Richard Seymour @leninology Twitter profile

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

2 months

Disaster Nationalism, out in October from @VersoBooks

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

4 years

That would be “homes”.

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4 years

Coronavirus: 'Safe spaces' needed for homeless to self-isolate

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5 years

Tory audience members moaning "here we go" when Corbyn starts talking about climate change fucking over the poorest. The sheer social spite and nastiness of the Tory hardcore is a thing to behold.

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4 years

The grammar of American reaction is eerily resilient.

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@leninology

7 years

Imagine if Corbyn's parliamentary 'colleagues' hadn't repeatedly knifed him in the back for two years. Imagine what this could be.

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@leninology

4 years

This man fucked up and has probably caused thousands of unnecessary deaths. That it isn’t a resigning matter is extraordinary.

Sky News

@SkyNews

4 years

"It looks as though we are now approaching the fast growth part of the upward curve and without drastic action cases could double every five or six days." PM Boris Johnson has given his latest advice to Britons to tackle #COVID19 . #CoronavirusOutbreak :

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

2 years

The TUC estimates that nationalising the energy retailers would cost £2.85bn. Starmer is talking about handing over £29bn just to keep prices down. This isn’t pragmatic, it is ideological.

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

2 years

Keir Starmer explains why he wouldn't nationalise the energy companies.

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7 years

Kensington, the richest constituency in the country, has gone Labour.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

5 years

Churchill was many things. Among these things, a colonial racist, an antisemite, a fascist sympathiser, mass murderer in Malaya, architect of concentration camps in Kenya, exponent of gassing Iraqis, enemy of strikers, many many complex things.

The Real Winston Churchill

Churchill was no hero — he was a vile racist fanatical about violence and fiercely supportive of imperialism.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

6 months

Stop whining. Not a single politician has had so much as a tomato lobbed their way. You’re lucky, given what you’re doing, that protest has been as mild and civil and courteous as it has been. And we’re not stopping. Cry your entitled disingenuous tears all you want.

Sky News

@SkyNews

6 months

. @campbellclaret accuses Green Party of "nastiness" for publishing a list of MPs who did not vote for a ceasefire and says it is 'intimidating' behaviour and draws comparisons with the killings of Jo Cox and David Amess #TrevorPhillips 📺 Sky 501

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

4 years

The BBC's decision to flatter and defer to Johnson relentlessly has really worked out well.

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@Thehackandhound

4 years

Boris Johnson says he's looking at scrapping the BBC licence fee..."You have to ask whether it makes sense......how long can u justify it ?"

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

4 years

All those jaded, amoral ‘left’ hacks dusting off their “told you so” takes. Corbyn is worth a thousand of them. Corbyn has achieved infinitely more for the Left than any of them. And is the only Labour leader in over a decade to even remotely frighten the Tories.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

3 years

The lie did its job, ensuring the story wouldn’t be about police tactics: now it can be quietly walked back.

Police retract claims that officers suffered broken bones at Bristol protest

Avon and Somerset force said in press release officers had broken bones and one had a punctured lung

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

6 years

Netanyahu condemns Corbyn. Corbyn calmly points out that he just murdered over a hundred unarmed protesters while passing racist legislation that even his long-standing supporters dislike. Who’s going to win that one? Corbyn, hands down.

‘No, this Netanyahu row won’t destroy Corbyn – it will only make him stronger’

Still hovering around forty per cent in most polls, the smears against the Labour leader can’t change the fact that millions of people clearly want what the party is offering

www.independent.co.uk

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

4 years

This is jaw-dropping. The BBC's anchor is reciting, fact-free, context-free, without attribution, the 'bathroom predator' myth invented by right-wing, homophobic US evangelicals. That's disgraceful.

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@maitlis

4 years

We discussed gender self identification last night #newsnight . It’s not “ these people “. It’s the fact a blanket law would allow any predatory man to self identify as female to gain access to women . That’s the danger.

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@leninology

4 years

They want £7.5bn in order not to pay their staff for eight weeks. Take it over.

