This is not the behaviour of a strong. proud nation.
Hedgehogs are delightful but they are not heroes.
Our progressive leaders fear and despise our history and its great men and women. So they devalue our currency with whimsy.
Pathetic.
Take the socialist activist Owen Jones. During the 2015 election campaign, he argued that Brand offered Ed Miliband the best route to young voters, suggesting that the then Labour leader was to be commended for being brave enough to share a platform with him.
While conceding Brand’s problematic attitude towards women, Jones still insisted that Russell Brand mattered: the politics outweighed the misogyny.
Jones says he met Brand only twice: once at a Guardian Live event to promote Brand's book in 2014, and again a year later, when he interviewed him for The Big Issue.
The mutual backslapping had begun earlier that same year with Jones' first Guardian piece about Brand and continued with a second, massively sycophantic piece (also in the Guardian) the following year, in which Jones commanded his leftist disciples to stop being horrible about Brand.
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I was wrong to think Russell Brand could engage disillusioned young voters in 2015.
It was also an opinion widely shared at the time.
Let's start with John Rentoul.
How shameless can you get.
Hi @bbclaurak,
Zionism has resulted in the bombing of children & the killing of tens of thousands of innocent people in Gaza.
Again - the actual controversy is the Labour Government are arming that & the BBC 'debate' if it's racist.
How's that for answering the question?
Hi Ben, this is a truly disgusting (and cowardly) tweet. So glad I have spent the past year turning down your repeated invites to appear on your show.
For the record, this is a Jewish journalist interviewing the Jewish *author* of the IHRA antisemitism definition for Zeteo, and it is Stern himself who thinks it’s a mistake to use the IHRA definition in the way the government is.
But since you can’t engage with the substance of any of this, you resort to smear by insinuation.
if Abdul el sayed was interested in party unity he would have gone with Haley Stevens so they could endorse Mike Rogers together. instead he is sowing division by trying to win
I back Zack without reservation, but it’s important to remember this stuff is entirely natural & normal within a large, democratic political movement. It’s a party, not a cult. We have to be able to accommodate diversity of views without shitting our pants & demanding purges.
The Greens gaining in the polls while the entire machinery of the Establishment are hysterically screaming at them that they don’t belong in mainstream politics has got to be the funniest thing I’ve seen for a while
@PhilipProudfoot I do agree with you that ZiR is undeniably having the effect of making more or less prominent centrist pundits expose their brainworms to public view