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3 Dec, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Is there going to be an investigation into the horrific claims made on the Kurdish Rudaw News website? Or have we become a country that is ok with this now? rudaw.net/english/world/…
Last night Fiona Bruce asked on Question Time, ‘how do we stop them coming?’ This is how some of ‘them’ spent their last hours on earth
Here are some of ‘them’. Do we not feel any anger, horror, or pity that they died so horrifically? That they felt obliged to make these journeys in the first place?
Aren’t we sickened by the hypocrisy and crocodile tears of so many politicians, including our own prime minister, in response to their deaths?
Do we not feel even a twinge of disgust at a man who bragged of his role in bringing this ‘issue’ to public attention - a role that consisted of peddling racebaiting ‘invasion’ narratives for political gain?
Because if the answer to these questions is no, then we have become a very dark country indeed, a country that has succumbed to hatred, fear and callousness and the toxic passions propagated by men like Farage, a society that is a danger to others, and ultimately, to itself.

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4 Dec
Today I went walking in the hills and got so wet and cold I could hardly move my fingers and my hands were like raw meat. On returning to my house I put the heating on, changed into warm clothes and thought of the 27 men,women, and children who drowned in the Channel. That was
just over a week ago, but already the crocodile tears have dried on the faces of politicians. Already the ‘tragedy’ is slipping down the memory hole. So far there has been no investigation into allegations that the French and British ignored their calls for help and left them
floating in freezing waters, buffeted by waters that Channel swimmers smear themselves in grease to swim in even in the summer, clinging onto their deflated dinghy for hours till, one by one, they let go and abandoned themselves to death. Now
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Lots of Tory MPs and Republicans handwringing about #AfghanistanBurning right now. Some Labour MPs joining in. Some of these lamentations are aimed at Biden. Others bewail a more general ‘betrayal of Afghan women’/wasted British and U.K. sacrifice/NATO failure etc
No acknowledgement of the strategic failures that were obvious - to those who wanted to look - long before the collapse of the Afghan state. Or the horrific damage inflicted on Afghanistan by so many countries in the savage geopolitical competition for Mackinder’s ‘heartland’
Let’s go back to March 17 1979. The Soviet Politburo meets to discuss the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan, where the USSR’s communist allies are savagely suppressing and Islamist insurrection in Herat. Foreign minister Andrei Gromyko explains the situation
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5 Jun
Let’s have a look at the ‘way of life’ Lee Anderson wants to defend, shall we ? The former Labour councillor-turned-conservative certainly has a colourful record
In 2021, he was appointed to the Women and Equalities Committee, even though he had previously been reprimanded by the party: mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
In 2019 he was caught on video setting up a supposedly impromptu doorstep with a constituent he already knew: theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
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4 Jun
This clip really does remind me why Miliband lost. Why Labour lost and will lose. For Labour to adopt a ‘Rejoin’ position wld be political suicide. But to ‘embrace’ Brexit and praise it as a ‘big idea’ is a painfully shallow, opportunistic and dishonest populist ploy. Why?
1) Because Brexit is transparently not a ‘big idea’ in any meaningful sense. Its grandiose aspirations - such as they are - are entirely disconnected from any realistic understanding of the real world, whether in regard to trade, migration, or geopolitics.
It’s a ‘big idea’ only in the sense that ‘Make America Great Again’ is a big idea. Brexit is based on a very similar combination of bitter nationalism, national exceptionalism, national victimhood, all fused with imperial nostalgia. This isn’t ‘big’; it’s toxic and dangerous.
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7 May
Conventional wisdom has is that voters should never be blamed, only politicians. As if voters are inherently virtuous.

They aren't. And what I see now is politicians & voters reinforcing each others' worst instincts and working together to turn UK politics into a moral vacuum
To put another way. If you voted Tory yesterday you don't care that tens of thousands of people have died who needn't have died if the government had acted more quickly and managed the pandemic more coherently
You're not bothered that the virus was effectively seeded in care homes, that billions of pounds have been siphoned up in NHS procurement contracts that produced inferior outcomes, that a Test & Trace system has never worked, despite the vast sums thrown at it
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One of the striking similarities between rightwing populist movements in the UK and US is the way they present a vision of society in thrall to 'the far left' or 'commies' at a time when the left is largely powerless in practical terms in both countries.
They do this by presenting even left-of-centre movements/individuals as 'far left' or 'socialist' when they are nothing of the kind. Thus Biden and the Democrats are described as 'radical', and moderate soc democratic reforms as 'communism/Venezuela' etc
When it's pointed out that the 'far left' doesn't have power in either country, they will throw in the (false) idea that the left has a cultural hold on society to compensate for its distance from government, and uses this power to attack 'their history/institutions' etc
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