Martin Bright
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Senior Lecturer, University of Essex. Editor-at-large @indexcensorship . Founder @creativesoc . Journalist portrayed in Official Secrets.
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Considering a degree in journalism? Look no further. You could even be taught by me!
@Uni_of_Essex
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A moment of national shame. I can’t believe I live in a country where this barbaric act has taken place. Wrong on every level.
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Would have been simpler and safer to put £2k a month in everyone’s bank account, freeze all mortgages and tell everyone except essential workers to stay home.
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Glum Brits waiting in static line at Oslo airport for an analogue stamp, while EU and Norwegian passengers sweep through the digital barriers. Embarrassing Brexit self-harm in one shot.
#brexit
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This is an extraordinary intervention from Bob Seely MP. Naming the UK lawyers who took money from Russian oligarchs to sue Britain journalists.
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“No government could commit to an outcome without knowing what it is...” so said Theresa May about the indicative votes. But that is precisely what the governmnent did with the referendum.
#Brexit
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The sight of men with guns seizing unarmed young women and old people as hostages should finally end the idea that Hamas is a resistance movement. This is militant antisemitism and misogyny. To describe it any other way demeans the very concept of resistance.
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This nonsense has to stop.
NEW: The 22-year old woman who was arrested after holding up this anti-monarchy placard at St Giles' Cathedral has now been CHARGED “in connection with a breach of the peace",
@PoliceScotland
confirm.
Will appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court at a later date.
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To be fair, this is a genuinely informed discussion of contemporary politics with an audience of 5000 people on a cold night with football on the telly. An impressively young crowd too.
@RoryStewartUK
@campbellclaret
#TRIPLive
#TheRestisPolitics
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Wherever you stand on this debate, this position is impossible to justify. Gender-critical feminists are not comparable to antisemites.
Stonewall is comparing women defending sex-based rights to anti-semites and anti-vaxxers are wearing yellow stars, all - they say - to defend their causes. All they are actually doing is exploiting Jewish history and demonstrating how little they care about the feelings of Jews
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Finally, this story is getting the coverage it merits. Now we need to hear from the people who represent the people in care homes
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&ra Coronavirus: Older people being 'airbrushed' out of virus figures
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Solidarity with my former colleagues at the Observer. I never worked with
@soniasodha
but her leader was a measured, reasonable and principled defence of free speech. Terf war embroils Guardian HQ | The Spectator
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This is a shameful moment. What a mess. Proud to have published
@Docstockk
in
@IndexCensorship
. A difficult day for academic freedom.
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Very impressed by quietly spoken VC of
@SussexUni
Adam Tickell on
@BBCr4today
unconditionally defending the free speech of
@Docstockk
. A model approach.
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This is quite a statement from Britain’s leading liberal Sunday paper. The Observer view on the right to free expression | Gender | The Guardian
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Wonder if the Brexiteer ultras really want to leave the EU or would prefer to be able to moan about it for ever. They feel more confortable in opposition - a bit like the Corbynistas.
#brexit
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The Brexit bonus at Rome airport. How much lost time from this act of self-sabotage?
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I will be on this march later today, proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with my Jewish friends at this terrible time.
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@Baddiel
It really is a strange kind of tyranny that allows ill-informed and dangerous people to gather freely in large numbers in the centre of a capital city.
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Hey
@BootstrapCook
, where is the best place to buy your book? On second thoughts, shouldn’t the government be printing it in industrial quantities and sending it to every household in the country.
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The interview was clinical, the words carefully chosen, but it was her face that gave away her disdain for the man
@maitlis
#PrinceAndrewbbc
#newsnight
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I have been really impressed by the way
@johnsweeneyroar
has set up his operation in Kyiv, checking in every day from the centre of the city with his own unique brand of reporting. It’s Day 31 and he’s funding himself through
@Patreon
.
