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Guest Curator @u_jazdowski , Warsaw 🇵🇱. Arts consultant/mentor/curator/writer/eclecticist/centre-left social-democratic-libertarian

Hastings, England

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Joined March 2010

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@manick62

Manick Govinda

3 months

"Wokeism is the installation of hatred of the West in the heart of the West, & in this perspective, Israel is the centre that bundles all the crimes, all the atrocities, all the abominations of the West.” #AlainFinkielkraut . Join us, @u_jazdowski 29/02/24

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7/10/2023 & the aftermath: cultural antisemitism? – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

[Free admission] Discussion with simultaneous translation into Polish and English. Art work by Marc Provisor

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Manick Govinda

4 years

@MarcusCVance “Hi I’m Manick” “Nice to meet you Malik” “No it’s MaNick, as in depressive”

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I am frankly shocked that this Bethnal Green resident has been arrested for posting a video on Facebook of his criticism of all the unwelcoming 🇵🇸flags on the Bethnal Green Road…ARRESTED?! This is not the East London I once loved. Shame on the Police!

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British police come to a man’s home to arrest him for posting a video to Facebook of him criticizing migrants in his area for putting Palestine flags up everywhere in the neighborhood. The video he was arrested for will be posted in the comments ⬇️

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I signed a letter in defence of @jk_rowling in @thesundaytimes with many other authors, actors, artists. Some artist friends have unfriended or blocked me for my support of #jkrowling ’s right to an objective, fair opinion. Equal rights for all ✅, but self-identity politics? ❎

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4 years

Great to see Andrew Neil grilling a narrow minded sloganeering claim here.

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As a minority out & proud Brexiteer in the U.K. arts & cultural scene, I can also vouch that a few younger artist & arts professionals confided in me that they voted to leave the EU in the 23 June 2016 referendum, but won’t come out for fear of career suicide in a bigoted sector

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Claire Fox

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Me in @spectator on the Secret Brexiteers and how many now coming 'out and proud' in response to @brexitparty_uk

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Manick Govinda

4 years

I’m not a member but what is this Maoist like action? To denounce? Why not argue back with substance? My skin is brown and I think it’s an insult to my intelligence that I may appear incapable to intelligently debate what @LozzaFox said, instead I have to collectively denounce??

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The Stage

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Equity’s minority ethnic members committee ( @EquityMEM ) has called on fellow actors to “unequivocally denounce” Laurence Fox for comments he made during an appearance on BBC1's Question Time

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I was around in the late 80s when Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" was burnt by Islamic fundamentalists who stoked up hate, led to deaths & violence. The hatred of a book that hadn't been read by protestors calling for an author's death is happening all over again #JKRowling

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4 years

Middle-class white people need to stop hectoring poorer white people about privilege. The rise of the White British Saviour. Spot on @rakibehsan !

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5 years

Lou Reed song 'Take a Walk on the Wild Side' accused of including transphobic lyrics by Canadian student group | The Independent This album is 47yrs old. Play it and keep walking on the wild side, and screw the transpolice.

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Lou Reed song 'Take a Walk on the Wild Side' accused of including transphobic lyrics

Friends of the late artist have reacted with disbelief

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4 years

“Decolonising Working Group” claims British Library’s building is an imperialist symbol cuz it resembles a battleship, and the executives agree to purge building of “whiteness”. Words fail me 🤦🏾‍♂️

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4 years

The lovely, kind, generous, thoughtful, talented visual artist @stephaniedouet is being evicted from her studio space at @OUTPOSTGallery for #Wrongthink . An anonymous snitch accused her of beng 'transphobic', which she isn't. Read her blog for full story

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Manick Govinda

4 years

I am one of the signatories, yes fight against racism but let’s not accept the newspeak of white guilt, white supremacist, white privilege. We must resist censorship, Maoist-style denunciations, the re-writing or erasing culture & history.

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Don't Divide Us

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Racial division is being sown in the name of anti-racism. People are speaking out.

