Comments by "marie parker" (@marieparker3822) on "History Debunked" channel.

  1. Crimes committed by people of foreign origin in Britain: the mutilation of the genitals of little girls. This costs the NHS a lot of money each year (not even mentioning the physical and psychological damage to the children). Saint Thomas's Hospital sees at least two hundred victims of this crime per annum, and I understand there are sixteen other specialised units up and down the country trying to lessen the agony of these children. This has been a specific criminal offence in Britain for thirty-five years. One person has been imprisoned for it. There is also the repeated cousin-cousin marriages of Muslims of Pakistani and Bangla Deshi origin in this country: these people constitute one and a half percent of the British population, but they contribute thirty-three percent of the severe genetic disorders of children that the NHS has to deal with per annum. These disorders often require a liver or kidney transplant to a child and/or lifelong complex medication with many expensive drugs, and social support sometimes entailing 24-hour care. Again, I have not even mentioned the suffering caused by this unthinking cultural practice.
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  2. The teacher in Batley was actually trying to discuss Freedom of Speech, and its advantages and possible problems, with his class - a very educational thing to do, I would have thought. After two years, he and his family are still in hiding.😡
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  3. Police against posters/stickers: a woman was arrested for photographing a sticker on a post advocating women's rights. Apparently this was a 'hate crime' or something.
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  4. In the future, we should have stricter selection of Parliamentary candidates.
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  5. The football fans rescued St George's Cross from the 'far right' years ago. As a Scot, I am extremely aggrieved at the appropriation of St Andrew's Cross as the symbol of the Scottish National Party. It is the symbol of Scotland, not the symbol of a political Party. Any opinion or statement can be described as 'offensive'. For example, I strongly believe that, within a country, you need to have one law for all, everyone equal before the law. This is considered to be extremely offensive and unacceptable by many people in Britain, including the Police. I have not yet been charged with a 'hate crime', but it would not surprise me.
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  6. The 'Scientific American' has gone the same way as the 'New Scientist'.
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  7. Islam does not separate Church and State. Many, if not most, Muslims in Britain want Sharia Law, which we already have in Britain to a certain extent - lots of Sharia 'Courts' administering a parallel legal system which often contradicts the Law of the Land.
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  8. The Government: 'Misogyny will be defined as Terrorism'. Also the Government: '"Islamophobia'' will be criminalised - Shariah is good'. No, me neither.
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  9. I could not help noticing in the West End of London today that everone except me was non-British. I am talking about the other passengers in public transport, the people serving in shops, the other customers. I mean EVERYONE. I have never noticed this before. I heard no British accents of any description. Many of the languages I overheard I could not identify (I can't easily distinguish between Slavic languages or Chinese and other south-east Asian languages, or some African languages.) I heard broken or very heavily accented English being spoken.
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  10. Recommended viewing: the U-tube videos of Exulansic. She gives the horror stories of the results of puberty blockers - irreversible damage to every system in the body - and the effects of wrong-sex hormones. It is also informative and devastating to listen to the testimony of detransitioners of both sexes - young people who were mentally ill in adolescence and were encouraged to believe by psychologists and psychiatrists that 'transitioning' would help them, but a few years later realised that it had been a terrible mistake. Only they are now left irreparably mutilated.
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  11. We already have Shariah - the British taxpayer subsidises polygamy among Muslims at the moment. We also have a de-facto Blasphemy Law (for Islam only). Also, look at the way law-breaking Muslims in Britain are treated, in comparison to the indigenous population. Many of the Muslim population of Britain want Britain to be a Dar el-Islam, ie part of the worldwide Islamic Caliphate, universally under Shariah law. At the moment it is still Dar el-Harb (a land of War, still to be conquered) - with 40,000 Muslim residents of Britain under surveillance by MI5. It is an injunction in the Qu'ran for every Muslim to do this. 'Islamophobia' -> Blasphemy law -> Shariah law.
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  12. It was the British Navy ruling the waves in the 18th and 19th centuries that abolished the slave trade.
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  13. Not so refined now.
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  14. And apparently some 'asylum seekers', having been granted asylum in Britain, flew back to their country of persecution for Christmas this year.
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  15. 'Bursaries only available to black people and Asians . . .' What does the Equality Act say about this? Hill walking was a free pastime for people who spent most of the week either in a factory or sitting in an office.
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  16. I followed it in detail in 'Private Eye' for 15 years.
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  17. These men of Muslim Pakistani heritage have been living in Britain all their lives and were born here. Often they have never been anywhere else. They know perfectly well what the culture of this country is. It's just that they despise people - especially girls - who they have been taught to regard as worthy of no respect - probably by Imams who have come from Saudi Arabia, do not speak English and despise non-Muslims. Why do you feel well disposed towards Islam, Simon? Remember that English translations of the Qur'an are bowdlerised.
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  18. (Cont.) The diversity appointments are formally institutionalised in the USA, eg Harvard restricting the number of candidates of Chinese heritage because too many of them are too well qualified, so their number must be arbitrarily culled before entry. This is not (yet) the case in Britain, formally, although if you look at the appointments in the BBC, for example, in terms of numbers, there appears to be informal diversity appointing going on. When it comes to blatant racism, this certainly exists at the BBC, and some Universities such as York and Bristol. I am talking about advertising jobs or courses, with the line clearly spelled out 'White people need not apply'.
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  19. Compare the law against FGM. This has been a criminal offence meriting 14 years in prison for more than 35 years. One person has been convicted and imprisoned for this terrible crime. St Thomas's Hospital sees hundreds of these child victims per annum, trying to alleviate their suffering, and I believe there are 16 other centres throughout the country dedicated to this task. Why?
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  20. Please don't judge us all by the standards of Paula Venells. But it is true that Diversity Hires never work.
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  21. The term 'Islamophobia' is empty of meaning. A phobia is an irrational - sometimes crippling - fear of a thing which does not rationally or normally present any danger to the person. Islam presents lethal danger to anyone who is judged by those who define themselves as 'one of the faithful' to be 'an infidel'. This means Jews, Christians, polytheists, atheists, agnostics, apostates, 'idolaters', 'blasphemers' and homosexuals. Have you heard about the current blasphemy laws in Pakistan? The difference between the Qu'ran and the Old Testament is that currently living Jews and Christians do not feel obliged to take literally every statement and injunction in, say, Leviticus, under pain of death. In fact, only a vanishingly small number of eccentrics would do so. The fact that Islam explicitly states that Church and State must not be separated - in other words, there can be no secularity or neutrality regarding religion on the part of the State - presents a danger to everyone. Laws which are deemed 'unIslamic' may be disregarded. I won't even go into the 'cultural practices' which, at the very least, needlessly cost the NHS hundreds of millions every year - the mutilation of the genitals of little girls and the insistence (to keep money within the family, no doubt) on cousin-cousin marriage generation after generation. Not all Muslims are like this, you may say. Of course not, which is why anti-Muslim bigotry is wrong. We do not fear individuals 'who are not like this'. However, how many people does it take to blow up people on the Tube in the rush hour? I suggest only one. I recommend the U-tuber The Apostate Prophet - who has read the Qu'ran many times in the original - that is very important.
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  22. Have the thugs who assaulted thw armed police officers at Manchester airport two weeks ago been charged?
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  23. I unnderstand that Uzbekistan and Tajikistan have closed their borders.
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  24. Lending library: just to remind people that British librarians have been instructed to 'hide' 'gender-critical' books by such authors as Helen Joyce, Abigail Shrier and Hannah Barnes. They can be asked for by name or ordered, but are not to be visible for browsing or being casually encountered by someone who might not have previously heard of them.
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  25. This 'Master's' (!) course sounds like a course in telling people how to breathe!
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  26. A list of the necessary corrections - a correction slip would not be enough - should be pasted in at the front.
