Mike Hamlin

Writer, reader, music, arts & film fan. Rooted in education - lifelong teacher now a trustee, interested in most things. Own views here, +
@mhamlin1.bsky.social

[Milos @milos_gis]

I mapped wife beaters of Europe

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Well done, Gove.

[Mike Hamlin @mhamlin1]

@TedCantle Good points, and I agree with you.
This is a crucial area.

[Mike Hamlin @mhamlin1]

@TedCantle Which examples do you have in mind Ted - it's not exactly an overcrowded field?

[Ieuan Rhys 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @Ieu61]

#Belfast

[Mike Hamlin @mhamlin1]

@SarahForRuncorn The politics of division - angry, ugly and hateful......

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Trying to imagine the response from the British political class if it was another minority faith community who were locked inside their place of worship as bigots threatened them.
But it’s Muslims… so… who cares!

[Daniel Trilling @trillingual]

If you want to know how and why we've ended up in a situation where racists and fascists are free to carry out pogroms and riots on the streets of the UK - and why, even now, it can be stopped - I just wrote a book about it.

[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

All the racist bots and troll on my timeline have nothing to say about the dozens of murders of women in Belfast - perhaps because it doesn't fit that easy narrative.

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

"Right-wing billionaires are controlling much of the mainstream media."

"That is a very scary prospect when President Trump makes it clear that he expects loyalty."

Is @mehdirhasan paranoid to think that Trump could close down his media company?

@maitlis | @jonsopel

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

"Very poor white people” are being convinced that “very poor, hard-working brown or Black people” are responsible for the “problems caused by billionaire white men”, Allison Morris, Crime Correspondent at the Belfast Telegraph, says in the wake of the riots that spread through the capital of Northern Ireland overnight.

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

“The truth is that the global far right have spent the past few years using a billionaire-owned social media platform to deliberately whip up racist violence on Britain’s streets and now they are finally starting to succeed.”

@adambienkov @BylineTimes

https://t.co/vhb5jPD0wa

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

“Save our kids” they chant as they destroy their homes

[Mike Hamlin @mhamlin1]

Excellent piece by @schneiderhome .........

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

A local tragedy was being turned into a transatlantic morality tale. The subject was no longer a murdered young man, nor the officers who handcuffed him as he lay dying. The subject was the West: betrayed by anti-racism, weakened by migration, humiliated by multiculturalism, and invited to recover itself through rage.

@schneiderhome: JD Vance is smearing Henry Nowak’s memory

https://t.co/ytYj65GLZq

[Mike Hamlin @mhamlin1]

@ahistoryinart @GroomB What a picture......!

[Prospect @prospect_uk]

The Rwanda scheme was illiberal and misconceived, writes DAT Green. Only four individuals were voluntarily relocated, each of them costing about £67.5m each
https://t.co/ouosHp4Tq2

[keewa 🇵🇸 @keewa]

Camilla, you are the host of a national syndicated television show and have a newspaper column; your views are representative of practically the entire ruling class of the Western Hemisphere

[alan rusbridger @arusbridger]

There’s a link between the spread of Nigel Farage’s evidence-free rabble-rousing and Michael Grade’s calamitous time at OfCom. https://t.co/xcBIBOfDPJ

[Kevin Hollinrake MP @kevinhollinrake]

Just saying @JDVance

[Alan Lester @aljhlester]

Henry Nowak’s murder is being politicised despite the family’s wishes because billionaire-funded propaganda is promoting the perverse idea of white victimhood to support far right populists. This anomalous incident is too good an opportunity for men like Farage & Vance to waste.