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There is no such thing as a fair wage or a fair wage increase, there is class struggle. Get what you can get.
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The only good and permissable act of landlordism in human history.
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When I was involved in student activism, one of the (many) faults of our movement was an undisciplined impulse to react to every provocation, reacting to everything with panicked urgency. This level headed refusal to take the bait is so refreshing and impressive.
Absolutely LOVE this. Suella Braverman gets the silent treatment she deserves 😂
Not even worthy of a response. Bloody brilliant.
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I'm getting obsessed with this joke in its various iterations.
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Fare evasion saves Londoners £3.6 million a year.
Fare evasion costs Transport for London £3.6 million a year
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"Things should change but it is wrong to change them." Liberalism in a nutshell.
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Do you think it's weird that a fascist murdered an MP and it barely made a dent in our political discourse?
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Boys have an evolutionary predisposition to play with toy trucks, a thing which has only existed for about a century.
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A group decision was clearly made (on the basis of some basic media savvy) and everyone in the clip went along with it; no one decided they knew better than their comrades or took the opportunity to elevate their own voice over the collective message. Love to see it.
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The government *told* people to return to work and *asked* them not to use public transport to get there. There's no alternative transport provision. The government knew what that meant, workers knew what it meant and journalists knew what it meant; do we need this faux surprise?
Buses in London are packed with passengers this morning, despite the govt asking people to avoid public transport if possible when the
#coronavirus
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Follow live as England gets back to work:
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This ranks as one of the most pathetically complacent, detached, crude, and useless political gestures I have ever seen. I might use it as an example in future to induce cynicism in my drama students about the power of performance to do or say anything of value.
@Madonna
puts the Israeli and Palestinian flags hand in hand on the Eurovision song context in Israel in front of the world.
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If you're going to make a principled argument against the death penalty (which it seems in the coming weeks and months we will have to) the principle needs to be that the state shouldn't kill people even if they are guilty of breaking its laws, not that some people are innocent.
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This is one of the stupidest things I've ever read.
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Problem is, UK kids are badly suited for modern day farm work for the simple reason that they don't have to put up with illegal employment practices out of fear of being deported.
Summer holidays coming up. Lots of teenagers twiddling their thumbs. And we have shortages for fruit picking and other jobs. Of course, connecting these two things is so “Dickensian”, whereas hiring more migrants so that this country has even less housing would be sensible 🙄
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Someone gaffer taped a cushion with Winston Churchill's face on it to the outside of the Winston Churchil box. The British national psyche is a depraved and mysterious thing.
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It's amazing what strikes can achieve if you actually do them.
French PM offers major concession on 38th day of nationwide strikes
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I know it's an old left wing cliché to say the Financial Times is "the only paper where the capitalist class is honest with itself", but where else do you find a former Home Secretary bluntly stating that the police exist to maintain state power?
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"A data breach at a Christian crowdfunding website has revealed that serving police officers and public officials have donated money to fundraisers for accused vigilante murderers, far-right activists, and fellow officers accused of shooting black Americans."
US police and public officials donated to Kyle Rittenhouse, data breach reveals
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Battle cry of the coming decades.
chants of “fuck the algorithm” as a speaker talks of losing her place at medical school because she was downgraded.
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A colleague had to teach a class last week with Edward Said on the curriculum and was advised that, given the current 'situation', it would be better to brush over that bit and focus on other things. Everyone loves a decolonial syllabus as long as it doesn't feel at all relevant.
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It's so cringeworthy when politics nerds pontificate on how shrewd and sophisticated Starmer's political strategy is. He just lied a lot, embraced reactionary populism, and threw some junior colleagues to the wolves. It's not 4D chess and you're not on the West Wing.
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The romantic valorisation of NHS staff as heroes was 'problematic' for a number of reasons but seeing every one of them on here that tries to explain how bad things are getting called a liar and incompetent is really disturbing.
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Counter theory: Britons were not at their happiest during WWII because war is fucking awful and the idea that they were is a myth invented after the fact to bolster a politically useful sense of national identity.