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5 years

Vitriol? I have nothing but praise for @Fox_Claire ’s unconditional defence for democracy and the moral courage to stick her head above the parapet. 👍🏾✊🏾

@timespolitics

Times Politics

5 years

Of all the candidates that Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party is fielding in the upcoming European elections, the name attracting the most vitriol is Claire Fox

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2 years

A sweltering, joyful afternoon at the House of Lords today, with free speech champions, great speeches by @MForstater , @sharrond62 &Kemi Badenoch MP to name a few. Met many good allies incl @RosieKayK2CO @jo_bartosch & @KhadijaKhan__ #freespeech #freedomofexpression #sexmatters

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No, the UK didn’t turn down 50,000 ventilators offered by the EU - Full Fact

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No, the UK didn’t turn down 50,000 ventilators offered by the EU - Full Fact

The UK did not join an EU scheme to stockpile medical equipment. However, even if the UK had joined this scheme, the budget would deliver nowhere near 50,000 ventilators across all participants.

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4 years

No one celebrates this @SadiqKhan , it’s a fantasy that’s been planted in your head. Whether we like them or not these statues are a part of London’s history. What you are doing is sanitising or cleansing public space. It’s Maoist Cultural Revolution tactics.

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Sadiq Khan

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NEW: The statue of slave trader Robert Milligan is being removed from West India Quay. Whilst it��s a sad truth that much of our city and nation’s wealth was derived from the slave trade - this does not have to be celebrated in our public spaces.

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2 years

Congratulations @JessDeWahls ! Cancelled from the @royalacademy bookshop last year by fictive nonsensical maoist-style TRAs, selected for the #RASummer this year! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿. Reason triumphs over fantasy How the Royal Academy uncancelled me @UnHerd

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How the RA uncancelled me

Last year they dropped me; now I'm back

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3 years

I woke up at the crack of dawn today to appear on @GBNEWS and talk about the worrying trend of witch-hunting and purging artists from cultural institutions, who go against the grain of contemporary self-identification politics

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Manick Govinda

4 years

This is how the liberal elite views migrant workers, as a servile class for capital.

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Caroline Voaden

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4 years

So Priti, @patel4witham Who’ll fill the coronation chicken sandwiches? Who’ll dig cauliflowers out of freezing muddy Cornish fields? Who’ll wash the hospital bedpans? Who’ll clean our offices at night? Who’ll feed, bathe and care for our most vulnerable? Asking for a friend...

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And then they came for the artists. I stand in solidarity with artist Nina Edge who’s been sacked from her university position for questioning #transextremism . I am frankly shocked and appalled.

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Manick Govinda

4 years

I wasn’t offended mate, just thought you were an utter div thinking that hospital staff and the PM would have colluded in a fabricated performance about the PM’s illness. The egg’s on your face.

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Chris Lockwood

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I have deleted a tweet that cast doubt on whether Boris Johnson had been as seriously ill as reported. I withdraw my comment and apologise for the offence it has caused.

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Academic ‘institutions are in the grip of a doctrinaire cult, whose “thinking” is enforced by a new Inquisition. Whatever they think they are achieving, their real target is not defending minorities but controlling them.” Brilliant @MTrevorP 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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University bigots want to control minorities

Every scientist knows the Galileo story. When one of the greatest minds of the 17th (or any other) century concluded that, contrary to the Catholic Church’s teaching, the Earth was not the still...

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Bristol City Council should’ve set up a local referendum with ‘for’ and ‘against’ positions whether to lawfully remove this statue...debate and vote. Sadly direct democracy doesn’t exist, and this violent action will alienate the majority of people.

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BBC Radio Bristol

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#Bristol statue of Edward Colston has been pulled down and pushed into the harbour during the #BlackLivesMattter march

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3 years

At two my son thought he was a T-Rex. FFS 🤦🏾‍♂️

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Manick Govinda

4 years

I hate BAME. Don’t call me BAME.

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Kenan Malik

4 years

Don’t call me BAME: My @ObserverUK column:

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Manick Govinda

5 years

The racist neo-colonial EU enterprise that remainers love to ignore & remain silent about, the position is entirely selfish & privileged, free movement/trade for Europeans only. ⁦ @spikedonline ⁩ 👏🏾 How the EU hurts the world’s poorest - spiked

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How the EU hurts the world’s poorest

Sam Akaki on EU protectionism and neo-colonial NGOs.

