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@ejhchess

6 months

Parsley says, surely there are better ways to spend your time in 2024 than being on Twitter

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7 months

"He had hundreds of thousands killed, but he was polite to me, so it's impossible to say if he was bad or not" is this country's mainstream politicians and comnentators down to a tee.

Rory Stewart

@RoryStewartUK

7 months

I challenged Henry Kissinger 35 years ago on Cambodia and was stunned by how defensive and angry he could be with a school boy. But when he invited me to his house in Connecticut recently I found him sharp, courteous, and provocative -a centenarian charged with ambition…

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Thousands of them. They're called "teachers" and they don't tend to like you very much either.

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Quite right too - how many of Toby Young’s critics have worked night and day to provide great state schools for children of every background?

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Me, trying to understand this Rightward shift in formerly mainstream politics

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If you’re trying to understand this Rightward shift in formerly mainstream politics, do listen to our latest episode of @TheNewsAgents - it involves a Tory donor media magnate who’s amplifying extremist views.

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2 years

This you?

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My cartoon Thursday @TheTimes on the UK’s shamefully inadequate and slow assistance to Ukraine refugees. #Refugees #UkraineWar

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Three months since this buffoon pursued Jeremy Corbyn down the street and I'm yet to see him or any of his colleagues run after anybody demanding condemnations for the Israeli slaughter that has happened daily since.

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'Do you condemn Hamas?' Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn refuses to say if he condemns Hamas but insists 'obviously all attacks are wrong' when questioned in Liverpool

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The concept of a prime minister as somebody who gives speeches, rather than as somebody who enacts good policy, is one of the worst aspects of a commentariat who are never affected by policy but always like to imagine themselves silencing their opponents with a well-chosen line.

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That Starmer speech today really was very good indeed. It was like you were watching him grow into the role of prime minister in real time.

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"Absolutely devastating" is being deported illegally to somewhere you've never seen in your adult life

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Do you mean "Labour's Islamophobia crisis" Pippa

Pippa Crerar

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EXCL: Keir Starmer’s office has begun polling British Muslim voters amid growing concern in senior Labour ranks about damage done to their core vote by row over party’s position on Middle East.

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It absolutely beggars belief that public life can be dominated for five years by the most sustained campaign of vilification I have seen in my life, and immediately afterwards all the people involved can be congratulating one another on how reasonable and courteous they are.

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@NoahPollak "If there hadn't been a British Empire, the British couldn't have abolished slavery in the Empire" is masterly stuff, well done

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Mike Trebilcock, the mixed-race Everton player who scored twice in the 1966 Cup Final, was born in Cornwall in 1944.

Paul Embery

@PaulEmbery

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BBC One currently showing its adaptation of The Famous Five: 'The Curse of Kirrin Island', which is set in 1940s Cornwall. So naturally the main character, George, is mixed-race. #RelentlessMoralLecture

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BBC News (UK)

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One million cancel broadband as living costs rise

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I've said so before but I first came across Emily Maitlis two decades ago on London TV news. She would interview trades unionists in a wildly hostile way and I've seen nothing in the past twenty years to suggest she's changed her mind about who doesn't need to be treated fairly.

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This is my view also, not just on a personal or political level but because what happened during those years tells us very clearly how the UK really works, and yet there is no willingness at all to acknowledge or discuss things that went on right in front of our faces.

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I will never not be salty about what happened from 2015 - 2020. I hold a deep grudge and anger about it.

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4 months

"The amplification of extremism"

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@maitlis

4 months

ICYMI: link here to our @TheNewsAgents episode - the Tory donor , the media mogul and the amplification of extremism.

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While I'm not really a great admirer of Richard Burgon (nothing much against him either) the Burgon Is Thick stuff makes me side with him a hundred per cent: utterly dripping with the sort of snobbery many professional-class people can't help from spilling out of their mouths.

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7 months

Could you not think of a more recent example lads

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Howard Jacobson's dismissal of genocide charges against Israel as "sensationalist pronouncements of academics who specialise in genocide" strikes me as remarkable and jaw-dropping a phrase as we are likely to see in 2023.

The Observer

@ObserverUK

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Charging Jews with genocide is to declare them guilty of precisely what was done to them | Howard Jacobson

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3 years

For someone who's supposedly an egotist with a personality cult, Jeremy Corbyn made surprisingly little fuss about being assaulted several months ago.