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  27. In the story of the description of the Theory of Evolution, I think Charles Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, should get a mention, along with La Mettrie and Lamarck, not to mention Alfred Wallace who is always unfairly neglected. The differences between their theories can be pointed out, and Gregor Mendel's theory of inheritance can be taught at the same time. In fact, it was because Darwin had not had time to cut the pages of Mendel's book, which he had sent to Darwin, far less read it, that Darwin got a bit stuck on the actual mechanism of natural selection and started to veer towards Lamarckianism at the end. Lamarck was a brilliant biologist and must not be dismissed. Modern epigenetics, describing how environmental influences may sometimes influence gene expression, bring him somewhat back into the fold.
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  28. You don't 'graduate' from primary school in Britain. You graduate (or not) from University.
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  29.  @nicholasmorrill4711  oh, threatening behaviour, wasting police time - these would be actual criminal offences! We're the Police. We haven't got time to deal with things like that! Now you're making me feel anxious - I may have to put on record what a horrible person you are. I hope it stops you getting a job.
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  30. It's quite a luxury to have a bus driver who speaks English.
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  31. The stories were set immediately after the Second World War. The fact of having enough to eat was a huge treat, as was 'lashings and lashings of lemonade', which was often the reward for solving the mystery.
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  32. It's an abuse of the English language.
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  33. It's worse in West Yorkshire.🤔
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  34. 'Telling lies [publicly] requires little or no effort.' It can also be expensive.🤔
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  35. My MP told me that 'there is no such thing as an illegal immigrant'.
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  36. Never mind, it got her a CBE - she must have done something right. No?
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  37. What about Alexander Boris Pfeffel Johnson, born in New York City, USA? He would actually qualify (I think) to be President of the United States.
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  38. Wven if the original speculation was correct, and the reconstructed bust was accurate, this would not in any way help a case for uncontrolled, unlimited immigration to this country. The two things are entirely unrelated.🤔
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  39. Now, of course, in The Guides, Brown Owl and Tawny Owl could very well be 'Trans' women, ie men, taking the girl guides, aged 12 to 15, away to camp (tents, groundsheets, sleeping bags, fairly isolated location) with no other adults around, if the Gender Recognition Act is not repealed.
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  40. You can't have a Welfare State and unlimited immigration. You have to choose which you want to have. You can't have both.
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  41. Thanks, we need all the good wishes we can get. We have a psycho-traitor in charge.
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  42. Perhaps that's the intention - subversion from the inside, possibly?
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  43. Iran had SAVAK, don't forget. It might have been better for everyone if MI6 and the CIA had not pushed Mossadeq, the elected Prime Minister, out of the window to his death because he had nationalised BP Oil.
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  44. Diane Abbott got into Cambridge from a comprehensive school before there was any talk of 'reaching out to less advantaged studets' or anything like that, which I believe they do nowadays. I used to listen on Radio 4 to a programme called 'In Committee' relaying a Parliamentary Committee meeting where potential legislation was being hammered out. Diane Abbott sometimes chaired these Committees, and she was always excellent, never letting an inconsistency or a downright fallacy go past, keeping the conversation on track, and cutting short repetitions. In short, she was a highly competent chairperson. I think she has had a lot of trauma in her personal life in recent years, and this has affected her badly. I think personally that she needed to retire some years ago, and it is a pity that people who had no experience of her before will remember her as being incompetent.
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  45. '. . . with little to distinguish them from their neighbours'. - Except language, history and culture.
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  46. It's not centre-left. It's Maoist.
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  47. Some of these women are betraying the struggles and outstanding achievements of their predecessors - Mary Anning, Marie Curie, Barbara McClintock, Rosalind Franklin and many more.
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  48. The Establishment want Tommy Robinson dead.
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  49. The (current) Chancellor of the Exchequer's wife (a Chinese woman, no matter what Jeremy Hunt says - he once tried to tell us that she was Japanese) regularly broadcasts for the Chinese equivalent of the 'Today' programme - controlled by the CCP.
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  50. I don't recognise the London I live in from your description, but perhaps I have always been lucky in that I have luved in pleasant parts of London. Certainly there are far too many immigrants, but it is not a s - - - hole - far from it.
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  51. Simon, re Invaders from the East: you missed out the Danes. The eastern half of England was the Danelaw in the ninth century.
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  52. I read an explanation of this much-reproduced photo, in 'The Guardian', of all places! The supposedly 'privileged' boys did not feel so, and did not look down on the other boys. The little boy standing nearest to the boy leaning on the pillar had not felt - on being interviewed as an adult - at all inferior to the public school boys, had not felt underprivileged in any way, and had had a happy and successful life.
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  53. MSM: Not only do the consistently parrot the Party Line, they fail to report relevant information (child rape gangs throughout England, the continuing prolific mutilation of the genitals of little girls, the cost to the NHS of the cousin-cousin marriages among Muslims of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin, for example.
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  54. What is being proposed in Scotland is horrific - even worse than in England.
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  55. I don't remember 1939, but I do remember 1962 (November). We all thought - adults too, not just we teenagers - that we would not survive the weekend. Nukes change everything.😡
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  56. The 12-person Committee now in charge of renewing the Curriculum for primary-school children in Britain, chaired by Funmilola Stewart, has the policy of indoctrinating children with Queer Theory (Critical Social Justice Theory, Critical Race Theory and Gender Ideology).
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  57. I thought taking footage of a happening on your own phone was now a criminal offence that could get you banged up.
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  58. I have no problem with immigrants having different cuisines, art, etc. I just want everyone to be subject to the same Law - one Law for all, everyone equal before the Law. This seems to be very offensive, 'racist', etc.
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  59. I have often wondered this myself.
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  60. Francis Galton was a Victorian with Victorian attitudes and knowledge. He was a pioneer of fingerprints, inventor of modern meteorology (postulating the importance of air masses in influencing weather, and inventing the terms isobar and anticyclone), he developed biometrics and statistics, measuring distributions of human characteristics like height (usually Normal or Gaussian) and defining Standard Deviation and Regression towards the Mean, he investigated composite photographs, and studied Genetics (for his time), coining the term Eugenics. The Galton Laboratory of Genetics in University College London (UCL) was named after him because of his association with the College. Some people are now trying to 'dename' it because of his 'racism' (I don't think he was in any way connected with slavery as he lived long after its abolition, but perhaps one of his great-grandfathers was, I don't know). This is what happened to David Hume House, a Hall of Residence in Edinburgh University, 'denamed' by children who ought not to be at University, and condoned by a cowardly Administration. (Apparently, one of the greatest philosophers of the Enlightenment had once lent some money to someone who had used it to buy shares in a plantation in the West Indies.)
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  61. 'Afghanistan liberal and easy-going in the 1970s.' - Would this apply to Kabul but perhaps not to provincial and rural areas?
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  62. Simon, you are beginning to sound likw Sadiq Khan. Read the Qu'ran.
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  63. Simon, I think you are exaggerating the danger of living in London slightly.
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  64. Lowels is apparently half Mauritian.
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  65. They want TR dead. They know that if he is put in prison he will be murdered by Muslims - a convenient extra-judicial execution.
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  66. Two wrongs don't make a right.
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  67. ​ @ShanghaiRooster the future is dark. Sharia Law very soon.
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  68. Who is going to deselect them? Only the electorate can get rid of them now.
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  69. Lavatories: not 'segregated by gender', Simon. That allows anyone who 'identifies' as a woman to enter women's lavatories. They need to be segregated by SEX, which is different.
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  70. It is not strictly correct to say that Mahyar Tousi joins in counter-protests against the weekly 'pro-Palestinian' demonstrations in London. He attends simply as a reporter and is completely objective and factual in his broadcasts. What the MET police are saying is that he has no right to do this as he is not a member of the NUJ!
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  71. This questionnaire/survey is cut and pasted from an American Critical Race Theory thing, as is shown by the spelling - 'offense' - ludicrous Americanisms - 'Latinx' - and assumptions of segregation and 'diversity appointments' (as well as the lack of facility with English). The diversity appointments are formally
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  72. If you are detained under the Terrorism Act you do not have the right to remain silent.
