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Brian Cox
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A passport is only worth the rights it confers. It means nothing inside ones own country. This passport is weaker than the one it replaces, symbolising the removal of our rights to move and operate freely across our own continent. It therefore represents abject political failure.
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Home Office
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Our new blue passports will be the most technologically advanced and environmentally friendly British passports ever. Read more about them here: gov.uk/government/new
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Sad to hear about Stephen Hawking. What a remarkable life. His contributions to science will be used as long as there are scientists, and there are many more scientists because of him. He spoke about the value and fragility of human life and civilisation and greatly enhanced both
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Sorry to tweet about politics - I’m trying not to - but I look at the news in the morning and I’m sickened by what has happened to our country. It’s a great place, about to be ruined by absolute charlatans.
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I've always suspected that an advanced alien civilisation with the technology to travel at close to light speed across interstellar distances would arrive in Earth orbit unobserved and proceed to dispatch a fleet of small, easily detectable balloons into our atmosphere.
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Shaun Keaveny 💙
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"An official admitted he couldn't rule out the objects were extra-terrestrials. The object has been described by defence officials as an unmanned octagonal structure with strings attached to it." Wow! Aliens use string!? Do they have blu-tak as well?: bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-
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I’m so sick of this ‘The British People’ nonsense. It’s inflammatory and divisive and also errant vacuous nonsense with no meaning in a multi-party democracy. The phrase should be banned from political discourse.
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Priti Patel MP
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We also need the cooperation of the French to intercept boats and return migrants back to France. I know that when the British people say they want to take back control of our borders – this is exactly what they mean.
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I keep being asked what I make of the UFO thing in Congress yesterday, so here it is: I watched a few clips and saw some people who seemed to believe stuff saying extraordinary things without presenting extraordinary evidence. Therefore I have nothing more to say, other than: It… Show more
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I’ve signed this petition to revoke A50 and deal with the consequences afterwards - referendum, election, whatever. I have no idea whether these things do any good but after May’s astonishingly irresponsible speech this evening I’ll give anything a go.
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Petition: Revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU.
The government repeatedly claims exiting the EU is 'the will of the people'. We need to put a stop to this claim by proving the strength of public support now, for remaining in the EU. A People's...
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The reason the UK will have the lowest growth in the G7 next year is Brexit. We're not going to reverse the decline until we begin to remove the barriers - economic, social, scientific - that we chose to erect with the rest of our continent. That's not rocket science. Just say it
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The Labour Party
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Under this Tory government, Britain’s growth has ground to a halt. And they are too distracted by their own failings to deal with it. Labour has a plan to tackle the cost of living crisis and build a stronger, more secure economy.
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What you’ve also done,
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, is to end freedom of movement for UK passport holders across our continent. The citizens of 27 other countries, the great majority of Europeans, still retain it. That’s not something to fly our flag over in my book.
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Priti Patel MP
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We’re ending free movement to open Britain up to the world. It will ensure people can come to our country based on what they have to offer, not where they come from.
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You were lucky. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would… Show more
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Peston
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"I remember as a child in South Wales swimming in sewage" Conservative MP @DamianGreen says water pollution from sewage dumping has always been an issue, but it used to be perceived as more acceptable #Peston
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It is clear that the government must urgently request an extension to the transition period. Any other course of action would be utterly irresponsible; close to criminal negligence.
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We are about to see the installation of a scoundrel as PM by a small cabal of ageing xenophobic golf club bores who will crash us out of the EU causing irreparable damage to our country and it can’t be stopped. Think about that. Voters cannot stop Johnson and cannot stop no deal.
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Brexit is now, in a majority of voters minds, linked with high interest rates, trade friction, travel friction and general incompetence. The reality may be more complex, but that doesn’t matter - it’s about perception, and the perception is that Brexit is not only a failure but a… Show more
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I'll never understand why these people celebrate removing their own right to free movement. Everyone else in Europe still has an entire continent to call home.
