Lester Holloway
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A common reaction to Mo Farah telling his story is ‘we know and love him, he’s earned his citizenship and honours’. This is exceptionalism - most trafficked people will never ‘earn’ a place in British hearts. We need humanity & empathy for all.
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My sister Heather peacefully passed on to her new life earlier this evening, surrounded with love. She will always be remembered with love by her family. She was 49 and is survived by three children & one grandchild. She’s with our parents now ❤️
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BBC reporter to
@SadiqKhan
in Pakistan: "Does this feel like coming home?" Sadiq: "Listen, I'm from south London mate" .... what a dumb question, underlining precisely why we need more racial diversity in
@BBCNews
& rest of MSM.
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Please pray for my sister, Heather, who is in intensive care in Charing Cross hospital
@ImperialNHS
. She’s 49, a mother of 3, granny to 1, and my only sibling. She worked as a drug and alcohol worker, helping others overcome their addictions. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️
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Starmer: "Whatever your race or belief, your dreams can come true."
The problem with Starmer isn't just that he's away with the fairies on social mobility.
It's that he buys-in wholesale to the Tory ideology around race and social mobility. THREAD 🧵
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Police formally apologise over Dalian Atkinson death after officer’s conviction << News snuck out at Christmas. Please retweet. Pinned.
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Labour were punished for living in the real world. Neither “bollocks to Brexit” nor No Deal. We suffered trying to deliver the will of the people without harming those very people, by pushing for things like a customs union. The result doesn’t make Labour any less grownup.
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Tone deaf. Black members want to be heard not treated as voting fodder only good for ‘telling their community’ to vote Labour. Also, as Diane Abbott pointed out, nobody is demanding “speaking slots”… the issue was leftwing black MPs not being even invited.
This article is just silly. Labour has 40 BAME MPs. They can't all have speaking slots at a one day event. Obviously the platform will be tilted towards MPs who support the leadership, we are running a party trying to win power not an internal debating society.
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“You don’t sound American” “That’s ‘cos I read” - Presenter gets schooled on history by fashion blogger after she was asked about nuclear weapons
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Fascinating that the charge-sheet against Jess Brammar includes acknowledging the existence of racism and Britain’s imperial history. These are framed as reasons why she’s unsuitable. Very telling.
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Labour say “there would be no shortage of money for a campaign” against Jeremy Corbyn in Islington. Actually Labour is short of money due to collapse in membership. Luckily, there’s strict spending limits per seat - and breaking them is breaking the law.
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So white BBC man ignores all black talent to commission Cheryl (Cole/Tweedy) - of toilet assault fame - to present *12* episodes on R&B... and the series is produced by a company whose 18 producers & senior management are all-white. What's going on here?
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This pseudo race scientist's work is the opposite of academic, comprising as it does of analyising a half-dozen discredited sources variously accused of white supremacy, calling for the sterilistion of Black people and not considering Black people as people. Truly embarrasing. 1/
Nathan Cofnas, a fellow at the University of Cambridge has claimed that ‘Blacks would disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment’ in a meritocracy. Cambridge uni has not commented on whether it is investigating him according to reports
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As Priti Patel wheels out the “I’m a victim of racism too” defence after Tyrone Mings rightly called out her hypocrisy over
#TakeTheKnee
amid an upsurge in racism, this article reminds us that she’s no stranger to Racial Gatekeeping.
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As Rishi Sunak tells workers they’ll have to forego a third of their income, the government promises the Queen she won’t lose a penny.
EXC: Treasury to spend millions propping up Queen’s income after her property loses money thanks to coronavirus
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Woo-hoo! finally, my
@UKLabour
membership now confirmed by the local CLP after some angst about my LibDem past!
Delighted to have come back home to
@UKLabour
&
@jeremycorbyn
in the fight for a just society for the many.
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I won’t be shedding any tears for Munira Mirza resigning. She’s said to be a major contributor to culture war, and behind the discredited Sewell Report. She has a record going way back to ruining the black mentoring project when Johnson was London mayor.
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Caribbean workers invited to work on UK strawberry farms say they are treated like slaves, are sometimes paid by the strawberry not an hourly rate, and are housed in filthy accommodation.
A great investigation by
@S_Fleary1
for
@TheVoiceNews
incl. videos and pictures.
EXCLUSIVE - Strawberry Slavery: a Voice investigation into 'exploitation' of Caribbean migrant workers on British farms.
