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@docrussjackson
Apr 28 • 9 tweets • 5 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Today, you'll see the claim that 'Britain is one of the least racist countries in the world'. What you are unlikely to be told is that the survey is solely about who people are comfortable having as a neighbour - it doesn't address other forms of #racism.

kcl.ac.uk/policy-institu…
Another recent detailed study into racism in the UK received much less coverage - especially in the right-wing media.

EVENS is a major new survey designed to help us understand the realities facing ethnic & religious minorities during the pandemic.

The research was published in a book called 'Racism & Ethnic Inequality in a Time of Crisis'.

The “UK is immeasurably far from being a racially just society. The kinds of inequality we see in our study would not be there if we had a really just society.”

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
The figure grabbing the headlines was this: more than a third of ethnic minority people in Britain have experienced some form of racist abuse.

This sits uncomfortably with the much more widely reported claim that 'Britain is one of the least racist countries in the world'. ImageImage
For example, here's GB News's Patrick Christys pushing the line that 'Britain is one of the least racist countries in the world' while interviewing Yosef David who supports the claim.

What they (of course) fail to mention is that Yosef David was a Brexit Party candidate in 2019. ImageImage
Here's @LBC's coverage of the report solely into who people would have as neighbours. Framing & propaganda is insidious - note the absence of quote marks around 'UK one of the least racist countries in the world', which contrasts with their use for ‘UK is institutionally racist’. Image
It's not only right-wing media, #TuftonSt 'think tanks' & racist far-right organisations & individuals who are keen to claim 'Britain is one of the least racist countries in the world' - the racist policies & rhetoric of the UK Govt is now off the scale.

Living in a country completely saturated with right-wing Govt, #TuftonSt 'think tank', & media propaganda, it's easy to lose sight of the FACT that people of African descent continue to encounter racial discrimination & erosion of their fundamental rights.
ohchr.org/en/press-relea…
Inevitably, the free-market fundamentalist Heritage Foundation's absurdist hard-right culture war crank Nile Gardiner has jumped on the report solely into how people feel about their neighbours, linking to adolescent Free Speech Union's chief crank Toby Young's 'Daily Sceptic'.😬 ImageImage

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Apr 29
#THREAD

Imagine there was a British politician brave enough to formally call for desperately needed media reform, which would result in a genuinely independent @BBC, “end government control” over it, & even allow the public to elect the corporation’s board members.
Imagine a British politician brave enough to call for increased taxation of tech giants to supplement the current income the @BBC gets from TV licences and to pay for incredibly important local “public interest journalism” which has been decimated in recent years.
Imagine a politician brave enough to state the blindingly obvious fact that the UK news media is dominated by a “few tech giants & unaccountable billionaires”, who called for funding of local public interest journalism, even giving charitable status to some groups undertaking it.
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Meloni’s moral & economic inspiration is Viktor Orbán, who in recent years has destroyed opposition in Hungary & achieved legitimacy by weaponising popular consensus.

Hungarians have paid for it in the form of economic instability &, above all, the loss of their rights.
Meloni dog-whistles to her neo-fascist political ancestors with the Mussolini-era slogan “God, homeland, family”. In 2019, she screamed from the stage at a rally in San Giovanni: “I am Giorgia, I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am a Christian.”

theguardian.com/world/commenti…
She reaffirmed it at the World Congress of Families in Verona in 2019, where she was even more explicit: “We will defend God, the homeland & the family”. She claims “Dio, patria, famiglia” (God, homeland, family) was not a fascist slogan, but a beautiful declaration of love.
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Apr 28
#THREAD

Because it's paywalled, & with apologies to author of 'Tory Nation: How one party took over', @swajcmanearle, & to the NYT, I reproduce below his accurate, insightful, & generally excellent recent article, which every UK voter should read. 🙏

nytimes.com/2023/04/27/opi…
"As Britain prepares for the coronation of its new king, an end-of-days feeling is sweeping the nation. In an atmosphere of social unrest, economic dysfunction and government corruption, deep political disillusionment has set in."
"The Conservative Party is polling 15 points behind the opposition, & the popularity of PM Rishi Sunak, the @Conservatives’ fifth leader in seven years, remains obstinately low. After years of Tory misrule, the opinion of the British public seems clear: We’ve had enough."
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Apr 28
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The government-appointed panel that approved Richard Sharp as a prime candidate for the role of @BBC chair included a Conservative party donor & prospective MP, as well as the wife of a former owner & chair of the Spectator when Boris Johnson was Spectator editor.
In 2020, No. 10 proposed that members of the Panel should include Blondel Cluff CBE as the non-senior independent member. Then Secretary of State Priti Patel agreed. None of the proposed panellists were on lists provided to Ministers by DCMS officials.

…tmentscommissioner.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/upl…
So just how 'independent' was Blondel Cluff?

She is the wife of Tory donor John Gordon 'Algy' Cluff, who founded the UK-headquartered Cluff Oil (subsequently Cluff Resources) in 1971.

He is a former chairman (and former proprietor) of The Spectator & a Tory Party fundraiser.
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Apr 28
In March I told The National that “pro-establishment bias within the @BBC” - with its predilection towards platforming right-wing commentators & guests - was getting worse “not least as Richard Sharp is the new boss, & head of news is ex-GB News editorial director John McAndrew.”
The @BBC is a crucial public service, like the #NHS. I also said it is “absolutely fundamental” that the BBC platformed more experts, instead of “journalists & political commentators who are highly partisan & wheeled out as being the voice of expertise”.

yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/an-op…
“We have tens if not hundreds of thousands of people who have devoted their lives to studying in great detail particular issues, & we rarely hear from any at all. That’s just such a tragedy.”

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Apr 27
At his first #PMQs, in October 2022, PM Sunak said: “I'm pleased we had a record number of new homes built in the last year.” 🤥

There is no evidence to support that claim, & No 10 declined to provide any evidence for it, despite several requests.

#bbcqt
fullfact.org/economy/rishi-…
While the number of ‘net additional dwellings’ technically hit 'the highest point on record in 2019/20', these statistics only go back to the early 90s. Other metrics & housing experts suggest that recent house building is generally far lower than records set decades ago.
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It’s also important to note that these figures don’t strictly relate to “house building”—as well as new build homes they also include conversions (such as turning a large house into multiple flats) & changes of use such as an old shop into a house or flats.
#bbcqt
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