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