Alex Marshall @ralexm Twitter profile

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Alex Marshall

@ralexm

2 months

Just to point out police allowing it to happen is one of the key qualities of a pogrom.

Nicolas Chinardet

@zefrog

2 months

Racists thugs have set fire to a Rotherham hotel housing migrants, after the police retreated...

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Now *that's* what I call left infighting.

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3 years

When a total stranger compliments your fearful symmetry

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@LottieMoss All the people quote-tweeting this with "who?" and "I don't know who this person is", I urge you to find out as it makes the tweet *much* funnier.

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"Undercover cops didn't infiltrate the far right because they were too violent and involved in too many crimes" is a hilarious excuse

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3 years

1973: Leonard Cohen plays a concert for the Israeli military to reduce their morale

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3 years

One thing I admire about conservatism is the ability to switch seamlessly between "liberals despise ordinary people" and "enunciate you Cockney oik"

The Spectator

@spectator

3 years

‘I think Digby Jones has a point. Leaving the G off the end of words like rowing, swimming, boxing etc is mispronunciation. It’s incorrect English. This isn’t about accent or class. It’s about speaking clearly and universally.’ ✍️ Brendan O’Neill

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4 years

Amazed all the places you find around the world that are named after Britain

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@ralexm

3 years

I like UK journalism because tweeting to a journalist that their office should get blown up is near-universally considered worse than doing it.

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@ralexm

4 years

A single North London borough has absolutely melted Britain's brain into goo.

Jim Pickard 🐋

@PickardJE

4 years

once again the PM mocks Starmer for living in Islington, despite Boris Johnson himself having lived in a five-storey, Grade II listed home in Islington - worth £3.75 million - from 2009 to 2019

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11 months

Forgot to even mention some of them dying, the transition from Remembrance Day to War Christmas is almost complete.

Keir Starmer

@Keir_Starmer

11 months

This weekend is a time for the country to stop, reflect, and remember our armed forces who have kept and continue to keep us safe. We say thank you to everyone who has served, those who continue to serve, and their families, who sacrifice so much.

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3 years

@inthesedeserts See this is interesting. The Gender Critical interviewer gets a chance to define her beliefs and then doesn't mention gender, critique or feminism.

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@ralexm

4 years

This is probably the best explanation for this phenomenon: how dare you assume the things I advocate reflect the values I like to think I have.

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@ralexm

3 years

This isn't even the first time I've seen the Labour Right defend the murder of a Jewish woman by a proto-fascist paramilitary.

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@johnmcternan

3 years

She hated the SPD government, and our sister party’s great leader Friedrich Ebert.

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4 years

UK Discourse spent five years solemnly insisting we learn the lessons of the Holocaust while flatly refusing to learn this one

Working Class History

@wrkclasshistory

4 years

#OtD 3 Aug 1939 Walter Altmann and Gunther Mann, two Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, were deported from the UK back to Belgium where they had tried to cross the Channel in a 3-metre dinghy which capsized. Both were killed in the concentration camps.

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4 months

Sheffield right now

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2 years

Reminds me of when my mum tried to return a broken umbrella but it apparently "wasn't designed for adverse weather conditions". It reminds me of the teapot I bought that cracked when I put hot water in it.

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3 years

@derJamesJackson I like this because there are an infinite number of political positions you could hold with that jacket but not a single calm or reasonable one.

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4 years

@ObjectUK it's literally written on his face, come on

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@ralexm

5 years

@MichaelRosenYes @LordJohnMann Should an antisemitism tsar be blocking Jewish voters for reporting antisemitism cases to him? Very dubious.

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2 years

@lastpositivist Twenty years of "discontentment is effeminate" managed to birth "real men keep their heads down and let you push them about", fascinating.

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2 years

We've found where "free speech absolutism" ends and it's exactly where we all knew it would.

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2 years

The right to protest should never eclipse property rights.

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3 years

@MasculineTakes I want to draw your attention to the fact that someone has photoshopped a beard onto a lion.

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@ralexm

4 years

Classic racist-era New Labour fudge. Magnanimous exceptions for the few select Good Immigrants that we happen to like and find useful.