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  73. Nagorno Karabakh: I noticed.
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  74. The numerals we use are Indo-Arabic. The concept and application of Zero is Hindu. Greek geometry owed much to Egyptian geometry. The words algebra and algorithm are Arabic.
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  75. Islam does not separaate church and State - Shariah law.
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  76. World Government - with Ursula von der Lying at the top. Can't think of anything better!
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  77. 'Will give no offence to anybody' - don't count on it, Sinon.
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  78. The complete lack of crime has left the police time to scan all tweets from the past ten years, looking for hurty words.
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  79. Starmer who, with Angela Rayner, solemny took the knee to display publicly their allegiance (or at least his allegiance) to the Buying Large Mansions Organisation.
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  80. Florence Nightingale, as well as professionalising nursing, was a pioneer of medical statistics.
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  81. Don't worry, the election of Humbug Youseless will mean the end of the Scottish Nonce-sense Party.
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  82. Recomnnended: U-tube video from a Conference held by the Free Speech Union (ironically held on the premises of the GMC). 'After the Cass Revew - lessons for free speech and beyond'.
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  83. Don't knock Neanderthalers. Some of them are my ancestors.
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  84. Would Owen Jones welcome being coerced into having sex with a woman who had not had surgery and simply declared that she was a man?
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  85. A patient is an individual, and should be treated as such.
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  86. Even without the genetic defects and serious disabilities, repeated cousin-cousin marriage causes inexorable lowering of IQ per generation.
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  87. *Repeal the GRA (Gender Recognition Act, 2004)*. Remember!, Kellie-Jay Keen got a home visit from the police when she put up, at her own expense, a poster giving the Oxford English Dictionary definition of a woman. It was removed, under the threat of her being prosecuted for 'hate speech'.😖
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  88. How does the tweeter feel about Dame Alison Rose's annual emolument of £5 million?
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  89. Both Scotland and England are unusual in Europe in having been united, consolidated nation States since the end of the tenth century AD (or CE). Italy and Germany, for example, only became united as we know them today in the 19th century.
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  90. They wrote themselves off for me when they rejected Andrew Bridgen.
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  91. Yes, I couldn't agree more. While the fireworks example may not be that important in itself, it is symptomatic of the erosion by foreign laws of our law. One important example of the contempt for our laws, and for the British people in general, is the continuing impunity given to the mutilation of the genitals of little girls. Apart from the lifelong physical and psychological damage caused to the victims of this barbaric practice, it costs the NHS a huge amount of money every year trying to lessen the suffering of these children. Why are the parents not put in prison? Statutory Law would allow this to be done.
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  92.  @tomsherwood4650  I don't think it is the same - perhaps a lawyer could clarify this. I think in Scotland an indictment is a serious charge of a serious criminal offence, and will be tried before a jury. But, again, could a lawyer please clarify this?
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  93. Criminologists and sociologists say that male convicts being recorded as women is making it very difficult to do their work, which may be necessary for the planning of future policy.
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  94. Simon, you are not a climate scientist. Climate science is of Byzantine complexity, and unless you would prefer to follow magic and witchcraft, which I propose would get us nowhere, the most rational - and safest - way of operating is to concur with the scientific consensus. If 99 per cent of clumate scientists agree that the data indicate that we are in a dangerous trend of anthropogenic global warming - I do not use the term 'climate change' as it is a euphemism - and that there is a more than 95 per cent probability of this being correct, then a non-magical person who has no vested financial interest in perpetrating lies will have to accept this *inconvenient truth*. Btw, discoveries can be made during the several months that it takes to produce a book. It seems that the outlook for the Great Barrier Reef is not quite as bleak as has previously been thought - good news! But there is still no room for complacency, or denial of the facts.
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  95. Many of whom are people of colour!
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  96. The Cambridge Dictionary has altered its definition if 'woman' to include mentally ill men.
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  97. It's not only female-only spaces that we are fighting for. It is also the protection of children, who are at great risk. British children in the early years of primary school are being indoctrinated with lies, and corrupted with age-inappropriate 'sex' education. It is grooming in an attempt to draw them into the 'Trans' Cult, the end result of which is physical mutilation.
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  98. The Conquistadors destryed the Mayan library - a great crime - of which only three Codices remain in existence. They also murdered the priests and students of the works contained therein. The destruction of any library is always a great loss to the World.
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  99. Às well as U-tube, there is Bitchute and Gab.
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  100. Simon, it's only in my lifetime that the human population of the planet has tripled (×3) to its current level, half of whom (4 billion) live at or near sea-level. This gives a completely different picture from anything that has happened before.
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  101. Harold Wilson thought it was going to benefit Labour to lower the voting age from 21 to to 18 in 1969. It did not. This whole debacle - indicating the huge ignorance of the Law by Government ministers - is designed to enable voting fraud. And we all know who the main perpetrators of THAT crime are.
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  102. The Nepalese are probably used to the Himalayas.
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  103. Is it actually a criminal offence? Which law is it? There should be no such thing as 'hate speech'. Drag Artist Story Hour is about grooming children into being sexually abused by adults.
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  104. This is surely against the Equality Act.
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  105. Halloween is Celtic. The American accoutrements are re-imported with some variations. I still object to Guy Fawkes Night being referred to as Bonfire Night. This has been perpetrated by the BBC so as not to offend Catholics.
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  106. I am worried about the proposed revision of the History curriculum in schools. I fear it will not be an improvement.
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  107. Penny 'Trans women are women' Mordaunt must not win.
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  108. 'Hate Not Hope' is a Government asset.
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  109. What is significant is that FRAUD has been downgraded as a crime.
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  110. Surely this policy is against the Equalities Act?
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  111. This nonsense was unknown five years ago.
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  112. Nor should there be any 'non-crime hate incident'. It embarrasses me even to write the term. It is totally unlawful, the Government has told the police to erase the concept, but they continue to use it and it can be attached to someone's name and used to prevent them getting a job. Here's some hate speech for you, now: in a nation or polity it is essential to have one law for all, everyone equal before the law. There. I expect the police to be knocking on my door at any minute.😖
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  113. I was expecting Starmer to 'revert' to Islam.🤔
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  114. Unfortunately, publishers have now been captured by Wokies, and this ideology is now deciding what they publish and what and who they cancel.
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  115. This has to be legislated out of existence. All the DIE police (Diversity, Inclusion and Equity) need to be sacked immediately. They cost a bomb, whatever else harm they do. It is pointless Government giving 'guidelines' or 'advice'. This expensive and pernicious nonsense must be made illegal, and anyone pushing it must be sacked AND PROSECUTED. God help us if we get a Labour Government. Starmer has threatened to 'strengthen' the Hate Speech laws. And he has U-turned again on the definition of a woman.
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  116. Oh, dear, Simon. First, there is no comparison between Alex Jones and Alex Bellfield. Secondly, just a few names of people in the news in the past year. Perhaps you would care to research them on the internet: Maya Forstater, Allison Bailey, J K Rowling, Graham Linehan, Kathleen Stock, Harry Miller, the army veteran who was recently arrested. There are tens of thousands of less eminent people who now have a police record (lasting six years) which could prevent them getting a job, for saying or writing something deemed to be 'hurtful' by just one person, which is then defined by the police as a 'non-crime hate incident'. Last month K-J Kean was visited at her home by the police because someone whose name we don't know complained to them about her hate speech, which consisted of the complainant deeming that K-J had said something 'untoward' about paedophiles. She has been threatened with prosecution for putting up, at her own expense, a poster saying, 'Woman, noun, adult human female'. This is defined by the police as 'hate speech'. Scotland is worse. There, you can be prosecuted for saying something 'untoward' in your own home. We are in a parlous situation - very dangerous.
