David Orr

Criminal justice history/criminology researcher/senior lecturer , Leonard Cohen fan committed to antiracism and opposing social inequality whatever the source.

[David Orr @Daveorr13]

@DrStephMered @Never_Again2020 Ah that one! So many fit the description. Perhaps numbering them would help, or would that just be depressing?

[David Orr @Daveorr13]

@DrStephMered @Never_Again2020 Steve, I’ve only got your message not the thread. Is this about Miller?

[David Baddiel @Baddiel]

I have never written jokes for Mock The Week. What a shit world wide conspiracy it is.

[David Orr @Daveorr13]

https://t.co/n8ho6C74H1

[Ethan Watters- @ethanwatters1]

"The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible."

Salman Rushdie

[David Orr @Daveorr13]

Sad on so many different levels. Political and religious Zealots sustain the conflicts they claim to want to resolve 🙁Salman Rushdie: Man arrested after author attacked on stage https://t.co/fObSobMkGv

[Jimmy Carr @jimmycarr]

I’m with Sandi

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

In 1938, after England played Germany in Berlin, full back Bert Sproston (Spurs) was approached by a desperate Jewish teenager, asking him for help in getting out of the country. Thanks to Bert - and Tottenham - a life was saved. A remarkable story.

https://t.co/Zcf25amOVD

[David Orr @Daveorr13]

Brilliant! Mary Beard (about 8.45 Today radio 4 this morning) about the ‘the bonfire of the humanities’ at Roehampton and elsewhere/how low paid and unstable jobs are for young academics. Had a ‘socialist’ complaining about UCU strikes recently. Perhaps listen to this?

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

THEY JUST CAN’T STOP LYING

[Mary Peace @maryvpeace]

English lit degree at Sheffield Hallam is being “suspended.” University responding to Government who will no longer fund degrees where 60% students don’t end up in “highly skilled” jobs within 6 months.

[Dave Rich @daverich1]

Both of these tweets are antisemitic, but it's always instructive to watch people argue over *how* to be antisemitic.

[Dave Rich @daverich1]

Just in case anyone was wondering whether Jeremy Corbyn has changed his mind over his entirely blameless role in Labour's antisemitism crisis, in which he was the victim and everyone complaining about antisemitism was a foul liar 👀

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Meet my hero of the day

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Jeez. He just can’t stop

[Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK]

It was all worth it for Tom’s expression at the end of the clip…👇

[David Orr @Daveorr13]

@FrankBarnard @KayBurley Maybe the other way round…everyone trying to ignore the fart in a spacesuit?

[David Orr @Daveorr13]

@Heatherhornett @Baddiel https://t.co/IzZUk7X7XU

[Rt Hon Nadine Dorries @NadineDorries]

1/4 On afternoon of 23rd July 2020 when I was health minister you telephoned me to tell me that we had to handle the pandemic following the example set by the East/China. That people testing + should be removed from their homes and placed into isolation hotels for two weeks.

[Never Again @Never_Again2020]

The guy on the right is Hatem Bazian, a notorious, US based antisemite who supports Hamas, publicly asked whether Jews should “have to pay reparations for slavery” and founded the violently antisemitic Students for Justice in Palestine. The guy on the left is one of his fans.

[David Orr @Daveorr13]

Union vows to fight cull of academics at University of Roehampton https://t.co/MQx15KKOQ9

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Shameful.