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Can you imagine the absolute scenes if Home Secretary Abbot was found having parties during lockdown, or Corbyn’s wife didn’t pay tax in the UK?
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If you can’t see the connection between the continued demonisation of Corbyn and record profits of Shell, BP and Centrica you ain’t paying attention
Everything is going perfectly to plan
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Why doesn’t
@jeremycorbyn
want to kill everything? Why won’t he usher in a nuclear apocalypse to obliterate all human life? Just who does he think he is with all this peace talk?? 🤬🥓
Happy
#ArmisticeDay
everyone
#r4today
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Of course Emma Raducanu listens to jazz… we only ever do two sets
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I’m genuinely at a loss to explain this one... just wanted to order a pizza 🤷🏾♂️
Waitress rudely ignores me.
Nobody offered to serve me.
When I filmed this unbelievable behaviour, they attacked my phone and physically ejected me from the restaurant
#AnticaPizzeria
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Sorry to disappoint you Nick
I am reliably informed by the council of ethnics, that all the fuzzy wuzzies, n***ers in woodpiles, picaninnies and letterbox women will not be voting Tory this time round
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“They praise me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me”
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The BBC morning news bulletins with absolutely zero mention of
#SashaJohnson
let’s us know precisely how little value is placed on black life
Staggering
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@OwenJones84
Brilliant... he chases you down the street throwing abuse... and then calls you a bully 🤣
#waysofthegammon
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I've not known what to tweet, as frankly its just too sad that Jeremy has stood down. He tried, valiantly to show us a path to democratising politics, antiracism and changing society from the bottom up.
I'll never forget that chat we had on the train!..
1/2
#OhJeremyCorbyn
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@OwenJones84
@dancinginshado
All shows cancelled until after the Queen’s funeral
Musicians, dancers and artists can’t pay their energy bills with performative grief
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I’ve managed 15 minutes of
#Marr
, and had to switch off. If they think Boris making platitudes in Latin is ‘news’ we all crave, they’re more detached from reality than I thought
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In response to freezing temperatures, inflation and strikes the media and government have jointly launched
The Great Gas-Lighting Campaign 2022.
It won’t heat your homes, but make you angry enough to thaw a tinsy bit
#BBCBreakfast
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Fascists sign up in droves to the Conservative party to ‘strengthen Johnson’,
#NoDeal
back on the table, no actual nurses, no workers rights, trains screwed, braced for the annual NHS, homelessness crisis
Yet
#owenjonesisawankerday
is trending. Speaks volumes
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Breaking: Cheerleader puts down pompoms temporarily while football team is implicated in mass murder
Tonight's
#Panorama
is devastating. 'Calling us heroes makes it okay when we die,' observes one nurse, of the failure to supply adequate PPE. Watch it and judge for yourself.....
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@TrevorPTweets
Do you know any of this baying, woke mob asking for the spiritual to be cancelled?
Or is just a delusional fantasy cooked up in Tory HQ to divert everybody’s attention?
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It’s easy for the establishment to demonise a bunch of disenfranchised working class white men, whip them into a frenzy and distance themselves from the spectacle
The truth is racism always filters down from the top.
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Covid-19 doesn’t specifically attack black and brown ppl, it’s victims in Spain and Italy were overwhelmingly white.
Uncomfortable truth:
Being black in a racist society counts as a major underlying health risk.
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Watching Mone flagrantly chatting shit this morning, it occurs to me the first casualty of overdosing on money and nepotism might be self awareness.
“It isnae a crime” - not the water tight defence she thinks it is.
#LauraKuenssberg
#MichelleMone
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Shout out
@FemiOnDrums
for the greatest acceptance speech in UK music history ✊🏾🔥
#EzraCollective
"This moment that we're celebrating right here is testimony to good, special people."
@EzraCollective
take a moment to shout out all the aspiring young musicians out there as they win the 2023 Mercury Prize with
@FreeNow_UK
!
#MercuryPrize
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Are you just calling people anti-Semitic for fun?
Please direct me to any instances of my antisemitism? Or provide a strand of evidence that I’ve ‘shared a platform’ with Gilad
Otherwise, I’ll just ask nicely first. Stop libelling people.
