It's that time of the year when I make a thread of my top tweets from the last year. So, here we go, my 2018:
JANUARY:
My first thread of the year was this one on the dreadful situation in North West Syria.
My first thread of the year was this one on the dreadful situation in North West Syria.
FEBRUARY:
My Feb top tweet was also Syria related, responding to a call to save Afrin from Turkey. With Turkey poised to roll on Manbij as US abandons the Kurds, we're seeing similar calls now, from folks who condemned interventions to save other Syrians
My Feb top tweet was also Syria related, responding to a call to save Afrin from Turkey. With Turkey poised to roll on Manbij as US abandons the Kurds, we're seeing similar calls now, from folks who condemned interventions to save other Syrians
MARCH:
Bringing together Syria my other main Twitter topic, the far right:
Bringing together Syria my other main Twitter topic, the far right:
and this, on the strange convergence between Jeremy Corbyn and Arron Banks:
APRIL:
More on the far right and Syria (this one is the start of a mini thread on Caroline Cox, the Islamphobic, Thatcherite peer)
More on the far right and Syria (this one is the start of a mini thread on Caroline Cox, the Islamphobic, Thatcherite peer)
and this, with yet more far right/Syria content, on the time Nick Griffin tweeted at me:
MAY:
Against the far right's Anne-Marie Waters, who keeps standing for election in Lewisham
Against the far right's Anne-Marie Waters, who keeps standing for election in Lewisham
and against the return of Stalinism on the British left
JUNE:
On two sides of authoritarian government
On two sides of authoritarian government
JULY:
Another one of my Syria threads, this one on Robert Fisk
Another one of my Syria threads, this one on Robert Fisk
and on the Stalinists who dig fascism to own the libs
AUGUST:
More on the juvenile left's obsession with "centrists", and the bad forms of anti-fascism which arise from it:
More on the juvenile left's obsession with "centrists", and the bad forms of anti-fascism which arise from it:
and that time when Chris Williamson praised a genocide denying antisemite:
SEPTEMBER:
My Labour Party conference thread:
My Labour Party conference thread:
OCTOBER:
On TheCanary publishing smears of dissenting journalists:
On TheCanary publishing smears of dissenting journalists:
and a thread from the march against the far right DFLA:
NOVEMBER:
On Twitter's response to Syrians upset at a leftoid shitposter:
On Twitter's response to Syrians upset at a leftoid shitposter:
DECEMBER:
A couple of my obsessions, fake anti-elitism, Spiked and the right-wing side of pro-Brexit Labour:
A couple of my obsessions, fake anti-elitism, Spiked and the right-wing side of pro-Brexit Labour:
Sorry that was actually November. **This** is DECEMBER:
Despair at the political illiteracy of some of my Labour Party comrades:
Despair at the political illiteracy of some of my Labour Party comrades:
OK, that's it. Let's hope 2019 isn't as grime as 2018 has been.
[@threader_app compile please, @threadreaderapp unroll please. Ta.]
[@threader_app compile please, @threadreaderapp unroll please. Ta.]