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1 year

OK that's at least three black Labour MPs on Twitter today wondering why political or media attention isn't being paid to Martin Forde's report and recent remarks, and tell me if there's not a hierarchy of racism why are their comments not being picked up?

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I could have sworn that the low standing of a Labour leader among an ethnic minority was normally the subject of a thousand news stories and comment pieces, but I guess the current guy has the backing of the CEO of Boots so it turns out it's not at all important really

Taj Ali

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Keir Starmer has a poll rating of -32 among Black and Asian voters — this is the lowest a Labour leader has recorded since 1996. For context, Blair was on -11 during the Iraq War years. Very interesting thread.👇

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Occasionally on here I've expressed the view that had Corbyn won, he would likely have been removed in some kind of soft coup involving a vote of no confidence in which the Right of his party would have voted with the Tories, and been showered with praise for their selflessness.

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Quite the exchange this and quite the admission here, even suggesting withholding confidence in the event of a 2019 Labour victory. Full interview on latest @TheNewsAgents .

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Although they'll never admit this, we understand, all of us, that our major parties and almost all our media have been entirely complicit in this genocidal slaughter. They defended it, or pretended not to see it, they ran interference for it, they refused to speak up against it.

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5 months

This is a conspiracy theory right here, out in the open, bold as brass

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Antizionism, by contrast, is the product of Soviet propagandists. Its ideological home is thus on the fringes of the far left, not in a party of the mainstream centre-left.

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Because, Jo, beginning in 2015 we had an all-media campaign of wild hysteria and lies about antisemitism, and lots of people who should have pushed back against it went along with it or joined in instead. So here we are, and where else did you expect to be?

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This is just a flat lie. Why is the BBC carrying it, let alone uncritically?

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As a concept, "gender ideology" is of the same type as "cultural Marxism": a conspiracist's phrase, imagining a secret campaign to undermine our will and poison our children's minds, tailor-made for obsessionists and cranks.

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We've gone in a very short space of time from demanding everybody issue condemnations for attacks on civilians to demanding everybody express support for attacks on civilians and this really ought to make it clear what the purpose is of the former exercise, let alone its value.

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So we've had an ICJ indication of genocide immediately become a confected scandal about UNRWA and then a threatened finding of collective punishment immediately become a confected scandal about MPs' safety and I can't be alone in finding all this just so profoundly disheartening

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The whole of the last decade could be characterised, even defined, by the political and media class shrieking and pearl-clutching because other people didn't treat them with the respect they thought they deserved

Ian Dunt

@IanDunt

4 months

Absolute professionalism from @SamCoatesSky on Sky just now in very challenging circumstances - with Galloway angrily berating for having the temerity of asking questions and a growing crowd trying to shout him down.

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One of the reasons Starmer appeals to the pundits - it's not the only one - is that if you persistently speak in empty phrases and generalisations you provide endless opportunities to write comment pieces or sit on sofas posing as an expert and explaining what it all may mean.

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@ejhchess

2 years

Look, no offence to Parkinson, but everybody in journalism who wanted to, including Simon Kuper, had any number of these stories available to them in 2019 or 2017 or at any time in the previous two decades or so. They could have deployed them daily to crush Johnson. They didn't.

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2 years

Boris Johnson, lovely man. Perfect prime ministerial material.

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So who's going to be the first columnist to say "maybe we should have preferred the guy who is known for his long-term interest in helping refugees, we made a clear mistake there". Who's even going to mention that we might like to think about that.

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1 year

And now imagine a BBC tweet asking us whether we agreed with an assault on a police officer.

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1 year

Do you agree with what the police officer did?

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Occasionally I remember that Rebecca Long-Bailey was sacked, to loud applause and with barely a murmur of protest, for praising a piece by Maxine Peake that was mean about the IDF.

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2 months

The UN human rights chief says he is appalled by the reports of mass graves in Gaza after at least 310 bodies have been discovered on the grounds of Nasser Hospital.

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You will be fingerwagged and shouted at to vote for the Labour guys because the Tory guys are the worst thing there is: and then it will turn out they're all mates who think and want and do pretty much the same things. And what they're mostly doing is laughing at you.

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Image of the morning: The embrace that speaks to the cross party political consensus. Labour’s David Lammy and Conservative James Cleverly embrace

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2 years

There's a lot of smoke being blown about whether the actions of senior officials cost Labour the 2017 election but it's neither here nor there. The only relevant points are that it happened, it was entirely wrong, it was quite extraordinary and that all this is being ignored.

