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A common technique of Holocaust deniers is to look up Red Cross statistics for disease in the concentration camps, and insist this proves that Jews and Romani were not deliberately murdered.

This is going to be a great look, isn't it? When the British government is trying to prosecute respectable grannies, retired magistrates, and a foreign citizen whose books have been adapted by the BBC and try to convince us that these people are all dangerous terrorists.

Catching up with an old episode of #totp with subtitles, I realise that the Bluetones lyrics are an updated version of "Solomon Grundy" and all of a sudden understand why the song is called "Solomon bites the worm". So satisfying.

Adam: “Why don’t you call Stella now? She gets up early to listen to #FarmingToday.”
Brian: *ring* “Morning!”
Stella: “OMFG do you know what time it is? You woke me up you utter b***ard!”
Adam: *innocent face* #TheArchers

Ok. I haven't read Pushkin, Lermontov, Schopenhauer, Cellini, Montaigne, Stendhal, Cellini(2), Rimbaud or Holderlin. But I have read Joyce, Austen and Dickens and Dostoyevski and watched all of Doctor Who. Do you think this guy would deign to talk to me?

"over 100 years ago". Also the resignation of the German teacher "vell, ve better get on with it".

If you try to burn down a government-run building full of people (inc hotel staff), and block the exits, for political reasons...

You. Are. A. TERRORIST.

If you advocate terrorism...

You. Are. A. TERRORIST.

Lucy Connolly is a TERRORIST.

YOU ARE DEFENDING A TERRORIST!

AIUI, the suffragettes tried to bomb the Prime Minister when they were campaigning for women's votes, but now that all that stuff is safely in the past Yvette Cooper is fine with supporting them.

They put paint...on a plane...that took off anyway to deliver weapons to an army overseen by a leader wanted for war crimes.

At the point at which an active campaign against trans rights is taking place, it reads as pretty complacent to say "trans rights are not up to debate, therefore we can shut up about them" as if they'll somehow just come right like a law of the universe.

only just noticed that it's not *just* that Venus and Jupiter are somehow in front of the moon, but that you can see the stars through it also.

"I don't know what he's trying to do" It's like they never heard Trump, or there really is some kind of sanity filter inside their heads so they can't hear him properly?

Anyone who tries to teach this about slavery to a child should be fired immediately.

Paige and Plant. That's a big of a gear change there! #totp

So, did you buy anything from your holiday? #totp

I remember this one! It must have been... oh 20 minutes since I last heard it. #totp

OTOH, they are playing all the things that were in the charts that I thought were better than last week. So fair play for that. #totp

Why do they have to film special apologies for not appearing in the studio for everyone? Just play the damn videos! #totp

"Are you not entertained?" was only a couple of years later. #totp

Great! I was just thinking they could have played this in the previous ep. (Robbie Williams, #totp )

Not sure advertising a 6 music programme in between the 90s repeats is great idea, actually BBC. #totp

Ah well, at least the girls in the audience have something to get excited about now! #totp

Jesus Ian. Put that away until you learn how to play more than two notes. #totp

audience look bored every time the camera catches a glimpse of them. #totp

So, is he trying to look like Paul Weller, and begging Stevie Wonder to teach him how to play the harmonica? #totp

This is... entirely inoffensive. #totp

Fun Europop that I don't recall at all... #totp

So, Janet was actually wearing a bra, for those who were wondering... #totp

Ok. Not the same song that's been in the charts for ages from Janet Jackson. But another one that only sounds a bit different. #totp