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My interview in today's Guardian on identity: patriotism and flags, control and compassion on asylum & racism online and offline
Sunder Katwala
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Sunder Katwala
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- James Cleverly has laid a draft order to proscribe Hizb ut-Tahrir. Blair, Brown and Cameron all proposed to do this (from 2005-10) but ultimately decided against doing so. gov.uk/government/new…
- Mail on Sunday report mistakenly imagines that Damson Idris [surname: Idris, born in Peckham, parents from Nigeria] must be the brother of Idris Elba [surname Elba, born in Hackney, parents from Sierra Leone & Ghana]
- Liz Truss is the sole UK Prime Minister since 1900 to never hold office on St George's Day, as her tenure was Sept - Oct 2022.Happy St George's Day!
GIF - "A massive stain on British history" - according to the never intentionally informed Mike Graham - that, for the 45th time in a row, the UK prime minister will not be at an event that no British PM ever attended!Keir Starmer has not been invited to the inauguration of Donald Trump in a major snub. Mike Graham: "You can't mess around in politics and pretend you're in a student union... A massive stain on British history that our Prime Minister won't be there!" @Iromg
00:00 - This part of the formal interview has got a bit overshadowed
- Can anybody conflirm whether Joseph Stalin's agenda for liquidating the Kulaks did include provision to pass on about £2 million tax-free (£1 million each for property/farm) before seeking a contribution to public finances if more than that was being passed across generations?So many bad things in the Budget but the attack on family farms is Stalinist. Really Stalinist.
- Home Secretary told the Mail online she is "furious" the police intervened on golliwog displays in an Essex pub. Yet it seems the highly racist landlord had posted Facebook images of the Golliwogs hanging in his pub, writing "they used to hand them in Mississippi years ago"
- Absurd ITV news judgment, both to treat a one word tweet as a serious intervention and to fail to include the constitutional position, so giving credence to utter nonsenseElon Musk calls on King to dissolve parliament amid row over grooming gangs itv.com/news/2025-01-0…
- Is this something that the BBC would now intervene in re Lord Sugar? Or are the rules different for Match of the Day (sport) and The Apprentice (business/gameshow)?
- Unusual to see the Mail, Express, Times join the Guardian with all choosing the same image of anti-fascist demonstrations.
- Abolishing inheritance tax outright would be worth up to £290 million to Rishi Sunak's own children - given his wealth of £730 million, and a tax levied at 40% after the first £1 million.
- What a total personal and professional embarassment this should be for anybody who was involved in writing, editing, publishing or briefing this story in 2022. I do hope we will quickly hear cross-party disdain for seeing this as a legitimate political or media challengeTories accuse Labour’s Angela Rayner of Basic Instinct ploy to distract Boris Johnson:
- This is the radicalised @elonmusk sharing the deputy leader of the far right extreme Britain First group who has doctored a false headline. The owner does not seem to attempt even cursory checks on what/who he is posting to share far right content including misinformation on X
