Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan@respublicae.eu
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This, by @harryph, is the only thing you will ever need to read about potholes. https://www.conservativehome.com/localgovernment/2022/05/potholes-why-it-is-a-moral-issue.html
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Suppose you won the lottery, and then the law was retrospectively changed to confiscate most of your winnings - not all future winners, just you. Wouldn't that amount to cheating? You'd have bought your ticket under one set of rules, only to see them changed after the event.
RT @simonindelicate: I find the moral repugnance argument here interesting, but ultimately absurd. A windfall tax isn't stealing the sweat of a man's brow it…
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Retrospective taxation is morally repugnant and economically self-defeating, deterring investment. The idea of “taxing energy companies” polls well, because not everyone understands that firms must pass the costs on. But surely no Tory government should engage in expropriation.
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RT @andrew_lilico: A) UK public spending needs to fall.
B) For UK public spending to fall, spending on the NHS needs to fall.
Until they accept (B), politicians telling you (A) are basically just wasting your time.
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“The fact that supporters of both political parties have managed to get each other investigated makes things worse, not better.”
Well said, @Dannythefink.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-police-should-not-decide-labours-future-kmnf0nqjs
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It is often right to apologise. It is never right to apologise to Twitter.
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If you want to do something easy and completely life-enhancing, visit the Raphael exhibition at the @NationalGallery. Such sweetness of expression and gorgeous tones. He was, rather deliciously, Salvador Dalí's favourite artist (after Dalí himself).
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How would a green channel for goods with local destinations conceivably impair the single market? The changes proposed by @trussliz do not threaten the EU in any way. The only threat is being made the other way. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/17/eu-raises-spectre-trade-war-if-uk-rewrites-northern-ireland-protocol
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RT @ArchRose90: Black Lives Matter knew that taking advantage of grievance would be financially beneficial.
Too many fell for a scam because it made them feel as ‘on the right side’ of history.
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"The BBC’s 22,000-member staff remain as unreconstructed in their anti-business prejudices as they were in the 1970s, though they are more likely to have been weaned on Hobsbawm than on Homer."
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"The ranks of British journalists are stuffed full of people whose ancestors did something in “trade,” rendering them free to sound off about the evils of capitalism." Bravo, @adwooldridge. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-17/the-british-disdain-for-business-will-affect-the-uk-s-place-in-the-world
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RT @dcexaminer: Why are we so afraid of sex differences in education? https://washex.am/39puXeg
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Today is Stuart Wheeler’s memorial service at St Martin-in the-Fields. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/26/stuart-wheeler-measured-palpable-difference-made-world/
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This is the kind of language I associate with totalitarian ideologies, not with Tory MPs.
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Along with the equally successful fiction that the UK spends less on healthcare than comprable countries.
RT @tomhfh: The most successful lie in British politics over the last decade is the extraordinarily widely believed fiction that the overall NHS budget has in any year been cut.
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RT @dcexaminer: Why are we so afraid of sex differences in education? https://washex.am/39puXeg
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@syzygy_john Generous of you to say so, Mac.
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#VoteConservative
RT @HasAhmed_: During our election campaign, I promised the residents of Claremont Grove I will keep their street clean from litter. Unfortunately I was not elected as their councillor but this evening I have cleaned the entire street and delivered on my promise. ✅ ♻️
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In those 18 months, we saw the EU actually invoke Article 16, making a nonsense of its claim to be solely concerned with an open border. But some commentators will always blame Britain, never Brussels.
RT @pmdfoster: Worth reading @BorisJohnson oped…and then imagining if it had been written after 18 months of good-faith engagement — as NI business had done — rather than grandstanding and threats. There are still accessible soluti…
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