JJ Charlesworth @jjcharlesworth_ Twitter profile

Pinned Tweet

JJ Charlesworth

5 days

With no hint of more government cash for art, recent arts campaigns are arguing for special levies and taxes to support artists. But who will manage the money? My column for @ArtReview_

ArtReview_

@ArtReview_

5 days

The arts need funding, but will current proposals do anything more than create new gatekeepers?

1

3

9

1

4

9

Last Seen Profiles

@raeaq99

@stwmaniax

@tana_taka_3rder

@OppenheimerAr

@bokeplokalmalam

@Abhawi15

@KlausEckel

@koleksiceldam

@infotrylie

@Ayah21689632

@2_much_man

@info_Tournee

@eastonfreeze

@stw_pdg

@darle_fa

@MustafajALabbas

@stw_pdg

@bokeplokalmalam

@sugen_takeda

@yiyaloveyou

@asav2024

@nievessaturn

@i_kitsugi

@selfish_fishead

@MarionK30387783

@yvesleonard27

@saltus_art

@darle_fa

@Krishnacrkr0426

@DeparSports

@natiflix

@bokeplokalmalam

@eliifguclu

@LottePateman

@CEvxxe

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

4 years

There was never any lockdown. There was just middle-class people hiding while working-class people brought them things.

983

30K

147K

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

June 21st isn't just about whether you can order a pint at a bar - it's about restoring the freedom to organise to meet, in whatever private situation, without the regulation and monitoring of the place in which you meet. This is a fundamentally political freedom.

13

144

678

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

4 years

@Trad_West_Arch The idea that architecture should never, ever change is moronic.

69

8

374

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

6 years

Smug millennial art prigs gloat over getting a female artist sacked from her teaching job, for holding views about women they don't agree with.

The White Pube

@TheWhitePube

6 years

NEWS: We just found out nina edge ain’t gonna be teaching at LJMU no more - students spoke up and they had a meeting today!!

141

9

97

28

123

324

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

6 months

@Fox_Claire The arrogant, entitled bores whispering while you spoke: the one who groaned when you were called; the one who muttered 'go stand for them' when you made the point that the commons is the elected house; the one who hissed 'she's awful'. Who are they? How do we get rid of them?

9

31

289

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

4 years

How do we deal with these virulent new mutant strains of the precautionary principle?

27

45

262

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

4 years

The more capitalism exploits people, the more it calls them 'partners'.

5

66

258

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

2 months

What's striking is how empty Starmer's response to the riots has been, and how shallow the mainstream debate has quickly become. Compare the last week to the debates that followed the 2011 riots; then, there were extensive discussions of the roots of/

Tech giants will be forced to ban fake news under Labour plans

Firms could be required to suppress posts even if they are not illegal

www.telegraph.co.uk

11

33

198

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

[Adam Curtis voice:] Politicians, who had never faced a major civil emergency before, panicked. But then they discovered that the state, which had been broken up and hollowed out by the same neoliberal policies they themselves had supported, no longer worked.

13

70

172

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

As the JCVI debacle shows, the push to vaccinate everyone isn't some sinister plot by all-powerful hidden interests. It's how shell-shocked governments have latched onto vaccines because they're the *only* successful policy of the last year/

36

33

170

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

2 years

The British artworld is dominated by self-regarding middle-class bores who see Brexit only as an inconvenience to their globalist lifestyle.

Antony Gormley to become German citizen due to ‘tragedy’ of Brexit

Acclaimed sculptor calls leaving the EU ‘a practical disaster’ and a ‘betrayal’ as major retrospective opens

www.theguardian.com

27

18

168

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

Total-vax, like zero-covid, is an idealist control-freak's fantasy.

6

35

170

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

God this is crap.

