James 🤝

We men are not birds / Mankind will never fly / Said the bishop to the people

[James 🤝 @RedBraithwaite]

A missive from former AWL hanger-on, now prominent Green Party member

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

The left shouldn’t trust Andy Burnham, writes @michael_chessum

In the immediate aftermath of the 2016 referendum, Burnham went out of his way to promote the case for tougher border controls, arguing in a Guardian article that the referendum was “above all… a majority vote for an end to the current system of free movement”. The previous week, he had told the House of Commons that was “no longer prepared to be complicit” in Labour’s failure to confront the question of immigration, which “is undermining the cohesion of our communities and the safety of our streets”.

Burnham’s case against free movement in 2016 was mostly couched in a claim to know the will of the electorate, though he also made the case that immigration had driven down wages. At the time he was writing, UK median earnings had shrunk by 10.4 per cent since the financial crash, the second worst drop in the developed world. Burnham nodded to Bank of England research which showed that for every ten percentage point increase in the proportion of migrants in a given occupation, wages dropped by 0.3 per cent – a drop in the ocean of the overall wage depression.

https://t.co/08IgOYIJMl

[James 🤝 @RedBraithwaite]

Obviously the public who are replying to his post don't count

[Mike Tapp MP @MikeTappTweets]

The feedback I’ve had so far on messages, emails and social media is; the public agree, politicians disagree….

Well, who are we here to serve!?

It’s a complex conversation well worth having.

[James 🤝 @RedBraithwaite]

Nearing Britain's most reactionary trade union leader

[John Rentoul @JohnRentoul]

Andy Burnham must not make Ed Miliband chancellor, Sharon Graham, gen sec of Unite, warns

https://t.co/wpRSObOaUj

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

Let’s all get real. Keir Starmer’s support even in his own cabinet has collapsed & he’d be humiliated in a leadership election.Streeting has even less support & is in a puerile self promotion exercise. The priority now is the construction of an effective radical policy programme

[James 🤝 @RedBraithwaite]

The inevitable collapse of SpaceX will bring Musk crashing down

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

If these investments are less shares held in a business than a personal vote of confidence in one man, then what of the “It Boy”? Well, he is a 21st-century oligarch who increasingly sounds like a 19th-century imperialist. Somehow, the extraordinary wealth understates Musk’s power. He exerts profound influence over wars through his internet service, Starlink, sways public discourse through his ownership of X, and will now decide the future of humanity with SpaceX. The Great Man theory of history is back and so are the attitudes that shaped it. Like the Victorian industrialists, Musk and his tech bros believe they are a superior class destined to shape society. And he isn’t an aberration produced by a healthy system. He is the consequence of untrammelled industrial capitalism. Liberals mistook a temporary alliance for a law of nature.

@OliDugmore's Left Hook: Elon Musk is the bastard heir of liberal capitalism

https://t.co/PCaadAMCTY

[James 🤝 @RedBraithwaite]

Musk is an investor, not a maker. The bubble he is making through investor hubris is not a model

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

Why don't you set up a business making rockets, electric cars and AI, Lewis? It's obviously so easy to do, anyone can do it. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

Scale of sentences on the 4 young people who took direct action against the arms supplier to Israel is truly shocking. To impose years of imprisonment for protesting to save lives in Gaza is unjust, especially sentencing on terrorist grounds they were never convicted of by a jury

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

6 years for criminal damage.

Very happy to discuss ‘two tier justice’.

[James 🤝 @RedBraithwaite]

Hands up before he shoots

[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

Al Carns, who quit last night as armed forces minister, says there is an argument about whether welfare cuts could fund defence spending

‘The reality is we are fighting amongst each other to get more money for the key unifying principle of any government which is to protect this nation

‘We have got to be find more money. There is an argument about welfare. I am a firm believer that it’s about hands up, not a hand out. But we need to help the people who need the most help within the nation but also get the balance right on defence’

[James 🤝 @RedBraithwaite]

Living in a paranoid la la land

[John Healey @JohnHealey_MP]

My letter to the Prime Minister

[Jess Barnard @JessicaLBarnard]

Following an investigation, my suspension has been lifted. I have been fully reinstated with immediate effect

I’ve spent my life fighting for a party that represents its members and serves working‑class people

Im standing for re-election to Labours NEC

Let’s get our party back

[James 🤝 @RedBraithwaite]

Ronaldo McDonald was the bollex

[Thomas Skinner ⚒ @iamtomskinner]

Is it me, or has the world had the colour sucked out of it?

