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20 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I don't agree with Alexei Sayle about Corbyn, or antisemitism in the Labour party, or probably much else, but this is preposterous.

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It would equate to a de-facto broadcast ban on anyone who supported Corbyn, or made excuses for him.
The fact this was proposed by a Tory MP demonstrates how prevalent censoriousness and cancel culture are on the right. It's not just a left-wing problem. It's across the board.
Of course, this shouldn't need saying given the government is literally tring to silence Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion protests. But apparently it does.

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21 May
We've been eating a steady junk food diet of government hypocrisy for years now, but this week is the fucking limit. It's too much to digest.
Frost lambasting the deal he fucking negotiated. Hancock blaming the public for the variant he fucking let in the country. And Johnson criticising the BBC for journalistic ethics he never fucking demonstrated.
You can turn on the TV any second of the day or night and you'll see a minister talking the most obscene self-regarding contradictory fucking hypocritical horseshit.
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18 May
Be generous to people disagreeing with you on issues like lockdown, foreign travel etc.
We're all frazzled, desperate for a return to normality, missing friends and family, after a year in which we lost many of life's pleasures.
And the debate itself is hard to get a handle on, given it plays out amid huge levels of uncertainty over quite how dangerous the variant is.
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18 May
Government must be patting itself on the back for somehow making the Indian variant story about people who refuse the vaccine. Incredible to see journalists accept this narrative without the slightest critical appraisal of it.
There's a chance it has a minor role, but in reality vaccine refusal numbers are extremely low. The threat of a more transmissible variant is about tiny percentages of very large numbers of infections overwhelming the NHS and driving us back into lockdown.
And the reason we're facing that threat is because Boris Johnson allowed it in the country. Even now, he has not put in place the measures, like financial support for isolation, which could halt the spread.
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17 May
They are fucking this up at extraordinary speed.
Fool that I am, I actually thought Johnson might have learned something when he unveiled that slow exit from lockdown.
We're now back to where we were after the first lockdown: great big leaking holes in the strategy, muddled and impenetrable government communication & belated decision-making.
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17 May
Instead of being able to embrace our newfound freedom today, it's all couched in uncertainty because Boris Johnson let the Indian variant in. And now he's setting up his next mistake.
The APPG warned about this last month: passengers from red, amber & green list countries mixing for extended periods in overcrowded arrival halls, allowing for further transmission, which could then be seeded back into the community.
And yet nothing is done. We just crack on, making the same old mistakes, putting at risk everything we've sacrificed. Maybe we'll be alright. Maybe we won't.
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14 May
Not commenting on the Beckett thing, but generally: I notice a lot of commentary on how Patel can be so anti-immigration given her heritage. It's very widespread, including among people I admire. And it's actually a bit messed up.
I get it emotionally. There are members of my Latino family in the US who voted Trump, which made me furious at the time with the lack of solidarity.
But people are not defined by their ethnicity. Acting like Asians are betraying their heritage because they have right-wing views, or take anti-immigration positions, basically robs them of the freedom of political conscience which white people enjoy.
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