Sky News

@SkyNews

4 years

BREAKING: Virgin Atlantic plans to cut about 80% of flights each day by the 26th of March, grounding 75% of planes by then. They are also asking staff to take 8 weeks of unpaid leave during the next three months. More on #COVID19 here:

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

8 months

Never heard this fellow say Palestine has a right to defend “herself”. Never seen a gaggle of Western politicians in crisis over the ongoing daily decades-long Israeli assault on Palestine. Never heard one of them say what proportionate self-defence from Palestine might be.

Keir Starmer

@Keir_Starmer

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I utterly condemn the ongoing attacks on Israel and her citizens. There is no justification for this act of terror which is being perpetrated by those who seek to undermine any chance for future peace in the region. Israel has a right to defend herself.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

4 years

How many liberals swallowed the coup pretext whole? And they wonder why reaction is winning. ‘No evidence of fraud’ in Morales poll victory, say US researchers | World news | The Guardian

‘No evidence of fraud’ in Morales poll victory, say US researchers

Researchers enter row over legitimacy of ex-Bolivian president, who quit after violent protests

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

4 years

Priti Patel is sorry that you think the government should be sorry.

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@leninology

4 years

People getting up at 5am to go and campaign in marginals, are fucking heroes.

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@leninology

4 years

No. Take it into public ownership. No more free money for gougers.

Sky News

@SkyNews

4 years

Virgin Atlantic boss urges Boris Johnson to sanction £7.5bn airline bailout

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

4 years

The government has a huge majority. The only reason for them to seek unity with the opposition parties is because they know their strategy is going badly badly awry and they want to neutralise the opposition and spread blame. How stupid to you have to be to walk into that trap?

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

9 months

Far too many smart people claiming to believe that Labour will be more radical in government than in opposition. This never happens. The pressure once in office is to move to the right. The assumption that Labour are feigning conservatism for the press is a terrible misreading.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

4 years

Neither RLB nor Peake have done or said anything for which they must apologise. That's the line. Hold the line. Demanding they 'clarify' and 'learn' and help 'rebuild relations' is politically wrong, weak and self-defeating.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

3 years

Dunno know what happened yesterday. But literally every time I’ve been on a protest and there has been the slightest violence, it began when the riot police showed up and started swinging their sticks. And most didn’t fight back. English left is pretty meek, frankly.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

4 years

Not sure what the turnout situation is, but don’t let the long queues for voting lull you into complacency. It’s a cold, dark, wet evening: we will need every last volunteer to make sure people vote. We need to keep knocking, talking, getting confirmation of a vote til 10pm

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

3 years

We have to find this infamous war criminal, "the fighting", and bring him to the Hague.

Kenneth Roth

@KenRoth

3 years

The latest Gaza toll: The fighting "has damaged 17 hospitals and clinics in Gaza, wrecked its only coronavirus test laboratory, sent fetid wastewater into its streets and broke water pipes serving at least 800,000 people."

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

5 years

This is an extraordinary claim. Labour CLP delegates are elected by local constituencies. They are not hand selected by Jeremy Corbyn. Peston is making an outrageous, false allegation that he nowhere attempts to substantiate. And ITV are actually letting him do it.

ITV News Politics

@ITVNewsPolitics

5 years

"For spectators like me - who spent 15 years observing the tactics of China's leaders - all this is quite familiar. "For passionate Labour Remainers, it's infuriating." Robert @Peston explains how Jeremy Corbyn stitched up Labour's Brexit vote

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

4 years

@Femi_Sorry @UKLabour I appreciate this must be disappointing, but isn’t the story here really *you* taking time out of a global pandemic to draw attention to your, frankly trivial, plight?

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@leninology

5 years

Labour members have just chucked the opportunistic hedging on migration into the dustbin. Free movement, close the detention centres, human rights for all migrants. Absolutely the right way to challenge disaster nationalism.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

3 years

Sky News reports on a “protest in central London against violence in the Middle East”. That’s a hell of a way to euphemise Israeli war crimes.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

3 years

It was a *golden opportunity* you bloody morons. Crises are the moments when you show your stuff. Crises are the moments when you fight hardest. Instead you indulged in this gimcrack, stagy, loyalist patriotism, ostensibly to win over the “red wall”. Surprise, it didn’t work.

