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Tom Gann

3 months

I've been working on this for quite a while, and am really happy to finally have it out - it's quite long but hopefully comrades find it useful.

Gaza is Free and Does Not Bargain

by Tom Gann // The statements of the Resistance groups are a valuable source of knowledge about what's happening in Palestine. So why aren’t British journalists paying attention?

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“Self-alienation has reached the point where [humanity] can experience its annihilation as a supreme aesthetic pleasure.”

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Some politics actually requires a bit of solemnity, and migrant deaths in the Channel are definitely a case of that.

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A very striking & good poster in Marseille.

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Seems the sort of question that in a democratic society ought to be answered. Kind of important for people to know in my view.

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Jeremy Corbyn asks whether Britain has troops on the ground in Gaza. Foreign minister Leo Docherty refuses to answer.

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4 months

Here we go then, the end of 14 years of Tory rule & it doesn’t fucking matter.

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3 years

I’m sorry this is amazing

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27 days

If caring about children in Gaza is 2019 conference, I'm proud to have been involved in Labour in 2019 and to absolutely despise them now.

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🚨 BREAKING: A heckler interupts Keir Starmer's speech Starmer: “His pass must be from the 2019 conference”

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4 months

Fascinating how Labour people don’t seem happy at all. A completely curdled resentment of the left (+ some nagging doubts) means they can’t even enjoy a landslide.

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5 years

The labour movement (including Corbyn) have absolutely covered ourselves in glory. We’ve conducted a positive, organised, honest, transformative campaign against incredible odds. It’s been beautiful.

Peston

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5 years

. @RosieDuffield1 says the General Election campaign has been a disgraceful race to the bottom from both sides. #Peston

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3 years

Always telling the demand for empathy is with Israelis never “imagine living in Sheffield while it’s an open air prison, subject to military attacks & bombardments that routinely kill, enduring 70% unemployment, nobody having access to clean water, you’d expect the government to”

Sajid Javid

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Imagine living in London while terrorists indiscriminately fire 1000s of rockets at your family’s neighbourhood. You’d expect the government to do everything in its power to find and target those attackers.

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25 days

What the absolute fuck??????

Tariq Ali

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26 days

Arielle Angel, Leaving Zion, NLR 148, July–August 2024 via @newleftreview

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Yet again, “Palestinians should protest peacefully”, “OK, there’s this thing called BDS, very peaceful, moral & economic pressure.” “No, absolutely not, you can’t protest like that.”

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This is an outrage - and part of a general authoritarian shift that now means there are significant numbers of political prisoners (and we should call them that) in Britain.

Clare Hymer

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Just Stop Oil's Phoebe Plummer has been jailed for two years after throwing soup at a painting that was covered in protective glass. Barbaric.

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3 years

The sadism towards Corbyn ought to be remarkable. They could have let him go back to being a very good constituency Labour MP making himself useful to people in Islington North and a moral voice for peace who they’d largely ignore. But no...

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Eric Williams: "British historians write almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."

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3 years

@NJ_Timothy You’re scum pal, utter fucking scum.

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5 years

I am proud to have been a small part of the Corbyn-led project. It has been a project that brought back hope & that inspired people. Corbyn, McDonnell & Abbott are the best of us & it’s up to us now to defend what’s been achieved & make good on what they opened up.

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5 years

Corbyn accepting a few months more of horrible flack for the sake of having a proper leadership contest & discussion over our direction is a further brave & admirable sacrifice.

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5 years

The Sun: very fucking rattled

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4 years

A whole economic order that collapses if people don’t have a slightly sad lunch. Fantastic, definitely healthy

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4 months

Serious question: Why does this matter? Who are we trying to recruit? Who are we trying to make alliances with?

Rachael

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4 months

I don't think some of the left realise how alienating their continual day one negativity about the first Labour government in 14 years is.

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You should get winter fuel allowance. You should be taxed more. This is both more efficient and recognises (to each according to their) needs & (from each according to their) ability (to pay).

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I should not get winter fuel allowance. Lots of people should not get winter fuel allowance…lots should. A universal scheme was wrong . I’m not sure what the threshold should be but it should be means tested.

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4 years

Whoever is not prepared to talk about the Times, the Telegraph, or let's face it the Guardian, should also shut the fuck up about the Canary.

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3 years

The problem for Nandy (& even more so for Starmer who was a leading member of Corbyn’s shadow cabinet) is that this is correct. If they think Corbyn is what they say he is, they acted disgracefully from 2015 to 2019.

