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  1. Amnesty International criticizes Elon Musk's X for fueling misinformation and racially charged violence during the 2024 UK Southport riots. Their report highlights X's algorithm promoting outrage over safety, intensifying anti-Muslim and anti-migrant hate. Calls grow for stronger Online Safety Act enforcement. 🗣️🔥 #OnlineSafety #HumanRights #UKRiots #newz

    Read more: theregister.com/2025/08/07/amn

  2. #BBCNews - Children joined riots for the 'thrill', report says
    bbc.com/news/articles/cge72gxr
    At least 147 children arrested and 84 charged since the riots, some as young as 12 sentenced
    #UKRiots #Southport

  3. "About half of Britain considers itself to have a working class background. And yet only 8% of those who get jobs in telly are from the same background."

    "Over the five years from 2018, distrust in the BBC had grown from 11% to 26%."

    Carol Vorderman: bylinetimes.com/2024/08/30/car

    #depoliticisation #media #London #Britain #UK #UKPol #discriminations #classism #snobs #privilege #bourgeoisie #middleClass #TV #television #UKRiots #power #broadcast #Channel4 #CarolVorderman

  4. "About half of Britain considers itself to have a working class background. And yet only 8% of those who get jobs in telly are from the same background."

    "Over the five years from 2018, distrust in the BBC had grown from 11% to 26%."

    Carol Vorderman: bylinetimes.com/2024/08/30/car

    #depoliticisation #media #London #Britain #UK #UKPol #discriminations #classism #snobs #privilege #bourgeoisie #middleClass #TV #television #UKRiots #power #broadcast #Channel4 #CarolVorderman

  5. "About half of Britain considers itself to have a working class background. And yet only 8% of those who get jobs in telly are from the same background."

    "Over the five years from 2018, distrust in the BBC had grown from 11% to 26%."

    Carol Vorderman: bylinetimes.com/2024/08/30/car

    #depoliticisation #media #London #Britain #UK #UKPol #discriminations #classism #snobs #privilege #bourgeoisie #middleClass #TV #television #UKRiots #power #broadcast #Channel4 #CarolVorderman

  6. "About half of Britain considers itself to have a working class background. And yet only 8% of those who get jobs in telly are from the same background."

    "Over the five years from 2018, distrust in the BBC had grown from 11% to 26%."

    Carol Vorderman: bylinetimes.com/2024/08/30/car

    #depoliticisation #media #London #Britain #UK #UKPol #discriminations #classism #snobs #privilege #bourgeoisie #middleClass #TV #television #UKRiots #power #broadcast #Channel4 #CarolVorderman

  7. "About half of Britain considers itself to have a working class background. And yet only 8% of those who get jobs in telly are from the same background."

    "Over the five years from 2018, distrust in the BBC had grown from 11% to 26%."

    Carol Vorderman: bylinetimes.com/2024/08/30/car

  8. "The wife of a Conservative councillor has been jailed for 31 months after calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire."

    #UKpolitics #Tories #UKriots

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3wkz

  9. At the moment the list has 420 names, 321 jailed and sentences totalling over 680 years. There are 60 people who have pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentence.

    The average age of the convicted is 31 and the average sentence is 25 months.

    #UKRiots | Far-Right Criminals
    far-rightcriminals.com/uk-riot

  10. #BBC confronts Finnish neo-Nazi who gave UK rioters arson manual believed to have been written by a Russian fascist group - it encourages the targeting of Muslims and Jews
    bbc.com/news/articles/cp8l9gpp
    Previously Rasanen was an active member of a private gaming group chat
    #UKRiots

  11. "Sentencing Bowen, the judge said police dogs and horses were attacked during the rally, with police officers also assaulted."

    Priorities 😆

    #UKpolitics #UKriots #Bristol

    bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol

  12. "The majority of people charged in connection with the unrest were local to the disturbances in which they were accused of taking part. Analysis of the home addresses provided by those charged found that three-quarters lived within a 5-mile radius."

    #UKpolitics #UKriots

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/s

  13. CW: UKPol Riots

    From The Guardian theguardian.com/politics/2024/ -

    “I think I’ve been absolutely clear where responsibility lies for the disorder on our streets. It lies with the thugs who were carrying out that disorder. That’s why I took control of the process to ensure that justice was visited very quickly on their cases,” he said.

    ----

    There we have it, racism, bigotry, it's all boiled down to individuals on the ground in Starmer's eyes... no pot stirrers, no institutional issues

    #UKPol #UKRiots

  14. UK not a racist country but "I am worried about rise of far right" after riots, UK PM Keir Starmer tells #BBCnews
    bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4gdxxn2q4
    #UKriots

  15. “This partly stems from ... the total absence of political leadership and willingness to confront the far right at the Home Office for many years.”

