You may know I have issues with Toby Young.

In fact, I was accused of wanting to ‘drive him from office’ when he briefly had a governmental role previously.

How do I plead? Guilty & proud!

Here’s why ableist, sexist, EUGENICIST Young should be nowhere NEAR power now!🧵
1/ I was horrified in 2018 when Young was briefly- appointed to the Government’s Office for Students.

He has an appalling track record for attacking and mocking students with both physical and learning disabilities.

He is angry that they are accommodated: as he complained
2/

.@JustinWelby must resign TODAY.

Why don’t I want him to be sacked? I do.
Furthermore: I believe police should be involved.

I’ll explain why 🧵

But the mechanism to sack him is unclear. He’s supreme boss of the CoE.
The king could do it : but think about that!

1/ One of Charles’ Counsellors of State is..PRINCE ANDREW.

That means Andrew could be drafted in to act as King, if Charles were indisposed

A man who settled a civil sexual assault case for £12 million.

Is his brother really going to remove someone for protecting an abuser?🤔
2/

The @C4Dispatches programme on the Royal rip off is required viewing for us all.

But WHY wheel out Baroness Margaret Hodge as a talking head?

Where is HER moral authority here?🧵

The Stemcor heiress has been accused of hypocrisy over her own multimillion financial dealings
1/ And have we just forgotten her DISGRACEFUL behaviour as Islington Council leader over the child abuse scandal?

Hodge ‘was aware of previous, horrendous child sex abuse in the care homes for which she was responsible, & did nothing about it.’

Worse? She SMEARED A VICTIM.

2/

NEW: RESOURCES for arguing with the Tommy Robinson fan in your life!🧵

1) FULLY UPDATED list of ONE HUNDRED convicted Far right sex offenders:

First four pages: Bradley Alford to Thomas Leech

1/


Last three pages: Scott Mason to Mason Yates

(Sources: @Searchlight_mag @EDL_Criminals @pob1975 @uaf, local news reports)

2/

DEEP DIVE: there’s MUCH MORE to say about Mandy Blumenthal & Mark Lewis, apparently the couple who heckled @reginalddhunter

Innocent audience or practiced agent provocateurs?

Let’s take a look.

In 2017, Mandy & her UKIP brother Alan turned up to a Palestine Support meeting 1/ in the West Midlands.

The speaker was Haneen Zoabi, Palestinian & member of the Israeli Knesset (parliament)

According to several reports, Mandy & Alan barracked Zoabi, filmed her without permission, called her a racist, refused to stay seated and kept approaching her
2/

Ah, Daniel Thomas.

Shall we thread? 🧵

-Tommy Robinson’s right hand man once tried to violently KIDNAP someone in a beef over drug dealing.

To add insult to injury he GOT THE WRONG MAN!

Jailing him, the judge called him ‘stupid’ and ‘cowardly’.



1/ portsmouth.co.uk/news/crime/bun…

https://twitter.com/uaf/status/1817483557687730550

Once he became a member of Tommy Robinson’s team, the chaos continued.

Thomas began to portray himself as a ‘good Christian husband & father’ (for those US Christian dollars) yet a video emerged of him masturbating, that he’d sent to a woman he was cheating on his wife with🤢
2/

Met a lovely Scottish lady on the bus.
She was singing! Had a nice voice, & I said so.
We started chatting and she said, All this election stuff! I don’t like Sunak or Starmer.

I said, Me neither.

Then I did it. I bit the bullet:
‘And that Nigel Farage is a worry too…’

1/ Felt like the whole bus held its breath (I don’t like to be that annoying loud talker, but she had hearing issues so I was higher volume than usual!)

Then she broke my heart: ‘Oh, I think we need more like Nigel!’

YEEPS.

It turned out she didn’t know the real Farage at all
2/

Today is #DinaAliDay.

This day in 2017, Dina vanished off the face of the earth

Who is she?
Every woman who ever tried to flee abuse; everyone who ever wanted freedom.
She SO nearly made it;
but powerful men conspired against her.

Then people just…forgot.

But I can’t.
1/8 Saudi Arabian #DinaAli was being abused by family members.
She couldn’t take it anymore. For months, she planned her escape. She would fly to Australia, seek asylum, & start a new, free life.
Aged 24, she gathered her courage, got away from her family, & made it as far Manila
2/

Tommy Robinson portrays himself as a family man, yet dragged his daughter to a London footie match yesterday on her birthday- KNOWING he wasn’t allowed in the city under bail conditions.

He needlessly involved her in his version of events, AGAIN, purely for sympathy/ grift
1/5 Other parenting lowlights: in 2016 Robinson sued Cambridge police for ‘harassment’ claiming he was having an innocent family day out with ‘muh kids’, in a pub but drinking water 🙄
He claimed he was asked to leave by cops due to his views on Islam; & his daughter was so scared
2/

Yesterday I spoke in #Telford AGAINST racism and FOR sexual abuse survivors.

Tommy Robinson says people who protest him don’t care about survivors, and have never experienced rape of child abuse.

I have experienced both. So why wasn’t I standing with him in #Telford?