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  117. I thought driving without INSURANCE was a custodial offence - for anybody, never mind a Minister of Transport. Hamas Youseless seemed to exist outside of any rules. For example: Transport - failure Law - failure Education - failure First Minister - failure. However, it doesn't matter, so long as you are earning more than the Prime Minister!
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  118. Rap: no melody, no lyrics. Even I could do that.
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  119. I believe the Social Democratic Party - fairly centrist economically - proposes a complete moratorium on immigration for at least five years.
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  120. Every time I asked an EU Remainer, very politely, 'Please sell the EU to me', I was met with an explosion of anget and insult. 'There's no point TALKING to THE LIKES OF YOU', for example. And worse.
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  121. Mauritius = China.
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  122. Social Justice Theory: Inclusion = Exclusivity; Diversity = an intellectual and cultural monoculture; Equity = Unfairness.
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  123. Simon, what does the sweatshirt say in English?
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  124. Wagner, Hitler's fave composer, and a raging antisemite.
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  125. Two words: Yuri Bezemov.
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  126. Avoidance of incest is a form of eugenics.
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  127. Sinking them would be against International Law.
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  128. Simon, have you revised your over-sanguine views on the state of freedom of speech in Britain?
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  129. This is why we need proportional representation. With thirteen candidates, first-past-the-post system, and a reasonably sized organised bloc who can be herded to vote one way, this is the result we will get.
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  130. Who are the publishers of these books? It used to be that a commissioning editor who thought a book on a particular subject was needed would try to find the most knowledgeable/interesting person to write it, and give them a contract to do it in a certain amount of time. Once the manuscript was completed, an in-house production editor would turn it into a bound copy - in collaboration with the author to finalise the text, and then with the collaboration of typesetter, printer, illustrator (if any), and binder. Thus, solecisms such as the ones mentioned would be filtered out - probably, if the commissioning editor was any good, before acceptance stage. Of course, with modern technology, that has all gone. But do teachers and librarians not actually read a book meant for children before putting it on the shelves?
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  131. Who was paying to try to destroy Tommy Robinson? You and me, dear Simon and other viewers. That is, 'Hope Not Hate', who are given money by the Government.
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  132. 'Do you know who I am?' - the mantra of all 'celebrities' with bloated egos to the poor souls whose job entails being civil to them.
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  133. All independent countries.
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  134. There were electric boats, too. They were silent.
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  135. I am Scottish but I learned about King Alfred the Great and the cakes, and Nelson and Wellington - they were British by that time. I also learned about King Robert the Bruce and Sir William Wallace (but not about the manner of his death, thank goodness). We learned Scottish country dancing and sang songs whose lyrics were by Robert Burns - difficult musically, some of them. I don't know what Kim Jong McKrankie decrees for Scottish schoolchildren nowadays.
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  136. The Prime Minister, etc, is not elected as Prime Minister. She/he is an elected Member of Parliament - except, I think, for Sir Alec (Lord) Douglas-Hume, who emerged from a smoke-filled room.. It was the obvious lack of democracy, even within the Parliamentary Party, far less more widely, that prompted the Tories to change their method of choosing a leader - with disastrous results as we see. (I think Theresa May emerged too.)
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  137. In my experience of my two consecutive Trades Unions, a Trade Union requires assurance that one has resigned from membership of any previous TU before being admitted to another one.
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  138. I regard that as a form of lying.
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  139. They are an asset of the Deep State.
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  140. Force-feeding Queer Theory (Critical Race Theory, Critical Social Justice Theory and Gender Ideology) to pre-primary schoolchildren through to post-graduates is now going to be turbo-charged.😖
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  141. Students attending British universities are supposed to achieve the level of English compression and speaking of IELTS Grade 7. Many pay other people to sit the tests in their name.
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  142. The Suffragista broke drom the Suffragettes because they did not approve of the violence. Although the policy of the Suffragettes was to attack property only (like the ANC), the Suffragists said that aooner or later this would result in innocent people being killed. The Women"s Social and Political Union (WSPU) was more aocialist in its outlook and campaigned on a broader front for better education and conditions. Don't forget Sylvia Pankhurst was a Communist (and artist), and had a child outside of wedlock - very radical for a middle-class woman in those days - by an Italian anarchist, confusingly called Silvio. She kept an open house to foreign students in London who needed a place to stay - many of them Ethiopian. Today, there is a statue of her in Addis Ababa. The descendants of her son use the name Pankhurst.
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  143. Actually, Coutts and NatWest as a whole, does appear to have been captured by the Queer/Social Justice Warriors/Critical Race Theory/Gender Ideology - they all feed into each other. Banking as a whole is probably captured. Recommended: U-tube video from the EDI Jester, 'LGBTQI2SA+ Infiltration - the How and the When'.
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  144. I hope no-one signs up for this.
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  145. It sounds a bit Japanese.
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  146. Polynesians invented the catamaran.
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  147. Simon, it's not about being scared of being labelled transphobic. It's about medical staff being scared of being sacked. The gigantically paid Administrators and DIE police threaten them with the GMC (General Medical Council) which has apparently been captured by the 'Trans' Religion - like the Royal Colleges - and they live in fear of being struck off.
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  148. '. . . working men *and women*' - actually, as an almost lifelong Labour voter and Trade Union member, I can say that Trade Unions have, I'm afraid, been quite sexist in the past.
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  149. A conviction is probably more likely if the accused/defendent does not get a jury - only a compliant judge.
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  150. You can decline to have sex with anybody on any, or on no, grounds at all. That is everyone's prerogative.
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  151. It is the self-identification that is the root of the problem, ie anyone can just say, 'I am a woman' no matter whether they have had any drug, hormonal or surgical treatment, or even have had a conversation with a doctor. This was passed as law several years ago by MPs who appear to have the nous of a two-year-old. There is also the 'cancellation' of anyone who points out that there may be a problem for women in this. There is also the destruction of women's sport. The whole project is sexism on turbo-charge.
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  152. A forthcoming book by an American which i am looking forward to reading: 'Woke, Inc.'
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  153. Diversity of writing ability?
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  154. Yes, in both the Bible and the Qur'ran, the Archangel Gabriel said the same thing, etc. This is because any religion in the Qur'ran is borrowed from Judaism or Christianity. Also, Christian countries do not take the edicts of the Old Testament (eg Deuteronomy) as rigid laws to be obeyed to the letter on pain of death in the 21st century. The Old Testament is not the main Christian text. The New Testament is. Also, *very important*, outside an Islamic country, THERE IS A SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.
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  155. . . . or obey the same laws . . .
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  156. Holocaust Denial is a criminal offence in Germany and Austria, but not in Britain.
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  157. I notice that the BBC is now referring - with approbation - to 'the LGBTQIAA+ Community'. I presume 'Q' refers to 'Queer', and I would be interested to know how many BBC employees have read Judith Butler or Gayle Rubin. Does 'I' refer to 'Intersex'? Is this even a medical term? I don't think so - I would be interested to hear from a specialist about this. What do the other alphabet additions stand for? Will we be told, or is it a secret? Will there be any more?
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  158. It's not even 'formidable woman', it's now, according to 'academics' in the University of British Columbia, 'formidable egg-layer'.
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  159. UCL - my alma mater and ex-employer - is a disgrace for disparaging Francis Galton instead of honouring such a great polymath and original mind. I fear that this is the result of spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on employing ignorant thought police to destroy our heritage.
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  160. It's called Science, Simon. Re mildness of Covid: Long Covid is horrible. Its severity and duration is not correlated with the severity or otherwise of the original illness. Believe me, Long Covid is horrible. Try not to get it. Antivaxxers are stupid/ignorant and - unless vaccination is contraindicated for medical reasons, which applies to a small minority of people - antivaxxers are putting everyone else's life/health at risk, and impeding the achievement of herd immunity. Btw, several countries refuse entry to reception-class children unless they have received the required vaccinations. Also, in this country, practising doctors are required to receive a vaccination against hepatitis-B. I am absolutely convinced that if I had not been vaccinated against whooping-cough I should have died at age 10.
