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Richard Bartholomew retweeted
The only person ever to walk out on me during a live interview. I think of him as a charming (and sometimes not very charming) liar in the tradition of Maundy Gregory. And he seems to have died a pretty enviable death. Unlike Monica Coghlan, killed in a car crash aged 50.
As well as being a politician and highly successful novelist, don't forget Jeffrey Archer was a pretty nasty fraudster - like his father. In short, he was a crook. Many broadcasters - some who never dared ask him any tough questions - will gloss over that today.
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The last time Reform announced an "inquiry", they boasted that a non-existent independent body headed by an unnamed barrister would prove that a racist activist filmed by Channel 4 News was actually a plant. There was no follow-up, and the news cycle moved on.
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Stephen Strang has repeatedly characterised Bakker's predatory (and possibly coercive) sex with Jessica Hahn as "a fling with a secretary" and Bakker has tried to create a false narrative that his conviction has been overturned charlotteobserver.com/living…
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In terms of SLAPPs it is easier and cheaper to game Plod with a trivial or vexatious harassment allegation than to wave libel lawyers around, this has been a problem for some time.
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Richard Bartholomew retweeted
Oh wow televangelist Jim Bakker died. Here's me singing my cringey original song on his show when I was 18 youtu.be/hf7TljqrULM?is=DYoE…
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Richard Bartholomew retweeted
What better way to celebrate the apocalypse than by throwing on a tuxedo and feasting on one of Jim Bakker's "Banquet Buckets"? h/t @RightWingWatch cc: @VicBergerIV
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Richard Bartholomew retweeted
Note that this speculative nonsense is reposted by the deputy leader of Reform
I’ve just watched a whole BBC documentary about the rapid increase in cancer among the young..
It explored food & lifestyle choices, even body sprays & plastics.
Not once tho, did they explore whether getting young healthy people vaccinated over & over with a product that had no long term health data, may have played a role🤔
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It's easy to game Plod with a trivial or vexatious harassment allegation that never reaches court, this has been a problem for years.
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Richard Bartholomew retweeted
Televangelist Jim Bakker died Monday at age 86, his wife said.
Bakker rose to fame with his first wife, Tammy Faye, in the 1970s and 80s, preaching the gospel of wealth. They built a multi-million-dollar religious empire before losing it to financial and sex scandals.
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Richard Bartholomew retweeted
So very saddened to hear the news of composer George Fenton's passing. He leaves a wonderful legacy of glorious film and television scores - Shadowlands, Memphis Belle, Bergerac - to name just a few. Deepest condolences to his loved ones. RIP George Fenton CBE
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Richard Bartholomew retweeted
There is no confirmation that this is even plague, but if it is, there are zero indications that it is a bioweapon.
This woman has no relevant expertise besides writing wildly implausible pneumonic plague lab leak fiction. This interview is an ad for it.
Question: On the Siberia outbreak, should the US govt have any confidence in cooperation or accurate information sharing by Russia?
@AnnieJacobsen: “Quite the opposite…they're going to give us zero accurate information. They are not going to be transparent. And that has to do with the fact that biological weapons are illegal.“
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