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The epitome of Pride Month bullshit is a rainbow flag on the header of the Home Office, an institution soaked through with the blood of LGBT+ people denied asylum and deported to precarious fates.
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I don't think the best way to support BDS is to take it upon yourself, as a random social media user, to keep finding new companies to add to the banned list. This transforms boycott from a calculated strategy towards an achievable end into an impulsive moralism.
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Guess their employers owe them full pay for the last 5 months then, don't they.
SIX MILLION furloughed workers broke the rules by doing their jobs from home during lockdown, major report finds
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The fantasy peril that Donald Trump might sexually assault the Queen as a symbolic violation of British sovereign integrity is a level of oedipal nationalism I'm struggling to cope with.
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This is like the perfect, definitive example of liberals simultaneously pursuing the same ends as fascists whilst also convincing themselves that they are the resistance.
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As nurses announce strike action, here's the BBC with a headline about how crazy high their pay is.
Actual story is that the NHS is paying big sums to agency workers (of which the agency takes a hefty cut) to cover staffing shortages caused by lousy pay and conditions.
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Imagine hating yourself so much that your entire concept of what art even *is* is built around feeling too inadequate to ever produce it.
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Got called in today for a 45 minute meeting with management over some tweets I did during the UCU strike, during which it was made very clear that HR are keeping tabs on personal social media accounts. This can only really be interpreted as an attempt at targeted intimidation.
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Thinking this morning of the comrade who, on returning to work after a strike, selected all emails received during the period of industrial action and deleted them unread. Truly, a hero of our times.
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The poor, disenfranchised, working class Americans sending a message to the liberal elite.
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A man on a salary in excess of £80,000 a year who last year received that much again in media appearance fees responding to workers who have just had a 10% pay cut: "we're all feeling the pinch".
Labour's David Lammy says he doesn't support BA workers at Heathrow taking strike action, which may disrupt summer holiday plans for passengers
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The Left has absolutely nothing to gain from accusing people of treason. This is a reactionary, authoritarian, nationalist discourse and indulging it will backfire horribly.
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This is amazingly effective work from a relatively small number of people. Phenomenal effort.
Absolute chaos now outside arms manufacturer Thales in Glasgow as police move in and make arrests while protesters blockade the entrance.
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When you present the mass industrialised slaughter of the world wars as a 'sacrifice for our freedom' you imply that it was both necessary and worthwhile. This form of celebration justifies death.
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Cop wearing a Blue Lives Matter/Thin Blue Line patch.
Police arrest a 65 year old woman following a nurses' pay demo in Manchester City Centre this afternoon.
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At what point does the right of ownership transfer? When the present is placed under the tree by the giver or when it is opened by the recipient? Beneath the tree is a liminal space which throws property into disarray. Truly, Christmas is the most magical time of the year.
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If you are confronted by a largely racist public then the urgent political project is to combat that racism, both by changing people's minds and by immediately undermining their power to act on their racism. You do this even if it is not electorally viable.
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We don't need to talk about war in the patriotic language dictated to us on days like this, in terms of sacrifice and victory. We can insist instead on talking about futility and waste and needlessness.
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It's disturbing how much visceral enthusiasm people have for seeing a kid get beaten up by cops.
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I've never seen a more incredible illustration of the arbitrariness of national pride than people suggesting that fighting off a terrorist with a narwhal tusk is somehow typically British.
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If you are going on a protest this week please cover your face. It's not only police who scour photos and footage to create databases you don't want to be on, it's also fascists and journalists. Young BLM activists in London have already been doorstepped by right wing papers.
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So this ‘clap for carers’ thing is pretty reactionary, isn’t it? I mean, I know everyone’s sort of biting their tongue and holding back criticisms because people mean well and it’s supposed to be a nice thing at a difficult time, but it’s doing some dubious work.
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This is a far right symbol.
Today, we lost one of our own. A selfless man who came to work to keep those in his custody safe & looked after.
Sadly, that was to be his last. RIP, the thin blue line just got thinner. You will be missed by all those who worked with you and those that took the same oath as you
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People have died in that police station. It is the site of killings. Leave your flowers on the tree outside.
