Founder of Community Cohesion and advocate of Interculturalism. Independent views for sustainable communities & political reform. Advisor @BelongNetwork
Joined March 2013
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May 21
This year is the 25th anniversary of my report establishing the concept of community cohesion to tackle ‘parallel lives’, the stereotypes and fear of the ‘other’. Some good work over the years, but still no sign of the long term capacity needed for learning to live together
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Several reasons for this: climate deniers have taken over the media; debasement of evidence based politics by populists; and mainstream political parties now focused on short term electoral appeals rather than realities
Jun 13
This reduction in media attention to climate change could be a temporary slump, especially if this ‘super’ El Niño produces the extreme weather some are forecasting. However, in the current geopolitical environment, many may be concluding that it’s become a moot point.
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Ted Cantle CBE retweeted
Jun 13
Join the Democracy Hackathon & No Hate Speech Week!
On 17 and 18 June, experts and innovators from across Europe will gather in Strasbourg to tackle online hate speech.
And you can be part of the conversation!
🚨Deadline for registration - 14 June: forms.office.com/pages/respo…
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Jun 12
Time to start believing in experts, the evidence is all around us
Jun 5
The Met Office says 46°C degree days are now “plausible” in the UK. Critics of net zero need to wake up, writes Tim Smedley
prospectmagazine.co.uk/world…
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Jun 11
Professional journalism has been savaged in recent years. Legacy media, much of which is regulated, should be given tax advantages and responsible local and community media needs financial and political support.
Jun 11
Which examples do you have in mind Ted - it's not exactly an overcrowded field?
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Jun 11
Policing methods need to respond, to provide safe evacuation centres, but most of all anticipate threats, monitor social media, bring in community response teams and recognise the danger. A new political response is also necessary, tackling threats and grievances upfront
Jun 11
The UK has just crossed a line. This is not just a riot or ‘racial disturbance’ - we’ve had a few too many in the past - this was an attempted pogrom in Belfast. This raises entirely new challenges - and the need for new responses bbc.co.uk/news/live/c70y4ppp…
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Jun 11
Everybody seems to be expressing concern about the lack of control over social media in relation to recent riots. It is a problem and we do need more control, but we also need to boost responsible media and professional journalism, so that people have a trusted alternative.
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Jun 11
The UK has just crossed a line. This is not just a riot or ‘racial disturbance’ - we’ve had a few too many in the past - this was an attempted pogrom in Belfast. This raises entirely new challenges - and the need for new responses bbc.co.uk/news/live/c70y4ppp…
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Jun 10
Yes, the Governments thought it was enough just to stop the sectarian violence, but the communities remain highly segregated, with little interchange, and outside of controls the rest of the UK expect. Not a recipe for cohesion in the long term
Jun 10
There’s the additional complication of paramilitary involvement - never tackled since the signing of the Agreement.
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Jun 10
Belfast is not unique in the UK, but the divisions in Christian communities, reinforced by over 100 peace walls, means that there is far less ability to work together and much greater control by tribal gangs that are able to operate outside the law. Old and new divisions must be addressed together as part of a realistic cohesion programme
Jun 10
🚨 WATCH: Ed Davey calls on Keir Starmer to crack down on platforms like X which are "fuelling violence"
Starmer: "We will crack down on anyone who is fuelling this division"
#PMQs
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Jun 10
Belfast riots show what a tinder box we have become, with communities prey to the rabble rousers on social media, but also the grievances of local areas that have not been addressed. It’s time to take cohesion much more seriously
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May 26
There are now a few attempts to control the misinformation on social media )not as yet very effective) But the other side of the coin is that we need to protect and promote the legacy media based on responsible and professional journalism. These standards have to be enforced
"The regulatory response to GB News has been very poor. There can be a GB News - that is not the issue - but they should play by the same rules as everybody else, and they do not." 🔥
ITV's non-executive director gave evidence at CMS Select Committee in a consultation about BBC.
