Etan Smallman
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'The so-called journalist' (Raymond Briggs) 'Gripping stories' (@UKWritingAwards) Freelance: @nytimes @theipaper @Telegraph @Guardian @DailyMail @latimes @FT
Joined November 2008
Very excited to be doing this talk @JW3London in July, for a series to celebrate the first anniversary of Leon Fenster's epic nine-storey mural. Just a few doors down from my grandparents' 1940s restaurant. Tickets on sale now! Link in post below š
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Harry said his family "literally cut me off financially". Prince Harry is literally 36 years old.
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I just asked a Bavarian what Germans make of Brexit. "We think you're fucked.".
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I love how meritocratic and open British radio is. Right now, you can listen to Martin Kemp's son on Capital, Johnny Ball's daughter on Radio 2 and Chris Tarrant's son on Radio X š».
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Anyone sick of hearing about Phillip Schofield should tune into #ThisMorning. It's the only place in Britain where you won't hear a word about it.
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Spoke to a privately-educated sixth-former today, who said he has been having full-time Zoom lessons since start of lockdown. A state-school teacher friend of mine says his kids get a phone call once a fortnight. The impact on social mobility is going to be devastating.
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They should put this in the National Gallery. A #bbcqt audience member originally from Congo cites conflict between Rwanda and DRC and asks if UK would send refugee from DRC to. Rwanda. A confused Chris Philp: "Well, Rwanda is a different country from Congo, isn't it?"
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Tomorrow, there is a rally for the abducted men, women and children of October 7. There won't be masked men with genocidal chants and placards. There won't be 100,000 people. There will be Jews standing almost entirely alone, apart from the masses of security they need to do so
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The first time you will hear someone thanking @piersmorgan and @mrjamesob in the same breath. What strange times we live in.
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Evanna Lynch joined chorus of Harry Potter stars condemning @jk_rowling over gender debate. Now she's the first to think again. "I didnāt even know there were two sides,ā she tells me in @Telegraph. "Iām a bit braver now about uncomfortable conversations".
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This is heartbreakingly apt. Paddington author Michael Bond told me shortly before his death that he had been inspired to create his refugee bear by watching WWII newsreels showing the "terribly sad" scenes of "people pushing a pram with all their belongings down a country road".
Confirmed. Volodymyr Zelensky is the Ukrainian voice of Paddington Bear.
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London 2024. Where a Star of David can't be displayed (even on a statue of a dead singer) without being covered with a Palestinian flag
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Alastair Stewart responded to a black man on Twitter with a passage about "an angry ape" from Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. But it also seems worth pointing out that he previously used this passage to respond to at least one other tweeter who was not identifiably black.
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I can only assume that all those Conservatives saying that if people want BBC services they can pay to subscribe to them apply the same philosophy to the Royal Family.
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@EAzizlerli Do you make a habit of channelling the spirit of dead musicians? Or just Jewish ones?.
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@SuffolkWhite1 @chrismarshll Incitement to what? Dragging someone to the ground and potentially causing a lethal head injury. Because that actually happened in front of a policeman, who did nothing.
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The BBC News at 10 report on Texas siege - in which a rabbi and three other Jews were taken hostage in their synagogue - managed not to mention antisemitism once. Quite an achievement.
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Owen Jones telling Jews how to feel about antisemitism. This feels so 2017.
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Today I am attending a book talk in London, but have been told to arrive at least 45 minutes beforehand to allow time to pass through security - because the festival has "Jewish" in the title. How has this become normal?.
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In news no-one could possibly have predicted. "A year after the Brit awards abandoned the gendered categories, the nominations for the replacement artist of the year prize are entirely male.".
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This article by Charlotte Church is a classic of the genre. She repeats, in copious detail, allegations against Israel as gospel. But when it comes to the atrocities of October 7: "It is difficult to know the full truth of what happened that day.".
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@IndiaWilloughby If you think this is how close we are to Nazi Germany, it shows you know nothing about what the Holocaust involved, and how damaging it is to devalue its memory with such cheap comparisons. (And you've inspired me to put some bunting up).
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Every August, it is one of two stories. 1) Proportion of top grades falls = kids are failing.2) More getting As = grade inflation. Students can't win.
The proportion of students achieving the top grades at A-level has fallen to its lowest level for more than a decade, this year's results show #alevelresults2019
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@tds153 I don't want to say no blog post is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that. I think, if you wrote a six-paragraph blog post, you fucked up, and it should have been an emoji.
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š For @Telegraph, I have spoken to gender-critical creatives across art, publishing, poetry, theatre, music, dance and TV who have said their reputations have been sabotaged and incomes decimated by behind-the-scenes boycotts.
