Comments by "" (@col.hertford9855) on "Professor Tim Wilson" channel.

  1. Tim Waltz is basically apple pie in human form…. Seems a very good pick.
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  2. Osborne backing Labour is not a good thing.
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  3. This isn’t about class, it’s an ideology.
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  4.  @paulb9003 it’s a nice buzz phrase to motive the stupid. Just like “leave means leave”, “stop the boats” and “Make America Great Again”.
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  5. That was the second most effective interview I’ve ever seen of farage. Both were on LBC. Why aren’t the BBC on this list of effective interviewers?
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  6. But whatabout, shouted the disingenuous interlocutor.
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  7. If the jack boot fits. Oh, and it’s far or extreme right, the government and police are also using it.
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  8. Feelings over facts again. Exactly the same as how the MAGATs in the US.
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  9. Trump said he learnt how to do politics from Farage 🤷‍♂️
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  10. Professor Tim, I wonder if you have seen the Finnish school Critical thinking tests. Maybe you could try doing a piece on that as it seems critical thinking is somewhat lacking right now.
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  11.  @stewie7338 a key point of the Labour manifesto was dealing with immigration. The Tory plans for immigration were rejected overwhelmingly by the electorate.
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  12.  @paulwalker797  he is charismatic to a type of person who like feelings not facts and which he is confirming their bias. He is like Trump, it only works on the susceptible. To everyone else he is loathsome. If I ask my brexit mates, they like him and Trump.
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  13. Good news Professor Tim! Happy Thursday
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  14. He won’t. He will just disappear off your radar. There’s a whole Conservative social media base you will never see which it is dangerous to ignore.
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  15. Sachs ignores that Russia does the exact same thing.
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  16. The physical paper isn’t the problem. The online paper is the most read in the world.
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  17.  @johnryan7932 our debt was on eye wateringly cheap interest rates. There was no rush to pay it back and we could borrow more at ultra low interest rates. You don’t save your way out of a financial depression. Austerity has never worked. It was tried in the 1930 and it failed utterly then too.
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  18. Yeah, trump never smiles at anyone else’s jokes.
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  19.  @epincion  they are saying there is hate and racism in England and it would be unsafe to bring his Wife back to the UK, though they would likely be safe in Scotland or Wales.
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  20.  @stephfoxwell4620 that’s absolutely rubbish, only 11% of the prison population are foreign born, but 15% of the UK population is foreign born. So a lower proportion of the population of foreign born people are in prison.
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  21. Regarding RE, there have been a number of decisions made to give exemptions from teaching other faiths to some schools, mainly religious and private by Tony Blair because the faiths seemed worried it undermined their message. If we are serious about teaching critical thinking, and different religious views points, including the theist/atheist agnostic/gnostic view points, then there will need to be a sea change in the thinking of government. The Finnish have a good critical thinking exam (though I guess you already know 😅). There’s a few interesting videos on the test and its broad aims.
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  22. I don’t think you can complain about O2 being responsible for the scammers. They are not a security service and have no powers to combat it unless the number is one that is registered to them. I think this is an unreasonable expectation. The data could be a breach of O2, or it could be you have your information either legally sold from other times you filled out questionnaires (it only takes not opting out of sharing details once for it to be sellable), a data breach of another company, or hacking your electronic devices and getting your information from emails or the O2 app. Basically now days for phone, text and email communications. Never respond and give details. Always say you will call back on an official number to discuss. This applies to communications from all companies, not just phone providers.
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  23. Jeremy Corbyn is a bit of a mill stone around labours neck. I expect he polls badly in the swing seats they need to target to win power. Sunak keeps bringing Corbyn up in PMQT as some kind of boogie man, then there’s some merit in this opinion. From what I can make out JC is a good MP, but he was an easy target as leader. Same as milliband, brown, and Kinnock. Too easy to neutralise by the press.
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  24. It’s ideological too, she’s a headbanger Christian like a lot of the MAGA crowd.
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  25.  @pauljeffrey4054 the rioters rioting have a funny way of mourning. Almost like you are lying.
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  26.  @keithad6485  trump can hold a conversation? He struggles with coherence at the best of times. I agree harris and Biden aren’t the best communicators, but there are a bunch of democrats that are effective speakers. I think Biden stayed too long, and also the structure of the Democratic Party stifles a real choice. I find it bonkers that the current leader cannot be displaced via a party process.