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We academics must fight the mob – now - Cambridge philosopher Arif Ahmed defends fellow academic Kathleen Stock
@Docstockk
from attack in
@IndexCensorship
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This is the most terrible story. Please help our friends at
@Hromadske
by publicising the capture of their journalist Victoria Roshchyna
@lindseyhilsum
@_EmmaGH
@lukeharding1968
@johnsweeneyroar
@michaeldweiss
@OzKaterji
@IndexCensorship
Our journalist Victoria Roshchyna is held captive by the Russian occupiers. She was reporting from hotspots in Eastern and Southern Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war. On March 12, we couldn't contact Victoria 1/3
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I’ve just had an insight into the constant abuse
@TracyAnnO
receives. In case you wondered - it isn’t pretty.
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There was a moment when it became possible to call the leader of the opposition antisemitic without any fear of legal comeback. It was obvious Corbyn was finished at that point. Have we reached the same point with Johnson and corruption accusations?
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Slam dunk. Interesting to see how they explain this one. Priti Patel in £20m PPE lobbying storm
@DavidRoseUK
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Hamas is not a resistance movement, it is an antisemitic, misogynist terror cult. My thoughts in the
@Telegraph
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This is extremely bad news. I am very sad - both that
@HadleyFreeman
is leaving and that it has come to this with the
@guardian
This has echoes of
@bariweiss
leaving
@nytimes
.
Two Jewish women not allowed to write about left wing antisemitism or the battle for female rights.
Left wing female journalists are increasingly having to leave their publications because of their opinions.
Shameful journalism.
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Absolutely essential viewing on how big Russian money was used to shut down journalists writing about the oligarchs
🗣 Our evidence session on the use of strategic lawsuits against public participation, where we're hearing from
@CatherineBelton
,
@ArabellaPike
,
@skcoughtrie
and
@tomburgis
, is live.
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I see this has rather a lot of retweets and likes. Just to be clear, my point was about safety and simplicity. I am not an economist.
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The memorial bench for Sean Hughes in Highgate Wood. He would have appreciated my younger son’s comment during a walk as a toddler: “Why do so many people die on benches?”
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Just to clarify, it is the arrests of people expressing their right to free expression that must stop, not the protests!
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This is very impressive.
Dear
@Tobias_Ellwood
,
As someone who served in
#Afghanistan
, I was astonished by your video praising the Taliban this week.
So here's one of mine with a simple question for you, and your conscience👇
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Just when you think the BBC’s reporting can’t get any more impressive, along comes
@sommervilletv
in Kharkiv. Such strength in depth.
@BBCNews
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@mrjamesob
Muzzles are good though, right? Don’t know about you, but I prefer not to be bitten by a dog.
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Love this:
@lately_andycox
: In the village where I live they asked me to take this photo...
http://t.co/LM5K4nd0aa
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Amazing news! NSA whistleblower Reality Winner released from prison | Reality Winner | The Guardian
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I will never forget the solidarity
@suzanne_moore
showed me when I left the New Statesman and started
@CreativeSoc
. She is a proper old-fashioned comrade.
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This press conference is a disaster. The arrogance of using up everyone’s time in this way, is quite extraordinary. He was not in a particularly complicated, difficult or exceptional position. He was in a privileged position which he used to maximum advantage.
#cummings
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What is the correlation between backers of Truss and backers of Johnson? And shouldn’t that disqualify them from deciding the next Prime Minister of the UK?
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It has taken a couple of days to let Jodie Comer’s performance sink in. This was an extraordinary thing to witness. I feel very lucky to have been there. Whole row of Scouse women next to me in tears afterwards
#primafacie
#jodiecomer
@HPinterTheatre
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I was told at university that my academic writing was too journalistic . Proud to be able to say I am now an academic at
@Uni_of_Essex
. In the Journalism department.
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I left the
@NewStatesman
as political editor because I refused to be told what to write by an immensely wealthy individual who threatened to sue. The owners and editor failed to back me.