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Priti Patel MP
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After many years of campaigning, I am delighted the Immigration Bill which will end free movement on 31st December has today passed through Parliament. We are delivering on the will of the British people.
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This is why all the bullshit about bringing the country together after no-deal won’t work: Nobody who actually loses their job or business is going to sit back and say ‘ah well, it was worth it to keep the Tory Party together and for my blue passport I can’t afford to use’.
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BBC Politics
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#Marr: Are you prepared to look people in the eye and say you’ve got to lose your job due to no deal #Brexit? Jeremy Hunt: “I would do it with a heavy heart” bbc.in/2XEFCdJ
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I'd like to see Stephen Hawking on the £50 note. He made invaluable contributions over half a century to our understanding of cosmology, the early universe and black holes. He also inspired thousands of scientists + millions of people, me included, through his books and lectures.
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The Guardian
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New £50 note: Bank of England asks public to nominate scientist trib.al/ZPcZVg6
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I’ve been through about ten revisions of this tweet, trying to remain civil, but I am finding it hard to contain my anger at Theresa May. I’ll settle on near-criminally irresponsible. She is focused entirely on keeping her party together irrespective of the real-world damage.
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Sky News Breaking
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Prime Minister Theresa May says the Government will not bring a meaningful vote on her Brexit deal this week
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Three squabbling boy-men who’ve dragged the whole country into their myopic vacuous petulant egocentric shitshow.
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Times Politics
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David Cameron blames Michael Gove not Boris Johnson for his defeat in the EU referendum and the loss of his political career and will launch a withering attack on him in his memoirs, The Sunday Times has learnt spr.ly/6011DtbEv
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For me, this is the most important aspect of Brexit and why I cannot understand or support it. The EU is essentially a peace project aimed at removing barriers between people. It is far from perfect, but we have benefited hugely. Surely the UK should be working to strengthen it.
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Guy Verhofstadt
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Ahead of the #EUCO discussions on #Brexit, let's take a moment to remember what we are all trying to safeguard today. Reconciliation, remembrance for those who suffered, the protection of human rights & peace, on the 21st anniversary of the #GoodFridayAgreement #BelfastAgreement
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This has to be the future if we are to prosper. A million people marching in good humour but with a fierce commitment to our country and our continent, asking for tolerance, reason and compromise. There will be no winners if we continue on our current course.
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BBC Politics
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#PeoplesVoteMarch organisers say more than a million people joined protests in central London [tap to expand] bbc.in/2FxTmND #Brexit
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Watching the inauguration of Joe Biden, and I don’t know how to avoid cliche, but it really does feel as if civility and basic decency and perhaps even optimism has returned to Washington. Maybe things do sometimes get better :-)
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We are in control. We can revoke article 50 and retain control of our borders (we are not in schengen), our money (we are not in the Euro) and our laws (parliament is sovereign). This deal - the best deal of any EU member state by a mile - is available. Let’s put it to voters.
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EU Court of Justice
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#ECJ: UK is free to unilaterally revoke the notification of its intention to withdraw from the EU – Case C-621/18 Wightman #Brexit
ECJ Press Release C-621/18 Wightman
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This is the moment the government lost control of events. It is inconceivable to me that my government - a British government - would so blatantly devalue the concept of a rules-based international order. Churchill must be turning in his grave. MPs from across the house must act.
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Adam Schwarz
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🚨 Brandon Lewis confirms the Government will break international law on EU Withdrawal Deal: "Yes, this does break international law in a very specific and limited way".
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My hope is that May wins her confidence vote 52:48 and concludes that the will of the Party must therefore be the absolute opposite of what the 48 wanted and withdraws A50, causing the ERG to retreat into a leathery private club to console themselves with a game of soggy biscuit.
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My timeline is full of bile again because of Brexit. Utterly polarised. Damn that bloody referendum and damn the bloody Conservative Party for what they’ve done. Totally irresponsible. I can’t see how this damage can be repaired.
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Proof reading my book on black holes, I noticed that they have removed the word shit and replaced it with bad. I have changed it back. WTF?