Meta

@Meta

3 years

Enter a world of imagination with Meta and explore endless possibilities in 3D. 🚀 🎨

2K

855

6K

30

17

162

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

@JohnCleese It's sad. I was speaking in the debate; Andrew made an impassioned case for why the Nazis were racist, murdering scum, who hated modern art. It was satire and it was uncomfortable. If students are afraid of discomfort, satire is over. Definitely speak to @speechchampions !

0

17

158

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

4 years

[Adam Curtis voice:] In the 21st century, millennials in the West, who had grown up in an era largely free of major social conflict, came to believe that their individual sense of safety was more important than older notions of freedom and liberty./

6

25

158

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

@NME God, going by these comments, rock n' roll is truly dead. Shall I get you all a cup of hot cocoa?

12

1

134

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

2 years

If art is supposed to be a sign of creativity, why does so much contemporary art treat the exact same themes in the exact same ways, with artists having the exact same thoughts while reading the exact same books? Puzzling and boring.

21

11

156

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

'Because you disagree with me and/or the official position on [insert issue here], you are a stupid/vile/dangerous person, who should be silenced/sacked/punished. [delete as applicable]' We really have to do better than this, don't we?

8

21

139

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 months

London has had nothing to do with slavery in almost 200 years. Why do Londoners need to be 'educated', don't we already know loads about slavery? Why isn't it a monument to abolition? Why does this stuff keep coming up in London? Why spend £500k on this?

Designs revealed for London transatlantic slavery memorial

The memorial is planned to be unveiled in east London in summer 2026

www.standard.co.uk

7

40

145

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

The fundamental conflict in the COVID crisis is between those of us who defend civil society, private association and government by consent, against technocrats who believe that people exist on sufferance of technocratic expertise.

5

22

137

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 months

Waldemar revealing that remainers are really just middle-class snobs who hate the plebs for not being as refined/empathic/intelligent as, er, middle-class snobs. 'a certain type of artless Brit voted for Brexit'.

WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK

@JANUSZCZAK

3 months

I’ve touched a nerve with Brexiteers! Obviously, Australia, US etc did not have a Brexit vote. Neither did the Romans or Greeks. The point is - a certain type of artless Brit voted for Brexit and the mindset that accompanied that vote lacks artistic empathy or cultural generosity

64

33

274

7

18

134

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

4

18

123

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

4 years

There should be some kind of siren that goes off whenever middle-class people on @BBCRadio4 start gushing about how 2020 had allowed them to 'reflect', 'slow down' or 'realise what's important'.

6

10

118

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

1 year

If free speech is the cornerstone of democracy, why are you pushing on with your deranged online safety bill?

Rishi Sunak

@RishiSunak

1 year

This is wrong. No one should be barred from using basic services for their political views. Free speech is the cornerstone of our democracy.

10K

3K

26K

2

29

116

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

Aaaaand the backlash has already started. Five minutes of @BBCr4today , I've heard an employer say they won't change their office covid rules, and a pubco type explain their staff will discourage ordering at the bar. 'Freedom Day doesn't mean free for all', he scolds.

28

17

109

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

5 months

"He is a tourist; you are a holiday-maker; I am a traveller." - Fry & Laurie

john milbank

@johnmilbank3

5 months

Tourism needs drastic reducing everywhere. Only real knowledgeable visitors and adventurers should be encouraged. Most people should just stay at home.

26

2

22

8

21

119

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

So our school's nativity play is cancelled. Thanks a lot for making Christmas abnormal, Boris and Nicola, you hapless clowns.

9

13

110

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

4 years

What planet is Perry on? Covid has destroyed artists and kept the art bureaucracy (of which he's part) comfortably on furlough. No one deliver this man's waitrose.

Covid has rid the arts sector of 'dead wood' says Grayson Perry

Perry suggests impact of Covid-19 in shutting down the arts could lead to a flowering of creativity once the sector begins to re-open.

www.telegraph.co.uk

9

10

110

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

Labour and Tories long ago ceased representing most voters interests. They definitely don't represent mine. I decided to join the @SDPhq

14

16

103

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

Lockdown for a bit longer so we don't have to lockdown for a bit longer.