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I am personally delighted that
@lucianaberger
is standing in Finchley & Golders Green. But it is disgraceful she was driven out of
@UKLabour
and Liverpool.
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Very impressed by
#C4GenderWars
. A genuine attempt to address the issue of what happens when trans rights meet women’s rights. I defy anyone not to be impressed by the humane intelligence and courage of
@Docstockk
and
@bindelj
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Decision by Johnson and Sunak to ignore self-isolation puts a torpedo through the rules the rest of us are following. It’s over. Good luck everyone.
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This is quite something.
Watch
@robertmooreitv
's report from inside the Capitol building as the extraordinary events unfolded in Washington DC
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The only thing Cummings apologised for was being late for the press conference.
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One of my favourite paintings at the
@NPGLondon
was
@TommyShakes
in a place of genuine prominence.
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I expect Boris Johnson will use his Telegraph column this week to criticise the use of the UK libel laws to silence investigative journalism
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I am quoted in the piece saying: “This is an unwarranted attack on freedom of expression and would potentially criminalise every student radical and revolutionary dissident. It has never been the British way to arrest people for thought crime.”
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Bumped into my barber today (at a distance). His shop was a dynamic, friendly, youthful addition to our high street. He looked haunted and sad - savings gone, really struggling to survive. This pandemic is destroying his business. Didn’t know what to say to him.
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@davidallengreen
@peterjukes
So much of this crisis can be traced back to the refusal of our political class to engage with Europe (starting with learning the languages).
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The events of the past few years just make me think what an extraordinary feat Neil Kinnock achieved in wrenching the Labour Party away from the hard left and making it so nearly electable.
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Go Carole
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The exchanges between May and Corbyn at PMQs this morning feel strangely irrelevant.
#PMQs
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@NudderingNudnik
I am not Jewish, but when I was appointed Political Editor of the Jewish Chronicle one of my best friends from university stopped talking to me. Still makes me very sad.
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The Buena Vista Social v The Kremlin
@johnsweeneyroar
writes for
@IndexCensorship
on the ultimate price some journalists have paid for getting the news out of Ukraine
#freeukraine
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I remember talking to Alistair Darling on the night it looked like the cash machines would stop working. “You look very calm,” I said. He raised a familiar eyebrow: “Now is not the time to panic.”
@suzanne_moore
@maggivaughan
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This is a model clarification and apology from
@royalacademy
. It is also an important statement on the primacy of free speech in our institutions
@JessDeWahls
@IndexCensorship
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This is growing:
75% of my constituents voted to remain in the EU. I stand w/ them on this issue & I will vote against Brexit
#EUref
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@Docstockk
It is appalling. Especially in light of the charity’s record of failing to deal with the horrific abuse of women revealed by whistleblower Helen Evans.
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We worked with
@annaturley
at
@CreativeSoc
- she was totally committed to her constituents in Redcar. Her treatment by Unite brings shame on the Labour movement.
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This is Andrei Aliaksandrau, a journalist from Belarus who worked in the UK for
@IndexCensorship
. He has now been charged with treason in his home country and faces 15 years in prison. The British government needs to act on his behalf.
@DominicRaab
#belarus
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Didn’t realise
@adamtickell
was on Twitter. But here he is if people want to thank him for his sensitive but forthright contribution to the free speech debate.
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This has just been posted on the We Support Jeremy Corbyn Facebook page. Premium grade antisemitism - parading as antizionism of course.
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So... if, say, a Labour Party leader, admitted that he voted Leave in 2016. Would that mean expulsion?
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@PickardJE
Why, at no point, did anyone in Bailey’s team say: “Hey Shaun, you do realise that putting your foot on the face of a Muslim man is really, really insulting...” Astonishingly unfunny.
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I am determined to track down relatives of Solomon Steckoll, who wrote this extraordinary book in 1982 outlining Nazi atrocities carried out on British soil. He was a South African/Israeli archaeologist/journalist described as “a most unusual man”. He lived in
#Gedera
, Israel.
