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It's here! 🥳 'MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World' is published @VersoBooks 22 October 2024. Get in touch for review copies / interview requests / commissions / talks / podcasts etc

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just ordinary, down-to-earth, normal, everyday, hard-working, normal, everyday normal folk, throwing bricks at a mosque

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@oldandrewuk @LordLucasCD @arc_forum Just calling them the Far right is a lie. Lots of these people are just ordinary people.

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I think if I worked for BBC News in any capacity I would absolutely mortified after the last fortnight. "Public service", "BBC balance" and purported pluralism revealed for what it truly is - an inflexible arm of the state and the elites that control it. Truly an embarrassment

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Grenfell survivors told they will be declared "intentionally homeless" if they refuse relocation outside of London

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#grenfelltower survivor says they are being pressured to move as far north as Preston 😱 @smtm_LFC

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Bit weird how on last night's Newsnight, when they introduced the clip of Allegra Stratton laughing about how to lie to the public about illegal parties in No.10, they somehow forgot to mention that she was Newsnight's Political Editor 2012-16

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My friend is a doctor and at the induction for the Nightingale Hospital they were shown a video message of thanks and support from the singer from The Kooks

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1 year

Britain's children simply must be dragged away from their ruinous, degrading obsession with gardening

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1 year

You want kids to read? Make them read. Constantly. Break it down. You want kids to add and subtract? Do maths. Constantly. Means no phones. No yoga. No gardening. No chatter and lack of attention. It means HARD GRAFT It ain’t sexy But it can be done It can even be fun👍🏽

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holy crap look what's been hiding literally inside peckham rye station all these years - original waiting room, bricked up after beeching

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5 years

Just walked past some strangers wearing Labour stickers in Elephant & Castle tube, clearly post-canvass, and instinctively did this ✊ - not even ironically?? - and one of them smiled and did it back, and I suddenly felt q emo, and oh god it's been a long month, I'm so nervous

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Chuka Umunna also defected from UK garage for "soulful house", when the MCs started to get involved, and that is all you need to know about him imho

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It will be hard for me to look back on the defeat of Corbynism without rancour. Hard to forget that, when faced with a choice between Tory barbarism and the socialism that would literally be saving lives atm, senior liberal columnists invoked - instrumentalised - the Holocaust

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Did I miss @tnewtondunn 's acknowledgement of and apology for writing (and eventually removing) a raving anti-semitic conspiracy theory about "hard-left extremists", based on neo-Nazi website Aryan Unity? Tom? Did I miss it? Let me know if I missed it

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well done to the journalists who held a worried public and a critical opposition to account, rather than dominic cummings. really well done

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Just a reminder that two young men got four-year jail sentences for incitement to riot, in 2011 - in the less prominent context of two "let's riot" FB pages, not on terrestrial TV

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5 years

Pete Buttigieg has declared victory

RTÉ News

@rtenews

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Fine Gael 22.4% Sinn Féin 22.3% Fianna Fáil 22.2% Green Party 7.9% Labour Party 4.6% Soc Democrats 3.4% Solidarity-PBP 2.8% Margin of error: +/-1.3%

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4 years

Peckham's Covid-19 testing site

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4 years

My new piece about street food, gentrification and the urban food court phenomenon

The ‘street food’ swindle: fake diversity, privatised space – and such small portions! | Dan Hancox

Gentrified food halls are the latest culinary phenomenon – but their unstoppable spread has more to do with rents than ramen, says culture writer Dan Hancox

www.theguardian.com

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5 years

So the FBPE story ends - as all great heroic narratives do - with Will Hutton hosting a candlelit vigil, a Led By Donkeys coffee table book, and Jolyon Maugham in a kimono, bludgeoning a fox to death

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4 years

Bread news! What a headline. "Subway bread’s sugar content – five times the qualifying limit under the act – means that it falls outside of the legal definition of a staple food."

Subway bread is not bread, Irish court rules

Judge finds that sugar content of US chain’s sandwiches exceeds stipulated limit and they should thus be classified as confectionery

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6 years

Tonight at the Barbican Stormzy revealed that the much-discussed scholarship he's funding at Cambridge Uni was first proposed to Oxford University, and they told him to get lost?! Incredible.

