based off having skim read Noam Chomsky. Brand was of course specifically supported as an alternative vision of manliness to lad culture by the Sensibles of the day.
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"Books For Boys" discourse is of special interest because I have a young boy and can tell you that books for his age range, like 4-7, SUCK, you're more likely to find 10 books about Magical Black Girl Hair before you find a single one about a normal boy going on an adventure
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Women calling little boys "would-be incels" should be met with the same contempt and disgust as men calling little girls "future whores" or other sexualized insults. WILDLY inappropriate way to speak of children.
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Depressing to see media mission to discredit someone who stops playing their game & uses celebrity to help others. Keep going @rustyrockets.
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Counterpoint: if you could give every child in your town’s schools breakfast and lunch every day, but it required firing two district administrators, would you do it?
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Stop the sneering. If Ed Miliband’s best route to young voters is Russell Brand, so be it | Owen Jones trib.al/T2wguPu
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Angela Rayner evades her tax responsibilities and gets away with it.
She now expects people who do the same to get 14 years.
Angela Rayner is one of the biggest hypocrites in politics.
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Admits coming here on a student visa to get ILR.
Complains about being scammed.
That British culture of being two faced is sooo ingrained, how can you lure people in with the promise of ILR after 5 years after work and in the middle you turn around and say ‘oh no it’s now 10 years my bad’
Yet we are the ones that get the ‘Nigerian scammers’ tag,
pray tell who’s moving fraudulent now?
We all know what we are doing.
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This is so funny, so able bodied people on benefits can’t work but they have the physical ability and mental prowess to engage in crime?
Andy Burnham attacked the Conservatives’ plans to cut £36bn from welfare spending, suggesting that cutting benefits would force people to turn to crime.
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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Thank you to @pressgazette for standing up for investigative journalism and press freedom after it received more than 500 complaints regarding my nomination for this year's British Journalism Awards pressgazette.co.uk/news/awar…
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Assuming ideological and political change the United Kingdom would be the world's most promising emerging market.
Hard to answer that because at this point they're all being held back by terrible governance, but I'm partial to @SamoBurja's viewpoint that the most unfairly held-back economy of all is the UK.
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Are you the Chief Executive of a local council? Are your council tax revenues not rising as fast as your spending? Why don't you take a pay cut so that you earn the same as the lowest rank admin staff?
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If they are Britons they are responsible for slavery on account of them being British.
What would a slavery apology mean to black Britons?
Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he is "open" to the possibility of the UK formally apologising for its role in the transatlantic slave trade, but has ruled out financial reparations.
Sky's @esadiya asked people what an apology would mean to them.
🔗 trib.al/fXdp6We
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Ian Fleming's 13 Rules for Life
1. Don’t draw your gun unless you can see both the other man’s hands.
2. Don’t waste your time on women who wear a bracelet on their left ankle.
3. Beware of motorcars with two women in the front seat.
4. Don’t play cards against married couples unless they are drunk.
5. See the brand name on the bottle.
6. Avoid people who call you “Old Boy” and all politicians.
7. Never eat scrambled eggs unless you make them yourself.
8. Talk secrets only in the open air.
9. Don’t buy anything that eats.
10. Beware of people who smell and tread carefully in the company of moustaches, sideburns, and beards.
11. Have nothing to do with correspondence in coloured ink, particularly when variegated.
12. Cut down on your drink when your eyes get red and on your smoking when your breath gets short. Don’t worry about cirrhosis of the liver or cancer.
13. Live until you’re dead
