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WATCH: Scottish MP Lara Bird mogs ‘royal’ oath with crossed fingers

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WATCH: Scottish MP Lara Bird mogs ‘royal’ oath with crossed fingers

Scottish MP Lara Bird bested the archaic royal oath of allegiance with what look like crossed fingers when she was sworn into Parliament this week. Crossing one’s fingers when making a promise means that the would-be promiser has no intention of sincerely holding that promise. Bird therefore smartly worked her way around the anachronistic ‘pledge of allegiance’ to the Windsors. This amounts to what Gen-Z and Gen-A would call a ‘mogging’ of the British crown. And too right — MPs are elected to serve us all, not just one wealthy family. It’s time more MPs did the same. In making her…

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Zia Yusuf gives Henry Nowak’s family two fingers with unbelievable claim

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Zia Yusuf gives Henry Nowak’s family two fingers with unbelievable claim

Reform — On 2 June, Nigel Farage stoked racial tensions in the UK by encouraging “pure, cold rage” from his followers. He made his speech in response to the sentencing of Henry Nowak’s murderer. And he said what he said despite Nowak’s family requesting the case not be used to sow division. Reform — Unbelievable Henry Nowak was a young white man who was stabbed to death by a young Sikh man. The case attracted attention because footage of the incident showed police officers had handcuffed Nowak despite the man explaining he’d been stabbed. Far-right politicians like Farage leaped on this…

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