Author, THE DEATH OF CONSENSUS (The Times Politics Book of 2022)
GHOSTS OF IRON MOUNTAIN ("riveting" - New Yorker)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1035903857
POWER FAILURE (Future Governance Forum)
Last on Radio 4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002styf
Phil Tinline
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Now imagining Fox News covering a pogrom. "They want to label them as anti-Semitic. All they want to be is Russian."
And how would Fox have covered lynchings, or the Tulsa race massacre?
Yes, Loyalists famously just want to be Irish.
This exhibits about as much knowledge of Northern Ireland as Farage saying "Up the Ra!"
When Khan was an MP and came to the BBC to do a panel once, a staff member challenged him on (iirc) how he represented Muslims, and Khan replied, You're wrong and I'll tell you why...
This kind of robust exchange with the public used to be more standard. Your job is not to make everyone like you.
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‘They’ are predominantly loyalists, in predominately loyalist areas, running amok ahead of an annual, hundreds of years old celebration of ‘being up to our necks in fenian blood’
This isn’t the only factor in what’s happening in Belfast but it’s a really big one that almost everyone is ignoring
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And the centre right’s cowardice in defending decency & order.
We’ve had Southport, Southampton and now Belfast: three mobs stirred up in public.
Just as Islamist extremists fed off an ideology that excused violence so do the racist right.
It falls to the centre right to challenge & defeat it.
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YouTube is earning money from ads shown on dozens of channels run by US-sanctioned Iranians, including many government officials
In one case, a taxpayer-funded recruitment ad for a US government agency appeared on an Iranian government channel
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