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1 year

Can you imagine Labour running this ad under Jeremy Corbyn? No you can't. Can you? No you fucking can't.

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1 year

Labour is the party of law and order.

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7 months

A clear pattern in Freedland's pieces is an utter refusal to consider Palestinians as equals: they are afterthoughts, to be considered only after Israel has done what it wishes, to be given only what Israel deems politic. Of course this is wildly racist.

Israel wants to slay the monster next door, but with this bombardment it is feeding it | Jonathan...

You can sympathise with the country’s desire to crush Hamas, and yet fear it is taking the wrong path in Gaza, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

www.theguardian.com

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@ejhchess

5 months

Eleven weeks later, a life peerage for our fearless and independent interviewer

Ayesha Hazarika

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7 months

Just recorded a fascinating long interview with Shadow Chancellor @RachelReevesMP covering the Autumn Statement, the big challenges that lie ahead if Labour wins, how she feels about being called ‘right-wing’ & some v exciting chess news. Tune in tomorrow, Sat, 6pm @timesradio

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2 years

I'll say again, when I was a kid fifty years ago the books we had would tell us how the major social problem in the future was going to be how we were going to organise our ever-increasing leisure time.

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This shit is farcical

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@ejhchess

4 years

Can people just recall that the political material you have on your shelves, or online, can be reported, and can get you into serious trouble, under the Prevent scheme promoted enthusiastically by one Michael Gove.

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4 months

My interpretation of Sunak is that the police are going to be told to go in mob-handed on protestors, however peaceful, and the resulting "clashes" will be an excuse either to jail protestors, or to ban the protests, or both.

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3 years

Why Are We Closing The Stable Door Before The Horse Has Even Bolted - me, in the Guardian

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1 year

"has calculated the camps will be popular"

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2 years

There does seem to have been a paucity of coverage and comment on this case, in a media which is normally full of stories about social media threats, and it's hard not to think that this is because Dawn Butler is not considered One Of Us.

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In case you missed it, a #Brexit Party candidate, Stephen Peddie, was found guilty this week of threatening to shoot #Labour MP Dawn Butler in the Head. Peddie owns a licensed firearm.

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@ejhchess

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Put a posh white man in a suit and they will always be forgiven by the pundits

Ian Dunt

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3 months

@tds153 It also helps that he looks like dressed himself rather than being savaged by a errant wardrobe.

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@ejhchess

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Another way to put this might be that we're a no-party state: we no longer have political parties as such, just teams of professional managers competing for the right to offer services to donors, media owners and so on, for all the world like a franchise and bidding operation.

@artdecolady #StarmerOut #ItWasAScam

@Teresa_Peckham

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Liz Kendall blathering on and avoiding giving straight answers on #Kuenssberg , but made it pretty clear they won’t change the Tory proposals on family visa salary thresholds. Why have we got 2 parties? We might as well accept we’re a one party state.

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Possibly this kind of thing occurs because of a hysterical campaign to convince the US public that protestors against Israel are crazed anti-semites - a campaign which, when it took place in the UK, Ian Dunt supported with great enthusiasm.

Ian Dunt

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The policing of those protests in the US is absolutely unhinged.

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There are worse things in UK media than this, but the way John Crace and Marina Hyde, nominal satirists both, operate as fifth-rate, unquestioning grin-on-a-stick client journaliists for Keir Starmer is one of the most pathetic.

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It's more than a week since Dawn Butler had to close her constituency office and I was just wondering how many editorials and comment pieces had been written about that closure

Labour MP Dawn Butler closes office after receiving racist threats

London MP also says constituency premises expensive and hard to keep Covid-19 safe

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Nothing in this whole awful business has got to me as much as the response to the ICJ being not to stop the killing but to cut off aid instead

Nathan J Robinson

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Gaza is on the brink of famine and the only thing keeping people alive is food from the relief agency. I don't think there can be any dispute that cutting off the relief agency at that very moment is a genocidal act.

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A couple of weeks ago this guy published a full-throated justification for Franco's 1936 coup, which murdered tens of thousands of political opponents. Friends, colleagues, neighbours, compatriots.

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1 year

This is good, and it would presumably get you three years in prison if you tried it in Britain

Dripped Out Trade Unionists

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"If we don't get it, shut it down" is taken literally in France as protestors build a concrete wall in the middle of a national road in Toulouse. #A69

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2 years

The answer is "your colleagues" (and to be fair I imagine Zoe knows this)

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Kuenssberg has always been interested in puffing Tice and I have written many times that she should have been sacked for this tweet, pushing his misinformation during the Westminster Bridge attack.

