Detaining people for shouting republican slogans, even if they do so in a deliberately coarse and provocative way, is utterly un-British.
I worry that our police are becoming more authoritarian and - worse - that a section of the public is cheering them on.
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RT @british_north: Brilliance by @DanielJHannan:
“That is what a constitutional monarch is: a military commander who is not a general, a head of state who is not a politician, a focus for national loyalty who is above ideology and beyond faction.” #MapleCrown #cdnpoli
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/10/no-coincidence-successful-democracies-constitutional-monarchies1/
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@andrew_lilico @AllisonPearson In early 1945, the more cynical Japanese could be heard remarking that "our glorious victories seem to be happening closer and closer to Tokyo".
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Suppose you're a Russian general. You're watching this stuff, and you're getting a pretty good sense of whom Putin will blame in defeat. Are you going to sit back and wait to be arrested, or try to install a less deranged regime?
RT @OlgaNYC1211: On his Telegram, Kremlin chief propagandist, Soloviev, called for the execution of Russian commanders who allowed the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv regio…
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Ladies and gentlemen, Canada's next prime minister, the brilliant and patriotic @PierrePoilievre.
RT @TrueNorthCentre: "They don't need a government that sneers at them and calls them names. They don't need a government to run their lives. They need a government that can run a passport office,” @PierrePoilievre says in his victory speech. #cdnpoli
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In Britain, Ireland is seen as a close friend, almost as a family member, and for the most obvious of reasons, namely that so many of us (including me) have Irish connections. The regrettable sentiment described here is almost entirely one way.
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RT @DanielJHannan: More Britons lost their lives on 11 September 2001 than in any other single terrorist attack. Remember them along with all the victims.
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A trade deal with India could be huge - for both counties. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY6sIIzqHAw
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The Speaker promised to wear his wig on formal occasions. If not today, when?
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Lots of media angst about the fact that the Rightist bloc in Sweden's election contains the Sweden Democrats. None about the fact that the Leftist bloc contains a communist party (its youth bloc openly uses that word) which wants to scrap private property.
Who are the extremists?
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Should have taken these terms before the latest Ukrainian offensive. Now the price has risen.
🇩🇪 The Köningsberg exclave to Germany
🇬🇧 Rostov and Voronezh to the UK (to teach Sergei Lavrov not to be rude to British foreign ministers)
Leave it longer and the price will rise again.
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@davidfrum Plus handing over the men wanted in connection with the Litvinenko and Skripal murders. Oh, and Russia should give up sovereignty over Rostov and Voronezh - to teach Sergei Lavrov to mind his manners around British foreign secretaries.
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The late Roger Scruton expressed the paradox eloquently when he likened the magic of monarchy to the enchanting light from the top of a Christmas tree, which the British people perfectly well remembered having climbed up and placed there themselves.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/10/no-coincidence-successful-democracies-constitutional-monarchies1/
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The case for a constitutional monarchy. It legitimises the government, ennobles the core functions of the state and, when the chips are down, prevents civil war. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/10/no-coincidence-successful-democracies-constitutional-monarchies1/
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Maybe it would mollify Joe Biden if the PM called herself by her first and married names: Mary O’Leary.
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@edwest "I obscenity in the milk of thy obscenity!"
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RT @WalkerMarcus: Number of Conservative leaders since 1975: 9
Number of Labour leaders since 1975: 10
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