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Manick Govinda

7 years

I co-signed a letter with @SarahPeace @Miriamelia1 @KunleOlulode & more penned by Munira Mirza, published today's @thetimes re: #raceaudit

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5 years

As an act of protest against the #BrexitBetrayal by all parties, I lend my support, for the Euro elections, to the @brexitparty_uk , not for Farage but for democratic sovereignty & to put a spanner in the machinery of the #EU superstructure. Support @Fox_Claire @ASCphiled et al ✊🏾

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Philip Cunliffe

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Powerful statement of democratic principle with historical consciousness and vision

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Manick Govinda

3 years

How does one get an exemption? I’m fed up of having to wear a rag over my face.

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3 years

The invisible men and women who kept the U.K. ticking along are essentially the working classes. “The highest proportion of home workers were in affluent suburbs”. Most people in UK did not work from home in 2020, says ONS

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Manick Govinda

4 years

@brilantbk Join the club, I was called Gammon Masala by some white guy on Twitter once. I might design a T-shirt logo with that phrase 😆

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5 years

I criticised Jon Snow’s dreadful reportage of the #BrexitDay rally & his one dimensional sneer against Brexiteers...but an #Ofcom investigation? Nah, we don’t need that, we can fight our own battles thank you. #FreeSpeech

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spiked

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The media has airbrushed non-white Leave voters out of the narrative. Jon Snow and others need to get out of their elite bubble and visit places like Birmingham, Luton and Leicester, where many ethnic minorities back Brexit, says Manick Govinda

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Manick Govinda

3 years

Well said ⁦ @rakibehsan ⁩ 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Batley cartoon: Pandering to the mob would be a disaster, writes DR RAKIB EHSAN | Daily Mail Online

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Manick Govinda

5 years

I know loads of Marxist, socialist Brexiteers....drop the far right cliché folks. It’s about #democracy

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Adam Banks

@adambanksdotcom

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Ian Duncan Smith says it’s false to associate Brexit with the far right because communists also support it. Thanks, communists!

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4 years

Charity Boss Reinstated After @SpeechUnion Intervenes. This is great news and shows how important it is not to give an inch the #CancelCulture witch-hunters ✊🏾💪🏾 via @guidofawkes

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“Nurse who was called a 'racist and a fascist' after voting for Brexit is using giant scroll to give 'voice' to leave voters” This is better than most publicly funded socially engaged art projects. More power to her! ✌🏾✊🏾💪🏽👊🏾👌🏿👍🏾

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We all have prejudices - its time to change how some percieve people who voted leave.

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6 years

@ChukaUmunna Just for that @ChukaUmunna , I’m abstaining from voting in the local election in #streatham and will not vote for you again, stop playing the ‘Brexiteers are racist’ card.

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Manick Govinda

4 years

Well that’s me slapped on the wrist for being cultured and a Brexiteer, does not compute.

@AgendaForReform

AgendaForReform

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@spikedonline @manick62 Brexit was the antithesis of art and culture. No self respecting artist will lend their name to a xenophobic, nationalistic, often racist, always ignorant celebration of the biggest national calamity since Suez. In any case Johnson will sell you out, we'll ally with Europe not US

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Manick Govinda

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My Brexit ally @LoveWestley is constantly told by a lot of Remainers to sod off back to Australia...antipathy and hostility to non-EU nationals are strong.

@Dwayne1966

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@JamescharlesCon @rakibehsan @Fox_Claire @manick62 You haven't been looking in the right places then, try the timelines of some non British Brexit supporters.

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5 years

Boycott Mumsnet? It’s a beacon of support, advice, good will and friendship for millions of mothers, esp, new mums. I support this amazing network.

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Manick Govinda

6 months

This Jew-hater is a London-based artist called Anna Laurini. #nameandshame

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Ami Kaufman

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I'm walking home in London, get off at Chalk Farm, and see a woman tearing down posters. "I'm doing this to clean the street. Clean the shit." Then, when I put my phone down, she turned to me and said: "Ah, look at your nose. I see your nose." I cried the rest of the way home.

