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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, agree. As @gabrielmilland.bsky.social and @stephenkb.bsky.social have pointed out, it's exactly the same things people would have said about our grandparents. Exploiting the Manchester attack to try to divide our communities with this nonsense is appalling.

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 11h

I hope and believe that most of my fellow Jews will join me in saying that it is sickening that anyone should justify this outpouring of execrable racist bile by claiming that it's for our sake.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 12h

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 4h

Also encourages property speculation. And when did that ever do any harm?
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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 4h

Or worse, if there's now more speculation.
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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 4h

On the other hand: stamp duty is a brake on property speculation - buying to sell on in six months making a profit from rising prices. So, scrapping it incentivises this behaviour, which makes prices more volatile and bubbles more likely.

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 4h

Yep. Possibly exacerbated by speculation.
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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 4h

On the other hand: stamp duty is a brake on property speculation - buying to sell on in six months making a profit from rising prices. So, scrapping it incentivises this behaviour, which makes prices more volatile and bubbles more likely.

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 4h

You won't be able to afford that home anyway if prices have gone up in a speculative property bubble (which scrapping stamp duty makes more likely)
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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 4h

On the other hand: stamp duty is a brake on property speculation - buying to sell on in six months making a profit from rising prices. So, scrapping it incentivises this behaviour, which makes prices more volatile and bubbles more likely.

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 4h

On the other hand: stamp duty is a brake on property speculation - buying to sell on in six months making a profit from rising prices. So, scrapping it incentivises this behaviour, which makes prices more volatile and bubbles more likely.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 11h

It's a mark of how profoundly silly Stephen Daisley is that, in writing about the Manchester attack, he targets people like my great-grandfather, a Jew who lived in Ancoats, Cheetham Hill and Crumpsall for fifty years and never learned English.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11h

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 12h

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 5h

Could add prof @chrischirp.bsky.social who runs www.trumpactiontracker.info

Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 6h

"OK the number two priority"

Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 6h

"And one more fascinating thing....
There was barely references to Reform and Nigel Farage."

Thanks Chris.

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 6h

But at least he analysed the policies in the policy blitz, right?
[Star wars meme]

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 14h

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 1d

Right. Also Tiberias 1938, Haifa Oil refinery 1947, Kfar Etzion 1948, Hadassah medical convoy 1948 and many many others. Full list here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
It was a cycle of violence - each revenge for another. Attempts to pretend one half didn't happen are so weird.

List of killings and massacres in Mandatory Palestine - Wikipedia

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 14h

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 15h

Yes, absolutely agree. (Also: *Professor* Christina Pagel 😁)

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 15h

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 17h

So you're arguing the mirror image of your "perhaps the issue can be summed up as" Israeli line that you were using satirically above. Acts carried out *on* Jews (incl Oct 7th) must be contextualised and justified, acts carried out *by* us should not.
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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 1d

Right. Also Tiberias 1938, Haifa Oil refinery 1947, Kfar Etzion 1948, Hadassah medical convoy 1948 and many many others. Full list here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
It was a cycle of violence - each revenge for another. Attempts to pretend one half didn't happen are so weird.

List of killings and massacres in Mandatory Palestine - Wikipedia

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 18h

I'm not comparing it to the Shoah. The words were used in the clip I posted. I think it's true but don't think it's worth arguing over. I am equally prepared to say "the worst day of atrocity to befall us in living memory" if it makes you happy.

Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 1d

You are seriously arguing that Hamas would equally plausibly have attacked Arab villages in Israel?

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Prof Gillean McCluskey (Expert in Education)

Shared her thoughts on barriers faced by children in Clinically Vulnerable families.

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like you're arguing with the wrong person.
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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 1d

Good thread, and also: you don't need to do them at the same time and in the same post.

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1d

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, quite.
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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 1d

Well, that isn't my view, and presumably isn't yours. I would say both are contextualised, neither is justified. How about you?

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously? You think Hamas might equally plausibly have targeted Israeli Arabs as Israeli Jews? You really don't know much about Hamas, do you?

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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 1d

It isn't a single ideology. There are many reasons non-Jews might support a Jewish state, just as there are many reasons a non-Palestinian might support the existence of a Palestinian state.

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