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29 Jun, 5 tweets, 3 min read
How we all laughed at the US QAnon conspiracy theorists, arrogantly assuming it could never happen here.

This is the result of the UK Govt & media adopting wholesale Steve Bannon's strategy of 'flooding the zone' with hard-right populist nationalist anti-woke culture war 'shit'.
All decent people need to seriously reflect on how we counter Steve Bannon's simple but very effective political strategy, adopted by Govts across the world & developed from insights taken from a century of pure propaganda.

#Leveson2 might be a start.

One small example: "a campaign to promote #COVID vaccine hesitancy among schoolchildren and parents is being coordinated on Telegram, with ambitions to spread its message across the UK".

logically.ai/articles/futur…
The account posting the video in the first tweet of this thread - @Beck_Sall - has now deleted it, for reasons unknown. But do have a look at her timeline & draw your own conclusions.

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1 Jul
Our #NHS is in danger.

#THREAD

On the 19th June, 2015, ex-Deutsche Bank MD Sajid Javid was the keynote speaker at the opaquely funded free-market think tank IEA’s 60th Anniversary.

He spoke about how "free markets" & sound economics help "everyone".

iea.org.uk/multimedia/vid… Image
The IEA subscribes to a neoliberal worldview & advocates positions based on this ideology, including climate change denial, & total privatisation - in effect abolition - of OUR #NHS.

The dodgy IEA is secretly funded by Big tobacco, & IEA officers have offered "Cash for Access". ImageImage
Let's have a look at what Javid said to the bankers, hedge-funders & free-market fundamentalists gathered at the IEA, a think tank funded by Libertarian billionaires & disaster capitalists keen to exploit Britain's last remaining publicly funded institutions, especially OUR #NHS. Image
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30 Jun
Since 1990 there have been *1,787* deaths recorded in England & Wales of persons in custody or following police contact.

In only *ten* instances were murder or manslaughter charges brought against police officers.

*None* have resulted in conviction.

theconversation.com/dalian-atkinso…
Often, disproportionate & deadly violence against black men has been justified & excused throughout history is by invoking tropes that Monk relied on in his defence: that black men are enraged, hulking, out of control, inhuman. Image
Research into the disproportionate rate of deaths in custody and following police contact of black and brown people shows that these types of stereotypes are frequently used to justify the use of force, including of weaponry and untested or sanctioned restraint techniques.
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28 Jun
"If you're not like everybody else, then you're abnormal, if you're abnormal, then you're sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal, & being sick, are very different, but have been reduced to the same thing" - Foucault.

blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/w…
The article above namechecks Georges Canguilhem, who challenged the status quo of normality, suggesting 'it failed to capture what evolutionary biology says about variation. He sought to use the term norm to refer to the different processes, from the internal regulation of...'
'...hormones to shifting dietary regimes, to remind us that, no matter how rare or deviant an individual seems, they could still be viewed as normal if the behavior ensured survival in a given environment.'

Consider the multiple ways of surviving emerging over the last century.
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28 Jun
Since he became prime minister, Boris Johnson has systematically ignored *FIVE* of the watchdog institutions that exist to protect our fragile democracy by ensuring government is conducted ethically.

If you're not concerned, you don't really care about democracy - or Britain. 🇬🇧 Image
Sir Alex Allan resigned from his post of Independent Adviser on Minister’s Interests when Boris Johnson ignored his conclusion that Priti Patel - who had to resign when she lied to protect Johnson - had AGAIN broken the ministerial code by bullying staff.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
Boris Johnson gave a peerage to the former Conservative party co-treasurer, Peter Cruddas, who had given him £50,000 for his campaign to become leader, the first PM to reject the advice of the Lords appointments commission which vets people for the Lords.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
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28 Jun
Regarding the Government's catastrophic handling of #COVID, out of all the national "newspapers" & broadcast "news" channels in Britain, it might just be the Daily Star that has most often captured the mood of the nation. 🤯

A short #THREAD of Star front pages: Image
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Bozo the clown: ImageImage
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25 Jun
The 2016 report into 'The rise of anti-politics in Britain' evidences the claim that there has been a rise of antipolitical sentiment over the last six decades.

Growing numbers of British citizens disapprove of Governments & PM's, threatening democracy.

eprints.soton.ac.uk/394835/1/__use…
More and more citizens judge politicians to be out for themselves and their party.

Since the 1940s and 50s, the average level of government disapproval has risen by about 20% to just over 60%, and prime ministerial dissatisfaction has increased by almost 20% to around 55%. Image
Citizens hold more and more grievances with
formal politics.

Citizens increasingly judge politicians to be self-serving and not straight-talking, but also to be out of touch, all the same, a joke, and part of a broken, dysfunctional and unfair system. Image
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