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Mythical;Marxist trade unionist & beard campaigner;Keith Flett is still alive(all Guardian) 'shamelessly partisan' Times Literary Supplement

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Joined July 2009
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keith flett
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The Sunday Mirror reports that after Tory Conference Boris Johnson left for a week's holiday in Marbella. He is reported to be staying at a property owned by Lord Fink, tax avoider & hedge fund manager...
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I read in the Murdoch Times that various business types think a Bank Holiday on the day of the Queen's funeral will be bad for business. How unpatriotic. I hope the police are on their way to arrest them
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Guardian Fletter
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David is my MP & I'm afraid this is very poor stuff. He appeared on the same platform as Corbyn at the Bernie Grant Centre in Tottenham on 13th March 2020 (I was there) to mark the 20th anniversary of Bernie's death. Corbyn was the keynote speaker. Rewriting history doesnt work
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David Lammy apologises for nominating Corbyn to be Labour leader
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From today's Morning Star, one of the great corrections. The challenge is on. Can the Grauniad manage a better typo?
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particularly after the racist thuggery today we cant edit history. Its time to have a permanent reminder that the leader of London Chartism in 1848 was a black man & the son of a slave #BlackHistoryMatters
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Huge thanks to all at nhscymru for caring for me at the University hospitals Cardiff over the last 2 months & saving my life twice. My beard remains trimmed
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Two years today since the first lockdown & we're still not learning from our history. Sajid Javid says rise in Covid cases is of 'no particular concern'. Chris Whitty examining the reality suggests otherwise
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BBC reports that Netanyahu wont back a truce negotiated with US & Egypt which Hamas has agreed & Israel is now bombing civilians in Rafah. More than time for Cameron to send the Israeli Ambassador home & stop all arms sales to Israel.
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Its St David's Day & after a record poll @michaelsheen has been declared Beard of Wales 2020
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keith flett
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Beard of Wales 2020 poll update. After regaining the lead overnight @hef4caerphilly is now trailing to @michaelsheen once more. Competition is bristling. Vote at the link below (ends midnight, Friday)
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The Beard Liberation Front has confirmed the final figures in the Best Beard of Lockdown poll. @MichaelRosenYes with 62.39% of the votes @michaelsheen was in 2nd place with 14.16% of the votes
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Note a Tory MP says the new BBC Political Editor should be more pro-Brexit. As a long time supporter of Public Service Broadcasting I'd like someone who I couldnt tell from their reports where they stood on the matter.
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Day 3 at University Hospital Wales. CT Scan. Seen specialist who says prognosis is good. Beard remains fully intact
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keith flett
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While Gove's cocaine use story is entertaining in one register in another it is not. While well off people use cocaine, the supply chain leads to gang war & stabbings in areas like North London where Gove also lives. Pleasure for the rich, lives ruined for the poor @DavidLammy
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Things are looking bad for Johnson. The BBC news website has started calling him Johnson
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4 years
National Beard Week concludes today with author & Arsenal fan @MichaelRosenYes being named Beard of Summer 2020. He shaved @michaelsheen for the honour by several beard lengths
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lovely end to @BBCNewsnight as Beard of Summer 2020 @MichaelRosenYes reads from These Are The Hands on the @NHSuk Powerful words
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keith flett
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Deplorable treatment of a hugely important figure. Solidarity
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As a Black woman, and someone on the left of the Labour Party, I have unfortunately been forced to reach the conclusion that I will not get a fair hearing from this Labour leadership.
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Telegraph's front page message to Boris Johnson
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TELEGRAPH: ‘Go back to work or risk losing your job’ #TomorrowsPapersToday
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To University Hospital Cardiff for post discharge review. Consultant pleased with chest x-ray & notes 'remarkable recovery'. Key point now is to take time to recover full fitness. I can only thank the @NHS again for excellent care
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Concerning news that Priti Patel has a Sociology A Level & is therefore likely to be classified as Woke by Suella Braverman (Times 16th August) @MichaelRosenYes
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After the Sunday Times front page (19.4) a reminder of what his Eton reports said: 'lateness, non-appearance of work and a lack of organisation’. >that was in 1981. It proved to be deadly serious in 2020
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Terry Venables 1943-2023. Plenty of coverage of his extensive footballing career & business activities in the media today. One dimension is missing. He was a founding signatory of the Anti-Nazi League in 1978
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Morgan has blinked first
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PIERS MORGAN HAS BLOCKED ME! WHY???