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2 years

Any Chelsea fans worried about Abramovich leaving should be reassured that the fundamentals will not change: whatever happens, you'll still support the worst club in English football

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2 years

Minutes applause in solidarity with Ukraine at Turf Moor - Chelsea fans chant 'Roman Abramovich' over the top of it.

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4 years

It's genuinely looking possible that it might be legal to meet my girlfriend in a hotel from the 4 July, but not in her house. Which kind of gets to the spirit of the Conservative Party really - prim, sleazy, purely transactional

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3 years

The pervasive anti-populist panic that we're all suddenly "so polarised" into "social media echo chambers" is weirdly ahistorical. You know who was really "in a bubble"? 16th century peasants, and 16th century aristocrats. They never listened to each others' podcasts

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4 years

Wait are people actually stockpiling food? I wanted some rigatoni you utter fucking morons

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3 months

the problem with feeding starving children is it's not fiscally responsible. if labour are to be trusted on the economy, it's important that children continue to starve - this is just grown-up politics

Lizzy Buchan

@LizzyBuchan

3 months

Keir Starmer rejects calls from Gordon Brown to axe the two-child benefit limit. He says ending child poverty is critical but he won’t commit to scrapping the cap because of the state of the economy. “It’s tough,” he says. “But if we can’t deliver it, I’m not going to say it

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Grimly sympathetic BBC portrait of possibly violent, allegedly Neo-Nazi-linked vigilantes operating illegally to evict people from empty second homes. Landlords are, it seems, the real victims of the Spanish housing crisis, and these thugs are its heroes

The hard men removing squatters in Spain - BBC News

Some squatters in Spain demand cash before leaving - so eviction firms have arisen to handle the talks.

www.bbc.co.uk

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4 years

On arriving at the airbnb to find it has a Nespresso machine: lol so embarrassing, so business techno - what is this, a Foxtons? Two days into the holiday: starting a blog ranking each of the different colour capsules, deciding to name my firstborn Volluto

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It is over 6 months since Starmer's Labour applied a three-line whip on the critical ceasefire vote - Labour MPs who voted for a ceasefire on 16 Nov were sacked from shad cab roles. Since then, 25,000 more Palestinian people, including 10,000 children, have been killed

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Horrendous images coming from Rafah. As @Keir_Starmer has said, Netanyahu must be told to stop. We need a ceasefire, the hostages released and aid in at huge scale. We must move to the lasting peace of a two state solution - an independent Palestine, alongside a secure Israel.

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Anyone joining in the Tories / Lambeth Council's public-blaming is doing the government's scapegoating work for them, it's pathetic. People need exercise for their mental and physical wellbeing: **access to public space is itself a public health issue**

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2 months

Just heard Evan Davis and Prof Tim Bale on Radio 4's PM agreeing that the label 'far right' should be dropped - because such parties are now popular enough that, in Bale's words, "I think we have to normalise them now"

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5 years

Hi Claire - your earlier tweet read "Reports that a Labour activist has been arrested after punching Matt Hancock's advisor" - who was your source? Think it would be the right thing to show where these 'reports' came from

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@ClaireEllicott1

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(I’ve deleted my previous tweet now footage has emerged)

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6 years

The quintessence of British liberalism's sweet, sweet combo of the snide and the intellectually vapid. A refusal to think outside of a news-moment, an inability to read images as texts, an abject contempt for deep thinking, a suffocating 'rationalism' and incuriosity at its heart

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4 years

direct echoes of 2010 student protests: the met mobilises horse-mounted riot police - as a weapon, essentially - against young bodies, and chaos ensues. hope everyone is okay

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@HUCKmagazine

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police charge #BlackLivesMatter protesters in whitehall

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3 years

God knows I've used some hyperbole in my time, but I've just seen that Ian Dunt has described Starmer's speech as - wait for it - "electrifying"

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2 months

Hi @elliereeves : as my MP, I'd love to know what you think about your soon-to-be fellow PLP member - who is NOT JEWISH - talking about me like this? Any thoughts? Is this okay?

