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andrew corbett
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andrew corbett
@CorbettAndy
Senior lecturer in Defence Studies at King’s College London. My views are my own, but I might retweet folk with whom I don’t agree.
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    andrew corbett
    @CorbettAndy
    Jan 19, 2025
    Replying to @Otto_English
    She does realise the Berlin Wall was built to keep people in?
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    andrew corbett
    @CorbettAndy
    Jul 11, 2023
    The High Court instructed Johnson to hand over his phones yesterday. He has not. There has been no action to compel him. When does the law in this country start applying to these damn people?
    Boris Johnson
    Government loses court battle over Boris Johnson's Covid WhatsApps
    From bbc.co.uk
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    andrew corbett
    @CorbettAndy
    Jun 27, 2023
    OK. I give up; @BylineTimes @PrivateEyeNews Who actually is this person? Why has she really been awarded a peerage? Why does the media not mention her? Is investigative journalism being gagged? independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
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    andrew corbett
    @CorbettAndy
    Feb 4, 2025
    Sorry, this is utter rubbish. UK nuclear deterrent operations (Vanguard SSBN with Trident missiles) are entirely independent of the USA. Once the missiles are embarked for their 10-15 year operational commission between submarine refits, there is NO further US intervention.
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    Aaron Bastani
    @AaronBastani
    Feb 2, 2025
    There are American nationalist accounts now mocking the U.K. & saying it doesn’t have a nuclear deterrent because Trident literally can’t work without the Americans. An incredible, decades long psy-op by Britain’s media and political establishment to obscure this obvious fact.
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    This is not 100% correct, Trident can be fired without US codes, it's operational independent. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-confirms-nu… gov.uk/government/pub…
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    andrew corbett
    @CorbettAndy
    Jul 21, 2020
    Last night a Conservative majority supine in front of increasingly centralised Government defeated amendments to the Trade Bill which would have protected NHS, food standards and animal welfare (all election commitments). Parliament appears to have been emasculated. What next?
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    andrew corbett
    @CorbettAndy
    Nov 11, 2020
    What do a small luxury packaging company, a 44 day-old firm, a dormant company with 1 director, a lifestyle firm with no trading history, a hotel carpeting company, & a fashion designer based in Miami have in common?
    bylinetimes.com
    Prime Minister Boris Johnson Confronted About the Great Procurement Scandal
    The Prime Minister was finally forced to answer questions about his Government’s controversial, multi-billion-pound splurge on private sector contracts, reports Sam Bright
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    andrew corbett
    @CorbettAndy
    Nov 11, 2023
    Replying to @campbellclaret and @audouin1b
    To be fair, she organised the tinder, supplied the kindling, and lit the match.
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    andrew corbett
    @CorbettAndy
    May 16, 2024
    Replying to @Gabriel_Pogrund and @JohnWest_JAWS
    This is taxpayers’ money being deliberately used for party purposes and then being covered up. Why is that not embezzlement with the criminal connotations?
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    andrew corbett
    @CorbettAndy
    May 11, 2022
    Replying to @AdamBienkov
    Well, presumably they have the records of the meetings and instructions given to the civil service in order to support that assertion then… One assumes there will be a fully independent (public?) enquiry to establish the PMs innocence of any suggestion of wrongdoing…
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    andrew corbett
    @CorbettAndy
    Mar 31, 2021
    “BBC is risking a disastrous loss in public trust by covering-up for, and boosting, a Government which has raised questions around corruption and incompetence unprecedented in modern times.” ⁦@BylineTimes⁩ delivers more cracking journalism. bylinetimes.com/2021/03/31/its…
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    andrew corbett
    @CorbettAndy
    Nov 4, 2022
    Replying to @rosiefiore and @ProfTimBale
    Worked with a lad called Pressdee so his nickname was Elvid
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    andrew corbett
    @CorbettAndy
    Apr 27, 2022
    Replying to @MsMigot and @BylineTimes
    Don’t get this. Info on Johnson’s WhatsApp messages can’t be released for national security reasons? Does that mean he’s been using this unaccredited insecure foreign system for matters of national security? That would be a fairly flagrant breach of all official security rules…
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    andrew corbett
    @CorbettAndy
    Nov 12, 2022
    My daughter in law sent me this yesterday. Can’t believe she has access to these classified archives…
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    andrew corbett
    @CorbettAndy
    Jan 4, 2022
    Replying to @Joe_Mayes and @KirstyS_Hughes
    The article could have made it clearer that the problem IT system is the British one which obv HMRC have been aware was required today since at the latest, 1 Jan 21. This is another home office cluster, not the EU.