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@sundersays
Jun 22, 2022 • 12 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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Floella Benjamin: in future, people will say "meet me by the Windrush Monument". This permanent place of reflection and celebration shows how the history of the Windrush generation and their descendants is now recognised as an important part of British history #WindrushDay
"You called and we came". This poem by Laura Serrant was read at the unveiling of the Windrush Monument, reflecting on the links between the Windrush generation and the history of the NHS, with both 75 anniversaries marked next year @75Windrush
lauraserrant.wordpress.com/2018/02/12/you…
The pioneering contribution of the late Sam King honoured today. A Windrush passenger, he co-founded the Windrush Foundation & campaigned for #WindrushDay from marking the 40th anniversary in 1988.

This 2013 picture in Windrush Square (renamed in 1998 for the 50th anniversary)
Bishop Rose @DoverBishop dedicates the Monument to the hope and resilience of the Windrush generation, with a prayer for our compassion to those who arrive as refugees today
"The Windrush Generation came as British citizens", the Duke of Cambridge notes. Many were not strangers to Britain, given the enormous wartime contribution to the RAF. "They volunteered, they did not have to come", he says.
The Royal family are proud to mark #WindrushDay says Prince William. He has learnt too that "history weighs heavily on the present" both in the Caribbean and in Britain too, recognising the wrongs of the Windrush scandal & continued discrimination today
"Today we have witnessed British history being made" says @FloellaBenjamin as Windrush Monument unveiled. The Windrush story is not defined by wrongs that are still to be righted, she says, though they must be, but by pride in the contribution & hope for our future #WindrushDay
Am interview with the late Sam King (2013) about the campaign for #WindrushDay on the 65th anniversary. Government recognised National Windrush Day from 2018, as part of its apology and response to the Windrush scandal
opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…
Sam King told me that being at the famous 1950 Lords Test two summers later "felt like the real moment we had arrived in England". He quietly sang Lord Kitchener's Victory Calypso - "Those little pals of mine/Ramadhin and Valentine" - as he recalled the moment in Windrush Square
The Reverend Michael King, his son, spoke last night in the @75Windrush web event about the importance of the 75th anniversary next year as an opportunity to engage across the generations and further increase awareness. Recording available on YouTube.
My @CapX commentary on the past, present and future potential of the Windrush story for understanding the making of the Britain we all call home

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Nov 19
I hope mainstream supporters of farmers/countryside alliance will challenge effort by overt racists of the Homeland Party to associate themselves with the protest. Extreme racism of Mr Laws (who seeks to deport *all* migrants *and* Uk-born minorities) obvs not shared by farmers! Image
I trust many farmers would on a values basis to reject his persistent calls for Sunak, Badenoch & myself to be deported (on grounds that minorities can never be British).

Opposition from farmers to his call to remove all migrants would also reflect a practical self-interest!
I doubt the organisers can do a great deal in advance about toxic racist fringe elements choosing to turn up.

Once such an overtly racist group does seek to use it for publicity & interviews, I think it is reasonable to ssk the decent mainstream organisers to disassociate
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Oct 15
Policy Exchange's A Portrait of Modern Britain (2024) @rakibehsan & @IGMansfield offer a constructive centre-right response to Britain's growing ethnic diversity in a society where patterns of progress to equal opps & the discrimination which persists are more complex
It is a follow-up to the 2014 report of the same title coauthored by a young Rishi Sunak.

I took part in this Westminster Hour discussion with Sunak. I think perhaps his very first national media interview about politics

Yes to recommendation 1. New govt should have a national integration strategy (identifying its own role/responsibility for key foundations). Should respect difference in a liberal society, promote equal opportunities & work on what brings us together
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Oct 13
Obviously Laws is entirely racist. He does not accept that Badenoch or Sunak are British.

Laws got 0.4% of the vote in Dover in July. Image
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The tweet itself isn't racist seems exceptionally naive when it is a matter of record that Laws primary goal/priority is the deportation of all ethnic minority Britons, including Badenoch, Sunak and myself Image
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Oct 12
"Musk is obsessive, almost manic, about the stakes & the need for Mr. Trump to win"

NYT reports scale/frenzy of Musk's backing for Trump is without any precedent. Estimates $ spend around $140 million + use of X on top of that

A real life Citizen Kane
nytimes.com/2024/10/11/us/…
Has never been a bigger financial champion of a Presidential candidate, nor a more xenophobic Pres campaign (deport legal migrants) less committed to basic democratuc norms (eg: accept defeat if you lose) than this one which Musk sees as an existential necessity for USA & world
I doubt anybody in the world since 1945 can have spent quire so much money, energy or capacity into actively facilitating racism and xenophobia as Elon Musk, the billionaire who now believes he can personally change history by tipping 2024 US Presidential election to Donald Trump
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Aug 17
Musk is in the dock - metaphorically

Nobody alive did more to extend reach of racial hate in last 12 months

- replatformed those dedicated to hate, big increase in reach (eg Britain First. Patriotic Alternative. Tommy)
- introduced £ incentives that groom escalating hate
Where & how does the metaphor become actual scrutiny and sanctions?

What can existing tools be used to do?

What new bespoke or general interventions can govt/parliament consider this Autumn?
Elon Musk has personally by both his acts & omissions played a consequential role in making racist violence possible that would have been impossible at such pace & scale without his personal decisions as a corp leader. He is a live threat to our national security & cohesion
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Aug 9
"The public will have to go in, & the public will have to sort this out themselves, & it'll be very, very brutal. I don't want them here. I don't want them to live here. They came under false pretences" - Douglas Murray widespread violence

"Probably hundreds of thousands... We have a couple of choices. One of them is - and I say this metaphorically *for the time being*, BUT its NOT that metaphorical. One is to stand up and the other is to beg on your knees ... the British soul is awakening and stirring with rage" Image
Full transcript. Murray foresees public violence at scale & says he would support, metaphorically for now + actually soon if govt doesn't remove. His targets for state/vigilante removal both asylum seekers who cross Channel+ those Muslims who are pro Hamas
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