And does she know Land of My Fathers?

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This addendum to a column by Owen Jones is quite something.

This vividly demonstrates a general point: the police power to arrest an entirely peaceful person (in this case not even a counter-demonstrator) for 'breach of the peace', because of the anticipated violent reaction of *others*. It's a deeply problematic power.

Don’r write article when you are on drugs
Or
Check sources before you publish
Or
Don’t fall into the habit of blaming Tony Blair for everything - it can become an addiction and lead you astray
H/t Oz Katerji

Who among us hasn’t skim-read a CND pamphlet and misattributed a Greenpeace quote to the Defence Select Committee because of toothache?

“And we now turn to our contestants from the Granada Region, the Fylde, to be exact. Mark, tell us what you told our researchers earlier, about what you’d do with the cash if you won big tonight”

Peter Murrell has resigned his membership of the SNP this evening.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you. In England & Wales the Attorney General’s Office normally puts out a warning like this after three or so days of mayhem in the headlines. In Scotland they’re keen as mustard on contempt, so if you’re up there, best wheesht…

Fair warning, Contempt of Court is much more assiduously enforced in Scotland than it is in England & Wales. In the replies just to this tweet I can see Scots posters probing the boundaries of what’s acceptable, which they might regret…

BREAKING: Police Scotland have charged Peter Murrell, the husband of ex-SNP First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

The force said it was in connection with alleged embezzlement of funds from the SNP

This is such a lovely write-up from David Whetstone in The QT about all our summer opportunities!

Can we introduce ourselves as 'that engine of literary enterprise that has worked wonders for all who take pleasure in words' from now on? ✨
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Being Keir Starmer of late has become the living embodiment of Napoleon’s bon mots - never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

BREAKING: Peter Murrell, the former SNP chief executive, has been arrested by Police Scotland

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Had an accident at work that wasn’t your fault?
Woken up off your tits in a flat to bad people demanding £5K from you?
If so, you might be entitled to compensation.
Call the Mark Menzies hotline to find out.
Phone no. available from William Wragg. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

About 25 years ago, I read something absolutely mad in Stephen Ambrose's book on D-day - legendary film director John Ford claimed he'd landed on D-day, and shot a film from the beach - that was subsequently deemed too gory and hidden by censors.

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'We are the architects of our own demise. And our own demise started in 2016 when we made the ridiculous vote to come out of Europe'

Powerful words from the Chairman of Asda 👏👏

Ally McCoist's joy when AC/DC's 'Highway To Hell' comes on prior to Bayern Munich v Arsenal is ace

'Cannae beat a bit of AC/DC man! I saw them, Glasgow Apollo 1980!'
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Look this is obviously a storm in a teacup, nothing to see here, if we could refocus on Angela Rayner’s electoral roll…