Paul Creeney

Don't believe the bios

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

The frenzied hounding of the former Cambridge professor Jason Arday shows how the right has captured British culture - and how readily the left, including at Novara Media, can end up following its lead, argues @DaliaGebrial.

Read the full piece: https://t.co/pfbTU9LkVJ

[Paul Creeney @PaulCreeney]

Show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name now https://t.co/Ik2GE5rFfk

[Paul Creeney @PaulCreeney]

@flying_rodent Notice the first finger pointed is at academia, then onto how sad and regrettable this all is, then back to the academia with a little mea culpa at the end.

If they can lay the blame on the sector they were gunning for anyway then it's win-win-win

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

I'm sorry but there are a lot of people with blood on their hands here. It's been weeks of abuse and absurd media coverage.

They just couldn't stop, determined to beat the man into the ground.

Jason Arday wasn't a culture war pawn, he was a fucking human being.

[Gary Younge @garyyounge]

"When people talk about the need for Black Excellence I counter with an insistence on Black mediocrity: the right for black people to be as average, flawed, compromised & mistaken as any other group of people. The right, ultimately, to be human." R.I.P. Jason Arday

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

It really isn’t normal for media outlets to hound minor public figures to death, just for fun, because they can. That really is a Just Britain thing.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

“You are not encouraged…to engage with the substance of their scholarship…you are invited to clap. Instead of his appointment conjuring the question “what new opportunities for research will this lead to?”, it was “doesn’t this make you feel good?” https://t.co/sntGE5lelG

[Manus Carlisle @manus_carlisle]

While Ursula von der Leyen was on the phone to a wanted war criminal, 100,000 marched on the streets of Brussels

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

The Iraq playbook is back & the media won’t question it.

Iran has no nuclear weapons. Israel — on trial for genocide — does. Iran signed the NPT & allows IAEA inspections. Israel hasn’t — & its leaders face ICC arrest warrants.

Beware of politicians beating the drums of war.

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

PHOTO | Union Saint-Gilloise has just won its 12th Belgian championship, its first since 1935. Its fans are one of the most left-wing in Europe.

Union Saint-Gilloise comes from a heavily immigrant neighbourhood of Brussels and has historically been a left-wing supporters club, as demonstrated by the ultras group Union Bhoys, whose motto is: "My whole life is unionist and anti-fascist."

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

Labour’s defeat in Runcorn was entirely avoidable — and is the direct result of the party leadership’s political choices.

By pushing policies like cuts to disability benefits and scrapping the winter fuel allowance, the leadership is driving away our own voters — and letting Reform squeeze through.

The Labour leadership must urgently change course and govern with real Labour values to deliver the change people are crying out for.

It should start by ditching the plans to cut disability benefits and increase taxes on the wealthiest instead.

If it fails to deliver that real change, things could get far worse, with Reform waiting in the wings. And the consequences of that would be horrific for those our Party exists to represent.

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

Labour leadership saying the party will go further and faster in the same direction. They don’t seem to understand that, it is our current direction that is the problem

[Kim Johnson @KimJohnsonMP]

Runcorn is a warning we can’t ignore. Voters want change - and if we don’t offer it with bold, hopeful policies that rebuild trust, the far right will.

If we don’t step up now, the alternative won’t be more of the same - it’ll be an extreme right-wing government.

[Paul Creeney @PaulCreeney]

@teasmithau Indeed. The interview was obviously held in the Philomena Cunk style commonly used to spoof child snipers.

[Ally Fogg @AllyFogg]

OK I've been ignoring it all week but you're all still going on about it so I've cracked.... some thoughts on the Sam Fender / privilege / white working class boys from Durham debate. > 1/

[MERA25 Deutschland @mera25_de]

Yanis Varoufakis sieht die Wahl von Trump zum Präsidenten zwar als "Katastrophe" für amerikanische Frauen und Minderheiten, aber wittert auch eine Chance für uns in Europa und speziell Deutschland. Welche? Schaut rein. #USAElection2024

[Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon]

When the far right wins or does well, it's not that it's popular

It's because the status quo is deeply unpopular and unable to respond to the many crises we face. To stay in power, they target the left, turn people off and let the far right in

This applies to Trump and Harris

[Leanne Mohamad @LeanneMohamad]

Palestinian lives are an inconvenient truth for this miserable government. We don’t matter. Only Israeli security matters and only Israel has the right to self-defence - such is the inequality built into the current world order.

[Verso Books @VersoBooks]

Comrades! Verso needs your support for radical publishing!

[just matt @questionableway]

while haiti is in the news so much this week maybe we should all take a moment to discuss the fact that their economic destitution is entirely due to being forced to spend ~80% of their federal budget every year for 150 years on reparations to france for freeing the slaves