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23 Jan, 10 tweets, 3 min read
I've done several threads on far-right radicalization techniques & their similarity to the rhetoric used by Tory MP's & the UK press.

Two boys, 15 & 16, are in court, accused of being members of a far-right extremist group, part of a Telegram chat group.

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