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@RedCollectiveUK

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"They have abandoned very much of their Jewish identity. They don't go to shul at all. It's become a purely cultural thing around a bowl of chicken soup." This shocking clip shows Labour GE candidate Luke Akehurst, a non-Jew, launching an antisemitic rant about non-Zionist Jews.

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5 years

Let's be very clear, if you're not pushing for a Labour government, you're letting in a Conservative one, and you're tacitly accepting that horrifying levels of child poverty and hunger are acceptable to you. **this is a result of government policy**

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3 years

I've been piecing together this @gdnlongread for over two years - on the UK govt's secret, forced repatriation of Liverpool's Chinese seamen in 1945-6. Hundreds of husbands and fathers who were never seen again by their British families

The secret deportations: how Britain betrayed the Chinese men who served the country in the war

The long read: During the second world war, Chinese merchant seamen helped keep Britain fed, fuelled and safe – and many gave their lives doing so. But from late 1945, hundreds of them who had...

www.theguardian.com

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6 years

This Corbyn frame on Tottenham vs Mansfield has the twin virtues of being both good and correct

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3 years

Would love to know why Haringey MP @CatherineWest1 thinks it's acceptable to stop a Jewish woman telling fellow Labour members about the murder of so many family members in the Holocaust, on Holocaust Memorial Day - could you explain Catherine?

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3 years

Invoking the safety of women and girls to attack a union in an industrial dispute is ... quite something

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan

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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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Sadiq Khan loves telling people they shouldn't vote Labour doesn't he

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3 years

Just checked and Jude Bellingham was born three weeks before Boy in da Corner came out

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4 years

If you just mute all the Labour Party words and only check in twice a day I find twitter is actually quite good

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5 years

almost ten years to the day

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15 years

boris johnson, student of history, compares 50p tax rate to stalin's liquidation of the kulaks http://tinyurl.com/ygnff33 absolutely fuming

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7 years

Here's the cover of my next book! Drawing on interviews spanning 12 years, from grime's pirate radio days to riots, gentrification, and Grenfell. 'Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime'. Out 17 May

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2 years

For @gdnlongread I have spent over a year tackling the greatest political, social and cultural question of our age: Who remembers proper binmen?

‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that help explain Britain today

The long read: Idealising the past is nothing new, but there is something peculiarly revealing about the way a certain generation of Facebook users look back fondly on tougher times

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Weird piece. Labour's vote share in Sedgefield fell from 71% in 1997 to 45% by the time New Lab left office in 2010. When Corbyn took over it started rising again. Up 6% (and 4,000 votes) to 53% in 2017

'People have lost faith': support for Labour ebbs away in Blair's Sedgefield

Brexit and Corbyn mean party cannot count on traditional vote in former PM’s old constituency

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4 years

Absolutely losing my mind at a BBC panel show discussing the possibilities for radical global change after coronavirus ft George Osborne, Tony Blair and A MINISTER IN ORBAN'S GOVERNMENT

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At 9am on @BBCRadio4 , “Rethink: The Edge of Change” launches #RETHINK season on @bbc . Featuring: > @zoltanspox , Minister in Orban’s government > @George_Osborne >Tony Blair > @MrKRudd > @mbachelet > @xoamani Produced by Ben Crighton and Kirsteen Knight

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4 years

This is very, very funny

Extinction Rebellion 'go floppy' when arrested, complains senior Met officer

Protesters’ arrest tactic is a ‘pain in the neck’, Sir Stephen House tells committee hearing

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2 months

remember in 2017 when macron was first elected, and a few british leftists warned that a technocratic centrist figleaf like macron's en marche would not hold back le pen, but risked allowing her through the door next... remember how everybody shouted at those few british leftists

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First polling in France: RN on 31%, left alliance 28%, Renaissance (Macron’s party) 18%.

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5 years

glad to see yr boyfriend is still getting to 'challenge people's preconceptions' and 'shake things up a bit' since taking that job in a creative agency

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5 years

You couldn't ask for a more bizarre, irrelevant list of names. Thanks for your purported solidarity, but this Jew is voting Labour b/c 300k children had to rely on food parcels in the last six months, and we need a Green New Deal before the planet burns. Maybe butt the fuck out?