Sienna Rodgers

@siennamarla

4 years

Keir Starmer says Labour will table an amendment to the immigration bill to exempt NHS and care workers from the immigration health surcharge. #PMQs

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@ralexm

4 years

Was it @flying_rodent who had the theory that the Labour right were mainly scared Corbyn would get in and start declassifying documents?

Aaron Bastani

@AaronBastani

4 years

This is completely insane and indefensible. The @EagletonOliver book on @Keir_Starmer is going to be a hugely important work. The research looks relentlessly thorough.

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2 years

"Why is cultural clout restricted to people who have it on merit when it should be for rich people who buy it?" is basically the core of right-wing politics in 2022.

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@HeerJeet

2 years

I hope this site survives. It's a lot of fun.

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4 years

We're headed towards a consensus where whether a fact is patriotic or aids our imperial rivals counts more than whether it's true.

Paul Brand

@PaulBrandITV

4 years

“If we knew those documents came from Russia of course we wouldn’t use them” in future, says @lisanandy about leaked docs during election. And more widely: “I’ve said it before and I’ve said it again, we got in wrong on Russia”, for example, over Salisbury poisonings. #Marr

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2 years

@JNickenig @apmassaro3 I, a smart European, would simply deport that guy who's leaving back onto the board.

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7 years

Honestly think this is one of Corbyn's most astonishing achievements

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3 years

@alandriscoll @thumperward Is this a new development or is all of Glinner's trajectory just a prolonged response to who was rude to him on twitter in 2014?

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4 years

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@ralexm

4 years

The fact a direct challenge to the idea of learning from and not repeating the Holocaust is getting printed in a mainstream magazine is pretty serious.

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@Mr_Considerate

4 years

I’m sorry, but this is genuinely disgusting.

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4 months

@AirwaysAsda Are you sure they're tankies, it does say "TROT" in capital letters, and it'd be pretty embarrassing to use "tankie" to mean "generic Marxist".

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2 years

@thekafkadude No, we're sorry. Didn't know each other but you deserved better and you were great on here. Your absence will be felt.

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@ralexm

4 years

Ever think how the Communist Manifesto just opens with "lol rattled"?

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@ralexm

3 years

Contains a great example of "there's no evidence for it but the fact we could make it up only reinforces my point".

uberfeminist

@uberfeminist

3 years

Jordan Peterson and Bret Weinstein are the dumbest paleoconservatives of all time

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2 years

@Josemaybe @kennedytcooper Ok but that's what fascinates me: there are, famously, Black and Indigenous Americans with grandparents born in the US. Will they employ them?

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5 years

@GuidoFawkes Isn't this the kind of firm stance against antisemitism we want to see from the Labour Party?

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3 years

Love living in a country where 16-year-olds consenting to puberty blockers is bad and 16-year-olds consenting to the Somme is extremely good.

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@ralexm

2 years

This is the farce iteration of Fukuyama declaring that history had ended the same year as 9/11.

Louis Staples

@LouisStaples

2 years

thoughts and prayers to the authors of this book. out December 8th!

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3 years

@Andrew_Adonis Lord Adonis are you doing "ladies and gentlemen: we got him" for the author of a report that reflected badly on Tony Blair?

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4 years

These pasta recipes are very clever and frugal and I'm very proud of you all, but if it's so cheap to feed kids why can the taxpayer not spare it?

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@ralexm

2 years

6½ years of zero-tolerance on the bad kind of racism, a decade of Free Speech Discourse, and this is what happens if you observe a government policy is racist.

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

2 years

Match of the Day host Gary Lineker to be 'spoken to' after comparing new UK asylum policy to Nazi Germany

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2 years

@IndiaWilloughby This is so easy to solve. Customer comes up and asks about who counts, you say "I'm unsure". If they reply, "hi unsure, I'm dad", start pouring.

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4 months

@AirwaysAsda I'll be honest, that's a pretty stupid way to use "tankie" for a variety of reasons.

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3 years

The most groundbreaking PhD of 2063 is going to be on self-identification, political centrism in Britain and intrusive questions about genitals.

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4 years

I've now seen more debate on my timeline about the dangers posed by trans women than I have about police. Are we sure we're being sensible here?

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@ralexm

4 years

You, for some reason: Thank goodness 2020 is over and we can have a normal year. 2021: You now have to learn the technical term "stonks nihilism".