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In my opinion all government policy stretching back up to five years has been a bag of shite. That's one less talk to give ....
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Katie Martin
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UK civil servants have been ordered to trawl through the social media accounts of guest speakers at one government ministry, including going back up to five years to see if they have ever criticised government policy, as part of a new vetting process. on.ft.com/3vYtNiv
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Nothing here is in the long term interests of the UK and its people. It is indefensible beyond the only justification you can give - a slim majority in 2016. It is permanently damaging and you know it. Your only aim now is to seek a slim majority of MPs. I will never support it.
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Theresa May
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My letter to the nation. #BackTheBrexitDeal
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A problem with May’s article in today’s Telegraph is she assumes the country will ‘come back together’ if her deal passes. This is nonsense. One obvious point: the causes of brexit were not in general anything to do with the EU, therefore leaving it will solve nothing.
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Johnson and his coterie have never met people like this. I’m sure they thought they could wind them up a bit to borrow their votes in order to become PM / get brexit done / whatever / and then put them back in their box. I suspect he now knows it’s not that simple.
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Vinnie O'Dowd
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More violence against police on Bridge street, next to Big Ben.
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The origin of our current malaise was the Brexit referendum. Charitably, it was a risky bet on a radical shift in our long-established and reasonably successful economic and geopolitical model and the bet has been lost. What we are seeing now is government by sunk-cost fallacy.
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LBC
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'What has this country done to itself?': Historian and former Telegraph editor says Tory MPs unaware of UK's 'ridiculous' image internationally lbc.co.uk/news/what-has-
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If you haven’t got the grades you needed today it’s disappointing, stressful and maybe unfair. I didn’t get the grades I needed. I re-applied at 23 and Manchester let me in. I know all Universities will try to help you, but if it doesn’t work out there will be other chances.
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This statement - that the government may decide not to obey the law - confirms that the current minority government is dangerous. Every MP with integrity from any party must stop them this coming week. This is no longer about Brexit - that can be dealt with afterwards.
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BBC Politics
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Would the government abide by a new law from MPs to delay #Brexit? #marr asks the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Michael Gove bbc.in/2ZtA1sy
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In general, but especially during a pandemic, anybody with an IQ above that of a fence post would try to arrange things so they don’t have to stand for hours in a long queue. We are indeed, to quote from Withnail, drifting into the arena of the unwell.
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The Guardian
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How MPs joined kilometre-long queue in a vote to end virtual parliament – video theguardian.com/politics/video
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The speed of development of vaccines has been breathtaking - and whilst it shouldn’t really need saying, demonstrates the almost incalculable value of a strong University sector and wider science base. Thank you to the researchers from post docs to Profs who did this work.
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University of Oxford
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Today marks an important milestone in the fight against #COVID19. Interim data show the #OxfordVaccine is 70.4% effective, & tests on two dose regimens show that it could be 90%, moving us one step closer to supplying it at low cost around the world>> bit.ly/oxford-vaccine
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My timeline is currently populated by people who believe that God is Flat, that Darwin supported brexit and that Jesus is not a greenhouse gas. Or something like that.
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Wait until he hears that the second is defined as the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom!
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Brian Klaas
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This video of Tucker Carlson blessing someone for their righteous fight against the metric system is such a self parody of Fox News
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The thing I don’t understand about these Conservative MPs is that they are such angry people. They haven’t done badly out of Britain - they aren’t on the receiving end of their own policies. And yet they want to smash everything up. The EU, The Union and now their own party.
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Robert Peston
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Why Tory MPs tell me they expect at least 48 letters of no confidence in Theresa May to have been lodged with Brady of 1922 committee by lunchtime today facebook.com/14982767671637
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Some good news. By the way, this is one of the many reasons why we fund research institutes and universities and PhD’s etc etc. as a society. It may all seem a bit of a luxury to some until we actually HAVE to find something out about Nature very quickly.