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4 years

I’m sorry it’s absolutely contemptible to write & to publish this. There is an absolute intellectual & moral degradation of discourse and the possibilities of serious argument if “Antisemitic Corbynite twitter mobs gave me a heart attack” is considered an admirable thing to say.

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3 years

This sentence is horrific, an utter disgrace, absolutely destroying someone’s life to try to intimidate people out of protesting.

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BREAK: Ryan Roberts sentenced to 14 years in prison for his part in the Bristol riots on March 21 this year. @itvwestcountry

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5 years

I mean, one of the leading Remain figures had to resign over illegally deporting a load of Black British people.

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5 years

“He told us that if we voted Labour we would lose our house.” I mean that’s just a lie, not a bit of politician’s slyness, just an actual barefaced, scaremongering lie. They’re rattled & they’re evil.

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4 months

That really is a striking amount of damage & is exactly what Barclays deserve and is also strategically sound. Fair play.

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Barclays Bank, Broadmead, Bristol, is now cordoned off after an attack by @PalActionBris overnight

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6 months

Not a fan of the Lib Dems but this is class.

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I emailed the @LibDems South Yorkshire mayoral candidate @HannahK_LD a few questions. They were polite. They did not state my views. I did this under my own name as a constituent. Her response is not democratic is it? @JayMitchinson

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5 years

Saw this cover while out in London & nearly exploded with rage. How fucking dare they.

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Delighted that the government will work alongside our campaign to end the tragedy of rough sleeping. Today’s @EveningStandard

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4 years

@Keir_Starmer Hi Keir, just wondering about your record as DPP on cops who killed people? Also your record on draconian prosecutions after the London uprisings in 2011. Cheers

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2 years

Political reporting is a very serious task, indeed a cornerstone of our democracy and ought to be valued more.

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4 years

“Silent majority”, “thugs”, “criminal minority”, “disorder”, very close to the full range of ideological themes and cliches to a) ramp up authoritarianism in law, b) encourage the police to be more violent.

Priti Patel MP

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I am disgusted by the disorder in Bristol and the violence being directed towards the police. I’m in no doubt the silent, law-abiding majority will be appalled by the actions of this criminal minority. (1/2)

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Assisted Dying is something I’ve changed my mind quite dramatically on. I did think it was an unalloyed good and the only position reconciliation with taking bodily autonomy seriously, perhaps I still think this, but only under ideal conditions.

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5 years

It’s not in any real sense of the word “tragic”. This is what borders do, anyone who thinks about them for a moment knows this is what they do. Borders and those who uphold them killed these people.

Essex lorry deaths: 39 bodies found in refrigerated trailer

Police quiz a man, named locally as Mo Robinson, 25, on suspicion of murder after the discovery.

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3 years

Labour doing some ASBO shite & a Tory sex/sleaze scandal, truly we are living in the the long 90s.

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3 years

Imagine being this pious. So boring.

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3 years

Is everyone back pretending Corbynism didn’t have an extremely worked out & developed economic “offer” that was grounded in people’s needs, including new needs determined in part by technological developments?

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3 years

The demo today felt really powerful. Not only big, but very young, lines, slogans and placards largely determined by decolonial, anti-racist commitments not worn out British Trotskyism. Genuinely felt like a broad, popular force.

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5 years

1. Don’t support the Times, it’s dreadful, and largely had a pernicious effect. 2. Paywalling a story like this is absolutely a dereliction of the social purpose newspapers should have.

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5 years

Yesterday while I was waiting (alone) for the bus after canvassing a car drew up, the blokes in it shouted I was “terrorist scum” & spat at me. I’m fine, after death threats in 2010,I’m quite hardened but we shouldn’t have to be (& I’m also aware a lot of comrades have had worse)

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3 months

I’m not, obviously, a top athlete but I think if I were, I would find it weird to be treated as this hero-martyr because I’d lost a match badly. Very weird behaviour from the dickhead Ingle.

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Just spoke briefly to the Italian boxer Angela Carini outside the North Paris Arena. Confirmed she ‘maybe’ has a broken nose, hurts a lot but not checked out yet.

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@JonAshworth Do you think you helped you pathetic clown?

General election 2019: Jonathan Ashworth apologises after Corbyn criticism leak

The shadow health secretary says he was "joshing" in a secret recording leaked by a Tory friend.

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@Andrew_Adonis You’re scum. Absolute scum.

