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Sep 19

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Here's divisive culture war crank & the Government's Social Mobility Tsar, Katharine Birbalsingh, with Jordan Peterson, who was visiting her school, & who has said 'Feminists support the rights of Muslims' because of their "unconscious wish for brutal male domination."😬

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Katharine Birbalsingh has repeatedly said “If a child says teacher is being racist, back the teacher. Whatever the child says, back the teacher. If you don’t, you are letting the child down & allowing them to play you for a fool.”

Let's have a look at a few case studies...

Primary school teacher Philip Turner was sacked for making racist comments in class. But Birbalsingh says, “If a child says teacher is being racist, back the teacher. If you don’t, you are letting the child down & allowing them to play you for a fool.”

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Sep 18

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Abdel Bari Atwan was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. He holds views deemed controversial, but has been a regular guest on BBC World, Sky News, & CNN World. He has also contributed articles to The Mail on Sunday & Guardian.

thejc.com/news/news/poli…

@BBC

36 British politicians, Jewish leaders & public figures recently signed a letter asking the @BBC to no longer feature Atwan as a commentator.

The signatories predictably included Michael Howard, Douglas Murray, Tracy-Ann Oberman, & Neil Blair - "JK Rowling’s influential agent".

In his memoir A Country of Words, about Israelis & Palestinians Atwan says, "We have to learn to live together in peace & co-operation in a multi-cultural society in one democratic secular state for two people. One state for both peoples governed by a representative democracy...

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Sep 17

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Ex-Tory Energy Minister Claire O'Neil (nee Perry) was briefly President for #COP26 held at Glasgow, but was swiftly 'de-nominated' after she declared she'd not be running for re-election in 2019.

She's now on the Board of Scottish Power! 😬

unearthed.greenpeace.org/2020/02/26/cla…

@GreenpeaceUK

In 2020, Claire became managing director for climate & energy at the 'World Business Council for Sustainable Development', which according to @GreenpeaceUK is among the key players responsible for holding back world societies from tackling climate change for the past 20 years.

The WBCSD Executive Committee was dominated by the largest non-renewable energy and carbon-intensive companies in the world at least until 2011.

According to Greenpeace the WBCSD executive committee has been a 'Who's Who' of the world's largest carbon-intensive companies.

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Sep 17

A #THREAD on the death penalty.

Given the grotesque ideology of so many in the current UK Govt, I have no doubt that calls for the return of the death penalty will soon be made by senior UK politicians & right-wing media pundits.

In fact, the push has already started...

The last UK executions were by hanging, & took place in 1964; capital punishment for murder was suspended in 1965 & finally abolished in 1969 (1973 in NI). Although unused, the death penalty remained a legally defined punishment for certain offences such as treason until 1998.

In 2004 the 13th Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights became binding on the UK; it prohibits the restoration of the death penalty as long as the UK is a party to the convention (regardless of the UK’s status in relation to the European Union).

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Sep 17

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"Spreading panic & hysteria does no one any good... Eventually all these predictions of doom become a self-fulfilling prophecy" - Daily Mail, 13/08/22.

"The last thing Britain needs is Project Fear 2.0" - Mail on Sunday, 28/08/22.

Surely the Mail would NEVER do this?

It's well known that the Mail's impartial, professional & nuanced coverage of migration has always done a fantastic job of avoiding "spreading panic & hysteria".

The Mail's calm, rational, balanced & always measured political coverage definitely doesn't resemble anything approaching "Project Fear."

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Sep 16

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The FT asks: Where would you rather live? A society where the rich are extraordinarily rich and the poor are very poor, or one where the rich are merely very well off but even those on the lowest incomes also enjoy a decent standard of living? 🤔

ft.com/content/ef2654…

For all but the most ardent free-market libertarians - which comprises most of the UK cabinet - the answer is that we would prefer to live in countries where the rich are merely very well off but even those on the lowest incomes also enjoy a decent standard of living.

Research consistently shows that while most people express a desire for some distance between top & bottom, they would rather live in much more equal societies than they do now. Many would opt for a more egalitarian society if the overall pie was smaller than in a less equal one.

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