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6 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Is @GMB misleading viewers by describing Calvin Robinson as a "Political Commentator & Journalist", when he's an ex-Brexit Party candidate, controversial hard-right GB "News" presenter, & Strategy Adviser to Lawrence Fox's controversial right-wing populist Reclaim Party? 🧐 Image
Apparently Calvin thinks I'm "best ignored", "obsessed" (though only "slightly" - a better word for "slightly obsessed" might be 'concerned'), & a request for transparency is 'hysterical'. Oh, & all my followers are part of a "hive mind" - which will be news to some followers... Image
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The global medical science community is highly imperfect, as is the peer-review system. But any rational, sensible adult would take these ALL DAY EVERY DAY over the debunked rantings of outlier cranks, amplified by divisive propaganda channels funded by Dubai-based hedge-funders. Image
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7 Jan
In court, the judge expressed dismay at Mercy Muroki’s opinion piece: “I am struggling to see how, as in GB News’ charter, that this article is ‘respectful’ or ‘sets an example by treating others in a way that they would wish to be treated’.”

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GB "News" was accused of prejudicing the trial of the #Colston4 after publishing opinion pieces criticising defendants midway through court proceedings. A Mercy Muroki piece was titled “I’m in favour of white people calling out racism… but the Colston saga reeks of white guilt”.
Muroki commented on the ongoing trial, suggesting Bristol council & local police might have colluded with a “bunch of anarchic protesters”: “I don’t need a bunch of white hippies crippled by white guilt to throw a largely irrelevant statue in a river to prove they’re not racist.” Image
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7 Jan
#THREAD

In 2021, median pay for FTSE 100 CEOs fell to *just* 86 times that of the median annual wage for a full-time worker.

Although a huge gulf, it's quite a drop from the previous two years, when FTSE 100 CEO earnings were almost 120 times those of average UK workers! Image
This reduction reflects temporary pay freezes & bonus cuts announced by many companies after the initial #Covid19 lockdowns, with average CEO remuneration falling from a measly £3.25MILLION in 2019 to *just* £2.7MILLION in 2020! 🤯 Image
UK average earnings for full-time work also fell between 2019 & 2021, & the High Pay Centre said 2022 would be the first year in a decade when CEOs would need to work into the FOURTH DAY of the new year to earn the same amount an average worker would take home in the full year. Image
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1 Jan
#THREAD

Like religious fundamentalism, free-market fundamentalism is a cancer on the earth, its proponents ideological extremists.

The BIG LIE of the twenty-first century is that deregulated free-market capitalism is our salvation, rather than our perdition.
Nobody alive today has ever - or ever will - live in a purely free-market society.

Everyone on earth lives in countries characterised by a mixed economy, where markets coexist with government intervention, necessary to protect citizens from the cancer of free-market capitalism.
It's at this point that free-market fundamentalists & proponents of the BIG LIE start talking about communism or socialism, as though any purely free-market society has ever existed - it hasn't, anywhere, ever. These are usually idiots, often paid to protect an unethical system.
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30 Dec 21
FUN FACTS:

Carrie Symond's dad, Matthew John Symonds, was a co-founder of the Independent newspaper, is executive director of the 'Larry Ellison (just the ninth-wealthiest person on earth, with a fortune of $108 billion) Foundation', & of course, father-in-law to Boris Johnson.
Larrry Ellison is an interesting chap.

In December 2018, he became a director on the board of Tesla, Inc., after purchasing 3 million sharesm & as of December 31, 2019, Ellison owns 36.2% of the shares of Oracle Corporation - the second-largest software company in the world.
Ellison has been critical of Edward Snowden, saying: "Snowden had yet to identify a single person who had been 'wrongly injured' by the NSA's data collection".

In 2014 he hosted Libertarian Republican Senator Rand Paul at a fundraiser at his home.

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30 Dec 21
A short #THREAD on Boris Johnson's time as Editor of the establishment-right mouthpiece, The Spectator, Chaired by failed GB "News" Chief Andrew Neil, & owned by toxic tax-avoiding right-wing billionaire libertarian crank Frederick Barclay, who also owns The Daily Telegraph.
Before joining The Spectator as editor, Boris Johnson had worked for Murdoch's Times, & the Barclay Brothers' Daily Telegraph. He had also briefly been political commentator for The Spectator under Dominic Lawson.

From 1999, Johnson established himself as a "colourful" editor.
A campaign to have Johnson selected in the safe seat of Henley saw rivals anonymously smeared as 'gay, alcoholic or suspiciously left-wing', & in the 2001, Johnson was elected MP for Henley. By 2004 he was vice-chair of the Tory party, & in Michael Howard's shadow cabinet.
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