By
@S_Fleary1
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If you’re backing Rebecca Long Bailey you really should consider Dawn Butler for deputy - both on the same page politically but also a balanced ticket between North/South & White/BAME; crucial if we’re to get correct response to the Right’s divide & rule culture war.
This feels personal as a child of the Windrush generation & as a MP who sees & hears heart breaking stories every week because of the hostile environment. Homeoffice may not recognise these figures but I recognise the unnecessary pain they have caused.
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Black people who oppose Kemi Badenoch keep getting accused of saying she's "the wrong kind of black." This is is deeply racist because it says black people should not stand up for their interests (ie tackling racism) if they see a black candidate who opposes those interests. 1/
Comedian Dane Baptiste brands Kemi Badenoch a 'marionette for the establishment'.
@IainDale
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@DaneBaptweets
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@moltopopulare
Liberals: If you kick a neo-Nazi, who’s next?
Aamer Rahman: Hopefully more neo-Nazis; why would you only stop at one?, that doesn’t seem right.
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Delighted to have come back home to
@UKLabour
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@jeremycorbyn
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So sad to learn that Benjamin Zephaniah has passed away and with the ancestors now. A giant of a man. Rest in Power brother.
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Let’s be honest - no Met police commissioner has had the confidence of London’s black communities… ever. Just varying degrees of distrust. It’s not even about the commissioner; it’s about the nature of policing. What it’s trying to achieve, and on behalf of whom.
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Silence is violence. Our leaders say nothing, so their leaders say nothing, and so it continues.
#BlackLivesMatter
#AfricansinUkraine
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So no mention of “essential” work, no mention of tracking and tracing, no mention of what PPE people need for public transport. Boris Johnson has just fired the starting gun on a second wave. Criminally irresponsible and unforgivable.
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Ever heard of Mary Seacole? 3% of London were black in Victorian times, many living in the east end eg Poplar, Shadwell.
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A year ago this evening my little sister Heather joined our parents, passing from this earth. Miss her 💖
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Some personal news... I am joining
@TheVoiceNews
as editor. Sad to be leaving
@The_TUC
after
#Congress21
but wish their Anti Racism Taskforce all the best. Also thank you
@aamnamohdin
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The rightwing answer to hard evidence on racism is that 'dreams can come true' by playing the game - and those that don't succeed only have themselves to blame. This is highly insulting to the lived experience of the vast majority of black and Asian people. 2/
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This man fought for Britain in Iraq for five years. He came back with PTSD, and now faces imminent removal to his country of birth, Zimbabwe, where he's previously been tortured.
EXCL: British army soldier faces deportation
⚈ Home Office plan to remove Joram Nechironga to Zimbabwe tomorrow
⚈ Traffic offences 'were caused by untreated post traumatic shock in Iraq'
⚈ Nechironga previously tortured in Zim, warned not to return
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Have to say Corbyn the only one who doesn't seem terrified of working class people & happy to talk to them as equal beings
#grenfelltower
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Funny she should say that cos my first journalism gig was news reporter at
@EasternEye
& Priti was often on the phone seeking to raise her profile in the British Asian community.
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Newest addition to the family, my niece’s new baby Nimah Kemet 👶🏼
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So many English folk in the thread who are like ‘I’m gonna side with the Dutch bloke over the British guy bc there’s something about Lewis Hamilton I don’t like, I just can’t put my finger on it…’
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Dawn Butler is as strong a supporter of trade unions as there is on the Labour benches. She is a former GMB official who smuggled herself into workplaces in the boot of a car to unionise workers in hostile environments for unions.
Yesterday I spoke about industrial action and workers on
@BBCRadio4
"The World This Weekend".
Listen back to my interview.👇🏾
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Just finished listening to
#trojanhorseaffair
podcast series. I highly recommend listening, which was an exercise in deprogramming for me, as a non-Muslim, even though I'm constantly outraged by Islamophobia. 1/
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.
@suzanne_moore
is suffering from a double colour-blindness: an inability to see black women & a refusal to see Socialist red. She’s got herself in a funk on race bc of an irrational desire to promote 1 person - Jess Phillips. 1/2
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Shaun Bailey - Resigned. Samuel Kasumu - resigned. Will the last black Tory to leave please turn off the lights.
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Never mind claims Qatar tried to bribe World Cup opening opponents Ecuador to lose… the wildest accusation is that Qatar has hired ‘fans’ to represent each team and avoid half-empty (ludicrously expensive) stadiums.