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. @PrivateEyeNews 1433 buy a copy
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1 year
Boris Johnson's lies. The banana question (Times 20th March)
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@BellBelltoons the alleged Shakespearan analogy in the message hardly fits the political message of the cartoon, except possibly to someone who is ignorant of both
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keith flett
3 years
Gareth Southgate & the England team took a knee against racism (even when criticised by Ministers). That will be the enduring legacy of #Euro2020 & a good one. They can be proud of what they did
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Irrespective of who wins at Wembley tonight taking the knee against racism has been a winner at #EURO2020 & booers like Priti Patel losers
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I note that @grantshapps who as an MP & Minister is paid £151,000 a year is criticising @ASLEFunion train drivers some of whom are paid up to £60,000 a a year for democratically deciding in a ballot they don't want a pay cut.I know who I think deserves the money @MickWhelanASLEF
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keith flett
10 years
Local Election latest. UKIP have won Nick Robinson from the Tories
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keith flett
5 years
I see tweets pondering whether Jeremy Corbyn has ever done drugs. I've spent 40 years trying to get him to drink a glass of beard friendly beer,& failed. At least in recent times he has shown interest in the rise of craft beer but that hasn't extended to drinking it..
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keith flett
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The first 15 minute quarter #SuperBowl53 has taken 42 minutes to complete & there is no score. Truly Geoffrey Boycott got into the wrong sport #bbcnfl @bbctms
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I was discharged from hospital to home a month ago today. There is progress in history & thanks to @Megfdavies for looking after me
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while Ive enjoyed the cricket commentary @bbctms since the 1960s it remains the case that its at its very best when rain has stopped play & there is no actual cricket to describe
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Detail from cover of latest @PrivateEyeNews buy a copy
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Suella Braverman who spent a good deal of time as Home Secretary trying to ban protests she didnt agree with has complained about a ban on a far right event in Brussels she spoke at today
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Very sorry to read of the death of Bruce Kent at 92. A veteran campaigner for a better world. If anyone deserves a statue it's him (which he'd hate) but more than that a continuing peace campaign to stop wars @CNDuk @STWuk
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Bruce Kent obituary. Leading light of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Roman Catholic priest
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The man at the next table to me @TheCockTavernE8 is reading Sartre with his pint. Hackney..
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keith flett
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Back to work today after 4 months sick absence (2 months seriously ill in hospital). Thanks to the NHS, my union @ProspectUnion & my employer for support & forbearance. Just the 3,478 emails,but taking it gradually for a few weeks
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Tonight's photo, back on the Ward at Llandough after yesterday's op. Beard flourishing to mark @jeremycorbyn birthday @Megfdavies
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The Italian election results remind of @MichaelRosenYes poem: I sometimes fear that people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress worn by grotesques and monsters as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis. Fascism arrives as your friend.
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For those interested still in hospital recovering from lung op. Saw consultants collective earlier. Improving every day & I feel much better @Megfdavies
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keith flett
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Author & Arsenal fan @MichaelRosenYes has been voted Best Beard of Lockdown in a special poll. He shaved the opposition with over 60% of the vote. Details here
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My late father fought at Monte Cassino & was at the liberation of Belsen. He rarely spoke of it but remained a lifelong anti-fascist, active in the Anti-Nazi League in later life
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Remembrance Sunday is not a Culture War. It’s about Never Again
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keith flett
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@DerbyChrisW see Tressell's Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. Hastings Council in early C20th banned socialists from meeting in the town. They hired a boat & spoke to an audience on the beach from just offshore
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Letters Murdoch Times (11th Aug) on their silly season story about two Universities making a couple of books not essential reading. No blacklisting was involved & the letters aren't Tunbridge Wells classics either
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keith flett
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The Beard Liberation Front has recieved & rejected a complaint that @MichaelRosenYes does not have a beard but is simply 'unshaven'. @michaelsheen @MichaelRosenYes are confirmed as joint Beards of the Year 2020
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Terry Venables 1943-2023. He had interesting & varied life in football & business but he was also a man of wider principle. He was a founding signatory to the launch statement of the Anti-Nazi League in 1978
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The Beard Liberation Front has been celebrating the very welcome return of @MichaelRosenYes beard today. A reminder from 2017 when he was voted Hirsute Broadcaster of the Year
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@MichaelRosenYes One of my neighbours died of COVID in the first wave. He worked at the North Mid hospital. Just one of quite a few (too many) COVID BAME deaths in Tottenham of people who were out doing essential jobs. People the Government doesnt know exist
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keith flett
4 years
The vote for Beard of Summer 2020 is now open at the link below. @MichaelRosenYes heads the list
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keith flett
5 months
Culture Wars update. The Times(6th Jan) has conceded defeat on Churchill
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keith flett
1 year
Solidarity Welsh Cakes with those opposing the fascist Patriotic Alternative in Llantwit Major today
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keith flett
3 years
Today after 48 years the sentences of the Shrewsbury pickets were quashed. As Ricky Tomlinson notes there was a conspiracy between employers & the Tory Government in 1972. It wasnt the first-collusion to break unions had gone in the area since 1821
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The Beard Liberation Front has said that while @michaelsheen was not eligible for Beard of the Year 2021 (tho he was joint winner with @MichaelRosenYes in 2020) he has been given a Lifetime Achievement Award
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Hoping to finally depart hospital in next few days. Dependent on tests & anti-biotics for exactly when that will be
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keith flett
5 years
John Mann is not a senior anything. He was a backbench MP
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Senior Labour MP quits party to become antisemitism tsar
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A great journalist & campaigner. A sad loss
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It is with great sadness the family of John Pilger announce he died yesterday 30 December 2023 in London aged 84. His journalism and documentaries were celebrated around the world, but to his family he was simply the most amazing and loved Dad, Grandad and partner. Rest In Peace.