Just watching a film from the 90s and everything is so bright and colourful. The cars are red, blue, yellow, green. The houses have loads of character….. remember the gaff from home alone! It was bloody brilliant.

Now go look out ya window.

Nearly every car down ya street is black, grey or silver. Every new house is white, grey or modern grey. Every kitchen looks like it was designed by someone who hates happiness. Even mine in my new house is boring as fuck…. Had a brilliant kitchen in me old house…. It was straight out the 90s… but it had character!

Even yesterday I stopped at McDonald’s with the kids on way home. First time this year.

What the F**k happened to them!!!

When I was a kid ya McDonald’s looked like a carnival. Bright colours everywhere, birthday parties, ball pits, slides, Ronald McDonald. They was the bollex

This one looked like a poxy Amazon warehouse where you collect ya Big Mac from a poxy touchscreen.

Even our homes have changed.

I Remember me nan’s house?

Green bath. Pink carpet, then an extra cut of pink carpet round the toilet. Orange flower wallpaper. And a ceramic duck that took up an entire window ledge.

We’ve somehow replaced character with minimalism.

If there is any property developers that follow me, can ya please bring back the purple bathroom suite.

Bosh❤️

[James 🤝 @RedBraithwaite]

One of the best journalists of our age

[Jack Roworth @RoworthJack]

EXC: I’ve just asked Nicola Sturgeon if she still loves Peter Murrell despite everything that has happened.

[James 🤝 @RedBraithwaite]

It's TfL and London Underground inconveniencing people because they can't manage industrial relations and allow these strikes to happen

[Angeli-Angelicaaa @ttangfastics]

Sorry I’ve had enough of these tube strikes. A REAL STRIKE would be open the barriers. Make TFL lose money because that’s all they care about anyway. The strikes only inconvenience the people who use the service and are not blocking your money like come on

[James 🤝 @RedBraithwaite]

@OisinMul_ I mean, it is really funny

[James 🤝 @RedBraithwaite]

A tremendous use of cameo, no notes

[James 🤝 @RedBraithwaite]

Lee Juan Yew also founded a party that explicitly uses the same symbol of the British Union of Fascists, signs I'm sure in his commitment to justice

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Lee Kuan Yew abolished trial by jury in Singapore after determining that it was too easy for defence lawyers to appeal to racial and religious biases of juries in multicultural Singapore.

He writes in his memoirs how as a young lawyer he was able to get three clients acquitted who he was sure did commit murder. LKY writes that he "worked on the weaknesses of the jury -- their biases, their prejudices, their reluctance really to find four Muslims guilty of killing in cold blood or in a heat of great passion, religious passion, an RAF officer, his wife and child."

He writes "The judge was thoroughly disgusted. I went home feeling quite sick because I knew I'd discharged my duty as required of me, but I knew I had done wrong.”

Study after study shows that in multi ethnic societies, there is significant in-group bias on juries.

[James 🤝 @RedBraithwaite]

A public realm dominated by the Epstein class clucking in agreement with each other

[John Rentoul @JohnRentoul]

Polanski on Sky News, the authentic voice of the know-nothing Corbynites

[James 🤝 @RedBraithwaite]

Why do we live in an infantile time they name things "Bee network " and Weaver Network?

Hopefully Sadiq changes TfL Buses to the Smog Network or something

[Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire @MayorOfWY]

Another step forward for West Yorkshire’s Weaver Network 🚌

We've brought UK manufacturer Wright Bus on board to deliver almost 200 electric buses, ready to hit the streets when we take buses back under public control from next year.

👉Read the latest on our Weaver Network: https://t.co/sSnGztxOs1

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

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