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Stephen Baker
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Vive la France
Casablanca La Marseillaise youtu.be/HM-E2H1ChJM?...
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Stephen Baker@stephenbaker.bsky.social |
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Socialist. Trade unionist. Strummer. Co.Down.
Researches, writes & teaches.
"...clean living under difficult circumstances."
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Stephen Baker
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Vive la France
Casablanca La Marseillaise youtu.be/HM-E2H1ChJM?...
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Stephen Baker
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No one is happier or more relieved than me that Steve Baker has lost his Westminster seat.
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Stephen Baker
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The framing of Clare Daly in the EU elections by the media and political establishment is a masterclass in using innuendo as disinformation in order to influence an election.
We need a democratic media.
leftbloc.ie/the-dangerou...
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Stephen Baker
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Farage is one of those wankers who talks with the absolute certainty of someone who doesn’t care what he’s talking about.
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Stephen Baker
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How come it’s the self-styled “anti-establishment” parties of the far right that big corporations run to in a crisis?
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Stephen Baker
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Veteran trade unionist Joe Bowers in conversation with Kerry Fleck and myself about his experience of the Ulster Workers' Strike in 1974. On the North podcast
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Stephen Baker
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Worried that the annihilation Tories at the next election might rob UK democracy of an opposition? Wise up! No genuine political opposition is allowed, ever. If one rears it's head, it's smeared and sabotaged. You can have the state's A team or B team. They play in the same strip.
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Stephen Baker
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Be still my heart.
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Stephen Baker
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New drinking game. Rules: Listen to a Guardian or New Statesman podcast. Every time they mention Jeremy Corbyn's name you take a shot of Tequila. Winner is the last to fall down or throw up.
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Stephen Baker
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The people erecting Israeli flags in town centres in advance of the 12th July celebrations. You're losing. Such a public display of support for an apartheid state with genocidal intent will split your own constituency and turn others away from you.
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Stephen Baker
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Yeah. Bollocks to the Tories’ national service.
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Stephen Baker
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When a party, so indifferent to injustice and genocide, with an unprincipled, serial liar for a leader, tells you that you have no choice but to vote for them, you know the State we're in is an awful one.
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Stephen Baker
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Vote Labour. For the lesser evil.
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Stephen Baker
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Tories. Spent decades tearing apart the social fabric. Also Tories. National service will help to better integrate young people into society.
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Stephen Baker
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That Sonia Sodha article in summary. Having told socialists and anti-imperialists to fuck off, Labour now needs their votes.
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Stephen Baker
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I suspect there are huge numbers of people in the UK who don't subscribe to 'British values' as defined by Nigel Farage. What are ya gonna do, eh?
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Stephen Baker
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Israel has recalled its ambassadors in Ireland and Norway “for consultations” after both countries today officially recognised Palestine as a state. Good. I hope Dana Erlich doesn't let the door hit on the arse as she leaves.
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Stephen Baker
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Last words of a convict on the Tyburn gallows, 1717:
'Men, Women, and Children, I come hither to hang like a Pendulum to a Watch, for endeavouring to be Rich too Soon.'
#TheLondonHanged
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Stephen Baker
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GBNews 'present' Suella Braverman to students protesting the genocide in Gaza and are met with silence. Braverman is an odious, attention seeking politician and the students simply refuse to take her under their notice. It's glorious.
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Stephen Baker
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Given the recent reports of discrimination in media industries, suffered by by working class people and women, but surely other groups, media course in FE and HE can't market their courses as gateways or pathways to attractive employment.
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Stephen Baker
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I’ll be boycotting #Eurovision2024.
I’ve been boycotting Eurovision since I was 13 on the grounds of taste, so I appreciate that my boycotting it this year is of little consequence.
Still, #FreePalestine
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George Monbiot
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When you see the sheer scale of the murder of civilians in
#Gaza, the mass destruction of homes, infrastructure, public services, centres of learning, religious and cultural buildings and symbols, I'm sorry, but it's now impossible to see this as anything other than #genocide.
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Stephen Baker
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UN experts "horrified" at details emerging from mass graves recently unearthed in Gaza. Over 390 bodies at Nasser and Al Shifa hospitals; women and children; reported signs of torture; summary executions, and potential instances of people buried alive.
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Stephen Baker
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Baby Reindeer is compelling and uncomfortable viewing. I'm left with little sense of closure and a lot of questions, which I think is the point.
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Stephen Baker
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Trinity College Dublin fines students' union €214,000 over campus Gaza protests, citing loss of income at the Book of Kells tourist attraction.
