People should stop sharing that list of Rashford giving 125% of his wealth to charity. He shouldn't have to justify himself or go above and beyond to be free from criticism. His teammates are earning just as must as him and don't have to constantly justify themselves
David Lammy on
#r4today
calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. I'm old enough to remember when calling for a ceasefire meant you were antisemitic and wanted Israel wiped off of the map.
This is driving me nuts. Can someone explain why two family members discussing what a new grandchild or nephew/niece will look like, whose hair colour the infant will have, what skin tone is racist? It’s what we all do. Let me go further, it would be unnatural if we didn’t.
@JamesCleverly
Where is this recognition of racism when the police stop black people and charge black people with drugs crimes disproportionately despite the fact that drug use between the races is very similar? Or are you just using it to push this particular political point?
It's interesting how people want fully funded public services like NHS, one of the best education systems in the world, a safety net etc., but suddenly turn Tory when it comes to pay for it? The NHS doesn't come free you know?
As a black/brown person you can tap dance for racist white people but they'll still call you a slur and tell you to go back to where you came from. A lesson for all black/brown Tories tbh
Sharkey, "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is not fully grounded in our culture."
Extraordinary conversation between Andrew Pierce, Bev Turner and David Starkey
#Coronation
Yup. When people say "it's been rushed" it's because they don't know what they're talking about. It's gone through all the usual stages, just because of the urgency of it, it's received more funding so can conduct bigger tests at once and undergo multiple stages simultaneously
There is no evidence that she was born a 'man'. She could have higher testosterone levels for many other reasons, similar to Caster Semenya. She's also from Algeria, which has no legal recognition for gender transition. This is pure transphobic dog whistling.
It is absolutely vile what these Olympic bureaucrats have done to their female athletes… putting them in the direct way of serious physical harm just to satisfy an insane ideology they cannot possibly believe.
How dare they? The male boxer in question will be blamed (& is
I know it's coming from a well meaning place but you're feeding into the narrative of the "good immigrant" only being worthy of being here and accepted because they carry this dusty fucking country on their head
According to Twitter, they're all running their own businesses, investing in crypto, got multiple streams of income, hustling etc. But apparently they're too poor to afford a Happy Meal. The maths isn't adding up for me
@LOS_Fisher
Some of the poorest wards in the country are in London, how are those residents "elite"? And also, there are more people living in London than Scotland and Wales combined. Why would doing well in Wales be good, but doing well in London be bad?
So the nobodies from last season( Brad, Jake, Tyler, Aaron went on Insta live last night and mocked Rachel. They were talking about bombshells and all of them laughed when Rachel’s name was brought up. 🤢 feel so bad for Rachel
#LoveIsland
Good for them but reading the story shows that they're buying together (which makes it easier, as I've found), one of them is on an amazing salary, £72k, and they moved into the family home so weren't paying rent? Is this story supposed to be inspiring?
@YoungLabourUK
How is NATO countries protecting themselves against Russia constitute "aggression"? And if you think that Russia will stop expanding if we ask it nicely and get rid of our weapons then I've got a Munich Agreement to sell you
His argument doesn't even make any sense on his own terms? Kelechi already established that the US is the global hegemon which extracts wealth from other countries. Bearing that in mind, where would AAs "flee" too? Countries which are worse off because of the US's exploitation?
They can't make up their mind whether Israel = all Jews, and so criticism of Israel is antisemitism, or whether Israel =/= all Jews, so ordinary Jewish people worldwide are not responsible for the actions of the Israeli Government. It depends on what argument they're making
Is it closed minded to not want to date someone who voted for a racist who's government's austerity policies killed thousands of people? 🧐🧐 I guess when that stuff doesn't affect you directly you can just be "agree to disagree" about it
And he's right. LGBT people didn't gain rights by asking nicely, the ball started rolling after the Stonewall riots. Asking the privileged politely for rights never works
@joanne_skii
This isn't true. A Secretary of State (only 5 I think resigned) gets £17k. Ministers of State (maybe a few dozen?) get £8k. The rest were PPS's or trade envoys which are unpaid bag carriers. So no payout for them.
