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Author of 'The March That Shook Blair: An Oral History of 15 February 2003' (Peace News Press, 2013) and co-author of 'A Timeline of the Plague Year' (2021).
May 26, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
Incredible claim by @leorobsonwriter in the @NewStatesman that ignores Pearl Harbor, We Were Soldiers, Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, Lone Survivor, 13 Hours, American Sniper, The Kingdom, Max, Fury, 12 Strong, Glory, Air Force One, Tears Of The Sun, Zero Dark Thirty... Image U-571, Hart's War, Behind Enemy Lines, The Hunt For Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, Sum Of All Fears, Without Remorse, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, True Lies, Rambo III, Red Tails, USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage, The Outpost...
Dec 18, 2019 6 tweets 3 min read
There has been lots of discussion about the role of the media, especially the BBC, in the election. Frustratingly, the discussion has rarely been informed by actual evidence and research. Here are five books that help explain things: From @ta_mills
Jul 29, 2018 14 tweets 6 min read
1. A few comments on Jonathan Freedland's (@Freedland) often misleading piece on the antisemitism controversy and the Labour Party theguardian.com/commentisfree/…#Antisemitism @medialens @MichaelRosenYes @tonylerman @CPMacL2008 @AaronBastani @michaeljswalker 2. Freedland says only people who say “Jews are Nazis” would contravene the IHRA definition. In fact, the IHRA definition is much broader, referring to “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” holocaustremembrance.com/working-defini…