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Got a phone call today with some very exciting news. Nope, still broke with no offer of work, didn’t win the lotto or premium bonds #NHSBlood got in touch and want me to give convalescent plasma! 😍😍 I can’t wait, I am genuinely happy about this. ❤️🥂🍷

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4 years

@JoMow @jk_rowling @thesundaytimes Show me the evidence? Oh and Judith Butler should stick to performance, the fictive world is not objective reality

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4 years

@BorisJohnson Prime Minister, you are creating a police state. Civil disobedience may be the only tactic to fight against these undemocratic rules. Scrap the Coronavirus Act immediately.

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6 years

Petition: Give the electorate a referendum on the abolition of the House of Lords

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6 years

#Italexit now! President #Mattarella is a puppet of the EU technocrats. "We were a few steps away from forming a government, and we were stopped because in our cabinet there was a minister who criticised the EU," Di Maio said on RAI state television.

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New Italy elections look to be the only option as Conte fails to form government

Fresh elections could deliver an even more decisive win for populists, with a bigger mandate for an even more radical agenda.

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Manick Govinda

5 years

I was at the rally on this balmy day in late March in Parliament Square and saw @PaulEmbery ’s moving speech. Not a word was uttered by Paul that could be considered contemptible. Getting ditched for being pro-democracy? Unions becoming McCarthyite Maoists? Politics of the absurd

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Paul Embery

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Here's the speech I made at a pro-democracy rally in March. I made the speech in my own time (on a Friday evening) and *not* on behalf of the FBU. Still, FBU leaders kicked me off the national executive and debarred me from office for two-years. Fair?

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“It wasn’t easy, but I’ve finally found the courage to come out as a Lexiteer” | The Independent. Many Remain voters didn’t know what they were supporting, good to see so many are doing their research and re-considering their original position.

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‘It wasn’t easy, but I’ve finally found the courage to come out as a Lexiteer’

I’m a green, lefty, feminist who voted Remain in 2016 – but doing my research into the undemocratic nature of the EU has changed my mind

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Manick Govinda

6 years

I voted @LibDems in 2010 & 2015 general elections. Never again! Can we consign this political party to the dustbin of history. Neither liberal nor democratic

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Manick Govinda

4 years

I’ve seen some bars and restaurants in Streatham with 4th July signs up. Let’s make that date our very own Independence Day, let’s not wait on Government to instruct us! Unlock the pubs, bars, restaurants and cultural spaces!!

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Alastair Donald

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That's the spirit..

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Manick Govinda

2 years

Who would’ve known that a playboy cricketer who we featured on the cover of a one off South Asian culture magazine called “Dekko”, which I co-founded & co-edited in 1990 is now a tyrant leader and allows this atrocity to happen in his country?

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Yasmine Mohammed 🦋 ياسمين محمد

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A court in #Pakistan has sentenced a woman to death by hanging for blasphemous messages sent over WhatsApp. Such a vicious world we live in that we let this happen. Islamic states like Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran are beyond tyrannical. #AneeqaAteeq

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4 years

No, they are not the same people. Dig deeper into why Brexiteers want independence. As Trevor Phillips wrote in an article: "I see us as a tribe that is ready to welcome foreigners who make a contribution to the economy and society, but which balks at immigration cheats."

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4 years

“Those in charge of ‘cancelling’ are not the contemporary equivalent of 1960s hippies and student radicals; the cancellers are the elites, they run many of the key institutions of society.” I would add that they’re also a “Black Mirror” style Mary Whitehouse: humourless & morose

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Frank Furedi

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My 12 Theses on Cancel Culture. An ideology without a name

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Does this guy come from Putin’s ministry of truth? ‘Medicine Man’ was a free permanent display, not temporary, and it’s the public who are concerned by what’s going on with Wellcome’s messaging, not right-wing culture warriors. That magical place, Pitt Rivers is next.

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Dan Hicks

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good evening to everyone except the increasingly shrill right-wing culture warriors desperately trying to intimidate @ExploreWellcome out of making changes to a temporary exhibition every once in a while

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I submitted my evidence to The U.K. Government’s Joint Committee on Human Rights on my personal experience of #cancelculture and the censorious behaviour of some publicly funded arts institutions. You know who you are Submit Evidence - UK Parliament

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Submission - Committees - UK Parliament

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Manick Govinda

5 years

I too stand with @Fox_Claire , if she wasn’t standing for @brexitparty_uk , I’d probably abstain from voting in this year’s European Parliamentary Elections. More power to her! As @bencobley says, being human means we don’t agree on all, but have more in common than what divides us

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Ben Cobley

5 years

New blogpost: 'In defence of Claire Fox' @Fox_Claire

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Wow! Over 4K racists like this post. Detest her policies, but “white-facing” her is clear demonstration that you have a one-dimensional view of black/brown people who must perform to your script.