5

20

100

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 months

Brendan O'Neill on top Glasto-bashing form.

Glastonbury has exposed the fake virtue of the elites

Few events highlight the hypocrisy of the woke as much as ‘Glasto’.

www.spiked-online.com

7

33

97

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

@Fox_Claire Yes, nothing more than concession faced with fierce opposition from hospitality, which is taking govt to court on Tuesday. But nightclubs, concert venues, theatres STILL on the vax-pass hit-list. The arts sector need to show some mettle and demand govt ditches its mad scheme.

6

21

84

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

Dominic Cummings is like your worst-ever ex-partner.

9

90

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

As all other mitigations turn out to be useless, the govt clutches obsessively to the fantasy of vaccinating everybody, regardless of the evidence that vaccines protect the vulnerable but don't stop circulation.

2

14

88

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

Speaking as someone who's has the vax, any vaccinated person who goes into a venue from which their unvaccinated peers are excluded should be ashamed. We must oppose this together, or this never ends. #TogetherDeclaration #NoVaccinePassports

2

14

86

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

Unbelievable. @BorisJohnson 'if and when' we lift restrictions on 19 July? Surely it's either if or when? Cue two weeks of intensifying fury from pro-lockdown obsessives.

4

11

85

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

Because all other policies - lockdown, social distancing, mask mandates, school bubbles, online learning, furlough, track & trace etc. - have been *abject failures* - by any pragmatic measure of their sustainable social cost.

2

10

80

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

There is no lockdown. There's only middle-class people working from home while working-class people self-isolate.

5

9

86

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

There was no more lockdown. There was only middle-class people screaming while working-class people no longer brought them things, because they'd been pinged.

1

11

84

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

4 months

So London's @GoldsmithsCCA art gallery has closed 'until October', because it's occupied by pro-Palestine protesters. So that's just how it goes? No security, no calling the police @GoldsmithsUoL ? So art galleries shut because they don't conform to a protest group's every demand?

8

35

88

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

[Adam Curtis voice:]

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

The government kept saying to people that it would end its controls. But each time it came to lifting the restrictions, it would find more reasons not to, and began to invent even more complex controls to allow the ending of controls, which never came.

3

6

56

6

23

79

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

4 years

We must stamp on the lie that 'it's the coronavirus has caused economic recession'. It's not the virus that caused this - it's our social and political response to the virus which had caused such economic damage.

11

82

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

The government's move to ignore 'the science' advice of the JCVI shows that what really motors it is a vast, neurotic risk-aversion complex, not an adherence to 'the science' - which govt only follows when the advice gives cover to its fear of taking political responsiblity.

3

14

84

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

'Conversely many of those now labelling them "fascist" had the luxury of sitting at home waiting for their deliveries to arrive.' Spot on from @Ella_M_Whelan

2

18

83

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

@Fox_Claire There will be a lot of cowardice on show - refusing to deal with the specifics of a particular person and their abhorrent motives and actions, while looking to generalise about the public as a whole, as if we were the problem.

4

72

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

6 months

It took a while (ten years, but who's counting). But it's finally a book, thanks to the fine folk at @routledgeart . Out now.

11

16

79

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

I thought getting a jab was about protecting my health. But apparently, it's about protecting everything else in the covid failed state.

Nadhim Zahawi

@nadhimzahawi

3 years

Getting your booster jab will help protect our NHS, protect our way of life, and it will also help to protect education. My message following the address made by @BorisJohnson last night. #GetBoostedNow

1K

44

169

3

11

78

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

Christ, fourteen days of the entitled lockdown class screaming like hysterical brats about keeping restrictions. I thought four years of remoaners was bad enough, but this is going to be intense.

5

11

75

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

Arts criticism 101: you can like an artist's art, pop music, film, literature etc, and not like their opinions or personal conduct.