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21 days

Good to see this made a front page. If you're going to spend 4 years lecturing the left that they don't know how to work with the media, are too unserious to effectively 'play the game' etc - then you deserve this

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5 years

An average of 37,000 under-25s have registered to vote every day since the election was called. More even than in the 2017 'youthquake' (29,000 per day). Over 100,000 registered on Friday alone, nearly 1m in total... REGISTER HERE BY TUESDAY:

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3 years

"When the optics change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" - ancient @Keir_Starmer proverb

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3 years

Until an hour ago, Labour MPs were being told to abstain on Tuesday's Police Bill. That's just changed. They now say it's "a Bill that is seeking to divide the country. It is a mess, which could lead to harsher penalties for damaging a statue than for attacking a woman."

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3 years

Easy to be snarky about this, but they all worked really hard for their A levels, so maybe wind your neck in

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Some of Bristol's newly-elected Green councillors with party leader Jonathan Bartley outside City Hall this morning following the 'Green surge' at the weekend

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3 years

Textbook conflation of antisemitism with criticism of Israel, really grim

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Shocking scenes last night involving Israel’s Ambassador. Antisemitism has no place in our society. I wish @TzipiHotovely well and support the police in any investigation.

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2 years

Imagining a political party of Mick Lynches, one that unabashedly stood up for the many workers that are low paid, precarious, exhausted and powerless against the few bosses, billionaires and elites. You could call it The Party of Labour

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Mick Lynch explains in well under a minute how workers aren’t causing inflation. Workers are getting pay cuts while billionaire wealth soars. So refreshing to have someone talking sense on the tele.

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Time for my giddy biannual tweet about how snow days are the best because they are effectively situationist happenings, a stick in the wheels of the everyday functioning of capital which transform our built environments and turn them into sites of play! (Parklife)

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Approving noises all round on the NS podcast that Labour conference is welcoming corporate lobbyists in suits once again... Deliveroo, McDonalds, Drax, Uber, Heathrow Airport: you got your party back ☺️

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5 years

Absolutely incredible story: Ansu Fati, Barcelona's 16-year-old wunderkind, is only in Spain because his migrant father was given work and a home in the 'communist utopia' of Marinaleda

'A star is born': Ansu Fati announces himself and changes his world | Sid Lowe

This wasn’t one of those things that just happens. It wasn’t something you watch; it was something that takes you with it

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4 years

The hostility, bullying and slurs of the likes of TAO, Baddiel, Riley, Finkelstein - not to mention the Jewish Chronicle - towards any Jewish person to their left has been a horrifying feature of the last few years

Rivkah Brown

@rivkahbrown

4 years

If you want a sense of the gut-churning wretchedness of being a Jewish leftist with a platform: here is a man who used to babysit me egging on Tracy-Ann Oberman, a woman I had to block because she kept @ ing my mum.

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2 months

I'm still waiting for a single news org other than @novaramedia to cover the fact that Starmer's golden goy Luke Akehurst said non-Zionist Jews were not proper Jews. Will this be the thing that finally makes legacy media apply some scrutiny?

Rivkah Brown

@rivkahbrown

2 months

NEW: In deleted blogs, Luke Akehurst said Glenda Jackson made him “want to puke” & suggested the “hysterical” @pollytoynbee should “put a sock in it”. As evidence of Akehurst's appalling views mounts, I ask: is there anything Labour won't let him do?

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7 years

Laura Pidcock MP is 29, is renting because she can't afford to buy, saddled with student debt, socialist, feminist

Laura Pidcock

@LauraPidcock

7 years

Yesterday, I was proud to make my maiden speech in Parliament. Here's an extract. To watch the full speech, see:

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5 years

My essay for the new @prospect_uk : on the battle between £5 artisan sourdough and 36p loaves in Lidl - a story about class, supermarket capitalism and gut bacteria

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4 years

True story: in 2016 I got a call from the Labour leader's office asking if I could help them put together an all-star grime version of The Internationale

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5 years

Remember last year when Chris Morris said most satire had become completely defanged - the preserve of cosy courtiers who only wished to be patted on the head by the elite, rather than changing anything

