Replying to @Otto_English
She does realise the Berlin Wall was built to keep people in?
andrew corbett
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andrew corbett
@CorbettAndy
Senior lecturer in Defence Studies at King’s College London. My views are my own, but I might retweet folk with whom I don’t agree.
Joined April 2018
- The High Court instructed Johnson to hand over his phones yesterday. He has not. There has been no action to compel him. When does the law in this country start applying to these damn people?
- OK. I give up; @BylineTimes @PrivateEyeNews Who actually is this person? Why has she really been awarded a peerage? Why does the media not mention her? Is investigative journalism being gagged? independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
- Sorry, this is utter rubbish. UK nuclear deterrent operations (Vanguard SSBN with Trident missiles) are entirely independent of the USA. Once the missiles are embarked for their 10-15 year operational commission between submarine refits, there is NO further US intervention.There are American nationalist accounts now mocking the U.K. & saying it doesn’t have a nuclear deterrent because Trident literally can’t work without the Americans. An incredible, decades long psy-op by Britain’s media and political establishment to obscure this obvious fact.Readers added contextThis is not 100% correct, Trident can be fired without US codes, it's operational independent. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-confirms-nu… gov.uk/government/pub…
- Last night a Conservative majority supine in front of increasingly centralised Government defeated amendments to the Trade Bill which would have protected NHS, food standards and animal welfare (all election commitments). Parliament appears to have been emasculated. What next?
- What do a small luxury packaging company, a 44 day-old firm, a dormant company with 1 director, a lifestyle firm with no trading history, a hotel carpeting company, & a fashion designer based in Miami have in common?
- Replying to @campbellclaret and @audouin1bTo be fair, she organised the tinder, supplied the kindling, and lit the match.
- Replying to @Gabriel_Pogrund and @JohnWest_JAWSThis is taxpayers’ money being deliberately used for party purposes and then being covered up. Why is that not embezzlement with the criminal connotations?
- Replying to @AdamBienkovWell, presumably they have the records of the meetings and instructions given to the civil service in order to support that assertion then… One assumes there will be a fully independent (public?) enquiry to establish the PMs innocence of any suggestion of wrongdoing…
- “BBC is risking a disastrous loss in public trust by covering-up for, and boosting, a Government which has raised questions around corruption and incompetence unprecedented in modern times.” @BylineTimes delivers more cracking journalism. bylinetimes.com/2021/03/31/its…
- Replying to @rosiefiore and @ProfTimBaleWorked with a lad called Pressdee so his nickname was Elvid
- Replying to @MsMigot and @BylineTimesDon’t get this. Info on Johnson’s WhatsApp messages can’t be released for national security reasons? Does that mean he’s been using this unaccredited insecure foreign system for matters of national security? That would be a fairly flagrant breach of all official security rules…
- My daughter in law sent me this yesterday. Can’t believe she has access to these classified archives…
- Replying to @Joe_Mayes and @KirstyS_HughesThe article could have made it clearer that the problem IT system is the British one which obv HMRC have been aware was required today since at the latest, 1 Jan 21. This is another home office cluster, not the EU.