Please note
@RevRichardColes
that
@sowetokinch
staunchly defended Ken Livingstone and Jackie Walker; played a concert to raise money for a man expelled from
@UKLabour
for antisemitism & shared a stage with Gilad Atzmon. Antisemitism is racism too.
@BBCSaturdayLive
#SaturdayLive
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@TrevorPTweets
Precisely... this is all about the RFU’s feelings of guilt, not the product of grass roots demands for justice.
It’s embarrassing how black people being brazenly murdered is being leveraged into a cheap culture war
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‘Jeremy Corbyn stood with Putin after the Salisbury attack’ Raab is just blatantly lying unchallenged on
#r4today
zero interrogation over the
#russianreport
This is our public service broadcaster 😳in the middle of...
#GeneralElection19
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This is how they are in victory.. flailing about trying to find a new racial minority to weaponise, still spreading disinformation and hatred
Keep your head up and eyes open peeps
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Boris has taken transformational ideas from Corbyn and McDonnell, watered them down and sprinkled in racism and xenophobia... it’s working 😬
Keith by contrast has alienated so many, there’s no one left to attack- his next TV appearance will be punching himself in the face
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1000s of regular Brits of all races and ages on the streets chanting, “Rishi Sunak is a wasteman!”
Shows me how far we’ve come as a nation.
Proud of regular Brits, ashamed of our ruling parties
#CeasefireNOW
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Hi
@theJeremyVine
please could not misrepresent my words and deliberately take them out of context.
In the wake of so many disgruntled black people taking to the airwaves.
Perhaps you could take the opportunity to do some journalism and ask me for a comment
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Benjamin Zephaniah was a huge role model, compassionate brother and a constant reminder that you can forge your own lane and still be deeply loved.
Thank you for all the gems you’ve given me.
Rest in Power
✊🏾
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Remember how incensed ppl were by the term ‘social murder’ after Grenfell?
What’s a nice centrism friendly way to describe sending frontline workers out without PPE whilst wealthy managers voluntarily self isolate in commodious gardens???
#COVID19
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@OwenJones84
@theresa_may
May's kids: 'Mum when's dinner? We're starving' May:'I've been very clear dinner is very important, we investing in record numbers of pots'
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I will never forget how both political parties and our entire media applauded uncritically whilst Israel committed flagrant war crimes
How is bombing civilians, destroying medical facilities, killing children and using white phosphorus “defending Israelis”?
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The plot thickens. Nobody donates that much, in the shadows and asks for nothing in return.
😳
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@Keir_Starmer
Abolish tuition fees or wind yer neck in!
If your not prepared to give young people the same opportunities you had at the very least stop patronising them
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I say we all chip in buy and May a slap up commiseration breakfast for 6.8p
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@allisonpearson
You just encouraged the twittersphere to find a racial group to deport. And trounced the reputation of a once respected publication by spreading fake news in the middle of a general election
Make sure you report yourself at the same time
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@AyoCaesar
The other two have experienced delays en route to heralding the imminent Apocalypse
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@AyoCaesar
Someday soon, someone will say the word ‘bredrin’ on QT
Middle England will instantly implode,
triggering the four horsemen of the apocalypse
Fiona will be left in the charred remains of the studio asking what ‘bredrin’ means
🐎 🔥
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Rest in Power Wayne Shorter
…after you they broke the mould
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No surprise the BBC is widely reporting Corbyn saying, ‘I was right’ which sounds completely insensitive.
Typically we’ve not heard Corbyn’s actual voice just Laura K’s summation of it 🙄 Corbyn’s supposedly in the stocks now, not 40 years of neoliberalism
#r4today
#COVID2019
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This
#GrenfellTower
enquiry smells a lot like scapegoating firefighters for the choices of housing ministers, K&C council and outsourced construction firms
Once again the powerful seem to evade justice
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Tories are being exposed as a drugged up assortment of narcissists, bereft of ideas and without a clue of how steer the country
Expect the outrageous attacks on
#JeremyCorbyn
to intensify
#CorbynByChristmas
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@allisonpearson
All racist journalists that make up stuff about children sleeping on hospital floors.
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Waking up to drought, shit filled rivers, rail crises, criminal energy bills, an NHS on the verge of collapse, profit-lead inflation, assaults on human rights and fascist deportation policies
But please, tell us all again what an existential threat Corbyn was
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Seriously people, a
#GeneralStrike
should be on the cards.
