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Martin Bright

3 years

Delighted to be working with @RuthSmeeth and the team at @IndexCensorship from next week. There could be no more vital publication in these times.

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Martin Bright

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2 years

A moment of national shame. I can’t believe I live in a country where this barbaric act has taken place. Wrong on every level.

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Martin Bright

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Would have been simpler and safer to put £2k a month in everyone’s bank account, freeze all mortgages and tell everyone except essential workers to stay home.

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Glum Brits waiting in static line at Oslo airport for an analogue stamp, while EU and Norwegian passengers sweep through the digital barriers. Embarrassing Brexit self-harm in one shot. #brexit

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Martin Bright

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This is an extraordinary intervention from Bob Seely MP. Naming the UK lawyers who took money from Russian oligarchs to sue Britain journalists.

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Martin Bright

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5 years

“No government could commit to an outcome without knowing what it is...” so said Theresa May about the indicative votes. But that is precisely what the governmnent did with the referendum. #Brexit

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Martin Bright

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The sight of men with guns seizing unarmed young women and old people as hostages should finally end the idea that Hamas is a resistance movement. This is militant antisemitism and misogyny. To describe it any other way demeans the very concept of resistance.

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Martin Bright

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2 years

This nonsense has to stop.

Darshna Soni

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2 years

NEW: The 22-year old woman who was arrested after holding up this anti-monarchy placard at St Giles' Cathedral has now been CHARGED “in connection with a breach of the peace", @PoliceScotland confirm. Will appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court at a later date.

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Martin Bright

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To be fair, this is a genuinely informed discussion of contemporary politics with an audience of 5000 people on a cold night with football on the telly. An impressively young crowd too. @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret #TRIPLive #TheRestisPolitics

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Martin Bright

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3 years

Wherever you stand on this debate, this position is impossible to justify. Gender-critical feminists are not comparable to antisemites.

Hadley Freeman

@HadleyFreeman

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Stonewall is comparing women defending sex-based rights to anti-semites and anti-vaxxers are wearing yellow stars, all - they say - to defend their causes. All they are actually doing is exploiting Jewish history and demonstrating how little they care about the feelings of Jews

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Martin Bright

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4 years

Finally, this story is getting the coverage it merits. Now we need to hear from the people who represent the people in care homes @r &ra Coronavirus: Older people being 'airbrushed' out of virus figures

Coronavirus: Older people being 'airbrushed' out of virus figures

Charities voice concern for care home residents and call for daily updates on virus deaths in the system.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Martin Bright

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Solidarity with my former colleagues at the Observer. I never worked with @soniasodha but her leader was a measured, reasonable and principled defence of free speech. Terf war embroils Guardian HQ | The Spectator

Terf war embroils Guardian HQ

Fractious times over at Guardian towers. The long-running battle between Kath Viner, the paper’s editor, and Anette Thomas, the media group’s chief executive, concluded last month after the latter...

www.spectator.co.uk

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Martin Bright

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3 years

This is a shameful moment. What a mess. Proud to have published @Docstockk in @IndexCensorship . A difficult day for academic freedom.

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Very impressed by quietly spoken VC of @SussexUni Adam Tickell on @BBCr4today unconditionally defending the free speech of @Docstockk . A model approach.

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Martin Bright

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3 years

This is quite a statement from Britain’s leading liberal Sunday paper. The Observer view on the right to free expression | Gender | The Guardian

The Observer view on the right to free expression | Observer editorial

Whatever your view on sex and gender, freedom of speech is key

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Bright

@martinbright

5 years

Wonder if the Brexiteer ultras really want to leave the EU or would prefer to be able to moan about it for ever. They feel more confortable in opposition - a bit like the Corbynistas. #brexit

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Martin Bright

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6 months

I will be on this march later today, proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with my Jewish friends at this terrible time.

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Martin Bright

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3 years

@Baddiel It really is a strange kind of tyranny that allows ill-informed and dangerous people to gather freely in large numbers in the centre of a capital city.

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Martin Bright

@martinbright

4 years

Hey @BootstrapCook , where is the best place to buy your book? On second thoughts, shouldn’t the government be printing it in industrial quantities and sending it to every household in the country.

