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15 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
So, the not-politically-correct Home Office review on grooming gangs, ordered by not-politically-correct Sajid Javid, finds:

- grooming gangs came from diverse backgrounds
- "links between ethnicity and this form of offending" could not be proven 🤔🤔

independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…
I first wrote about CSE around... 2004 (wow, 16 years now)... and how we need a full investigation into this topic instead of brushing it under the carpet, after a C4 doc on the topic got shelved.

I've always believed we need a proper investigation regardless of sensitivities.
Here is the key paragraphs, from a report with a foreword by PRITI PATEL (so don't say its trying to be politically correct!)

Full report:
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
The key point:

"Some studies suggest an over-representation of Black and Asian offenders relative to the demographics of national populations."

"However it is not possible to conclude that this is representative of all group-based CSE offending"
The report is saying that while grooming gangs themselves are "ethnically homogenous" the problem itself, more broadly, is not limited to one ethnicity.

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15 Dec
Ok, a quick thread on why "calling out" racism doesn't work - when that's exactly what the far-right are looking for.

See these tweets by a prominent White Nationalist YouTuber for a start. They'll give you a clue. Image
Here we have a White Nationalist explicitly saying:

1) Their strategy is to hijack radio / TV shows and "use your anger to create publicity".

This is literally their aim. We played straight into them

2) Amazed that the Left has fallen into the trap of seeing Nazis everywhere.
This was also always the strategy of people like Katie Ho**ins, Lau***ce Fox, David Van** and a whole range of other grifters:

- to provoke and anger people on social media
- get attention
- be seen as the culture-warrior taking on the left
- make money.
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15 Dec
Some quick thoughts on Keir Starmer and racism and *that* LBC interview yesterday.

This will apply a lot over the next few years, so consider them ever-green tweets.
There will be times when Starmer won't react to rows on racism to how I would react.

But he has to pull together a broad coalition of voters, not me. Labour needs focus, discipline.

Stay away from culture wars. Labour doesn't need a civil war everytime Owen Jones thinks so.
On racism, I'm not convinced that "calling out" works most of the time. Depends on who is doing it and language they use.

To me it's like howling in the wind.

More specifically, it doesn't work when far-right are explicitly *looking* to get a reaction out of us.
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28 Sep
A thread on Andrew Neil and why I won't be celebrating his new broadcasting venture.

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In 2014, Andrew Neil saw a news story on winter coming early to Tennessee and retweeted it with a sarcastic, “Damn you, global warming!!!!”

Scientists might say climate change creates the extreme temperature swings he was railing against but it would be a waste of time.
Andrew Neil has poured scorn on the idea of climate change for at least a decade.

The Spectator, a magazine he publishes, has toed that line too.

He used his platform at the BBC to push this nonsense too. He is a part of the reason BBC needed to have ‘balance’ on this debate.
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26 Sep
Watched 'Kiss the Ground' on Netflix last night.

It's a really interesting doc on how soil could do far more to capture CO2 and reverse the climate crisis than any other measure.

Odd to me that more focus isnt behind this?
Basic premise: the soil and plant growth captures far more carbon than any other system on earth.

But we are ruining soil and increasing desertification with awful industrial farming techniques.

But this can be reversed, increasing yields for farmers AND capturing more carbon.
Most campaigns on climate change focuses on reducing emissions (via fossil fuels).

But improving soil actually *reduces* CO2 in air in quite striking numbers, and increases biodiversity.

Feels like a no-brainer to me. Am I missing something? 🤯
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25 Sep
One of my friends (an Asian woman) on Facebook has gone full Q-Anon. It was jarring to see at first.

Didn't think people like her would be the target audience, TBH.
Some observations:
1) Q-A people spend a lot of time boosting and praising each other on each other's FB pages. Drives up engagement, visibility and makes them look much bigger.

Every post of her has lots of comments and shares. The comments are.... mad. But they work in boosting engagement.
2) Most of the messages are either #SaveourChildren #GoodoverEvil or pro-Trump. They genuinely believe they are trying to do good in the world and save others.

Lots of messages ape language of empowerment and motivation. 'do good in the world' etc etc.
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22 Sep
Sorry, one gripe about today's news.

I love this country and I'm not afraid to say it. I really, genuinely do.

The Labour Party too mustn't be afraid of saying, especially its leaders.

One key reason I think Corbyn lost is Brits largely didn't largely believe he loved it too.
The gripe is this: some on the modern (Twitter) left believe declaring pride / love of your country, call it patriotism, is 'shameless pandering'.

That's the problem. They cannot conceive that anyone on the left could believe such a thing.
And so we end up with really silly debates about whether Lisa Nandy sounded like she was echoing Britain First.

They folks don't even see the language of patriotism unless it's by the (English) far-right. So of course their view of this whole debate is distorted.
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