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Journalist, Private Eye magazine. Also words in Guardian, Independent, Tribune, Morning Star & more. Shortlisted 2022 Paul Foot Prize. Own views here.

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The "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" runs like part of a grim Counterinsurgency "food denial" tactic used by the UK in Malaya or the US in Vietnam - with Vietnam-style "Strategic Hamlets" part of the plans
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RT @PeterHain: “Ban on @Pal_action intellectually bankrupt politically unprincipled morally repugnant.
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RT @nickdearden75: Peter Hain says anti-apartheid activists & suffragettes would’ve been terrorists under logic used to ban Palestine Actio….
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RT @dlLambo: A man NOT under investigation by British police 👇. "A small yield nuclear weapon, such as the American W89, dropped on Glaston….
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RT @eff_hey: 'He is now experimenting with 'synthetic voters' - essentially fake focus groups of AI voters who can tell ministers . what….
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The BBC say they pre-judged 7 bands as "high risk" at Glastonbury (inc. Bob Vylan and presumably Kneecap). Who were the other 5 ? (Amyl & Sniffers ? maybe even CMAT ?) . there must be a few bands worried they are not in that list.
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Maurice Glasman showing "Blue Labour" is just New Labour with an ill-fitting flat cap - he calls the PIP rebellion "Student Union MP’s wetting the bed about a minor decrease in future benefits”, claims AI will help 'shrink the state'
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Arms Industy funds voices in the press preparing the ground for Palestine Action proscription- including arms industry lobbyist Lord Walney and think tank Policy Exchange- in current @PrivateEyeNews.
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RT @bat020: Despine Green has just won £24,000 in damages against the police for an unlawful arrest on spurious antisemitism charges, spark….
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RT @GyllKing: This is the agency that dropped Bob Vylan today.
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RT @bat020: this happened to Ms Dynamite back in the day after she played the big Hyde Park antiwar demo in 2003 btw.
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Wes Streeting called in General Stanley McChrystal, the US General behind "successes" that became disasters in the Iraq and Afghan wars to advise him personally on his "10 year plan for the NHS" , in current @PrivateEyeNews.
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Now you can argue Bob Vylan using the phrase at Glastonbury is not in the same context - Skobov was actually being sent to prison, Bob Vylan are deliberately extreme performers - but what is happening in Gaza is also extreme, so this is a question of degree.
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This March The Sun-rightly imho - called Putin Critic Alexander Skobov a "brave freethinker" as he was jailed by Putin : Skobov said "Death to the Russian fascist invaders. Death to Putin." Its a strong phrase , but has its place
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Top British MOD officials join Boston Consulting Group's "Defence Advisory " group , just as that Boston Consulting Group admits they created the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation " plan endangering and exploiting Palestinians , in current @PrivateEyeNews.
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(3) This is a bit wordy , but Mary Harrington is saying here in Unherd (owned by GB News owner Paul Marshall) younger rightwingers are more angry/scared of Bob Vylan because they think the band are part of an "ethnically coded dispute" in the UK than comments on Israel
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(2) This is "Great Replacement " madness - Bob Vylan sing songs against racism (Like "I heard you want your Country back"), their audience is both white and black (a "Kerrang!" Fandom), they closely collaborate with white artists, but the right see them as "immigrant" "conquest ".
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(1)Mary Harrington making explicit in Unherd that right wing reaction to Bob Vylan is about "war . of race" , that -mad as it sounds - they see Bob Vylan with a black singer at Glastonbury and think this shows "territorial conquest" by "immigrants" against the "native English"
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(2) More 2024 Labour voters oppose than support the changes , but they are slightly more supportive than Reform and even Tory voters - Starmer is seeding pro-cuts ideas among Labour voters, which is shocking.
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(1)Both the Labour Right and 'Blue Labour' claim Labour's disability benefit cuts are demanded by voters and will bring Reform voters back to Labour. But polling actually shows Reform voters want more support for the disabled, don't support the cuts.
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Overall by a 2-1 margin people do not think based on what they have heard the changes to Government plans on disability benefits will do enough to protect disabled people. Labour voters are more split but even here more think the changes will not be enough.
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