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@NesrineMalik

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Guardian columnist and features writer, author of We Need New Stories - nesrine.malik @theguardian .com

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2 years
Huge to have the first PM of colour - it only took running twice, losing the first time, not actually being elected the second time, two PM resignations, the shortest serving PM in history and an entire economic meltdown to shunt him into number 10. A proud moment.
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That’s right Jen (age 11)!
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Kept it together until this pic
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2 years
Politics aside, one has to acknowledge that Sunak sends a powerful message to people of colour - if you go to public school, amass a fortune, become the richest MP in parliament and with your wife have a joint asset worth larger than the King’s, you too can become prime minister.
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Sunak's just not very good is he. Nose buried in his notes, reads them studiously in no answer responses, not a single thought on his feet. An over promoted swot who shadowed bullies into power and now just utterly exposed.
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Good old Labour, waiting to see where the crowd is running then dashing in front
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Beth Rigby
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Labour backs Lineker: “BBC’s cowardly decision to take Lineker off air is an assault on free speech in face of political pressure “Tory politicians lobbying to get people sacked for disagreeing w govt policies should be laughed at, not pandered to. BBC should rethink decision”
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When you’ve lost Jeremy Clarkson it’s definitely time to reassess
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2 years
I dug into about 50 of the biggest culture war stories published in British papers for my book and not a single one was true as reported.
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‘If liberalism shows no ability or desire to protect civilian life, regional security and even its own electoral prospects, then its mission-defining claims of principle and competence collapse.’
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10 months
Sounds like…critical race theory.
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‘Cat child didn’t happen, just as Rule, Britannia was not axed. Nor was Cambridge “forced to drop white authors”, or a Muslim bus driver allowed to throw his passengers out so he could pray, or an Iraqi caught with a bomb awarded thousands of pounds’
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2 years
Simply, if the monarchy is such a benign unifying force, why does pointing anything negative about unearned wealth and status invite such extreme disdain and abuse?
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2 years
Starmer is MIA because he is frozen by the fact the the only viable solutions to the crisis include policies he has ruled out lest they sound too radical - utterly cornered by his fear of that perception over everything else.
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A question that needs to be asked is why it is the foreign media, from the Trojan Horse podcast to this Al Jazeera doc, that is asking these questions about failures happening in plain sight.
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this seems quite bad!
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Calling for the Israeli govt to investigate is farcical and clinging on to the notion, long eroded, that it still abides by any standards- it has gone rogue and is making clowns of these political leaders.
@Keir_Starmer
Keir Starmer
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Reports of the death of British nationals – among others from World Central Kitchen – in an Israeli strike on Gaza are horrifying. Our thoughts are with the families of all of those killed.
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3 months
Not sure if this is cynical desperation or just being so deep in the corporatisation of politics you just cannot fathom that people would simply care about something without being paid for it
@jacobkornbluh
Jacob N. Kornbluh
3 months
Nancy Pelosi: Protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza "is Mr. Putin's message... Make no mistake, this is directly connected to what he would like to see... "I think some of these protesters are spontaneous and organic and sincere. Some I think are connected to Russia."
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Every once in a while I think about how wild it is that in this country we just say ‘well Labour has to be careful because the extremely powerful tabloids and right wing press will monster it’. Like it’s the weather or something.
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There is actually a good botched point here - which is that slashing bursaries for nurse training, expensive medical school fees and poor pay in training means that the NHS has to recruit from abroad and then those recruits are scapegoated. THAT is the headline.
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BBC News (UK)
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Keir Starmer: Too many people from overseas recruited to NHS
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The reason why stuff like this gets so much hyper coverage is because there is a vacuum - Lineker’s views are not represented by mainstream opposition and so they become controversial by default and fill that vacuum
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What is happening in Gaza is more than death - it is the destruction of a whole architecture of Palestinian identity through the erasure of historical heritage, art, academic, and even memory. This week’s column
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In Gaza, babies are born on the ground in the wilderness, umbilical cords cut with whatever sharp object there is to hand, and tins filled with hot water keep the newborn warm. This week’s column
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1 year
A perfect encapsulation of race discourse in the UK - is it racist to be racist?
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1 year
To think that this wasn’t a problem for Andrew Neil who presented an actual political programme while editing a whole right wing political magazine. It’s not even double standards, it’s a clear expression of which views are considered beyond the pale and which are not.
