Award-deserving ELT writer. Centrist, Jew(ish), Lab member. Trying not be rude too often. 'Why people tear the seam of anyone's dream is over my head.'
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This is activism not journalism. That's fine, but it means we have to search elsewhere for the facts.
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For those following along, the post Raheem made referring to himself as a former chief of staff, he has now deleted
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Owen Jones has done a 16 tweet thread explaining how a 14 year old Jewish student being called a “Jew bitch” and physically assaulted while another is taunted with gas chamber noises is just criticism of Israel.
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Significant moment. Based on the latest aggregate of the polls, Labour is now on course for an overall majority.
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Striking how fast Reform went from free-press defenders to calling for the arrest of journalists who investigate it.
Its move to the populist-authoritarian model is unlikely to do much for its poll rating.
STATEMENT:
Reform UK has reported ITV, its board, and its undercover reporters to the police.
Some of the crimes carry up to 10 years in prison.
They forged a passport.
They directly interfered in elections and almost certainly altered the results. Being paid to “canvass” for Reform in crucial wards we lost by a few dozen votes.
They lied to a veteran about their service and left him “violated”.
This is unprecedented.
The police are now involved.
Scrutiny of political parties is one thing.
But anyone breaking the law to try and ruin the lives of Reform’s staff, members or volunteers will be reported to the police and pursued relentlessly in the courts.
Here’s what happened 👇
I wish I'd been at the meeting where the Slow Horses producers opted not to have a plot in Season 6. I'd have said something.
This mesmerising encore has the most courageous final note I've ever seen.
youtube.com/watch?v=q2hZHE0g…
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I was walking to the building where I work in Oxford when I passed three young girls speaking Farsi and I couldn’t help but run back and ask if they were from Afghanistan.
They said yes. It had been a few months since their arrival as refugees waiting in Pakistan, now studying at a local school in Oxford.
I was swelling with emotion. These girls just escaped 5 years of gender persecution under the Taliban. Erasure of their schools. And are now in Oxford, studying freely.
Thank you to the U.K government for giving them a second chance.
As a former refugee myself, we all just need one chance, as Canada gave to my mother and I.
Two sets of Afghan women, escaping two Taliban regimes, meeting in Oxford. All in the hopes of finding freedom through education.
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Some Reform supporters complaining about me equating Green’s and Reform’s toxicity this morning. The Green’s Zionism motion is racist. Reform’s embrace of Ethno-Nationalism and the Nigeria Strategy is racist. That’s it. There’s not really any argument.
The entryists who've polluted the Green Party are the political equivalent of asset strippers. I wonder where they'll go next.
When a prominent public figure like Lord Archer dies, it's normal for lots of people to share anecdotes about their encounters, and what's striking about the ones I've read so far is that, in the vast majority of them, Archer comes across as a complete cunt.
Openly celebrating the execution of a 24-year-old man on a trumped-up blasphemy charge is disgusting. She's still whingeing about her suspension by the @gmcuk but their decision looks like a good one.
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On the left, National Front 1988.
On the right, Green Party 2026.
How clear do you want it? greens4palestine.uk/
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Zionism is both historic and spiritual; the ancient connection of the Jewish people to the land of Israel and their right to self-determination in their historic homeland.
I am British by birth, belonging and love; Jewish by inheritance, memory and faith. Britain is my country. Israel is not a competing loyalty, it is the homeland of the Jewish people to which I am bound by ancestry, memory and identity.
For millions of Jews, that is the heart of Zionism. Not supremacy, dispossession or the killing of Palestinians and not a colonial claim to a foreign land but the self-determination of a people with an ancient and continuous connection to it. In practice, it must mean two peoples entitled to self-determination both living in security and freedom with neither people’s future purchased with the lives, rights or humanity of the other.
That is why declaring “Zionism is racism” is not merely wrong, it tells most Jews that their understanding of their own history, identity and collective freedom is itself morally suspect. The Greens should ask themselves whom they are trying to please by adopting a slogan that turns Jewish self-determination into a moral stain. If your politics of inclusion requires millions of Jews to renounce a central part of their history and identity before they qualify for your solidarity, it isn’t inclusion. You are telling Jews: you may belong here but only if you disown Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people. That is not anti-racism. It is imposing a political test on Jews that no genuinely progressive movement would dream of imposing on any other minority.
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Though I don’t find it credible or coherent, there is a type of anti-Zionism in theory that’s universalist rather than antisemitic. The anti-Zionism that’s hostile to the national ideal specifically & only of the Jews, however, is racist. And it’s where @TheGreenParty now stands.