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3 years

The desperation to “get” Rashford in order to pretend than any struggle to make things better is necessarily compromised so things have to stay as they are is absolutely grim.

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1 year

The useful thing about Madley is that he's fucking stupid. This means you get the quiet part loud of the state ideology in its full clarity without any dishonest nuance to stop the obvious conclusions being drawn from its premises.

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Richard Madeley asks British Palestinian MP Layla Moran if she or her family knew about Hamas's attack before it happened #GMB

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Tom Gann

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4 years

The danger for Starmer here is not just that this is a bad, dangerous position or even that it’s politically inane (why cut off the decent chance of being vindicated against government recklessness) but that it is laughable “I don’t just want...I expect”. You absurd wanker.

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My message to the Prime Minister: I don’t just want all children back at school next month, I expect them back at school. No ifs, no buts, no equivocation.

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It really is, yet again, easy to see the measure of Starmer that he can’t name racist attacks as racist & can’t deliver a reassuring, supportive speech to communities who are terrified of racist violence.

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2 years

It’s striking how Baddiel got elevated to this sort of important public intellectual position without doing very much serious thought or reading. It’s not just that the work is reactionary, it’s very, very trivial (though not in its effects).

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5 years

Three things going on here: 1. Senior Tories are going round lying to journalists. 2. Journalists are regurgitating this uncritically. 3. In this case *only* because there was video footage journalists have had to roll back on it but a lot of harm’s been done.

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It is completely clear from video footage that @MattHancock 's adviser was not whacked by a protestor, as I was told by senior Tories, but that he inadvertently walked into a protestor's hand. I apologise for getting this wrong.

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5 years

The amount of people on here, people on the left of Labour in general, Black Labour members, Muslim Labour members, saying they did all this stuff for Labour while these scumbag bureaucrats were wrecking & hating them, it’s utterly heartbreaking.

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I think it was felt (possibly not unreasonably) that Corbyn’s incorruptibility was a bit weird & a challenge to the part of the electorate who want their own petty corruption & self-interest indulged. I think “well fair dos” is meant to channel that.

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'Most people would say, 'well fair dos'' @Keir_Starmer explains his @Arsenal ticket situation to @simonharrisitv in interviews held ahead of the @uklabour conference in Liverpool

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This is a brave and correct defiance of the brutality of the law.

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🚨 BREAKING: 2 VAN GOGH PAINTINGS SOUPED HOURS AFTER PHOEBE AND ANNA SENTENCED 🥫 3 Just Stop Oil supporters have thrown soup over 2 of Van Gogh paintings in the 'Poets and Lovers' exhibition at the National Gallery. ➡️ Support people in resistance:

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2 years

Orwell was right about kids in pubs.

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4 months

"I am just here to data harvest!" is the key to this whole episode and to the whole top-down, transactional, manipulative conception of politics Starmer, Gibbons and pre-Corbyn Labour ran on.

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Our leaflet in Rochester had a promise on it about getting more NHS dentists in the area and tackling anti-social behaviour… along with some other stuff. Like most voters, I barely glance as what’s on these leaflets. I am just here to data harvest!

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5 years

If the Guardian has any integrity, it will sack @freedland for this, stirring up Islamophobic hatred, a total sloppiness rooted in racism & him deleting this tweet won’t undo any of the harm.

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4 years

The contrast really is tragic.

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4 months

There's a real debasement of democracy here in a person, purely because they are rich and high-profile, demanding a politician humiliate themselves as a pre-condition for even meeting with that politician's party.

The Telegraph

@Telegraph

4 months

🔴 JK Rowling has agreed to meet with Labour on the condition that Angela Rayner apologises for endorsing a charter that described two organisations, Woman’s Place and the LGB Alliance, as “hate groups”. Read the full story here ⬇️

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5 months

Huge round of applause for those absolute legends who have created the conditions where all Akehurst's genuine & horrendous tweets could seem fake to a reasonable, fairly but not very engaged, voter.

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Network of X users smears politicians with deepfake clips

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2 months

You’d imagine it would be an easy choice as an MP whether to side with the people who want to burn somewhere down in your constituency as part of a pogrom or with the people organising, successfully, to stop it and to de-escalate the situation. Contemptible.

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I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. Whether it’s the far right or far left there can be zero tolerance for antisemitism, Islamophobia or racism in any form. There is no place for such hate in our community. 2/2

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5 years

If only someone had ran an election campaign where a desperate effort was made to make this matter for the reified, violent world of official politics.