In short, TCD: "we support the right to protest, just don't interfere with tourist dollars"
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Stephen Baker
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Some people - good, decent people - will look on with alarm and say, "This is not who we are!" ... And I don't doubt that this is true, in many, many instances. But it's the state we live in.
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Stephen Baker
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The Home Office sharing footage of people being detained prior to removal to Rwanda is shocking but not surprising. I feel like I’ve been watching the UK slide into this my whole adult life.
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Stephen Baker
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People will make up their own minds about LBC's replacement of Sangita Myska by Vanessa Feltz, and I think people will conclude that this has been done to placate a genocidal apartheid state and its supporters, and I suspect that people are probably right about that.
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Stephen Baker
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My friend & comrade Maurice Macartney has written a book called 'Combinations: Denominations, Democracy and the Politics of Non-Violence' and is launching it on Wednesday 15th May at QUB, room 0G.074 in the Lanyon Building @ 6.00pm.
Tickets free in link below
events.humanitix.com/combinations...
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Stephen Baker
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Let me get this straight: University is a con because the UK doesn’t produce enough graduate jobs. Sounds to me like UK policy makers are the ones that need to take a look at themselves.
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Stephen Baker
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A very merry Diggers’ Day. 🎼🎵In 1649 To St. George's Hill A ragged band they called the Diggers Came to show the people's will They defied the landlords They defied the laws They were the dispossessed Reclaiming what was theirs 🎶
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Stephen Baker
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That’s three times now Galloway has taken a seat from Labour, isn’t it? First as tragedy, then as farce. What do we say on the third occasion?
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Stephen Baker
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Rishi Sunak. Keir Starmer. Ed Davey. Richard Tice… Your guys took one hell of a beating!
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Stephen Baker
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Keir Starmer reminds me of Neil Kellerman in Dirty Dancing, who, in a world full of groovy people capable of exquisite dances, insists everyone does 'the Pachanga'!
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Stephen Baker
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You get a lot of talking heads in the media giving their opinion, not on the basis of any insight they might provide, but because they’re regarded as celebrities. It’s really helped to transform political discourse into branch of light entertainment.
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Stephen Baker
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I will believe to my dying day that when Dennis Waterman left Minder, he should have been replaced with Margi Clark. Just imagine the potential comic dynamic between Arthur Daley and a woman minder - and scouser to boot.
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Stephen Baker
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Stephen Baker
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Derry 1972 and Gaza 2024. What lessons have been learned?
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Stephen Baker
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At the next election, the UK's FPTP system will leave voters, exhausted by years of Tory corruption and austerity, feeling that they have no choice but to vote for a Labour(-lite) Party that at the very least acquiesced to genocide. That is dire. Neither party is fit for office.
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Stephen Baker
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Shout out and solidarity to everyone on strike today. And in particular those on the picket lines in these freezing conditions. You’re the best of us. The willingness of trade union members to fight for the future is the best hope we have.
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Stephen Baker
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Once, headlines predicting a Tory ‘wipeout’ and Labour ‘sweeping’ to power would have cheered me. These days I feel utterly alienated from British politics. I couldn’t give a toss for this changing of the guard in what is an archaic, malevolent regime.
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Stephen Baker
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Electrifying.
Bernadette Devlin McAlsikey addressing the tens of thousands of people who attended yesterday’s IPSC organised National Demonstration for Palestine in Dublin.
From the Echo Chamber Podcast
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Stephen Baker
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"HEIs are publicly funded and they have a civic purpose. However, if we look closely, we find this civic purpose focuses on engaging with businesses and policymakers more than with citizens and community groups." That needs to change.
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Stephen Baker
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The planet is on fire, so why is higher education behaving as if it is business as usual?
Key question asked by Sinead Sheehan Calum McGeown and John Barry
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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Stephen Baker
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What the Post Office scandal demonstrates is the rewards bestowed on the incompetent, mendacious and self-servingly ambitious. We really do labour under the deadweight of a lumpen-bourgeoisie.
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Stephen Baker
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University of York lowers bar for overseas students after ‘financial challenges’.
HE 'leaders' have spent a decade milking the university sector while blithely ignoring all the warning signs of oncoming crisis.
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Stephen Baker
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Mutual liberation from a crumbling UK might be good for all of us and our success might depend upon English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh collaboration.
Caroline Lucas at the Break Up of Britain? Conference, Edinburgh, November 2023
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Stephen Baker
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I don't think genocidal apartheid states have a right to exist. But people have a right to live free of violence and terror.
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves
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End the siege. Lift the blockade. And don’t stop talking about Gaza. We won’t.
Podcasts for Palestine. Live at the Sugar Club. See you there.
Tickets: t.co/XkFwkp8NkK
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Conor McCabe
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Artwork just dropped. Late summer 2024
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