Twitter was David’s public platform and tools for practicing a new language – clear and understandable for everyone, it was a space where he made friends and enemies.

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Mon 20 Jul 2020 23:31

RT @MrSIowJam: This is what @guardian ,@Keir_Starmer , Blairite labour were fighting for, in undermining the opposition for 5 years. They…

Mon 20 Jul 2020 23:28

RT @JonangusMackay: The great Peter Cook in his early telly days would appear in shabby raincoat on park bench as the timorous E.L.Wisty.…

Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:43

@huwspanner @David__Osland what’s your explanation for why she gets as much abuse as all other 650 MPs combined?

Mon 20 Jul 2020 22:41

RT @JonangusMackay: @herbivorousvulg @davidconstable6 @davidgraeber Colin Ward’s #Anarchy, in some ways most encyclopaedic #anarchist magaz…

Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:13

RT @ScaleSilver49: @davidgraeber @HackneyAbbott has been one of the most vocal anti racist mps ever to have to withstand abuse from her own…

Mon 20 Jul 2020 20:13

RT @SaulStaniforth: @davidgraeber @LinuxGnome @drbobgill The wink emoji confirming Diane’s location had been passed on to a journalist know…

Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:31

@LinuxGnome @drbobgill as far as I know the Labour staff who called Crick to try to humiliate Dianne Abbot were never sanctioned in any way. Aside from revealing them to be racist scum, it incidentally shows they were refusing to do their jobs, which was, of course, to support Labour MPs.

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Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:28

RT @davidgraeber: @LinuxGnome @drbobgill Yes I especially loved the high-up LP staffers who, on hearing Abbot had broken down in tears over…

Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:25

@MisturrWhiskurs @David__Osland what is true in any specific case is hardly true statistically, unless you think it’s a total coincidence that 50% of all online abuse directed at MPs (and there are 650 MPs) just happens to be directed at one Black woman

Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:22

RT @Droosaid: @David__Osland Remember Anna Soubry being heckled as a Nazi ? Media attention all the way for days. Diane Abbott get threaten…

Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:21

@huwspanner @David__Osland You look at the numbers. Out of all abusive tweets sent to all 650 MPs, roughly half are sent to Dianne Abbot. Are you suggesting it’s a coincidence she also happens to be the best-known Black woman in Parliament?

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Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:17

RT @chrisbriggs3392: @davidgraeber @Droosaid @HackneyAbbott Dear @HackneyAbbott I thoroughly appreciate all that you are and have done . Th…

Mon 20 Jul 2020 19:13

@LinuxGnome @drbobgill Yes I especially loved the high-up LP staffers who, on hearing Abbot had broken down in tears over racist abuse, rushed to tell a hostile reporter where to find her to add to her public humiliation. Starmer’s response? “WE MUST INVESTIGATE! TO FIGURE OUT WHO SPILLED THE BEANS!”

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Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:54

“Kings like Ceremonies” – a story page from the “What are Kings” book #A4all This was possibly the first I did & still kind of a favourite, telling the story of Rollo the Viking & King Charles the Simple’s big toe (and don’t worry, Charles keeps the toe) https://t.co/xL3s5bxY8k

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Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:49

RT @davidgraeber: maybe we should start a movement to everyone send flowers to .@HackneyAbbott, or something nice, to remind her that most…

Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:48

maybe we should start a movement to everyone send flowers to .@HackneyAbbott, or something nice, to remind her that most people are not racist assholes and do have a problem with people acting like this

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Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:41

RT @dominichills5: @davidgraeber Every vote of my life has been for Labour, but if there is no leadership response to half of all abuse twe…

Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:39

@NewsFrames @Tim_Hugh_Smith @StevenHurst1977 @David__Osland @guardian @Freedland @OwenJones84 I’m not interested in the vague impressions of someone with an obvious axe to grind. Go count the numbers of positive & negative pieces by regular columnists or Comment is Free pieces, as others have done, or stop thinking anyone is interested in your biases

Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:33

“Divine kings and adverse sacralisation” – some reflections from my book On Kings #a4all https://t.co/EHU8gdyM0Y

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Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:18

nothing reveals the hypocrisy of the chattertariat & Starmerites than their utter indifference to even the most flagrant racial abuse – if it’s directed at the Left, rather than there being any way to claim it’s coming from them https://t.co/u9YuKtqavl

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Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:05

RT @David__Osland: Mocking Diane Abbott for being ‘stupid’, for being overweight or for who she dated 40 years ago is a liberal surrogate f…

Mon 20 Jul 2020 18:04

RT @hapoelorient: As a Jew, if you stand up for Jewish people but are silent on the racist abuse that Diane Abbott is getting, then I don’t…

Mon 20 Jul 2020 12:48

@NewsFrames @Tim_Hugh_Smith @StevenHurst1977 @David__Osland @guardian this at a time when the Guardian ran literally hundreds of pieces about the antisemitism controversy. Sorry. They are guilty as hell. Their news coverage too: it’s been documented how many completely false statements they contained, invariably to Labour’s disadvantage

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Mon 20 Jul 2020 12:47

@NewsFrames @Tim_Hugh_Smith @StevenHurst1977 @David__Osland @guardian I know literally dozens of people who tried to get pieces addressing that into the Guardian, invariably refused. I wrote a piece saying this sort of thing endangered me, as a Jew, & was directly told by the editor I would not be allowed to make such statements in the Guardian

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Mon 20 Jul 2020 12:46

@NewsFrames @Tim_Hugh_Smith @StevenHurst1977 @David__Osland @guardian one is a letter, none of them actually say there was a campaign by the right wing of the party largely by non-Jews to use the pretext to destroy the Labour left. To say that was basically forbidden, despite the fact there’s now documentary proof it was true.

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Mon 20 Jul 2020 12:42

RT @Itmechr3: Pissing off absolutely everyone by mentioning the value theory of labor and then refusing to comment on it any further Moreo…