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What my mother’s glorious life taught me about Britain today. My column.
Aditya Chakrabortty
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Aditya Chakrabortty
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I am gainfully employed by a newspaper. Future generations will not be able to say that.
- Whatever side you're on, whatever your ethnicity, this is truly a historic moment. The UK has its first Goldman Sachs Prime Minister.
- If only Number 10 had acted as quickly and forcefully on the pandemic in March as it has to save Dominic Cummings.
- Priti Patel’s own parents left persecution in Uganda to come here. In 1972, Ted Heath agreed to take in 28,000 Ugandan Asians fleeing Idi Amin. 28,000 in one year, despite the protests of Enoch Powell. And the daughter of that generation does them a dishonour."We can not accommodate 20,000 people in one go." Home Secretary @pritipatel tells @KayBurley it is "important" to have a system "that delivers" regarding the new Afghan refugee scheme. Latest: trib.al/LjmDwre #KayBurley
00:00 - Dear students, your A-levels aren’t so important. What matters most is that your parents have a house in London or the south-east in which to put you up during internships and then to use as equity for you to buy your first home. Don’t change your grades! Change your parents.
- Just to clarify: the man who went to Whipps Cross hospital to make a political point and grandstand for cameras was not the father of a sick little girl being treated there. It was the Prime Minister.
- Amazing disease, this covid-19. Seems primarily to target the likes of Prince Charles and Idris Elba, but not nurses, homeless people or carers. I wonder why that is?
- "Thems the breaks," they say to the 180,000 dead of Covid, the families enduring the biggest benefit cut since WW2, the schoolkids denied catch-up funding. "Thems the breaks." All just a game to these people.
- . @BBCNews shouldn’t euphemise Trump’s hate-speech. Telling people to ‘go back home’ Isn’t “dog-whistle”, as described by @bbcnickrobinson: everyone can hear it. It’s not “racially-charged”. It’s straight out racist and journalists should call things what they are.
- Incredible to think that the government that dragged its heels for so long over providing £120 million summer meals to hungry kids will happily spend triple that - £500 million - for a gimmick of cutprice Nando's next month. Priorities, eh.
- The BBC website's report on @maitlis 's speech completely omits any mention of Robbie Gibb. As if the Corporation is seeking to confirm her argument about its censorship
- This am @BBCr4today discussed the economy with a private equity investor, a coalition minister and the editor of the Economist. All in happy consensus. Why are people from the same political perspective presented as experts? Why are they the only people who talk on the economy?
- Priti Patel is at least consistent. She believes No Lives Matter.BREAKING: Home Secretary Priti Patel says the toppling of a statue of slaver Edward Colston in Bristol is "utterly disgraceful", adding the police should 'follow up' on the incident news.sky.com/story/george-f…
