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[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Nigel Farage was rehabilitated by ITV when it paid him £1.5m to appear on I’m A Celeb.

He is also joint-second for most appearances on BBC Question Time.

When I say the *entire* media class is complicit in the normalisation of Islamophobic & anti-migrant rhetoric, I mean it.

[Beth 🏳️‍⚧️💜 @pickle_bee]

Sandyford GIC can close their phone lines for the afternoon so don't wait. This may be your last chance.

Phone them on 0141 211 8137 and refer yourself before it's too late.

[Beth 🏳️‍⚧️💜 @pickle_bee]

The idea that last night is a victory for the police is a dangerous narrative where a bigger police state is seen as the only answer. British journalists asking for curfews, rubber bullets and more. It wasn't the police that stopped the far right. It was 1000s of anti-fascists.

[Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan @thebrownhijabi]

Cringing at the amount of classism being spouted as anti-racism… the only people who benefit when you mock working class white folk for lack of qualifications or appearance etc are the middle and upper classes who orchestrate and sanction white supremacy from positions of power

[Jess Thorne @jlthorne_]

Some important context: this is the kind of sentence that was being handed out during the Kill The Bill protest in Bristol in 2021.

This "two-tier Keir" line is utterly ridiculous.

[Elaine Scattermoon @scattermoon]

More healthcare experts weighing in on a healthcare issue.

https://t.co/DHUEeDjwEL

[Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown]

The story also exemplifies the "oppressive double bind" (as Sukaina Hirji calls it) that British south Asians find themselves in rn. If they acquiesce to far-right riots, they risk serious harm. If they resist them, they prove they're barbarians deserving of that harm.

[Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown]

LBC journalist goes to Birmingham to cover far-right riots, emerges with a story about scary brown people. If you wanted to understand how the media has accelerated the great moving right show of which these riots are the predictable endpoint, you couldn't find a better tweet

[michael @Sisyphusa]

permission is not "ours" to give. "we" are no more entitled to the healthcare or housing or whatever still exists here than someone with a diff passport or rights of access. real solidarity is coming together to dismantle the v real borders & divisions that law & power reproduce.

[C @Obseyxx]

From the top down.

[James B @piercepenniless]

A few weeks ago you went on TV to bemoan migrants getting "put up in hotels and they can stay in these hotels for the rest of their lives." A cynical lie, which you knew was a lie. You're part of this too.

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

For those as the back: the accusation of two-tier policing first arose in relation to the disproportionate and heavy handed policing of black communities. The Far Right are now - laughably - attempting to hijack a serious and substantiated critique of policing. 3/

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

🧵The question from the ‘reporter’ “are we going to end two tier policing” was disingenuous & designed to fuel far right narratives that the UK Police are discriminating against white race rioters, some of whom have attempted to murder asylum seekers.

Now watch as the .. 1/

[Nadia Whittome MP @NadiaWhittomeMP]

“Swarms”
“Invasion”
“Hurricane”

For years, rightwing politicians and sections of the media have scapegoated migrants and asylum seekers, demonised Muslims, and emboldened racists.

Far-right violence doesn’t come out of nowhere. Those who stir up hate must be held accountable.

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

It isn’t just the tabloids. BBC has long pushed the racist, far right line. In many ways it’s more effective and insiduous because it does so with right accents and posh English

[Elaine Scattermoon @scattermoon]

And that's how you get *further* pogroms.

Complicity.

[Public Libraries News @publiclibnews]

Spellow Library needs our help after the riots. Please donate, like, comment, and share to bring new books and a safe space back for the kids. Let's make a difference together! https://t.co/7bVQgLT2ZI

[Elaine Scattermoon @scattermoon]

But when it's both the politicians and the press, tied together in this so closely we have national breakfast TV with a former shadow chancellor getting to softball interview his home secretary wife?

We need other solutions.