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Very proud to see the career of one of @rights_info’s first brilliant volunteers going from strength to strength
@rights_info There are lots of things I’m proud of @rights_info for - pioneering human rights legal education, running the UK’s best daily human rights news service, the UK’s only dedicated human rights creative and filmmaking team...
... But most of all it’s the amazing volunteers and staff, well over 100, who have all the work and I hope have been inspired to take a positive view of human rights out to the wider world.
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Adam Wagner
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For those of you who do not follow this issue as ridiculously closely as I do, there is currently a pretty unattractive spat going on within the Labour Party as to which faction is ‘to blame’ for the utter disaster which is its handling of anti-Semitism...
... and this seems now to have led to rival leaks of internal emails by different factions, with accusations and counter-accusations. I have no doubt there is some backstabbing within the party (that seems to now be a standard mode of behaviour)...
...But an average person might reasonably ask whether it is *as important as it seems to those embedded in the factional culture* which faction is responsible for which bit of this omnishambles. Ultimately, this institution has a *leader* who has taken almost no responsibility...
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Adam Wagner
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This is quite a letter of resignation from a former Labour minister - the full excoriating text is in the thread 🔥🔥🔥
Quite
It's shocking when you read the case against Corbyn's leadership plainly laid out. The wrong leader for the wrong time - unbending, factional, at times cowardly - and a huge waste of youthful enthusiasm around socialist ideas. Labour should have been preparing for a landslide now
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Adam Wagner
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I’m not the biggest fan of Jonathan Sumption but did anyone out there feel in the slightest bit enlightened by the long interview with him on @BBCr4today? I thought it was vague and incoherent.
I know he’s a very clever man so why did it sound like a right wing bloke complaining about the ‘modern state of politics’ by the water cooler?

Typical exchange
Sumption “It’s bad”
Interviewer: “But how bad?”
You may think I’m being grumpy but I attended the first Reith lecture (to be broadcast next week) and I was expecting something aggravating to my politics but at least coherent. I found it to be thin and lacking in rigour. Perhaps the other lectures will be better
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