This is what a pogrom looks like: men in masks coming to drive you from your home. This is a collective failure of our political and media class because we did not have the courage to say no, and because too many were allowed to embrace this without shame
Peter Beaumont
#BBCBreakfast: "... families had to be led to safety through the flames.. it wasn't just homes, cars were also torched by young masked men in these predominantly unionist streets, but the target here was immigrants.."
This is what the likes of Reform are inciting.
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Saul Staniforth
Can't stop thinking about this now. The US is—unbelievably?—botching its sportswashing moment. We're a rich country with global sports competition infrastructure adequate to the task and somehow, we're gonna manage to use the World Cup to make ourselves look *worse*.
There's probably never been a better time to remind you that when David Hockney first took his Mum to California she remarked 'all this lovely weather and nobody puts their washing out'.
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed…then the lie passed into history and became truth.”
Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, published #OTD 1949.
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George Orwell Archive ALT @uclspeccoll.bsky.social
There is a direct line from "not immediately condemning hooligans marking out their territory with flags as wrong 'uns" to "pogroms on the streets of the UK". One was always going to lead to another. The best time to stop this was then, the next best time is now.
Not holding my breath though.
