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Martin Bright
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Martin Bright
@martinbright
Senior Lecturer, University of Essex. Editor-at-large @indexcensorship. Founder @creativesoc. Journalist portrayed in Official Secrets. martinbright.com
- A moment of national shame. I can’t believe I live in a country where this barbaric act has taken place. Wrong on every level.
- Would have been simpler and safer to put £2k a month in everyone’s bank account, freeze all mortgages and tell everyone except essential workers to stay home.
- Glum Brits waiting in static line at Oslo airport for an analogue stamp, while EU and Norwegian passengers sweep through the digital barriers. Embarrassing Brexit self-harm in one shot. #brexit
00:00 - This is an extraordinary intervention from Bob Seely MP. Naming the UK lawyers who took money from Russian oligarchs to sue Britain journalists.
- “No government could commit to an outcome without knowing what it is...” so said Theresa May about the indicative votes. But that is precisely what the governmnent did with the referendum. #Brexit
- The sight of men with guns seizing unarmed young women and old people as hostages should finally end the idea that Hamas is a resistance movement. This is militant antisemitism and misogyny. To describe it any other way demeans the very concept of resistance.
- This nonsense has to stop.NEW: The 22-year old woman who was arrested after holding up this anti-monarchy placard at St Giles' Cathedral has now been CHARGED “in connection with a breach of the peace", @PoliceScotland confirm. Will appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court at a later date.
- To be fair, this is a genuinely informed discussion of contemporary politics with an audience of 5000 people on a cold night with football on the telly. An impressively young crowd too. @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret #TRIPLive #TheRestisPolitics
- Wherever you stand on this debate, this position is impossible to justify. Gender-critical feminists are not comparable to antisemites.Stonewall is comparing women defending sex-based rights to anti-semites and anti-vaxxers are wearing yellow stars, all - they say - to defend their causes. All they are actually doing is exploiting Jewish history and demonstrating how little they care about the feelings of Jews
- Finally, this story is getting the coverage it merits. Now we need to hear from the people who represent the people in care homes @r&ra Coronavirus: Older people being 'airbrushed' out of virus figures
- Solidarity with my former colleagues at the Observer. I never worked with @soniasodha but her leader was a measured, reasonable and principled defence of free speech. Terf war embroils Guardian HQ | The Spectator
- This is a shameful moment. What a mess. Proud to have published @Docstockk in @IndexCensorship. A difficult day for academic freedom.
- Very impressed by quietly spoken VC of @SussexUni Adam Tickell on @BBCr4today unconditionally defending the free speech of @Docstockk. A model approach.