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Martin Bright

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2 years

I have been really impressed by the way @johnsweeneyroar has set up his operation in Kyiv, checking in every day from the centre of the city with his own unique brand of reporting. It’s Day 31 and he’s funding himself through @Patreon .

Kyiv Diary Day 31 General Shoigu has a "heart attack" | JohnSweeneyRoar

Get more from JohnSweeneyRoar on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Martin Bright

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4 years

The interview was clinical, the words carefully chosen, but it was her face that gave away her disdain for the man @maitlis #PrinceAndrewbbc #newsnight

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Martin Bright

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2 years

We academics must fight the mob – now - Cambridge philosopher Arif Ahmed defends fellow academic Kathleen Stock ⁦ @Docstockk ⁩ from attack in ⁦ @IndexCensorship ⁩

We academics must fight the mob – now - Arif Ahmed, 2021

journals.sagepub.com

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Martin Bright

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2 years

This is the most terrible story. Please help our friends at @Hromadske by publicising the capture of their journalist Victoria Roshchyna @lindseyhilsum @_EmmaGH @lukeharding1968 @johnsweeneyroar @michaeldweiss @OzKaterji @IndexCensorship

Hromadske Int.

@Hromadske

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Our journalist Victoria Roshchyna is held captive by the Russian occupiers. She was reporting from hotspots in Eastern and Southern Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war. On March 12, we couldn't contact Victoria 1/3

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Martin Bright

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3 years

I’ve just had an insight into the constant abuse @TracyAnnO receives. In case you wondered - it isn’t pretty.

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Martin Bright

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3 years

There was a moment when it became possible to call the leader of the opposition antisemitic without any fear of legal comeback. It was obvious Corbyn was finished at that point. Have we reached the same point with Johnson and corruption accusations?

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Martin Bright

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3 years

Slam dunk. Interesting to see how they explain this one. Priti Patel in £20m PPE lobbying storm ⁦ @DavidRoseUK ⁩

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Martin Bright

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7 months

Hamas is not a resistance movement, it is an antisemitic, misogynist terror cult. My thoughts in the @Telegraph

Hamas is no resistance movement – it is an anti-Semitic, misogynist terror cult

This is not a time for qualifications: whatever you think of Netanyahu, there are no excuses for the Islamists’ terrorism

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Martin Bright

@martinbright

3 years

This is what a democrat looks like:

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Martin Bright

@martinbright

2 years

Absolutely essential viewing on how big Russian money was used to shut down journalists writing about the oligarchs

Foreign Affairs Committee

@CommonsForeign

2 years

🗣 Our evidence session on the use of strategic lawsuits against public participation, where we're hearing from @CatherineBelton , @ArabellaPike , @skcoughtrie and @tomburgis , is live.

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Martin Bright

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2 years

This is extremely bad news. I am very sad - both that @HadleyFreeman is leaving and that it has come to this with the @guardian

Nicole Lampert

@nicolelampert

2 years

This has echoes of @bariweiss leaving @nytimes . Two Jewish women not allowed to write about left wing antisemitism or the battle for female rights. Left wing female journalists are increasingly having to leave their publications because of their opinions. Shameful journalism.

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Martin Bright

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1 year

Enes Kanter Freedom wins the Outstanding Human Rights Activist award at #magnitskyawards

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Martin Bright

@martinbright

4 years

I see this has rather a lot of retweets and likes. Just to be clear, my point was about safety and simplicity. I am not an economist.

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Martin Bright

@martinbright

2 years

Just to clarify, it is the arrests of people expressing their right to free expression that must stop, not the protests!

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Martin Bright

@martinbright

3 years

The memorial bench for Sean Hughes in Highgate Wood. He would have appreciated my younger son’s comment during a walk as a toddler: “Why do so many people die on benches?”

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Martin Bright

@martinbright

10 months

This is very impressive.

Louise Jones

@Louise_E_Jones

10 months

Dear @Tobias_Ellwood , As someone who served in #Afghanistan , I was astonished by your video praising the Taliban this week. So here's one of mine with a simple question for you, and your conscience👇

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Martin Bright

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4 years

@mrjamesob Muzzles are good though, right? Don’t know about you, but I prefer not to be bitten by a dog.