Thank you note and flowers for staff at Brixton police station today from
@ExtinctionR
protester.
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In 2010 a cop failed to secure his saddle and fell off his horse. Two students were grabbed, beaten up, and prosecuted for pulling him down, and were publicly condemned by David Cameron. The Met later had to pay them £25k each when footage exonerated them.
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I've seen so much egregious and dehumanising language lately that writing someone off as being "of no use to society" because you don't understand their PhD project barely registers, but on reflection this is an absolutely heinous thing to say.
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tfw you think you're quoting Shakespeare but you're actually quoting Stormzy
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Is there a clearer image of contemporary liberalism than getting choked up at the heroism of soldiers plucking visa holders out of the crowd?
1. The
#BritishMilitary
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#KabulAirport
have shown breathtaking levels of toughness, professionalism and - rare in war times I must say - compassion. I've been moved to tears by their actions, diving into dangerous crowds to pull visa-holders into the base....
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Good thing this was filmed because I'm sure they won't hesitate to prosecute a protester for the injuries.
Police officer I'd say is in a bad way after this in Downing Street
#downingstreet
#BLMLDN
#BLMLondon
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...when I see an actual flesh-and-blood climate activist in conflict with their natural enemy, the Coca-Cola promotional bus, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on
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The belief that schools are safe, as with offices, is based on little more than the fact that it's too inconvenient to believe them not to be.
"We have to get children back to school in September... it is an absolute priority"
Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick says he believes schools "will be safe", as a teachers' union calls for "greater clarity" to prepare for pupils' return
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Incredible moment when a conversation about Corbyn's culpability for antisemitism suddenly becomes Liz Kendall doing an impassioned speech about how proud she is that Starmer has shown "that we love our country, that we're proud of our armed forces, that we stand up for NATO".
"Jeremy only has his self to blame"
"You know perfectly well what I said"
Watch
@leicesterliz
and
@jeremycorbyn
clash over his suspension from the Labour whip.
#Peston
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The Guardian is inviting me to have sympathy for a Home Office civil servant who collapsed and was taken to hospital after working through the night to ensure that the deportation flight to Jamaica went ahead in spite of the high court ruling. I don't.
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I appreciate that this statue was in the works already but there is something supremely distasteful about announcing plans to memorialise deaths which are still in the process of happening and therefore are to some extent preventable.
Coronavirus: National memorial to honour NHS workers who died during pandemic
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I'd love it if we could just go about destroying historic statues without the endless arguments.
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If a more politically convenient person had killed Cox there would be a statue of her in Parliament Square and an annual commemorative ritual.
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Why does the British state exist?
The Chinese state exists to facilitate the enrichment of loyal businessmen and apparatchiks while imposing homogeneity on the rest of the population.
Why then do some progressives defend it? asks
@J_Bloodworth
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Still not quite understanding why parks are being shut. They're the only access most people in towns & cities have to large expanses of outdoor space where any kind of social distancing is possible. Especially with the police pressuring people not to drive anywhere.
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No one is here for your aloof analysis of the situation, make a pig fucking joke or go to bed.
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It's 2019 and we're fighting on multiple fronts against the idea that queer people pose an innate sexual threat to children.
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How, when looking for a communist substitute for the name "Lennon", did you land on "Trotsky"?
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The NHS is inadequate, badly run, and institutionally racist, ableist, and transphobic but people on the radical left are too timid to demand better because they're afraid that if you criticise it it'll get privatised quicker.
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This is the smallest number of charges I've ever heard of on a march of this size.
Following five people being charged at the Pro-Palestine protest in London this weekend, Suella Braverman is going to chair a Cobra meeting over concerns of terror threats in the UK.
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If you're on the left and sort of an abolitionist I strongly recommend doing some reading & thinking about it and getting the difficult arguments straight in your head because we're facing a big expansion of police powers, immigration detention, and the prison estate this year.
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Dutch police have publicly confirmed that though they are not prioritising enforcement of the law prohibiting face coverings, members of the public are entitled to attempt a citizen's arrest. This amounts to a greenlight for racist & misogynist harassment and assault.