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Emma Atkins🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇯🇴

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I will follow anyone back who detests this woman. #FollowBackFriday

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@Docstockk I’m on the last chapter. It’s a very important book, was discussing it last night with someone and will lend it to her when I’ve finished. It’s the youth that I’m worried about, we all played out fictions, but this is now enabled and encouraged by the state and its institutions.

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Manick Govinda

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Boris Johnson has gone full on police state, and what with discussions of a possible 10pm national curfew, I fear that the Tories have lost the plot. Hospital admissions are currently at the lowest ever since the pandemic hit our shores. We must organise/resist. Petition anyone?

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Manick Govinda

4 years

I have no problem with people shouting at a party canvasser, but spitting? What disgusting behaviour. Well done for going to have a word with him.

@JohnnyMercerUK

Rt Hon Johnny Mercer

@JohnnyMercerUK

4 years

This guy thought it was ok to shout and spit in the face of one of my young female activists. If this happens, I always take your address and come and visit personally asking you to apologise.

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Really, you haven’t encountered Remain racism @Kevin_Maguire ? Where do I begin...Uncle Tom, ‘he’s not one of us’, gammon masala...and that’s just levelled at me by rabid remainers.

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Kevin Maguire

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Not everybody who backs Brexit is a racist. Far from it. But I've yet to find a British racist who doesn't back Brexit

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The ⁦ @NewStatesman ⁩ should be ashamed of itself for peddling #fakenews . The real Roger Scruton scandal - ⁦ @spikedonline ⁩

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According to few people on twitter who’re part of a campaign to get me no-platformed, cancelled, lose work, I am crying in this video because Brexit allegedly destroyed my relationship with the arts community. #lies

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Manick Govinda shares his views on Brexit.

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Manick Govinda

4 years

Now that there is certainty and optimism about Brexit - I’ll be celebrating in a Wetherspoon pub on Thurs evening in central London - more artists and writers are coming out. An excellent piece by novelist Louis de Bernières, “why I believe in Brexit”

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Manick Govinda

5 years

My first proper story books, post-Ladybird books, as an immigrant to the U.K. were ‘The Three Brownies’ & ‘Noddy in Toyland’. #EnidBlyton should be commmemorated. Her oeuvre is much bigger than the racist portrayals and views held. Who’s next? Agatha Christie?

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spiked

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Enid Blyton is the best-selling children’s author of all time. But the Royal Mint has decided not to commemorate her because it feared a backlash. Online outrage mobs are now so powerful that almost every institution bows to them. Even preemptively

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Father jailed for referring to his 14 year old child as “she”, “her”, “daughter”. The child is biological female. Welcome to Canada’s Brave New World.

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Dr Jordan B Peterson

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3 years

This could never happen, said those who called my stance against Bill C16 alarmist. I read the law and saw that it was, to the contrary, inevitable

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UN Women - I will not stay silent. Every woman's life is equally precious. This is- UNbelievable UNjustified Sign the petition and be the voice of the women who were brutally raped, abused, burned alive, murdered, and kidnapped. #MeToo_UNless_UR_a_Jew

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Join the global campaign against the hypocrisy of the UN Women organization.

www.metoo-unlessurajew.com

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Manick Govinda

5 years

Oh look...a racist remainer!

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Manick Govinda

4 years

I wasn't going to retweet this person's response as I was trying to have a civil exchange, but this is how it ends, that I appear to be a TERF. Oh well!

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Manick Govinda

5 years

Free speech is not a crime. Delighted to see the birth of a campaign group set up to challenge our Orwellian police force who now intimidate people for exercising their free expression. Show your support for @WeAreFairCop

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WeAreFairCop

5 years

Fair Cop is a group of individuals who have come together over shared concerns about the police’s attempts to criminalise people for expressing opinions even though they don't contravene any laws.