    #UKpolitics #UKriots #TwoTierPolicing

    theguardian.com/uk-news/articl

  16. 'The Labour administration […] intends to flatten social, political – and therefore class – conflict, and reassert the state as the sole “legitimate” agent of politics in Britain.'

    'One could reasonably suggest that the particular vitriol reserved for Muslims by the Labour leadership comes down to an as yet not-entirely-tameable internationalist consciousness among Muslim communities in Britain, and their proven willingness to exert this electorally.'

    Azfar Shafi writes: vashtimedia.com/starmers-proje @supremacy

    #KeirStarmer #Starmer #Labour #LabourParty #ideology #elites #neoliberalism #extremeCenter #UK #UKPol #raceMaking #riots #UKRiots #BorisJohnson #moralPanic #policeState #islamophobia #lawAndOrder #stateViolence #police #whiteSupremacy #Southport #standingArmy #depoliticisation #immigration #commonSense #NijjorManush

  17. 'The Labour administration […] intends to flatten social, political – and therefore class – conflict, and reassert the state as the sole “legitimate” agent of politics in Britain.'

    'One could reasonably suggest that the particular vitriol reserved for Muslims by the Labour leadership comes down to an as yet not-entirely-tameable internationalist consciousness among Muslim communities in Britain, and their proven willingness to exert this electorally.'

    Azfar Shafi writes: vashtimedia.com/starmers-proje @supremacy

    #KeirStarmer #Starmer #Labour #LabourParty #ideology #elites #neoliberalism #extremeCenter #UK #UKPol #raceMaking #riots #UKRiots #BorisJohnson #moralPanic #policeState #islamophobia #lawAndOrder #stateViolence #police #whiteSupremacy #Southport #standingArmy #depoliticisation #immigration #commonSense #NijjorManush

  18. 'The Labour administration […] intends to flatten social, political – and therefore class – conflict, and reassert the state as the sole “legitimate” agent of politics in Britain.'

    'One could reasonably suggest that the particular vitriol reserved for Muslims by the Labour leadership comes down to an as yet not-entirely-tameable internationalist consciousness among Muslim communities in Britain, and their proven willingness to exert this electorally.'

    Azfar Shafi writes: vashtimedia.com/starmers-proje @supremacy

    #KeirStarmer #Starmer #Labour #LabourParty #ideology #elites #neoliberalism #extremeCenter #UK #UKPol #raceMaking #riots #UKRiots #BorisJohnson #moralPanic #policeState #islamophobia #lawAndOrder #stateViolence #police #whiteSupremacy #Southport #standingArmy #depoliticisation #immigration #commonSense #NijjorManush

  19. 'The Labour administration […] intends to flatten social, political – and therefore class – conflict, and reassert the state as the sole “legitimate” agent of politics in Britain.'

    'One could reasonably suggest that the particular vitriol reserved for Muslims by the Labour leadership comes down to an as yet not-entirely-tameable internationalist consciousness among Muslim communities in Britain, and their proven willingness to exert this electorally.'

    Azfar Shafi writes: vashtimedia.com/starmers-proje @supremacy

    #KeirStarmer #Starmer #Labour #LabourParty #ideology #elites #neoliberalism #extremeCenter #UK #UKPol #raceMaking #riots #UKRiots #BorisJohnson #moralPanic #policeState #islamophobia #lawAndOrder #stateViolence #police #whiteSupremacy #Southport #standingArmy #depoliticisation #immigration #commonSense #NijjorManush

  20. 'The Labour administration […] intends to flatten social, political – and therefore class – conflict, and reassert the state as the sole “legitimate” agent of politics in Britain.'

    'One could reasonably suggest that the particular vitriol reserved for Muslims by the Labour leadership comes down to an as yet not-entirely-tameable internationalist consciousness among Muslim communities in Britain, and their proven willingness to exert this electorally.'

    Azfar Shafi writes: vashtimedia.com/starmers-proje @supremacy

  21. Whilst the police were clamping down on anti-immigration riots across the country, they were also making dozens of pre-emptive arrests at Selby, forcing the cancellation of a climate protest camp near Drax power station.

    [Should you not know the Drax Power Station is responsible for 3% of UK's Climate Emissions]

    Who authorises these things?