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May 20
Ethnicity used to be a major dividing line, but acceptance has improved- if only to be replaced by faith and cultural differences. We need to rethink what is meant by ‘faith in the public sphere’ and the implications of this
Last week we were joined by @Moreincommon_ to walk through new research findings that, while Brits support freedom of belief, they draw a line at harmful or divisive practices and religious privilege. You can now read all about it - or watch it back👇
secularism.org.uk/news/2026/…
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May 18
So who is behind ‘France Regard’ on X? Just 510 followers but with enormous numbers of likes and retweets. With pro-Russian and Anti-Ukraine posts, makes you wonder why
May 18
😡 ZELENSKY ET SA FEMME DANS LE COLLIMATEUR : LA CORRUPTION UKRAINIENNE ATTEINT DES SOMMETS PENDANT QU’IL MENDIE DES MILLIARDS ! 🔥
Le cauchemar de la corruption en Ukraine ne s’arrête plus : maintenant, c’est la femme de Zelensky elle-même, Olena, qui risque de faire face à des enquêtes anti-corruption du NABU !
Leaked tapes, pots-de-vin, blanchiment d’argent, scandales de luxe… même son cercle intime est dans le viseur. Pendant que l’Ukraine est en guerre et que Zelensky pleure pour obtenir des centaines de milliards d’euros et de dollars des contribuables européens et américains, sa famille et son entourage s’en mettent plein les poches.
Voilà la vraie politique de Zelensky :
Une guerre sans fin financée par l’Occident
Un régime pourri jusqu’à la moelle où même sa femme est soupçonnée
Des milliards qui disparaissent pendant que les Ukrainiens paient le prix fort
C’est le même homme qui fait la morale au monde entier tout en laissant son pays devenir un véritable paradis de la corruption. Luxe, scandales et hypocrisie totale pendant que l’Europe se ruine pour le soutenir.
#ZelenskyCorrompu #CorruptionUkraine #OlenaZelenska #StopMilliardsZelensky #PaixMaintenant #ZelenskyClown #LaFranceAuxFrancais
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May 18
It’s good that this is taking place but politicians have not heeded similar reviews in the past, so this needs to result in a long term plan to build cohesion and deal with the separation of communities - including schools which have become more divided
At a time when we've gone from understanding to blaming, from agreements to agendas — it can feel like no one's listening. Today, the National Conversation launches. One of the largest independent research projects of its kind. 🧵 👇
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May 17
Well, my statistics lecturer used to warn about the danger of simple correlations with the example of the ‘perfect’ rise in the number of storks arriving in Denmark and the matched increase in the birth rate.
May 16
Superb by @jburnmurdoch:
“In country after country the birth rate plunged after the introduction of smartphones, no matter what the previous trend was…the modern digital media environment has had profound effects on society that have led to a decline in romantic coupling”.
ft.com/content/fba35eca-df3a…
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Ted Cantle CBE retweeted
May 16
@TedCantle is correct that we need an exclusively secular approach to social funding that only allocates funding on an objective, independent and secular basis. The drift to identity-based allocations for funding is causing more difficulties than it is solving.
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May 16
This grant should be stopped. By all means engage communities with science but doing so on the basis of faith, rather than place or area which would bring people together, is divisive. And in any case faith organisations should not be funded in a secular society.
May 16
Fifteen churches and Christian organisations have been awarded nearly £300,000 of grants to support engagement between #science and faith @eclasproject
#ScienceAndFaith
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May 13
This is a well balanced and very clear view of tackling antisemitism - and how we safeguard our wider democratic principles
"Treating Jewish people collectively as responsible for the actions of the Israeli state, excusing intimidation or violence against them, or glorifying terrorist movements targeting them crosses the line from legitimate political expression into antisemitism."
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May 5
Surely at this time, the problems of segregating children (and their parental networks) is all too apparent. Schools should be the bedrock of integration to build connections and tolerance
A proposed CofE school takeover in Guilford would see a non-religious primary be amalgamated into a merged church school.
Parents and children should be able to access inclusive, secular education. We’ve urged the council to reconsider👇
secularism.org.uk/news/2026/…
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