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Starmer also spouted this nonsense the at
#PMQs
, so either he doesn't have right advisers or, more likely, he's made the political choice to deny the realities of racism by playing the 'equal opps for everyone if you stop playing the race card' card. 4/
Yes, Keir Starmer really did say: "Britain is a place where people of all races and all beliefs can fulfil their dreams."
This is either ignorance or racial denial, or both. We have hardly any social mobility for everyone, and even less for black and Asian people.
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I fear Labour's lack of race policy development is deliberate. Labour say they want a "Race Equality Act" yet there's no policies to address systemic racism; just low-hanging fruit of ethnicity pay monitoring which the CBI and Theresa May support. 5/
Whistleblower exposes
@UKLabour
over anti-black racism
🌹 Farce as party 'fail to consult' black staff over code
🌹 No cash for anti-black training
🌹 Race equality post unfilled
🌹 Black voters 'nowhere else to go'
@richardsudan
investigates
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If Starmer believes "dreams can come true", why address systemic racism, or even acknowledge it exists? We've had Kemi Badenoch’s gaslighting, we don't need Starmer to tell us 'be more like these few successful black & Asian public figures and everything will be alright.' 6/
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Starmer's dreams are as counter-factual as the
#SewellReport
which sought to deny institutional racism, let alone structural/systemic racism. Yet there's no shortage of credible reports telling us social mobility isn't a thing and additional layers of racism suffered by PoC. 3/
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It is not acceptable to treat black / BAME representation in a factional way. Luke Akehurst and his ilk should stop playing politics with the black community and get back in the bin.
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Police chief in charge of tackling racism 'never seen an officer being racist'
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And explaining away outcomes like black people being twice as likely to be unemployed & in poverty. It ignores growing wealth inequality & lack of social mobility. We expect better from Labour; we’ve seen better in recent times. Starmer needs to upgrade his ‘I have a dream’. 8/8
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8-year-old black boy forced to clean his younger SEN sister who soiled herself - in front of other pupils - after teachers refused to do it. Incident has been labelled racist and an example of adultification.
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Make your mind up! Mail piece dripping with Islamophobia claims Didsbury & Bradford are “no-go” areas for white people, while just 3 weeks ago another article in the same paper said these towns were leafy des-res hotspots for house-buyers.
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The fact that a politician is black cannot insulate them from criticism from other black people. No-one can hide behind their blackness if they promote policies and ideas which threatens to make life worse for the black community as a whole. 2/
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Rest in power, Richard Taylor. He and his late wife were such lovely people. A pleasure to have met them. Both fought so hard to protect young people from violence. 🪽🪽🪽
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Why is
@BBCNews
describing the UK "defending itself against migrants"? This is the same framing as Suella Braverman's comments about "invasion". This is dangerous narrative. We are not at war against vulnerable refugees. Not what I pay my licence fee for.
A BBC reporter talking about the UK 'defending itself on the frontline against migrants'
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Obviously some PoC succeed despite the barriers. One or two - like Sunak - have fewer barriers due to privileged upbringing. But the real narrative is a version of the ‘strivers & skivers’ or ‘good/bad immigrant’ - it’s a way of silencing those talking about reality. 7/
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Why are Brexiteers so obsessed with the old Empire? Tory MP Crispin Blunt comparing May's deal with "surrender" of Singapore in 1942 right now. They need to understand the age when a very British form of white supremacy ruled the waves ain't coming back, No Deal or no No Deal.
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You sent your minister out to gaslight black Labour MPs over the
#SewellReport
on the same day you wrote this tweet. You have two reports on race and criminal justice in the UK gathering dust (Lammy, Angiolini), plus Windrush, McGregor-Smith & more.
I was appalled by the death of George Floyd and welcome this verdict.
My thoughts tonight are with George Floyd’s family and friends.
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Long, researched and thoughtful blog on cultural appropriation. I’d put more emphasis on extent of racial disadvantage today driving sensitivity, but hey I didn’t pick up the pen. This piece from
@AyoCaesar
is certainly worth a read.
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Tony Sewell and his race commission must be living in a parallel universe. How is it humanly possible to spend 9 months supposedly looking at evidence of racism only to conclude there isn’t much and deny institutional racism? This is post-factual.
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Inquest finds Lamont Roper DID NOT jump into canal as officer claimed. PC didn’t enter water for 4 mins. PC was on restrictive duty with order that he turn on his body cam during stop & search, he failed to.