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Martin Bright

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2 years

Just when you think the BBC’s reporting can’t get any more impressive, along comes @sommervilletv in Kharkiv. Such strength in depth. @BBCNews

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Martin Bright

@martinbright

9 years

Love this: @lately_andycox : In the village where I live they asked me to take this photo... http://t.co/LM5K4nd0aa

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Martin Bright

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3 years

Amazing news! NSA whistleblower Reality Winner released from prison | Reality Winner | The Guardian

NSA whistleblower Reality Winner released from prison

Ex-intelligence contractor convicted of leaking report on Russian interference in US election released for good behavior

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Bright

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3 years

I will never forget the solidarity @suzanne_moore showed me when I left the New Statesman and started @CreativeSoc . She is a proper old-fashioned comrade.

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Martin Bright

@martinbright

4 years

This press conference is a disaster. The arrogance of using up everyone’s time in this way, is quite extraordinary. He was not in a particularly complicated, difficult or exceptional position. He was in a privileged position which he used to maximum advantage. #cummings

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Martin Bright

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2 years

What is the correlation between backers of Truss and backers of Johnson? And shouldn’t that disqualify them from deciding the next Prime Minister of the UK?

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2 years

It has taken a couple of days to let Jodie Comer’s performance sink in. This was an extraordinary thing to witness. I feel very lucky to have been there. Whole row of Scouse women next to me in tears afterwards #primafacie #jodiecomer ⁦ @HPinterTheatre ⁩

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1 year

@ByDonkeys Slam dunk

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1 year

This is pathetic

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Martin Bright

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1 year

I left the @NewStatesman as political editor because I refused to be told what to write by an immensely wealthy individual who threatened to sue. The owners and editor failed to back me.

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Martin Bright

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5 years

I am personally delighted that @lucianaberger is standing in Finchley & Golders Green. But it is disgraceful she was driven out of @UKLabour and Liverpool.

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Martin Bright

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1 year

Very impressed by #C4GenderWars . A genuine attempt to address the issue of what happens when trans rights meet women’s rights. I defy anyone not to be impressed by the humane intelligence and courage of @Docstockk and @bindelj .

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Martin Bright

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3 years

Decision by Johnson and Sunak to ignore self-isolation puts a torpedo through the rules the rest of us are following. It’s over. Good luck everyone.

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4 years

I’ve subscribed to @guardian in solidarity. Should have done it ages ago. A not entirely selfless move. #Guardian

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Martin Bright

@martinbright

3 years

This is quite something.

ITV News

@itvnews

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Watch @robertmooreitv 's report from inside the Capitol building as the extraordinary events unfolded in Washington DC

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4 years

The only thing Cummings apologised for was being late for the press conference.

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One of my favourite paintings at the @NPGLondon was @TommyShakes in a place of genuine prominence.

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Martin Bright

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5 years

I expect Boris Johnson will use his Telegraph column this week to criticise the use of the UK libel laws to silence investigative journalism @carolecadwalla

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Martin Bright

@martinbright

6 months

I am quoted in the piece saying: “This is an unwarranted attack on freedom of expression and would potentially criminalise every student radical and revolutionary dissident. It has never been the British way to arrest people for thought crime.”

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Martin Bright

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5 years

@davidallengreen @peterjukes So much of this crisis can be traced back to the refusal of our political class to engage with Europe (starting with learning the languages).

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Martin Bright

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3 years

Bumped into my barber today (at a distance). His shop was a dynamic, friendly, youthful addition to our high street. He looked haunted and sad - savings gone, really struggling to survive. This pandemic is destroying his business. Didn’t know what to say to him.

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Martin Bright

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4 years

The events of the past few years just make me think what an extraordinary feat Neil Kinnock achieved in wrenching the Labour Party away from the hard left and making it so nearly electable.

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Martin Bright

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4 years

Go Carole

Carole Cadwalladr

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4 years

Thoughts & prayers

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5 years

The exchanges between May and Corbyn at PMQs this morning feel strangely irrelevant. #PMQs

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Martin Bright

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3 years

@NudderingNudnik I am not Jewish, but when I was appointed Political Editor of the Jewish Chronicle one of my best friends from university stopped talking to me. Still makes me very sad.

