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16 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Presumably Claire Fox is on #newsnight because Tommy Robinson, David Starkey, Darren Grimes, Katie Hopkins, Nigel Farage, Laurence Fox, Allison Pearson, Isabel Oakeshott, Richard Tice, Tim Martin, Toby Young, Brendan O'Neill & that Scottish bloke from 'Coast' are all unavailable.
People asking why I included Coast Guy:

1 For bigging up David Starkey after his racist outburst

2 For saying young people shouldn’t go to university because Universities have succumbed to a "Maoist" cultural revolution

3 For RTing unhinged hard-right crank Paul Joseph-Watson
4 Saying #BlackLivesMatter is essentially a plot by anarchists & communists to undermine the fabric of the British nation

5 Amplifying the antisemitic conspiracy theory about 'Cultural Marxism' which inspired Anders Breivik..

Just do your own research👍

thenational.scot/news/18560680.…
Lots of hard-right trolls saying I want to shut down debate. Nope. I want the opposite of what they claim: there are tens of millions of articulate, interesting people in Britain, yet we're relentlessly fed a tiny bandwidth of views from the same tiny pool of opportunist cranks.

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Reading #Breitbart (& Spiked, InfoWars etc)

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Once you see this, you can't unsee it.

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