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‘Labour is losing voters over Gaza. But it’s about more than that. The response to the conflict has revealed a party increasingly out of touch and contemptuous of its grassroots’
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“We have a commentariat, overwhelmingly from the same social class both as each other and the politicians they cover. Their reference points are limited, their comfort zone is narrow. Much as they may mock millennials for seeking safe spaces, that is entirely where they operate.”
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Press Gazette
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Journalist @garyyounge has warned that the narrow range of most British journalists’ backgrounds means it takes “a seismic event” for journalists to take an interest in problems that are for many people everyday realities
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Laura K’s new show has a desperate fractious career endgame vibe and they should be grateful to Joe Lycett for making it relevant for 5 mins.
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1 year
Just one sentence that means something I beg
@RachelReevesMP
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We must embrace a new era of partnership. With the market, with working people and with our allies. It's so we can build a stronger and more resilient economy. That's my vision for Britain.
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Liz Truss again appearing at Britain’s moments of high drama and ceremony and extinguishing them with a single breath of flat speech.
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2 years
Non-declining powers famously need a press to constantly state the fact that they are not declining, call people unpatriotic when they disagree, and accuse the international media of having a vendetta.
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Andrew Neil
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ANDREW NEIL: This week proved Britain ISN'T a declining power via @MailOnline
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1 year
‘The pandemic was a bonanza for billionaires. They captured nearly twice as much new wealth as the rest of the world, and most nations reduced or froze taxes on them. It’s no longer conspiracy talk to say the system is rigged.’
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At no point do the words ‘affordable childcare’ appear here
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Noa Hoffman
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Exc: Stay at home mums will be wooed to the office in a fresh back to work blitz. Partners of Brits on benefits may be specifically targeted to get a job under plans being considered by ministers. Part of drive to get economically inactive back to work
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Not often this happens, but am genuinely speechless
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The stuff that The Spectator manages to get away and still remain within the respectable mainstream tells us perhaps more about that respectable mainstream than it does The Spectator
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Lea Ypi
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Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” ( @DarwinCollege ) Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the @spectator libido section.
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2 years
‘There is a strange amnesty that is extended to the Labour party, or *this* Labour party, when it comes to allegations of prejudice towards people of colour and Muslims by the wider press – and even more so if they happen to be on the left of the spectrum’
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As a second language speaker there are some English phrases I just use boldly without any real understanding of what they mean, just going with the energy I get from them. ‘Not to put too fine a point on it’ I’ll say - and just hope the vibe is right.
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'Qatar is the 10th largest landowner in Britain. In the runup to the World Cup, the value of Qatar’s gifts to British MPs was greater than the amount spent by all the other 15 countries whose governments made donations to British MPs *combined*. '
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'By all means boycott the football, but we could also follow the trail of gifts, property and arms deals closer to home.' This week's column on Qatar's sponsors
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2 years
Who had ‘the Tories are not deporting enough people fast enough’ on Labour’s new talking points card
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Sky News
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'This is a problem made under their watch' Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves MP says that illegal immigration has been on the increase whilst Conservatives have been in government and calls the lack of deportations "12 years of Tory failure" 👉 📺 Sky 501
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I must say I've been surprised by how silent so many progressives have been on this. 'Rarely has a crime been so honestly spelled out by its architects. Tacit acquiescence allows horror to continue. Words can be dangerous, but so too can their absence.'
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Come on man
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7 months
Honestly at this point it’s better to go for ‘misspoke’ or even the trademark ‘circumstances have changed’. This is bizarre and provokes those he’s trying to appease more. It was on on camera!
@Keir_Starmer
Keir Starmer
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I was questioned by members and I was deeply moved to hear their pain and horror at the suffering of civilians in Gaza. I made clear it is not and has never been my view that Israel had the right to cut off water, food, fuel or medicines. International law must be followed.
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‘How is it possible, for a small delivery fee, to now receive, if you wish, anything from a coffee and breakfast to a large order of groceries in less than an hour? The answer is that the rider is paying for it.’
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2 years
Where is your centrist god now
@10DowningStreet
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The Rt Hon Suella Braverman KC MP @SuellaBraverman has been appointed Secretary of State for the Home Department @UKHomeOffice . #Reshuffle
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British politics is increasingly just looking around regularly plaintively asking ‘how did it come to this’, and then promptly getting back to the business of doing all the things that bring us to this.