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  161. It's the 'Trans' activists at it again. They want to bankrupt any individual or organisation which does not support the LGBTQI2SA Religion-Industry. It has nothing to do with giving equal rights to homosexuals and lesbians. It is about forcing companies which are tendering for work with Camden Council to support the 'Trans' Religion publicly and in their workplace, and to withhold work - no matter what the tendering criteria say - from individuals or Companies who appear not to be avid supporters of the LGBTQI2SA cult. In other words, Camden Council is captured, and is blackmailing its suppliers. It is pure Maoism.
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  162. Hancock broke THE LAW. But what about the cronyism regarding taxpayer-paid contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds? Are we ever going to hear any more about this?
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  163. No TV, no aggro - also no TV licence. Simples!
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  164. 1 Margaret Thatcher's attempt to introduce privatisation of the NHS by introducing layers of middle management in an 'internal market'. This employs thousands of 'administrators' on gigantic salaries. 2 Political correctness in the form of thousands of DIE (Diversity, Inclusion, Equity) cadres, again on gigantic salaries. 3 Increased longevity - given to us by the NHS - meaning that illnesses of old age, which are expensive to treat, proliferate. 4 Advances in science and medicine mean that conditions and diseases which used to be fatal are now - expensively - treatable. 6 Up to and including the 1970s, hospital doctors were slaves, expected ti work/be on call for days and nights on end without a break. 7 We now employ too many foreigners in the NHS, some of whom are not well enough qualified medically, or do not speak English well enough, or come from a different culture. 8 increase in population.
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  165. We know about this because Allison Pearson is a well-known journalist and novelist. But we need to remember that in the past five years it has happened to 250,000 people who are not well known.
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  166. Sucking 'laws' out of their thumb to intimidate and arrest people for being 'unwoke'?
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  167. Minor cavill, Simon: 'flying saucers' - now called UAP or unidentified aerial phenomena by the American armed forces - have been officially recognised by the Pentagon.
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  168. Until they revolt - then Martial Law.
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  169. Sorry, Simon, you are wrong. If we don't stop 'the greenhouse effect' the Earth, the only habitat we have *or will ever have*, will become uninhabitable by humans. To say that we should do nothing because other countries don't do anything or not enough, is not a good argument. These other countries (India, etc) are realising the facts now. We must put our money where our mouth is or nobody will listen to us. We do not have to return to Medieval ways of doing things - (a) modern technology will make that unnecessary, and (b) that low level of technology would be unable to sustain our high level of population. World population has multiplied by three in my lifetime. This is truly unsustainable, and all problems would become much easier to solve if we returned to a 1955-level of human population. Believe me, this suggestion is orders of magnitude more offensive than anything connected with anthropogenic Global Warming!
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  170. The Bible and the Qur'an are completely different in their conceptions. They cannot be compared, only contrasted.
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  171. I wonder if any pupil describing the real - as opposed to the mythical - George Floyd would be expelled.
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  172. I don't know Katie Hopkins's sayings or writings - I don't have TV or read 'popular' newspapers. I have heard and read what Tommy Robinson has had to say, and I can't regard any of it as anything other than sincere, well-researched, truthful and courageous. He has paid a terrible personal price for saying aloud truths and reporting facts which were embarrassing to the Establishment. Amazingly, he is not perfect - unlike those who condemn him? However, he is correct in saying that he has been punished for practising journalism.
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  173. I don't remember seeing the pilot of a plane. They are very well protected from passengers nowadays because of terrorism.
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  174. I think there were many more than 30,000 people at the 'Unite the Kingdom' rally - I would say 100,000.
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  175. Not only James Baldwin. Also Toni Morrison, who got a Nobel prize.
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  176. No.
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  177. The Covid vaccines do not affect the DNA in the nucleus of the cell. They act (AstraZeneka as well as Pfizer and Moderna) in the cytoplasm outside the nucleus, to manufacture spike protein which is then displayed on the outside of the muscle cell into which the vaccine has been injected. The presence of the spike protein of the virus then stimulates the immune system to produce antibodies which will then be circulating in the blood, ready to attack any Covid viruses that may enter the body.
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  178. I'm afraid that science has also been captured by the Queer-Theory Activists - see what has happened to the 'Scientific American'.
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  179. Men tend to have women cooking, cleaning, laundering, childbearing/feeding/playing with/nursing/talking to. This all takes time.
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  180. 'Transgressive' behaviour: I'd say five-year-olds.
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  181. We need to know how many are deported per month. Freedom of Information?
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  182. No sodomy in Afghanistan!
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  183. I was suspended from making comments on U-tube for a day a couple of weeks ago, for 'hate speech'. No, me neither. It was when I was commenting on another channel, not this one. I was able to open channels, just not add comments. I guess it was artificial 'intelligence' wot dun it!
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  184. 1 successful prosecutions? Details please, 'Superintendent'(!) White. 2 how do you know what someone is thinking? They could be thinking about their electricity bill.
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  185. Agatha Christie made Hercule Poirot a Belgian refugee from the First World War (or Great War as it was then called - as the Second World War was still in the future).
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  186. You don't have to go to the Notting Hill Carnival - just as you don't have to have a television set.
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  187. Paedophile-ophobia is already illegal in this country. Remember K-J Kean being visited by the Police because 'someone' had reported that she had been 'untoward towards paedophiles' in a tweet.🙄
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  188. Does the person need to be able to speak Welsh? I would have thought that some knowledge of and experience of working in a museum would be necessary.
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  189. 1 The Women's Suffrage Movement split into (a) the Suffragists, who wanted to proceed by non-violent means, and (b) the Suffragettes (disparaging name that they eventually owned) who suggested that targeting government property had become the only thing that was going to be paid any attention. 2 Fortunately, although the Suffragettes managed to destroy some property, they did not kill or injure anyone, which would probably have happened eventually if they had continued (as the ANC discovered). However, both wings of the Movement agreed to call a complete moratorium on all political activity in 1914, for the duration of the War, and many of them contributed to the war effort. 3 If the Suffragists and the Suffragettes did not have the aim of the enfranchisement of women, perhaps, Simon, you can tell us what their aim was?
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  190. Saint Andrew was an Israelite.🙂
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  191. Although Richard III had a scoliosis, he still led his troops into battle - the last King of England to do so. He was able to ride perfectly well.
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  192. Don't forget that 'Thames Water' is actually owned by foreigners, including a Chinese hedge fund.
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  193. It's Maoist.
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  194. I get ill enough when I hear the abominations against our beautiful language perpetrated by Americans, who probably don't even speak any other language, and who appear to be unaware of the atrocities they are committing - refusing to use the perfect tense or its derivatives when required, ignoring the difference between weak and strong verbs, abusing prepositions, for example. It's horrible! As for those poor scientists who are writing in their second or third language, well - either they pay a professional translator to render their text into English before submitting it to their publisher, or they have the use of an underpaid drudge in the publishing house who will turn it into a model of accuracy and clarity.🤔
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  195. Actually, what I said above about editors enabling authors to convey their thoughts to readers probably no longer applies, since the publishing industry was casualised about twenty years ago.😢
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  196. Required reading: 'Prey' by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
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  197. Required reading: 'Trans' by Helen Joyce.
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  198. Simon, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. You missed out the Danes (Danelaw in England) and the Norse (parts of Scotlamd) in the ninth century.
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  199. Jargon is for specialists. There is surgical jargon, printing jargon, etc. It is simply a language used by specialists to communicate with each other easily.
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  200. I think rhe concept of 'zero' is a Hindu one (8th century AD), foundational to subsequent mathematics.
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  201. My library told me that a Local Authority-issued Travel Pass, which has a person's photograph on it, will be acceptable as ID.
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  202. Boycott Costa Coffee.