2

14

74

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

It's sinister that @BBCNews wheels on behavioural psychologists as if it were totally normal that our opinions should be subject to constant manipulation.

2

15

72

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

5 years

Very soon the London artworld will reach the woke singularity; every show will be about climate change, transgender or slavery.

7

13

72

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

Folkestone shop report: all pretty chilled, Asda, Wilko's and TK Maxx not making a fuss, small shops equally relaxed. People making their own choice, maybe 2 to 1 unmasked. Everyone trying to get along, which is what happens when you don't live in the twittersphere.

2

10

75

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

6 years

Prof Brian Cox - 'the causes of brexit were not in general anything to do with the EU' - proof that being an expert in something doesn't make you an expert in everything, however highly you think of yourself...

Brian Cox

@ProfBrianCox

6 years

A problem with May’s article in today’s Telegraph is she assumes the country will ‘come back together’ if her deal passes. This is nonsense. One obvious point: the causes of brexit were not in general anything to do with the EU, therefore leaving it will solve nothing.

1K

5K

18K

6

12

67

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

Politicians began to live in a dream-world, in which they believed they were trying to control a virus, which could never be defeated. But in reality they were just trying to control their own sense of not being in control,and projected that anxiety by making a new kind of state.

1

6

68

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

1 year

@Future_Cities @NewYorker Cities. Cities are colonialist. Get rid of cities.

1

2

68

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

The whole political class is self-isolating. Can't we just organise a coup or something?

4

8

66

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

4 years

You have to be deeply, deeply naïve if you think that a prince and a Hollywood starlet are sticking it to the establishment, on your behalf.

2

13

71

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

@dogavic @boozyjude @BorisJohnson I'd make a meme that explains to vaccine-obsessives how the human immune system works but etc.

5

1

61

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

I'm proud to sign the #TogetherDeclaration . Turning access to social life into a reward, not a right, is an affront to liberty. 'Vaccinate everyone' is now the pretext for turning everyday life into a privilege granted by politicians. This has to stop.

Alan D Miller

@alanvibe

3 years

This stops when we all say so #together Everyone that agrees should sign #TogetherDeclaration #NoVaccinePassportsAnywhere

2

17

45

1

17

63

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

'To reduce carbon emissions you need to consume less.' @BBCNews now completely degenerated into propaganda...

11

13

59

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

While this was happening, society began to fall apart. But this didn't matter to the politicians, who pretended they weren't responsible for this, because it was all the fault of the virus.

12

7

55

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

There was never any lockdown. There was just middle-class people going on holidays and business trips while working-class people brought them things.

4

11

63

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

Hancock isn't a matter of 'hypocrisy'. It's that he, Cummings and Ferguson had the arrogance to think that they had the moral authority to make judgements for themselves, while stripping everyone else of the same capacity to make their own moral judgements.

2

21

61

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

6 years

I'm compiling instances of freelance or temporary workers in arts and in art academia who have lost work, not had contracts renewed or been suspended/dismissed, for opinions (on any subject) they have expressed in public. DM or message me through my blog.

5

55

60

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

Yes to vaccines for the old, the vulnerable and those who want them. No to the indefinite medicalisation of society by coercion and exclusion, in the name of total safety. If you don't get this, then we're in conflict.

BBC Breaking News

@BBCBreaking

3 years

Germany to ban unvaccinated people from large parts of public life, including many shops and events, Chancellor Angela Merkel says

4K

14K

2

18

60

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

The artworld thinks it does politics but never asks why the politics it does threatens nobody.

2

8

57

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

The government kept saying to people that it would end its controls. But each time it came to lifting the restrictions, it would find more reasons not to, and began to invent even more complex controls to allow the ending of controls, which never came.

3

6

56

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

8 months

Suddenly the artworld has discovered it's all for freedom of expression. Funny how you get angry about censorship only when it's your views that are getting censored.

'It's censorship': Arts Council England under fire over new policy deterring 'overtly political...

