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@docrussjackson
Apr 16 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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One speaker is under investigation for right-wing extremism, others argue the Christchurch mosque shooter 'had legitimate concerns', gay marriage is 'a destructive experiment', & the "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory is real!

The far-right ♥️ #NatCon

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The #NatCon2024 Brussels event was sponsored and coordinated by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), a Hungarian 'think tank' funded by oil & gas money, & which received more than £1.3 BILLION in Hungarian state funding in 2020.

#FancyThat!

desmog.com/2024/04/16/nat…
Nigel Farage's entirely predictable #NatCon2024 speech was live-streamed on the far-right #propaganda channel GB "News", bankrolled by bigoted evangelical "Christian" billionaire Paul Marshall, whose hedge fund has £1.7 BILLION invested in fossil fuels!

The #NatCon organising committee features Frank Furedi, Exec Director of MCC Brussels, who delivered the 2020 annual lecture at #TuftonStreet's Global Warming Policy Foundation, the UK’s leading climate science denial group, on the subject “eco hysteria”!
Surprised Liz Truss hasn't been invited to do a turn at #NatCon2024.

British #NatCon2024 speaker, Dr James Orr, linked to unhinged billionaire Peter Thiel, responded to a video of pro-Palestinian demonstrations in London, which showed Muslim protestors praying, by stating: “Import the Arab World, become the Arab World”. 😬

varsity.co.uk/news/22640
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#NatCon is a project of a right-wing think tank the Edmund Burke Foundation, which has links to an Israel-based Zionist research organisation, founded in 2019, but it was registered as a private limited company in the UK by Cambridge Uni's James Orr.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
A #THREAD from last year on the The Edmund Burke Foundation, which brings together the far-right in Europe & the US, the various brands of the far-right, & gives them a framework, a common language, and a shiny brand to follow: 'National Conservatism'.

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Allison Pearson posted then deleted disinformation, falsely accused three people of being "Jew haters", lied about where the photo was taken & what they were doing, then lied about what the Police said to her - and then moaned about being a victim! FFS

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The Telegraph's divisive shit-stirrer Pearson falsely claimed she was told by the police who came to her home it was over a “non-crime hate incident”. Her lie was then dutifully amplified by every Reform UK MP & billionaire-owned right-wing "news" media, painting her as a victim.
Essex Police said “At no stage... was she informed that the report being investigated was being treated as a non-crime hate incident. To suggest otherwise is wholly inaccurate and misleading.”
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Pearson, Farage, Musk, Young, Habib, & many other shit-stirrers who shamelessly try to normalize hateful, divisive, provocative & inflammatory rhetoric, often refer to George Orwell's 1984, but Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is much closer to the dystopia we inhabit... Image
Harassment, malicious communications, incitement, & threatening violence are all crimes in the UK, & have been for a long time.

Print & broadcast media, & online social media are simply platforms on which we behave or misbehave: it's not about the medium, it's about the offence. Image
The UK is signed up to Article 10 of the #ECHR: everyone has the right to free speech, which may only be qualified in limited circumstances, including: national security; public safety; the protection of morals & of the reputation or rights of others.

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"Enoch Powell was a hero of the young Nigel, but at this point he could do without any association with the politician who made the notorious Rivers of Blood speech... the accusation of racism follows Farage & his party around like a bad smell." - Allison Pearson Image
"Farage has tried for years to shrug off the charge that his parties are more than “the BNP in blazers”... although I don’t think Farage is a racist, it’s a problem that racists attach themselves to Reform." - Allison Pearson Image
“We’re investigating a report which was passed to us by another force. The report relates to a social media post which was subsequently removed. An investigation is now being carried out under section 17 of the Public Order Act.” - Essex police spokesman Image
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Not a lot of people know that Oxbridge alumni Fiona Bruce, presenter of 'Fake or (paid a) Fortune?', and since January 2019, the @BBC's interrupting Chair of #bbcqt, was born in Singapore.

One of her first episodes as Chair was the one that made Laurence Fox a household name. Image
In my widely read & reported February 2023 Open Letter to the @BBC about @bbcquestiontime, one of my concerns was about Bruce’s chairing of #bbcqt which I said was "at best, unacceptably poor."

I haven't seen anything to change my mind since.

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Hard-core “ultra” supporters of Maccabi Tel-Aviv, Israel’s most successful football club, often use inflammatory, offensive and racist language.

In Amsterdam, their fans chanted racist slogans and refused to observe a minute’s silence for Spain's victims of the floods.
The Mail reported the violence ahead of the match against Ajax, reporting 'Israeli football hooligans tore down Palestine flags as they marched through Amsterdam. Videos show hooded figures dressed fully in black cheering & chanting 'fuck you Palestine'.'

dailymail.co.uk/sport/football…
On 7/11 the Mail said 'Israeli thugs shouted 'ole' as one climbed the front of a building & removed a Palestinian flag. Footage also shows a thug thumping a taxi with crowbar before the driver takes off, while there were reported clashes between the visiting hooligans & cabbies.'
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Tory & Reform UK MPs, #TuftonSt lobbyists, & Media Barons Rupert Murdoch, Jonathan Harmsworth & Paul Marshall despise two of Britain’s most loved institutions: our @BBC & our #NHS.

They use their power to undermine them.

Why?

And who is the new @BBC Chair, Samir Shah?
For these individuals & organisations, our @BBC & #NHS are a constant reminder that free-market capitalism is a profoundly flawed ideology fuelling greed & climate change, & that not every large organisation should either be a charity or be owned by shareholders & run for profit.
This thread focuses on how @BBCNews & @BBCPolitics output has, since 2000, become increasingly skewed to the right & a vehicle for defending free-market capitalism.

I'd need to write a 100K word thesis to cover everything I want to say about the @BBC, but I'll convey the basics.
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