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  203. I find Rishi Sunak's ostensible appreciation of the novels of Jilly Cooper more potentially authentic and reassuring than Tony Blair's choice on 'Desert Island Discs' of a single book to take to the island being Walter Scott's 'Ivanhoe'.
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  204. Con-trails are 'only' water, but H2O is a greenhouse gas, so too many condensation trails are not good for anthropogenic global warming, which is a thing.
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  205. 'Why, oh why, oh why?', ask puzzled good people. I strongly recommend the U-tube video, Big Picture with James Patrick, with 'Who is behind the TRANS AGENDA?' by Jennifer Bilek.
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  206. I must apply for that DIE Director job. I could use that money. In fact, I'll offer to do it for half the price - they'll be getting a bargain!
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  207. It would help to repeal the Gender Recognition Act (GRA). 'Hope Not Hate' do the usual false-teaming to make legislation apply to things they smuggle in with orher things.
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  208. My thoughts exactly, Simon.😖
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  209. 'Remediating' = Rewriting to accord with the current Party Line. Ye gods!!!! Are these children actually being given £800,000 of taxpayers' money in a pretence of 'purging' the World of 'racism', 'colonialism', or whatever? Who signed off on this?😒
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  210. I think these students should be told that R L Stevenson's 'Kidnapped' is based on a true story which was even worse than the one that RLS gave us, as - SPOILER ALERT - he gave the protagonist eventual justice and a happy ending. This did not happen in the real-life story. The same applies to Anne Bronte's 'The tennant of Wildfell Hall' - (a) based on a true story, (b) SPOILER ALERT - AB eventually gives us a happy ending. This did not occur in real life. I think AB's best-known book - she did write others - is very important politically and should be taught in secondary schools alongside 'Jayne Eyre', 'Villette', 'Wuthering Heights', and the Jane Austen oeuvre. Anne Bronte should have gone on the banknote instead of Jane Austen - she does not need any more publicity.
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  211. Remember Batley. The teacher is still in hiding.
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  212.  @SunofYork  I believe the French don't use this phrase.
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  213. My MP is a Wokie and treats me with utter contempt.
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  214. They're scared. They might be accused of apostasy.
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  215. . . . And nail bars . . .
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  216. Was this casting part of the deal with Rwanda?
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  217. The Social Democratic Party (not to be confused with the Liberal Democrats) have as part of their manifesto a complete moratorium on all immigration - legal and illegal - for at least five years (perhaps longer).
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  218. So the National Maritime Museum has been captured by the Queer-Theory Activists and genderoids - how disappointing.
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  219. Why don't you cut off the heads of people with whom you disagree? That is the question.
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  220. Malorie Blackman is just unthinkingly parrotting the Party line. It's easy and comfortable and makes one feel accepted in the community which one inhabits. You can see this in the Westminster Village - Penny Mordaunt, Keir Starmer et al parrotting the Creed of 'Trans' without having the faintest idea of the facts or the implications. Also, see treatment of Rosie Duffield - what happens to heretics.
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  221. 'Simplistic' is not a synonym for 'simple'.
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  222. Which planet do these judges live on?
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  223. The questionnaire is straight from the US. Why is it being used in this country?
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  224. Philistines (eg Bamako Bhuddas and Palmyra) and the haters of music - it is haram, remember - are in charge.
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  225. The people who don't want to go to the Christmas or New Year party can organise their own Qu'ran reading that anyone can attend.
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  226. Nick Tenconi of UKIP makes some suggestions as to how large-scale deportation may be done. It would not be practically easy. However, there would be no need to abandon democracy and the rule of law. It would, however, require us to withdraw from the ECHR. Frankly, I don't expect anything important to be set out in the MSM.
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  227. Can someone please tell me why Hyde Park was closed to the public on Sunday, 24 November 2024?
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  228. Dear Simon, if you are demented, so am I.
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  229. It is Lin-LITH-go.
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  230. Help the NHS: sack all the DIE Police (Diversity, Inclu6, Equity). This could be done TODAY.
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  231. I'm guessing James Schneider.
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  232. At the risk of repeating myself - I hope I'm not nagging - 'Trans' by Helen Joyce is *required reading*.
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  233. Girl Guides carried a knife on their belt, too. We were always reminded before a church parade (for Remembrance Day, for example) to leave our knife at home, as one does not bring a weapon into church.
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  234. I think this country is probably enmeshed in a thicket of international legislation concerning human rights, right to a family life, etc, which may have been appropriate in 1950, but which is no longer appropriate. We also have many unscrupulous 'human rights' lawyers making mountains of money out of the taxpayer by stretching the definition of 'human rights' to destruction.
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  235. Phoning a medical school in Britain to confirm a candidate's qualifications: I'd be amazed if the 'HR' people in hospitals even bother to do that.
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  236. This is totally immortal.
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  237. The child rape gangs are all over England - not just in the West Midlands.
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  238. I believe scalding is a punishment for convicts in British prisons who have incurred disfavour with their fellow inmates. The boiling water - which is aimed at the face - is enhanced with dissolved sugar to increase its temperature and make it harder to wash off.
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  239. If I identify as a billionnaire will that be accepted as reality?
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  240. I find this very scary.
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  241. Simon, everything is beyond a joke nowadays.
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  242. Louis MacNiece, poet.
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  243. Isn't an educational institution saying that a course is only open to black students - btw, how 'black do you have to be? - against the Equality Act?
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  244. They certainly do a great job deterring crime and disorder every Saturday afternoon in London . . .🤔
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  245. U-tube seem to think J Marsh is OK, but The Lotuseaters have been demonetised, and I can't find them.
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  246. Yes, we know it's a Protection Racket.
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  247. The BBC refuses to call 5 November Guy Fawkes Day, and insists in calling it 'Bonfire Night'.
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  248. A lot of girls like scientific subjects.
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  249. As a woman, I would not be wishing to hike around the countryside alone. I would rather be with someone else or in a group. There is the Ramblers Society, but they sound rather too strenuous to me. I fully understand women wanting to be in a group to hike in isolated places.
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  250. Btw, Simon, I think Einstein's Relativity did not entirely replace Newtonian physics. Newton's Laws of Motion and his physics are used by engineers today as they describe the world we experience, ie the world of large objects and slow velocities (the world of cars, airplanes, footballs, shoes, etc). Newton's physics only stops working when you start describing what is happening at the subatomic scale, or very high velocities such as large fractions - say 30 percent - of the velocity of light. I have heard it said that Newton is a special case of Einstein.
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  251. He sounds as thick as two planks. Obvious diversity hire.
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  252. I know almost nothing about the law, but I was under the impression that ignorance of the law is no defence.
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  253. I thought all the illegal immigrants were doctors and scientists, nor bricklayers.
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  254. We can have a special course on Scottish inventors and scientists, and also the major Scottish figures of the Enlightenment. It would take up quite a lot of time.🙂
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  255. Recommended: U-tube channel, 'Atheist Republic', especially the videos relating to the UK or Shariah.
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  256. Remember Clive Ponting being acquitted by the jury when he was charged under the Official Secrets Act (Part 2), and the jury was recalled by the Judge Melford Stevenson to sit before him and be told how ghastly they were (a true wigging). This was, I think, in 1983. Ponting had made public some material referring to the sinking of the ancient Argentinian cruiser 'The General Belgrano' which reflected badly on Margaret Thatcher.
