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Dan Hancox
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Politics, music, cities, food, Spain, @ The Guardian, Observer, VICE, LRB, NYT. Co-host @CursedObjectsUK. New book: MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World
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    Dan Hancox
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    Sep 10, 2024
    🟡 Reminder that I am now available to discuss football crowds, riot crowds, carnival crowds, protest crowds, crowd policing, crowd behaviour, mobs etc - and if you want to review MULTITUDES, please get in touch! 🟡
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    Dan Hancox
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    Aug 14, 2024
    It's here! 🥳 'MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World' is published @VersoBooks 22 October 2024. Get in touch for review copies / interview requests / commissions / talks / podcasts etc
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    Dan Hancox
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    Jul 31, 2024
    just ordinary, down-to-earth, normal, everyday, hard-working, normal, everyday normal folk, throwing bricks at a mosque
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    Katharine Birbalsingh
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    Jul 31, 2024
    Replying to @oldandrewuk @LordLucasCD and @arc_forum
    Just calling them the Far right is a lie. Lots of these people are just ordinary people.
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    Dan Hancox
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    Sep 19, 2022
    I think if I worked for BBC News in any capacity I would absolutely mortified after the last fortnight. "Public service", "BBC balance" and purported pluralism revealed for what it truly is - an inflexible arm of the state and the elites that control it. Truly an embarrassment
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    Dan Hancox
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    Jun 18, 2017
    Grenfell survivors told they will be declared "intentionally homeless" if they refuse relocation outside of London
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    hass
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    Jun 18, 2017
    #grenfelltower survivor says they are being pressured to move as far north as Preston 😱 @smtm_LFC x.com/imjustbait/sta…
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    Dan Hancox
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    Nov 11, 2023
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    Dan Hancox
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    Dec 8, 2021
    Bit weird how on last night's Newsnight, when they introduced the clip of Allegra Stratton laughing about how to lie to the public about illegal parties in No.10, they somehow forgot to mention that she was Newsnight's Political Editor 2012-16
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    Dan Hancox
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    Apr 21, 2020
    My friend is a doctor and at the induction for the Nightingale Hospital they were shown a video message of thanks and support from the singer from The Kooks
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    Dan Hancox
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    Aug 3, 2023
    Britain's children simply must be dragged away from their ruinous, degrading obsession with gardening
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    Katharine Birbalsingh
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    Aug 3, 2023
    You want kids to read? Make them read. Constantly. Break it down. You want kids to add and subtract? Do maths. Constantly. Means no phones. No yoga. No gardening. No chatter and lack of attention. It means HARD GRAFT It ain’t sexy But it can be done It can even be fun👍🏽
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    Dan Hancox
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    Mar 12, 2017
    holy crap look what's been hiding literally inside peckham rye station all these years - original waiting room, bricked up after beeching
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    Dan Hancox
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    Dec 8, 2019
    Just walked past some strangers wearing Labour stickers in Elephant & Castle tube, clearly post-canvass, and instinctively did this ✊ - not even ironically?? - and one of them smiled and did it back, and I suddenly felt q emo, and oh god it's been a long month, I'm so nervous
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    Dan Hancox
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    Feb 18, 2019
    Chuka Umunna also defected from UK garage for "soulful house", when the MCs started to get involved, and that is all you need to know about him imho
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    Dan Hancox
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    Apr 3, 2020
    It will be hard for me to look back on the defeat of Corbynism without rancour. Hard to forget that, when faced with a choice between Tory barbarism and the socialism that would literally be saving lives atm, senior liberal columnists invoked - instrumentalised - the Holocaust
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    Dan Hancox
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    Dec 9, 2019
    Did I miss @tnewtondunn's acknowledgement of and apology for writing (and eventually removing) a raving anti-semitic conspiracy theory about "hard-left extremists", based on neo-Nazi website Aryan Unity? Tom? Did I miss it? Let me know if I missed it
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    Dan Hancox
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    Mar 22, 2020
    well done to the journalists who held a worried public and a critical opposition to account, rather than dominic cummings. really well done