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The Justin Horton Show
@ejhchess
Socialist fogey. Prefer cats to people. Waiting around to die. Either stand up for things or shut the fuck up complaining.
Aug 25, 2022 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
V good "Brilliant column"
Feb 16, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
I've just seen the most amazing sight, to which these photos won't do any justice: the migration of the cranes Image Hundreds and hundreds of them, in a long succession of large groups, gathering and regrouping and arranging themselves into a formation to travel north-east ImageImageImageImage
Oct 1, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
It's because there has been a concerted effort by the mainstream of politics and media to assume that support-for-the-police should be automatic and essentially unquestioning, and to try and put persistent and rigorous criticism of police and policing outside of normal politics. We don't expect senior police officers to resign because we don't expect any given police failing, even if it is admitted, to be seen as anything other than an individual failing not to be linked to anything else, and we assume the general public assume and want the same.
Mar 28, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Talking of effective communication, we should recall that Rachel Reeves went out of her way, in her 2016 "tinder box" remarks, to use inflammatory and Powellite language about immigration. What message was she trying to effectively communicate when she did so? How much is she going to be asked about this when she gets promoted, do you think? I wonder if it's easier to get a reputation as an effective communicator if you're the kind of politician that the hacks are keen on, and they don't tend to ask you awkward questions?
Aug 3, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Absolutely gawping at Zoe Williams' profile of Jamie Oliver in the Guardian this morning. "Oliver may not openly attack the government, but he is, in some ways, quite trenchantly anticapitalist." Who knew? theguardian.com/food/2020/aug/… The sudden collpase of his restaurant chain last year? "He weathered the failure", says Zoe. So did most of his staff, I guess....eventually. standard.co.uk/business/forme…
Nov 26, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
The only thing I have to say about today's nonsense is that we have the most overtly racist PM in my lifetime (I have not forgotten Mrs Thatcher, nor "swamped") yet he has never undergone the kind of concerted media attention meted out today, and many times, to his opponent. It's in bad taste to engage in too much comparison in this area, and I won't make a habit of it, but there's a limit to how far you can have bizarrely unbalanced double standards and yet ask people not to notice them.
Jul 9, 2019 • 10 tweets • 1 min read
David Aaronovitch's train is late. He is reminded of how trains were late in the old Soviet Union. David Aaronvitch joins the checkout queue. He is reminded of how people used to queue for bread, in the old Soviet Union.
Jun 6, 2019 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Since (due to some stupid Times article) people seem to be talking about the Human Rights Act, here's my story about it. It'll go on longer than it ought to, but that's the point. Many years ago - specifically, on 13 September 2000 - I was sectioned under the Mental Health Act. I shouldn't have been, but I was. These things do happen.
Mar 27, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Would be interesting to see these sorted according to those "core group" categories from a couple of years ago Let's do it! Here's the old Core Group lists labourlist.org/2016/03/leaked…