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Lembit Öpik @lembitopik

Author, broadcaster and optimist - and speaking in a purely personal capacity London, England Joined February 2009
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Lembit Öpik @lembitopik

21 hours ago

For the recently resigned Scottish SNP First Minister to have not anticipated that coalition partners he ditched might ditch him is like announcing you want a divorce and expecting a kiss.

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Lembit Öpik @lembitopik

a day ago

Labour/Tories shared policies that let over 30,000 innocent healthy people who wanted to live to be killed in Gaza. Yet Labour/Tory Govts forced thousands of terminally ill people who want to die to be kept alive in UK. The contradiction is hypocritical, heartless and barbaric

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Lembit Öpik @lembitopik

a day ago

We pretend assisted dying isn’t reality. Why? My father died of Motor Neurone Disease. He could’ve been kept alive but asked and was given right to die. My dear pal Graham Crowley passed under morphine. Both acts of compassion. Time for dignity, power and honesty in our last days

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Lembit Öpik @lembitopik

2 days ago

In response to a question, this is my only official twitter site.

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Lembit Öpik @lembitopik

2 days ago

More icy chill in Britain. More rain. However, strangely, I don’t see all the media who screamed ‘heatwave’ and ‘drought’ admitting that they were sensationally wrong. Less a water shortage than a science shortage

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2 days ago

Today on my Lembit Opik Show on @tntradiolive: ✨ Jana Lunden @Jklunden what’s happening in Ireland ✨ John Padbury ex-Special Branch Detective Inspector ✨ Graham Moore English Constitution Party @grahamHmoore ✨ Chris Thrall ex-Elite Forces & Veteran of the Year @christhrall

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Lembit Öpik @lembitopik

3 days ago

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Lembit Öpik @lembitopik

4 days ago

Sabreen, rest in peace after your short 5 days of life. Utterly heartbreaking. How can anyone think this is ‘acceptable collateral damage’ in the carnage of Gaza?

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Lembit Öpik @lembitopik

4 days ago

Hmmm, a Covid-tech based injection to stop cancer. Has anyone else seen the film ‘I am Legend?’

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Lembit Öpik @lembitopik

4 days ago

Green Party in Scotland needs to provide data to back up their claims about human caused climate change. Perhaps their ejection from the power-sharing agreement is partly a consequence of their inability to do this - thereby undermining their entire climate crisis agenda?

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Lembit Öpik @lembitopik

4 days ago

BBC now claiming 9 in 10 adults experience ‘sleep problems.’ But not entirely sure of logic here. If 90% of people are experiencing something, then isn’t it kind of ‘normal?’ Or are we expecting the NHS to fix even this - implying a 50 million person queue at doctor surgeries?

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Lembit Öpik @lembitopik

4 days ago

-5 degrees Celsius in Penrith today. But hold on! We are being promised a more Mediterranean climate (according to BBC). I’ve checked and there’s definitely no frost in Malaga today. It DID snow there though - in February 1954…

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Lembit Öpik @lembitopik

5 days ago

Post Office scandal: Angela Van de Bogen has claimed to have forgotten, been unaware of, or not known so much it prompts the question: how were you doing in your performance reviews… or can’t you remember?

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Lembit Öpik @lembitopik

5 days ago

BBC breakfast team talking with Michael Spicer have just outlined their superficial attitude towards politicians; in what seems to me an apparently pointless and self-satisfied interview.

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Lembit Öpik @lembitopik

6 days ago

Global warming update: more snow in Scotland.

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a week ago

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2 weeks ago

@RBonnorM @lembitopik Will the government be imprisoning 80 year olds for underage smoking? It really is insane!

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2 weeks ago

@Alvamiga @lembitopik My daughter, born 2008, is destined for a life of getting the fags in for those a year younger than her. Even when she's 83. Very silly.

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Lembit Öpik @lembitopik

2 weeks ago

Can I suggest every single MP who voted for the age discriminatory smoking ban that introduces prohibition for all 15 year olds and younger - forever - is now required to declare publicly if they ever smoked a cigarette when underage?

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Lembit Öpik @lembitopik

2 weeks ago

Justifying age-discriminatory smoking ban, Caroline Johnson MP said (BBC Newsnight) “there are limits to free choice… you can’t take cocaine, you can’t take cannabis.” Did anyone tell the Foreign Secretary? Or are current Cabinet Members and former Prime Ministers exempt?

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