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@AyoCaesar

4 years

Will shitposters bring down capitalism? My take in this morning’s Cortado 👇🏾

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@ralexm

5 years

@SkyNews @RaynerSkyNews I dunno about "radical". It seems to be standard, middle-of-the-road, banal Islamophobia, homophobia and antisemitism.

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@ralexm

10 months

Quiet part loud on antisemitism being divorced from anything to do with Jews or racism and just used as a proxy for unpatriotic behaviour.

Igor Matviyets 🇺🇦

@IgorMatviyets

10 months

@DanWei55 Wenn man die Menschen in #Gaza nicht für antisemitische Takes gegen Deutschland verwenden könnte, wärst du doch gar nicht hier.

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9 years

My favourite about Oxbridge colleges is when white undergrad chaps explain "I don't need safe spaces" from inside an actual mini castle.

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@ralexm

3 years

The strategy of Holocaust denial isn't just to somehow prove it didn't happen, it's to spin it as an open question. "Debating" it helps that.

Dr Hannah Murray

@hl_murray

3 years

What is thought-provoking, new or interesting about Holocaust denial that it deserves a university event? It doesn’t deserve the airtime to be refuted.

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@XanderTheMeh Yeah I mean we can hardly complain that there aren't enough cops working within far-right organisations.

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2 years

What's the word for a busman's holiday but for undercover infiltration?

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3 years

@cenkuygur Richard Dawkins called, he says you've oversimplified the role of religion in a sociopolitical phenomenon and made a fool of yourself online.

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@ralexm

5 years

If he's voting Tory or telling people to vote Tory then Ian Austin's motive for opposing Corbyn isn't anti-racism.

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@ralexm

4 years

We're finally there as a culture, we've finally hit the point where we believe, at least partly unironically, that Russia has magical powers.

Anthony Sabatini

@AnthonySabatini

4 years

Guys, just to let you know I had the Russian Covid19 vaccination yesterday and can tell you there are absolutely no negative sideffski efectovski secundariosvki Кто может это прочитать Обожаю Владимира Путина!

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4 years

Ten years to the day

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3 years

@leekern13 Lee are you unaware of Yarl's Woof, the Windrush scandal, deaths in the channel or the Nationalities and Borders Bill or is this straight denialism?

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@ralexm

5 years

A fascinating thing I found teaching ESOL is Eritreans, Russians, Arabs all get jokes about this. Doctors' handwriting transcends alphabets.

Hugh Harvey

@DrHughHarvey

5 years

This says Paracetamol... apparently

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@ralexm

2 years

What you have to remember about these people is they're not pragmatic or electoralist or Concerned About anything. They're just very very right-wing.

The Guardian

@guardian

2 years

Tony Blair tells Starmer to drop ‘woke’ politics and focus on economy

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@ralexm

4 years

Obvious joke but if Gordon Brown genuinely thought Jeremy Corbyn was a bigot, he'd be the one apologising to him.

Ailbhe Rea

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4 years

Gordon Brown tells us on today's @NewStatesman podcast that Jeremy Corbyn "has to apologise" for his response to the EHRC report

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4 years

@ParkerMolloy It's also a WWI cemetery, you're aware that wasn't a war fought against Nazis, right?

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7 years

"May you live in interesting times" is meant to be a curse but honestly, it's hilarious.

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@ralexm

4 years

Revealing that "considered an ally by prominent Jewish voices" outranks "Jewish", in the hierarchy of Being Jewish.

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@davidgraeber

4 years

this is the actual text of what the editor told me

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@antisemitism I thought being a lifelong anti-racist wasn't an excuse for having a blind-spot to antisemitism?

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6 years

Day 0: Respect experts and institutions Day 1: Bastani's PhD is fake Day 2: Ok it's real but what's he hiding? Day 3: Royal Holloway is fake

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@ralexm

2 years

This might be controversial but reporting on countries' human rights records without consulting their government is half the point of Amnesty.

Sergej Sumlenny, LL.M

@sumlenny

2 years

After scandalous facts about how @amnesty ignored Amnesty Ukraine protests and prepared and published the Ukraine report without consultation with Kyiv and against its expert advice: #AgnesCallamardMustResign Like, if you agree. Retweet if you think it should have been done!