Guardian politics

@GdnPolitics

3 years

Covid restricted Keir Starmer from setting out vision for UK, says Labour

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

2 months

That's exactly it. One phone call, applying the slightest leverage, and they open the Erez crossing. The White House could have stopped mass starvation.

Nathan J Robinson

@NathanJRobinson

2 months

Wait so this means that at any point in the last six months, Israel could have opened more aid routes and Biden could have gotten them to, but both were choosing not to.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

6 months

Sorry but we’re not going to be policed on the basis of “offence”. The slogan has a well established and perfectly respectable meaning. The attempts to shut it down are attempts to politically neutralise Palestine solidarity. The slogan will not be going away. Full stop.

Rob Ford

@robfordmancs

6 months

In more depressing but not surprising news, that slogan is back yet again. Obstinate refusal to consider the offence it causes isn’t really helping the marchers’ cause.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

3 years

There you are then. One of Israel’s most extreme racists, spokesperson for settlers and the Likudnik ultra-right, may not be protested, because protest - rather than being an exercise in free speech - is an infringement of free speech. What an arrogantly stupid statement.

Lisa Nandy

@lisanandy

3 years

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

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

2 years

Just been told that pickle Rick is on the apartheid wall.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

4 years

The annexation of the West Bank is going ahead with almost no media coverage while we have this stupid fight over Labour. We’re going to need to align all forces supporting Palestinian rights into a campaign on this because Starmer isn’t going to say anything. Urgently.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

5 years

The meeting with Theresa May and opposition leaders, quite predictably, resulted in nothing. No concessions. Just a re-statement of May's twice-defeated-by-huge-majorities position. Meanwhile, some particularly moist cupcakes are mostly upset that Corbyn left.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

4 years

Amazing that, of all the Labour leadership and deputy candidates, Richard Burgon is the only one consistently sticking his neck above the parapet. That says a lot for him. Sad to say, the likely leadership winner, Starmer, is proving to be utterly useless in a crisis.

Richard Burgon MP

@RichardBurgon

4 years

If France can do this, then why isn't our Government doing it?

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

5 years

Opinion | Nigel Farage Is the Most Dangerous Man in Britain - The New York Times My latest for the NYT. It will be in the print edition tomorrow for American readers.

Opinion | Nigel Farage Is the Most Dangerous Man in Britain (Published 2019)

He’s the most effective demagogue in a generation. Now he sets the agenda.

www.nytimes.com

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

2 years

The media overkill on the Adam McKay and David Sirota film, Don’t Look Down, with an extraordinary level of reviewer aggression toward what is basically a satire, persuaded me to watch it. It’s pretty good.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

6 years

Labour MPs who call “bullying” when someone is the least bit rude to them on Twitter really shouldn’t line up behind politicians who shout and scream abuse in the faces of their fellow party members. Screaming that someone is a “fucking wanker” is not calling out antisemitism.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

4 years

Don't trust ANY tactical voting advice. Most of it is based on dodgy (and often outdated) constituency polling, and 'modelling' based on guesswork and ideology. And if you've got a Labour MP with a slim majority, especially don't trust any hack who tells you to vote Lib Dem.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

7 months

He looks angry but he still can’t call for a ceasefire and is still pushing this “humanitarian pauses” line. What a sad, dismal end for a gifted politician.

Bernie Sanders

@BernieSanders

7 months

Israel's indiscriminate bombing is hitting hospitals, refugee camps, and killing thousands of innocent people. It must stop now.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

4 years

Matt Hancock's answer to the NHS crisis, with millions out of work and plunged into poverty, is to ask them to volunteer. Why not employ them? Why not pay them a wage while they take a risk with their health to save us from a pandemic?

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

4 years

Extraordinary that Burnham, who was one of the more right-wing MPs back in the day, is putting up more of a fight with this government than the leadership.

BBC Newsnight

@BBCNewsnight

4 years

“I think they’ve been treating the north with contempt.” Mayor of Greater Manchester @AndyBurnhamGM tells @lewis_goodall “the north is fed up of being pushed around” by the government and “people’s lives are on the line” 👇 #Newsnight

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5 years

“She stood up there defending a Ukip policy and claimed it was liberal.”

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Richard Seymour

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4 years

They asked for 30,000 ventilators. Government press release says they’ve found 30.

