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Matthew Turner retweeted
This is extraordinary from Laura Kuensberg. Polanski answered her questions but rejected her chosen framing. That's meat-and-potatoes stuff for combative interviewing.
It is very telling she reaches for this one interview to illustrate some broader anti-truth/populist politics - but says nothing about how we had a Labour Party leader/PM in Keir Starmer who lied, constantly, repeatedly, and flagrantly - who invented a political character from whole cloth to dupe the Labour membership. He lied on TV constantly - big lies, small lies, serious lies and frivolous lies. And he followed on from Boris Johnson, another fabulous liar, who made his career on changing the subject and dancing around questions, much to the delight of Kuensberg and the media class, who treated him with affection and kid gloves on his path to power.
I think it's obvious that Kuensberg just doesn't like or support progressive politics. That's fine. But don't try launder that into a ham-fisted critique saying the left has a problem with journalistic inquiry - and don't imply bad faith and dishonesty, when it has been progressives who called out the honest truth of Israel's genocide in Gaza while the establishment laundered it as "self-defence" or repeated nonsense about human shields.
Hi @bbclaurak,
Zionism has resulted in the bombing of children & the killing of tens of thousands of innocent people in Gaza.
Again - the actual controversy is the Labour Government are arming that & the BBC 'debate' if it's racist.
How's that for answering the question?
Matthew Turner retweeted
Nous agirons frontalement au secours des Palestiniens, à la fois contre le génocide à Gaza et contre l’annexion progressive de la Cisjordanie.
Les navires français, s’il le fallait, escorteront les flottilles de citoyens mobilisés pour faire valoir leurs droits.
Nous n’acceptons pas l’annexion progressive de la Cisjordanie, ni du Sud-Liban, ni du plateau du Golan.
Nous organiserons concrètement la mobilisation contre l’extension des cruautés aux communautés chrétiennes assiégées, persécutées en Palestine et au Liban.
#Melenchon2027 #JLMBourget
Matthew Turner retweeted
the horrific character attacks of being asked to explain how her bill should be applied to practical law and why it isn't a massive overreach on people's civil liberties
My friend @Jess4Lowestoft is a hero and a champion for women and children’s safety every single day.
Disagree with her if you want, she can take it. But the horrific character attacks this week should give us all pause about what our politics has become
Proud of you Jess x
Terfs hate women.
A wife is without her husband. Three children are without their Dad. Yet everyone thinks the real victim in this, is a drunk groupie, who was cheating on her boyfriend. Someone who has anonymity for life and will probably get a financial payout.
I don’t care what anyone calls me. I have a unique perspective on this as someone who had a romantic encounter with Russell in the naughties and then collaborated with him on a political campaign in 2014.
If this drunk groupie thought he was a predator, why would she stand by and watch him sleep with 1000s more women. Didn’t she care about those women?
It’s not true that women in the comedy industry warned each other about Russell. No-one warned me and it could not have been more obvious that I was connected to him.
Just because I am a woman, doesn’t mean I should "believe all women."
I would be more likely to believe women who report criminals to the POLICE. Not the media, decades later.
I believe in the right to a fair trial. Convince me it was fair!
Matthew Turner retweeted
Extraordinary: Former Labour MP who resigned in disgrace after sex pest allegations, gets a peerage anyway and then acts as a lobbyist for arms dealers and a genocidal terrorist state.
All for more languages on offer in schools and at GCSE and A level but where is the funding to actually make this possible?
Proud to announce that students in England will be able to study Ukrainian at GCSE.
It’s a chance for pupils to explore Ukraine’s rich culture and history and, for the Ukrainian community to remain connected to their heritage.
This is another step in our enduring support for Ukraine as part of the 100 Year Partnership 🇺🇦🇬🇧
Well yeah, obviously. It's not called the great Satan for nothing!
I know I've dunked on him and I do stand by what I said (obvious melt) but this is delicious. A fraction of the contempt British journos rightly deserve.
Michigan's Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed confronted @jamesmatthewsky, telling him he wouldn't answer his questions as he wants "zero" votes in the UK.
Watch the heated exchange between the two.
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Matthew Turner retweeted
AES's reaction was mild. The real scandal is a British press that won’t interview Arabs, appends 'Israel claims' to every genocide allegation, and portrays children killed by the IDF as accidental collateral damage.
Matthew Turner retweeted
Shocked that the Anti-Trans movement was actually just thinly disguised homophobia all this time
Matthew Turner retweeted
Feels very distasteful to me to use the victims of ICE violence as a justification to vote for a party that has openly supported ICE for years and which has no actual intention of dismantling the agency
Yeah since the end of the middle ages, no it didn't work, and no, that's not at all what Buddhism is.
