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Shaun Lawson
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Apr 12 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
Another man without the first damn clue what he's talking about.

When an icon as great and heroic as @Martina speaks, I listen.

She knows that women's spaces and women's sports are under grave threat. She also knows how unbelievably homophobic the entire discourse has become. Martina = mensch. And all time legend.

Rothenberg = who?
Jan 6 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
You pathetic, odious, vile little plankton.

Gary Neville won 8 Premier League titles, 2 Champions Leagues and 85 England caps.

You got relegated with Newcastle, relegated twice with QPR, handed Man City the title by assaulting three of their players, and won 1 England cap. That one lousy England cap was as part of our worst team since 1993. The ONLY one not to qualify - and you weren't even good enough to be picked for it more than once.

In fact, you have MORE CONVICTIONS FOR VIOLENT CRIME than England caps, you absolute waste of skin.
Dec 30, 2023 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Today, in the world of sensible centrist liberal media 🙄🙄🙄

1. Thomas L. Friedman is worried for the world and tries to explain what's happening to it. He explains what's happening to it by... saying THIS. Image Yes folks. The difference between Dubai and Gaza isn't that one is staggeringly rich in natural resources and the other is a rock. And it isn't that one is independent and the other has been illegally occupied and blockaded for so long.

It's 'visionary leadership'.
Nov 20, 2023 • 52 tweets • 8 min read
THREAD: Argentina. Why has this happened - and what's going to happen now?

The first thing to say about why this has happened is pretty simple. The options facing a desperate, frantic Argentinian public were APPALLING. All of them. In August, at the primaries, the mostly centre-right Juntos por Cambio (which governed, very badly, through Mauricio Macri between 2015 and 2019) voters made a dreadful, in my view indefensible blunder.

They selected Patricia Bullrich over Horacio Rodriguez Larreta.
Oct 28, 2023 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
When the provisional IRA tried to assassinate the entire British government, the British government did not respond by carpet bombing Belfast for weeks on end.

Nor did it impose a 16-year-long siege on the island of Ireland. Nor did it cut off electricity, water, food, fuel and communications.

In fact, much of the world - including, notably, the US - understood that the nationalist community in Northern Ireland had an entirely legitimate grievance. And were victims of an historic injustice.
Oct 14, 2023 • 24 tweets • 4 min read


"Research by the IJPR shows about 2% of the population of Great Britain can be characterised as “hardcore” antisemites - defined as those believing multiple anti-Jewish tropes simultaneously - whereas 70% is found to hold no anti-Jewish views at all".theguardian.com/world/2023/oct… "A 2021 survey by the institute, conducted two months after the last war in Gaza, found that almost three-quarters of Jewish adults in the UK felt that non-Jews held them responsible for the actions of the Israeli government during the conflict..."
Oct 8, 2023 • 31 tweets • 5 min read
Someone just asked me if I thought Gazans supported what Hamas are doing. I replied: "Mostly, yes".

But no, that's not because ordinary Palestinians are terrorists. It's because they have been left so completely bereft, they have nowhere else to turn. It cannot be overstated just how corrupt, how weak, how pathetic the Palestinian Authority now is.

Under the risible leadership of Mahmoud Abbas: who's both a vehement antisemite and traitor to his people, only interested in his own position and status.
Sep 28, 2023 • 33 tweets • 6 min read
Regarding what happened to @mlothianmclean yesterday - a discussion about misogyny in which a man denying the gender pay gap even exists was paid a ridiculous amount, while she wasn't - I bet that happens to far more women in media than men.

Far more. Here's my take on why. Below, the clip of her discovering that the man talking over her and spouting his usual mindless BS was being paid for the privilege.

Sep 18, 2023 • 32 tweets • 6 min read
Q: Why now?

A: Because an investigation of this detail and this complexity takes years.

It especially takes years when someone rich and powerful has a superinjunction against reports of this nature. THAT's why comedians referring to Brand were warned off doing so. If you wanted to know why just one comedian was willing to speak on camera about what was commonly known about Brand, there's your answer. Legal threats.

Q: How does a newspaper get around a superinjunction?

A: With irrefutable evidence.
Jun 1, 2023 • 55 tweets • 10 min read
If you're outside the UK, Channel 4's Gender Wars is available here.



I've just watched it. I thought it was very good: it handled the whole issue with balance and the utmost care. As a primer for a bewildered public, it does the job extremely well. From the coverage it's had, you might be labouring under the misapprehension that it's just about Kathleen Stock (@Docstockk)'s appalling experiences. It's not.

Many people on both sides of the debate are given a voice, and a fair hearing. It provoked many thoughts in me.
May 31, 2023 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Absolutely outrageous.

