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Huw I @huwinslow.bsky.social · 1h

Aaand they went with 'it's unfair if they are cost-effective'

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 2h

We've gone from "legitimate concerns about the pace of change in communities" to this absolutely chilling juncture in the space of ten years. The trajectory of norm erosion, and the consequences of that for minorities, were entirely predictable. So where will we be in a decade's time?

Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 2h

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

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Huw I @huwinslow.bsky.social · 4h

You can rewire a house, unlock a door and rebuild a bridge. This is pure verb salad.

Huw I @huwinslow.bsky.social · 4h

Some sanity and genuinely informed journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew

Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

www.theguardian.com

Huw I @huwinslow.bsky.social · 15h

Busy working out all the ways it wouldn't be cost-effective.

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 17h

Worth saying that despite asking for more than 12 hours we’ve had nothing back from Labour on this

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 19h

A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Huw I @huwinslow.bsky.social · 18h

There is clear, unquestionable evidence that huge numbers of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are racist, provocative and hostile toward Arabs and muslims. That there are thousands of anti-semitic Brummies waiting for the opportunity to attack anyone Jewish is an huge assumption based on demographics.

Huw I @huwinslow.bsky.social · 21h

She's either deliberately chosen not to (very easily) check if this is true or she's lying.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 21h

Lisa Nandy: "He's right to say that it is unprecedented in recent times that an entire group of away supporters have been entirely banned from a game"

Unprecedented in recent times? In 2023 Legia Warsaw fans were banned from a game at Villa Park.

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Huw I @huwinslow.bsky.social · 1d

Andor does such an amazing job of demonstrating just how terrorism and resistance can be manipulated by imperial powers to their advantage without it being some mad conspiracy.

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Aleks Lewicki @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social · 1d

A lotta stuff seems to have happened „just like that” in the #LifeintheUK test handbook. Classes „appeared” and suddenly owned lots of land, Britain „grew” & „became” the „largest empire ever seen” and working conditions „gradually improved” - a history full of miracles, no violence, no struggles

A screenshot of page 41 of the handbook in preparation of the Life in the UK test

A screenshot of page 18 of the handbook in preparation of the Life in the UK test

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out it wasn't on Laura K but on Trevor Phillips. Still, Ed Miliband can't be unaware that the entire UK is a no-go area for the nationals of many countries, including their football fans, because the UK will not issue them visas.

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Gene, Vampire Hunter 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @avin-oops.bsky.social · 1d

Lisa Nandy, Ian Murray and Keir Starmer en route to Tel Aviv for emergency talks with the anti-semitic Tel Aviv police who have banned Jewish people from watching football

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Huw I @huwinslow.bsky.social · 1d

Great description of Andor in one re-cap as a Star Wars that feels 'neither long a go nor far away'.

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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 2d

Article refusing to be explicit here, but presumably Villa's assessment here was that it was likely their stewards would be racially abused or worse by the visitors

dead horse @hooved-mammal.bsky.social · 2d

Villa correctly assessed that allowing these disgusting thugs into the ground represented a threat to some of their employees before the police barred them. absolute proof that, from Villa's perspective at least, this has always been about Maccabi behaviour

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Aston Villa reportedly told stewards they could miss Maccabi Tel Aviv match

Club cites possible safety ‘concerns’ after West Midlands police decided to ban Maccabi fans from fixture

www.theguardian.com

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 3d

I will keep banging on about this…

…because it is clear that the UK political & media class is utterly broken.

To the point whereby local democracy, trust in the police, quality analysis, honesty, and public safety are all being deliberately sacrificed.

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Huw I @huwinslow.bsky.social · 2d

It’s batshit coming from the right it’s completely reasonable from the left.

mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 2d

I think Starmer has been a huge disappointment. He’s been passive & cowardly. He’s not politically savvy either.

I also think he is a decent person and really wants to fix the country.

However, the hatred for him, almost universal in the country, is nothing short of radicalisation. It’s batshit!

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 3d

Jenrick was a full on casual at 5 but got into ecstacy at 7 and really mellowed

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

The chances that Robert Jenrick *literally* went to "more than a few football matches in the away end" at Villa Park *in the 1980s* (ie, before his 8th birthday on 8.1.1990) are vanishingly small to non-existent. (He may have been in the away end at Villa Park as a child or teenager in the 1990s)

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3d

We might ask how the centre and right uniting to defeat the anti-racist left - by screaming accusations at them about their supposedly Hitlerian racial hate - has somehow become a consensus of centre and right xenophobia and racist incitement, with unified support for genocide and ethnic cleansing.

went to check in on this freak out of curiosity and, far from being a random, she's followed by lots of MPs current and former, journalists, think tankers, etc - once again! I feel like I'm losing my entire mind!
Hughster @hughster.bsky.s... • 59m
The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point
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I've never had curry or a kabab and don't intend to.
British food is the best. English breakfasts, Sunday roasts, fish and chips, pies, pasties, scones.
Also, our national dish isn't a chicken tikka masala - we only think that because a Labour MP said it decades ago to push multiculturalism.

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Huw I @huwinslow.bsky.social · 3d

Barney Ronay is an undoubtedly excellent sports journalist. That article is jarringly poor journalism without even getting into the disagareement.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 3d

The UK Football Policing Unit (UKFPU) has some choice words…

…for a PM who aggressively inserted racially-charged accusations into a local safety issue, seeking, seemingly on personal whim, to override well-informed local law & democracy mechanisms, and risking public safety.

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Huw I @huwinslow.bsky.social · 3d

'largely good natured fun' conflicts slightly with the Tory line at the time. Still good to see 80s hooligan violence getting the 'simpler times' nostalgia treatment.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 3d

It is utterly, despicably bereft that the rolling news all day today has been the British Monoparty Establishment's dedication to uphold the rights of openly fascist football hooligans with a track record of violence.

Further evidence of a governing class with zero moral legitimacy in our world.

Tel Aviv hooligan ban to be challenged by govt

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3d

You have to marvel at how relentlessly insulting British politics is

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Huw I @huwinslow.bsky.social · 3d

The government's race to negotiate for fascist football hooligans to be given permission to travel to a football match is being live reported by the BBC.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 4d

I searched in vain in this report for a single mainstream politician expressing an ounce of concern for the dignity and safety of the sizeable Muslim population in Aston and Birmingham.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A report by Dutch police into the disorder during the 2024 Amsterdam match found Maccabi fans had torn a Palestinian flag down from a local building and burned it, shouted: “Fuck you, Palestine,” and vandalised a taxi. Maccabi fans were also taped chanting: “Olé, olé. Let the IDF win, fuck the Arabs.”

After the match there were what the Amsterdam mayor called a series of “hit-and-run” assaults on Maccabi fans, which led to five people being taken to hospital. A further 20 to 30 were injured. Sixty-two people were arrested, mainly for public order offences. Four local people were given short jail terms for the violence against Maccabi fans.

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Huw I @huwinslow.bsky.social · 4d

Ok but not sure the NYT exposing him means 'a left wing cancellation' isn't an odd way to describe it. I'd say say as a right wing trope 'left wing cancel culture' certainly implies it was wrong.

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