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1 year
A classic of the genre where what is really being said ‘It’s a travesty that my views are dominant but not popular’.
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So many alarming findings here, but also depressingly predictable that Labour's indifference to racism against black people and Muslims is consistent with a wider indifference. The hierarchy of racism Forde refers to applies to British society in general
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In the end men who cannot stand women who disagree with them really live in a private hell of fragility and ego protection. Imagine being in that state of anxiety the whole time.
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2 years
Sunak and Truss’s pretence that they came from less privileged class backgrounds is absurd, but it’s part of a British tradition dishonesty about affluent origins. This week’s column
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This will be interesting, as Chimamanda recently threatened to pull out of an event hosted by a free speech org if I were not replaced as her interviewer. The organisation would not disclose to me the reason why unless I swore to confidentiality. I did not agree.
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What’s striking about this new genre of Starmer praise is how utterly joyless it is. How little it articulates any excitement or even vision for what the end game is all for. It makes winning sound like a series of strategic defeats.
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The queen provided not a bridge for the country, but an alibi. It’s time for her to rest, and more than time for the country to wake up. This week’s column
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‘They may not have a PhD in Middle Eastern studies, but in the long run, the instincts of those who have argued for restraint, compassion, adherence to international law and the bloody pointlessness of reprisal have been proved right.’ This week’s column
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Expect much more of this sort of thing.
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2 years
In this disastrous final act the only thing to remember is that it was entirely predictable, and those who brought it about preferred the status quo to continue under a notorious liar than contemplate any alternative that challenged the arrangements of power and economy in the UK
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‘Piers Morgan has gone from Good Morning Britain to good evening no one,” and ‘GB News has halved in value.’ That’s the good news. The bad news is that there’s plenty more of what they have to offer elsewhere. This week’s column.
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The main thing that he doesn’t understand is that people would rather take Twitter down with them than pay him. That’s it. That’s the stand off.
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twitter is officially over. RIP to a real one
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‘Remembering matters, and it’s easy to forget, among the scenes of death and destruction, that Gaza is a real place that, even though it existed behind a fence and under severe restrictions, was not only just an “open-air prison”.’
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‘Freaking out about young people’s support for Palestine is about more than social media. It’s about the closing of a window on an entire era of successfully managing public opinion on foreign policy in general, and in the Middle East in particular’
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Weirdly recovery from Covid second time round is just not happening for me despite the fact that the first time round I wasn’t even vaccinated. Always a sting in the tail. I wonder if twice means there’s some long term damage.
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'By all means boycott the football, but we could also follow the trail of gifts, property and arms deals closer to home.' This week's column on Qatar's sponsors
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The reason Sunak keeps this dangerous woman in position is because he knows the Tories have nothing else but this now.
@SuellaBraverman
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I condemn the appalling disorder in Knowsley last night. The alleged behaviour of some asylum seekers is never an excuse for violence and intimidation. Thank you to @merseypolice officers for keeping everyone safe.
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After years of being told we need grown ups in charge here they are - robotic caught in headlights Apprentice applicants that want the job more than they know why they do or what the point is of the job in the first place. A final deracination of politics.
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A difficult piece to write - my longread on the violence that has engulfed Khartoum, the heavy toll of its destruction, and despite the city's faults, what its loss forecloses in terms of peaceful resolution to Sudan's war.
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‘The golliwog, despite it being a relic of the past, is in fact a symbol of the present. You are only allowed visibility as a black figure if you’re grateful, permanently smiling in all circumstances.’
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A brief sample: 1 - Muslim driver 'threw passengers off the bus so he could pray'. (The Sun) The driver was on his statutory break and did not interact with passengers. He won £30K in compensation.
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If the Barclay family can’t afford the Telegraph they should make a paper with cheaper ingredients
@fletcherr
Richard Fletcher
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Exclusive: Lloyds Banking Group  has threatened to put the owner of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph into administration after the breakdown of talks with the Barclay family, the owner of the newspapers
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When you’re on the wrong side of the UN, human rights orgs, and objecting to a submission in a global court, in the case of the US and UK, a court that you established, you are dismantling your house with the very tools that built it. This week’s column
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If you don’t fight the culture war, this is what happens. It creeps into our non-political institutions, hijacks them, then wrecks them. You can’t ring fence culture away from politics.