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  27. He’s a person that has engaged in terrible behaviour on a pretty frequent basis. I fear he will win the leadership contest and amplify the hate even more.
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  28. I can’t believe Im saying that I would rather have Patel as a candidate for clam, compared to Jenrick or Badenoch. She seems to have realised she would be in the mobs firing line if they get control. My preference would be cleverly though. He’s bad, but the least bad after Tom T decided to go Maga.
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  29. I thought we got rid of the Tories, why are their media still dominating the discussion?
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  30. Surely it’s just blowing the budget before the new financial year? Isn’t this just normal?
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  31.  @colincampbell4261 likely a Maga bot.
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  32.  @stevec700  really, why do you think that? Got some examples?
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  33.  @johnryan7932  I misunderstood, no worries. I agree in principle, but I think Cameron was oblivious to the effect of policies (as he seem fairly dim) and Osborne was an ideological small state zealot. The passing cash to the wealthy was just a happy bonus. The emptying the till didn’t really start until Johnson’s tenure.
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  34. Knife crime has always been part of british history.
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  35. Freedom of expression is all fine, but it is being used against our democracy by malicious external actors. There is a balance between the public good and personal rights. Honestly, it needs amendment to control the use of the powers, not ripping it up. You have to bear in mind, most of the use is to avoid people becoming criminals as they need to be warned first before it becomes arrestable, and it’s mostly used on drunks to prevent them kicking off.
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  36. Islamophobia is a double edged sword as it’s used against both people with theological concerns about Islam, and people who just hate the actual Muslims in an arbitrary and blanket way. Provided it’s only used for the latter I don’t have an issue, but the problem is it has been used in the same manner as blasphemy laws to shut down debate. Just for context, I’m an atheist who’s very interested in religious philosophy, but I’m not in favour of any religion. The term is increasingly used to stiffle scholarly debate about the validity of Islam as a truth claim. I do however respect people’s right to worship whoever they want or worship noone.
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  37.  @annishilcock4587  50 years is another figure Mogg plucked from the air. He has no plan to make Brexit work either today, or in 43 years time (his initial comments on the time scale were in 2016). It’s special pleading and will be extended by his heirs if it’s not realised.
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  38.  @adkest9914  it’s a glib saying, and only applies to people like trump.
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  39. The intent of the legislation is good, the text and controls built in are not great.
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  40. The law is in the hands of politicians, they literally make them and can amend them. This is why electing honest, sensible people is so important.
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  41. He is, but it’s a complex issue and isn’t going to be resolved in the three weeks these idiots have given him.
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  42. The issue here is the current laws can be used in an unreasonable way. The republican protest, and the female protection Marshall’s at the coronation for example. I have used the older law here and it’s very down to the officer how it’s applied.
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  43. You missed the fact he’s also a donor of the Tory party
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  44. Russia never asked to join the EU or NATO. Poland quite rightly was extremely worried about Russia and has been proved correct. This is a reasonably sounding disinformation post.
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  45.  @mark-nm4tc it was the fan, not the shape of the hole.
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  46.  @Tad1945 sure buddy, just like the riots would not happen if they had just said the murderer wasn’t and immigrant/ Muslim. They didn’t stop when it was known did it. So would the riots have been okay if it had been an immigrant / Muslim?
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  47. I hope this is the case, but the guy only didn’t launch wars last time because the team around him could manage his worst excesses. He still managed to drop more bombs that either Obama or Biden.
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  48. @ Harris had a bunch of very strong policies. They just didn’t articulate them. The anti monopoly stuff which was a plan to stop price gouging (and a continuing Biden policy) was probably key to stopping inflation as it’s mostly cause by greedflation (as some economists term it) in business with a monopoly. Didn’t get mentioned once, but it was repeatedly cited as the main issue.
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  49. Money, there’s a lot of money in that grift. It’s supported by a lot of authoritarian US billionaires, and there was a lot of money from Russia at one point (and will be again if relations are normalised).
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  50.  @j.kbarnett7640  so why stick your oar in if you don’t live here?
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  51. You want appeasement, that never works.
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  52.  @dooley-ch  that’s what happens when you do austerity in an economic slump. It’s just bad economics. Liberalism doesn’t work. This is not a fringe view among political economists.
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  53. Professor Tim, JRM dad was a eugenics proponent and given he agrees with everything else daddy said, I wonder his position on this. The word migration to me is doing some heavy cover.
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  54. Banning a state news broadcaster that uses disinformation in an effort to destabilise your country? Isn’t that national defence?
