Adam Ramsay
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posh socialist. dyslexic journalist. Abu Léa, Abu Saoirse. ‘Abolish Westminster!’ with @faberbooks coming. Rep: @portyliterary . He/Him.
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The Coronavirus is an important reminder that health isn’t private. As a species we live in herds. Everyone’s health relies to some extent on everyone else’s. Healthcare has to be public because health is public.
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It's funny how Britain is totally obsessed with the 'Dunkirk spirit', but when there is an actual opportunity to sail across the Channel and pick up a bunch of people fleeing war, we hurl abuse at them instead.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Metropolitan Police have passed a file of criminal evidence against
@BorisJohnson
and Dominic Cummings' Vote Leave campaign to the Crown Prosecution Service:
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Worth noting that this was all caused by Labour’s shadow Secretary of State for Net Zero & Climate Change bringing a vote on fracking. This is, in other words, chaos with
@Ed_Miliband
.
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Desmond Tutu was perhaps the great moral leader of his era. He refused to share a stage with Blair, calling him a war criminal. He called Israeli apartheid what it is. He said he’d rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God. Global celebrity never bent his morality.
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EXCLUSIVE:
@openDemocracy
has been leaked documents from the Bolsonaro regime showing their strategy to destroy the Amazon Rainforest:
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If we had a functional press, this would be the end of Johnson.
@peterjukes
@BorisJohnson
@Schofe
@hollywills
@mvdct
@CereinynOrd
@afneil
@JeremyVineOn5
@FullFact
@Peston
@JIMrichards1010
@astroehlein
@clmazin
@paulwaugh
@IanDunt
@Keir_Starmer
@C4Ciaran
@jonsnowC4
@cathynewman
@AndyBurnhamGM
@ronanburtenshaw
@eddieizzard
@bbclaurak
@NickyAACampbell
@ThatTimWalker
@markaustintv
@MrMarkBeaumont
@MrMichaelSpicer
@PaulLewis
@HackedOffHugh
@MattHancock
@Telegraph
@grantshapps
@whippletom
@thetimes
@imperialcollege
@MollyJongFast
@mehdirhasan
@johnpilger
@ggreenwald
@piersmorgan
@GaryLineker
@robdelaney
@caitlinmoran
@Jeremy_Hunt
@realDonaldTrump
@guardian
@ForeignPolicy
@doctorshaib
60/. On 3 Feb,
@BorisJohnson
made this speech in Greenwich.
“There’s a risk that new diseases such as
#coronavirus
will trigger a panic & a desire for market segregation that go beyond what is medically rational to the point of doing real & unnecessary economic damage.”
#COVID19
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Remember that Bolsonaro is largely in power because Brazil’s establishment was unwilling to accept mild social democracy. Remember that the world is being killed because the richest were unwilling to share. Remember who did this - and don’t let them forget.
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There are more UK companies listed in this leaked cache of documents about money laundering than there were companies from any other country.
There were more UK companies in the Panama papers too.
Because the UK is the world’s money laundry. Our whole economy is dirty.
Leaked documents reveal some of the world’s biggest banks allowed criminals to move dirty money around the world
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Yes. I’ve seen Dianne Abbott’s picture on every racist Facebook page and the propaganda of every neofascist group I’ve investigated.
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The man who cut London’s fire service went on to be prime minister. The women and men who ran into the inferno faced the blame. Welcome to Tory Britain.
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-
@andy_murray
: Dunblane massacre survivor, feminist, Scottish independence supporter, payer-of-taxes-in-full, mental health advocate, Wimbledon winner, world number one: legend.
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Imagine supporting more than a decade of cuts to social services and then having the audacity to say this
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The press often misses the most basic and simple fact about Theresa May. This is the woman who brought you racist vans, the Windrush scandal and the hostile environment. She’s a straight down the line English nationalist bigot, and that’s basically all you need to know about her.
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Much of the debate on the left has been about how Labour lost. But it’s just as important to understand how Johnson won. This is how:
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For its substantial breaches of UK electoral law ahead of the Brexit referendum, LeaveEU - backed by millionaires - were fined £70,000. After her work exposing those crimes, one comment has cost
@carolecadwalla
more than £1m. Welcome to British justice:
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Hey
@BBCNewsnight
, why did you have a lobbyist on without telling viewers which company is paying him?