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Manick Govinda

5 years

Appalling! Jon Snow’s racialised coverage of the #BrexitDay protest yesterday. @allinbritain is right, many of us from diasporic communities support leaving the EU, we are angry that democracy is betrayed & we look beyond the metropolitan bubble. This is lazy prejudiced reporting

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All in Britain

5 years

1/9 Jon Snow’s comment is outrageous on a number of levels. A few @allinbritain contributors are supporters of Brexit so here are some thoughts from the perspective of BME leavers.

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Manick Govinda

3 years

Can we please stop vilifying people for “liking” messages on social media please? And no one should publicly apologise for “liking” a post, IMHO.

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Naga Munchetty

3 years

I 'liked' tweets today that were offensive in nature about the use of the British flag as a backdrop in a government interview this morning. I have since removed these 'likes'. This do not represent the views of me or the BBC. I apologise for any offence taken. Naga

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Manick Govinda

4 years

What’s next @NadiaWhittomeMP ? Abandon Parliamentary debate and votes? I’m shocked that you are arguing for no debate on matters of real public concern.

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Nadia Whittome MP

@NadiaWhittomeMP

4 years

We must not fetishise “debate” as though debate is itself an innocuous, neutral act. The very act of debate in these cases is an effective rollback of assumed equality and a foot in the door for doubt and hatred.

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Manick Govinda

3 years

Another cancellation on the subject of....cancel culture!

@ripx4nutmeg

ripx4nutmeg

3 years

An Oxford Union invitation to Graham Linehan to talk on the subject of 'cancelling cancel culture' was cancelled shortly after it was sent

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Manick Govinda

5 years

@wiltshirepolice @Swindonwiltspri While British coppers virtue signal about how down they are with the rainbow people, this is the real crisis going on in law and order

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3 years

Online cultural experiences? Online art festivals? None of these cut it for me. I want to feel, breathe, sense art with real people, not in front of a digital, pixelated, 2 dimensional piece of plastic/glass.

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Manick Govinda

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@thenitinsawhney Highly recommend Shiva Naipaul’s book “Black & White” for a sobering read about the shitshow that became independent Guyana

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What’s happened to Billy Bragg? A vandetta against @suzanne_moore and a bit of a Stalinist cultural revisionist of art and the literature. My son loved Dahl’s stories as a kid, and knew the difference between real life and fiction, stop being a ridiculous censorious fool, Bragg!

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Billy Bragg

1 year

Suppose your mum wears a hairpiece due to chemotherapy and kids in your class call her a witch because they read in Dahl’s book that witches all wear wigs. You’d think that as a feminist Suzanne Moore would have some sympathy, but no because woke

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Manick Govinda

5 years

Just got @brexitparty_uk contract with the people in my email inbox and read it, some good alignment with @TheSDPUK ’s new declaration (I’m an SDP member). It’s impressive, so I’ve signed up to it. The old political parties need a kick up the backside.

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Reform UK

@reformparty_uk

5 years

Watch the livestream HERE at 11am!

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Manick Govinda

5 years

There is a fault line in British politics, but NOT based on Mr & Mrs Brown’s hysterical premises. The divisions are between democrats vs. the elites, freedom vs. neo-colonialism, accountable govt vs. technocratic governance, wealth vs. poverty. Who are the real bigots?

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Gordon Brown

5 years

What is now at stake is far bigger than Brexit: it is a fight against intolerance, prejudice, xenophobia and the manufacture of division.

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Manick Govinda

4 years

@blablafishcakes Bought this last year:

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Manick Govinda

11 months

@ClaudiaCeramics @DeniseFahmy @ace_national I think @ace_national have gone down a Maoist-style wormhole. Well done @DeniseFahmy for challenging and holding them to account. Can’t wait to read their response! I’m all ears

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Manick Govinda

3 years

“As a writer, author, playwright and polemicist, Julie Burchill ( @BoozeAndFagz ) has been one of the most brilliant, daring and downright hilarious writers in the British media for decades, and in the process has raised the hackles of all the right people.” Fab news! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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Julie Burchill

3 years

Introducing… our new columnists! DO ONE, TELEGRAPH!

