Sam Wetherell @samwetherell
Historian of Britain and the World at the University of York. Interested in cities, art-making and the future. Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain out now. samwetherell.com Joined January 2011-
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The Labour Party’s upcoming deputy leadership contest:
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I made a mistake - and apologised. I've never armed a genocide though. Join.greenparty.org.uk
I made a mistake - and apologised. I've never armed a genocide though. Join.greenparty.org.uk
I mean this was ten years ago and Starmer two days ago agreed that people should be concerned about their daughters walking near hotels housing refugees.
I mean this was ten years ago and Starmer two days ago agreed that people should be concerned about their daughters walking near hotels housing refugees.
Yvette Cooper has just suspended all applications to bring family members to the UK under the asylum system.
Yvette Cooper has just suspended all applications to bring family members to the UK under the asylum system.
It's hard to tell which is more psychopathic and depressing. If this is true, or if it isn't.
It's hard to tell which is more psychopathic and depressing. If this is true, or if it isn't.
Starmer saying he is "completely at one with them" when asked about the anti asylum seeker protests is, by some degrees, worse than Trump's "very fine people on both sides" Charlottesville comment. But it of course won't be reported with anything like the same indignation.
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let's be real about this, these are attempts at pogroms
let's be real about this, these are attempts at pogroms
Where is this take away I wouldn’t mind visiting to show support. Well done to the window cleaning company for helping out.
Where is this take away I wouldn’t mind visiting to show support. Well done to the window cleaning company for helping out.
Hey, let’s do a quick check on how the totally patriotic, community spirited, open-minded flag guys are affecting York. (This was the Dragon House Chinese takeaway in Acomb yesterday. Everyone who could should order from them this week).
What if, and hear me out here, I don't want my city to be plastered with flags organised by a gofundmecampaign whose supporters on twitter seem to almost entirely to comprise of white nationalist activists? yorkpress.co.uk/news/25408201.…
In a similar vein, the only time Thomas Pynchon broke his reclusiveness was to voice himself on The Simpsons and told production he could not say mean things about Homer because he was his hero
In a similar vein, the only time Thomas Pynchon broke his reclusiveness was to voice himself on The Simpsons and told production he could not say mean things about Homer because he was his hero https://t.co/anXGipuxoU
Annual reminder, if you are wondering what kind of world we are currently living in, that the tech company used by most UK universities to handle phone calls during clearing week was originally founded in order to manage phone in voting for Big Brother and Pop Idol.
Just one?
btw when I Google his name its all about the fishing licence and not this👇 weird that isn't it?
btw when I Google his name its all about the fishing licence and not this👇 weird that isn't it? https://t.co/3nBT5n7Wrp
I wonder if a better tactic to protect the conditions of “working people” (a term used here in a way that barely even pretends not to be a synonym for “white”) from precarious labour might be to use the state to force said companies to treat all their workers better.
I wonder if a better tactic to protect the conditions of “working people” (a term used here in a way that barely even pretends not to be a synonym for “white”) from precarious labour might be to use the state to force said companies to treat all their workers better.
And also, even if this was true (which it clearly isn’t) it absolutely would not be a deus ex machina retroactively justifying the mass arrest of hundreds of peaceful protestors.
And also, even if this was true (which it clearly isn’t) it absolutely would not be a deus ex machina retroactively justifying the mass arrest of hundreds of peaceful protestors.

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