Thread by @Sathnam

So the efforts to stop @jessbrammar from being hired by the BBC on grounds that she is too “left-wing”, today take form of reproducing some of her tweets, which include one about #EmpireLand. Without getting into this new McCarthyism, I feel need to make a couple of points….

https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1417223521382588417

First, this is the tweet. If opposing racist abuse makes you left wing, then 99% of Britain is left-wing. Moreover, it’s possible to be Conservative and to support thesis of my book. Tories to have reviewed #Empireland positively include Chris Patten, @SayeedaWarsi @edvaizey

Two Cabinet ministers have told me they’re reading it, and, guess what, even THE TELEGRAPH found something encouraging to say about it. You can be left, right, a patriot, and still look at imperial history squarely in the face. Confident countries do this Sathnam.com/empire