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Back to school! Reposting this for no other reason than that it gives me joy.
Replying to @AlisonKriel
It looks like the link to The Goede Hoop Marimba Band is no longer playing so well so here they are in all their glory
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Trevor Phillips
4,620 posts
Trevor Phillips
@TrevorPTweets
Chair, WebberPhillips, @GreenParkLtd & @indexCensorship; Senior Fellow @Policy_Exchange ; Columnist @thetimes ;Presenter, @SkyNews
London, England
Joined February 2019
- So “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”, celebrating the Underground Railway, written AFTER the Civil War by a freed slave, made popular by the African American Fisk Jubilee Singers, sung at many black funerals and civil rights demonstrations, honoured by Congress, now to be banned.
- To draw the right lessons from the “Unite the Kingdom” march we should start by reporting who was actually there and what actually happened. I was there and this is how it went down. *Dismiss Unite the Kingdom march at your peril* thetimes.com/article/d29d39…
- Thank you everyone for your condolences and your support for our family. Since Brandon Lewis and I spoke he has been in touch privately to express his sympathies; I am grateful. @RidgeOnSunday
- Replying to @TrevorPTweets2/2 It was a favourite of Paul Robeson, of Louis Armstrong and of Martin Luther King. The last attempt to ban the song was in 1939, in Germany. So black people’s own culture is also now to be cancelled. Please everyone, take a breath before you eliminate black lives from history.
- A small moment I felt proud to be part of. This interview with @KwasiKwarteng was followed by one with @DavidLammy . Perhaps the first time a flagship political programme was led by three black men NOT discussing what they look like but the economy, Ukraine and domestic politics..@KwasiKwarteng tells @TrevorPTweets the PM was right to clarify his position regarding his Jimmy Savile comments directed at Labour leader, and says the language was "perfectly reasonable" in context. #Phillips: trib.al/7dXYks9 📺 Sky 501, Freeview 233 and YouTube
00:00 - It would be bad manners to comment on decisions of my estimable successors at the @EHRC David Isaac and Kishwer Falkner, both appointed in much the same way as I was.But I served a three full terms at CRE/EHRC under both Labour administrations and Tory/Lib Dem coalition…..1/5
- Replying to @TrevorPTweets……I laughed out loud and couldn’t stop. I do hope the current EHRC is not asked to pay a price for my over-developed sense of the absurd…..5/5
- Astonishing. I was publicly assured by senior dons at Oxford on Tuesday evening that the disgraceful Selina Todd incident was merely a one-off. If Oxford cannot live up to its claims then it should remove these platitudes from its website compliance.web.ox.ac.uk/freedom-of-spe… @IndexCensorshipBadly judged & rude of some students last night at Oxford to decide to “no platform” me 30 mins before an event I had been invited to for #IWD2020 to encourage young women into politics. They should stop hiding and start engaging. #FreeSpeechcompliance.web.ox.ac.ukFreedom of speechThe University's statement on the importance of freedom of speech
- Thank you, Louise Casey , for opening the door to truth. Silence has created hundreds of victims. Shame on those who saw, heard and walked by on the other side. And they knew at least a decade ago. See below 38:00 to 48:00.“Ministers owe an apology to all of the people who they essentially said were talking rubbish.” @TrevorPTweets, former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, calls for an apology over grooming gangs, particularly to the late Times reporter Andrew Norfolk.
00:00 - Replying to @TrevorPTweetsTo be fair, I do have beef with the UN human rights conference circus, which declared me persona non grata when I led the EHRC….partly because when I was asked to endorse the appointment of Saudi Arabia to the chair of a UN body sitting in judgement on the rights of women….4/5
- Replying to @TrevorPTweets……Uganda, where homosexual acts get you life in prison; or demanding that a Pakistani heritage Muslim woman be judged by a body whose advisory group proudly features representatives from Saudi Arabia, China and Russia given their records on women’s and LGBTQ+ rights….3/5
- Replying to @TrevorPTweets…so being the only other person to go through the proposed UN process may I respectfully suggest to @EHRC critics that they consider the irony of arraigning Falkner before a body whose expert committee recently appointed as its rapporteur a longtime representative from….2/5
