My grandmother is 94. She’s not a racist. My grandfather was 94, nearly 95 when he died. And, in the home where he lived for the last three years of his life, he was cared for by people from all over the world. In his dying hours, the presence of a nurse from Jamaica who he liked a lot soothed him.

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Tax the rich

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Short thread on Jason Arday & Cambridge: where things are: (1/n) about ten days ago, 45 senior staff sent a letter to the Chancellor, reminding the University that a thorough review had been promised, and was nowhere in sight. The Afzal review was on one specific matter alone

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The original form of McCarthyism didn’t stop because the US political class discovered a sense of decency. It ended because it was targeted at the army: real people, who matter. If drunken Joe had the sense to just stick to harassing writers and actors, he could’ve kept going indefinitely.

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This repugnant bullshit has now been roaring at full strength for almost ten years. It will not end until it too starts badly harming real people, people whose lives and welfare actually matter. People close to power, basically.

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