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Feb 22 7 tweets 3 min read
#THREAD on yet another divisive shit-stirrer, Martin Costello, former second-in-command of the oddball Trump-supporting group Make Britain Great Again (MBGA), who @hopenothate reported on in 2019 when he stood as a UKIP candidate in the Liden, Eldene & Park South ward of Swindon.
During his time at MGBA he could be found screaming “round up all illegal immigrants and get them out of here” at a pro-Trump event.

hopenothate.org.uk/2019/04/15/bes…
Costello is best known for being part of an incident in 2018 in which he & 11 others entered left-wing bookshop Bookmarks in London, instructed by MBGA leader Luke Nash-Jones to “make a right nuisance”.

In the resulting debacle, shop staff were abused and a sign was ripped up.
Facing backlash, Nash-Jones condemned the actions of “third parties” at the bookstore. He & Costello had their UKIP memberships suspended, but Costello was reinstated, only to then resign, saying Farage's Brexit Party was the "only feasible solution to unite all Brexiteers".
In 2019 @hopenothate said that 'Costello now reportedly runs UKIP’s main Facebook page, which we have previously exposed to have shared material from a fascist YouTube account also promoted by the New Zealand killer.'
Costello was in the news again in 2021 as a spokesman for the anti-lockdown 'Independent Alliance', claiming - among many other things - without any evidence that the vaccine 'could make people infertile'.

swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/19225716.…
Here he is amplifying Cristian Terheș, known for spreading #misinformation about COVID vaccinations (at least 67,000 people have died prematurely due to COVID), which has among the lowest spending on healthcare in Europe, & a health system consistently ranked the worst in the EU.

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Feb 22
On 11th January 2013, Simon Sweeney, Lecturer in international political economy at the University of York, had a letter published in the @guardian, asking 'what's the EU ever done for us'?

It's quite the letter...

theguardian.com/world/2013/jan…
At last we may get a debate on Britain's relationship with Europe. What did the EEC/EU ever do for us? Not much, apart from: providing 57% of our trade; structural funding to areas hit by industrial decline; clean beaches and rivers; cleaner air; lead free petrol;
restrictions on landfill dumping; a recycling culture; cheaper mobile charges; cheaper air travel; improved consumer protection and food labelling; a ban on growth hormones and other harmful food additives; better product safety;
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Feb 22
#THREAD

'This weekend saw us breaking records at Yorkshire Bylines, after an article by Dr Russell Jackson about #bbcqt really hit the sweet spot. It's already been read over 150k times in the space of just 48 hours, & is now our most widely read piece".
- @YorksBylines Image
'Analytics show that Dr Jackson's article has been read by people in 144 countries, so the interest in @BBC bias for @bbcquestiontime is widespread.

We're looking forward to publishing their response if & when it comes through.'

Me too!

#bbcqt

yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/an-op…
"This also means that our site has powered through five million visits, which is a pretty big milestone to have hit, particularly as we have yet to mark our third anniversary! But exciting as this all is, we didn't set up Yorkshire Bylines for reader numbers."
- @YorksBylines
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Feb 21
A disgusting far-right hate-preacher, in the UK. There should be no place for this kind of hateful, ill-informed, misleading, divisive, & dangerously irresponsible rhetoric in twenty-first century Britain.

Did some British people really learn NOTHING from WWII & the #Holocaust?
Read 18 tweets
Feb 18
This looks brilliant!

The @BBC has commissioned new drama 'The Way', written by James Graham (Sherwood, Quiz), directed by Michael Sheen (Good Omens, Staged), & co-created by Sheen, Graham & Adam Curtis (The Power Of Nightmares, HyperNormalisation).

televisual.com/news/michael-s…
It is developed and executive produced by Bethan Jones (War & Peace, Les Miserables).

The Way (3×60’) is Wales-based company Red Seam’s first production, made in association with Little Door Productions, and will film in and around Port Talbot later this year.
The Way “taps into the social & political chaos of today’s world by imagining a civil uprising which begins in a small industrial town. I’m such an admirer of Adam & James’ work, so to create this project with them in these extraordinary times has been thrilling”. - Michael Sheen
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Feb 18
#THREAD

On #bbcqt, Robert Jenrick INSISTED that #Rwanda was "a safe country". Bullshit. The truth is, Rwanda is one of the most autocratic, authoritarian, & repressive regimes ON EARTH, ranked 150th out of 179 countries on the Index of Liberal Democracy.

The 2021 US State Dept of 'Democracy, Human Rights & Labour' report on Human Rights Practices in #Rwanda makes it clear that #Rwanda is anything but "a safe country".

Significant human rights issues included:

-harsh & life-threatening conditions in some detention facilities;
-unlawful & arbitrary killings by the government

-forced disappearance by the government

-torture by the government

-arbitrary detention

-political prisoners or detainees

-politically motivated reprisal against individuals located outside the country

Does this sound "safe"?
Read 13 tweets
Feb 18
#THREAD

While audience figures for controversial right-wing TV channels Murdoch's #TalkTV & the Dubai-based-multimillionaire-funded GB "News" are piss poor, bosses care more about “impact” than rankings, & other right-wing media organisations relentlessly amplify video clips.
For example, TalkTV & GB "News" clips appear & are amplified on @Youtube & social media platforms.

TalkTV said clips from Piers Morgan's Rishi Sunak interview had attracted more than two million social views by midday on Friday. But we know very little about who watches them.
Morgan’s interview with Sunak is not his biggest show to date in terms of viewership. His launch night interview with Donald Trump averaged 319,000 viewers, according to Barb figures. And the first of his two-part interview with Cristiano Ronaldo averaged 334,000 over the hour.
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