London-based researcher/writer. Tweets from this address on life, arts & culture; on the Information Society as @DSouter_ictDA. Keeping the Twitter bird alive.
Joined June 2012
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My father spent six years in the RAF during World War Two to stop fascists coming to power in this country. Just worth remembering from time to time.
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The generous act sniggered at by fatuous ITV "commentators" during the opening World Cup match, who thought they could make up nonsense about another country's politics and female president because (I'm guessing) they listened to a bar-room drunk rather than asking a journalist.
Jun 13
Meksika’daki açılış maçını dev ekrandan izleyen Devlet Başkanı Claudia Sheinbaum, neden stada gitmediğini anlattı:
“Estadio Azteca'da bir bilet 120.000 peso! Bu parayı kim ödeyebilir? Bana verilen 001 numaralı bileti, futbolu seven ama gücü yetmeyen Veracruzlu genç bir kadına hediye ettik. Meksika halkını ondan daha iyi kim temsil edebilir?“
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Jun 12
Absolutely. They were crass, ignorant fools who couldn’t be bothered to understand the country they were in. Sounded like they’d been listening to some pub bore having a rant and taken him on board.
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Jun 11
RT @GMB_union: The forces of division are seeking to pull people apart and spread their hate.
Everyone, no matter their race or background…
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"30 women have been murdered in Northern Ireland in the last six years - not one road was closed, not one protest. What was the connection? They were murdered by white locals."
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Jun 11
What on earth is going on in this country of ours. I walk round my city & see happy couples of mixed race, white girls with black friends, groups of young people some brown some black some white all relating happily to each other. Reform is focused on destroying this harmony. Why
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Ten years ago next week, the Labour MP Jo Cox was stabbed and killed by a white supremacist born in Scotland who hated her support for remaining in the European Union.
Farage and his far-right supporters didn’t give a damn.
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Jun 11
From the famously left wing @TheEconomist : “The British right wants a world in which criminals are put to death; where “millions must go”; where pogroms are the inevitable result of a country in which white people are now second-class citizens. It is increasingly clear what the likes of Mr Farage and Mr Lowe are selling. The hope is that British voters will not buy it”
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Jun 10
One of the things that is always overlooked about rioters is that many of them do it because it's fun. The pretended anger, like the affiliation of hooligans to a football club, is just a pretext for creating enjoyable mayhem
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Jun 10
Nothing like sitting in a theatre behind a very tall man, when the director has set the whole action front and centre stage. From what I can see and hear, though, I’m amazed that as fine a director as Robert Icke’s made such a mess of Romeo and Juliet.
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I think we can all guess what his real problem was.
Jun 7
This MAGA Pastor says that this waitress caused him to sin because he got upset with her because she brought him a small glass of water instead of a large one and he panics after he couldn’t edit his live video so it wouldn’t show it.
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Jun 8
Syed at his best. Uncontested malign disinformation is at crisis levels. But David Yelland’s coda is also on the money. The British right wing print media laid the foundations- it’s part ( and the Leave campaign) should not be forgotten.
Jun 7
As so often find I agree with @matthewsyed - here arguing facts have been competed out of our politics - but dare I suggest what few ever say in media: the ‘print’ media and commentariat have often allowed fact-free news - or low fact news - to flourish…. on Brexit… on so much else… Musk has been able to find friends among the editors…and Vance…
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Next time you think about a British politician, ask yourself whether you think s/he would have voted to abolish slavery.
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Three fans of JD Vance should make for an interesting discussion of JD Vance’s recent comments.
Jun 6
Joining #BBCLauraK
Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy MP
Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities Claire Coutinho MP
Reform UK's Home Affairs Spokesperson Zia Yusuf
Sunday 9am @BBCOne @BBCiPlayer
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Vance vigorously supported the mass pardoning of the January 6 rioters - nearly 100 of whom have already been arrested for other crimes. And he lectures Britain - a country with a fraction of his nation's per capita homicides.
Jun 6
It's not just the exploitation of a tragedy.
JD Vance's picture of Britain - where migrants have led to a crime surge - is the opposite of the truth.
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Jun 6
There’s a link between the spread of Nigel Farage’s evidence-free rabble-rousing and Michael Grade’s calamitous time at OfCom. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/s…
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Nigel Farage Listens to the News
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Jun 4
It has suddenly become quite ‘okay’ to use racist language and actually be overtly racist on this platform and in much of the media and in daily life; The Overton window is no longer even in its frame, it lies in smithereens, smashed upon the floor.
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