On 2 November last year, Rishi Sunak as PM interviewed Elon Musk at Lancaster House. I was there. It was quite the love in. Today Elon Musk is making the divisive and inflammatory charge that the British police come down heavy on white thugs but give a green light to alleged Muslim ones, and he is endorsing for his almost 200m followers other claims that seek to sow animosity between communities, such as that the courts and authorities are somehow soft on Muslim criminals. Here is what may or may not elude Musk. The election was barely a month ago, and if there is “two-tier policing” today then there would have been on Sunak’s watch too. Since Sunak presumably believes the police and courts were and are even handed in their treatment of different ethnicities and religions, shouldn’t Sunak say something to Musk?
I’m losing Twitter followers again! Every time this happens and I put the word out, some people find they’ve automatically been switched off from following me. Glitches or something more nefarious - who knows… Please RT to help lost people to re-follow. I know @carolvorders has had this too!
Thank goodness.
Too much has been lost already.
Too many collaborations lost.
Too much life-saving research damaged.
Now we can start to rebuild.
Finally, some sense at last.
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It's Miller's stillness that always strikes me most, the concentration on Powell's words that presages his evisceration of the hideous bigot. It's more drive-by than debate. The racists who pose as 'intellectuals' remain much more insidious than their more 'honest' counterparts.
‘It’s called weather’ says Julia Hartley Brewer, repeating one of the most inane basic misunderstandings of climate science, a canard of lazy utter ignorance akin to ‘if we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys’
This is very good - on the attempt to impose a top-down homogenous royal story on people who are reacting to events in a diverse way. https://t.co/hYR9l1fqmu
The axing of BBC4 means there is precisely one TV channel left in the entire UK broadcasting spectrum focused on the arts - Sky Arts. ONE CHANNEL! No single sector of TV is as threatened as the arts. So much for the fantasy of 'choice' and 'diversity'. It's a national disgrace.