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23 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I am looking forward to reading @RemiAdekoya1 Biracial Britain - out on February 4th - including to find out what I said to him when we met up in person, back in the pre-Covid world when such things were possible!
Book details via @RemiAdekoya1 who I recommend following
"Mixed race? What's all this mixed race nonsense? If you're not white, you're black". Reliable sources inform me that this exchange features early in the book. (This was with the late Darcus Howe, one of the giants of his generation. RIP).
From this British Future report on shifting attitudes to mixed race identity and relationships
britishfuture.org/new-report-the…

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24 Jan
Weekly Covid attitudes memo, no 40.
- Growing concern overNHS pressures, confidence rising in vaccine rollout. .
- Self-reported compliance is up, but age-gap reopening
- British public welcomedBiden’s inauguration, mainly due to departure of Trump.
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The Common Sense group are hoping to put up statues and name roads after Victoria Cross heroes - which sounds to me like that should be very good news for Khudadad Khan Way and Mir Dast Road
The PM should be on board here
The Common Sense group haven't quite made the link yet - but I am sure we can get them there too. Image
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23 Jan
A newspaper report reveals that the Education Secretary is next week expected to rule out schools reopening (for most pupils) after February half-term (as the plan/hope has been to . No new return target date to be set, the Sunday Times reports, briefed by govt sources. Image
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23 Jan
Cheltenham 1 Manchester City 0
(58 minutes)

It may well not still happen - but this would surely be in the all-time top 5 FA Cup shocks if it stayed like this.
I think I would probably have Colchester-Leeds (1971_; Wrexham-Arsenal (1992) and Walsall-Arsenal (1933) right at the top, ahead of Sutton-Coventry and Hereford-Newcastle et al. But welcome your rankings.
An 81st minute equaliser for Manchester City, who are now 1-1 at Cheltenham.
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Thomas Binder has a fair claim to the most "full house" conspiracy theorist I have yet to see on this website. (9/11 truther, an anti-semite, Covid denial, Bill Gates Gates vaccination plot). Anybody associating with him has at best failed absolutely to do any due diligence.
I was only recently introduced to his work by Mr Nawaz distributing it. These do not seem atypical examples of a persistent theme of extreme conspiracism
I only first encountered him when Mr Nawaz recommended his fascinating account that Covid is a hoax or a myth that we all fell for (while offering a disclaimer that he lacked any expertise to consider the content he was sharing from this ur-conspiracist)
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What does Rishi Sunak think? A detailed profile by Nick Timothy of the man who he tips to succeed Boris Johnson.
The column mentions how scale of financial support package and furloughing cut through, citing @jamesjohnson252 on how it is still remembered. This seems key to a public perception that several mistakes have been made (late lockdowns) but that there was an effort at fairness too
What is only alluded to is that Sunak, despite merited technocratic reputation for being data-driven, was slowest/most hawkish on accepting the need for restrictions and lockdowns & keenest on relaxations (Eat Out to Help Out) that proved premature
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