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28 May, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Today, Boris Johnson meets only the 2nd EU leader since Brexit: grotesque far-right racist authoritarian, Viktor Orbán, who doesn't want "our" colour mixed with others.

The Biden administration describes Hungary as 'a totalitarian regime'.

No 10 calls Orbán 'our friend'.
Meeting a corrupt far-right anti-democratic authoritarian, with strong links to the deregulatory free-market think tank network which uses dark money to roll back worker, consumer, democratic & environmental protections, sends an awful signal to the world.
opendemocracy.net/en/5050/dark-m…
As we now know, Boris Johnson & his chaotic Govt care not one jot for truth, minorities, or morality: they lie with impunity; deny structural racism; hand multi-£million contracts to their mates; & prioritise money & power over tens of thousands of lives.

Orbán combined gerrymandering with the first-past-the-post system to turn Hungary into a dictatorship in plain sight.

If you think that could never happen in Britain, ask: Why the voter suppression? Why the criminalization of protest? Why the willingness to lie & break the law?
You want some political slogans?

Make Compassion Great Again.

Make Accountability Great Again.

Make Wealth Distribution Great Again.

Make Equality Great Again.

Make Honesty Great Again.

Make Greed Unacceptable Again.

Make Morality Great Again.

Make #Democracy Great Again.
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28 May
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Various bankers & journalists have recently been very upbeat about the prospects for Britain's economic recovery:

"The British economy will be booming. It is not yet widely appreciated just how big this boom will be" - Andrew Neil.

My advice: don't believe the hype.
Last week the Bank of England said: "Economic growth in Britain this year should not be confused with a normal boom... economy shrank almost 10% last year, biggest slump in 300 years".

While the opinion polls show a 'vaccine bounce' for the Tories, again: don't believe the hype.
A fascinating new opinion poll by the respected Pew Research Center, discussed in the Financial Times, tells a fascinating story about how a clear majority in the US & Western Europe support large scale, systemic change.

pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021…
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27 May
Tomorrow, the UK's PM Boris Johnson talks to his "friend" #racist far-right anti-democratic authoritarian PM Viktor Orbán, who has spoken of not wanting "our" colour mixed with others & of Hungary "defending itself against the migrant flow & invasion”.

errc.org/news/is-viktor…...
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27 May
"The public is much less engaged or extreme in its views than you’d suspect... The US history of culture wars suggests we’re at a very dangerous moment... Where America leads, Britain often follows – but we can still choose a different path."

theconversation.com/culture-wars-u…
Across a whole series of terms connected to the culture wars, the majority said they’d heard at best “a little” about them, with large proportions saying they’d never heard of common media & political tropes such as “cancel culture” & “microagressions”.
Framing matters: the term that's cut through most is “white privilege”, with over half of the UK public saying they’d heard a lot about it.

While half of white British people agree it’s easier to get ahead if you’re white, only 29% agree there is “white privilege” in Britain. 🤔
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25 May
On Friday, anti-democratic right-wing populist nationalist authoritarian PM with a long history of racist comments Boris Johnson, is meeting with Putin ally Viktor Orbán.

Under Orbán's leadership, Hungary has experienced democratic backsliding & a lurch towards authoritarianism.
Orbán's populism, social-national conservatism, soft Euroscepticism & advocacy of what he describes as an "illiberal state" have attracted significant European & international attention & criticism from domestic & foreign leaders, including Angela Merkel, but praise from Johnson.
Orbán has gradually undermined the rule of law, established tight control over the country’s independent institutions, adopted a new constitution & fundamentally changing electoral laws & the system of campaign financing.

Johnson's 👏 Govt 👏 is 👏 doing👏 the 👏same.#NotADrill
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24 May
On now.

Liz Truss made a speech in which she scapegoated Foucault.

Do Foucault's ideas pose a real danger to social & cultural life in Britain? (No).

Or is he a "bogeyman" deployed by some politicians to divide & distract us from real issues? (Yes).

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
Matthew Goodwin. Ha ha ha ha! 'Universities are full of lefty Foucault-loving bastards! Why would people think about such fripperies as inequality, homophobia, racism & sexism?' I suppose if you hate nuance, critical thought, & know fouc-all about Foucault, he might have a point.
Not a bad show. In fact, Foucault has been claimed by neoliberals as well as 'radicals'. No doubt every right-wing free-market gobshite crank will see it as yet more evidence of the 'anti-British anti-woke identity politics snowflakes' at the @BBC destroying western civilization!
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22 May
Impartial & sensible Paul Dacre, lined up by opportunist liar Boris Johnson & the the @BBC-hating Tories to be the new @Ofcom & thus BBC regulator, attacked the BBC as a "monolith" pursuing "cultural Marxism" - a far-right antisemitic conspiracy theory.😳

theguardian.com/media/2007/jan…
The ever nuanced & professional Paul Dacre - incidentally with *zero* experience in broadcasting - said the @BBC "which glories in being open-minded, has become a closed-thought system operating a kind of Orwellian Newspeak."

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In another nuanced & impartial critique, Paul Dacre was critical of David Cameron's alleged "sidelining of Thatcherism & his banishing of all talk of lower taxes, lower immigration & euroscepticism (which) are all part of the Tories' blood sacrifice to the @BBC god." ImageImageImage
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