Tim Burrows

This *ought* to be massive news, I found Corbyn's views on Russia deeply iffy but not to the extent of treachery and he was absolutely hounded by the media over it, I suspect this top pal of Farage being in Putin's pocket will be roundly ignored, however.

Netanyahu:

"Would a country committing genocide plead with the civilian population that it is supposedly targeting to get out of harms way? Did the Nazis ask the Jews to leave? Of course not"

Actually, encouraging Jews to emigrate is exactly what the Nazis did 1933-39.

Ignorant of Jewish history.

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Imagine being these world leaders and experienced diplomats and just having to sit there and listen to this maniac talking absolute dangerous bollocks for hours. It’s sometimes hard to believe this is real life.

spokesperson for Sadiq Khan:

“We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response.

“London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”

Excited to announce the first London screening of We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher, a film I have been helping with this past year. I'm in conversation with Andy Beckett (who features in the fim) afterwards.

30 October, Good Shepherd Studios, Leytonstone: www.tickettailor.com/events/weflo...

This is a wonderful *Proustian* thread about everyone's fave humanist hymn – and the news that "Autumn Days" was once cancelled is just so very fun

“Since President Trump took office, 15 people have died in immigration detention, 10 of those deaths occurred between January and June … The senators say that is the highest rate in the first six months of any year publicly available.”

The film was born during a conversation on a park bench near Rochford, Essex, about the cultural significance of Fisher. It has been made at speed w no budget, led by directors Simon Poulter and Sophie Mellor, and stars @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social as "Parkins" and is a melange of fact and fiction

Excited to announce the first London screening of We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher, a film I have been helping with this past year. I'm in conversation with Andy Beckett (who features in the fim) afterwards.

30 October, Good Shepherd Studios, Leytonstone: www.tickettailor.com/events/weflo...

Egypt announces pardon for top activist who's spent 6 years behind bars Egyptian authorities on Monday announced the presidential pardon of prominent activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, according to his lawyer Khaled Ali and an announcement by Egypt’s state TV.

Momentous news that will reverberate far beyond Egypt: A presidential pardon for Alaa Abd el-Fattah.

His family worked for years for this moment: His mother went on a hunger strike that very nearly killed her to secure her son's freedom. His sister camped outside the British foreign office.

I heard you fight fascism by simply saying: 'Sir! Your deportation numbers! They simply do not stack up!'

Just to illustrate how much worse it's got, I have received more abuse over the past year and a bit - including death threats and a large volume of antisemitism - for what I write than in the previous 15 years of covering migration and the far right put together.

It's like someone tried to do Gilbert and George with AI

100% pure Gove commission

Of all the former Tory ministers I'd have had down as a Weimar fantasist, it would have been Gove tbf

I'm old enough to remember US libertarians condemning the UK for much less than what he is now proposing. It was six months ago!

The deciding factor is the money in the new tech and media companies - GB News, X etc - propelling the racist narrative to shift opinion to the far right. The perfect irony is that the naked capitalism that supports Trumpian politics has in part created the economic conditions upon which they rely

I agree with @sundersays.bsky.social et al that economic conditions don't 'create' racist movements - but a longterm downturn in salary (& rising property costs and resulting degradation of local infrastructure/architecture) set the conditions of 'ressentiment' on which Robinson & Farage thrive

I feel like more people need to be educated on the effects of cocaine on a person's face

Watched this last night on Luke's recommendation and it was a great example of how to do a doc on a serious topic aimed at a youth audience that isn't dumbed-down.

This, from The Londoner yesterday, also features people on the march who claim not to be racists. Though the things they say prove otherwise

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

The BBC’s best programme loses its star Melvyn Bragg is retiring from “In Our Time”

The Economist on BBC dumbing down: Newscast issues a “geek alert” before interviewing such apparently recherché figures as trade experts. In Our Time, by contrast, unapologetically offered an entire episode on David Ricardo, a 19th-century economist...

The Labour party's ridiculous attempt to lick the arse of its enemies is responsible for all this. Out of their depth even as second-raters, and as committed as the Tories to Get In At All Costs Then Don't Know What To Do politics.

Had a few conversations recently that make me think, for the first time in ages, there are some exciting things happening in media. This is one of the highlights: Equator, a new magazine set up by Nesrine Malik, Pankaj Mishra, Jonathan Shainin and others. Sign up for info here: www.equator.org

If the UK government doesn’t respond strongly to this, then the consequences will be grave.

There is a serious failure in UK govt, politics & media to take sufficiently seriously what Musk said & meant with "fight back or die"

= Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure

Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.

Infidels MC was set up by US military veterans of the Iraq war in 2006 and members see themselves as modern Crusaders...

"Putting the Infidels biker club in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Gaza is like putting the KKK in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Sudan"