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  257. I think you are correct about the 'multiculturalism', Simon, but please remember the contribution to the war effort by women in both the First and the Second World Wars. In this First World War wimen worked in munitions factories - very dangerous in thise days and there were a lot of fatal accidents. Also, at that time, women started to do work to replace the men at the Front - as drivers, on the land, or as policewowimen, and in Britain the women's branches of the armed forces - the WAAF, for example - began. In the Second World War, everyone iver the age of 18 was conscripted, including the then Princess Elizabeth, who became a driver in the Army (although she was not posted abroad) and is a trained mechanic. Women were posted to the north of Scotland to cut down trees - they were called Lumber Jills. Women - again - worked in munitions factories, were Land Girls - farm machinery not quite so advanced 80 years ago - yes, there were tractors, but nothing like today's combined harvesters - most of the code-breakers in Bletchley Park were women, some of the people parachuted into occupied France to commit sabotage and assist the Resistance were women (many did not live to tell the tale), women aviators flew all sorts of planes for delivery purposes from one part of Britain to another. Admittedly, it is only fairly recently that women in the British armed forces have been in a combat role - in the Second World War they were in back-up roles. Children were evacuated from the cities to escape the bombing, so many women were often not 'at home looking after the children'. Norse women: I'm not sure how downtrodden they were. When their menfolk were off a-viking, they probably had a farm, or at least a croft, to run as well as looking after children.
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  258. Calais is in France.
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  259. Required reading: 'Prey' by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. This is a work of reference, as well as argument and case studies. Ali includes a lot of statistics and tables as well as narrative, so it is to be dipped into rather than read cover to cover.
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  260. It's you who is paying for it, not them personally.
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  261. A 'narrow demographic' shuts out potential innovators and discoverers, so we don't know what might have been discovered in the past which was not discovered by women who were not educated, even at an elementary level. It is unwise to select scientists from only a small proportion of one's potentially scientifically able population.
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  262. The Police are infiltrated.
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  263. Another comment to add to my earlier one: Simon, I strongly recommend that you see a Lotus Eaters podcast of two days ago - 'London's Islamic Police Force - arrested for being a victim'. This is an interview of Hatun Tash by Josh of Lotus Eaters, and it shows the 15 to 20 police officers that the taxpayer pays for every Sunday to stand at Speakers' Corner, enforcing lack of freedom of speech, and ensuring the practice of Sharia Law in this country. Perhaps - and I am willing to be corrected on this - it is easier and feels safer for a dozen or more policemen to arrest a slightly built and avowedly non-violent lady than to deal with 15 or so burly, shouting and screaming men who are threatening (sometimes actually committing) violence in front of them, and who are quite explicit about their complete lack of respect for the law of this country. When Hatun Tash, who was stabbed in the neck in front of the 15 or 20 police officers, with apparent impunity, complained about the many death threats she received, the police response was, 'Dogs that bark don't bite'. Well, what has just happened to Salman Rushdie a few hours ago gives the lie to this.
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  264. Equality of opportunity: 'a matter of common decency' - I would say tending towards maximising efficiency.
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  265. To call what someone is saying 'unsafe' simply because you disagree with them, is an abuse of the English language, and seems to be associated with people who live their lives 'on line' and have no physical contact with other human beings. 'Being in an unsafe space' means being in a location where you are likely to be physically injured or attacked. It does not mean sharing an air space - far less social media - with someone who may not endorse and applaud everything you say. Btw, I agree with you, Simon, about anonymity. I was always taught that sending anonymous (or 'poison-pen') letters was the action of someone who was lower than pond life - sorry, pond life, I don't mean to insult you.
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  266. If i'm on my totally last legs I want a Brompton cocktail. Can we pass a law ensuring that medical students know the recipe for this?
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  267. I saw this video. I remember that after her peroration on the emptiness and lack of validity of Western Science, also known as Science, she immediately took up her i-pad and started communicating with her friend about her triumphant performance!
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  268. If you can't think of anything true, make it up.
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  269. Women don't go round committing mass murder because they feel they have been rejected by a man/men.
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  270. The traditional Province of Ulster comprised the six counties of Northern Ireland plus an additional three contiguous counties located in present-day Eire.
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  271. Islam is a unified religious and political ideology. Mosque and State are indivisible. Therefore only one religion can be recognised as valid. Judaism and Christianity may (MAY) be tolerated, as they are monotheistic, (and also, although it will probably not be admitted, anything remotely resembling religion in the Qu'ran is derived from Judaism or Christianity). Jews and Christians - if they are tolerated, ie not killed - will have to pay a special tax or protection money (compare Danegeld). All persons within the Islamic Emirate or Republic will have to obey the laws enacted, and the fatwas decreed, by the Islamic religious leaders. All persons will be subject to Sharia Law.
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  272. Galileo was punished because of his devotion to science. Anthropogenic global warming deniers and 'antivaxxers' (I wonder if they have ever been vaccinated against smallpox, measles or yellow fever?) are in the position of the Roman Catholic Establishment which persecuted Galileo and Giordano Bruno. They fear science and want it suppressed, and scientists to be discredited and silenced. To ridicule former scientific theories which have now been shown to be wrong is to display a complete lack of comprehension of the scientific process. So long as disproven theories are regarded as having been disproven, they present no threat to the pursuit of knowledge. However, if they continue to have a zombie existence - 'the Earth is flat', 'vaccination is dangerous', 'there is no such thing as anthropogenic global warming' - they can cause great harm.
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  273. 'At this time - the years before the beginning of the SECOND World War' - are you sure about that, Simon? The Women's Suffrage Movement members had a wide political spectrum. There were 'right-wing extremusts' like Christabel Pankhurst, and then Sylvia Pankhurst whom Lenin considered to be 'ultra-left' - they corresponded - and everything in between. Many in the WSPU (Women's Social and Political Union) were very active in working for better conditions for all women. There was a great amount of legislation that was passed after women were able to vote, that was of great benefit to women.
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  274. It's an AGP fetish to barrass, intimidate, terrify and physically attack as many women as possible.
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  275. And Jeremy Corbyn's first reaction to the atrocities of 7 October being, 'Curb your "Islamophobia" '. Not a word about the victims.
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  276. Re nuclear power: you haven't mentioned the nuclear waste unavoidably produced by the controlled nuclear fission of uranium atoms which is the source of nuclear power. The low-level nuclear waste becomes safe after about 450 years. The high-level nuclear waste becomes safe after 150,000 years. This is plutonium (which has a half-life of 24,000 years), a trans-uranium element which exists in nature in the merest traces in one of the isotopes of uranium (10 to the power of minus 18 g per gram of U). It is extremely toxic and radioactive. Britain produces 2 to 4 tonnes of it per annum. How do we keep it safe from criminals and terrorists who would love to get their hands on it? That costs us millions of pounds per annum. Also, there is the limited life of a nuclear power station. It will have to be decommissioned after 25 or 30 years, enclosed in a 'sargophacus' of tens of thousands of tonnes of concrete to seal it off. I have not mentioned Windscale, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl or Fukushima . . .
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  277. I fear that if TR is sent back to prison he will be murdered. The Police will never forgive him for exposing the child rape-gangs scandal.😡
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  278. The big bucks being made out of abused children with TransHausen parents or confused/distressed adolescents are mainly in the USA, where these lifelong - it will be a shorter life than it otherwise would have been - patients form juicy cash-cows. What is objectionable - along with the whole lie of 'Trans' - in this country is that the poisonous medical and mutilating surgical procedures are carried out under the NHS.
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  279. The worst thing about D Trump was his scientific illiteracy. That is intolerable in this day and age. I would not like to be in a taxi alone with him, but that is irrelevant.
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  280. Ponzi schemes never work. That includes demographic Ponzi schemes.
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  281. The midnight feasts were not very health-promoting.
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  282. What about male circumcision for Christians?
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  283. Or be like Japan. No Muslims.
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  284. Several tower blocks of 40 storeys were built on the edge of Glasgow (Red Road) in the 1960s. No-one could live in them without going round the bend, and eventually they were used as student accommodation, but even they couldn't stand it, and the buildings were demolished, I think in the 1980s.
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  285. I get annoyed by the BBC's euphemism of 'Bonfire Night' instead of Guy Fawkes Day. Presumably this is to try not to offend Catholics. In Scotland, Halloween was a fun children's festival. The begging of children was quite mild, without threats, but with disguising, guisers going round the town, knocking on the doors of complete strangers and doing a 'turn' for a small reward of money, nuts, fruit or sweets. Householders were prepared for this and found it amusing. At Halloween parties there were turnip lanterns, ducking for apples, and fun with treacle scones on strings.
