Mark Doidge

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

'Hearing the concerns' of racists is just barely concealed racism in itself.

“Concerned citizens” was what the Ku Klux Klan rebranded as to fight desegregation.

journals.openedition.org/ejas/14437?l... Citizens’ Councils, Conservatism and White Supremacy in Louisiana, 1964-1972

Why don’t they listen to the worries of people concerned about climate change, high rents, stagnated wages, growing inequality? We know why they only listen to racists.

This is full-fat fascism from a Labour minister. Legitimising the idea that people seeking asylum represent a danger when compared to any other UK citizen is legitimising the far-right. To say that the government 'hears the worries' is to give credence to fascist conspiracy theories.

The question of an anti-immigration ‘protest’ leading to someone’s death is no longer a matter of if, but when, and when it happens, I hope we will all remember who the people in charge were that touted their own fecklessness and handed the perpetrators license to take matters into their own hands.

The man who blew up Theresa May's premiership, now trying to blow up the country...

This is a billionaire-funded Tony Blair lobbying project being funnelled unchallenged onto the front page of a national newspaper.
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Was good to see the fascists massively outnumbered by pro-refugee protestors - at least 5 to 1 I’d guess - but I can’t begin to understand why they were allowed to demonstrate right outside the hotel in the first place - people have to live there ffs

That Melanie Phillips is a lunatic conspiracist bigot and racist is not remotely shocking. But the fact that the Times continues to employ her should be.

Interesting phrasing. I wonder if there's a more succinct way of saying "backlash against antiracism"

Fascists buy up land for white-only communities in Wales A far-right group has raised £162,000 to create racially exclusive settlements as its leader seeks to create enclaves across Britain

Groups of Nazis are buying up land to create whites-only communities in Britain. They aim to use Nigel Farage’s Reform to gain further political leverage.
Although @thetimes.com appreciates that ‘anti-immigrant sentiment’ fuels them, it continues to promote it. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Language on immigration in UK news and politics found to have ‘shaped backlash against antiracism’ Pattern of ‘hostile language’ in media and debates likely to describe people of colour with less sympathy, report says

‘Backlash against antiracism’ or racism as it’s usually known. If you’d prefer don’t want to be antiracist it’s because you’re happy to be racist

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

And the Guardian wonder why people aren’t subscribing to this rubbish

Others have noted that this means foreign-born people are LESS likely than UK-born people to be in prison. What I want to note is that The Times is now referring to foreign-born UK citizens as ‘foreigners’. This includes Boris Johnson, Sir Mo Farah, Emma Watson, Rory Stewart and little old me.

Why not revive Sure Start to win back Labour voters?

Met police to more than double use of live facial recognition Technology will now be used up to 10 times a week across five days, up from four times a week across two days

As Britain's surveillance society becomes permanent, the Metropolitan Police expands its unregulated use of live facial recognition technology and increases the number of officers using it for protest surveillance, "particularly related to Israel and Palestine" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Starmer is the kind of guy who’d watch someone choke to death because the polls said Reform voters think the Heimlich manoeuvre sounds both German AND French

X invariably fail to remove the most egregiously unlawful content.

Nothing changed after Knowsley, when they rejected complaints vs open calls to burn the hotel down.

Nothing changed after Southport & Sunderland: the very posts for which users are in prison remain on X to this day!

Interesting that as the "tide turns" there is only condemnation for the starvation, not for what happens before or after

Famine now unfolding in Gaza, says UN-backed monitor – Middle East crisis live Airdrops are not enough to avert the humanitarian catastrophe, says the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative

Palestinians in Gaza ‘enduring humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions’, says UN secretary general – Middle East crisis live

There are no words left for what the Israeli government and IDF are doing to Gazans.

And yet we must still keep finding the words to say it loudly: they are actively committing genocide and the our governments are letting them.

@nesrinemalik.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Peter Kyle is vice chair of Labour Friends of Israel. As he’s friends, why doesn’t he ask them to stop killing children and stop enabling the slaughter?

Free speech update. Local schoolchildren made a banner saying "Epping welcomes all except racists". The Homeland Party [their Norfolk organiser] says his members have taken and burnt it, sharing the image of burning the anti-racist message on social media, to emphasise their commitment to racism.

Interesting to note that the Daily Mail couldn’t actually stop going on about migrants, even when there’s a proper feel good front page story.

For the love of God, Radio 4, the EU will NOT pay a 15% tax. US consumers will.

Heard someone say ‘In my company we’re encouraged to work from home, but only at the weekends.”

The bullet train in 🇯🇵-as glorious as everyone says. A reminder the Japanese built their first high speed train for the 1964 Olympics and it became national by the 80s. They’re now building Maglevs (floating trains).

Meanwhile in 🇬🇧 we can’t be sure we’ll connect HS2 to Euston. Pathetic.

Rasmus Jarlov on Twitter writes: "There is nothing to celebrate. Moving from average tariffs of less than 2% on trade between the USA and Europe to 15% under today’s deal will inevitably lead to inflation. Almost everything will become more expensive in both Europe and the USA, and we will all be worse off. The economic illiteracy in the White House is doing serious damage to the West." Stylish Skunk replies: "I have a feeling you have 0 idea what you're talking about. In fact I know you do." Rasmus Jarlov responds: "Of course. I am former minister of trade in Denmark and you are an anonymous Twitter profile. You probably know a lot more than me. For sure."

lol

Chloe Kelly: "Thank you to everyone who wrote me off. I'm grateful."