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6 years

Never forget the middle-class establishment centre - here's today's Times - is directly implicated in Brexit's manufactured resentments. You can't pin this all on UKIP/the tabloids/Vote Leave memes etc: the toxic bigotries are coming from inside the house

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4 years

The Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre closes its doors for the last time this afternoon. Here's my piece on the death of a south London icon

Property developers may pay lip service to ‘diversity', but they're ruining our cities | Dan Hancox

The gentrification of London’s Elephant and Castle centre has been fought over for decades. It’s local people who will lose out, says writer Dan Hancox

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

When I was a kid, growing up in Wandsworth - a Tory council my entire life until now - it was so Thatcherite it had ZERO council tax for a few years; and the council tried to charge children ££s to play in a local playground

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4 years

Extremely high-grade George Costanza/Larry David material here

The Independent

@Independent

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Falsely naming an enemy as a coronavirus contact in order to force them to self-isolate can be fined £1,000

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5 years

Great stuff by @DawnHFoster on the tedious handwringing of Tom Watson - in lieu of ideas to help Britain's poorest, or the guile to win an election, what is it but aimless wrecking?

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5 years

I think I can probably guess what Mark Fisher would think about being cited in an election editorial that acknowledges the death of capitalist realism, refuses to back Labour, and then proposes that Dan Jarvis and some random Lib Dems are best placed to build socialism

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6 years

A special shout-out to @OwenJones84 , who not for the first time saw his personal safety compromised by his unwavering commitment to democratic, egalitarian politics. A few journalists out there would do well to remember that, as they idly snark at him from their sofas ✊

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4 years

So many hacks *still* don't get why under-40s, facing a near future of catastrophic climate change, and a present of zero hours contracts, housing insecurity, debt and austerity, might have been radicalised by an obscure backbench MP who never wanted to be leader to begin with

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@danhancox

4 years

You couldn't ask for a greater ethical vindication of Corbynism than the fact it was this motley crew of corporate spivs briefing against the party leadership week-in, week-out

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4 years

*Boys Are Back In Town instrumental plays*

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3 years

Turned 40 on Monday in the most zeitgeisty way I could think of: being ill with Covid. Still got my finger on the pulse 🔥

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5 years

Absolutely gone at lAbOUr heAVyWeiGht Alan Johnson's take on precarious employment in the post-industrial age

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1 year

the fixation on food in particular as a focus for Proper Binmenism is fascinating - as is the mingling of the occasional historically accurate comparison with deranged and/or racist nonsense

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1 year

Just seen this on Facebook. “Nobody had ever heard of yoghurt” what a flex. Unreal generation.

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5 years

PMSL at the signatories to that 'public figures' Labour AS letter. Labour have lost such progressive luminaries as *checks notes* headbanging Brexiteer Tory Frederick Forsyth, professional reactionary Trevor Phillips, twitter loon Oz Katerji and Sun columnist Tony Parsons

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mitt romney is calling for UBI, the spectator is endorsing corbynomics, the melty 90s comedians have discovered universalism, and... this is the first keir starmer tweet in two days

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Earlier this week the editor of joke newspaper The New European snarked at the ideas coming out of the Momentum festival. "You couldn't make it up!" Amusingly, I didn't: it's a successful and inexpensive innovation, which is good for the environment. In Paris. IN EUROPE.

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Dan Hancox

@danhancox

2 years

Once again, well done to all the pundits now noticing water privatisation is bad, now the only party leader who wanted to do something about it has been bumped off. Funny how this keeps happening

Dan Hancox

@danhancox

6 years

83% of Britons support taking water back from the hucksters rinsing us for private profit. And it's no wonder! Our bills and their profits keep soaring, while a horrifying 20% of all water is lost to leaks

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Dan Hancox

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Can't wait for festival season

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@danhancox

1 year

I will never tire of telling people that there were three books called Post-Truth published in ONE WEEK in 2017 Post-Truth - James Ball (11 May 17) Post-Truth - Matthew D'Ancona (11 May 17) Post-Truth - Evan Davis (18 May 17)

Flying_Rodent

@flying_rodent

1 year

Recall in 2016 when half the press went nuts about Fake News, vowing to crack down on disinfo wherever it might be found. And then they realised that would mean cracking down on the Sun, the Mail, their own bosses and each other, and decided the real problem was Russian Facebook.

