I don't think this necessarily needs to be interpreted as a government conspiracy, as such. It's probably the inevitable result of the attempt to AstroTurf a new generation of 'digital community leaders' through a glut of anti-terror funding when you had people like May, Rudd and Pickles' hands on the wheel. The objective has never been simply to turn people away from extremism, it has been to position British Values as sacrosanct and sensible centrism, patriotism and a suspicion of radical politics in all its forms as core British Values. Mughal was a former advisor to Clegg, after all. It's not unique to explicitly government-funded organisations, either. There's an economy built around securing funding from corporations and charitable trusts that would be threatened by properly interrogating how structural racism and religious bigotry functions.
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Friday, 8 November 2019 11:20 (four years ago) link
It's notable how little any of this resonates in the spaces it's meant to, though. Faith Matters and British Future (who have been at this game for a decade) have about 20k Twitter followers combined. Even Hope Not Hate, with the significant international boost it has received out of the National Action stuff, has 20% of the followers Andi Peters does.
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Friday, 8 November 2019 11:26 (four years ago) link
yeah structural bias and conspiracy often look and function similarly. could frame it as a problem of centralisation, paternalism, chauvinism, and, to an extent, class. Radicalise Andi Peters now!
― ogmor, Friday, 8 November 2019 12:03 (four years ago) link
In a development that I’m sure will shock everyone, Mughal was revealed yesterday to have been using official the Tell Mama Twitter account to slide into the DMs of various teenage girls.
Mark Curtis has a new thing for looking at the intersection of politics, the intelligence services and military:
https://mobile.twitter.com/declassifiedUK
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
Is that site at all legit? Is Mark Curtis not fairly dodge in some of his views?
― gyac, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
https://www.gmgoodemploymentcharter.co.uk/
Greater Manchester Combined Authority getting some big employers to sign up to a good employment charter which includes the living wage and more scrutiny on flexible working and effectively banning zero hour contracts in their invidious form. I'll be interested to see how this pans out as it seems a good test of how effective Labour can work regionally. I have to say Burnham has been good so far.
― ogmor, Friday, 7 February 2020 15:16 (four years ago) link
privatization in action
The privatisation of children’s services is gathering pace, and it is attracting the worst kind of investor (thread) 1/— Martin Barrow (@MartinBarrow) February 18, 2020
impressively ugly site: https://www.wealthclub.co.uk/eis-investments/dimensions-care-eis/
― ogmor, Thursday, 20 February 2020 09:42 (four years ago) link
https://www.actiononemptyhomes.org/news/pretty-vacant-new-report-on-londons-housing-april-2020
some good proposals for beginning to get a handle on housing
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Sunday, 3 May 2020 15:33 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/04/dalian-atkinson-murdered-in-street-by-police-officer-jury-hears
Possibly might result in the first conviction of a police office related to a death in custody since 1971. Most cases don’t get this far.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/april/1782-deaths-but-no-convictions
If the jury doesn’t convict, it’ll increase the perception that they never will where serving police are concerned.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 13:13 (three years ago) link