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18 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Now I can’t help myself listening to ‘Making Plans For Nigel’.
No-one ever recorded ‘Making Plans For Adolf’, did they?
And now I’ve discovered to my horror that Robbie Williams did a cover version of Making Plans for Nigel.
But it’s not nearly as bad as I feared….

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17 Oct
Someone said ‘but James Corden gets more abuse than Nish Kumar’, as though that means the abuse Kumar gets isn’t racist. Corden, whether you like him or not, is a *much* bigger star than Nish (sorry Nish). He’s a huge star both sides of the Atlantic. Has 11m followers on here.
And Corden doesn’t trend *nearly* as often as Kumar. To even think that the two are comparable says something, and it’s not the thing the people attacking Kumar think it is.
And no, of course you don’t have to be a racist to attack Nish Kumar. But it helps.
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29 Jul
Immigrants - including asylum seekers and refugees - don’t come to ‘sponge’ off the country they go to, they come to make a life in that country. That means contributing - and they *do* contribute. We should understand and welcome that. It’s that simple.
You have to be energetic, you have to be dynamic, you have to be brave, even to undertake that kind of thing. It’s not easy. That means that immigrants - again, including asylum seekers and refugees - are even *more* likely to make a contribution than most.
Anyone who spends time with immigrants - and yes, I’m married to one - knows this. If you imagine they’re lazy or spongers, all that shows is your ignorance and bigotry. Nothing else.
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22 Jul
Downing Street thinks none of us have any grasp of mathematics.
It’s the old lie that somehow there’s lots of wasted ‘non-frontline’ expenditure to cut. The same old lie that’s always used to excuse cutting back.
The old lie that hints at lazy people working in the public sector, and that if only we privatised the ‘non-vital’ stuff, everything would be more efficient. It’s all classic stuff.
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14 Feb
A short thread on one aspect of trolling on here, from my recent experience. I’ve got a fair number of followers. I tweet about controversial topics - and yet I don’t get trolled that much. A bit, but not thatmuch. There are times, though, that I *do* get trolled a lot. 1/n
The pattern is pretty clear, and has been played out a few times over the last few days. I get into a conversation about a topic that could be considered race-related. Empire. Immigration. Something like that. And that conversation includes a highish profile BAME person. 2/n
More often than not, a BAME woman. In those cases, it takes very little time for the trolls to come steaming in. Most of them seemingly rational, taking issue with some technical point, but quickly descending into something much worse. 3/n
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29 Nov 20
I’ve almost sworn off commenting on Labour and Brexit, but here’s my last thing. There’s nothing they can do now that won’t be disastrous. The problem was way back, well before the referendum, when they didn’t face up to how bad Brexit was going to be for the working class. 1/3
At that point, from the very start, well before the referendum, Labour should have made that abundantly clear, and taken a strong, solid, Remain stance. Not one saying the EU is perfect, not emphasising the economy as a whole, but the impact of Brexit on jobs, prices etc. 2/3
They didn’t, and the result of that is that they were always in a mess. There was never a stance that would work in the medium or long term. There was never a position that would actually help the working class. No ‘middle ground’ is available on any of this. So now? No way. 3/3
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23 Sep 20
A short thread about Boris Johnson, the media, and Jeremy Corbyn. Boris Johnson won the election. Lots of reasons why - but one that keeps getting suggested is that it was a choice between Johnson and Corbyn, and wasn’t Corbyn terrible... 1/n
This is the reason generally given by people who supported Boris Johnson and are now beginning to realise it was a catastrophic error, and by people in the media who now spend their time attacking Johnson, and have forgotten what they did in the election. 2/n
The thing is, it’s a false argument from the outset. The choice was never between Johnson and Corbyn in any real sense. The choice was qualitatively different. It was between giving Johnson a stonking majority and electing a minority Corbyn coalition government. 3/n
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