The Telegraph and I have today published an apology to Laura Murray over false allegations in an article I wrote shortly before Christmas. Please see link below.
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Ian Austin
@LordIanAustin
From Dudley. Former Labour MP. Trade Envoy to Israel. Chair . Cyclist. Villa fan. Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.
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What is the difference between providing anti-tank missiles and anti-aircraft missiles (which we and others are doing) and helping Ukraine replace planes they’ve lost so they can - as President Zelensky pleaded to Parliament - “keep Ukraine’s skies safe”?
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Humbling to see the rally for Ukraine and protest against Putin outside Downing Street.
#SlavaUkraini
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Now who does this remind you of?
‘We will fight in the forests, in the fields, on the shores, in the streets.’
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Kevin Maguire attacks the hero Zelensky for partisan UK political purposes.
Utterly pathetic.
Should be ashamed of himself.
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"I'm very grateful to you Boris" says Zelensky, calling for tighter sanctions.
The UK lags behind the EU and US.
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If the US won't help get the planes transferred, maybe we should?
If we are not going to impose a no-fly zone, then this could help meet President Zalensky's central request - "please make sure that our Ukrainian skies are safe" - which we all applauded yesterday.
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The US refusal to help Ukraine get the Polish jets reminds me of the conversation between Roosevelt and Churchill depicted in the Darkest Hour about the planes Britain needed before America joined the war.
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Read this brilliant interview with Peter Freeman, the chair of about his plans to build more homes, regenerate derelict sites snd bring new investment to towns that need nee development and new jobs
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Probably didn’t do much good for Khashoggi’s feelings either
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We have a Oleksandr Zinchenko match prepared Euro 2020 home shirt from the England defeat to raffle in aid of the Ukrainian Army!
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Decent mainstream Brummies display their usual commonsense by humiliating the hard-left with a pitiful 360 votes and a lost deposit.
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British Trotskyism's latest electoral breakthrough moment, and an indicator of the likely market for a breakaway Corbynite party, with a grand total of 360 votes, just over 2% after all the effort and boasting from TUSC.
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This is what life changing drugs look like - Kaftrio & Kalydeco, which have dramatically positive benefits for many people with #cysticfibrosis.
Thank you to everyone who fought so hard to get these drugs approved for use by the NHS, and continue to push for more in future 🙏
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Ukrainian guy on the 10pm news: “it’s a fight for democracy, for freedom, for human rights.”
Completely right.
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Fair point.
Why haven’t they been booted out?
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Starmer at tonight’s PLP “…Let me be very clear. there will be no place in this party for false equivalence between the actions of Russia and the actions of NATO.” So why are the signatories to the motion dong precisely that still in the PLP?
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Yesterday, and I met with in Upper Gornal to lobby for a fair share of new Community Police Officers for our community.
After a long campaign, the Council have installed CCTV but this must be backed up with Police ‘boots on the ground’.
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Is he related to the David Lammy who nominated him for leader?
Didn’t he know what he thought in 2015?
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The shadow foreign secretary accused the former Labour party leader of "parroting the lines coming from Vladimir Putin". huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/no-plans
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This is the national organiser of the so-called Stop the War coalition.
What a disgrace.
What does the organisation’s Deputy President - Jeremy Corbyn - have to say about it?
What do all the people who thought he and the hard left were fit to run our country have to say about it?
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This is leadership.
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Horrendous.
Unimaginable.
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What would you do if a foreign army landed in Britain?
What would you say to the kids before you left home not for work but for war?
What would you say to your friends who decided to flee to protect their family while you fought? Or to those who fought while you leave? twitter.com/ianbirrell/sta…
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Farage blames the west.
What a disgrace.
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Well, I was wrong. Putin has gone much further than I thought he would.
A consequence of EU and NATO expansion, which came to a head in 2014. It made no sense to poke the Russian bear with a stick.
These are dark days for Europe.
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Good.
Not before time.
Kick them all out.
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I understand that all 11 Labour MPs who signed the Stop The War statement (which criticised Nato) have been written to by the Shadow Chief Whip and asked to withdraw their signatures.
Sounds like if they refuse to do so, they will all lose the whip.
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What a disgrace.
How could anyone have thought he could possibly lead an institution as important to our democracy as the Labour Party, let alone the country?
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Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said NATO’s “build-up of military personnel” in Eastern Europe is to blame for the current tensions between Ukraine and Russia.
The video below was featured in a live stream titled: 'No War in Ukraine: Stop NATO Expansion'.
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The Economist's World Democracy Index 2021 came out today. They seem to have come to rather different conclusions about Israel than Amnesty did with its "apartheid" smear last week.
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Since the New York Times has decided to publish a bizarre and misleading account of the Trojan Horse affair, a thread recalling the established facts.
And first, a reminder that these were secular state schools, not faith schools.
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Following her first visit to Israel as International Trade Secretary, writes about the opportunities a new UK-Israel free trade deal will bring 🇬🇧🤝🇮🇱
Read her article here 👇
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Exclusive: Newsweek interviews Joan Ryan "To combat antisemitism, we must oppose anti-Zionism—at home and abroad".
#Antisemitism #zerotolerance #globalfight
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Amnesty's lies about Israel insult black South Africans who suffered under real apartheid, says
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Those behind an exclusive venture capital group set up to create opportunities between Israel and the UK tell about the areas they consider ripe for innovation!
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I feel this may be the greatest single clip of TV ever made. Reduces me to tears every time I watch to the end.
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Today is Holocaust Memorial Day.
In 1938, Sir Nicholas Winton brought Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia to safety in the UK.
Fifty years later, That’s Life reunited him with some of those children.
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Stourbridge resident Major Frank Foley was a British intelligence officer, who worked in passport control in pre-war Nazi Berlin. He provided thousands of Jews with the papers they needed to escape Germany. #HolocaustMemorialDay #LocalHero
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The TUC is campaigning against jobs for British, Israeli and Palestinian working people - says
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Join Dudley Holocaust Commemoration Online - Noon – Friday 28th January 2022. Hosted by including key-note speaker Janine Webber BEM. Join by clicking bit.ly/HolocaustMemor
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Errr. @blackwellbooks - is this you giving credence to the most famous anti semitic conspiracy theory?
Pretty alarming you consider they might be genuine. No evidence it’s fake? Debunked for 100 years!
Reckon you could get this fixed before Wednesday (Holocaust Memorial Day)?
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How is Piers Corbyn getting away with this stuff? twitter.com/LordIanAustin/
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What a complete joke.
Cavani was nowhere near it.
How long did the ref take to rule the goal out?
And how many reasons did he look for?
Scandalous.
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The Brothers Foundation are delighted to have supported the innovative - using the power of sport with education to help change young lives in the Black Country.
Well done to all involved 👏🥊
Full story: bit.ly/3q9Wzu4
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