Update to guidelines warns partner organisations that funding arrangements could be jeopardised by "reputational risk"

www.theartnewspaper.com

3

18

59

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

Laughably skewed report from @BBCNews . A small procession of XR, union anti-austerity and pro-Palestine people was eclipsed by a huge march of anti-lockdown protesters. I didn't see one climate change placard in three hours walking with the march.

London protests: Thousands march through capital in day of protest - BBC News

Protests take place across London, including anti-lockdown and climate change demonstrations.

www.bbc.com

2

6

55

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

4 years

Like many, I lost a loved one in during this lockdown. There is nothing noble about having to bury someone without their friends, without ceremony. Yet some want claim those experiences of loss to bolster their political agendas. They dare wave other peoples' grief...

8

11

57

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

Conspiracist misunderstand the state grab for emergency powers, believing it to be a plan, rather than a reflex response to the stasis and vacuity of Western politics before covid.

10

55

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

We need to control the pandemic of former world leaders suddenly thinking they should be listened to on covid.

4

6

56

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

4 years

'Ultimately, however, self-censorship is a choice, even at a time when speaking out can have ruinous personal consequences.' Good from @andrewdoyle_com | We need to be braver

We need to be braver

Standing up to woke intolerance isn’t easy. But we must do it.

www.spiked-online.com

0

12

56

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

It's not about whining 'ooh, it's one rule for them, another rule for the rest of us'. It's that the rules need to go.

2

9

55

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

Of course they will. They were gagging for it.

1

5

57

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

In this new state, everything would be run by rules, but nobody would take responsibility for anything, because all the rules were 'necessary', and dictated by experts.

1

6

52

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

5 years

Imagine the profound lack of imagination of a person who would spend $91m on an artwork everyone's seen before. Imagine spending that on grants for young artists. Imagine all the great works of art that haven't been made in favour of this vast rehearsal of the already-known...

7

20

58

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

4 years

Is there any contemporary art out there which isn't about identity, climate change or politics? Just asking for a friend...

27

4

58

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

4 years

Anyone who thinks that free speech is conditional on not offending anyone has just decapitated a schoolteacher.

3

14

50

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

Really good from @Tom_Slater_ . Plus bonus points for calling useless politicians 'plums' - haven't heard that epithet in a long time. / Boris Johnson: bumbling authoritarian

Boris Johnson: bumbling authoritarian

A PM who believes in nothing is a very dangerous thing.

www.spiked-online.com

3

13

52

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

Govt blather about 'ethical issues' trivialises what is offensive about vax-passes. The historical norm of liberal democracies is; you aren't checked by the state at every doorway. This isn't some chin-scratching 'ethical issue', but a founding principle of liberty.

4

12

56

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

4 years

@Trad_West_Arch Wow. Argument. Impressive.

11

0

49

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

I've had two doses of AZ, and I stand with everyone not vaccinated, because we've all got antibodies anyway. If you want to victimise you fellow citizen, go to hell. And, while you're at it, check in on the little sadomasochist fascist policeman who lives inside your head.

6

17

52

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

If the State of Victoria's mask mandate is this insane, why isn't its premier wearing a mask? Is it so that we can see what the face of a man bored of his own life looks like?

Carl Vernon

@RealCarlVernon

3 years

Yes. You heard that right. No taking your mask off while drinking 🤪

3K

2K

7K

5

10

51

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 months

Here's the thing about the JSOs, the book festival cancellers and music festival cancellers, the cultural boycotters. They do it because they think they have the moral high ground. They don't. Their arguments are extreme, partisan, often delusional. They get away with it because/

1

3

55

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

2 years

Magical thinking, the occult and the mystical are all back in art-fashion. So I wrote this about the long history of artistic anti-modernism.