“Can I just explain this mythology for one moment, America doesn’t actually chlorinate chicken”
The IEA’s Shanker Singham tells
#newsnight
that “peracetic acid is used for the most part and has been approved by the European Food Safety Agency”
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More than 50 members of my nephew’s extended family have been killed in Gaza. Some were shot by snipers when they left their house with hands up. I have never been so angry with Westminster as at this shameful vote.
@keir_starmer
, I will never forgive you:
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The Electoral Commission found the main Leave campaigns broke the law, and referred them to the Met.
So why has the police not opened an investigation, 5 months later? Latest from me & Jim Cusick.
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I’ll buy a drink for any journalist who asks
@BorisJohnson
about dark money and criminal overspending in the Leave campaign he led.
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I have not been following the Salmond/Sturgeon stuff as closely as some, but isn’t the bottom line that
@NicolaSturgeon
was told her mentor and friend of two decades had mistreated women, and took the brave choice to believe the women? Isn’t that... what we’d want?
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The BBC allowing Nicholas Witchell to continue to compare 'difficulties' with Andrew with 'difficulties' with Harry and Meghan is criminal.
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The attempt to generate a moral panic about people in cramped London housing sitting in the sun is a clear attempt to deflect from the government’s failures. Don’t fall for it:
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Macron’s party has drawn up an alliance with Le Pen’s far right in the French legislature rather than working with the Left.
If you’re surprised, you probably haven’t been paying attention to who Macron really is.
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Bannon leads a movement of richer than average white men. The BBC producer who thinks these people are “anti-elite” is parroting dangerous nonsense. Well done
@NicolaSturgeon
.
The email the BBC sent to my office justifying Bannon’s inclusion described him as a ‘powerful and influential figure...promoting an anti-elite movement.’ This kind of language to describe views that many would describe as fascist does seem to me to run the risk of normalisation.
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In the early days of Cameron’s government, Frank Field worked hard to shift the blame for the financial crisis from the powerful onto the unemployed and immigrants. Labour is much better off without him.
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While I was undercover with the far right last year, I was mega-depressed. And I quickly realised lots of them were too. Here's what I learned:
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Boris Johnson has come out against raising tax on tobacco.
His campaign is being run by a tobacco lobbyist.
I’m sure these facts are unrelated.
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Every one of the 114 Tory MPs who voted for Johnson knows that he’s a pathological liar, a charlatan, a racist, a workshy bullshitter and a nasty piece of work. They may not be those things themselves, but they do now own this. They are now complicit. He is now their fault.
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Student network
@peopleandplanet
has groups at 60+ universities campaigning for global justice. I can’t remember when it was ever invited on the BBC. Some rich dude throws a bit of cash at five young right wingers, & journos are salivating all over them.
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Hi
@BBCNewsnight
, did you ask
@KateAndrs
whether her salary is funded by private healthcare companies?
Because if not, you’re breaking your own conflict of interest rules by promoting corporate lobbyists without telling the audience who their clients are.
“It’s time to overhaul the NHS and replace it with a system fit for 2018” – Kate Andrews argues that the NHS’s “sacred status” prevents much-needed reforms.
@KateAndrs
|
#newsnight
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The fact that he’s intelligent (he is), well read (he is), cultured (he is), & charming in an old fashioned way (he is) shouldn’t distract from the fact that he functions to romanticise a system which ultimately benefits the powerful, impoverishes the poor & burns the planet.
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Ahead of the Iraq War, Murdoch owned 175 papers round the world. 174 of them supported the war. The Hobart Mercury in Tasmania initially opposed it, but we’re instructed by head office to change their position. The one editor who refused was reassigned.
@AnthonyGlees
Anyone in papers would tell you that editors, still less proprietors almost never tell anyone what to write. It’s a fantasy of the conspiracy minded. I generally write everything I can prove. Yes, people in power have the chance to feed into that but I decide what I write
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Fun fact: British broadband is particularly slow because Thatcher refused to let nationalised BT invest in fibre-optics because she thought the market should be left to deliver. It didn’t:
Fast and free broadband for everyone in the country, paid for by taxing Amazon, Google and Facebook. A huge policy and just a glimpse of what we'll see in the manifesto. ✊😍
#FastAndFree
#BritishBroadband
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Commenting on postal votes, having seen them, is a criminal offence.
Dominic Raab, in my latest
@MailPlus_
report, says he’s “quietly confident” of holding off big Lib Dem challenge in his Esher & Walton seat. “Have a look at the postal votes,” he tells me.