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Every time I log on to Twitter, I find @Nigella_Lawson giving the most patient, common-sense responses to what seems like hundreds of queries. Amazing public service.
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In living memory, most of Europe's Jews were murdered because they were regarded as the opposite of white. Almost half the population in Israel are from Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. The ignorance is staggering.
State of Israel is the Ku Klux Klan of the West in the Middle East fanning flames of White supremacy. Israel was made from violence, built on violence & sustains its āexistenceā with violence. Widespread condemnation from US, UK, EU over #WorldCentralKitchen is performative &
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The Leader of Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition invited a cleric who blamed Jews for 9/11 for tea at Parliament and called him "a very honoured citizen". This is the kind of thing that happens next. .
CST is aware of several examples of antisemitic graffiti in Belsize Park / Hampstead last night. If you have any information please contact Police on 101 & CST on 0800 032 3263
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Co-founder of group targeting top literature festivals because sponsor Baillie Gifford profits from "Israeli apartheid, occupation & genocide" is so ignorant about the history she spoke about her friend's grandad being born 90 yrs ago "in a free Palestine". The one under UK rule
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@EamonnHolmes Eamonn, did you know any of this when you held his hand and said: "We'll be the first to stand beside you. Absolutely brilliant, mate"?
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Don't know how @Baddiel managed to debunk so many messed up ideas so articulately in just 2 minutes.
Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended by The View following her controversial comments about the Holocaust when she said 'it was not about race'. @Baddiel tells @susannareid100 and @adilray that Goldberg's comments reveal 'a lot about the confusions people have around anti-semitism'
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Dermot Murnaghan: "I don't know how long this shower is going to last." A bit harsh.
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James O'Brien has called the mad anti-Coke riot in Bradford "a howl of frustration". It's what I'm doing while listening to his show.
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Perhaps these Harry and Meghan superfans using online hate to defend the couple should actually read what they say they stand for.
We must call out online hate when we see it, which is why I am posting this death threat, sent to my website this morning in the name of #HarryandMeghan āfandomā. Never be cowed by these abject hypocrites. Fight for the right to disagree agreeably #stoponlinehate
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When I was a lowly sub-editor on a national newspaper, I would have received a written warning if I had referred to a refugee as an "illegal migrant". What action are you going to take, @talkRADIO?.
Well this is lovely. Couple of things: firstly, as Iāve already said, I forgot briefly to put my mask on, but did so immediately that my mistake registered and Iāve apologised. Secondly, please do not refer to my house guest as an illegal immigrant. Heās a refugee.
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@tomhfh No, it doesn't. The word "party" wasn't in the legislation. Everything rests on whether it was a gathering reasonably necessary for work. And the downing of bottles of gin, wine and cava rather suggests it wasn't.
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This BBC apology is appalling in itself. It should directly acknowledge that this racism is unacceptable and taken extremely seriously, not waffle on about "phrasing". And I can't tell you how sick Jews are of waking up to this shit every morning.
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@juliamacfarlane And you're on London Leadership Council of @pressfreedom, an organisation that seeks to protect many kinds of journalists, including, er, columnists.
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After more than 36 hours, GB News has finally taken down the most blatant libel against Phillip Schofield from catch-up service. You could see it coming from a mile off, yet the guest was allowed to come out with it. This was the aftermath - check out the other panellists' faces
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I am an NW2 constituent (who happens to be a journalist). I came to Jenny Manson/@johnmcdonnellMP talk with ticket, ID (& press card if they'd wanted) and plenty of courtesy and patience. But my name had been crossed off the list and organisers told security to manhandle me out
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@RussianEmbassy @rusemb_pl @mfa_russia @BBCWorld @SkyNews @guardianworld @TelegraphWorld @standardnews @MailOnline @TheSun @TheSimpsons You claim to be the ones fighting Nazis - while making antisemitic cartoons. Great work.
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Eamonn Holmes, Holly Willoughby and Dan Wootton would all have us believe that they challenged Phillip Schofield/ITV about the rumours. Yet all of them went along with his coming out stunt, which, by pure coincidence, came shortly afterwards. None of them is that stupid
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Best thing I heard at #MarchAgainstAntisemitism was from @RevRichardColes. He told me: "I'm here in solidarity with Jewish friends who are facing unprecedented levels of antisemitism in my lifetime. I went to the Palestine rally yesterday, so very Church of England, obviously!".
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The Guardian view:. Labour: indispensable. Jews: not so much.
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David Walliams has some good PR people. The family entertainer hosted the men-only Presidents Club ball (where hostesses were told to wear skimpy black outfits with matching underwear) three times. It's not even mentioned on his Wikipedia page.
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The Morning Star has published this extensive apology for a defamatory article about me, by Lauren Booth, which was full of falsehoods. I'm sure she would much rather people didn't see it. So, whatever you do, please don't share it!.