They're playing into the good immigrant stereotype, where white people only accept that black people have a right to be here if we're scoring penalties and otherwise going above and beyond for this country
So if all the black and mixed players missed their penalties, then racism would be justified? I know people mean well, but I’m so fed up of seeing that argument
The idiotic "Anne Frank had white privilege" discourse is occuring because people on the internet still don't understand that race is a social construct which doesn't have fixed parameters, and therefore changes depending on what white supremacy needs from it.
@SadeLoves_xox
@mbbxo_
Which is the way to be tbh, they keep dating and coupling up until they find the one, and meanwhile us blacks are wasting years on situationships that were wrong from jump
Wow. Another national group pouring money into NY-16 against Rep. Jamaal Bowman, this time from The National Black Empowerment Action Fund, founded by AIPAC veteran Darius Jones, per
@emilyngo
@SimonJonesNews
If the Home Office did their job and processed asylum claims promptly then they'd be given permanent stay and could get jobs (which most of them want to do!) and would be able to support themselves
Kwarteng being sacked for the fiscal event is like when Amber Rudd resigned over Windrush. Both things were ultimately the fault of their Prime Ministers, but they (unfairly?) took the fall
EXCLUSIVE:
I'm told that Kwasi Kwarteng is being sacked as Chancellor as Liz Truss prepares to reverse the mini-Budget
Not clear who will be replacing him
Events moving very, very quickly this morning
No 10 not commenting
Leasehold needs to be abolished entirely, not just for new houses, as the Tories have done. Some of us are in the trenches fighting our crooked landlords, and I'm glad that Labour have committed to doing putting a stop to it. I hope that it will be done swiftly!
New in-depth piece from me - as part of
@POLITICOEurope
's 'Home Front' series investigating housing across Europe, I've explored the leasehold system in the U.K. — and the difficult efforts to reform a system which goes back centuries. Do have a read!
Suella Braverman, who repeatedly tried to ban protests she personally didn't approve of, suddenly gets concerned about politicians trying to "undermine free speech"
So, when people in an office buy a cake in the middle of the afternoon for someone else they are working in the office with and stop for ten minutes to sing happy birthday and then go back to their desks, this is now called a party?
@iamlexstylz
@petitetweeter_
Zendaya is in a role written initially for a white man, and she has said that she doesn't take roles written for black women, so...
"People who have somehow weaponised the word ‘woke’ in an attempt to give themselves license to be racist, misogynistic and homophobic – or any other kind of discrimination – only do so in order to abuse others."
When the police informed me that the man who said I deserved a 'bullet to the back of the head' also owned a gun, I froze.
This week he was found guilty.👇🏾
Jacques banging on about how he "opened up last night" like he deserves a medal. That's a normal thing to do when you're dating somebody you *actually* like, if it's a big, unprecedented thing to you then you need to be in therapy, not in a relationship
#LoveIsland
The UK media and politicians frequently talk about 'Caribbean culture' being the reason for working class Caribbean boys' academic underperformance compared to their white middle class counterparts. Yet more evidence that this is not true.
Steep rise in schools in England recruiting teachers from Jamaica
"Jamaica supplied 486 qualified teachers last year, twice as many as in 2022, as schools in England launched recruiting drives in a country suffering its own shortages of qualified teachers"
Just signed up to make monthly donations to
@Mermaids_Gender
. Glad to do my bit for trans and gender non-conforming teens in the face of this hostile Government.