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Martin Bright

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2 years

@KateRobbins It’s horrible. Someone who cares about her should tell her to go now.

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3 years

I remember talking to Alistair Darling on the night it looked like the cash machines would stop working. “You look very calm,” I said. He raised a familiar eyebrow: “Now is not the time to panic.” @suzanne_moore @maggivaughan

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Martin Bright

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2 years

The Buena Vista Social v The Kremlin ⁦ @johnsweeneyroar ⁩ writes for ⁦ @IndexCensorship ⁩ on the ultimate price some journalists have paid for getting the news out of Ukraine #freeukraine

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Martin Bright

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@Docstockk It is appalling. Especially in light of the charity’s record of failing to deal with the horrific abuse of women revealed by whistleblower Helen Evans.

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Martin Bright

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3 years

This is a model clarification and apology from @royalacademy . It is also an important statement on the primacy of free speech in our institutions @JessDeWahls @IndexCensorship

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Martin Bright

@martinbright

8 years

This is growing:

Catherine West MP

@CatherineWest1

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75% of my constituents voted to remain in the EU. I stand w/ them on this issue & I will vote against Brexit #EUref

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Martin Bright

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This is Andrei Aliaksandrau, a journalist from Belarus who worked in the UK for ⁦ @IndexCensorship ⁩. He has now been charged with treason in his home country and faces 15 years in prison. The British government needs to act on his behalf. ⁦ @DominicRaab ⁩ #belarus

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Martin Bright

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4 years

We worked with @annaturley at @CreativeSoc - she was totally committed to her constituents in Redcar. Her treatment by Unite brings shame on the Labour movement.

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Didn’t realise @adamtickell was on Twitter. But here he is if people want to thank him for his sensitive but forthright contribution to the free speech debate.

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Martin Bright

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5 years

So... if, say, a Labour Party leader, admitted that he voted Leave in 2016. Would that mean expulsion?

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Martin Bright

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6 months

This has just been posted on the We Support Jeremy Corbyn Facebook page. Premium grade antisemitism - parading as antizionism of course.

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Martin Bright

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4 years

@PickardJE Why, at no point, did anyone in Bailey’s team say: “Hey Shaun, you do realise that putting your foot on the face of a Muslim man is really, really insulting...” Astonishingly unfunny.

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Martin Bright

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2 years

This thread contains one of the most extraordinary stories I have tread in a long time.

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#OTD My great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack was beheaded on Hitler’s direct order. Born in Milwaukee, she was 26 when she moved to Germany to pursue a PhD. As an American grad student in Berlin, she saw Germany swiftly progress from democracy to fascist dictatorship 1/9

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Something we’ve been working on for some time for ⁦ @ObserverUK .⁩ ‘No more cover-up’: Nazi concentration camp on UK soil finally to be officially investigated ⁦ @margarethodge ⁩ ⁦ @EricPickles ⁩ ⁦ @AnthonyGlees ⁩ ⁦ @TheIHRA ⁩

‘No more cover-up’: Nazi concentration camps on Channel Island finally to be officially investigated

Review could show that thousands more Jews and prisoners of war died on Alderney than previously thought

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Bright

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1 year

I am determined to track down relatives of Solomon Steckoll, who wrote this extraordinary book in 1982 outlining Nazi atrocities carried out on British soil. He was a South African/Israeli archaeologist/journalist described as “a most unusual man”. He lived in #Gedera , Israel.

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Martin Bright

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8 years

After-work drinks. That must be how Jeremy Corbyn's son got his job with John McDonnell.

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Martin Bright

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1 year

This is a reporter…

Lindsey Hilsum

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1 year

We were in the trenches with Ukrainian soldiers - and a kitten called Olenka. ‘If we win my children will live in freedom’ says Vadym. Then we came under fire…

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Martin Bright

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There is no doubt that Boris Johnson’s tone has changed. But there is no market-based solution to this crisis. It is morally indefensible to advise people to avoid social contact without ordering pubs, restaurants and theatres to close.

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3 years

Following some interesting reaction to my retweet of @HadleyFreeman , I have decided to spend the day reacquainting myself with House of Glass, her peerless examination of antisemitism.