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5 years

This is the bit of Westminster you won’t see on TV today, amidst all the splendour. Quite literally on the Palace’s doorstep, reality of life meeting the unreality on the inside. SW1 is deeply weird.

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Something very notable (though not surprising) about coverage of Palestine is the complete refusal to report what the resistance groups say. There's an absolute wealth of stuff and it's relevant to people trying to understand the situation, yet...

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4 years

This is an appalling attack on civic decency, you shouldn’t be able to buy this change & commercialisation of the city.

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From one iconic shape to four. We’ve given the Oxford Circus Tube signs a #PS5 upgrade. 👀

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None of this is true. I am extremely fucking bored of this. NS editors know lots of lawyers & we’ll be getting in touch with them unless Oz Katerji takes the tweets down, retracts & apologises.

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11 months

Of course Parliament in Britain calling for a ceasefire would be totally irrelevant. Britain has nothing to do with any of it you see.

Declassified UK

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Britain’s Cyprus base has become an international military hub supporting Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza. Half of US planes flying from British Cyprus are said to be carrying weapons for Israel.

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I don't think Corbyn's particular brand of anti-imperialism is perfect for all kinds of reasons but anyone talking about replacing him with someone "left" but without "baggage" is essentially talking about replacing him with someone whose "socialism" stops at the border.

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4 years

"What's your favourite Mao book?” "Tough one. I think I'd have to say The Best of Mao.”

FREE PALESTINE

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Holy cow, Biden is a Maoist

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1 year

The butcher's apron is pretty gross on these announcements in general, but in this particular case it's obscene.

The Labour Party

@UKLabour

1 year

Hilary Benn MP @HilaryBennMP has been appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

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5 years

Interesting how, "Labour should suspend the leadership election, keep Corbyn as leader & rerun it later" has shifted from being a joke rooted in a certain sad, self-ironisation to an entirely sensible and correct demand.

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Huge swathes of tenants being in debt to their landlords long term is a great way to limit our bargaining power in a situation where otherwise “market forces” would be favouring quite sharp decreases in rent.

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7 years

I've applied to be Labour's Parliamentary Candidate in Lewisham West and Penge.

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3 years

A quarter of a million people died.

LabourList

@LabourList

3 years

NEW: Lisa Nandy says the UK was "absolutely right" to intervene in Afghanistan in 2001 but said there are "lessons to be learned":

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2 years

I feel absolutely nothing about Johnson resigning. I don’t mean this in a very above it all, non-dupe able to see through all the lies way, much more the extent of the left’s defeat and our capacity to have effects on & through this sort of politics means it doesn’t matter at all

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2 years

“I would have voted to bomb Syria if it wasn’t for the online mob” doesn’t reflect well on the MPs saying it in any number of ways.

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3 years

Remember voting enthusiastically? What a time that was.

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2 years

I support the strike but this can totally fuck off. Arguments for better junior doctor pay can be made without this snobbish attack on pret workers.

The BMA

@TheBMA

2 years

Full page in @guardian today. Let’s spread the word about #PayRestoration for Junior Doctors #DayTwo #JuniorDoctorsStrike

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4 years

Outflanked on the left by the star of Dragon’s Den...

Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦

@DeborahMeaden

4 years

No @Keir_Starmer ... time ran out and every unnecessary death pays tribute to their inadequacy.

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2 years

The marginalisation of these sorts of conceptions and policies is absolutely heartbreaking.

Jeremy Corbyn

@jeremycorbyn

5 years

We will ensure children can learn musical instruments, drama, dance, and visit theatres, galleries and museums. Because those things are part of what makes us human and what brings us joy.

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2 years

Well, well, well… (from this crucial piece: )

Tony McDonough

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2 years

BAE Systems employs thousands of people in well paid, high skilled jobs in Barrow. It’s the lifeblood of the town. This tweet drips with metropolitan privilege and sneering contempt for the lives of working class people. And they still don’t know why they lost.

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The problem with “Qasem Soleimani was bad but...” takes is that they give a huge amount of ground to the idea that that’s why the US assasinated him. His virtues or vices are entirely irrelevant to this.

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5 years

Capital’s got its B-Team back.

George Osborne

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5 years

Keir Starmer’s reshuffle is impressive - the Marxist nutters are out; moderate left are in. When this crisis is eventually over, and politics is resumed, the Tories are going to find that the 5 years when there was no opposition and no alternative has come to an abrupt end

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“Palestinians should restrict themselves to peaceful forms protest”. “OK, great well Palestinian civil society organisations are calling for BDS.” “No. That’s very bad too.” Contemptible really.

