Al Sam (@apsamuelson) profile picture
UK
Joined July 2012
Replying to @sfmnemonic
See also - people who describe themselves as "libertarian"
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The Byline Times is angry about a Spectator article criticising the government for giving money to the Bylines Network. Regardless of how closely linked they are (Peter Jukes is a director of both), should it be it getting taxpayers' money? 🧵
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The Spectator is not the hard right. If you think it is you are a lefty in denial.
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This seems a tad hard right to me: "In praise of Wehrmacht: The real story of D-Day is the heroism of the German soldiers who were vastly outnumbered but fought nobly and to the death.”
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Replying to @apsamuelson
This isn't the best week for the left to be trying to tar people by association with rapists, pal.
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I'm not on the left, i dislike the hard left and hard right equally. They are very similar after all
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Replying to @apsamuelson
You need to update your list of boring leftwing cliches. Taki hasn't written for them for years.
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3 years, after a conviction for attempted rape.
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While British, French, and Polish troops were actively fighting Nazi Germany in Dunkirk, the USSR was providing Germany 20% of its oil. In fact, the USSR provided so much material support that Britain and France considered bombing it to stop the flow of critical aid.
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Ну. Польша решила что ей выгодно сотрудничать с Германией. Если что Польша так же участвовала в разделе Чехословакии. И была союзником Германии в плоть до 1 сентября 1939 года. А ну и СССР просто вернул территории что Польша забрала напав на СССР в 1920м году. В гражданскую войну
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And shot all the officers in Katyn Forest. And paused their advance when Germany was retreating to allow the Germans to destroy Warsaw and the Polish Army
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Apparently you were on LBC saying there is no reason in your 20 years experience for a child to have an internet connected smartphone in school. Children with type 1 diabetes today use smartphones with cgms but also as artificial pancreases. These have been around for 10 years+
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Not all children are the same...
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A moment to note something. This - and the work on Brand- can’t be replaced by AI, however sophisticated. It can’t be replaced by content creators It takes teamwork, painstaking quiet work over long period, and the conviction to take on the legal risk. theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…
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The Guardian promoted him. That kind of imbecility cant be replaced by AI and content creators, it takes painstaking collective turning of blind eyes and p*sspoor judgement.
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🚨 Russell Brand wasn’t targeted by the establishment. He was its darling for more than a decade. In 2010 he gets dropped and Katy Perry divorces him. No more protection. In 2013 he goes full anti-austerity left, gets the Guardian hero treatment, and works with Miliband. Dispatches drops in 2023. He realises the danger and is suddenly baptised in the Thames by Bear Grylls. He’s platformed everywhere in America as the new mascot of the Christian right.
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He should get some kind of prize for the most cynical attempt to pretend he has converted in human history
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These people have been yelling "WHO FNUDS YOU?!?" at me for years, and in a surprise turns of events, I now learn that I actually FNUD them, involuntarily. And so do you. spectator.com/article/why-is…
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And we know this thanks to transparency... This isn't the winning you think it is...
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Kristian isnt the brightest fairy light on the Christmas tree...
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Replying to @K_Niemietz
Their funding is transparent, yours isn't you giant spanner
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Is everyone who writes for the Spectator as thick as pigsh*t and habitually plastered by 11am?
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For someone to be as good as Tom Brady they'd have to have 7 World Cup or Champions League Winners Medals.
Replying to @Footballtweet
Wayne Rooney was a better football player than Brady was an “American football” player.
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Pele is the only player to have won more than 2
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I ask again: What does Ukraine winning mean? Going on five years and nobody has defined it.
But Ukraine can win. Thats why I back them. It’s a Russian talking point that Ukraine can’t win, cause Russia big blah,blah. If Ukraine kills enough Russians they will quit.
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Cato seems a bit sh*t if you are representative of it
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Do the English think the Irish don’t have sausages?
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The Telegraph is a German owned paper
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The British court system grants accusers in sexual assault cases lifelong immunity regardless of the outcome of their trials. Michael Tracey, who has made a career out of doubting such accusations, is eager to subvert this anonymity and is casting around for the name of Russell Brand’s victim.
If anyone happens to know the identity of the person who accused Russell Brand of raping her at the Labour Party conference in 1999, when he was 24 years old — which the jury rejected — please get in touch, and I would be happy to publish that information. First Amendment, baby!
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Aside from anything else, I am baffled to why Ryan and some other Americans are seemingly so obsessed with what happens in the UK. I don't find myself, for example, devoting much time to developments in, say, Slovakia. Must just like the attention,
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They want to make Brand president because they like that kind of thing
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If anyone happens to know the identity of the person who accused Russell Brand of raping her at the Labour Party conference in 1999, when he was 24 years old — which the jury rejected — please get in touch, and I would be happy to publish that information. First Amendment, baby!
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Probably your mum
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I don't see why Mr Brand wasn't given weekend to say goodbye to his kids tbh. He will be severely punished but I don't feel his kids should be. No one seems to suggest he is a current danger to anyone. If he was he would've been remanded in custody prior and during the trial.
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And he will be severely punished. My thoughts are with his kids.
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He shouldnt be anywhere near kids
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Another great video from Chris. It’s great to hear from a KC, Noel Magee, who breaks down why the prosecution’s “elimination” argument in Lucy Letby’s trial fails legally: simply put, if you are going to claim murder by ruling out alternative causes of death, you have to actually investigate and rule out ALL plausible causes! There is no way this can be claimed in this case. The obstetric notes, maternal health, and birth complications were barely part of the prosecution case, and the maternity notes were denied to the defence. Dewi Evans wasn’t even fully aware of the Pseudomonas infection, and he didn’t really consider the substandard unit conditions in his hypothesis. Significantly, Judge Goss stated at the start of the trial that exogenous insulin had been administered when, in fact, this was far from established. Magee argues that failing to even address, let alone eliminate, more obvious and likely explanations simply leaves the case unproven and unsafe. youtu.be/Cgw2lIY53Co?is=GGAr…
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No, because the other two babies have prolonged severe hypoglycemia without CHI to explain it. The third baby had CHI so whatever hypoglycemia they had can be blamed on CHI itself, which required treatment
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Therefore the third case rests on the single immunoassay alone (aiui). But the others rest on BG results, clinical observations, and for one of the babies another motive
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