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Writer and researcher, Head of Security and Extremism @Policy_Exchange. Views my own. No I don't want to download the app. Hope lies in the proles.
Jun 12, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
This raises interesting questions for @britishfuture and Hope not Hate. Will they carry on working with Qari Asim? If Britain's Future included a de facto blasphemy law enforced by gangs of men protesting outside cinemas, I think most people would say 'count me out'. #LadyOfHeaven
Jun 28, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
There's been considerable effort on social media to portray @kimleadbeater as much put upon by extremists. The centre left has rallied strongly round her.

But this Labour leaflet, in her name, appealing to (actual or perceived) UK-Pakistani hostility to India is desperate stuff @ZacGoldsmith's appeal to Indian voters when running against @SadiqKhan in 2016 is widely perceived to have been a mistake.
In #BatleyAndSpen Labour now seem to be trying their own variant on the same approach.
May 9, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
The 2021 winner of the 'Dear Kettle, Yours Pot' competition is already guaranteed. Not for the first time it's the #LondonMayor This is a Mayor who banned 'body-shaming' adverts on the tube, but then decided adverts of models in their underwear were acceptable after all, if they were the right type of models

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