    #smokescreen
    #climatechange
    #UKRiots

  22. #Gaza On My Mind
    غزّة علي بالي

    #Israel's Mounting Massacres
    And a View from London on the Race Riots

    Featuring:
    #RaedSadi, writer and activist living in Gaza
    #IbrahimAbulEssad, UK-based Palestinian researcher and activist
    #HudaAmmori, UK-based Iraqi-Palestinian activist and co-founder of #PalestineAction

    Host: #BassamHaddad

    youtu.be/X_Tt0yjcg0M

    #Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #WarOnGaza #UKpol #UKpolitics #UKriots #DecolonialStruggles #RacializedCommunities #Jadaliyya @palestine

  23. What’s Behind Elon Musk’s UK Riots Commentary? - The United Kingdom (UK) has been facing major riots as misinformation fueled viole... - coingape.com/trending/whats-be #24/7cryptocurrencynews #xinvestigation #elonmusknews #ukriots

  24. "As Rusi explains, the UK has a genuine two-tier justice system. It treats some people – white, non-Muslim – as though they act from blind anger, and others – Brown, Muslim – as coordinated terrorists, even when they commit the same crimes:
    George Monbiot on the reality of the British two-tier justice system.

    #Justice #Law #TwoTierJustice #UKPolitics #UKRiots #Terrorism
    #Islamophobia #JustStopOil #Protests

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  25. "As Rusi explains, the UK has a genuine two-tier justice system. It treats some people – white, non-Muslim – as though they act from blind anger, and others – Brown, Muslim – as coordinated terrorists, even when they commit the same crimes:
    George Monbiot on the reality of the British two-tier justice system.


    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  26. "As Rusi explains, the UK has a genuine two-tier justice system. It treats some people – white, non-Muslim – as though they act from blind anger, and others – Brown, Muslim – as coordinated terrorists, even when they commit the same crimes:
    George Monbiot on the reality of the British two-tier justice system.

    #Justice #Law #TwoTierJustice #UKPolitics #UKRiots #Terrorism
    #Islamophobia #JustStopOil #Protests

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  27. "As Rusi explains, the UK has a genuine two-tier justice system. It treats some people – white, non-Muslim – as though they act from blind anger, and others – Brown, Muslim – as coordinated terrorists, even when they commit the same crimes:
    George Monbiot on the reality of the British two-tier justice system.

    #Justice #Law #TwoTierJustice #UKPolitics #UKRiots #Terrorism
    #Islamophobia #JustStopOil #Protests

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  28. "As Rusi explains, the UK has a genuine two-tier justice system. It treats some people – white, non-Muslim – as though they act from blind anger, and others – Brown, Muslim – as coordinated terrorists, even when they commit the same crimes:
    George Monbiot on the reality of the British two-tier justice system.

    #Justice #Law #TwoTierJustice #UKPolitics #UKRiots #Terrorism
    #Islamophobia #JustStopOil #Protests

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  29. "Islamophobia is so bipartisan in today's Britain that BBC reporters on at least two occasions referred to the mobs chanting anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant slogans as "pro-British protesters"."

    The latest column from Jonathan Cook.

    #UKRiots #RaceRiots #Islamophobia #Antisemitism #Labour #UKPolitics #Starmer #Gaza #Palestine

    middleeasteye.net/big-story/uk

  30. "Islamophobia is so bipartisan in today's Britain that BBC reporters on at least two occasions referred to the mobs chanting anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant slogans as "pro-British protesters"."

    The latest column from Jonathan Cook.

    middleeasteye.net/big-story/uk

  31. "Islamophobia is so bipartisan in today's Britain that BBC reporters on at least two occasions referred to the mobs chanting anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant slogans as "pro-British protesters"."

    The latest column from Jonathan Cook.

    #UKRiots #RaceRiots #Islamophobia #Antisemitism #Labour #UKPolitics #Starmer #Gaza #Palestine

    middleeasteye.net/big-story/uk

  32. "Islamophobia is so bipartisan in today's Britain that BBC reporters on at least two occasions referred to the mobs chanting anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant slogans as "pro-British protesters"."

    The latest column from Jonathan Cook.

    #UKRiots #RaceRiots #Islamophobia #Antisemitism #Labour #UKPolitics #Starmer #Gaza #Palestine

    middleeasteye.net/big-story/uk

  33. "For almost a week, towns and cities across #England and #NorthernIreland were in the grip of pogromist reaction. [..]

    "Throughout, the ‘legitimate concerns’ of the marauders had been defended by a well-heeled faction of the lumpencommentariat [..] More insidious were the routine obfuscations of major broadcasters, such as the BBC insipidly referring to these Poujadist enragés as ‘protesters’..."

    newleftreview.org/sidecar/post
    #UKriots #UKriots2024 #UKpol #UKpolitics #FarRight #UKmedia #fascism