David Souter

London-based researcher/writer. Tweets from this address on life, arts & culture; on the Information Society as @DSouter_ictDA. Keeping the Twitter bird alive.

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

Three fans of JD Vance should make for an interesting discussion of JD Vance’s recent comments.

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

Joining #BBCLauraK

Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy MP
Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities Claire Coutinho MP
Reform UK's Home Affairs Spokesperson Zia Yusuf

Sunday 9am @BBCOne @BBCiPlayer

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

Vance vigorously supported the mass pardoning of the January 6 rioters - nearly 100 of whom have already been arrested for other crimes. And he lectures Britain - a country with a fraction of his nation's per capita homicides.

[alan rusbridger @arusbridger]

There’s a link between the spread of Nigel Farage’s evidence-free rabble-rousing and Michael Grade’s calamitous time at OfCom. https://t.co/xcBIBOfDPJ

[Michael Spicer @MrMichaelSpicer]

Nigel Farage Listens to the News

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

It has suddenly become quite ‘okay’ to use racist language and actually be overtly racist on this platform and in much of the media and in daily life; The Overton window is no longer even in its frame, it lies in smithereens, smashed upon the floor.

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

@GavinBarwell No genuine Conservative could vote for the party that calls itself “Reform”. You should make that very clear.

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

The fight between Labour and Reform is the fight of our lives. It is more important than any one person.

This is not one to sit out.

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

Cathy Newman on the two-tier hatred of the far right against anyone with different opinions, different beliefs and different skin colour.

[Cathy Newman @cathynewman]

In the last 48 hours I’ve been deluged with 100s of vile, misogynistic tweets and death threats. Why? For doing my job: asking @ZiaYusufUK questions about claims by @Nigel_Farage of 2-tier policing. I spoke about this on tonight’s show. Enough is enough. https://t.co/SSHiAI3Umc

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

Define “hypocrisy”. https://t.co/4N21pXS7rd

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

Perhaps Nigel Farage could persuade his cyberdaddy to match his tax-free gift to Nigel by giving £1,000 each to 5,000 homeless people to help them get somewhere to live.

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

Barely a month ago this man was imprisoned for the violent rape of a Sikh woman believing that she was a Muslim. No Douglas Murray articles in the Spectator, no Baroness Fox speech in the Lords. No riots. Two tier? Too right https://t.co/8wABWe3bww

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

@drchrisnewton It is possible to be outraged by the footage AND condemn Farage for ignoring Henry Nowak's family & exploiting his death to foster division for political ends. In fact, it's the only responsible response: one that in the past Conservatives would have clearly understood.

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

The @DailyMail celebrates its signature achievement of the last decade.

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Arrive three hours before your flight home and bring water and phone charger to help you survive queues, Wizz Air boss tells British passengers as new EU border checks cause chaos https://t.co/kADZilq00v

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

If one of them called itself “React” we could call its supporters “reactionaries”. Would that help?

[Stephen Pollard @stephenpollard]

I enjoyed this by @BorisJohnson

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

@ZiaYusufUK So anyone who disagrees with you is a traitor? Do you have a list? Does it include everyone who believes in decency, humanity and British values? What do you propose to do to us if you gain power? What is your “reckoning”?

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

Spot the bot.

[Myles Clifton @Myles_Clifton99]

@jujulemons Its insane to think that MORE regulation and MORE state intervention is the answer. Frightening times.

[steve richards @steverichards14]

Tony Blair’s deeply flawed essay has triggered Keir Starmer’s best explanation of what his government is about.. finally linking ideas and values to policies and going well beyond his previous tendency ( influenced by Blair) to making a tame apolitical technocratic case.

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

@daisychristo Recalling the TV version Fortunes of War with Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson (1987).

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

@LukeTryl You should signal from the start that there’s a substantial “but” coming later in the thread.

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

If only self-doubt had not succumbed to egotism in a Camden restaurant in 2003.