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Zarah Sultana, "I was born and raised in Birmingham.. The images from this city.. Family WhatsApp group telling each other to stay in.. My sisters wondering if they should go into work.. Friends saying they're going to work from home"
"This isn't a way to be living, where you're fearful to walk outside in your community because you fear for your life"
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "We have to talk about where this came from"
ZS, "This is the culmination of decades of front pages that have demonised and scapegoated muslims, refugees and migrants. This is the product of rhetoric we see coming from the highest offices in the country"
"Our former Home Secretary Suella Braverman said we have an invasion of migrants.. She also said the Islamists and extremists and anti semites are in charge.. The dehumanisation has been happening for decades"
"Most recently Nigel Farage, the language he has been using that Muslims don't share the values of British people. This is where it leads to"
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Egypt announced that it will not participate in a regional coalition to defend Israel against an Iranian attack.
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🚨 The UK’s racism problem in a nutshell.
When a black politician is asked her opinion on racist riots, she has to be aggressively cross examined, interrogated & mocked by a panel of four white people including the Home Secretary’s husband.
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The sneering and the sniggering and the bullying is all to drown out any discussion of politics teapawt.net/SaulStaniforth/status/…
.@zarahsultana rightly says politicians should call whats happening as racist and Islamophobic.
Ed Balls forgets he's meant to be the interviewer and gets annoyed because politicians and the media are being held accountable for where we are now #GMB
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Let us not forget that this was all started by a lie that was allowed to spread on a platform which reinstated the accounts of far-right fanatics and whose owner thinks nothing of engaging with them 👇
thelondoneconomic.com/opinio…
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Mick Lynch is coming out all guns blazing to take on the fight right. Do you intend to join him?
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@mrjamesob Read your book on holiday and it should be required reading for everyone to understand how and why we’ve ended up with the scenes these last few days. The chapter on Dacre was worth the admission alone.
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'I'm shocked to find out how many racist friends I have'.
Debbie Stokes, a local who works at a nearby library, said the disorder in Liverpool last night was 'disgusting'.
trib.al/5LyYW0E
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St Andrew's University has fired Stella Maris as their Rector after she condemned the genocidal attacks by Israel on Gaza.
Lets show our support for her, no-one should be punished for speaking the truth.
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Osbourne or Keynes?
Rachel Reeves needs to choose her path carefully.
Disappointing to see her repeating the narratives which justified austerity.
Thought-provoking analysis, as always, by @chakrabortty
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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“I am not the only one to see his shade. Other commentators have observed this week how the new chancellor has copied her predecessor’s trick of beaming over the threshold of No 11, before scowling like Captain Renault & claiming to be Shocked! Shocked! at the debauchery inside.”
The cynical spectre of Osbornomics is haunting the Labour party. Emergency cuts, empty pockets, a ‘maxed-out credit card’: why is Rachel Reeves using the language and logic of austerity?
My column theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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A simple question.
Why did the BBC ever think it appropriate to report that the suspect in the Southport killings was born in Cardiff to parents from Rwanda?
If he'd been born in Surrey to parents from Yorkshire, I am certain that they would not have pointed that out.
Are they trying to create, or even imply that there are, second-class British citizens?
This feels horribly like racism from the BBC, with the implication being that this group is made up of people who could be deported from the UK because they might have a claim to citizenship elsewhere. If that is what is happening, the BBC is supporting the far-right playbook.
An explanation is needed. Why is this apparent racism allowed from our state broadcaster?
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Whatever your take on the goings on in Southport, this is inarguably very funny. Concussion, no bollocks and nicked tomorrow for rioting. Silly old twat.🤣
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BREAKING:
Now in Paris.
Algeria’s delegation threw flowers into the Seine river during the opening ceremony of the #Paris2024 Olympics, in tribute to Algerians who drowned after being shot in 1961.
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Can't believe people are calling for dressage to be banned. Are you telling me that THIS isn't worth torturing horses for!? teapawt.net/SoozUK/status/18146126…