House of Glass : The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family

The Sunday Times bestseller ‘An utterly engrossing book’ Nigella Lawson ‘Remarkable and gripping’ Edmund de Waal ...

www.hive.co.uk

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Martin Bright

@martinbright

2 years

This is the most appalling news. Thoughts with one of our finest writers and bravest advocates for free expression. #rushdie

The Associated Press

@AP

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BREAKING: Author Salman Rushdie has been attacked as he was about to give a lecture in western New York. An @AP reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being introduced.

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@carolecadwalla With you Carole

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Perfect local news celeb story: it’s the quote marks that do it for me. Hugh Grant spotted in Somerset town 'buying a sausage roll' - Somerset Live

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One suggestion is that journalists should publish threatening letters from lawyers representing the ultra rich. They are marked Private and Confidential, but they are not.

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Martin Bright

@martinbright

2 years

Unbelievably brave

Kevin Rothrock

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Anti-war solo pickets like this are popping up in cities across Russia. It’s not much but they’re arrested almost immediately, often upon leaving their homes when the cops know to expect them. Here’s Sofya Rusova, co-chair of Russia’s Trade Union of Journalists.

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Consistently wise words from @catherine_mayer on #broadcastinghouse on “Planet Windsor” and the viciousness of the attacks on Harry. Briefings from the palace and “execrable” press coverage mask the realities of racism and misogyny.

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Tonight we should salute the courage of @lucianaberger @LouiseEllman @TracyAnnO @RachelRileyRR @margarethodge #EHCR #Antisemitism #Corbyn

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He’ll always be Mr Derek to me. RIP Derek Fowlds #DerekFowlds #BasilBrush

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This is very funny. Maybe I missed the invite!

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@NickCohen4 @MitchBenn It’s quite good that they are identifying themselves with these masks though. Maybe there could be a whole series: “I’m full of self-pity and don’t care about you”; “Your granny can take a hike”; “I pontificate about science without any evidence or knowledge”.

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The dangers of "red tagging" and other lessons from the Philippines - my interview with ⁦ @ReynaValmores ⁩ ⁦of @bahaghari_PH for ⁦ @IndexCensorship ⁩

The dangers of "red tagging" and other lessons from the Philippines - Index on Censorship

Rey Valmores on the challenges faced by campaigners in the Philippines ahead of the inauguration of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos

www.indexoncensorship.org

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Completely inexplicable to me that @jeremycorbyn doesn’t put out a simple and unequivocal message of support for @lucianaberger . Unless he doesn’t support her, I suppose.

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@bindelj @Docstockk “Undefined” is a definition. This is truly, brilliantly, surreal now.

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Did @ChrisCuomo really just say: “As Public Enemy said: ‘It’s not what you think, it’s what you follow’.”? @cnn

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Not sure Jacob Rees-Mogg’s patronising approach to this interview on @BBCr4today this morning is entirely wise. I wonder how well “just read Erskine-May” will play in the red wall seats. @MishalHusain being admirably patient.

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6 years

Dear @UKLabour . Why is there a momentum logo on this letter begging me to rejoin the party?

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1 year

Honoured to chair a discussion with @ZahraJoya @Zehra_Zaidi and @AlexCrawfordSky about the @SkyNews film Defying the Taliban. Now it's time for the UK government to act to provide safe routes for woman at risk in Afghanistan. Thanks to @Everymancinema and @Anotherway_Now

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Not enough being made of what a good day this is for democracy. The Privileges Committee report into #borisjohnson is a vital intervention in the battle for accuracy and truth in the face of misinformation and lies.

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Braverman criticised for shutting out Guardian and BBC from Rwanda trip: “Index on Censorship believes that access to ministers… should not be treated as a reward for favourable coverage.” ⁦ @IndexCensorship ⁩

Braverman criticised for shutting out Guardian and BBC from Rwanda trip

Home secretary accused of rewarding favourable coverage on visit aimed at reinforcing government’s migration plan

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Bright

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4 years

Thinking again about the career military man I was talking to about the Balkan conflict. “Couldn’t happen here”, I said. “Give me a militia and my own newspaper and I could cause a civil war tomorrow,” he replied.

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