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Are we really saying that six million Jews murdered in Europe in living memory could have just masked their ethnicity better? And that homophobia is no biggie because gay people can just get back in the closet?.
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@juliamacfarlane This is such bullshit. He said he was not a *reporter*. He is still a journalist, as am I, though I mainly write features. As I was when I was a sub. Alfred Kerr was 2nd on Nazi death list in 30s. He was a cultural critic, not reporter. Didn't make his targeting any less heinous.
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Lots of people tweeting at #jewsdontcount seem to be confused, so PSA: Being Jewish can be both a religion and a race. As Baddiel himself says, no Nazi or KKK member is going to check if he keeps kosher before burning down his house.
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This video is extraordinary. Best bit. The man who says: "I don't know that much about it. But the Jews have got a lot of power and a lot of money, haven't they? They do manipulate things." . WHILE HOLDING A SIGN SAYING "FIGHT BIGOTRY".
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This is why British Jews were so incredulous during the Corbyn era. All of these were invited on to prime BBC spots to represent the Jewish community and explain why all was hunky-dory. The BBC should be doing some deep soul-searching about how a UK minority was treated like this
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Today Boris Johnson steps away from politics ā to spend less time on holiday.
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It included friend of gunman's family complaining: "It's the way he was killed, he was shot - that shouldn't have happened." Reporter said it raised a volley of Qs, which he listed. Not one concerned why a UK man hated Jews so much, he crossed the Atlantic to try to kill them.
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"Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people." . Heinrich Heine.
Does anyone need firewood this winter! JKās new book is perfect to burn next to a Romantic fire š„ .Aww get all cozy and comfy canāt wait š.
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I wonder why this episode is not available to view on @My5_tv. Anything to do with @LozzaFox's legal threats, @theJeremyVine?.
"I know it's very hard for you to be such a privileged white man. I can see you hate it, being a Fox.". Yasmin Alibhai-Brown blasts Laurence Fox's views on racism, before telling him: "I've stopped watching you on Lewis.". @LozzaFox | @y_alibhai | @TheJeremyVine | #JeremyVine
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Can't believe number of people saying they can't read or watch Harry Potter again. Bet they have no compunction about reading Roald Dahl, who was an out-and-out antisemite. (I was about 7 when I discovered this and still managed to understand you could separate author from work).
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Just discovered that I've been put on "a blocklist on Twitter that blocks all known terfs and transphobes". I've barely said a word about trans issues on Twitter let alone said anything transphobic. So much for free speech. .
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Life comes at you fast! A few months ago @OwenJones84 was following me on here. Yesterday he blocked me after I tweeted a Spanish cover of his book, saying it looked like a classic Nazi caricature. 1/7.
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This is a guy on the anti-fascist counter-protest in North Finchley. Why is this allowed?
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The level of ignorance of history of Israel/Palestine has reached comedic levels. A panellist on BBC's Laura Kuenssberg (asked about why she went mute after Oct 7) spoke about her friend's grandad being born 90 yrs ago "in a free Palestine". You know, the one under British rule.
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Devastating report by @lewis_goodall on #BBCNewsnight, featuring the "double refugees" - who escaped one warzone to rebuild their lives in Ukraine, only to have to flee once again.
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š My Christmas present to you all: A shot of optimism from Sir David Attenborough. For the @nytimes, I spoke to him about his 67 years onĀ screen, the silver lining of the pandemic and why Joe Biden had him jumping out of his chair.
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PM now says it was his *duty* to host leaving parties. If he had been asked at height of lockdown if bosses could host in-person farewells with booze and no social distancing, does ANYONE think he would have said yes?.
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North Finchley is a ghost town. Shops boarded up and heaving with police
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The Cabinet ministers saying they're all so keen to work with Marcus Rashford obviously haven't engaged with the stories he is sharing. Otherwise they would be hanging their heads in shame that children are starving in one of the richest countries in the world. .
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Remember: Metro is more or less impartial. It doesn't have a political leaning and doesn't do leader columns. If this is their front page, just wait for the Mirror and the Mail. .
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So sad to hear the news. I still remember the moment, as a child, when I realised it was the same Judith Kerr who'd written Tiger Who Came To Tea and When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit. It's been one of the greatest privileges of my career to interview her four times. A total delight!
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@GuidoFawkes He went to a school that became fee-paying once he was already there, and his family didn't pay any fees. Great gotcha!.
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This Owen Jones cover looks like something out of Der Sturmer
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Exactly a week ago, I was physically carried - while clutching my ticket - out of a hotel holding a publicly advertised meeting organised by someone hoping to be my MP (Jenny Manson) and headlined by someone hoping to be the UK's next Chancellor (@johnmcdonnellmp). A THREAD. .