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Both Brexit extremes have taken advantage of people’s frustration with the Tory mess on Brexit with simple populist solutions that each play only to half the country. Both extremes pretend that nuance doesn’t exist. Both are reckless, divisive & exploitative.
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It's increasingly looking like William and Kate's goodbye tour as Jamaica follow Barbados to ditch the Queen as head of state. If the royal couple want to depart the Caribbean with any dignity, William needs to speak about the legacy of colonialism and the demand for reparations.
'They don't want William and Kate here.'
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will be travelling to Jamaica today.
@Noel_Phillips
explains how Jamaica 'will begin the process of removing the Queen as Head of State' once the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge leave.
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‘Thatcher wanted a society of people like her father, but produced a society of people like her son’.
Britain is going through an identity crisis and a process of political disintegration – each of which can trace its roots to the great national project of recent decades: neoliberal reform, writes
@OwenHatherley
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Horrific anti-Black misogynoir from this Tory donor. Five hours after this story broke, the party issued a quote saying they refuse to comment. That’s an unsustainable position. It speaks volumes. (Comments in a personal capacity, as with all my tweets).
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What little progress was made in the aftermath of the Stephen Lawrence (Macpherson) public inquiry is long gone. There is terrible story is the reality of everyday policing.
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I've received this open letter supporting Emma Dent Coad, a former MP and councillor for Grenfell, who was blocked from standing for Labour... thought I'd share it.
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Fundamentally, if Labour is now only communicating with black & Asian "MPs [and members] who support the leadership" where does that leave ordinary voters of colour? Is the message to the community: if you're black & Asian and Leftwing we don't want your votes?
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We're going to be looking very closely at Labour in our next edition of The Voice.
Uproar as Labour block activist from standing for parliament
Diane Abbott leads protests over decision to bar Maurice Mcleod from the contest to represent Camberwell and Peckham
#LabourFiles
#FordeReport
@mowords
@HackneyAbbott
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@Nadine_Writes
This is a very misleading headline. 'Royals must aplogise for slavery' in quotemarks here, but The Voice has not said this. We said reparations was a key demand.
@Independent
should correct the headline. 1/
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Important we talk about this. It isn't in any way minimising the tragedy of Sarah Everard to raise the fact that black women who are murdered aren't given the same attention. As a society we need to make sure all women are equally safe and respected.
"Bibaa and Nicole were black women, and they were brutally murdered".
Speaking to
@Hardeep_Matharu
on
@BylineTV
,
@DawnButlerBrent
says that we have to consider "uncomfortable truths" about why the deaths of some women do not make headlines
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Have the government really just wasted 9 whole months (during which black, Asian & other PoC have suffered disproportionately in the pandemic) looking at the terminology of 'BAME'? Can this be further removed from the real issues of structural racism?
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@hendopolis
Palace officials... courtiers... a senior source... a source close to the Queen... a friend warned... an ally said... the official line is... a royal source. PLEASE CAN SOMEONE GIVE THEIR NAME?!
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It’s a new British colony
Rwanda making preparations to take children removed from UK
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.
@GBNEWS
are reporting the Amess suspect is "a Somali national." This is *NOT* what the BBC are reporting. They say the suspect is "a British national... of Somali heritage", which is quite different.
Unless GB News knows something others don't, they have committed an error.
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Levelling-up is a racist endeavour because it excludes poverty in rich cities where black & Asian people are concentrated at the bottom, and rich people are mostly white. Deprivation isn’t geographic, and can only be solved by redistribution everywhere.
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Gary Younge nails it again. Black representation with social justice at its heart looks like collateral damage in Starmer’s war on the Left, just as it was when Roy Hattersley waged war on the Black Sections for being, in his eyes, like Militant.
@UKLabour
message to the black community: those who work tirelessly in your interests over decades, representing the party at a local level, should not apply for parliament. We want your votes but not your voice.
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On this day, 56 years ago, the great Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jnr was assassinated. He delivered his most famous speech the previous day.
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No incoming deportation charter flight to Jamaica until William and Kate have flown out, it seems.
EXCL: New Home Office deportation flight to Jamaica 'delayed until after William and Kate visit' next month.
By
@LeahMahon_
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Ex-cops running anti-gang workshop at Lambeth primary school pick black boys to role-play gang members... and a white girl as the victim.
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I’ve had to report about 20 people on Twitter today, plus block another 30 or so - all for being massive racists.