The Return of Magic in Art

Do we prefer the unworldly to the world we currently live in?

artreview.com

8

9

52

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

11 months

Artists are faced with a culture of intolerance that hates free expression and hates art. Time to push back. Proud to support this important new initiative, launched by @RosieKayK2CO and @DeniseFahmy

FREEDOM IN THE ARTS

www.freedominthearts.com

Freedom_In_The_Arts

@Freedom_in_Arts

1 year

MISSON

6

70

181

0

16

50

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

@talkRADIO The best way to prevent restrictions is to have over 90% immunity. Oh, hang on, that's already happened. This dog-gnawing-a-bone obsession over vaccination has to stop. 100% consent is impossible, unnecessary, and now just a way of holding power over people indefinitely.

3

5

48

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

The principled objection to vaccinating everyone is not about being anti-vaccine - it's about refusing to become a society in which total vaccination becomes a permanent and *indefinite* feature of social existence, and a means of regulation, surveillance and social control.

6

8

52

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

9 months

I don't like how, in the art world, everyone has all the same opinions about everything. It's boring. Happy new year!

6

52

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 months

Maybe trying to blackmail everyone into giving into your lunatic demands, by trashing everything people value, makes you look like a bunch of entitled, authoritarian pricks.

Just Stop Oil

@JustStop_Oil

3 months

🚨 BREAKING: Just Stop Oil Spray Stonehenge Orange 🔥 2 people took action the day before Summer Solstice, demanding the incoming government sign up to a legally binding treaty to phase out fossil fuels by 2030. 🧯 Help us take megalithic action —

15K

882

4K

3

4

53

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

I find the 'show offensive content' twitter warning is a bit like a scratchcard. I'm always excited to see how offended I might be, and I'm always disappointed.

5

51

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

It's clear that the #Metaverse is about shrinking ordinary people's interaction with physical reality and each other, making fewer demands on crumbling public space, and consuming less. Going to nice places made of stuff - or 'Premium 3D' - will be strictly for the better-off.

6

5

47

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

Soho is an absolute party zone.

3

1

47

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

So the politicians did what the technocratic state, which they had created, had taught them to do. They outsourced their authority, to experts, because the experts would tell them what to do, and how to do it.

1

8

44

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

The endless cowardice of Labour - always hiding their lack of any opinion on the consequences of lockdown behind servile deference to 'the science'. How about 'the science' of a destroyed economy, jobs, mental health, civil liberties, children's education, and on, and on...

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

3 years

"All we’re hearing is briefings from ministers, rather than the science behind it. The government should present the evidence" Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves talks to #Marr on decisions to ease restrictions on 19 July

230

204

682

1

6

49

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

5 years

You have no right to speak in the name of the country's best interests. Resign your seat, which you won on a manifesto you have reneged.

Chris Leslie

@ChrisLeslieUK

5 years

Commons backbenchers win power to instruct Prime Minister to request extension of Article 50 - and avert no-deal crash-out #Brexit ...and by slimmest of margins. ERG right-wingers may be furious - but the country’s best interests won through.

485

665

4K

1

10

42

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

4 years

It's becoming clear that lockdown is now motored by the fear of taking any other action. That UK gov is paralysed by fear of 'second wave' should alarm everyone. It should be planning on *how do deal with* second wave, not how to avoid it forever.

Schools stay shut until June amid fears of second wave

Schools are not expected to reopen until June at the earliest after concerns that Britain could face a second wave of the coronavirus.At the weekend it was reported that plans have been drawn up with...

www.thetimes.com

9

12

45

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

6 years

Why would I want to look at this horseshit ever again?

Sotheby's

@Sothebys

6 years

It's your last chance to see Banksy’s newly titled ‘Love is in the Bin’, on view in our London galleries today from noon until 5pm. Final entry is at 4.40pm #LoveIsInTheBin #Banksy

17

121

255

6

49

JJ Charlesworth

@jjcharlesworth_

3 years

Some people began to think that this was a conspiracy, by the global elite, to seize power. But the reality was far stranger. Because nobody wanted to take responsibility for the consequences of decisions whose outcomes could not be predicted,

1

7

43