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Paul Mason
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Contrib. Editor, The New World. Reds: A Global History of Communism (8/26). Adj. Fellow, Council on Geostrategy. Hon. Snr. Fellow Univ. of Exeter CPUDS 🇬🇧🇺🇦
- The UK is one of the most restrained and subtle diplomatic forces in the world. No need for a degree in semiotics to see what it did tonight 🇺🇦🇬🇧
- I'm so upset about refugees that I had to steal some trainers 👇🏽Shops are being lotted in Hull
- Conservative grifters: Let's not stigmatise these protests as "far right" The protesters:
- Trump's apparent victory has 5 big implications for the UK: 🧵 1️⃣ It can happen here. He will back Farage, the Musk propaganda machine will crank up against Labour; the Tories will remould themselves into Trump-lite Islamophobes ...
- What happened in D.C.? 🧵1/ We, outside the classified zone, won't know for a while - because the European leaders pulled of something surreal: they pulled Trump back from getting sucked in to Putin's mental framework ... but...
- The slander against Keir Starmer over the Savile case started in April 2020 on a far right Facebook page. It was spread by Politicalite. For @DominicRaab to defend Johnson quoting it is a disgrace. If you call yourself a Tory, how is this defensible?
- You know how Orban just won in Hungary? That's how Johnson plans to win here: suppress liberal media (C4); suppress opposition vote (voter ID); Russian cash (still pocketed); anti+LGBT; anti-migrant racism...
- Boris Johnson's "War cabinet" will spend at wartime levels on state propaganda. Because it's a war against you, the poor, the students, the old, the sick, the young families - oh and manufacturing. It's a war for greed and racism. Which side are you on?
- It's hard to see, following @maitlis speech, how BBC Chair Richard Sharp avoids calling an inquiry into Robbie Gibb's presence as an "agent" of the Conservative Party on the BBC board. After all, Sharp has only donated a mere £400k to the Tories.
- Laura Kuenssberg's now-weekly refrain as she interrupts Labour politicians: "we're running short of time". Who schedules the interviews? We had 30mins of Gove, 8 of Yvette Cooper
- Labour's @lisanandy just flattened both BBC and Sky attempts to throw mud at Starmer ... all public broadcasters now have to decide whether they'll go on playing the Tory/Mail game or actually start reporting politics