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Guess who the "everyone else" referred to in this tweet includes, then scroll up to the tweet before and see if you were right.
It’s one rule for them, and another for everyone else. This government is not only inhumane, incompetent and corrupt, they are also laughing at you while doing all this. They aren’t even laughing behind your back, they are doing it in your face.
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This tweet doesn't make clear that the reason for this is that the exhibition was produced in partnership with the Russian state and is therefore subject to sanctions. The effect of this omission is to create the impression that anything Russian related must now be off limits.
In light of distressing events in Ukraine, we have decided not to proceed with our upcoming exhibition
@RailwayMuseum
and at the Science Museum, Trans-Siberian: The World’s Longest Railway.
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Employing British students who speak fluent English, have a basic understanding of their labour rights, and have the confidence and security to speak to the media has gone badly for farmers.
Our investigation has revealed serious allegations around the treatment of some farm workers, including safe working practices on farms in England during the Covid-19 pandemic. Listen to the full report on this morning's programme.
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People were kettled in central London for about 7 hours yesterday in the rain and the police used a combination of intimidation and illegally applied powers to collect information on them. A detailed first person account in this thread.
How many black men and women gave their name to the 2nd set of POs because they understandably felt intimidated to do so? And what were the 2nd set using the names for when though there was no legal right to take them?
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The police in light blue tabards are "liaison officers". They use seemingly casual chit chat with protesters to gather information and to influence the tone of the event. The best advice is don't give them the time of day.
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Researchers have argued that, because more people are spending their commute sending work emails, it should be counted as work time. I'd go further: all commuting time should be paid as part of the working day regardless of how you spend it.
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Did I just imagine having a bunch of horses run at me during a BLM demo last Summer?
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The fact that Corbyn's popularity is a complete mystery for both the press and half his party is pretty staggering.
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At the cinema the film froze and some usher came on mic and said "Apologies, we're experiencing some technical difficulties" and then added in complete deadpan voice: "Oh, queen's dead by the way."
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@dril
@WaldorfSixpence
This is going to be one of those dril tweets I see endlessly posted alongside a journalist's embarrassing meltdown, isn't it?
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Shameful double standard. Michelle in 2008 was 'brilliant' and 'inspiring' but when Melania gives the same speech in 2016 it's 'plagiarism'.
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Have not had a strong motivation to vote in this election because I live in a safe seat so it feels like a pointless act, but I've now discovered a pressing local issue very dear to my heart that I feel might be worth it, which is making the Liberal Democrats lose their deposit.
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Just manages to hold on, scraping through with a mere 75% of her constituency vote.
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When your read that the prison population is "projected to rise by a further 20,000 by 2026", you might assume that that protection is based on some analysis of crime rates or sentencing patterns, not just the fact that they're building that many new places and plan to fill them.
There are around 80,000 prisoners in England and Wales – but most people will never go into one of the 117 jails
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Call me a liberal but I think the right to peacefully set fire to police vans is an essential foundation of any democracy and should be defended.
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A thread on What To Do If You See Someone Being Searched By The Police...
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I'm not claiming to be an expert but I think I've spent an above average amount of time and effort trying to understand the ideology of the gender critical feminist movement and I cannot even begin to fathom what grievance she's pretending to have here.
So where does this infant (who "takes they/them pronouns" parents are told) come from? Where are its parents? Did it hatch from an egg or was it born from a mama? Who looks after its interests?
Ask these questions and you get the usual "you are obsessing about genitals".
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Keep seeing the "if men could get pregnant abortions would be freely available" meme shared by people who spend a good chunk of their time and energy attacking men who can pregnant.
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'Essential' is not an objective category of work, travel, purchase, business, or excercise. One question might be, 'essential for what?' Human survival? The long-term stability of the capitalist economy? The immediate maintenance of order and the rule of law? Spiritual welbeing?
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A terrified fox cub got into my parents' kitchen and hid on the highest shelf behind a disused bread maker.
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When people say "white working class" they either mean "white" and are trying to obscure the social power of that position through the implicit association with poverty or they mean "working class" in which case they shouldn't be excluding people who aren't white. Both are racist
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