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Manick Govinda

4 years

“We were the only Brexit people in the art world”. Round of applause for Gilbert & George, the two of them are firmly embedded in the East End community and also making a difference to homeless people. Now that’s what I call socially engaged artists!

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Manick Govinda

5 years

Charlotte Gainsbourg: ‘Everything now is so politically correct. So boring’ | Culture | The Guardian. An icon! The manifestation of cool! ‘Has Brexit made her feel even less English? “No,” she says. “I am very proud of my British passport.’

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Manick Govinda

4 years

We won, and finally all 3 main parties concede defeat and will NOT campaign to re-join the EU. Victory 💪🏽 “In May this year Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour party, also said the Brexit issue was over and that his party would not campaign to rejoin the EU.”

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Tim Stanley

@timothy_stanley

4 years

Quietly, almost imperceptibly, Britain's Left is moving to the Right. This is one reason why the radicals are kicking off. They fear they are losing.

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Manick Govinda

4 years

Are trans women 'real women'?

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Manick Govinda

4 years

Solidarity to all the women artists and to Nina Power who’s also been hounded by this censorious Gestapo/Stasi snitching miserable lot. Glad that @spikedonline has covered and exposed the pitchfork wielding privileged brats. Good work @ClaudiaCeramics & @rachelara ✊🏾💪🏽💪🏽

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spiked

4 years

Trans-sceptical feminists are increasingly unwelcome in the art world. Activists are trying to hound them out of work. One such campaign is called, simply, 'TERFs Out of Art'. This totalitarian impulse is deeply worrying, reports Jo Bartosch

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Manick Govinda

5 years

More race-related insults hurled at Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic @brexitparty_uk Brexiteers. We discussed matters of creative solutions, policy & race with sophistication at our @brexitcreatives event with @MegLeeChin & MEP candidate @ASCphiled . The old politics doesn’t work!

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Manick Govinda

4 years

Racking my brain trying to think of arts/non-arts space/gallery with guts to stand up for free speech/expression - no ifs, no buts - as long as the work is artistic and stirs the mind and soul. Anybody? We need a directory/network. Anyone brave to support #IStandWithJKRowling

@ripx4nutmeg

ripx4nutmeg

4 years

An anonymous artist in the UK wants to create a project about the abuse JK Rowling has received. Can anyone donate an enclosed space the size of a room, like an unused shop or business space, that she could use for, say 2 weeks, for this project?

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Manick Govinda

3 years

I’ll dance on the grave of Trumpism but will defend Trump’s right to free speech, even though I hate what he spews #FreeSpeech for all.

@spikedonline

spiked

3 years

The left-wingers cheering Facebook’s banning of Donald Trump are the biggest idiots in political life today. They have gladly handed billionaire capitalists the authority to police speech, even that of a democratically elected president, says @Tom_Slater_

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Manick Govinda

3 years

Bastard landlords threatening to evict the India Club, it’s been here since 1951, a home from home for many Indians who came to these shores and a welcoming embrace for Brits and other visitors/guests. Its history is significant. Please help if you can

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Manick Govinda

3 years

#Covid19 : I’m really sad to read this 😢 I have no regrets though for taking part in the research trials. Onwards and upwards to mitigating, minimising and managing this bastard virus. Convalescent plasma no benefit to hospital patients - BBC News

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Manick Govinda

6 months

@buffsoldier_96 He even had good things to say about Adam Smith, if I recall correctly

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Manick Govinda

5 years

Can this go global please? Instead of doom and gloom, human ingenuity can make great strides for making a difference to our lives on this planet.

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Manick Govinda

3 years

Really? Sounds like an imprisoned imagination.

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Manick Govinda

5 years

I’m an occasional writer for @spikedonline because I am committed to championing free speech, a clean Brexit & for greater civil freedoms. @GeorgeMonbiot ’s conspiracy theories & questioning Spiked’s funding is highly questionable. Excellent response to him from the editorial team

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spiked

5 years

“Conspiracy theories have gone mainstream. Spiked has firsthand experience. We’ve been targeted by both far-right conspiracists who think we’re a stooge for Jews and by Guardian conspiracists who think we’re a front for corporates”, says Brendan O’Neill

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Manick Govinda

3 years

Do we want to still have a right to protest in 2022? The Police Bill must be stopped at all costs: via @manifestoclub

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