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Just a warning, friends, this is how I plan to end every Zoom call from now on:. "You've already had 20 minutes of my time. I appreciate your time as well, thank you, bye bye.".
After an easy ride on #SkyNews & #BBCBreakfast Work & Pensions Secretary ThĆ©rĆØse Coffey storms off @GMB when @piersmorgan actually holds Government to account
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I often come to defence of BBC, especially when it comes to breaking news, but they have had more than 48hrs to get this right. It is the quintessence of #jewsdontcount, but it is still shocking to see.
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Love that James Nesbitt is reading a poem by the awesome Daljit Nagra at #CoronationConcert. Mr Nagra was my English supply teacher
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JK Rowling has been the victim of vile misogynistic abuse for months. Has a single one of the super-woke Harry Potter actors expressed a scintilla of solidarity (even while disagreeing with her), or cautioned their own supporters? Just silence.
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My exclusive interview with @RebeccaFMusic on her industry nightmare, in today's @Telegraph. Since X Factor, the velvet-voiced star has been āblackmailed, bullied and robbedā by powerful men and is locked into a contract for life. Now sheās fighting back.
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Charlotte Church insists she's "in no way antisemitic" before talking about her From The River To The Sea performance being opposed by "the powers that be". Great work, Charlotte.
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What's the Government's next slogan? "Know your place.".
The most disturbing, sexist part of today's #PMQs. First Dominic Raab WINKS at @AngelaRayner. Then he intimates it's absurd for a working class woman to enjoy opera and drink champagne. If you think Raab is better than Johnson, just watch this. #PMQs
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@jon_wales I just don't believe that in a country this size, and with the thousands of people trying desperately hard to make it in these careers, that any genetic component would win out to this extent without other forces at work.
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Quite an achievement to write 870 words about no confidence motions in Luciana Berger and not mention that man behind one of them called her a "disruptive Zionist" and thinks Israel "helps Isis".
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@KarenYossman I forgot Laura Murray was the daughter of Susan Michie, heiress to more than Ā£50million, who started a speech last year with the line: "We the working class. ".
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@JimMFelton @k_faulkner Anyone not moved by the raw anger and pain coming from their own neighbours must be sociopathic.
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I never suggested he had approved the cover. But he retweeted it, defended it and pointed the finger at its critics. If he can't see that a cursory look at the image would warrant misgivings, I would suggest he needs a trip to Barnard Castle. 7/7.
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@JDMessias I've liked Zoe Ball since Live & Kicking. Doesn't change the systemic issue I'm talking about - which now extends into the third generation (her son Woody got his break on The Circle only because of who his parents are).
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Memo to @bbcnickrobinson (and everyone else). Rishi Sunak will not be our first ethnic-minority PM. That was Disraeli.
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@thejamesmax @HaydenHewitt @rachel__g0ddard @millihill James, you're - quite rightly - sensitive enough to trans people not to use words that offend them. So why on earth are you so tone-deaf to women that the word you use for your female critics is "shrill"? And you felt able to blithley compare F-only refuges to M-only clubs?.
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On #victorialive, just now, Labour member and Corbyn supporter turns to Jewish member behind him and says: "One of your people was actually seen taking bribes."
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Stand up at Labour conference to call for action on anti-Semitism and you get booed. Stand up to deny it and you get a standing ovation.
Standing ovation for a delegate who says she is speaking for the Jews in the Labour party who have never experienced anti-Semitism.
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As the Duchess of York secures umpteen column inches to talk about bodice-ripping, a reminder that she took Ā£15,000 from Jeffrey Epstein to help pay off her debts, 18 months after he was released from jail for soliciting prostitution from underage girls.
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@ConorBurnsUK @BorisJohnson You seem to have forgotten to include: "I am deeply sorry for using my position to benefit my father by attempting to indimidate a member of the public.".
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Evanna Lynch also spoke about how her new @arcolatheatre play challenged her prejudices about the Troubles, and why she's seeking a diagnosis to understand if "there might be a more scientific reason for this feeling of oddness" she has had since childhood.
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@nikkijfox @BBCLookEast Apart from anything else, Downing St staff weren't working anything like 24/7. By their own admission, they were clocking off at 4pm for wine-time Fridays!.
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This victim of Novara's libel was an anti-apartheid activist, slurred instead as an "apartheid profiteer". Novara admits the result of its lies was a wave of antisemitic abuse.
On 9 April 2024 we published a video entitled "The TRUTH About Labourās Pro-Israel Mega-Donor." The video claimed without any evidence that Gary Lubner was an apartheid profiteer and falsely alleged that Gary and Jack Lubner have close ties to and are supportive of the Israeli.
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