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May 14 25 tweets 8 min read
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Andrew Neil criticises others for making 'Nazi analogies', but here he is, referring to an article in the Mail, amplified by Toby Young, suggesting a proposed boycott by a 'Pro-Palestine group' of venues showing #eurovision24 is "straight out of the early Nazi playbook".

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The 'early Nazi playbook' involves propaganda, which like contemporary political & media propaganda works primarily not by lies, but rather by selective representation of information, distortion, fearmongering, demonisation of minority groups & misleading partisan misinformation. Image
May 13 5 tweets 2 min read
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Divisive far-right extremist grifter Steve Laws is dangerous: he has a long & well documented history of using racist & Islamophobic rhetoric, harassing people, & trying to get decent people sacked. Laws' hateful rhetoric was even too toxic for Richard Tice's Reform UK. Image Former UKIP candidate & far-right extremist Laws is a prominent so-called 'migrant hunter' who gets off on filming boats arriving in Dover. He constantly uses grotesque 1930s-style dehumanising rhetoric, & pushes the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory.

May 11 29 tweets 12 min read
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World-leading climate scientists foresee a “semi-dystopian” near future characterised by famines, conflicts & mass migration.

Meanwhile, a handful of billionaire investors fund anti-Net Zero think tanks, news media & political parties who cast doubt on climate science.
Image Scientists say we are on track to shoot through the 1.5C temperature ceiling enshrined in the Paris agreement.

Climate impacts have hit so fast that worst-case scenarios predicted by scientists are in some cases already coming true.

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May 9 49 tweets 19 min read
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The phrase "the spawn of communism" derives from early twentieth century US #nativism - the political strategy of promoting the interests of "native-born" inhabitants over those of immigrants.

But where does it come from, & what might it tell us about Jacob Rees-Mogg? Image This thread is about how nativist ideology gave rise to the first US 'Red Scare', & how, long before TalkRadio or Fox & GB "News" existed, populist Christian broadcaster 'Father' Coughlin stoked the fears & prejudices of millions of his listeners using divisive nativist rhetoric. Image
May 7 13 tweets 7 min read
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GB "News"/TalkTV regular, Chair of the National Jewish Assembly & JC columnist, Gary Mond, liked posts by far-right extremist Pamela Geller (banned from entering the UK) & posted on FB in reference to Muslims “all [of] civilisation… is at war with these evil bastards”.



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In January 2022, it was reported that then Board of Deputies Senior VP Gary Mond had been asked to “step down from his duties” while an investigation took place.

Mond had served on the advisory board of the Conservative Friends of Israel group 2010-2014.
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May 2 48 tweets 14 min read
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Tory donor Bassim Haidar is the latest multimillionaire to say he'll leave the UK to avoid paying £millions in tax following plans to scrap the “non-dom” regime, which has allowed him & 68,800 other non-doms to avoid paying UK tax on overseas income for 225 years.
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Haidar, who owns “more than 10 properties” in central London, including a £20 MILLION flat near Sloane Square, "gave" the @Conservatives £450,000 last year - including £10,000 worth of advertising to Lee Anderson in November, who promptly joined Reform UK.
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Apr 30 22 tweets 8 min read
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The #Rwanda Plan, based on deterrence, is ineffective, expensive, & thoroughly neoliberal: based on rational choice theory, it assumes people act based on the costs & benefits of different actions. But the Plan ignores the evidence & the complex reality of the situation. Image Tensions are rising between the UK and Ireland, as asylum seekers cross into Ireland from Northern Ireland, reportedly fearing that if they remain in the UK, they will be sent to Rwanda. But all is not as it seems, as Matilde Rosina demonstrates...

theconversation.com/is-the-rwanda-…
Apr 29 9 tweets 4 min read
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How NOT to be a PM!

Batshit Truss was stopped, “ambushed” & held “at gunpoint” by the “Deep State”, the “anti-growth coalition” & “declinists” - defeated by a progressive & Marxist alliance which includes Joe Biden &, er, Michel Foucault!

theconversation.com/liz-trusss-les… For all this, however, Truss’s book offers some important lessons for future PMs, albeit more in terms of what NOT to do than how to do the job well.

Prime ministers, for a start, need to listen. All PMs stop listening eventually - but it seems Truss never even started. Image
Apr 26 42 tweets 15 min read
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In 2022, the Home Office considered giving Gideon Falter a role advising the Commission for Countering Extremism, but antisemitism tsar John Mann told Braverman he'd quit if Falter was appointed.

However, the MUCH BIGGER story concerns CCE Commissioner, Robin Simcox...
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This is a thread about how the UK Govt appoints extremists to influential positions in order to manufacture a perception of impartiality, while in reality helping to push through harmful ideologically extreme free-market policies which serve the interests of the rich & powerful. Image
Apr 24 20 tweets 8 min read
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The barbaric, divisive, ineffective & eye wateringly expensive #RwandaBill has finally passed.

However, legal expert Natalie Hodgson, Assistant Professor in Law at University of Nottingham, has found that multiple obstacles still lie ahead...

theconversation.com/the-obstacles-… The government claims to have secured the airfield and charter flights necessary for removing people to Rwanda. However, campaigners who oppose the scheme are targeting these elements of the policy in an attempt to make flights logistically impossible.
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Apr 23 25 tweets 9 min read
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Today is one of Britain’s most shameful days ever: a stain on Britain’s reputation as a tolerant, fair-minded, lawful, democratic and welcoming country.