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  286. Embarrassing and intimidating women, and sexually attacking children is part of their fetish.
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  287. I thought that onr of thr very fee things that A J Blair managed ro do wS making atalking a serious criminal offence carrying a custodial sentence. I'm waiting for the get-out clause.
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  288. '. . . very few things . . .'
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  289. Meghan Markle has always looked as white as the driven snow to me. I suppose she could possibly be Spanish. She is not what anyone in Britain would term 'black' - for what it's worth.
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  290. Welsh Institutions and Government have been totally captured by the Queer-Theory Activists. The aim is the Maoist Utopia.
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  291. What about Sylvia? Lenin thought she was too left-wing.
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  292. ​ @baldieman64 it already is against the Law to indoctrinate schoolchildren politically. Why do we not enforce the existing laws in this country?🤔
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  293. It's not just the financial aspect of having immigration to the point of our total impoverishment that is the issue. The orher night I listened to a journalist reporting on the so-called 'honour' murder culture of Jordan. Apparently a girl can be murdered for wearing mascara (or having been accused of such, which is not necessarily the same thing), or having opened the front door to someone who happened to be male. Of course, God help anyone who is gay. The journalist spoke to a man who had been made ti shoot his own mother when he was 12 years old - she had left the family home because of domestic violence. This man went on to shoot his two teenage daughters - one because she admitted to feeling homosexual (although she had never actually done anything), and the other because she had bot told their mother about this soon enough. He killed the first girl and severely injured the second. He has almost total impunity. I do not want to live in such a society, and that is the kind of thing that is being imported with these immigrants.
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  294. What's the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth? Six months.
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  295. I see lots of minority-ethnic people in parks in London. What is this nonsense?
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  296. And no legal or civil rights for women, forced and child marriage, capital punishment for gay people.
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  297. Illegal immigrants can't register with a GP, so they go to A&E.
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  298. Because girls on average develop slightly earlier than boys, they tended, on average, to achieve higher scores in the 11 plus IQ tests, meaning that a greater number of girls had 'passed' than boys in the same cohort. This happened repeatedly. What also happened repeatedly was the 'excess' girls were simply defined as having 'failed' in order to make the numbers of boys and girls who had 'passed' approximately equal each year. This would not have mattered if the 11 plus exam had not determined at age 11 the course of the rest of the person's life.
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  299. I don't care what my Dr looks like, but I do want her/him to speak English as well as me (eg must not think that 'epistemology' is a neologism) and should either have qualified in Britain or have passed exams proving that their medical education is equivalent to that of a British medical school.
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  300. I don't know what 'typical' female or 'feminine' behaviour consists in. It sounds essentialist and therefore sexist, to me.
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  301. Nudge? I call it compelled speech.
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  302. Sunni Muslims resent non-Arabs? What about north Africans, south Asians, south-east Asians, Europeans, central Asians, etc?
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  303. If MI6 and the CIA had not pushed Mossadeck out of the window in 1953?
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  304. Disappointing from Branagh. '71' directed by Yan Dassin is a great film about Northern Ireland in 1971.
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  305. The terms 'Islamophobia' and 'Islamophobe' were invented by a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in an attempt to silence any criticism of Islam. Btw, true Muslims abhorr Democracy for the very reason that it is incompatible with Islam, and I am afraid that a lot of young people who are not Muslim are now disillusioned with the concept because the low intellectual and moral calibre of our politicians in the past four decades or so has brought the concept of Democracy into disrepute. These young people are vulnerable to graduating from being the 'Useful Idiots' on pro-Hamas demonstrations to becoming Muslim converts.
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  306. 'Nobody turns a hair when they see a six foot three man wearing a frock and make-up and a bad wig - they couldn't care less' - oh, unless he is making no secret of his maleness in a women's lavatory, adolescent girls' changing room, women's rape-crisis centre, women's prison, women's hospital ward (including psychiatric ward or gynecological ward), women's football team - especially if there are five of them on the same team, as happened in Canada recently. There is also the culture of putting butch (or autistic) girls and camp boys on to the conveyor belt leading to the abbatoir, and the sabotaging of crime statistics by recording male rapists and violent criminals as female, because they say they are female in order to get into a women's prison. In some rape trials, British judges have threatened victims of rape for not referring to their rapist as 'she'. There is also, in the UK, the surgery done under the NHS - see the new proposed Department at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital for hundreds of cosmetic phalloplasties per annum, in order to collude with disturbed girls in their delusion that they can be changed into boys - paid for by the taxpayer. Otherwise, we don't mind.
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  307. The British judiciary's ruling body has instructed them to do this. Judges accordingly order female victims of rape to tefer to their attacker as 'she' - otherwise the victim will be penalised by the court.
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  308. Under Queer Theory: antiracism = racism equity = unfairness inclusivity = exclusion diversity = an intellectual and cultural monoculture.
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  309. 'Transgender folk FORCE Science Museum . . .' How did they do this? Were they armed?
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  310. That's normally the choice.😒
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  311. He wasn't 'Turkish', any more than Queen Boudicca was 'English'. He was a Graeco-Roman from Capadoccia. The legend of St George - from the 14th century - tells of his slaying the dragon which was being appeased by the people of the country who were sacrificing their girls to it.
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  312. Genevieve Gluck has explored the relationship between transvestism, Gender Ideology, pornography and prostitution, and how this is an expression of misogyny and contributes to the oppression of women.
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  313. He's sponsored by Tampax, too
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  314. Kathleen Stock's speech in the Oxford Union was not about 'Trans' ideology. It was about freedom of speech and offence taken by people who disliked what was being expressed. A crowd of ignorant children - can they really be at University? It seems incredible - made exhibitions of themselves in an attempt to stop her argument being heard. If these are examples of the best brains in the country, we are doomed.
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  315. It's not only the destruction of Israel that the 'pro-Palestinian' demonstrators are screaming for. It is also the destruction of Britain and the West in general, showing complete contempt for our traditions and vandalising our monuments by climbing on them and draping them with the flag of people who are not our allies.
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  316. Perhaps Eddie Izzard would have more success if he joined a woman's rugby team.
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  317. It's a pretty strong field - eg Merlyn Rees bringing in internment in Northern Ireland, thus becoming the biggest recruiting officer the IRA had ever had. Then allowing the genuine convicted terrorists to have political-prisoner status - the opposite of what is happening now, in fact - and allowing them to associate - and therefore indoctrinate and recruit - already embittered internees.
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  318. I always call it Anthropogenic Global Warming as I regard the term 'climate change' to be a euphemism. Talk to Californians, Australians, South Africans, Siberians and Alaskans, and Indians, if you think there is no dangerous Global Warming problem. You don't appear to understand the climate science - which is, admittedly, extremely complex.
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  319. So much for Angela Rayner's plan to spread the illegal immigrants around the country.
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  320. Having a moratorium on immigration for a number of years: I believe the Social Democratic Party has this as part of its manifesto.
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  321. All books of the Bible were written before the advent of Islam. 1 The woman told she was committing an offence by praying SILENTLY in the vicinity of an abortion clinic. 2 Hatun Tash being stabbed in the neck by a man who was apparently trying to kill her, at Speaker's Corner - he jogged off at a moderate pace, she was arrested by lots of police and taken to the police station before being taken to the hospital. 3 This man, newly reported, arrested for preaching the Gospel. What do they have in common? All Christians.
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  322. I thought this omly applied in Scotland.
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  323. 16,000 - won't even touch the sides.
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  324. Sumon, at the start of your video you said, 'during the Second World War from 1899 to 1901'. I think you mean 'the Boer War'.
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  325. Compare 'abolishing elections'.
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  326. Thank heavens I don't have TV.
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