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Depressing how the culture war has hyped-up white nationalism. These complaints are an online torch-march of an angry mob. And the ridiculous thing is they misunderstood or didn’t want to get the messages that Diversity were communicating. 1/
Complaints rise to 15,000 for Diversity's Britain's Got Talent performance
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This is a very misleading headline. 'Royals must aplogise for slavery' in quotemarks here, but The Voice has not said this. We said reparations was a key demand.
@Independent
should correct the headline.
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Exclusive: ‘Royals must apologise for slavery’ says The Voice newspaper amid widespread backlash over Prince Charles' guest-edit.
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Naga’s co-presenter Charlie comments on the flag and - guess what? - Naga takes all the heat. Wonder why... 🤔
Deriding Queen and flag this morning. Compounding two fingers up to offended viewers on social media. Naga is a repeat offender and clearly believes she is untouchable and the BBC's rules don’t apply to her.
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Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi is one of dozens of Jews who have been expelled from Labour under Starmer, essentially for being 'the wrong kind of Jew'. Jewish people are entitled to take a political position on Israel; they are not being anti-semitic.
BREAKING: Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, A left wing Jewish lady elected to its ruling body the NEC has tonight been expelled by Keir Starmer’s Labour Party
She joins dozens left wing Jewish members recently expelled by Labour
It was never about antisemitism
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Disgraceful comments by Melanie Phillips claiming
#Islamophobia
is just a "cover to shut down legitimate criticism of Muslims", on BBC Sunday Politics London. Sadly she wasn't challenged effectively. Other guests & presenter just looked confused. This is how hate spreads.
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Mbappe clearly doesn’t want Macron all over him trying to get political points.
#WorldCupFinal
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As an ex-local councillor, I can't think of many things that would be less popular with voters than party HQ in Westminster setting targets for locally-elected councils. The local opposition will campaign that they are the local party setting local priorities & Labour aren't.
EXCL: Hit squads could be sent in to failing Labour council groups, with under-performing local leaders facing the sack under reforms being proposed by Keir Starmer.
Party source: "We aren’t a private members club any more we are servants of the people”
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The EHRC hardly do any investigations at all, due to lack of resources. Where are they suddenly & magically going to find the funds to investigate Labour when they couldn’t muster it for other issues... like Tory Islamophobia for example?
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The police UK shootings I’ve covered, Derek Bennett and Azelle Rodney, were both extremely preventable deaths. Some firearms officers have itchy trigger-fingers when they see a black person. 1/
If Jean Charles Menezes were alive he’d tell you why that’s a bad idea. But he’s not. Because they shot him dead before he could them he wasn’t a terrorist.
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Racism is such a curiosity-blocker. article is literally telling us the guy is the first Black ref in 15 years. Fifteen whole years! And idiots say why bring race into it?
In 2023 why is this note worthy? He’s not a ‘black’ referee, he’s a referee.
He’s obviously worked hard to get to the top, sure he’s as useless as the rest. Don’t bring race into it like there’s been some kind of barrier in place
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Solidarity with
@PriyamvadaGopal
. The paper that launched the
#SewellReport
with a frontpage declaring racism is over is now, instead of defending that report as it collapses, seeking to discredit Prof Gopal as a proxy for discrediting all the reports’ critics. They must not win.
This has now become targeted harassment of a woman of colour, harassment which has precisely zero news value, as part of a ridiculous culture war in which Mail journalists are apparently proud to play a part. That City MA was really worth it for this, huh.
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Martha Osamor is 6th black activist with lifetime of fighting anti-Semitism to be accused of anti-Semitism. The reason: she signed round-robin letter of black activists protesting at the suspension of another black equality campaigner over anti-Semitism.
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How did “keep warm” become a common message sign-off in one of the richest countries in the world? All that historical killing and pillage, and still the majority of the population are shivering, afraid to put on the heating.
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Rochdale voters got different letters from Galloway, depending on what road they lived on. One letter talks about Gaza, the other grooming gangs.
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Good discussion about the ‘Defund Stonewall’ push as a proxy for prejudice against Trans and to an extent all LGBTQ people. Striking similarities with the ‘Defund Runnymede Trust’ lot who just objected to them campaigning against systemic racism.
Full video exposing the truth about the onslaught against Stonewall, and specifically against trans people, with the brilliant
@junodawson
and
@the__chez
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This is everything you need to know 👇👇👇
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