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I've walked on a road in Hebron which Israelis can drive down, but Palestinians can't; sat on a beach in Jericho from which Palestinians were banned; wandered round a Settlement with armed guards on the gates keeping "the Arabs" out.
That's enforced apartness. It's apartheid.
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The Northern Ireland office is trying to pass legislation tomorrow which mostly seems designed to stop me &
@PeterKGeoghegan
finding out where the DUP got their vast Brexit donation:
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I went to a private school - a posh boarding school in fact. The most important thing I learnt there is that they exist to entrench ruling class solidarity. We can’t have a just country until we abolish them:
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You’re going to hear a lot about ‘the national interest’ from both liberal and conservative types in the coming days. Don’t forget that there is no such thing. Your interests are not the same as the oil giants, the hedge funds, the money launderers & the mercenary firms.
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David Cameron once said that lobbyists would produce the next big scandal. He was wrong: they have provided the new cabinet:
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As the BBC fawns over Farage again, it's always worth remembering that there's hard academic evidence that UKIP support was driven by (rather than the driver of) their wall-to-wall media coverage:
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Soros gives his money in the open. It's no scoop to reveal where
@BestForBritain
get their cash from.
The real secret money in British politics pays the DUP, ERG, Taxpayers Alliance, Adam Smith Institute, & Centre for Policy Studies. But we don't see the Telegraph touching them.
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We allowed our newspapers to be owned by offshore oligarchs.
How on earth did we end up with a press that does more to scrutinise the lives of people like Caroline Flack and Meghan Markle than it does the elected representatives of the people? That props up a dying print media through victimisation, lies, and bullying?
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This is really worrying. Mick has been a leading organiser for Palestinian rights in Scotland for more than 20 years. Using terrorism legislation to crack down on those opposing mass slaughter and apartheid is outrageous. Solidarity with Mick.
Scottish PEN is gravely alarmed by the arrest of
#MickNapier
at a peaceful pro-Palestinian demo last Saturday in Glasgow. Mick was charged under the Terrorism Act 2000. His bail conditions include being banned from all protests across Scotland. (1/3)
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Do you think, maybe, knowing that if you miss a penalty, you will be subject to appalling racism, somewhat increases the pressure on a player? Makes it all more stressful? Makes keeping a cool head harder?
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REVEALED: senior Labour figures took luxury Glastonbury tickets + ‘hospitality’ worth thousands of pounds from Google, then scrapped a £3bn policy to hike digital taxes *the next day*: - by me
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Judging by the response I’m getting from them, transphobes really don’t want you to know about the campaign of harassment they ran against a rape crisis centre and the wider women’s movement in Scotland:
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Saying ‘there is no fuel shortage’ entirely misunderstands how scarcity works in capitalist economies. Famines don’t happen because of a lack of food either, they happen because of how the food is distributed. Welcome, in other words, to the chaos of the free market.
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Throughout this whole process, Vote Leave and pals have worked very hard to spin this story away. They’ve been so successful that some prominent journalists seem to have genuinely believed them. Hopefully that ends today.
#bbcqt
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@BorisJohnson
For us, this story began more than two years ago, when we got a tranche of Electoral Commission internal emails which revealed they had thought the Vote Leave/Darren Grimes relationship probably broke the rules. But they'd decided not to investigate:
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“Humans” are to blame for environmental collapse says the most travelled human being ever. Not “capitalism”, or “the super-rich”. “humans”. Attenborough is allowed to be heard because he never challenges the people & systems which cause the crisis:
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If the DUP are to be in coalition, we *must* know who gave them £435,000 for Brexit campaigning:
#DUPcoalition
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This is the grim story of how anti-trans activists hounded the director of a rape crisis centre until it was forced to shut its doors. Please do read it: - by me
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There are more Muslims in France than any other Western country. In two weeks, those with citizenship will have to go out and vote for a man who has promoted Islamophobia and bigotry out of expedience in order to stop a woman who actively hates them. Love to them all.
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How many of the people saying that 16 year old
@GretaThunberg
is an exploited child have campaigned against 16 year olds being recruited into the British army?
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It’s totally obvious that a huge swathe of the media has normalised Islamophobia over the last twenty years, and colleagues getting defensive when this is pointed out should probably quietly reflect on why that’s your first emotion.
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I still can’t get over this. If
@BBCNewsnight
thinks that it’s job is to promote a debate about whether or not racism is good, then it’s dead.
