Gareth Roberts (@oldroberts953) 's Twitter Profile
Gareth Roberts

@oldroberts953

Writer, columnist. New book w Forum Press, ‘Gay Shame’. Also at theculturebunker.substack.com and theageofstupid.substack.com

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linkhttps://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/gareth-roberts/ calendar_today15-07-2010 12:37:48

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Craig (@r0sbif) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Political parties used Parliament to collude in secrecy and plant thousands of dangerous, violent men in towns across Britain, and it is being spun as a tragedy of data protection failings x.com/Lou_obrien19/s…

Benedict Spence (@benedictspence) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So, what do we think today’s major UK government fuck up will be? We’ve filled all our reservoirs with antifreeze? We’ve offered asylum to the Ayatollah? We’ve emailed our nuclear codes to Zimbabwe?

Dominic Cummings (@dominic2306) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NB. The data breach with the worst ever Defence minister - Ben bringing all the Afghans was courageous not a coverup! Wallace - was not even close to the worst data breach 2019-24! As Ive said repeatedly the MPs should ask about this case. They never do. The MPs shd ask about

Helen Dale (not on your team, but always fair) (@_helendale) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I had a piece published yesterday & was focussed on that, so have only now properly caught up with the Afghan leak/superinjunction/secret resettlement scandal. They can govern and keep a secret when they want to, but not for you. Oh no, never for you.

Gareth Roberts (@oldroberts953) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Stumbled on this old clip of David Starkey being rude to everybody else on the Question Time panel - and the audience - including a young Rachel Reeves. It may help to brighten your day.

Capel Lofft (@capellofft) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Funny how accountability for past mistakes applies to British squaddies being shot at by Provos in the 70s but not to civil servants making a gargantuan cock up costing the state at least hundreds of millions, maybe up to £7bn

Capel Lofft (@capellofft) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Doesn't take a genius to see a class angle here. 18 year old working class lad being v twitchy in troubles-era Belfast and shooting someone in a confused melee: establishment empathy = 0. Middle class lanyard-bedecked public sector manager cocks up: establishment empathy = 100%.

Ben Sixsmith (@bdsixsmith) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I wrote about how the secret Afghan resettlement scheme has exposed the depths of establishment irresponsibility in Britain thecritic.co.uk/the-british-es…

Sam Ashworth-Hayes (@sashworthhayes) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It certainly doesn't seem like enough of a risk to justify airlifting 6,900 people in secret, setting aside a £7 billion slush fund, making false statements to Parliament to "provide cover", and threatening journalists with jail for two years.

Gareth Roberts (@oldroberts953) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The judge got it - the question now is, will the filth? Let’s hope they don’t try to pull the ‘waiting for further guidance’ crap.