Great to see so many of you at the East Midlands Palliative Care Audit on Tuesday - we'll let you know when the presentations have been uploaded to our website. Thank you to all of our amazing presenters and @David_Miodrag and @NIHRCRNEastMids for hosting with us.
Imagine there was a nationwide pogrom against British Jews which lasted for days.
Imagine the government then refused to speak to, let alone meet with, the Board of Jewish Deputies.
This is what the government has just done to Britain’s main Muslim organisation.
No, not 💯 Elon. In the U.K. they’re not going round ‘finding people who’ve said something they disagree with and putting them in a f—king cage.’ Some people are being charged for inciting racial hatred and for organising acts of violence. It’s very specific, and it’s the law in most democracies including the US. For example, one person has pleaded guilty today to inciting an attack on a hotel housing asylum seekers: an attack which then took place. Another hotel was set on fire, with people still inside. Freedom carries responsibility: and freedom of speech carries with it the responsibility of each of us to use our words wisely and to be aware of the damage misinformation can cause. To be clear, criminal violence directed towards various communities in the U.K. was perpetrated as a result of malicious and specifically targeted misinformation online. And it’s a relief no-one was killed. Words matter. And yet here you are, running a huge information network, and all you can do is post 💯 over something you choose not to verify for accuracy, not alert people to it’s highly damaging nature. In fact, because of who you are, your 💯 gives it a stamp of approval in the eyes of those who seek validation for their actions. What we say and do has real consequences. That’s because we’re not in a matrix, we’re in real life, and sticking 💯 on a lie doesn’t turn it into truth.
Birmingham to Brighton 🫵🏽💙🫱🏻🫲🏾
Racism and pure hatred of Muslims is getting put back in the bin.
Tommy the tit is going to jail for a long time and your nan is getting Samosas this weekend.
We will figure out the issues. That’s our job as a society. A community. This is England. Our England 🫵🏽🏴🫱🏻🫲🏾🫵🏿💙
Who and what do Britons think are responsible for the riots?
% saying each have a great deal/fair amount of responsibility
The rioters: 88%
Social media: 86%
Far-right groups: 74%
News media: 69%
Immigration policy in recent years: 67%
Tommy Robinson: 57%
Tory governments from 2010-24: 55%
Nigel Farage: 47%
Southport murders: 46%
Those at the protests but not taking part in the unrest: 40%
Immigrants and asylum seekers: 38%
Rishi Sunak: 38%
Current Labour government: 36%
Keir Starmer: 33%
Disinformation from Russia: 33%
Muslims: 25%
https://t.co/fh8GXECjDH
I'M BEGGING YOU:
STOP MAKING FUN OF HOW THESE RIOTERS LOOK.
Don't let classism be the get-out-of-jail-free card for racism.
White supremacy is maintained by those with power and money.
They have neither.
All your sneering does, is send the rich powerful racists, more puppets.
Those in power who have enabled , encouraged and incited the violence are just as culpable as the angry mobs on the streets.
It’s time to tackle the violence and the hate preachers in politics, the media and think tanks
Watch my discussion today @thismorning
This is one of the most pitiful things I have ever seen. This sad, tepid, brain dead little man, desperately blaming others for his own abject failures.
Nigel Farage, "We have to address issues like uncontrolled mass immigration, division of our communities"
Tom Swarbrick, "I don't know what any of that has got to do with Southport"
NF, "I'm looking for a long term solution"
TS, "I don't know what any of that has got to do with Southport"
NF, "Don't you?"
TS, "No"
NF, "You know what?"
TS, "The man charged was born in Cardiff"
NF, "Do you know what, you want to get out more"
TS, "Thank you"
NF, "You want to get out more"
TS, "The man charged was born in Cardiff"
NF, "Why didn't they tell people that? Maybe the riots would not have been that bad"
TS, "You jumped to conclusions"
NF, "They did not tell people"
TS, "You came to conclusions based on looking at Andrew Tate's twitter feed of what happened"
NF, "They did not tell people before those riots sparked, who he was and where they came from. If they had done that this would have been far less serious"
TS, "You could have said in those circumstances: we dont know yet who this person is so lets not jump to conclusions, let's wait and see and condemn how awful the attack was"
NF, "Or I could have said tell us the truth and maybe this will calm down, which is what I did"