Just heard that
@BBCNewsnight
had the leader of a far right Islamophobic organisation on last night. On the day of a brutal massacre. Just disgraceful.
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Oops, Labour accepted an illegal donation of £600,000.
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Every time you look at the result in Georgia, remember this: it wouldn't even be close if the Republicans hadn't deleted two hundred thousand people - mostly Black people - from the electoral roll.
The reason
#Georgia
is important is that, as of this year, it's become a white minority state. It's very hard for the GOP to control it. The only way they can do it is by stealing it.
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BREAKING: emails suggest
@LeaveEUOfficial
held undisclosed meetings with Cambridge Analytica about targeting British voters. Steve Bannon was included in correspondence: - by
@PeterKGeoghegan
&
@JennaCorderoy
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People like
@DPJHodges
were attacking anyone who questioned this government strategy less than two weeks ago. Now, they are outraged that people they trusted turn out not to be trustworthy.
These people don’t do journalism. They do anti-journalism, protection of the powerful.
This article from
@ShippersUnbound
needs to be the end of Dom Cummings. No ifs or buts. The man needs to go.
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BREAKING: Douglas Ross tried to have a Traveller family evicted because their site was 'very visible', emails from the Scottish Tory leader to Moray Council show: - new from me.
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When they’re Russians we call them oligarchs. When they’re Italian we call them gangsters. But when they’re British, we worship them as ‘entrepreneurs’.
UK gave million in subsidies to Sir James Dyson. He donned garbs of patriotism and supported Brexit. Then decides to open car factory in Singapore and all the time he used offshore havens to avoid taxes. These people have only one god and that is money
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Boris Johnson’s ‘tour‘ of Scotland went down like a wet cough on a crowded bus. It’s no wonder support for independence is surging - me in the Guardian:
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The most ‘successful’ people I’ve met:
- are white
- are cis men
- inherited money
- went to private school
- are not disabled
- secured their success through capitalism, imperial legacy, heteronormativity, white power, patriarchy & luck; not workout regimes or reading habits.
The most successful people I've met:
1. Read constantly
2. Workout daily
3. Are innately curious
4. Have laser focus
5. Believe in themselves
6. Build incredible teams
7. Admit they know very little
8. Constantly work to improve
9. Demand excellence in everything they do
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The readership of the Guardian on mobile phones alone is 2.8 million a day:
Good Morning Britain gets around 800,000 views a day:
But
@piersmorgan
has never let facts get in the way of one of his boring stories.
My Trump interview aired all morning on
@GMB
& then again in full at 10.50pm.
Both times, it got 10 times as many viewers as the number of people who read The Guardian.
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The £13 train journey from Edinburgh to Glasgow was the equivalent of 3 day’s salary for Umar. But he has self funded his trip all the way from northern Nigeria because he had something to tell
#COP26
. Here’s what he told me:
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Last month I was undercover at a Vox rally in Madrid. They were confident they’d make huge gains in the election. In fact, they didn’t do nearly as well, crushed under a big turnout. The way to beat the far right is not to vote tactically, it’s to inspire others to vote at all.
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@BorisJohnson
This came on the back of stories by
@carolecadwalla
and
@jimwaterson
who had revealed the extraordinary donation from Vote Leave to Grimes's wee outfit in the first place.
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If you're a black man smoking a splif, then you get four
@metpoliceuk
officers beating you up and pepper spraying you.
If you're a rich white dude breaking the laws of democracy at a vital moment of history, they don't even investigate you.
@SadiqKhan
@DavidLammy
Why does it take so many officers to detain one man? Why are they still beating him and constantly spraying him in the face when he is already down. I saw lots of minutes where they could of just handcuffed him quickly. And on top of that I hope it was not.
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If I was a flunky for one of Britain’s most prominent tax dodgers I wouldn’t be tweeting national loyalty tests.
If people can’t afford, or resent paying, £65 for the right to remain in this country, their attachment to the UK is pretty flimsy
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Cambridge Analytica isn't just some data firm. It's a wing of the world's first privatised military psy-ops team. And the implications of that are terrifying: - by me.
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@shahmiruk
@carolecadwalla
@sianberry
@SadiqKhan
This kind of journalism is a lot of work. Stories have to be built over months and years, as the powerful forever kick them to the long grass. And that costs money. So if you want us to keep nipping at their heals, please contribute:
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As the country fries, remember that about two-thirds of climate changing emissions since the dawn of the industrial revolution have been caused by just 90 firms. Until we take back control of the wealth & power they have amassed, we'll never stop this.