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3 years

The encapsulation of a particular problem of Britain: sneering pedantry, a snobby identification of intelligence with knowing certain rules, an assertion of empty formalism to avoid talking about the unpleasant things that make life comfortable for pricks with cultural authority.

Oliver Kamm

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3 years

@ronanburtenshaw You don’t know what passive voice is, I’m afraid.

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2 years

Regardless of what one thinks of this image, the notion OJ has the same level of culpability for the cover of a translation of his book as a newspaper has for its own front cover is bizarre and dishonest.

The New European - Think Without Borders

@TheNewEuropean

2 years

@OwenJones84 This you, Owen? Not sure I'd start lecturing folk on racist covers while this is still on sale. PS .. care to elaborate on why ours is racist?

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Tom Gann

@Tom_Gann

2 years

I’ve said this before but yet again (& this time extremely damagingly) Starmer & his team have fucked themselves to a large degree because they thought the attacks on Corbyn were fair and if you did nothing substantial “wrong” the British press would play fair.

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@Tom_Gann

3 years

This is horrendous, especially the acceptance of the argument that it is criminal to tweet nasty things about British soldiers.

STV News

@STVNews

3 years

Man found guilty of ‘grossly offensive’ Captain Tom tweet.

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@Tom_Gann

1 month

Current conditions tend to put a low value on disabled people’s lives & there’s an increasing absence of necessary provisions & resources for disabled people. There’s something obscene about promising more austerity + a fast-tracked assisted dying bill.

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@Tom_Gann

3 years

Who gives a fuck about Hamas seriously? Do you think 100s of civilians ought to be killed because of the presence of Hamas? Don’t the Palestinian people have a right to resist? Obfuscatory horror the lot of it.

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@Tom_Gann

4 years

I don't give a fuck about "party unity". The suspension is act of revenge both calculated and in anger of a good man who while not perfect helped to organise, inspire and cohere a politics from below that the state including the state within the Labour Party despises.

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@Tom_Gann

4 years

I genuinely can not describe how much I loathe them. They fucking did this as much as Johnson or Cummings.

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@Tom_Gann

4 years

I liked Starmer more when he was so silent and disengaged as to be functionally dead

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@Tom_Gann

4 years

Starmer supporters saying “The Tories sharing these smears proves how scared they are”, you poor loves, you poor poor loves.

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@Tom_Gann

4 years

Centrist efforts to delegitimise any left politics from the public sphere & the particular “terrorise sympathiser” form it has taken is absolutely responsible for mainstreaming essentially fascist themes & ultimately threats of (& with what happened to Owen Jones actual) violence

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@Tom_Gann

6 months

What can you say? Fuck me. The absolute dripping sense of entitlement and the racism when Muslims don't fall into the place Labour have allotted to them.

Rob Mayor

@robmayor

6 months

Labour source: 'It's the Middle East, not West Midlands that will have won Street the Mayoralty. Once again Hamas are the real villains.'

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Tom Gann

@Tom_Gann

3 years

Using this as an argument against the strike is absolutely shameful.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan

@MayorofLondon

3 years

The Night Tube has an important part to play in our capital’s recovery and helps to improve safety for everyone, especially women and girls making their way home at night.

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@Tom_Gann

5 months

Feels a little remiss from a journalist not to mention what those colours mean today, especially when in conjunction with Duffield, doesn't it?

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@Tom_Gann

5 years

It’s easier (for these fucks) to call for the death of over 90% of the world’s population than consider any challenge to capitalism.

Tom Elliott

@tomselliott

5 years

@algore @GretaThunberg Jane Goodall @ Davos: "All these [environmental] things we talk about wouldn’t be a problem if there was the size of population that there was 500 years ago.” The world population 500 years ago is estimated btwn 420 and 540 million — 6.7 billion fewer people than today.

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Tom Gann

@Tom_Gann

4 years

Thanks lads - that massively increases the chances of me being unemployed on August 1st. But yeah, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs

Patrick Maguire

@patrickkmaguire

4 years

Labour say no to extending furlough scheme indefinitely

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Tom Gann

@Tom_Gann

5 years

The thing is Corbyn basically can’t say this. What you get from Corbyn is a certain sort of high mindedness & him going for a personal attack on Johnson would have looked weird.

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