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@BillCar26144462 You've clearly not been reading the posters popping up all over the place instructing you to Get Organised if you are.

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3 years

@resplendentKid @hangelicapickls Different countries can have different primary fruits I guess. E.g. a persimmon can be primary or secondary in Iran but tertiary in the UK.

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@ralexm

5 years

@andyjey @portraitinflesh With respect Andrew, there's not actually a need to keep codebreaking operations or carefully synchronised landings secret from a virus.

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@ralexm

3 years

This is a great point but I feel it should be reserved for people who don't work for LBC to make.

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3 years

Also this writer has clearly no idea about vast numbers of plants and (e.g) flatworms, some species of African frogs, and thinks there's girl amoebas.

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4 years

@ella_em_ This reminds me of when I saw "a macho preoccupation with war" being used as a criticism of the anti-war left.

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@ralexm

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@Telegraph Look I know it's your job to get angry about nothing but are we really meant to be upset that theatregoers get information about the production?

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2 years

@PequenoPete Imagine being a political infiltration cop, training for years to fake political opinions, then getting assigned a group with your beliefs. What a waste.

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@ralexm

4 years

@TheEpicDept @AndrewBartletta [Leaning over spider's web to talk to trapped fly] You know who ELSE "struggled"?

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8 years

Hats off to 2010 Žižek for accurately foreseeing 2016 Žižek.

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@Surflick @clarisselou I like that last option and enjoy the thought of Harrison Ford finding the nine of hearts in random mangos and bananas for the rest of the week.

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@x22tremeanimal @prophethusband wrong some of them are delicious cupcakes

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I hope the 1000000 people replying to insinuate the Met police already know half the far right groups socially are following and making friends.

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@ralexm

4 years

Theory: Islington Discourse is entirely a product of affluent right-wing Islingtonites getting frustrated with their liberal neighbours.

Jim Pickard 🐋

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4 years

once again the PM mocks Starmer for living in Islington, despite Boris Johnson himself having lived in a five-storey, Grade II listed home in Islington - worth £3.75 million - from 2009 to 2019

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Someone could and should write an entire PhD thesis on the specific way British people do not understand what Britain is.

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@Pyrrho19 @PavloShopin @dbatherwoods @inkbitspixels Actually "Frankenstein's Monster" is the name of the monster. "Frankenstein's Daemon" is a magical weasel that follows him around.

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@TedrosGottaGo Yeah another key trait of pogroms is being incited from above rather than directed by the state.

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@ralexm

3 years

Abusive "pile-ons" are bad, but can we all agree ordinary people telling politicians and journalists if they're wrong is essentially a good thing?

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@ralexm

4 years

Tom Newton-Dunn used a hitlist compiled by a group called "Aryan Unity" yet his account is still up. Clearly @Twitter has learned nothing.

Tom Newton Dunn

@tnewtondunn

4 years

Five days after his first blatantly antisemitic posts, @WileyCEO ’s Twitter account has finally been suspended, a day after Facebook did the same and only because of concerted public pressure. Big tech has once again proved it’s incapable of self-regulating.

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Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger @SimpsonsAlbums

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@7472616E73 I dunno if it's a straight-up admission, more just completely forgetting about feminism entirely in an interview with Margaret literal Atwood.

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@ralexm

2 years

Twentieth-century communism, like the Orient, is best understood as first and foremost a lens filter.

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Soviet Glasgow in the Tetris trailer

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@ralexm

4 years

The idea that Labour Moderates essentially understand "Jewish" as a geopolitical position explains so much.

jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה

@jewdas

4 years

Send Mike Gapes to the Hague!

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@marx_knopfler If I did not want to be hoisted I would simply not own a petard.

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@digitalocean Well done, although you've still got work to do when it comes to hosting antisemitic sites

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@Mxv021 @MeLadyFreshness @marcusjdl Yeah it's a reference to Foster's Law, for which he was a key case study.

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@CIA The rake I laid very carefully, prongs up and towards me, outside my front door and then forgot about completely, had helped me collect fallen leaves.

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@sajidjavid I wouldn't say that. One of them gets to be PM.

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