Re-elected as Labour MP for Hackney North & Stoke Newington. bsky.app/profile/did:plc:b5c…
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Diane Abbott retweeted
Barely two months ago, we lost Professor Jason Arday. Thousands grieved. Institutions across higher education spoke about inclusion and belonging.
Now Nathan Cofnas is being given a room at Oriel College, Oxford, to ask whether DEI is undermining higher education.
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RT @BellRibeiroAddy: The press pursue a Black man to the end of his life and Parliament says nothing about their conduct.
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Diane Abbott retweeted
After pumping out 19 articles on Jason Arday in two weeks, The Spectator has moved on to Simon Woolley.
Ex-Tory operative Andrew Gilligan offers no evidence of failure at Homerton—only an old grievance dressed up as journalism.
This is a media hit job.
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Good. This is a nasty, divisive Bill aiming to meet Reform UK on its own ground.
Mahmood's hardline immigration reforms face growing Labour rebellion
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The Iran War is caused by Trump and Netanyahu. As well as illegally attempting to destroy Iran, we will all be much poorer as a result.
Iran War to cost UK households £2,400 by next year
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This is a call for armed forces personnel to be placed above the law. No country claiming to be a democracy can allow this.
SAS veterans who helped defeat the IRA deserve protections
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Andy Burnham should know better.
A border poll is mandated in the Good Friday Agreement. This is both a multi-party agreement, endorsed by referenda *and* an international treaty lodged at the UN.
United Ireland referendum is off the table, Burnham says
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The well-worn path of autocrats everwhere. If you cannot win the argument on Palestine, start locking up your opponents.
US issues sanctions against Palestine Action
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I disagree with Wes Streeting on political fundamentals - a lot.
But attacking him for his sexuality is ignorant, prejudiced and unacceptable.
Wes Streeting describes unbelievable level of homophobic abuse since becoming Defence Secretary
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Higher energy bills are a product of the Iran War.
We should be trying to reach a peace, not throwing fuel on the fire.
UK energy price cap to rise 4% in winter
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There is a crisis of children in care in this country, but especially when they are forced to leave at 18.
Urgent action is needed.
Lack of support for care leavers leads to their much higher death rate, review says
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Trump's war against Iran has caused energy prices to surge. But ordinary people are also being ripped off by energy companies' profiteering.
Both the war and the rip-off should be ended.
Households in Britain could owe energy companies £7bn by year end
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Successive governments have been in denial about sexism and racism in this country, to this is a welcome admission.
Many people will now be looking forward to government acton.
Racism and sexism have become normalised in Britain, says equalities minister
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Asylum-seekers are responsible for a tiny part of serious crime in this country. If this was about preventing crime, it would be suggested for the whole population. It is just aping Reform.
Mike Tapp says asylum-seekers should be tested on British laws
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Given crime statistics are not held based on the immigration and asylum status, Diane Abbott has no way of proving what she states as fact. The ONS have themselves said this in response to a FOI request.
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Supporting Trump's war against Iran has already cost us all dearly. The longer it persists, the worse off we will be.
British energy bills to hit 3-year high this winter
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This is the reality of violent Islamophobia in this country now. And politicians should admit, and stop fanning the flames themselves.
Anti-Muslim hate reports surpasses 2023 total in just 6 months, report shows
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The amounts allocated to victims of the Grenfell scandal are pitifully low. And the much greater payout to shareholders is a slap in the face.
Grenfell cladding firm Arconic paid shareholders £23mn more than compensation for victims
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"This was a vicious campaign but it wasn’t just a campaign against the professor, it was a campaign against all of us and that’s why it is so important to come together and fight for justice for Professor Jason Arday.”
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Diane Abbott retweeted
We know many of you have spoken to the press in recent days — and that mattered. Your voices have carried the injustice that Jason faced.
But today, in his memory, we're asking all friends and supporters: no interviews, no comments, no panels.
Today our focus is Jason.
ALT Memorial notice announcing a vigil for prof, Jason Arday and asking supporters to observe silence toward the press - no interviews, no comments, no panels - accompanied by a simple candle-in-hands symbol.
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