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Charlotte Lydia Riley

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Historian. Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin, 2023). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).

Work stuff here: https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley

repped by Carrie Plitt @ FBA

pronouns are she/her and views are my own đź’«

  1. She says "everyone knows they are asylum seekers. Epping is very white". This is reported uncritically

    Hotel staff were violently assaulted in a racially aggravated assault in Epping, based on this kind of assumption that darker skin = asylum seeker

    bsky.app/profile/sund...

    Staff at the Epping hotel were left seriously injured in a racially aggravated attack

    It seems that the violent criminal 'protestors' responsible may have mistaken the hotel staff for asylum seekers

    Obviously threats + violence against asylum seekers or staff is wrong www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

    Two hotel workers are left with serious injuries as a result of the attack during a protest.

    Staff assaulted in Epping in 'racially aggravated' attack

    Two hotel workers are left with serious injuries as a result of the attack during a protest.

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  2. NEW: Parliament Square, London right now.

    Thousands in a silent, peaceful protest against both the genocide in Gaza and the UK Government prescribing protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

    Police now making arrests.

    (📸 Saul Staniforth)

    Thousands seen sitting with placards that all read “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine action.” Big Ben is seen in the background
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  3. BBC among media misreportimg/exaggerating scale of asylum protests

    Median protest is a few dozen, below 100.

    "Usually Several hundred at a time" is false.

    • should say occasionally < 1/10 protests have 200 people

    "Sometimes thousands" I dont think a single 2025 protest had > 2000 people yet

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