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15 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
1/ The flood of online hate is rooted in a resurgent offline racism and misogyny - it's growing because the far right and the Tories are feeding it... newstatesman.com/science-tech/2…
2/ ... and because oppressed minorities are finally demanding personal accountability for racism, not just fighting structures.... newstatesman.com/science-tech/2…
3/ we need to limit/discourage anonymity - which has downsides but looks unavoidable - quarantine the *chans, make Twitter anonymity an exception not an automatic right, regulate big tech as publishers ... newstatesman.com/science-tech/2…
4/ ... attacking online hate won't eradicate the social sources of white supremacy -but it will de-legitimise it and force it back to the margins... newstatesman.com/science-tech/2…

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12 Jul
What the Tories want, above all else, is for the disgusting dog-whistle racism THEY CHOSE against 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 , to stop being a story. The players' Tweets tonight mean the story is live and unfolding ... it's the only story actually. Let's make sure...
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12 Jul
As you wake up, in a country awash with racist abuse flung at our heroic players by white supremacist idiots, and ask "why?" just read Du Bois ...
When I went undercover on the Churchill statue demo last summer, it was the same manbaby masculinity on show outside Wembley now: open, ingrained racism, xenophobic nationalism, pointless violence. Total losers...
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Almost all scandals at BBC - Savile, DEC, McAlpine, Cliff Richard - arise from top managers using informal networks/comms to circumvent official line management structures... Gibb allegations = latest in a long line 1/...
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8 Jul
1/ There's a global shortage of silicon chips, and of manufacturing capacity. So why allow UK's biggest fab to be sold to a Chinese firm? Why it matters... newstatesman.com/politics/2021/…
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Labour's @kimleadbeater holds #BatleyAndSpen by 300+ votes despite 8000 lost to Galloway. “Our voters turned out in droves” official tells me. This was a triumph for @ShabanaMahmood and @HollyLynch5 . They led a fightback. 1/
2/ In #BatleyAndSpen Labour was winning back working class Tory voters from 2019; with a local agenda, a strong local candidate - but losing socially-conservative Muslim voters over Palestine and homophobia...
3/ Keir Starmer still has huge questions to answer. All the bad decisions that put the seat in jeopardy were taken in his office. He had to keep a low profile to achieve this, which is not ideal...
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Batley & Spen has to be a turning point for Labour: 1/ The party is learning to fight elections, not just count votes; it picked a good candidate and targeted the issues that can reunite Labour's coalition... newstatesman.com/politics/2021/…
2/ So Labour's GOTV operation today is crucial. But the forces of fragmentation are strong - and Labour is fighting as a divided party, with the left excluded from the Shadow Cabinet and Corbyn from the PLP... newstatesman.com/politics/2021/…
3/ So today is an uphill battle - with 6,000 pro-Brexit independent votes up for grabs and Galloway's campaigners spreading fear and division... newstatesman.com/politics/2021/…
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