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Dan Hancox

@danhancox

6 years

I wrote for @VICEUK about why brands like HSBC, Nike and Adidas want to claim our cities for themselves - and why we shouldn't let them

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Dan Hancox

@danhancox

7 years

And relatedly, as I was saying the other day, that's why this message should be on billboards across the country

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Dan Hancox

@danhancox

4 years

Last week, @WileyCEO DM-ed me to tell me The Godfather Part 3 would be his last album. Here's the exclusive story of a wild year of headline-grabbing beefs, industry betrayal, and where he thinks grime has gone wrong

Wiley on his final album: 'I need to not let grime die on the way out'

After a tumultuous year, the godfather of grime explains his beef with Drake, Stormzy and ‘England’s golden boy’ Ed Sheeran – then announces his retirement

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Hancox

@danhancox

3 years

Slightly jarring to hear NEF introduced as a "left-leaning thinktank" on @BBCr4today - and just want to check Policy Exchange are now going to be introduced as "right-wing goons" and ASI as "Randian chicken baguette weirdos"? Y'know, for balance

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Dan Hancox

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5 years

Space is political. Play is political. This is an absolute scandal

Too poor to play: children in social housing blocked from communal playground

In a move reminiscent of the ‘poor doors’ scandal, a London developer has segregated play areas for richer and poorer residents

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Hancox

@danhancox

2 months

Many comments on this, I would only add that the phrase "watched in horror" is a particularly (and tellingly) injudicious choice of words - given the very real events we have watched, in horror, recently

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Dan Hancox

@danhancox

5 years

In just 24 hours Labour have announced a 4-day working week and passed a radical, vital Green New Deal motion to decarbonise the economy before we all boil to death. How cynical, stupid and disingenuous do you have to be to say "party conferences are a massive waste of time"?

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Dan Hancox

@danhancox

6 years

A reminder, after the UN report today, that the people leading the protests against these devastating and entirely unnecessary cuts, when they began in 2010, were students and sixth-formers

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Dan Hancox

@danhancox

4 years

I see #grime4corbyn has found its analogue in Starmerism

Keir Starmer

@Keir_Starmer

4 years

RIP Dame Vera Lynn, the Forces’ Sweetheart. Her songs still speak to the nation in 2020 just as they did in 1940.

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Dan Hancox

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I wrote about capitalism's war on sleep, and the dire consequences of 24/7 culture for our brains and bodies, in this week's @NewStatesman

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Dan Hancox

@danhancox

7 years

This is a more accurate reading of work, benefits and poverty in 21C Britain than you'll get from most of the press

Sophie Gadd

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From Danny Dyers autobiography

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Dan Hancox

@danhancox

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wow. remunicipalise all the swimming pools! no profit extraction, just chlorine! no shareholders, just vibes!

Southwark Council

@lb_southwark

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Southwark Council to bring leisure services in-house

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Dan Hancox

@danhancox

5 years

@ImogenWK this tweet reminded me: his older brother qualified as a druid - took his exams and everything. and their dad literally had a small single silver earring. all of them were decent at juggling

Imogen West-Knights

@ImogenWK

5 years

@J_Misson they're not a wizard, but they're not *not* a wizard

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“It’s become a synonym of freedom." Good for the environment both locally and globally, good for the local economy, a huge boost for the poorest in society - and it works so well other French towns are following suit. We need this in the UK!

French city of Dunkirk tests out free transport – and it works

The city of Dunkirk in northern France launched a revamped bus system last year with a twist – it’s completely free. A new study shows that the programme is not only revitalising the city center but…

www.france24.com

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Dan Hancox

@danhancox

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Ironic for Colvile to moan about leftwing "coteries" given he's simultaneously the Director of a rightwing think-tank, a senior Sunday Times columnist AND co-wrote the 2019 Tory manifesto - as if there's not a conflict of interest in there somewhere

Robert Colvile

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@geddesduncan @nytimes Yes, this weird coterie of left-wing intellectuals and academics who have absolutely no profile over here yet walk into the NYT because they're happy to say the word 'imperialism' again and again

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