John Weston

My poetry was lousy you said

[John Weston @johnwphd]

Blimey! Very proud to have contributed to the fully epic closing section of this week's #TheSkewer on @BBCRadio4

https://t.co/UMS5K346sl

[Jon Holmes @jonholmes1]

Fed up with the news? Simply give it up in its usual doomform and let #TheSkewer be your guide with jokes and a killer soundtrack. New ep @BBCRadio4 tonight contains today’s #MattHancock larks, #CocaineBear Boris, and & the Tale of Shamima Puddleduck.

https://t.co/IrPit5LzvH

[bONGO 🌹 @wariocolosseum]

wiping meta off the face of the planet is strictly a net positive for humanity

[Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics]

There's a difference between normal people spending money and really rich people spending money. And it explains why our economy is failing.

[John Weston @johnwphd]

@spikedonline yeah

[John Weston @johnwphd]

@PepperGii @MaxVelocityWX "There goes your oak"

[John Weston @johnwphd]

@AutismCapital https://t.co/zmmmSkw16Y

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The world's richest oligarch is the biggest Welfare recipient in history, by orders of magnitude.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

Here’s more than 2 minutes of you dodging, deflecting and refusing to condemn Israel’s war crimes in Gaza.

You value free speech so much apparently. Shame you didn’t use it when it counted.

[stranger @strangerous10]

David Pocock pauses, overcome with emotion, while detailing UN’s horrific findings against Israel
“IDF has now killed 20,000 Palestinian children”
“…deliberately shot at children’s limbs…as a twisted game of target practice”😔
Barbaric & sickening. This is our ally?

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Zack Polanski, "When I studied history at school. Tudors, Romans, a bit of WWII. I don't remember talking about empire or colonisation"

Historian William Dalrymple, "It is possible to do at A'Levels modules on the British empire, but very few people do them"

"Which means most British people are entirely ignorant for what is for better or worse the most important thing Britain ever did"

"Britain drew it's empire, completely changed the face of the world over the course of 300-400 years"

"Not only did they change it within a local European context, but they completely upended flows of global trade and eco-systems which had existed for millinia"

"For most of history, India and China dominated the world economy, and Europe was an add-on"

"They were producing about 70% of the world's GDP, that's still the case in the 18th century"

"When we're looking at the world today, China already the world's number two economy, and India about to be number three overtaking Japan and Germany"

"What we're seeing is a reversal of the trading system to a pr colonial period - it's taken 80 years since the British left India"

"We're seeing the world recover form this brief blip where Europe smashed its way around the globe moving populations and natural resources around, looting some places, bringing wealth to Europe"

"If you look at the big National Trust country houses, if it's a big palladian house, the sort you'd see in a Jane Austin Sunday night drama"

"If it's on the east coast of the country, quite probably it was built by the East India company money, in other words the looting of India"

"If it's on the west coast, near Liverpool or Bristol, it's more likely to be slave money, from the Caribbean"

"These two sources of wealth brought capital into Britain, and cotton into Britain, which was then milled in the industrial revolution, which gave the seed capital for Britain to accelerate massively through the industrial revolution"

"Which catapulted England from an upper middle position in Europe"

"It transforms Britain and the world"

"But what gives us great prosperity often detracted from the prosperity of the looted countries, or countries that have been plundered for enslaved people"

"And it remains a strange quirk of our history system that we learn more about the wives of Henry VIII, than we do about the entirely looting of India, or the Caribbean slave trade"

"Two crucial moments in Britain's and the world's history"

"The reason we don't learn it, is because when the British empire ended, it became something people stopped talking about"

"By the time you get to Monty Python in the 1970s or late 60s, the Empire is a joke"

[Richard @ricwe123]

"Anyone who has served in the Israeli Forces in Gaza since October 2023 should be considered a suspect in relation to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of genocide"

-Chris Sidoti, UN Commission of Inquiry on Palestine

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

The BBC’s political editor has written an article about the unravelling of Keir Starmer’s tenure.

The total numbers of times ‘Gaza’, ‘Palestine’ or ‘Israel’ is mentioned? Zero.

This is how propaganda by omission works.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

You can guarantee Andy Burnham has already taken his oath of fealty to the Zionist entity

This is treason. We are occupied

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If this was any other country, it would be huge news, and most western governments would be loudly condemning it.

But it’s Israel so…

[Luke Barnett @LukeBarnett]

Every studio starting an AI division but we all just want this.

[Luke Barnett @LukeBarnett]

This is so legitimately bad that it makes me wonder if The Wrap was paid by an ANTI-AI group to make AI look bad.

[Dr Rhonda Garad Difficult by Design @RhondaGarad]

This took my breath away: We didn't name the slaughtered children because Israel would go after their remaining family.
We can't even name the victims of the deplorable genocidaries.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"We were occupied in Norway.. & those resistance fighters in Norway are our heroes, & the German occupiers called them terrorists.. Palestine is defending itself. Israel is attacking"

@DrMadsGilbert talking to @MyriamFrancoisC

Watch it here: https://t.co/Q90dofiHZv

[Roger Hallam @RogerHallamCS21]

Good Morning Britain just called me to appear on the show. Topic: whether it’s okay for everyone to get air-conditioning.

I said 2°C is now locked in and if we don’t overcome capitalism we’ll have far more important things to worry about than AC - like starving to death.

He decided it would not be good for me to go on..

[Norm Clark @Normsmusic]

James Robison
What Joyce Carol Oates wrote to Elon Musk on Twitter. I am told it rattled him. I love it.
“So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates – scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend’s or relative’s accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the ‘most wealthy person in the world.’”

[Nadeem Ahmed @Muqadaam]

Jeremy Corbyn is the most smeared politician.

Under him the party was the largest socialist party in Western Europe with over 600,000 members.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"Is it difficult coming back?"

Surgeon professor Nizam Mamode, who was working in Gaza a few weeks ago: "Yes"

"How do you feel when you return?"

"I feel quite angry that this country.. is letting this genocide go by and doing nothing about it"