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The no hope will continue until morale improves
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This seems unnecessarily dodgy??
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‘It is often said that the UK is not a rich country, but a poor society with some very rich people. It’s now similarly true that the UK is not a regressive country, but increasingly a progressive society with some very regressive people.’
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It’s relentless and no amount of complaints corrections or compensation challenges the propaganda business model enough for it not to be lucrative both commercially and politically
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‘You will hear much more about ‘broken Britain’. The difference this time, is that it will be said by people who will be heard, because they will not demand that anything material should change.’
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‘Starmer is rewarded for his authoritarianism by a media and business establishment happy to see Labour accept that, for millions of people, things will still be tough after a Labour win, because their misery is the price of a Labour win’ Today’s column
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The end result is fascist politics, but I think a lot of thin skinned people are radicalised just by being told no on the internet. The result is a flight to those who agree with you whoever the hell they are because the other side was mean to you.
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Read Let This Radicalize You
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The world’s richest man is fully embracing fascism
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It really is through the looking glass stuff when the Today programme is arguing with a Labour leader on why he doesn’t support nationalisation
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ℹ️ Not The Torygraph 💚 #SaveOurNHS #ScrapNHSBill
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Watch this until the end. He’s knows how bad this is.
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While at the same time being dismissive of any talk of conspiracy or a minority vested interest. Either the country has a healthy low mediation political culture where the public has clean access to the facts or it’s not. It can’t be both.
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how does this straight up incitement to violence get past the regulator in any way
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I suppose she couldn't say " 'wokeness' means whatever I want it to mean in any given situation and I reserve the right to apply it arbitrarily to suit my political ends"
@vanguard_pod
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LOL: Briahna Joy Gray BREAKS the brain of Rising guest Bethany Mandel by asking her to define "wokeness"
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We want to import people to prop up our education systems, NHS, and care sector, but don’t want them to bring family, house themselves, use the NHS or send their kids to school. How does that work? This week’s column on the hypocrisy around immigration
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Back from sick leave. This week’s column is about why it feels that Gaza burnout is threatening, and how politicians are counting on exactly that happening.
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Actual Sudanese citizens have little stake in this conflict. The army and the RSF were partners, and slaughtered civilians together. It’s not a civil war or even a rebellion, but a falling out of two heavily armed parties who can’t agree on how to divide the country between them
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Or Sunak is in fact, as right wing on immigration as he himself has explicitly said several times
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Parties too radical to receive a hearing now include street protestors, students, the UN, NGOs, the ICJ, and the London Review of Books
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This week’s column is on how Gaza has become a political crisis for Biden, Starmer, and others who have demonstrated neither principle nor competence
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‘If liberalism shows no ability or desire to protect civilian life, regional security and even its own electoral prospects, then its mission-defining claims of principle and competence collapse.’
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2 - 'Another human rights fiasco' as Iraqi caught 'red handed with bomb' awarded £33K in compensation for being kept in custody too long' (The Mail) IPSO ruled that the account was 'pure fiction'
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‘The details coming out of Gaza are so graphic, so relentless, that now may be the time to think about what progressive values, feminist or otherwise, really mean if they stop at the threshold of what is familiar.’
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4 - 'Student forces Cambridge to drop white authors' (The Telegraph) Not only had Cambridge not dropped any white authors, the open letter which the targeted student signed made no such request in the first place. A small apology was issued the next day in tiny print.
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If you want public figures not to become politicised then look to why the actual politicians are ceding that space to them
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First as tragedy, then as podcast
@polcurrency
Political Currency
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“This is no time for a novice.” How The Sun’s Rebekah Brooks chose this killer line for Gordon Brown’s conference speech. Listen to the latest episode of Political Currency 🎧
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'If Rishi Sunak sent the SAS to just shoot one people smuggler dead, do you think he would win the next election?' 'Well I would be more inclined if he shot 12 or 20 dead but you're quite right, it would be great, it would be fantastic'
@GBNEWS
GB News
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‘To be clear, we’re not advocating violence.’ ‘I am!’ Kelvin MacKenzie gives his take on how the UK Government should deal with the migrant crisis. 📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604 💻 GB News YouTube:
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