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  55. The basic principle in law is If you are trying to Instigate a violent mob and they commit violence, then why would you not be treated in the same fashion as the mob itself. The issue with Farage is he does seem to be linked to Stochastic terrorism due to the dog whistle type politics he engages in. So if you combine them then Farage would be in a lot of trouble. It’s a pipe dream obviously, but at least they are not threatening him death.
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  56.  @louisdisbury9759  I’m also an ex cop 🤝 but I’m thinking in a more historic context that specifically in relation to current crime stats. Go back to early 1900s, Victorians and Georgians, gangs with knives were always existed.
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  57. “The odd hand job” - Professor Tim Wilson Made me spit out my drink 😂
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  58. The Christian bible is riddled with xenophobia, and sexism. They have zero moral high ground. The current dogma is only achieved because the current leadership ignore the bits that do not conform with the current secular values.
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  59.  @chrismachin2166  in what way?
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  60.  @chrismachin2166  is that really the best apologetic argument you have? Got any evidence of that assertion other than a book full of falsehoods and contradictions?
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  61. The police don’t need to tell you anything, and It can prejudice an investigation.
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  62.  @paddymeboy  liberalism was a big cause of the depression, they attempted and failed austerity to get out of the depression, then adopted Keynesian economics which worked. It’s almost like history repeats if you don’t remember or understand its lessons.
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  63.  @stephfoxwell4620 I don’t think truss knows where she is most of the time 😊
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  64. And reasons are not excuses!
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  65. It’s rarely easy to prove a negative, indeed it scientifically impossible. Allegations will carry with you and people often have the, no smoke without fire mentality. Anyone googling your name would find them. I think you underestimate the power of a false allegation. Both rape and a false allegation have the power to significantly ruin someone’s life, and potentially be the reason for ending it. You also clearly have too much faith in the legal system to find the truth of it. It’s pretty imperfect.
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  66.  @debbieparnell7582  again, you seem to underestimate the impact of serious life ruining/ending impact of a false allegation. In that context they ARE the victim. You also underestimate the vindictiveness of people. One persons rights don’t trump some else’s. Rape is a difficult to impossible crime to prosecute because it’s often one persons word against another, we therefore have no idea how many cases are “true” cases because of this. The statistical error and under reporting is also ridiculously bad. Basically you are proposing people are guilty until proven innocent. You are abandoning the ideal that justice should be blind and impartial. You blame the courts even though it’s a near impossible crime in many situations to prove. This is absolutely ridiculous and evil perspective. It’s not condescension, it’s disgust.
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  67. Professor Tim, Thank you for the content. Hope the treatment and recover go well. Have you considered getting some moderators for your channel to save you doing it yourself? It may spare your mental health a bit. Anyway, a small gift of appreciation to go to the tea kitty. All the best Col.Hertford
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  68.  @keithad6485  threatening to invade three countries this week cover that one (well four, but Mexico wasn’t restated this week).
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  69. @ the bit in a response to a question about weather he would use the military to secure them and he said yes. Maybe go watch the press conference, far better than asking second hand commentators on the Internet.
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  70.  @PaulKelly-p3p  who do you think funds and enables these right wing “movements”. It’s the very right wing elite you pretend to hate.
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  71. He’s also butt hurt about Musk getting more press coverage I’m sure too.
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  72. We just had an election, the parties supporting this nonsense did not win. Literally the people did not want this version of Britain anymore (and that’s Labour, Libdems, Greens, and some independents), so stop that silly talk about “the people”.
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  73.  @stephfoxwell4620  my figures were the Government figures. You are now being dishonest and arguing another point. You first said all foreigners were over represented in prison. That is not true. They are not. There are less foreign born people in prison as a percent of population. If you had said originally that people from some specific countries are more likely to be imprisoned than British citizens then that would have been correct. But you didn’t say it. You misrepresented the data to suit your argument and changed the narrative the moment you were challenged. Finally, it doesn’t suit your anti immigrant point anyways as that means the imprisonment rate for people from all the other countries is even lower than the British born population. So that just means, at worse, we should encourage immigration from those countries instead.
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  74.  @stephfoxwell4620  the home office don’t record if they are migrants only that they are foreign born which is the same number as you quoted above. And they are not imprisoned at 5 times the number of British born. For that to happen 75% of our prison population would be foreign born. I don’t think you understand the numbers you are quoting.
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  75.  @lestrem11  maybe because the BBC needs fixing not destroying
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