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Jeffrey Luscombe
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Canadian Research team has isolated the COVID-19 virus - Sunnybrook Research Institute sunnybrook.ca/research/media
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German is a wonderfully precise language. This, from The Times: ‘’Mrs Merkel has dismissed what she called Öffnungsdiskussionsorgien, loosely meaning “orgies of debate about opening things up”.
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The idiocy of the position we’ve got ourselves into is that we - that is U.K. citizens - will be the only citizens on our continent (28 countries!) who will NOT have the right to travel freely or to work on our continent. That’s a total failure. We are second class Europeans.
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David Schneider
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Congratulations to the government for making some of the best pro-Remain videos I’ve ever seen. They really bring out the utter bone-brained idiocy of Brexit. We are the only country to declare sanctions on ourselves.
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I’m not impressed with government’s handling of Brexit, but Labour are no better. How can you have the ‘exact same benefits’ as being in the EU without being in? I can’t have the exact same benefits of flying across the Atlantic in a plane without actually being in the plane.
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The PM really does need to understand that he is now further damaging U.K. science by not immediately rejoining Horizon, presumably to placate some know-nothing fringe bloviators who know nothing about science, its value or how it’s conducted. As Lord Rees says below, it is… Show more
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I took a photo of the Moon last night with my phone through telescope eyepiece whilst waiting for Jupiter to appear. I quite like it :-)
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To all the idiots with opinions replying to this article about science post Brexit - the article quotes two U.K.-based Nobel Prize winners and two Presidents of the Royal Society. How about you shut up and listen, just for once, to people who know more than you about something.
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Listening to the News, I can’t help coming to the tentative conclusion that J. Corbyn and T. May might not be the party leaders one would choose in order to resolve the current impasse in Parliament. Just a feeling.
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This is drivel. The only way life will continue as it was before brexit in the event of a no deal brexit is not to brexit. You can’t pull out of hundreds of international treaties and then carry on as if those treaties were sill in force. Forget politics. This is just logic.
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Bloomberg UK
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The U.K. will signal that it wants life to continue as normal in the event of a “No Deal” Brexit, in the face of warnings that aircraft might be grounded and hospitals run short of medicine bloom.bg/2wnwCKc
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I don’t think I’ve seen a Prime Minister lose their cool quite so spectacularly at PMQs. Reminded me of Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men. Extraordinary scenes.
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Here is the image of the black hole in M87, and at the press conference the Event Horizon team just said it is precisely as predicted by General Relativity. Einstein right again - wouldn’t he have loved to see this!
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Event Horizon 'Scope
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Scientists have obtained the first image of a black hole, using Event Horizon Telescope observations of the center of the galaxy M87. The image shows a bright ring formed as light bends in the intense gravity around a black hole that is 6.5 billion times more massive than the Sun
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Brian Cox
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Brexit is a self-indulgence from another age. It should be shelved for an indefinite period until we have dealt with the long-term economic and social fall out of COVID-19. There can be no justification for imposing a second, voluntary shock on the country in early 2021.
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Lisa O'Carroll
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BREXIT NEWS: The first meeting of the EU-UK joint committee today, by teleconference. Michael Gove and EC Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič. Draft agenda: EU citizens rights, NI protocol, Cyprus, Gibraltar, divorce bill
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This is a senior cabinet minister literally laughing at himself, so absurd are the intellectual contortions he’s been required to perform by the Prime Minister in defence of a political advisor. I conclude there is something not quite right at the heart of government.
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Matthew Garrahan
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Amazing. Gove's not even trying to pretend it isn't absurd twitter.com/BenTheTim/stat
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Brian Cox
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We could all agree to turn our passports blue by running towards them, thus saving a lot of hassle. Assuming the wavelength of a blue passport is 470nm, and red is 670 nm, I calculate a speed of 0.34c would do it.
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I’ve seen many cabinets come and go since I began paying attention to politics in the 1980s - some I liked more than others, some I voted for, some I didn’t - but Johnson’s cabinet has demonstrated to me, in hindsight, just how relatively competent they all were.
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The Times and The Sunday Times
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The Times view on the prime minister’s suitability for No 10 thetimes.co.uk/article/the-ti
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And she’s donated all the money to support and encourage physics students from under-represented groups. Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a towering scientist and a remarkable person.