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Richard Seymour

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3 years

“Long Corbyn” is quite witty as such idiocy goes, but it bothers me because - among other things - I really hate having such stupid enemies. The more the Labour Right can blame everything on Corbyn (the first Labour leader to raise the vote since 1997), the stupider they become.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

7 years

FYI, "identity politics".

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Richard Seymour

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6 years

The attempt to use Hajo Meyer, a Holocaust survivor and opponent of Zionism, to smear Corbyn, is heartbreakingly awful. Such unforgivably gutter politics.

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Richard Seymour

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6 years

The criticism of Corbyn has not been distinguished by calm, measured dignity, has it? It has not been three years of rigorous reporting, strict factual accuracy, and emotionally adult discussion. Look at your own profession, perhaps, before blaming powerless social media users.

James O'Brien

@mrjamesob

6 years

The calm and measured way in which Jeremy Corbyn’s most ardent admirers respond to criticism of him is an inspiration to us all. The way they have embraced his wholly sincere calls for a “kinder, gentler politics” is beautiful to behold.

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Richard Seymour

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5 years

The Guardian backs Corbyn pretty firmly here:

The Guardian view on Labour’s radical plans: fix the economy and democracy | Editorial

Editorial: Jeremy Corbyn’s plans are required to repair the damage caused by a system that is being run in favour of privileged individuals whose market and political power allows them to extract...

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

7 months

They were begging for help, telling the world they were going to be murdered, and they were murdered.

Al Jazeera English

@AJEnglish

7 months

"Help us to stay alive" was their outcry to the world from Gaza. Mahmoud, Al Jazeera Arabic’s Wael Dahdouh son, joined by his sister Kholoud, sent a message to the world, days before Mahmoud, his mother, and younger sister Sham were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza ⤵️

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

5 years

Fwiw, I think the debate probably helped Corbyn more than Johnson, but Corbyn needs to be far more aggressive, far less polite. There is a fundamental dividing line in British politics, and he has to put fire in his ground troops and steel in their spines.

George Eaton

@georgeeaton

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67% think Corbyn did "well" tonight in @YouGov poll (59% for Johnson) - that's by far the most positive rating he's had in this election campaign. #LeadersDebate

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

8 months

“Invasion”. This in a post about misinformation. Invading from where? What border was crossed? For there to have been an invasion there would have to be two states, and there isn’t. There is one apartheid state, in which Gaza is a prison controlled by Israel. Report accurately.

NBC News

@NBCNews

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As one of the largest invasions in 50 years unfolded in Israel, misinformation about the assault spread across social media. Many of the misleading videos were shared by verified users on X, who are eligible for monetization of their content.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

4 years

The government’s science advisor is a behavioural psychologist, not an epidemiologist. This is crowd management.

Mark Easton

@BBCMarkEaston

4 years

Government #coronavirus science advisor Dr David Halpern tells me of plans to ‘cocoon’ vulnerable groups.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

4 years

“Grim encounter”. Such an embarrassment. The whole media is an embarrassment, but she invidiously so. The BBC’s chief political editor has tweeted out fake news from CCHQ. A modicum of professionalism, and humility given the failure of professionalism here, would not go amiss.

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4 years

Simon Israel of C4 News asks why official mortality figures are lagging far behind what hospitals are experiencing. Deputy CMO cites the need to consult families before releasing information, which is nonsense. The communications debacle continues.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

3 years

“Dodds, an Oxford-educated economist, is highly intelligent but has failed to communicate effectively the party’s vision” I thought that was Starmer’s job?

Starmer ‘to axe shadow chancellor’ Anneliese Dodds after Labour poll slump

Sir Keir Starmer is preparing to replace his shadow chancellor, Anneliese Dodds, in a shake-up of his frontbench team. Starmer, who will mark his first annivers

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Richard Seymour

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2 years

“The most important event the world will ever see.”

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

4 years

Would You Nationalise Sausages? Great day for the media, just spectacular. Top flight political journalism. You really earn your salaries, you fuds.

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@leninology

4 years

If RLB was serious, she would be getting on top of this brief urgently, and giving daily press conferences like Sanders, talking about the urgent need to reverse NHS privatisation, extend mandatory sick leave etc. The unions should be leading on this too. Literally no leadership.