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The opening of last night's BBC election coverage had Laura Kuenssberg giving an awful lot of airtime to Richard Tice and Reform UK, why not the Residents Association who are currently beating them?

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You may wonder why ten years for desecrating a monument, which is crazed, is seen as sensible but universal free broadband, which is sensible, is seen as crazed. I might reckon it's because the professional classes don't expect to suffer from the first or benefit from the second

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5 months

"I, like Sun readers"

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EXCL: Ninja swords would be banned under Labour as part of dangerous knife crackdown Starmer: “I, like Sun readers, am horrified by how easy it is to get hold of a weapon that can end lives.”

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Margaret Hodge

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This language is unacceptable & dangerous. With violence escalating in recent weeks, this careless remark only makes it harder to bridge the divide. Not to mention a complete insult to @LouiseEllman 's legacy.

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The Roger Waters hysteria is a genuine case of free speech and free expression in the arts being under threat from bullying and intimidation and I have to tell you, I've seen literally none of the columnists and campaigners come out in his defence

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@ejhchess

4 months

Does this look like what Paul Sweeney says it was like

Saeed🔰

@siqgla

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A peaceful #protest , at The #Labour Party office today, in #Glasgow , #Scotland . #FreePalestine @ggectee @scottishpsc

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Watching Labour MPs, who have been bullying their internal opponents out of office and out of their party for years, making pompous statements about bullying, makes it clear how much our politics is just a mountain of the purest humbug.

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@ejhchess

3 years

I think I can recall protesting outside the Oxford Union in 1985 or 1986 in order to prevent a debate taking place where one of the speakers was the Ambassador of South Africa

Lisa Nandy

@lisanandy

3 years

The appalling treatment of Israeli Ambassador @TzipiHotovely is completely unacceptable. There is no excuse for this kind of behaviour. Freedom of speech is a fundamental right and any attempt to silence or intimidate those we disagree with should never be tolerated.

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@Peston Could we in some way remove your incentive to work?

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@ejhchess

2 years

If I were a professional columnist I might be inclined to combine two stories from yesterday and muse that a wider reason people like Laura Murray got smeared by people like Ian Austin was to prevent us having a government that might do something about people like P&O.

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And the hero walked away without so much as a backward glance

ITV London

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Royal Dock's cat Felix has had a difficult start to his bank holiday Sunday. Someone buy that man a cup of tea please...

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Just astonishing that the British commentariat can spend four years screaming racism at the opposition and then, faced with criticism of a government which seeks to deport refugees to Rwanda, pivot to puce-faced outrage that anybody could bring up Enoch Powell.

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@ejhchess

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@JenWilliamsMEN @robfordmancs @sexliesballots @philipjcowley Is it perhaps that people on the left are right about this, and that hurting poor and powerless people for the benefit of wealthy and powerful people is in fact bad?

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@ejhchess

7 months

Don't read the headline, read the piece - which very much does take sides, in favour of Israel's war. The terms siege, apartheid and genocide do not appear. A wicked and deceitful piece.

Jonathan Freedland

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Too many taking sides in this conflict miss the true nature of Hamas – and Netanyahu. Latest column

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"What stopped him [Jeremy Corbyn] apologising for antisemitism in the party?" asks Charlotte Edwardes, who must know that he did in fact do this, but prefers to pretend otherwise.

Angela Rayner on roots, rough edges and being ready for power: ‘You can’t go through the childhood...

She’s blunt, bolshie and terrifies the Tories. But if Labour gets into government, the deputy leader will be one of the most powerful women in Britain. Bring it on, she says

www.theguardian.com

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@ejhchess

1 year

I dunno mate, but my perspective is that New Labour never spent half a decade screaming that people like me were poison, the trash and the filth of the world, before turning round and demanding my vote.

Hannah Fearn

@hannahfearn

1 year

Do the people queuing up to leave Labour and posting "not voting Labour - first time ever" badges on their social feeds, most of whom are over 45, really, genuinely, truly believe that Starmer's party is to the right of New Labour?

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All these people want is to do important and well-connected jobs forever without any impertinence from the likes of you, and they will scream the place down forever without the slightest hesitation if they do not get it

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Harriet Harman on Radio 4 railing against people protesting their MPs supporting genocide: 'Actually this is about democracy. Because democracy depends on MPs voting the way they see fit.'

