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Schona Jolly QC
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⁦The frightening state of Brexit Britain:

“It can’t be right that one of the consequences of me being the mayor of London & a Muslim in public life is that I have police protection. Is that the price you should have to pay?” ⁦@SadiqKhan⁩

thetimes.co.uk/article/e6bc76…
Sadiq Khan never received an apology from the dog-whistle campaign run by @ZacGoldsmith, but credit to Khan for saying publicly now what many of us have said since. It wasn’t just Goldsmith. The racism came from the very highest levels.
I’ll add: We shouldn’t be going backwards as a society. We shouldn’t be scared for our elderly parents or our children on the streets because of race. We shouldn’t be shy about our rich identities, to speak other languages on our streets.

Language matters. In politics even more.
Sadiq Khan hasn’t spoken out about racism much, despite what we now see is a very extreme torrent of racist threats towards him.

It is important that he does so, because we have to stop hiding behind the fake reassurances of Brexit Britain that all is well.

All is not well.
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Today San Francisco banned facial recognition technology. It will not be allowed to be used by local agencies, like the transport authority, or law enforcement.

Britain needs a serious debate about #AI #tech #humanrights #discrimination. Instead, we’re still talking Brexit.
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Would that Britain had leaders of our main two parties that would rise to this grave challenge.

Cowering, hiding in a different moment of time, May & Corbyn fail us all.
I’ve watched quietly these last days, willing @UKLabour to seize the reality & gravity of the moment. Some of its MEPs, like @SebDance, are amongst the finest & most principled supporters of Remain.

Europe needs thse strong voices to counter to the forces working against it.
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@WomaninHavana
For a glimpse of why we were outclassed & out-negotiated by a transparent EU27, Storyville’s Brexit: Behind Closed Doors is a bird’s eye look into how Britain had its “head in the f***ing clouds”. The mortifying incompetence & arrogance of #GlobalBritain. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
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“The British press..should not always listen to the spin coming out of Downing St.”

Think how much time we’d have saved.
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