1. Guardian News and Media PAID OFF a sexual predator within its ranks.

2. Said sexual predator blames his 20-year-long serial sexual predation on alcohol.

3. Nobody in the UK media, including even Private Eye, will report on it.

nytimes.com/2023/05/30/wor… From the NY Times piece:

"British news media is smaller and cozier than its American counterpart, with journalists often coming from the same elite schools...

A half-dozen FT journalists said they saw it as part of a wider reluctance to expose bad behavior within its industry".
May 30, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Why don't we? BECAUSE of the campaign of recent times.

BECAUSE of how hard heroic women have had to push just to protect what is theirs. The rights of all women.

Stonewall demanded 'no debate' because the point was to usher self-ID through without people noticing. Meanwhile, we still have:

- Male-bodied people in women's prisons
- Male-bodied people in women's changing rooms
- Male-bodied people in women's toilets
- Male-bodied people in women's sports
- Male-bodied people in (even running!) women's rape crisis centres
May 30, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Best political interview I've read since I don't know when.

But the reason @faizashaheen is such a rarity, such a brilliant breath of fresh air? Others just like her were chased out by Starmer's Stalinist apparatchiks and their hatchet job media mates.

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2… Read her life story. Powerful and compelling. Faiza is the absolute epitome of authenticity and has so, so much to offer.

I couldn't agree with her more about Oxford either.

And at the election, she'll beat Dunkin Shite like a drum.
May 29, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Dear oh dear. Not one, not two, but THREE top flight clubs all disappearing in the same season.

Meanwhile, the idiots who've overseen this disaster continue to deny Ealing promotion or the Championship anything at all.

theguardian.com/sport/2023/may… English (and Welsh) rugby is in the most massive crisis.

And please note: in England at least, it's a direct consequence of the same Thatcherite Greed Is Good model which has laid waste to society for decades on end.
May 11, 2023 • 28 tweets • 5 min read
You know, I'll say this for Trump. It's quite incredible just what the orange fascist piece of shit has exposed.

This is someone who until literally Tuesday, essentially had never faced any real consequences for anything at all. And why? Because he's white, male and rich. Not rich through his own hard work - don't be silly! Rich because he inherited it. And went on to become EXTREMELY well-connected.

And in America, very much including liberal New York, rich, well-connected white men have been able to do... whatever the heck they wanted.
May 9, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Superbly put.

And the thing about my fellow denizen of Pinner (albeit formerly in my case), @Dannythefink, is:

- He really understands politics
- He really really understands data

I think the results were MUCH worse for the Tories than they superficially looked to some. How do the Tories recover?

Some people have tried to compare this period now with circa 1990 - when a horrifically unpopular PM was removed by her party, Labour were miles and miles ahead, but the Tories ended up winning under a respected, likeable leader.
May 9, 2023 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
This is an extremely interesting interview. It's always worthwhile learning more about various countries: East Germany is no exception.

What's so unfortunate is Novara's utterly absurd tweet here - which has rightly been ridiculed.

The interview does NOT justify the claim. In other words, the tweet itself is basically clickbait - of a quite bizarre kind in terms of the mirth and scorn it's incurred.

There are a couple of things I'd challenge @hoyer_kat on.

1. Stalin rejected Marshall Aid. Weirdly, she makes no mention of this.
May 9, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Many, many questions arise from this.

1. How the f***k is the insane Wall Street Journal fourth and above AP?

2. How in the world is Newsmax not near the bottom?

3. Do Americans just see 'Arab name' and think 'can't be trusted'? 4. Does C-SPAN even have an editorial line? It's like not trusting a primary source.

5. Are Democrats just really really nice people?
May 8, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Indeed.

More than that: the debacle of 2015-19 taught the Lib Dems something. Which they either had to learn - or die.

That something is: under FPTP, the Lib Dems only prosper when Labour do as well. If they just attack Labour, they destroy BOTH parties and enable the Tories. Fracking Jo Swinson - the most ludicrous leader of any major party not named Liz Truss in my lifetime - was desperate for an election because she was so deranged, she thought she could get ANOTHER Tory-Lib Dem coalition.

She had another think coming there.
May 8, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Yes, you dreamt it.

That referendum was about the Alternative Vote - the only electoral system anywhere which is often LESS proprtional than FPTP.

And the way to avoid Israel's situation is simple: set a 5% threshold on seats. Celia here is generally an extremely well-informed really good person.

But notice how she, like many others, was completely and totally fooled in 2011 - by the lying media and lying Tories.

That's how it works. On EVERYTHING.
May 7, 2023 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
An institutionally racist, violently misogynistic police force which spent years shielding and indulging rapists arrested a bunch of volunteers... for carrying rape alarms which they hand out to women.

This was done in support of a family which openly protects a paedophile. It was also done at the express behest of an openly racist, fascist government which wants to turn Britain into Putin's Russia.

Which has criminalised protest and, as we saw on Thursday, is intent on destroying democracy itself.