The barbaric #RwandaPlan was dreamed up following the #PartyGate scandal, as part of ‘Operation Save Big Dog’. Image The #RwandaPlan was announced on 14th April 2022 by disgraced lawbreaking liar & former PM Boris Johnson, who in a speech at Dover falsely claimed it could potentially see Rwanda “resettle tens of thousands of people in the years ahead”, & claimed it would cost £120 million.
Apr 22 20 tweets 7 min read
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#Telegraph headlines, as told by Craig Brown in @PrivateEyeNews (screenshots of REAL Telegraph headlines):

MOTORING: Electric car runs amok, kills family kitten, leaves British family in tears

HEALTH: Woke National Trust draws up plans to cause worldwide Zombie virus Image CHARLES MOORE: Scruffy jeans provide cover for violence and extremism

ROYAL NEWS: Harry and Meghan "deny" plotting to assassinate King Charles

TELEGRAPH VIEW: The world has gone mad

JANET DALEY: A free society can't survive the abolition of the Golden Syrup label Image
Apr 22 18 tweets 7 min read
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New video footage makes it obvious that CEO of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, Gideon Falter, set out to deliberately provoke trouble, garner attention, frame the narrative, & to mislead the Govt, the UK 'news' media, & the British people - and not for the first time.
Image The @metpoliceuk was forced to apologise. Yet as the new footage proves beyond any doubt, the Police Officer engaging with Gideon Falter, far from being punished, deserves a medal for his patience & professionalism, & should have arrested provocative troublemaker Gideon Falter.
Apr 19 36 tweets 8 min read
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The 'shameless normalisation' of grotesque divisive racism is alive & well in Europe & beyond - even in relatively sensible progressive countries like Norway.

'The details that matter: Racism in Norwegian media during the Covid-19 pandemic'.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… This article is about the role of the media in contemporary racism: it outlines the discursive mechanisms through which insidious, hidden forms of racism are able to exist “invisible in plain sight,” even in the media & public discourse of 'progressive' countries, like Norway.
Apr 19 4 tweets 3 min read
In a 1935 speech, Joseph Goebbels warned Nazi Party members that an 'international clique of conspirators' led by the far-left & an ethnoreligious group, were uniting to bring about the "absolute destruction" of all advances made by "western civilization". encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/fil…

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Substitute 'Jews' for 'Islamists', 'far-right' for 'far-left', & 'racists' for 'woke', & then imagine how the entire billionaire-owned right-wing 'news' media & every right-wing politician would respond, if that was published by, say, the @BBC, rather than the Torygraph. 🤯
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Apr 18 6 tweets 2 min read
@bbcquestiontime @TiceRichard It's Richard Tice's SIXTH appearance on #bbcqt in 8 years.

Far too many episodes of @bbcquestiontime platform divisive hard-right privately educated right-wing extremist multimillionaires employed and/or funded by fellow multimillionaires & billionaires.

@bbcquestiontime @TiceRichard MP @RupaHuq questioned @BBC Director-General Tim Davie & its Director, Editorial Policy & Standards, David Jordan, using data from my #bbcqt Open Letter to the BBC, published by @YorksBylines on 18th February 2023.

They both denied any knowledge of it. 🤥
Apr 16 5 tweets 2 min read
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One speaker is under investigation for right-wing extremism, others argue the Christchurch mosque shooter 'had legitimate concerns', gay marriage is 'a destructive experiment', & the "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory is real!

The far-right ♥️ #NatCon

Who funds it? Image The #NatCon2024 Brussels event was sponsored and coordinated by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), a Hungarian 'think tank' funded by oil & gas money, & which received more than £1.3 BILLION in Hungarian state funding in 2020.

#FancyThat!

desmog.com/2024/04/16/nat…
Mar 27 45 tweets 11 min read
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More than a year since @elonmusk bought @X with a promise to "defeat the spam bots or die trying", the problem is worse than ever, with much of the bot traffic casting doubt on climate science.

Here's what Mr Musk doesn't want you to know...

abc.net.au/news/science/2…
Image One morning in January this year, marine scientist @ProfTerryHughes opened @X (Twitter) & searched for the Great Barrier Reef.

"I keep an eye on what's being tweeted about the reef every day," Professor Hughes, a leading coral research expert, said.

Mar 26 15 tweets 7 min read
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FACT: The extremist @Conservatives appear to be led by delusional racist liars.

"London has become the crime capital of the world"?

According the Crime Survey for England & Wales, you're LESS likely to be a victim of crime in London than across the country as a whole.
Image In London, 14.9% of people experienced a crime either to their person or household year ending September 2023, compared to 15.7% nationally.

The latest homicide stats position London not as "crime capital of the world", but as having the 237th most homicides/capita of any city. Image
Mar 26 7 tweets 4 min read
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On 16th June 2016, Nigel Farage launched ’s Breaking Point poster. The same day, Jo Cox was murdered by Thomas Mair who shouted "This is for Britain".

Four days later, UKIP Leader Farage spoke at a public meeting in Gateshead under this backdrop: Leave.EU
Image Current Reform Party leader, multimillionaire Richard Tice, was a founder & co-Chair of & Leave Means Leave. The similarities between the Breaking Point poster & a Nazi propaganda film picturing large streams of Jewish refugees as a threat, are undeniable. Leave.EU


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Mar 21 48 tweets 13 min read
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I'm old enough to remember when @BBCPolitics shows had serious panelists on, were well chaired by politically savvy people, & were worthy of being taken seriously.

This week on the increasingly clickbaity #bbcqt, for his TENTH appearance in ten years, is Rod Liddle... Image The damaged & troubled Rod Liddle has forged a career by using grotesque rhetoric designed to outrage decent normal people.

A young Liddle considered becoming a teacher, but decided against it on the grounds that he "could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids." Image