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@ejhchess

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I would like to support journalism financially by subscribing to the Guardian. I don't, because it will spend my money on columnists who get paid for insulting my intelligence, when they are not insulting me directly.

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@ejhchess

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This stuff gets on my nerves so I need to say that I've been playing chess, and around chess players, for half a century, and the idea that chess teaches you anything substantial about anything than chess itself is...tendentious. Certainly as presented here it's just horseshit.

Rachel Reeves

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My dad taught me how to play chess at the age of 7 and since then I've had the chess bug. Chess has taught me so many things which are useful in politics from being strategic to giving me that competitive streak.

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@redandriveting Can I say that Liz Truss saying "I'm with Martin Luther King" is liable to be the highlight of my week

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@ejhchess

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I mean there you have it, the US doing actual real-life in-your-face genocide denial with all the fuck-you they can muster, so tell me, why do we want to be holding coats for these people again

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White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby calls South Africa’s 84-page suit accusing Israel of genocide “meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever.”

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@ejhchess

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David Baddiel's achievement has been to demonstrate that you can be racist towards black people, Travellers *and* Irish people and it doesn't matter a damn, you're still considered an authority on anti-racism. Truly a one-man hierarchy of racism.

redsarah99🇵🇸 #BlackLivesMatter🍉🍉

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1 year

When someone shows you who they are? Believe them.

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@ejhchess

2 years

I'm yet to see any interviews with Peter Mandelson or George Osborne about their connections with Oleg Deripaska (or indeed, Osborne's with Lebedev). Have I missed them, or do journalists simply not have their phone numbers?

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@ejhchess

2 years

It's too grim and too serious to be genuinely funny, but the way support for this filthy policy is buttressed by the phrase "liberals like me" - and how "tricky" it is for them - is the UK commentariat and political class all over.

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@ejhchess

3 years

'“We’ve got a vital set of elections next month and this stuff just shouldn’t be happening. It’s deeply disloyal,” one of those on the call told HuffPost UK.' Ha ha, ha ha ha, ha ha ha ha

Starmer Blasts Shadow Cabinet 'Cowards' Who Briefed Against His Staff

Exclusive: Labour leader let rip in weekly meeting of his frontbenchers.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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@ejhchess

1 month

See what we have here is a whole political culture founded on lying about lying, on pretending not to understand what we do understand, on pretending things happened that didn't, or that things didn't happen that did. Does that bode well for the future? Is that healthy and good?

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

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Angela Eagle: "I don't think he [Keir Starmer] has dropped promises" @OwenJones84 provides Eagle with a concrete example of him lying.

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@ejhchess

2 years

I don't think you can sum up UK political commentary better than by having a leading figure, a self-described "centrist", notably aggressive towards the left, write a book on Britain's most prominent racist politician and refuse to call him a racist.

Michael Crick: ‘I don’t think Farage is a racist… though he does pander to racists’

He’s quit TV after decades of dogged political reporting, written a rollicking biography of Nigel Farage – and, surprisingly, joined Mail+

www.theguardian.com

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@ejhchess

3 months

Maybe we need to think a bit more about this "professional opinion" and what role it plays in our politics

LBC

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"The speed and strength with which professional opinion has turned against Israel has taken me by surprise…" @mrjamesob points out the 'extraordinary' shift in people's support for Israel after the killing of three British aid workers.

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@ejhchess

1 year

This kind of thing has been made possible because for several years, educated and respectable people screamed themselves silly pretending the Labour Party was full of racists. A grotesque spectacle leading directly to *this* grotesque spectacle. Well done, everybody.

Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge

@SkyPoliticsHub

1 year

Home Secretary @SuellaBraverman says 'vulnerable white girls are being targeted by British Pakistani grooming gangs', and people have been 'turning a blind eye out of political correctness'. #Ridge 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

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@ejhchess

4 months

Christ what the fuck is this. What the fuck kind of insulting discourse is this. Does grown-up politics mean an endless succession of stupid little homilies.

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

4 months

"I don't like waste of expenditure" Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves says asking for pastries to be brought back from events to her office shows she is "living out her values" #BBCLauraK

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@ejhchess

3 years

@HadleyFreeman Still, your achievements in the role have been extraordinary: you've established that Woody Allen is a good guy after all and that the principal victims of injustice in our society are Oxbridge-educated opinion columnists. We'll miss you until another comes along.