This government are compassionless and deaf to reason.
No furlough scheme = no lockdown.
They’re trying to force working people to risk extreme sickness or death (for themselves & their entire communities) by threat of destitution.
It’s time for mass resistance. We need a rent *and* labour strike.
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“This new Soweto Kinch album is the greatest thing ever recorded. It saved my marriage and will probably fix climate change” (FactCheckUK)
#TheBlackPeril
available from Nov 23
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-Thwarting a socialist Labour government
- Branding anti racists.. racists
-Deportations of ppl of tinge
-The lemon and herbification of UK politics
They all lost their seats, but the mission is complete
#Tingeversary
#Chuk
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The needless swipes at
#Garyneville
or
#Corbyn
are to punish and dissuade ordinary people for daring to speaking truth to power
The
#r4today
editorial mask slipped years ago, but this is just embarrassing
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Why has the British left not endorsed the Far Right talking points of Douglas Murray?
Because they’re not all white supremacists cosplaying as journalists
Bemoaning a lack of solidarity as Israel commits genocide - Jake and his cohort don’t see Palestinians as human beings
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I want to support NHS workers obviously, but I’m not a frikkin seal. Can we turn every clap into PPE and an adequate testing regime??
Then I’ll stand on the roof and clap for an entire week
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Crusading against corruption is less effective when your own people are snout deep in the same trough
They hounded Corbyn out of the party because he threatened the grubby lobbying culture
#Marr
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Anyone else thinking
‘Don’t go back to work until the disease is completely tracked and traced’?
If wealthy managers, politicians and press barons have a problem, why don’t they turn up with the mop buckets and risk their lives for £9.50/hour?
#GeneralStrike
#Lifeb4profit
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It takes a colossal effort to post this poison. I didn’t set out to be an anti-racism campaigner, I just wanted to fly without aggro. But
@Ryanair
declared war - working via an army of bullying and intimidating outsourced ground staff. TWICE. No-one is ever accountable 🧵1/12
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Remember all those law about making everyone eat grass, and turning your Nan into a renewable fuel source?
Hmm? Yeah? No..? well I scrapped them... sooo, vote for me stupid.
#SevenBinsSunak
#ToriesDestroyingOurCountry
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Britain’s nose-dived into an era of proto-fascism and massive environmental and cultural vandalism.
All predicated on protecting the country from “outsiders”
By the time we realise the EU, refugees, BLM and ‘lefties’ weren’t actually the enemy it’ll be way too late.
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Everyone knows it’s not the exorbitant fares, delays and incompetences. It’s...
Curséd urbans, tagging the windows, breakdancing all over the signal boxes and doing rappity-raps over the tanoy
Removing graffiti will encouraging more people to start using trains again, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps tells rail bosses
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Had an arduous journey yesterday, via delayed coaches and trains… but it only heightened my hatred of this government - bailing out rail companies, demonising workers and hiding behind culture wars codswallop
Mick Lynch and the RMT Union are legends 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
#uptheworkers
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If you wake up with vehement hatred in your heart for someone you don’t know - they reflect back something you hate about yourself.
Corbyn reminds them of that gaping void where their human soul should exist. Continuing to expose our vapid political class without saying a word
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“If we can’t kill innocent black people with impunity… we can’t do our jobs”
We depend on our brave firearms officers to protect us from the most dangerous & violent in society. In the interest of public safety they have to make split-second decisions under extraordinary pressures. 1/3
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#r4today
interview Shapps about renationalising railways and not once has asked.. “how is all this paid for? What about billions in cost to the tax payer?”
All the Tory attack points since 2017 have strangely evaporated
Really proves how vacuous and servile our media is
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In some ways having Corbyn as PM would have lulled us into a false sense of security - thinking we can transform society with one man. If what characterises his politics is a people led movement, it's up to us to continue his work.
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Shock horror: sentient people no longer wanting to be tied to lunatic death cult
New polls reveal today that a majority of voters in Scotland and Northern Ireland want a new referendum on the break-up of Britain
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Just a crazy thought.. what if Brexit was just some sort of massive distraction to prevent a left wing Labour government, polarise society and keep the gravy train rolling?? 🤔
Enough of ‘Remainers’ and ‘Leavers’ – we are all in this together now | Jess Phillips
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Stop and search doesn’t “disproportionately effect” black people… it was created to terrorise and intimidate us.