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4 years

Okay so government is being useless, but where the hell is the opposition?

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@leninology

4 years

The facts have not changed. The science has not changed. WHO, and most scientists, are still saying the same thing. The government has only changed its apparent attitude to hundreds of thousands of deaths it predicted. Our journalistic class is a complete failure.

Beth Rigby

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4 years

ANALYSIS Why the step change? The facts have changed. As senior govt told me last night: “We’ve had to accelerate. We thought we could put these measures off for another week & push social shielding back a week after that, but we’ve had to bring it forward

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@leninology

3 years

Labour Right have to own this one. Starmer imposed the candidate and chose the election timetable. The campaign was run in a classic Blairite manner with the usual patronising lack of substance, and Mandelson, Nicolson etc knocking doors.

Britain Elects

@BritainElects

3 years

Hartlepool, parliamentary by-election result: Con: 51.9% (+23.0) Lab: 28.7% (-9.0) Ind: 9.7% (+7.5) RefUK: 1.2% (-24.6) Grn: 1.2% (+1.2) LDem: 1.2% (-3.0) Oth: 6.1% (+4.9) Con GAIN from Lab.

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@leninology

5 years

Bizarre memory lapse from Chuka here. The "social democratic centre-left" has been "expelled" from Labour by Corbyn? These idiots walked out. It was only a few months ago.

BBC Breakfast

@BBCBreakfast

5 years

"You're seeing a reconfiguration of British politics." Lib Dem MP @ChukaUmunna tells #BBCBreakfast the party "can't be sure" what will happen at a general election. More here:

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@leninology

4 years

Trust no polls. Take no false consolations. Keep phoning. Keep leafleting. Keep getting out the vote. We can win this. One more giant push.

Savanta UK

@Savanta_UK

4 years

Our final #GE2019 Westminster voting intention on behalf of the @Telegraph , is as follows: CON 41% (-) LAB 36% (+3) LD 12% (-) Other 11% (-3) 9th - 10th Dec (changes from Savanta ComRes/Sunday Telegraph, Dec 7th)

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@leninology

7 months

This plus the C4 News documentary seems terminal for Israel’s evidence of non-guilt in the hospital bombing. Every piece of evidence they have presented now looks fraudulent.

Al Jazeera English

@AJEnglish

7 months

An Al Jazeera digital investigation found no grounds for the Israeli army's claim that the strike on the al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza was caused by a failed rocket launch.

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4 years

If anyone cares, I'll vote for Rebecca Long-Bailey. No disrespect to Starmer and his vaguely Petainian slogan ("integrity, unity, authority"...), but I wholly reject the politics of auto-lobotomy in the name of electability. And RLB has some political imagination. So.

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@leninology

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Stop the genocide, stop arming Israel #freepalestine

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@leninology

7 months

Dutch government calls for a ceasefire after letter by 400+ civil servants denouncing the government’s pro-Israel policy.

Ollongren roept namens Nederlands kabinet op tot staakt-het-vuren

Er moet een (tijdelijk) staakt-het-vuren komen tussen Israël en Hamas, vindt het demissionaire Nederlandse kabinet, zodat hulpgoederen Gaza in kunnen.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

7 months

It will be a week of frenzied slander and further calls for criminalisation. They’re panicking. They have no answers. They’re tied to a policy that goes nowhere but genocide. There is no victory coming. And they’re faced with a mass movement that came out of nowhere. Panic.

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

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"Tens of thousands have again protested for the Palestinian cause in London. With the police under pressure and antisemitism rising, I'll be joined live by.. Met commssioner Sir Mark Rowley" See how it works. #TrevorPhillips

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@leninology

4 years

How is our national media this bad?

Paul Brand

@PaulBrandITV

4 years

PM tells me in candid interview: - he’s never lied in his political career - he’d tell Trump “goodbye” if NHS was ever put on table in trade talks - he’s had his personal struggles in life and knows how it feels to be down, but hard work keeps him resilient

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@leninology

4 years

Trust no polls. Take no false consolations. It'll go higher.

