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Powerful column by @NickCohen4 on the extreme rightwing culture warriors who began their political lives in the deeply weird far-left cult that Frank Furedi built among his students: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
I've been documenting this cult's long march through the institutions since 1997. But I never guessed it would end up in Downing Street, working with a demagogic Tory Prime Minister:
monbiot.com/1997/12/18/the…
In 1998 I began to understand the trick it keeps pulling off: claiming to be on the left while taking extreme right positions. It sows total confusion among its opponents, and cons broadcasters into imagining they're giving the left a platform: monbiot.com/1998/11/01/far…
I watched, astonished, as, in 2003, the members of this cult moved en masse into science communications, and somehow managed to capture almost all the key positions. I still don't know how or why they did it: monbiot.com/2003/12/09/inv…
In 2011, I showed how they had become the leading voices of genocide and atrocity denial: monbiot.com/2011/06/13/nam…
Then, in 2018, I revealed that they had secretly been taking money from Charles Koch, the extreme right US billionaire: monbiot.com/2018/12/10/you…
Now, as Nick documents, one of the cult members is head of the Number 10 Policy Unit, and is directing Johnson's culture wars.
Please, don't anyone say that you weren't warned!
Here's the right link to Nick's column: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Astonishing. This is the medal given to UK diplomats for their services. It depicts a white angel stamping on the neck of a black man.
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The black man has dragon's wings. It echoes St George slaying the dragon (the devil/usurper/national enemy).
Did no one in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, or in Buckingham Palace, or among the people who received this medal, ever look at it and think "hang on a minute"?

Or is racism so ingrained in the UK's establishment that this iconography has remained unchallenged?
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At the end of my thread yesterday (), I suggested there was a lot more to be discovered about how Britain's hidden history of atrocities influences current politics. I woke up thinking about trade. Thread/
Current politicians fetishise trade. They tell poor nations it's the way to get rich. Trade deals and trade rules are used as powerful political instruments. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
But the more we discover about our own history, the less the "trade" on which Britain built its wealth looks like exchange, and the more it looks like looting. It meant extracting stolen resources and the products of slavery, debt bondage and land theft from other nations.
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We should know as much about the atrocities committed by British governments in the 20th Century as the Germans do about theirs. But most people in the UK would have no idea what I’m referring to.
In this week’s column I try to put that right.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
This is Sir Evelyn Baring.
As governor of Kenya from 1952-59, he commissioned a system of concentration and slave labour camps, in which tens of thousands were tortured and mutilated, beaten and burnt to death.
He is Dominic Cummings’s grandfather-in-law.
Every schoolchild should know his name. But his cover-ups and deceptions were so ruthless and effective, and supported so comprehensively by the British government, that his great crimes are almost unknown to us.
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