It’s 40 years of state harassment, not type 2 diabetes.
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The way Labour have treated Diane is deeply deplorable. All with vapid platitudes about “trail blazing”
Their duplicity and endemic hatred of black women is just one reason I’ll never vote for this embarrassment of a party. Squalid, petty and mediocre
#DianeAbbot
#LieBour
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@CottrellStephen
@Telegraph
The last time ‘we’ had an ‘expansive’ vision of Englishness.. evil pillocks were riding about on horseback kidnapping my ancestors and committing genocide.
Maybe read the Bible instead of desperately trying to fuel a culture war
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48 hrs later, thousands of white people I’ve never met are still telling me what happened to me didn’t actually happen... ‘I’m the racist’ for talking abt 😯
I couldn’t imagine being so exercised by subjects I knew nothing abt.
Racism qualifies as a mental illness
‘It never happened’ ‘Bullshit’
‘He never had a 1st class ticket’
The train manager was just being ‘firm’ and ‘polite’
Waiting for an eminent angry white person to tell me I’ve imagined myself, and my respiratory organs are merely a product of my racist imagination
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@OwenJones84
Wait...you backed Owen (pfizer-man) Smith over Corbyn. And we forgave you...
The Tories are inexorably drifting Naziwards and you attack one of the most tireless campaigners for left-wing solidarity. Why?
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So
@ryanair
issued a ‘lifetime ban’ and called me a ‘cyber bully’ for daring to tell everyone about their targeted racially motivated harassment.
They then threatened legal action and fines.
No one at Ryanair has ever called to ask me what happened.
I’m not intimidated.
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Going to be on
@BBCRadio4
#r4today
later this morning talking Rethinking Music series,
#musiceducation
, and
#WHITEJUJU
performance next week
@Printworks_LDN
…
#whitejuju
…on the Today programme 🫢A surreal start to the day
Wish me luck.
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How is this any different to racist ‘artwork’ produced by the Nazi’s in the 1930s?
Dehumanising depictions of ‘the enemy within’
Exacerbates white European paranoia
Inverts the truth of recent Western behaviour in the Middle East
Makes a cartoonish case for genocide
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Hey! all you
#clapforboris
patriots ..
Why not line up on Tuesday and slap yourselves in the face loudly? at least 5 times for every missed Cobra meeting 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 🇬🇧...👏🏾
#WhereIsBoris
The Sunday Times piece is not just utterly damning on Boris Johnson's personal role, but also on the way that successive Tory governments have left us exposed to the foreseeable - and foreseen - disaster that is now unfolding.
#WhereIsBoris
? He should be hiding in shame.
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The maddening reality of being black in Britain today is listening to media coverage of Biden and Tulsa as though there were no racial massacres in Britain..AT PRECISELY THE SAME TIME
The British massacres aren’t mentioned let alone commemorated
#1921
#raceriots
#blackperil
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In a sad and desparate attempt to discredit and discourage left wing voicess, these bullies are spraying unfounded yet predictable antisemitic slurs 🤷🏾♂️
I definitely won’t be discouraged or silenced. The bullies only pipe up when they’re threatened
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Everyday Toby Young delivers a speech on a national platform about how his freedom of speech is curtailed 🤬
How is someone so intellectually dishonest constantly on telly and radio?
#radio4today
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One of the most vociferous ‘Labour let down it’s white working class communities by being too ‘metropolitan’’ voices is now pretending to be an anti racist
Her and the anti-Corbyn cabal did nothing but antagonise black socialists & drove 1000s away
Time to be silent Lisa
We cannot be silent in the face of racism and discrimination. These protests must be the moment for recognition and positive change.
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When people start complaining about public services, train fares and poor broadband, I will try my best not running jump fly kick them
#onedayatatime
#GeneralErection2019
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@AyoCaesar
@OwenJones84
Sad sad day. I would hope that other anti fascists would rally behind me if I was falsely accused of being an antisemite. Instead the policy seems to be keep throwing good people under the bus and pray the issue goes away.
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@Lord_Sugar
I’m a tolerant person, but the sight of two circles behaving like that just turns my stomach
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I remember
@maitlis
shouting over her interviewee on reparations back in 2007 like it was yesterday.
