'Immigration doesn't bother me but it seems to bother everyone else' â Everyone.
This is what happens when the media runs away with Hard Right narratives.
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Physicist, software developer, keen on photos of gorgeous landscapes, space and nature. đ Oxford. đš Leftie. He/him. Here for pretty pictures and a political conversation hopefully more civilised than Musk's Twitter.
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Ed Davey makes some good points here. Musk wants to power Britainâs homes, the man who said weâre heading for civil war, who supports Tommy Robinson, who flicks internet on and off in Ukraine like a light switch. What could possibly go wrong?
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Totally despicable.
It sometimes shocks me how quickly we've normalised racial hatred in this country. Five, not even the most hard-right of Tories would dare shit like this.
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Take a moment to appreciate Harry Trumanâs negotiating skills. He got Hitler to surrender everything, agree to Germanyâs occupation and then shoot himself in the head.
JD Vance: "This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."
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A landlord turned off Tenant Client's family's heat upon learning Client was an immigrant.
Landlord hired three different law firms to argue this was legal, then fired each one after they couldn't get our case dismissed.
This week, landlord settled for enough that Client will buy a house.
Tell me something that brought you joy this week.
Any old thing will do. Small joys are as good as big onesâsometimes even better.
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This is what Ken Clarke used to refer to as the 'feeding buns to crocodiles' strategy.
Eventually you run out of buns and the crocodile eats you instead
Starmer has to find a workable way to stop the boats or Farage will become PM. My weekend article for The Independent www.independent.co.uk/voices/asylu...
Starmer has to find a workable way to âstop the boatsâ or Farage will become PM
The only thing that will defeat Reformâs unworkable asylum policy is a workable one, writes John Rentoul. Looking at its numerous holes wonât work when symbolism is its main attraction to so many in B...
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The real 'two tier' divide in British politics is between the wife of a Conservative councillor calling for refugees to be burnt alive, being treated as a brave 'political prisoner', and the protestors calling for the end of mass starvation and genocide, being treated as domestic terrorists
'Anywhere But Here': How Britain's Anti-Migrant Media Consensus Is Crowding Out the Truth
Britain's longstanding traditions of tolerance and compassion are being suppressed in favour of a media-driven campaign of anti-migrant hate
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god I hate this I hate this I hate it I hate it, I hate that the mainstream right has gone this mad and racist and radicalised, I hate that no one seems to know how to stop it from getting worse, it worries me so much and I hate it all
Get down off that cross, youâre a far right inciter of pogroms.
Lucy Connollyâs first interview: I was Starmerâs political prisoner
Northampton childminder speaks exclusively to Allison Pearson, the Telegraph journalist who led the campaign for her release
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What a surprise.
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No, Iâm sorry. Whatâs happening on Twitter isnât the usual âitâs the internet, so youâre going to get a few racistsâ thing. It is a massive engine for creating new racists, a giant recruitment machine for neo-Nazis. You are not engaging WITH THE REALITY OF WHAT THE SITE IS NOW.
I do think this is the best argument against staying on twitter, which I acknowledge in my piece.
