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Meher Oliaji - @mehero.bsky.social · 36m

From the BBC: "...In exchange, Israel will release 250 Palestinian prisoners and 1,700 detainees from Gaza, which includes nearly two dozen children"

So 90% of those being released are kidnapped and held with without being convicted of anything?

Meher Oliaji - @mehero.bsky.social · 4h

It's temporary. The queues will be for the creation of the ID database. Once most Brits are on the EU's ID database, queues will dissipate.
Not quite what Farage promised, but what he wants for all visitors coming here.

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Meher Oliaji - @mehero.bsky.social · 4h

I dont know much about Japan. I know there were two big bombs 3 days apart.
I shall read about it and look for signs of hope.

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Meher Oliaji - @mehero.bsky.social · 4h

I am glad to hear of a ceasefire in Gaza, and of the release of the hostages (soon). But I'm waiting till 2055 before I believe it's anything but a pause.
You can't do to 2million people what has just been done, without making implacable enemies with no moral boundaries.

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Meher Oliaji - @mehero.bsky.social · 17h

What the framers of the US constitution didn't do: they guaranteed my right to say anything, but didn't protect my right to be heard.

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Meher Oliaji - @mehero.bsky.social · 20h

I have always assumed that limited liability protects me against my company going bust, but that if as a director I knowingly deceive /cheat I would not have the protection of limited liability.
If that's not the case (maybe I'm very naive) then Gov't should retrospectively change the law.

Meher Oliaji - @mehero.bsky.social · 23h

In Nov 2016 I read a magazine article saying, don't worry about what President Trump will do. Worry about him putting a extreme conservative majority on the Supreme Court.
Even that writer didn't anticipate him putting a criminal majority on the court.

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Meher Oliaji - @mehero.bsky.social · 1d

Piss prize, please

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Meher Oliaji - @mehero.bsky.social · 1d

Why unhealthy? Politics based on a complete difference in ideology and principles drags politics back where it belongs

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Meher Oliaji - @mehero.bsky.social · 1d

Zack Polanski may need to be factored in

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Meher Oliaji - @mehero.bsky.social · 1d

The people of Israel will convince themselves that because the have stopped starving the child in Gaza, we should forget the child they are beating in the West Bank.

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Meher Oliaji - @mehero.bsky.social · 1d

There is an obvious answer: withdraw the rights and privileges of a former PM (whatever they are).

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Meher Oliaji - @mehero.bsky.social · 1d

There are people so obsessed with not paying tax that they would eat worms if it was taxed less than bread.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Teesside’s freeport, initiated in 2021 under Rishi Sunak, has cost £560 million far exceeding the standard £25 million allocation (22 times the standard £25m).
90% profits go to the private sector.
This clearly shows the UK model of State aid post-Brexit is utterly corrupt.

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Meher Oliaji - @mehero.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer's repeated misjudgement is to always look to presentation and anticipate tomorrow's polls, and never ask about next month or next year.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Who believes Nigel Farage when he says he was “shocked” to find out Nathan Gill took bribes (after a week of saying nothing and being incredibly close to him for a decade)?

#ReformRussianBribes

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Meher Oliaji - @mehero.bsky.social · 1d

What the person means is "eating your cake and having it"
Or more exactly, "eating your cake and still having it"

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Meher Oliaji - @mehero.bsky.social · 1d

Every time he shows a tiny bit of courage and initiative, within 5 days he takes two steps back.
And his courage takes the form of fine words, but his steps are practical positive (negative) government actions.

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Meher Oliaji - @mehero.bsky.social · 1d

Not as bad as "having your cake and eating it"
Or "just one bad apple"

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Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 2d

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Terry Weldon @terryweldon.bsky.social · 2d

In all of this, has anyone even whispered "West Bank"?

Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 2d

Has the 20 point plan now been split into

Phase 1: About one and a half of the early points

Phase 2: All the rest

???

#r4today

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Meher Oliaji - @mehero.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe the Nobel Committee can offer Trump that as a project?

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Meher Oliaji - @mehero.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning

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Meher Oliaji - @mehero.bsky.social · 2d

look on the bright side: it gives him an incentive to hold feet to the fire, and given this is a 2000 year conflict, a 5-year pause would be an achievement deserving of a prize.

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Meher Oliaji - @mehero.bsky.social · 2d

It won't happen because by 2028 the Councils that Reform is trying to run will descend into chaos.

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