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People fail to appreciate just how virilent and aggressive the anti-Muslim bigotry that runs through our media and political establishment is. If Gilligan had said a fraction of what he says about Muslims about Jews, his Spectator summer party days would be long behind him.
Sayeeda Warsi is frontrunner, I hear, for the government's controversial "anti-Muslim hostility" czar, to be announced this week. As I explain, she'd store up huge trouble for ministers. And few nominal Tories are more despised by actual Tories than Warsi. spectator.com/article/sayeed…
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"Sayeeda Warsi would make a terrible Islamophobia tsar", says the publication edited by Michael Gove, who was described as having "extreme views" towards Muslims by Sayeeda Warsi in 2018.
ALT An article published by The Spectator on October 28 2026, titled "Sayeeda Warsi would make a terrible Islamophobia tsar".
![From an interview with Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, published by Business Insider on June 11 2018, titled "The Islamophobia scandal in the Conservative party goes 'right up to the top'": She said the "Ukipification" of the party's attitude towards Muslims had been triggered in large part by the current Environment Secretary Michael Gove. Gove, who wrote the book 'Celcius 7/7' about Islamic terrorism, was a close ally of Cameron and Warsi believes his "extreme views" caused the former prime minister to shift the government's attitudes towards Muslims. "I sometimes joke that Michael Gove radicalised David Cameron," Warsi tells me. "In private conversations [I know that David] had some concerns about some of the extreme views that Michael had but over time [Gove] influenced a lot of his views." https://www.businessinsider.com/islamophobia-scandal-conservative-party-goes-right-up-to-the-top-baroness-warsi-interview-2018-6](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HVwa4YpX0AAw-Zw.png?name=orig)
ALT From an interview with Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, published by Business Insider on June 11 2018, titled "The Islamophobia scandal in the Conservative party goes 'right up to the top'": She said the "Ukipification" of the party's attitude towards Muslims had been triggered in large part by the current Environment Secretary Michael Gove. Gove, who wrote the book 'Celcius 7/7' about Islamic terrorism, was a close ally of Cameron and Warsi believes his "extreme views" caused the former prime minister to shift the government's attitudes towards Muslims. "I sometimes joke that Michael Gove radicalised David Cameron," Warsi tells me. "In private conversations [I know that David] had some concerns about some of the extreme views that Michael had but over time [Gove] influenced a lot of his views." https://www.businessinsider.com/islamophobia-scandal-conservative-party-goes-right-up-to-the-top-baroness-warsi-interview-2018-6
The name of the government's highly-controversial 'special representative' to oversee its equally controversial definition of 'anti-Muslim hostility' will be announced this week, ministers told Muslim groups at Downing Street yesterday.
I understand that the shortlist of 12 includes, though is not limited to:
Some of these names have, to say the least, questions over them. Asim, for instance, was sacked as an adviser to the last government after calling for a film about the Prophet Mohammed's daughter to be banned. And the definition itself, as I and others have previously argued, is deeply sinister.
In the hands of some of these people, it could be weaponised to do really serious harm.
✍️ Andrew Gilligan
Article | spectator.com/article/sayeed… | @mragilligan
Steve retweeted
The bleak problem is that to a man the British commentariat would fucking love to work for Palintir, with all the things normal people consider moral and ethical impediments actually being a huge bonus for them.
Steve retweeted
precedent set. i expect anyone wearing the poppy will have it digitally removed.
First they censored “Protect The Dolls”, now the BBC are censoring pride pin badges leicester.news/bbc-edits-out…
Steve retweeted
Should I panic buy lots of items so that Supermarket profits get a boost, which when combined with Black Friday and Christmas spending artificially inflates GDP in early 2027 thereby enabling the government and BBC News to announce "Good News on Growth" just as Fuel Bills go up?
Why should I stockpile and what will I need? bbc.in/4yESD4t
Steve retweeted
It really is fascinating how we construct what facts you’re allowed to be ignorant of, and those you are not. It’s central I think to understanding the operation of the media, the curation of the public conversation.
“I didn't know that.”
After defending Zionism, @MikeTappTweets is challenged by @ShehabKhan on Jewish people abroad being able to obtain Israeli citizenship while displaced Palestinians cannot return.
His response: “That doesn't sound equal to me.”
Watch more👇
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I texted my children that we got the puppy they’ve been begging me for and sent them a link with pictures. 🐶When they clicked on the link, it took them to a webpage that said YOU’RE GROUNDED. They’ll be spending the weekend retaking our family’s cybersecurity training course.
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Perhaps the most stark and revealing (accidental?) admission in the David Bell 'antisemitism in UK schools report. Antisemitic attitudes aren't increasing, only anti-Israel ones are. That's what most of this is about.
From the horse's mouth:
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Steve retweeted
This is absolutely insane.
The UK seems to have been involved in the kidnapping of Maduro - and the story spiked by an MOD D-Notice.
The kidnapping was the most brazen act of criminality, and UK involvement would almost certainly have been given with Starmer's sign-off. A wretched, wreck of a PM. An unforgivable assault on international law.
Steve retweeted
One of the weirdest things about British politics is that everyone on the right over the age of 35 somehow thinks they were alive for World War II
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Hes selling it and it’s deeply embarrassing for all the leftist content creators who could do little more than complain about the optics.
.@ZackPolanski "I support everyones right to self determination but not at the expense of another group because thats racist"
Spot on. If self-determination requires the dispossession/displacement of another people its not self determination, its ethnic cleansing/colonisation
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🤭 I thought this was one of those Fake Showbiz News posts when I first saw it.
Jude Law is set to play iconic Liverpool FC manager Bill Shankly in A24's upcoming, Jack Thorne penned drama series about the legendary gaffer's rise and reign at Anfield.
Read more: empireonline.com/tv/news/jud…
Steve retweeted
What I imagine an artist sees when they are asked to create a curated playlist from their record collection for an Ace Records compilation.
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My feed is once again a split screen of burned, broken and terrified children in Gaza versus the UK political psychodrama about what can and cannot be said about the ideological engine of the Israeli government.
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i remember when words and concepts had meanings, when they might be arbitrary but still they had standard meaning… it was bad with neo-liberallsm but with illiberalism, neo-managerialism meaning has evaporated. Democracy means Genocide and so on…
🚨 WATCH: Andy Burnham rules out a coalition deal with the Green Party over its "Zionism is racism" motion
"It is wrong. It is antisemitic. We will have nothing to do with it"
#PMQs