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@BorisJohnson
@carolecadwalla
@jimwaterson
And it led to
@JolyonMaugham
bringing a case calling on the Electoral Commission re-opening their investigation, which the commission then did:
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The person responsible for the Windrush scandal, Amber Rudd, is back in government. The people who peacefully resisted it -
#Stansted15
- are currently preparing to be sent to jail.
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Jeremy Corbyn has been brutally attacked in the media for four years. He's been called a terrorist and a racist yet stood firm. When asked to back an election in 2017, he was 20% behind. He walked into the fire.
He is many things. But no one thinks he is a coward.
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Léa Rosa Ramsay Daigre came with the New Year, and the snow: born at 8:53 on 1/1/21. She is the best thing I’ve ever been involved in making.
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@shahmiruk
@carolecadwalla
At Mayor's Question Time,
@sianberry
asked
@SadiqKhan
why the Met hadn't acted. He read out their response, saying they hadn't received the files for ages. It turned out what really happened was they hadn't bothered to collect them:
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A couple of years ago, the media was pretty obsessed with how well the Tories had done in the Scottish parliament elections. So I decided to look into their funding. I found a web of dark money & secretive donations (1/9):
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I’ve known Rory Stewart a bit since I was a teenager: I remember him in my parents kitchen talking about being offered a constituency, have danced reels at his parents house & played football with him at a family match a couple of recent Boxing Days. Here’s what you need to know:
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Perhaps the most important statistic there is if you wish to understand modern British politics.
59% think the British Empire is something to be proud of. Only 19% think it is something to be ashamed of
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Never forget that the fascist who is destroying the world’s most important ecosystem and slaughtering those who live there was endorsed by the Wall Street Journal. Their reputation is ash.
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One effective way to sanction Russia would be for other European countries to invest in a rapid transition away from reliance on oil and gas. Let’s do that, too.
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In March 2018,
@shahmiruk
blew the whistle speaking to
@carolecadwalla
about the exact nature of the relationship between Vote Leave, BeLeave and AggregateIQ:
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Rang my dad (former president of the Royal Scottish Forestry Society) to ask about these numbers. He was up the hill inspecting trees. Says a decent planter will manage a minimum of 1,000 a day. Makes these figures look reasonable. The more important Q. is, what kind of trees?
Labour's tree planting policy (with mathematical support from
@BBCFrediani
):
Labour wants to plant 2 billion trees by 2040.
That is, roughly...
* 100 million/yr
* Or 8.3 million a month
* 2 million a week
* 300,000 a day
*12,400 an hour, every hr, 24hrs/day
* 200 a minute
#GE2019
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Priti Patel - a former lobbyists for British Tobacco and the murderous government of Bahrain - was forced to resign in 2017 because she’d effectively continued to act as a lobbyists while in office. If she becomes Home Secretary, expect more of the same:
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The coronation is really, really, really bad. We shouldn’t be ignoring it, we should be furious. By me:
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@BorisJohnson
@carolecadwalla
@jimwaterson
@JolyonMaugham
One of the things the Electoral Commission emails had revealed was that the 'donation' to Darren Grimes's BeLeave almost all went direct to the Canadian data company AggregateIQ.
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No deal Brexiters aren't idiots. They're disaster capitalists, and they know exactly what they're doing:
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BREAKING: Douglas Ross on Moray's Gypsy/Travellers: "I am disappointed and frustrated that we seem to have to bend over backwards for this ethnic minority": - investigation from me.
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@shahmiruk
@carolecadwalla
@sianberry
@SadiqKhan
Then, a year after we'd reported that the Met hadn't done anything yet, I rang my colleague Jim Cusick and asked him to chase them again. That was September. Today, we finally got an answer:
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I am possibly more proud of this piece than any other journalism I’ve done, and I learned so much researching it. I’d love it if you read it.
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Oh look. The charity commission is investigating the IEA now.
Latest from
@PeterKGeoghegan
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The minister who led this Bill
@ShonaRobison
, is a woman. The first minister who oversaw it,
@NicolaSturgeon
, is a woman. The MSPs who championed it loudest like -
@MaggieChapman
,
@Emma_Roddick
,
@KarenAdamMSP
- are mostly women. This was passed by the most female Holyrood ever.
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