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@ejhchess

7 years

How Guardian centrists held the line against anti-immigrant prejudice

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@ejhchess

1 year

Maybe I'm getting old, but it seems to me that when I was younger, a public figure who condemned a film, and yet openly stated that they hadn't seen it, would have immedately become a figure of derision. For a journalist it would have been disastrous to their reputation.

James Ball

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1 year

I read a review by Paul Mason about a movie with an obviously antisemitic title. I trust the facts in the review, which include that it speaks to multiple people expelled from Labour for antisemitism to suggest Corbyn was ousted by a Jewish plot. I believe it is a racist film.

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@ejhchess

3 months

I'll tell you what I think about Stop The War. They get some things wrong, but they take war seriously as the dreadful human disaster that it is, rather than as a backdrop for stupid and tedious jibes by the most boorish and bullying people in politics.

Damon Evans

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3 months

Stop The War must be fuming about Iran attacking Israel last night and not helping to stop the war. Think I’ll go and check their condemnation… Oh.

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@ejhchess

1 year

"Why I, as a leftwinger, support this rightwing idea" is a very old grift indeed and it's a train where there's always room for at least one more passenger

Benjamin Butterworth

@benjaminbutter

1 year

I tried my best to explain why I, as someone on the left, defend what the monarchy brings us.

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@ejhchess

1 year

@gem_ste What even is he on about anyway? Does he think it's been decreed or something?

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@ejhchess

1 year

Since Hodge and Baddiel are both being discussed this afternoon it's maybe worth reiterating a point often made, that if you wanted a serious public discussion about antisemitism, you wouldn't choose figureheads with a public record of overt racism and pandering to racism.

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@ejhchess

1 year

That's @IanDunt there, nodding along to a false claim that he knows to be false

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

1 year

Heale from The Spectator: "From a Lab perspective, they'll be glad they have got these million pound donations coming in, rather than the alternative which perhaps we saw at certain points in recent years under Corbyn, when there was not much money left" When facts don't matter

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@ejhchess

2 months

Really piss off with this stuff eh

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@ejhchess

7 months

This photo just screams "holding power to account", doesn't it

Ayesha Hazarika

@ayeshahazarika

7 months

Just recorded a fascinating long interview with Shadow Chancellor @RachelReevesMP covering the Autumn Statement, the big challenges that lie ahead if Labour wins, how she feels about being called ‘right-wing’ & some v exciting chess news. Tune in tomorrow, Sat, 6pm @timesradio

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@ejhchess

2 years

I've said this exact thing many times before, but every time somebody suggests Laura is any kind of proper journalist I cite this tweet, repeating, during a serious incident, lies made up by a far-right loudmouth. Any of us would know better. She should have been sacked for it.

Patrick Howse☘️🇺🇦 (@[email protected])

@Baghdaddi

2 years

Some thoughts on Laura Kuenssberg’s tenure as BBC Political Editor (and why it was such a catastrophe, and why it wasn't really her fault).

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@ejhchess

6 months

So tell me, which of our many political correspondents, who were happy to boost Margaret Hodge uncritically every time she libelled Jeremy Corbyn, is going to doorstep Hodge on her return to ask what the fuck she was doing taking this trip and having this photo taken?

Labour Friends of Israel

@_LFI

6 months

We’re in Israel for a solidarity mission. Today, we met Israeli president @Isaac_Herzog to express our support for Israel and her people in the aftermath of October 7th. We stand with you 🇮🇱🇬🇧

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@ejhchess

6 months

Once again, what happened to house prices under New Labour

Rachel Reeves

@RachelReevesMP

6 months

The dream of homeownership has been shattered under the Conservatives. I will restore it.

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@ejhchess

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Nooruddean

@BeardedGenius

1 year

Who's the definition of a 'stupid person's idea of a clever person'

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@ejhchess

5 years

You don't need to speculate so much on the effect of the media when you have an actual real-life experiment running involving one major newspaper and one major city.

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@ejhchess

1 year

Right up to here, it could be honestly argued that the reason Labour people wanted to bring down Corbyn was that they thought he couldn't win. But everything that happened in the next thirty months was because after this, they were scared that he might.

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

1 year

OTD in 2017, with a manifesto packed with brilliant policies, Lab gained seats for the first time since 97, got a higher vote% than 15, 10 & 05, & cost the Tories their majority. Imagine where the UK would be now if the Lab right had helped build on that rather than smash it down

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