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Something we’ve been working on for some time for
@ObserverUK
. ‘No more cover-up’: Nazi concentration camp on UK soil finally to be officially investigated
@margarethodge
@EricPickles
@AnthonyGlees
@TheIHRA
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This thread contains one of the most extraordinary stories I have tread in a long time.
#OTD
My great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack was beheaded on Hitler’s direct order. Born in Milwaukee, she was 26 when she moved to Germany to pursue a PhD. As an American grad student in Berlin, she saw Germany swiftly progress from democracy to fascist dictatorship 1/9
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After-work drinks. That must be how Jeremy Corbyn's son got his job with John McDonnell.
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This is a reporter…
We were in the trenches with Ukrainian soldiers - and a kitten called Olenka. ‘If we win my children will live in freedom’ says Vadym. Then we came under fire…
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Unbelievably brave
Anti-war solo pickets like this are popping up in cities across Russia. It’s not much but they’re arrested almost immediately, often upon leaving their homes when the cops know to expect them. Here’s Sofya Rusova, co-chair of Russia’s Trade Union of Journalists.
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This is the most appalling news. Thoughts with one of our finest writers and bravest advocates for free expression.
#rushdie
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Following some interesting reaction to my retweet of
@HadleyFreeman
, I have decided to spend the day reacquainting myself with House of Glass, her peerless examination of antisemitism.
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One suggestion is that journalists should publish threatening letters from lawyers representing the ultra rich. They are marked Private and Confidential, but they are not.
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Consistently wise words from
@catherine_mayer
on
#broadcastinghouse
on “Planet Windsor” and the viciousness of the attacks on Harry. Briefings from the palace and “execrable” press coverage mask the realities of racism and misogyny.
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There is no doubt that Boris Johnson’s tone has changed. But there is no market-based solution to this crisis. It is morally indefensible to advise people to avoid social contact without ordering pubs, restaurants and theatres to close.
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Tonight we should salute the courage of
@lucianaberger
@LouiseEllman
@TracyAnnO
@RachelRileyRR
@margarethodge
#EHCR
#Antisemitism
#Corbyn
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@NickCohen4
@MitchBenn
It’s quite good that they are identifying themselves with these masks though. Maybe there could be a whole series: “I’m full of self-pity and don’t care about you”; “Your granny can take a hike”; “I pontificate about science without any evidence or knowledge”.
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The dangers of "red tagging" and other lessons from the Philippines - my interview with
@ReynaValmores
of
@bahaghari_PH
for
@IndexCensorship
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Perfect local news celeb story: it’s the quote marks that do it for me.
Hugh Grant spotted in Somerset town 'buying a sausage roll' - Somerset Live
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Did
@ChrisCuomo
really just say: “As Public Enemy said: ‘It’s not what you think, it’s what you follow’.”?
@cnn
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Completely inexplicable to me that
@jeremycorbyn
doesn’t put out a simple and unequivocal message of support for
@lucianaberger
. Unless he doesn’t support her, I suppose.
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Not sure Jacob Rees-Mogg’s patronising approach to this interview on
@BBCr4today
this morning is entirely wise. I wonder how well “just read Erskine-May” will play in the red wall seats.
@MishalHusain
being admirably patient.
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Honoured to chair a discussion with
@ZahraJoya
@Zehra_Zaidi
and
@AlexCrawfordSky
about the
@SkyNews
film Defying the Taliban. Now it's time for the UK government to act to provide safe routes for woman at risk in Afghanistan. Thanks to
@Everymancinema
and
@Anotherway_Now
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Dear
@UKLabour
. Why is there a momentum logo on this letter begging me to rejoin the party?
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Reposting this as there have been some interesting developments… the grave is still unmarked but two years i am determined to help get a release for a documentary about Kuznetsov’s grave.
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