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March 25, 2023

RT by @NigelBiggar: Oh come on @guardian, this is horrid. Challenge her views if you like. Demonising her as "anti-trans" is lazy & pusillanimous.

Nor is it clever to describe a frenzied, censorious, and violent mobbing of innocent women as a "confrontat

Oh come on @guardian, this is horrid. Challenge her views if you like. Demonising her as "anti-trans" is lazy & pusillanimous.

Nor is it clever to describe a frenzied, censorious, and violent mobbing of innocent women as a "confrontation between groups".
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Published on March 25, 2023 09:35

RT by @NigelBiggar: The Stanford Law Dean who apologised to conservative Judge Duncan after he was abused by students and told his daughters should be raped, has issued a searing statement explaining to them why their behavior violated the university's #fr

The Stanford Law Dean who apologised to conservative Judge Duncan after he was abused by students and told his daughters should be raped, has issued a searing statement explaining to them why their behavior violated the university's #freespeech policies.
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Published on March 25, 2023 06:10

RT by @NigelBiggar: “The term ‘culture war’ refers to a new rift between cultural socialism, which pushes for equal outcomes and ‘emotional safety’ for identity groups; and cultural liberalism, which cleaves to free speech, due process, equal treatment…and

“The term ‘culture war’ refers to a new rift between cultural socialism, which pushes for equal outcomes and ‘emotional safety’ for identity groups; and cultural liberalism, which cleaves to free speech, due process, equal treatment…and objective truth.”

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Published on March 25, 2023 03:47

RT by @NigelBiggar: Looks like this "historian" has got too much of his history from watching movies. Seems to be portraying the British Empire as some great "enterprise" planned by moustache-twirling imperialists back in London. Front cover-endorsements b

Looks like this "historian" has got too much of his history from watching movies. Seems to be portraying the British Empire as some great "enterprise" planned by moustache-twirling imperialists back in London. Front cover-endorsements by two lightweight non-specialists of course.

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Published on March 25, 2023 02:36

RT by @NigelBiggar: 25 Mar 1918, 2nd Lt Walter Tull, Middlesex Regt, died nr Favreuil, aged 29. One of first African-Caribbean mixed-heritage officers in British Army. Recommended for Military Cross. Born Kent. Orphaned aged 9. Professional footballer with

25 Mar 1918, 2nd Lt Walter Tull, Middlesex Regt, died nr Favreuil, aged 29. One of first African-Caribbean mixed-heritage officers in British Army. Recommended for Military Cross. Born Kent. Orphaned aged 9. Professional footballer with @SpursOfficial & @ntfc. On Arras Memorial.

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Published on March 25, 2023 00:27

March 24, 2023

RT by @NigelBiggar: Tea At Furlongs, Eric Ravilious, 1938. Furlongs was a farmhouse near Firle in East #Sussex. The original artwork is in the collection of @FryArtGallery.

Tea At Furlongs, Eric Ravilious, 1938. Furlongs was a farmhouse near Firle in East #Sussex. The original artwork is in the collection of @FryArtGallery.

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Published on March 24, 2023 23:15

RT by @NigelBiggar: Nobody is demonising refugees. They're trying to save people's lives. Incentivising people to put their lives at risk by crossing the channel or ducking the issue is deeply irresponsible & morally reprehensible

Nobody is demonising refugees. They're trying to save people's lives. Incentivising people to put their lives at risk by crossing the channel or ducking the issue is deeply irresponsible & morally reprehensible

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Published on March 24, 2023 12:38

RT by @NigelBiggar: Share of total wealth that’s held by the 1%. Russia needs some serious redistribution of wealth. Maybe some sort of communist Revolution? Joking aside, such data suggests a revolution, doesn’t it?

Share of total wealth that’s held by the 1%. Russia needs some serious redistribution of wealth. Maybe some sort of communist Revolution? Joking aside, such data suggests a revolution, doesn’t it?

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Published on March 24, 2023 09:10

RT by @NigelBiggar: "You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me."

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me."

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Published on March 24, 2023 06:54

RT by @NigelBiggar: Repeat after me: cancel culture doesn't exist, there is no problem with free speech in comedy and woke people aren't sad, boring, intolerant little minges.

Repeat after me: cancel culture doesn't exist, there is no problem with free speech in comedy and woke people aren't sad, boring, intolerant little minges.

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Published on March 24, 2023 03:47

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