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Poppy Coburn Profile picture
Poppy Coburn
@kafkaswife
Meritocracy fan. Acting Deputy Comment Editor @telegraph. “Feverish” - the LRB
Sep 16, 2025 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Bush is right to dismiss the argument that anger over immigration is due to economic anxiety (anyone paying attention to why Trump became a successful political figure could tell you that) but wrong to ascribe rising anti-migration sentiment to politicians not calling it out Leftists aren’t wrong when they cry about social media. The rise of alternative media / creation of a genuinely open forum and the relative decline of establishment news sources has massive implications for politics. Musk buying X was genuinely important.
Jan 3, 2025 • 20 tweets • 6 min read
Grooming gang deniers have become increasingly emboldened in recent years, with many hiding behind academic credentials to legitimise their conspiracies. Let’s take a look at one example from 2020: “Challenging the harms of the ‘Muslim grooming gangs’ narrative” Image The report was authored by Dr Ella Cockbain and Waqas Tufail. Read this thread for an insight into Cockbain’s activist “scholarship”.