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12 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Slow handclap for those liberals who clutched their pearls indignantly whenever anyone questioned the EHRC's credibility. Get ready for a lot more of this, and it won't just be directed against the socialist left—don't say we didn't warn you.

middleeasteye.net/news/ehrc-uk-r…
Can't think of any precedent for the EHRC adopting a "baffling methodology" to guide an official report that reaches conclusions at odds with the evidence but highly convenient for the British power elite. (Not in the last week, anyway.)

theguardian.com/media/2020/nov… Image
Seems like only yesterday a parliamentary committee reached this damning conclusion about the EHRC's track record (oh wait, it *was* only yesterday!).

committees.parliament.uk/publications/3… Image
For those on the left who suggested that a fortnight ago wasn't the right time for Corbyn to raise any questions about the EHRC's credibility: how about now, guys? Three damning stories in just over 24 hours—this should be all the evidence you need. Time to shine.

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10 Nov
In 1992, the US Institute of Medicine predicted future pandemics and warned that Big Pharma couldn't be relied upon to develop vaccines: "There may be potentially catastrophic consequences if the development process is left entirely to free enterprise."

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK23484…
It's not a question of morality, just market incentives: it's simply not profitable to preemptively develop vaccines for potential threats. The incentives only come into play when, for example, you have a global pandemic with over a million deaths and massive economic damage.
This problem will still be with us even if we have a working vaccine for COVID-19—unless you assume this virus crossing over into the human population was a one-off fluke that we need never worry about again. Otherwise we need permanent public research.

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7 Nov
Trump's presidency never posed a real & present danger to the Bidens, Clintons & Obamas of this world; he was never going to "lock them up". But as he scurries off, remember Michael Reinoehl, the victim of a state execution as crude as Fred Hampton's.

nytimes.com/2020/10/13/us/…
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The hit had the enthusiastic endorsement (and quite possibly foreknowledge) of Trump, who described it as "retribution" (presumably for his far-right supporters). Some of the talk of Trump's authoritarian propensities was overblown, but this was clear as day. Image
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5 Nov
It's now a week since Jeremy Corbyn was suspended from the British Labour Party for telling the truth. Let's remember some of the episodes that didn't merit suspension from this august party:

1) Charging a dictator £5 million p/a to help spin away massacres of civilians
2) Lying to parliament about your knowledge of, and complicity in, CIA torture flights
3) Sounding the racist foghorn with talk of asylum seekers "swamping" British schools (even the Tory shadow home secretary, Oliver Letwin, said that David Blunkett's language was wrong)
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29 Oct
Going to take an overnight break from the state of British Labour politics, simultaneously sinister and shambolic. But for the road, this is something I wrote about Labour after Corbyn before Starmer's victory that tried to look at the bigger picture. 1/

jacobinmag.com/2020/04/jeremy…
This seems right enough in hindsight (except perhaps for the bit about Starmer paving the way for a "more right-wing successor"—his 10 pledges have already been junked, there might be no need for that). *But* there's a second part to this argument ... 2/
The Kinnock–Blair 80s-90s mutation of the Labour Party wasn't just about inner-party battles, or even the general course of British history: it was very much part of a global picture. 3/
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29 Oct
Grown Ups In Charge intensifying
"I asked an NEC member could he give me a specific reason for Corbyn's suspension. He said he didn't like it, but he'd have to go along with it."
The clown car circles round to pick up the guys from YouGov and the FT. Since the man who suspended Corbyn can't or won't say why he did it, this is about as meaningful as asking them if a goal should have been disallowed in a match they didn't see.

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5 Oct
Not surprised to find this compendium of nonsense from Helen Lewis being used to justify a guilt-by-association-with-good-people (Corbyn, Ilhan Omar) attack on AOC. Her list of "alarming incidents": 1 lie, 1 exaggeration, 1 inversion of reality, 2 non sequiturs. Standard fare.
The lie: Corbyn said nothing about "British Zionists" in general. The exaggeration: referring to a casual Facebook comment as "support". The inversion: Corbyn and Jennie Formby tackled the "slow handling of complaints" by their factional opponents. The non sequiturs: IHRA, EHRC.
Lewis herself admits further down that the "the [IHRA] definition of anti-Semitism that Corbyn refused to accept last year focused on Israel" (but suppresses the import of that fact). As for the EHRC, we're not hearing much about their report these days; funny how that goes, eh?
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