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keith flett
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The fascist attack on Bookmarks in 2018 shows why Jeremy Corbyn was central in the Battle of Wood Green in 1977
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@MichaelRosenYes its important to remember today. My late father(Durham Light Infantry) was at the liberation of Belsen. He had all the medals but could not speak about it. A regular on ANL marches in later life.He never forgot
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keith flett
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Irrespective of who wins at Wembley tonight taking the knee against racism has been a winner at #EURO2020 & booers like Priti Patel losers
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I note that Starmer is calling for the cancellation of rock concerts by someone he doesnt agree with, which I suppose is just the kind of thing that goes on in a liberal democracy as well as quite a few very illiberal ones
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The vote for the Beard of Summer 2020 is open at this link: @MichaelRosenYes leads with @michaelsheen challenging
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3 years
Under no circumstances will I be hugging Michael Gove tho I wouldn't rule out some other form of physical interaction
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62 years ago today the Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa took place.Labour MP Barbara Castle asked the Tory Minister if UK weapons had been used. The answer of course was 'yes' & UK arms sales continue to this day #SharpevilleDay
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Its no secret that he wasnt great at actually being Prime Minister. Senior Tory MP on Boris Johnson (Financial Times 5th September)
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Fletter, Guardian (24th Feb)
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keith flett
4 years
Here is a simple message Johnson will not be conveying: 1 Dont return to work until you feel its safe to do so. 2 Check this with your union first of all 3 If you're not in a union,protect yourself & others. Join one now
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I'm always minded to defend public service journalism & the BBC. However Ms Kuenssberg's politicisation of a father's grief today crosses a line in the same way a Guardian Editorial on Cameron's grief over his child did. The personal is political but there are limits of decency
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keith flett
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The Ambridge Socialist is very sorry to read of the death of actor Edward Kelsey. He played one of the great proletarian figures in #TheArchers Joe Grundy. The cider barn won't be the same without him. Condolences to his family both real and fictional
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keith flett
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When England won the Ashes in 2005 Channel 4's free to air coverage got 7.4m viewers. England's great victory against Pakistan on Saturday got 1.7m on Sky. Cricket has dropped out of the national conversation
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2 years
Powerful page @DailyMirror Holocaust survivors write to Braverman on refugees
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Engels platform ticket for the London May day demonstration 130 years ago on Sunday 3rd May 1891
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I note Tuesday's S*n has the front page strap 'nation unites against racists' which I take to be a report of the paper's closure
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Minister Robert Jenrick says British history shouldnt be censored. One example we need to know more about is Tory MP Richard Drax who owns a Barbados sugar plantation which dates back to the days of slavery
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keith flett
7 years
. @PrivateEyeNews on the retirement of @blowersh from @bbctms
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keith flett
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So, farewell then any lingering elements of a liberal education. Hello, to the business University. If a subject doesnt make profit its got to go. Goodbye,Eng Lit, History, Humanities & for that matter PPE (which Sunak has a degree in)
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Sunak vows to crack down on university degrees that do not improve 'earning potential'
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Thanks to @TheCockTavernE8 for card. I am getting better(I'd like to get better more quickly). Wires are nothing to do with me just standard NHS stuff. Beard is flourishing
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Bad news for Suella Braverman. The first people to call themselves English were part of mass waves of immigration that formed the origin of modern England
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keith flett
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I'm 63 & I voted Labour again today. Definitely part of #OldQuake now. It goes back a long way. I met a bloke in Haringey in the 1970s who had a very good beard. He said his name was Jeremy. We agreed about socialism but not how to get it but for tonight I really hope he's right
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Bernie Grant died 21 years ago today on 8th April 2000. Stopped by the old Tottenham Town Hall to pay my respects. His work remains an inspiration for socialists & anti-racists
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