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30 Jan, 6 tweets, 5 min read
Brilliant freelanceđź“·documentary photographer @andyaitchison has for years shone a light on prisons and immigration detention centres.

Yesterday police arrested Andy, held him for 5 hrs, seized his mobile phone & camera's memory card.

Crime? Doing his job. 1/
Andy's arrest comes the day after authoritarian minister for Equalities (yes, Equalities) @KemiBadenoch smeared brilliant journo Nadine White @Nadine_Writes , exposing White to predictable trolling and abuse. 2/

Liz Truss @trussliz played the same dirty trick on @Halima_Begum CEO @RunnymedeTrust, using inflammatory language *in Parliament* that she must have known would expose Begum to trolling, abuse & threats of harm. 3/

@KemiBadenoch & @trussliz smears are not momentary mistakes.Neither "mis-spoke".Badenoch attacked White in an 8-part thread that was likely run by if not written by her staff.Truss's scripted attack on Begum came in answer to a planted question from a hard right headbanger MP 4/
let's not forget: authoritarian Home Secretary #PritiPatel continued her inflammatory rhetoric against immigration lawyers even after a far right extremist was charged with attempting to launch a terror attack at an immigration law firm. 5/
theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/o…
Hard to believe #Badenoch #Truss #Patel & their boss #BorisJohnson don't know they are putting people at risk of harm.

In case they've forgotten, racist ideology inflamed by #Brexit rhetoric inspired a white supremacist to murder MP Jo Cox.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/n…

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28 Jan
started the day studying @MagnumPhotos . Here's a brief thread >

on the history & gaze of @MagnumPhotos by @johnedwinmason 1/
For many years @MagnumPhotos has made money from outing abused children as “child prostitutes” — names, towns, recognisable locations.
Some prize-winning images are child porn site faves.

Thank you @duckrabbitblog for exposing this > 2/

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"If anyone reading this is still wondering why so many photographers want to shoot children being abused it’s because @MagnumPhotos made it profitable."

distressing, rigorous work by Benjamin Chesterton @duckrabbitblog 3/

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2 Jul 20
Here's David Starkey asserting: "Slavery was not genocide, otherwise there wouldn't be so many damn blacks in Africa or in Britain would there?"
(via @Louis_Allday )
1/5
Here's HISTORY TODAY publisher Andy Patterson asserting (TODAY, 2 July 2020) "David Starkey is no longer a member of the History Today editorial advisory board" 2/5
Here's HISTORY TODAY current issue (dated 2 July 2020) listing "David Starkey, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge" as a member of the History Today editorial advisory board 3/5
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31 May 20
Despite 64,000 #covid_19 deaths, health minister #MattHancock is delighted horse-racing restarts tomorrow. He’s MP for Newmarket, he’s funded by racing industry. Loves to ride racehorse owned by wife of £5m Tory donor billionaireLord Anthony Bamford 1/
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But delighted Sir Nicholas Soames, brother to Rupert Soames, CEO ofSerco, selected to run Ukgov #covid_19 tracing service. Churchill’s grandsons, they've kept up the dynasty’s devotion to horse-racing 2/
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28 May 20
BREAKING #DidoHarding govt's Track & Trace czar is

• a #JockeyClub steward

& formerly
a director at Cheltenham Racecourse &
a director of Racecourse Holdings Trust

(ht @E91_Cowbridge)

thejockeyclub.co.uk/about-us/our-s… Image
BREAKING from the govt that gave us #Brexit, #cummings #death & mindblowing conflicts of interest:

#DidoHarding , leading govt's Track & Trace effort is deeply enmeshed with UK racing industry

thejockeyclub.co.uk/about-us/our-s… Image
First they kill us, then they take control of our data

#DidoHarding , leading govt's Track & Trace effort, is deeply enmeshed with UK racing industry

A JockeyClub Steward &ex-director Cheltenham Racecourse.
They made lethal decision to carry on racing
itv.com/news/2020-05-2…
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12 Dec 19
1/
What’s going on with schools in England?

How come so many academy schools controllers are super-rich supporters of #Brexit, #BorisJohnson & Michael #Gove?

I’ve been investigating with @warwickmansell
Here’s what we’ve found:
opendemocracy.net/en/shine-a-lig…
2/
 One man, aged 77, controls schools for 36,000 children. Philip Harris, worth £300m, has heavily funded the Tories. When he dies, control of “his” schools passes to his wife & sons. These are state-funded schools with no local democractic accountability.
3/
Big Tory donor Harris, given a peerage by Thatcher, backs #Brexit
He doesn’t like laws that restrict working hours,
he told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme 2yrs ago:
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16 Apr 18
Sickening: if being 'deported in error' to Jamaica, a country you might not have visited in 50 years, UKgov advises:
Watch your wallet,
Put on a local accent,
'try to be "Jamaican"'
#Windrush
Of course brutal racist policy & practice at Home Office didn't start with #Windrush scandal.
Theresa May fought a legal battle to deport a kidney transplant patient to Nigeria regardless of urgent medical advice that this would kill her:
@SHINEreports opendemocracy.net/shinealight/cl…
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