Election Maps UK

@ElectionMapsUK

4 years

Westminster Voting Intention: CON: 42% (=) LAB: 36% (+4) LDM: 11% (-1) BXP: 4% (+1) GRN: 2% (=) Via @SavantaComRes , 2-5 Dec. Changes w/ 2-3 Dec.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

5 years

Laura Pidcock for deputy leader.

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Richard Seymour

@leninology

3 years

This is inchoate fascism, fascism in its speculate, experimental phase. It is a physical threat.

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He's just slashed public spending, including healthcare, and capped taxes on the rich. Maybe he has some agency in this situation.

The New York Times

@nytimes

4 years

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday that the state has only 6 days' worth of ventilators left

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@leninology

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Either Starmer knew this would happen, and is prepared to smash the party to exorcise Corbynism, or he didn’t, and he’s an easily led idiot who thinks getting patted on the head by journos and Tories is the way to win. Long way to go.

YouGov

@YouGov

4 years

In the aftermath of Corbyn's suspension from the Labour party, both the party's and Keir Starmer's net favourability ratings take a hit Labour party 21-22 Oct: -11 29-30 Oct: -23 Keir Starmer 21-22 Oct: +5 29-30 Oct: -2

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Labour’s problem, what is eating it alive right now is, not its inability but its fundamental unwillingness to distinguish between Israel and Jews. A refusal that is structurally, logically antisemitic — and of course, concretely, anti-Palestinian. Those things often go together.

Owen Jones

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So, I hold no candle for Graham Jones. I mean, for a start, he once called me an "Iranian hangmen" [sic] because I opposed Saudi Arabia's murderous war on Yemen. Weird! But there was nothing morally wrong with what he said and it's absurd he was suspended. Israel is currently

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It was a mistake for XR to be so friendly to the police. Like it or not, as long as the status quo is geared toward ecocide, as long as the entire structure of property rights and accumulation depends on it, the police will proactively defend ecocide.

Damien Gayle

@damiengayle

5 years

FULL STORY: Police begin preemptive arrests of #ExtinctionRebellion activists ahead of London protests

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@leninology

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Marr is trying, to be fair, he's really trying. And some of his blows are landing. But here, he's just being steamrollered. And Johnson is lying so prolifically, so fluently, that it's impossible to counter all of it in one interview. Which is the Tory strategy.

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@leninology

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It will tend to flatten if the government delays the release of death figures for at least 24 hours on a spurious pretext.

Ed Conway

@EdConwaySky

4 years

New: UK #COVID19 death toll now at 465. Good news: UK’s trajectory seems to be flattening. Now below Spain, Italy and France’s. And NB this has yet to reflect the latest lockdown measures. Bad news: it’s still rising fast. And too early to be sure the flattening will continue…

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@leninology

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Agree or disagree with Labour's Brexit policy, the pretence 'not to get it' on the part of journalists is culpable. If you can get a good deal, you campaign for it. If you can't, you don't. What is so complicated about that? A goldfish could retain this much information.

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@leninology

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The British Left complaining about comedians (ffs) who didn't back Corbyn is a stage of mourning that we need to get through extremely quickly. No one owes a politician or political campaign support. If we failed to win support, as we did across the country, that's on us.

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@leninology

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Importantly, it is not *remotely* unusual for people to care about issues/causes that don’t benefit them materially, or cost them. It only surprises those trapped in a paradigm of “interest” derived from classical political economy that never described how people really behave.

Prof Francois Balloux

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I thought long and hard about why one may care about the plight of Palestinians in Gaza, as someone in the West, with essentially nothing to gain, and potentially a lot to lose, from advocating for them. 1/

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@leninology

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Fwiw I saw the British Transport plod in formation a couple of hours before Gove staged his walk-through with Daily Mail photographers. My guess is they were told to be prepared for it.

Ben Smoke

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and nothing else happened across the whole of london the whole day!

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@leninology

4 years

Looks like a serious, ego-driven mistake to me. Labour has given him a win he did nothing to earn, now he risks blowing it. I’ll donate to the crowdfund.

HuffPost UK Politics

@HuffPostUKPol

4 years

BREAKING: Panorama reporter John Ware to sue Jeremy Corbyn

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@leninology

4 years

Excellent pitch by Rebecca Long-Bailey. I’d like her to win. I’d also like her to campaign more aggressively. Politically she’s solid. And I really don’t buy the argument that wooden Starmer has any charisma advantage here.