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The Guardian
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British astrophysicist overlooked by Nobels wins $3m award for pulsar work trib.al/urJ2a4M
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Brian Cox
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Is there anyone who will defend the ludicrous notion that MPs should be whipped on the indicative votes? What’s the point of them? I’m beginning to think that electoral reform is the only way forward. The Party system is a large part of our current problem.
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We are seeing the long overdue shattering and reshaping of UK politics. Both major parties have failed the country absolutely when we needed them most. They have no answer to the crisis Cameron created having exposed the rest of us to the Tory civil war. They are beneath contempt
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Robert Peston
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If, as I expect, a quartet of Tory MPs quit the party today to become independents, in a way that is even more significant than the Labour defections. Because the minority government of @theresa_may will become even more of a minority, with even less grip on the Commons. So...
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If you struggle to be friends with someone of the ‘opposite political persuasion’ then it seems to me that you believe a one party state is the way forward - because the only ‘good’ people are people who agree with you. Certainty suggests hubris - doubt suggests wisdom.
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LBC
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After John McDonnell reveals he couldn't be friends with a Conservative, @IainDale asks: do you struggle being friends with someone of the opposite political persuasion?
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The reason nobody outside the UK knows what ‘we’ want from brexit is that there is no external goal. Brexit was conceived as a means of keeping the Tory Party together and became a proxy for internal political and structural problems which have little or nothing to do with Europe
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Bloomberg UK
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We need a better understanding of what Britain wants from Brexit, Ireland's PM @campaignforleo says bloom.bg/2rCEJ6D #WEF18
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Isn’t the message of the EU elections very simple? There is no unambiguous majority for anything without making assumptions about the Conservative and Labour vote. We therefore need to take our time as a country and work out what we actually want and what is actually deliverable.
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Whether or not you think Brexit will be good for the UK in the long term (I do not), I think it’s now beyond doubt that it was the proximate cause of the dumbing down of the Conservative Party which in turn contributed to the disasterous health and economic outcomes of Covid-19.
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The Guardian
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UK economy likely to suffer worst Covid-19 damage, says OECD theguardian.com/business/2020/
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For the final time: You haven't removed freedom of movement across our continent from anyone other than poorer UK citizens. Every citizen of the 31 EU, EEA and EFTA countries, everyone born in NI (if they choose) and in practice every UK citizen who has enough dosh still has it.
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Conservatives
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💬 Home Secretary @PritiPatel: "Last year the British people sent a clear message that they wanted to end free movement and our landmark Immigration Bill delivers exactly that."
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I agree absolutely with my colleagues Andre Geim and Martin Rees. Beyond the immense practical difficulties, Brexit is seen as a Trumpian, nativist project by those who Johnson pretends to value. Scientists will be seeking visas to leave, not to come here.
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Brexit: Don’t take us for fools, top scientist Andre Geim warns Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson was accused by a Nobel laureate last night of taking scientists “for fools” after he announced plans to attract the “best minds from around the world” after Brexit.Announcing an...
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Isn’t the choice before the Labour Party clear? There would be a reasonable chance of a Labour government / SNP, Lib, Lab coalition this year with Starmer or Thornberry as leader, and a significantly lower probability with Corbyn as leader. Isn’t that incontrovertible?
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It is astonishing that Johnson has mismanaged Brexit to such an extent that he’s united the US and the EU against him.
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Sam Coates Sky
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Four senior congressmen write to Boris Johnson to reiterate there will be no US-UK trade deal if the legislation to override the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement isn’t pulled
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Dear all. It's becoming unpleasant on my timeline again. Please try to remember that we will all have to live in the same country when all this is over. And one day it will be over! I'm signing off for a few days to relax - see you later in the week :-)
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This message needs to be repeated loudly and often. Brexit is ONE OF the causes of the pain that will be felt by everyone as austerity bites. To turn things around, it will be necessary (but not sufficient) to join the single market and customs union. We need to face reality.