I said this when I saw the ad: that sort of thing is more aimed at people who live outside of London and who never go to there, but are pink in the face with rage over what they read in the Mail about goings on in 'Londanistan' under 'Mayor Khan'
NEW: Conservatives in London scathing about *that* attack ad
Andrew Boff: We have "a hugely positive message, independent of what I can only assume was an inexperienced intern at CCHQ”
Candidate: “More aimed at Stevenage than Streatham"
w/
@danbloom1
Yam Carnival was good but I wish they'd have turned up Davido's mic as I could only half hear him, and they needed to have more food trucks. I queued up for am hour to get simple fish and chips
I've said for years that I wouldn't permit my friends to speak to me in the way that Milena was spoken to on the podcast, but ultimately people will only do to you what you allow. Clearly something else was going on, so who knows. I wish success for all three
#TheReceiptsPodcast
The girls have been getting some ELITE guests since the relaunch, the duo dynamic and the video element: they've really moved it up to another level
#TheReceiptsPodcast
My (now ex) boyfriend was too scared to go into shops because of COVID, and would make his asthmatic mum go out and get groceries for the house. I realised then, is this the King I need helping me raise and protect our kids???
Frank didn't have white privilege because in the Nazi-controlled Netherlands, she wasn't viewed as white. Anybody who's picked up a history book would know this, this is very very basic stuff
@TimesRadio
@RhonddaBryant
@CalumAM
Good for you
@RhonddaBryant
. Too many "journalists" are actually Tory client media and ask leading questions straight from the Government which clearly betray their own opinions. It's good to see an MP call them out for it. Stuff like this is why people hate journalists
And there weren't years of decline under Labour...GDP, wages and public sector spending experienced some of the biggest increases in modern history 1997-2008?
Cressida Dick is a prime example of white privilege. Do you think a person of colour would have been allowed to remain in office after so many failures at their job, let alone be applying to stay BEYOND the term of their contract????
@rahsh33m
Weren't we just having a conversation a few weeks ago about how selfish Swedish people are, and that black families tend to all care for each other? What happened to that? Or is it only your kids' white schoolfriends you're okay with feeding, and not their black half siblings?
Black people are a bit more socially conservative on average, but we tend to vote Labour because the Tories are seen as racist. This could change if Labour don't get their act together. Although the Tories push racist policies, they promote black MPs and treat them well
There are *a lot* of small c Conservative black people, a growing middle class, people slowly moving out of major cities, and no guarantee of unconditional support for Labour in the longer term. If there’s one thing I’ll give the Tories, it’s that they’re good at reinvention -
When politicians are specifically targeting and trying to appeal to Jewish voters, this is fine, but when it's Muslim voters it's sectarian politics. This is what I'm saying about the racism Labour frequently has towards different voters.
Big challenge for Labour moving forwards is countering sectarian politics that masquerades as being community based ..such as this. Alarming that this succeeded in Leicester South. Important that progressive voices in every community, including mine, develop strategies.
Read
@brianbeutler
on this key point: A plausible theory of the polls is that "the cult-like thrall of the Trump base is very different from the 'wandering' nature of the Dem base." The issue is asymmetric engagement.
Good take on my convo w/
@SimonWDC
:
That's why when non-Londoners say 'I'm scared to go there because of crime' it's 100% rooted in racism because when I say my parents live in Kettering, nobody's like 'that's so near the West Midlands, the knife crime capital of England, aren't you scared?'. qWhite interesting.
@jeremyherb
@jaketapper
This isn't true though, because she originally ran as a progressive Democrat and then switched as soon as she got elected. If she never fit into a party box then why did she pretend in order to get elected?
@Saraah_ade
In London you can do and wear what you want and nobody bats an eyelid. It's outside of London that people want to be watching you and judging you for not confirming to what's 'normal'
It's not shocking at all for black people who've been harassed for decades. What will it take for white people to start listening instead of telling us that it's either in our head or that black people somehow deserve discrimination by the police?
A really shocking
@policeconduct
report into the culture at Charing Cross police station in London's West end - "We believe these incidents are not isolated or simply the behaviour of a few 'bad apples'"