jwatson

Filmmaker, academic, queer, punjabi-british Producer of Sebastian, A Moment in the Reeds

[Very Historic Problems @VHistoricProbs]

The Nigel Farage Guide to Being a Working-Class Hero

Step 1: Be born to a City stockbroker.

Step 2: Attend Dulwich College, fees currently £53,000 a year.

Step 3: Skip university. Become a City commodities trader instead.

Step 4: Run one of your metal broking firms into insolvency.

Step 5: Get elected to the European Parliament. Spend the next 21 years drawing a salary from the institution you're paid to dismantle.

Step 6: Claim £15,500 a year in expenses for an office your party was given rent-free.

Step 7: Put your wife on the EU parliamentary payroll. Take her off only when the rules force you to.

Step 8: Get investigated by the EU's anti-fraud office. Eventually have half your MEP salary docked to repay misused public funds.

Step 9: Throw a Brexit victory party at the Ritz. Decry the "professional political class" to a room of millionaires.

Step 10: Take £450,000 in personal gifts from Arron Banks. House. Car. Lifestyle.

Step 11: Take £5 million, undisclosed, from a Bangkok-based crypto billionaire. Days later, announce you're standing for parliament after all.

Step 12: Win Clacton. Take the £93,904 MP salary. Add £1.2 million a year from GB News at £2,300 an hour. Become the highest-earning MP in the House of Commons.

Step 13: Speak in parliament fewer times than any other party leader. Fly to America at least nine times in your first year. Refuse to hold in-person constituency surgeries. Holiday in France while parliament is sitting.

Step 14: Tell the working class you're one of them. Tell them to vote against their own interests, over and over again.

Pint, mate?

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Superb political ad. One of the best you’ll see.

This is better, and resonates more, than anything coming from Labour or the Tories.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The morning after Hannah won I was asked time and time again about this.

There was no evidence for it. Instead the establishment media fuelled the fire.

It was Islamaphobic. And it's because those in power are scared of us ending rip off Britain.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

“A toddler in Gaza released from Israeli custody has been returned to his family with suspected torture wounds.”

Read that again.

[Screen International @Screendaily]

How is company consolidation impacting independent producers?

"The ecosystem needs [consolidated companies] and they are making prestige TV with bigger budgets that can travel... but where does independent production fit in?”

[Anne Thompson @akstanwyck]

I couldn't agree more with this thesis: How Wall Street Has Killed Hollywood: The End of Warner Bros https://t.co/mCAYpLl74t

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

“The global food system is systemically fragile in the same way that the global financial system was before the 2008 crash…the same factors that would have brought down the financial system now threaten to bring down the food system”. Essential reading👇 https://t.co/YicjrpF2Pv

[Ben Smoke @bencsmoke]

@errjustsaying how exactly does the privately educated son of a multi millionaire represent the essex white man van?

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Palantir has no place in our NHS.

The Labour government must get this Mandelson and Trump backed company out now.

Listen to what health workers are saying.
https://t.co/eDq6zbKhtL

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Why don’t Palestinians have proper housing @nytimes? Is someone blocking shelter aid and reconstruction?

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The children were 5 and 7 years old. They shot them in their car.

I don’t know who still needs to hear this, but murdering families for sport is not normal.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Richard Tice said that Angela Raynor should resign over £40,000 of stamp duty.

Today it is revealed that the same man has avoided £600,000 of corporation tax.

Should he resign? Or is it one rule for posh blokes and another for working class women?

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: The Mandelson-Epstein scandal is also the Mandelson-Palantir scandal.

MP @alexburghart asks why Keir Starmer’s visit to Palantir’s office in Washington - arranged by Mandelson while his firm repped Palantir - was kept off books.
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[Variety @Variety]

A “60 Minutes” report yanked by Bari Weiss about the “horrific treatment” of detainees deported from the U.S. to a prison in El Salvador has leaked online after appearing on a Canadian TV app. https://t.co/vWi4QOpX0Q

[Alan Ferrier @alanferrier]

France just jailed its ex-president for illegally funding his 2007 presidential campaign.
https://t.co/r1yZMtoNTa

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

We don't think it's too late to investigate Farage's election expenses.

RT if you agree.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Thank you Secretary General.

We also need to end the pretense that the Gaza Inferno is 'just' a humanitarian crisis, the result of a natural catastrophe.

Without facing the institutionalised violence and impunity, in Israel and beyond, nothing will stay as is.
Not even the UN.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

If you say ‘from the river to the sea’ in the UK you will now seemingly face arrest.

That’s unless, presumably, if you’re Israeli. In which case you’d be merely repeating a line in the party platform of Likud, the party of Benjamin Netanyahu.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Michelle Mone remains a life peer with a personal wealth in the tens of millions.

Why is she not in prison?

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Palestinians tell BBC they were sexually abused in Israeli prisons https://t.co/FpUq9Im1zh