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Lizzy Burden
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“Without Brexit, we wouldn’t be talking about austerity this week,” Michael Saunders tells me in his first on-air interview since leaving the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee. Says it’s not just the City of London but the whole UK economy that’s been damaged by Brexit twitter.com/BloombergTV/st…
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I feel it's my duty to keep tweeting about this Brexit shitshow (I don't want to) because I think some people just don't believe it. Put simply, ditching the entire regulatory and legal framework with your 27 nearest neighbouring countries results in a non-trivial cock-up.
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Robert Peston
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A shocked cabinet was today told no-deal Brexit may force government to own or operate lorry ferries, because freight through Dover and Channel Tunnel could fall 85% and we’d run out of vital goods, food and medicine facebook.com/14982767671637
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I like to think (imagine, hope) that I can comprehend why people take a wide range of political positions, left and right; but I cannot get my head around this. ‘Unaccompanied child refugees being able to join their families ...’ Isn’t that just obvious? Am I missing something?
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UK House of Commons
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Replying to @HouseofCommons
MPs have voted to disagree with Lords Amendment 4 to the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill by 342 votes to 254. This relates to Clause 37 on unaccompanied child refugees being allowed to join their families in the UK after Brexit. Read more here: publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill
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Brian Cox
@ProfBrianCox
It is clear that the Conservative Party are the problem.
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Jon Stone
@joncstone
One remarkable thing is how few Tories supported literally any options tonight: 15 for confirmatory referendum (253 against) 33 for Norway+ (228 against) 10 for Revoke to prevent no-deal (260 against) 37 for customs union (236 against)
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Brian Cox
@ProfBrianCox
I’m sorry but I have to retweet this once more - it’s so much worse on video. To paraphrase: The UK is peculiar geographically, in that, and I hadn’t quite fully understood the extent of this, it really is very close to France.
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David Vella
@indeox
Replying to @ProfBrianCox
Here's the video clip oh him saying it, which also mentions the "peculiar geographic economic entity that is the United Kingdom" 🙂
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Brian Cox
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I don’t like this sort of politics. Societies are made up of individuals with different backgrounds, opinions, economic interests and moral and philosophical positions. The primary job of politicians in my view is to at least try to navigate these differences (guided of course by… Show more
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alan rusbridger
@arusbridger
Oh great…..
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Brian Cox
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Whatever your views on brexit, surely you must agree that the complete lack of empathy on display here makes Rees-Mogg unfit for public office. A pontificating, unthinking, shallow man.
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Dr Mike Galsworthy
@mikegalsworthy
This affects my kids and their mother. And many, many other British families. I feel physically sick at the callous attitude of this man.
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Brian Cox
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We’re going to spend decades negotiating to help tackle the impact of Brexit on everything from the music industry and the City of London to car manufacturing and tourism. Instead, why can’t politicians explain to voters why it’s in the U.K’s interest to be inside the single… Show more
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stellacreasy
@stellacreasy
The @labour4europe has been calling for the UK to be part of the pan European Mediterranean convention to help tackle the impact of brexit on rules of origin requirements. The jobs now at risk in our car manufacturing sector show why the government should listen …#brexithaos twitter.com/faisalislam/st…
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Brian Cox
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I’m advised that I shouldn’t say what I really think about this because one has to treat politicians who behave in this manner as difficult children and allow them to grandstand. But I will say that almost everyone I speak to has run out of patience. on.ft.com/3OiFxWG
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Brian Cox
@ProfBrianCox
Happy New Year to everyone I follow and to everyone who has been good enough to follow me this past year. I very much enjoy our interactions here (with the exception of the odd nobber obviously) and look forward to many more rational, civilised and enlightening chats in ‘22 :-)
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Brian Cox
@ProfBrianCox
As both the Labour and Conservative Parties sit huddled in opposite corners of the burning building that is Britain gently rocking back and forth and repeatedly punching themselves in the face, I wonder whether it’s a fundamental law of politics that all Parties have a half-life.
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