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I mean it’s extraordinary that they can even post this. They “mourn with” the people whose kids and families they’re killing. I know that liberalism has almost entirely replaced politics with the emotional gesture, but ‘empathy’ has never been more brazenly sadistic.

Department of State

@StateDept

7 months

Our message to Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, and all around the world is clear: we see you, we grieve with you, and we mourn every loss of innocent life. Civilians are not to blame and should not suffer for Hamas’s horrific terrorism.

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@leninology

4 years

The BBC are, quite properly, on the defensive. That’s the second time they’ve edited footage to flatter Johnson, and spare him blushes:

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@leninology

7 years

Hang on. This is your idea of "abuse"? Having your murderous policies intemperately critiqued by a Twitter user? Deal with it, ffs.

Anna Soubry 🖤🤍🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇬🇧

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7 years

You @jeremycorbyn can stop this abuse by your members of Conservatives. U said u wanted a kinder politics - prove it

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@leninology

3 years

What these jobs have in common is that they provide dignity, autonomy, a good income, and recognition. This isn’t true of the majority of jobs in admin, the caring sector, leisure, sales, customer service, cleaning, driving, secretarial etc, which is the vast majority of jobs.

delian

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how depressing our society has failed to provide ambitious role models to our children

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The Conservative Party's position is clear: it is the party of rentiers and spivs, people who make money for nothing: parasites in a word.

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@leninology

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The Conservatives ran an officially-sanctioned, viciously racist campaign against Sadiq Khan, backed by then Prime Minister. Their candidate to run against Khan is a racist, who has not been sanctioned for his racism. This is institutional racism.

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@leninology

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Kettle logic, courtesy of sour grapes journalists: 1. Corbyn shouldn't be releasing secret documents; 2. anyway, it isn't all that significant; 3. anyway, the government has denied this; 4. the Russians did it; 5. You don't watch the Queen's speech, do you Mister Crombyn?

The Labour Party

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BREAKING: A secret government report proves Boris Johnson is lying to the public about his plan for Brexit. If Boris Johnson hid this report, what else is he hiding? Boris Johnson and the Tories can't be trusted.

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@leninology

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This is terrifying. It’s a victory for Trump, Tucker Carlson, and the lunatic right who rallied to Rittenhouse. It’s a carte blanche for every militia member, armed boogaloo fanatic, neo-Nazi and vigilante engaged in countersubversive murder.

Rittenhouse Verdict: Kyle Rittenhouse Acquitted on All Counts (Published 2021)

In a case that fueled debate over gun rights and vigilantism, the jury appeared to accept Mr. Rittenhouse’s explanation that he had acted reasonably to defend himself during demonstrations.

www.nytimes.com

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@leninology

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I was in the SWP from 1998 to 2013, and really detest the party now. But anyone else who was in the party during this period can tell you: everything this guy is saying here is pure fantasy. No one ever went on about “Jewish power” or gave lectures bashing Jewish people.

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I won't vote for Nandy - obviously - but I admire the utter ruthlessness and fluency of her lying on national television. And she's not even doing it for Jess Phillips-style celebrity cachet, but out of sheer will-to-power. If I were a Blairite, I'd get right behind her.

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@leninology

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They’ve been telling us what they intend. Gaza will be a “city of tents”. The buildings will be destroyed. Gaza may not actually exist. And now “we will eliminate everything”. Western politicians cheerleading this and trying to blackmail us into complicity are utter barbarians.

Hammam Farah

@hammam__farah

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Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant: “Gaza won’t return to what it was before. We will eliminate everything.”

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@leninology

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You're going into an election without having delivered Brexit. We're going into an election with a Green New Deal and a three-day weekend.

Kevin Maguire

@Kevin_Maguire

5 years

Speaker's confirmation 5 November is the earliest a General Election could be held under current law wasn't in Johnson's plan. Labour and other parties have trapped him in office if not in power by denying the PM the election he expected before 31 October

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My new book, The Disenchanted Earth - will be the first of many with an ecosocialist thrust - for Indigo Press. The fabulous cover image was taken in Antarctica by Eliot Porter in 1975.

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