13 years later, we ascribe her attitude to
@GeorgeThePoet
to ignorance
Make no mistake, UK establishment are terrified of their history of injustice and thievery unravelling
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a wee reminder...
for the entirety of Edward Colston’s life of slaving, murder and misery for profit...
America was a British colony. All of the racist murders we see in the US are the legacy of BRITISH racism.
To cite Robert Wedderburn this is the “axe laid to root” 🔥🔥🔥
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Super excited to be fronting my first ever full length documentary on
@BBCFOUR
. Soon the establishment of a
#jazzplanet
will be complete... mwahahah
#wearejazz
NEWS | Upcoming BBC jazz programming:
- First
@BBCFOUR
programme to be fronted by star saxophonist
@sowetokinch
- Over 15 hrs of
@LondonJazzFest
on
@BBCRadio3
- Final of BBC Young Jazz Musician hosted at
@LondonJazzFest
Read more ➡️ 🎷🎶
#wearejazz
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Corbyn: I welcome the report, please implement the recommendations.. I think some weaponised the issue..I’m not saying it was a Witch-hu...
Starmer: Throw him in the sea. If he floats... he’s therefore a witch and must be burned hastily
#zerotolerance
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@kelechnekoff
“And thus the Lord did bangeth the heathens in the face, and smote them for the chattage of shit” 1st Kelech 24 V.3 🤣
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The fact that will get lost in today’s news about
#petersutcliffe
is that if the police authorities took the testimony of a black woman Marcella Claxton seriously in 1976 and countless other working class women at least 12 women would still be alive
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The
#labourleaks
report has exposed a culture of deep anti-blackness, misogyny, and a pathological desire to lock ordinary people out of the political process.
No wonder they’re doubling down, rather than reflect on how this sabotage left us vulnerable to Boris and Covid19
The
#Labourleaks
report reveals the existence of an underground resistance movement with startlingly sane views about the catastrophic penetration of the party by a bunch of "Trots" and "mentalists"
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About to partake in another BBC discussion about removing statues...
They were erected to convince the masses of their inability to change history. Truth is, ordinary people have always had to emancipate themselves.
Let’s put up new monuments!
(thread)...
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Tonight’s the night! On
@BBCFOUR
8pm ‘Jazzology’ - a personal journey through jazz featuring
@shabakah
@paynic
@TheonCross
@T_Blanchard
#donaldharrison
@EspeSpalding
@tlcarrington
@CarmenLundy
@MichaelMwenso
@CourtneyPine1
and many more
#jazzplanet
#jazznow
#BAM
#music
#history
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The government’s offering ‘LOANS’ to be paid back with interest🤦🏾♂️
Because what the nation needs at this difficult time is to be burdened with extra debt
I hope the country can really see who it voted for
#coronavirus
#covid19UK
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Just took a short break from writing a new album to catch up on
#PoliticsLive
. Glad to see the commentariat’s not getting hysterical about change or anything....
LOCK UP YERRR GERBILS CORBYN’S COMING ARRRRGGGGHH 🤯
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Not the facts the rivers are literally full of of shit; almost everyone’s on strike; stagnant wages; surging homelessness and so much more
Britons opposing a probable genocide means ‘Britain is finished’
For the first time in my life, I’m now beginning to think Britain is finished
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Today’s been a very life affirming day. Received an Honorary Associateship from
@RoyalAcadMusic
🔥🔥🔥
And been inspired by three ensembles lead by
@trishclowes
@hartvibe
and moi. Big love to
@nicksmartmusic
The…
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If Wiley and the newly assembled anti-Wiley hate mob (mostly ironically populated by racists) all collectively go to Parler.. twitter would be blissful
They could all rightwing echo chamber themselves into oblivion 🤞🏾
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These charlatans systematically destroyed the best chance we had of a government based on compassion and fairness
All to protect their own grubby culture of private donations and lobbying. They have blood on their hands
keep the man’s name outchya mouth
#Corbyn
Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh says her party 'let the people down during the period of Jeremy Corbyn and have allowed an incompetent, dangerous government into power.'
@IainDale
|
@Siobhain_Mc
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I hope all the people who’ve ranted about Corbyn being a dangerous, tyrannical threat to democracy are proud of Prime Minister Polpotbelly
Time to unite to
#StopTheCoup
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