A 🧵 Why did I make a 6 hour round trip to stand in the cold and have drunk fascists scream ‘paedo’ at me, as they tried to attack me & other counter-protestors?

It’s not pleasant to have that word thrown at you when you were abused from the ages of 4 to 12.
It brings it all back.

A couple of days ago, a self-styled ‘journalist’ on here accused me of ‘attacking’ Tommy Robinson

I’ve previously been accused of causing him ‘emotional distress’

He’s a delicate soul, so obviously I feel TERRIBLE, so let’s look at what occurred so it NEVER happens again 👍
1/

https://twitter.com/uaf/status/1698382570424062024

After numerous failures to cut through in recent years, including the embarrassing failure of his MEP campaign (thanks, Antifascists), legal woes due to libellling innocent schoolkids, etc, Tommy’s income- donations from the fanboys he calls ‘mugs’- dipped.
He needed a win.

2/

YOU DID IT!
6.6 million took the time to read my thread on secret tests on civilians, including Punjabi women in Coventry.

You opened eyes.

I contacted Coventry MPs including @TaiwoOwatemi

I’m DELIGHTED to say she will be raising this in parliament!
1/ bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

https://twitter.com/LouiseRawAuthor/status/1692904463852281893

Researchers at Warwick Uni are now URGENTLY seeking anyone who may’ve been unwittingly involved in 1969. Coventry women were brought chapatis every day, then taken to a ‘hospital’ (actually a nuclear research facility!) for tests

Please contact Taiwo.owatemi.mp@parliament.uk
2/

You can’t believe how kind the British are.

Every morning, a van pulls up outside your house in Coventry.
A friendly man brings you a freshly-baked flatbread to eat.
It’s just for you,not anyone else in your family.
Every afternoon he comes back to make sure you’ve eaten it.
1/ It’s to improve your health, because you went to your GP with migraines.

He said it could be anaemia, & these special chapatis will help you.

You’re grateful: you haven’t been here long, & really appreciate your new country looking after you.

Eventually another van comes. 2/

Roger Sylvester would have been 55 today.
It’s hard to believe because I never got to know him past 31. No one did.

Roger was a youth worker for Islington.
He spent the day with his cousin Ann on 11 January 1999, helping at her phone shop in Tottenham.
Then he walked home.
🧵1/ He told a friend he saw on the way that he had an odd feeling he was being followed.

Only later did we discover Met Police were running stop and search that day.

Later, a (white) neighbour called the police because Rog was supposedly banging on the door of his own flat. 2/

Still buzzing from the incredible day we had at #Matchfest23 on Saturday at @bowarts!

First speaker was the marvellous Rose Lewis from @Sistah_Space, a charity for African and Caribbean heritage women suffering domestic abuse.

Imagine going through that 1/

AND fighting to access services to help, only to find they don’t/ won’t understand your background

Being moved somewhere where everything’s new & strange, & you can’t even buy staple ingredients for your meals.

This extra stress & dislocation can drive women back to abuse
2/

The divine @Writerer❤️-socialist, feminist, writer, broadcaster, non-dull intellectual who wants the world to be a better place- what’s not to love?
I was gripped (see face!) by her scathing brilliance on the ‘lying liars’ in power.
Buy all her books
waterstones.com/book/we-are-at… What can you say about a double bill of Shami Chakrabarti and @MichaelRosenYes except we were all lucky to witness it?

Shami was chilling on the vile Tory legislation she’s been working so hard to mitigate (virtually impossible, but she keeps fighting for us)

How did #Matchfest22 go (&did the fash turn up as promised)?

Here’s a look at the amazing day we had at @BowArts on Saturday.

First to join me round the table (we don’t do stages- or PowerPoints): @carolinebressey & @SuffragetteKate, on women fighting racism through history Caroline discovered incredible new information about this woman, Catherine Impey, who set up an anti racist journal, with her mum & sister, *in 1888!* Same year the Matchwomen went on strike.

Catherine lived in Street, Somerset.

What a day!
25 years after I first looked at the wall of a match factory in Bow and thought, That should have a blue plaque..and their story should be told..
Today a beautiful
@EnglishHeritage plaque was unveiled.

I was honoured to speak about the women & my long obsession! Anita Dobson speaking, and getting ready to pull that cord..

‘She was irreplaceable’.

A sad, proud, moving day at St Bride’s Church on Fleet Street today, for the memorial service for #ShireenAbuAkleh The shock and pain of Shireen’s friends and colleagues, just 6 weeks on from her murder, is palpable.

Her niece Lina, by video link, called her‘my best friend’.
‘A part of me is broken’, she said-but because Shireen was brave & optimistic, she has to go on, and hope for justice

Are you sitting comfortably?

Because Tommy Robinson complaining about the ‘humourless’ left mass reporting ‘people they don’t like’ reminds me of a story about-
Tommy Robinson.
Mass reporting.
Me 😂 At the start of the pandemic in 2020, I thought it would be interesting to use by history slot in BBC radio to look at past ‘demics and how London has coped with them.

It was fascinating to research. Plagues, cholera: the things people did to survive, tragedy and bravery