Karl Hansen
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Editor-at-large @tribunemagazine | socialist | writer | former political advisor on trade unions and workers’ rights.
London/Istanbul
Joined July 2017
“I find it bizarre that we’re talking about the Israeli military like it’s a persecuted minority group. It’s a powerful army committing genocide.”. I spoke to Nick Ferrari about the absurd attempt to charge Bob Vylan with ���hate speech’.
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Reform have already lost a third of their MPs. At times they look inevitable, but their saving grace is they’re so spectacularly nasty and corrupt, they might implode before they ever reach power.
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I had no idea Alastair Campbell’s daughter Grace was a ‘comedian’ until now. Only in a deeply rotten culture could your dad helping kill a million people be a springboard to a media career.
Imagine going on TV and calling John McDonnell a "serpent" when you are the offspring of Alastair Campbell.
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I would go one step further and say that four out of four sex crimes “didn't need to happen.”.
'One in four sex crimes are committed by foreign nationals. That means one in four sex crimes didn't need to happen.'. Founder and director of Women's Safety Initiative, Jess Gill discusses the impact of illegal immigration on the safety of women and girls.
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Starmer is not “a clearly decent man.” His political career has been defined by lying, cheating, and double-crossing. People don’t hate him because they don’t know him. They hate him because they do.
I’ve written a lot about Labour strategy this year. With the anniversary here, seemed a good time to pull it all together. 7 reasons Labour are in a hole, and 6 things Starmer could do about it. It starts with him and his dislike of ideology in politics.
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RT @DEHEdgerton: My thoughts on why Starmer's government is best thought of not as a Labour government, but something else . https://t.….
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Paul Nargund managed the near-unprecedented feat of losing a safe Labour seat to an independent, yet he’s constantly wheeled out on TV like he's some kind of expert.
"If you wanted something to unite the Labour Party, after the week that it's had. ". Praful Nargund, defeated by Corbyn in Islington North in July 2024, discusses the potential impact of a new left-wing party co-led by Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn. #Newsnight
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Abdi Duale has blocked me for repeatedly pointing out that he abused his elected position to get a job lobbying for arms dealers and private healthcare. If anyone else wants to take the baton and call out his shameless corruption, be my guest.
No surprise that Labour NEC member Abdi Duale wants MPs expelled for calling out conflicts of interest — his day job is lobbying for arms dealers and private healthcare firms at FTI Consulting.
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If you won’t ask your MP for help – say, to save a local library – because they voted against proscribing Palestine Action as terrorists, that really is a you problem.
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Abdi was elected to Labour’s National Executive Committee and was immediately offered and took job at a FTI consulting, whose clients include Palantir, the spy tech firm winning NHS contracts and helping conduct the Gaza genocide. He is such a corrupt little worm.
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No surprise that Labour NEC member Abdi Duale wants MPs expelled for calling out conflicts of interest — his day job is lobbying for arms dealers and private healthcare firms at FTI Consulting.
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Massive respect to Zarah Sultana for calling out Jon Pearce — one of many MPs elected to represent the British public, but who takes money from the Israeli government to lobby for its interests instead.
Today Labour MP Jon Pearce spoke in favour of banning @Pal_action as a terrorist group & he smeared them as antisemitic. As @zarahsultana subsequently pointed out, he forgot to declare hes chair of Labour Friends of Israel & accepts gifts funded by pro Israeli lobby organisations
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RT @SaulStaniforth: Today Labour MP Jon Pearce spoke in favour of banning @Pal_action as a terrorist group & he smeared them as antisemitic….
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RT @oscarrickettnow: Yesterday I asked Lisa Nandy’s spokesperson whether she condemned the Israeli army targeting Palestinians at aid hubs….
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A 12-year-old boy stitching shirts in a Bangladesh garment factory: “I don’t envy Rachel Reeves right now.”.
Genuinely the worst job in the world. Imagine getting handed over the British economy from the Sunak government and your own backbenchers won't even let you shave off a couple billion off the £313 billion welfare bill.
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Rachel Reeves wants to strip benefits from people too disabled to wash themselves and supports Israel’s genocide in Gaza — but journalists like Jon Sopel reserve their sympathy for politicians weeping over their careers, not the lives shattered by their policies.
Don’t think I’ve ever - ever - watched a #PMQs like it. Not for awkwardness for Starmer, but for Rachel Reeves’ face. Poor woman is crying or straining not to cry. She looks shattered. It’s a brutal business.
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