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Those are both really important things to take into consideration, I'm just not clear how they apply to this particular situation in which a white, middle-class man has made an apparently racist comment to a black, (probably) middle-class man. This would seem to be one of those (possibly rare) situations in which we can scrutinise issues around race and racism in isolation.

(I did read your other comment before you binned it, happy to edit to more accurately reflect the intent behind your previous comment).

Now that Katie Hopkins can’t read Twitter, I can tell you that on
Monday I made her fly to Prague to pick up a completely fake award.
Video up shortly.

https://twitter.com/joshua_pieters/status/1222943917307572225

The video is up, this snippet is plenty though.

https://twitter.com/Harry__England/status/1222993396786245642?s=19

More publicity for her.

I find this wholly unsatisfying. Where's the actual denouement?

https://twitter.com/joshua_pieters/status/1222989033124638723?s=19

There was no reveal/reaction moment though, they left her blissfully unaware, rightly or wrongly.

What a day -

UK gets coronavirus.
Brexit.
Trump (probably) gets acquitted.

she was in on that, shirely? she gets to run her gob (again) in front of more people in exchange for being called a cnut. not the first time she's been called a cunt...

I was amazed she rocked up in Prague on her own, I’d assumed someone saying what she does would need some proper security..

What a day -

UK gets coronavirus.
Brexit.

It's creating a shed load of work for me but there's a brilliant irony in the UK contracting coronavirus on Brexit day. Isolationism doesn't work.

Isolationism doesn't work.

Don't think there are any reported Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea yet. I believe there is a one month quarantine for anyone entering the country. Australia kept the 1918 flu out with similar measures.

Have you seen World War Z?

Yeah but that was just Hollywood silliness. Satellite phone would never work inside a boat!

the UN Special Rapporteur on torture's investigation into the treatment of Julian Assange
https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange

This is really intersting, thank you for posting.
Lots of details about the case I hadn't seen anywhere else, e.g.:

For exactly these kinds of judiciary issues, there is a cooperation
treaty between the United Kingdom and Sweden, which foresees that
Swedish officials can travel to the UK, or vice versa, to conduct
interrogations or that such questioning can take place via video link.
During the period of time in question, such questioning between Sweden
and England took place in 44 other cases. It was only in Julian
Assange’s case that Sweden insisted that it was essential for him to
appear in person.

https://mobile.twitter.com/DotLepkowska/status/1223253932903890946

Coach drivers are naturally immune to Coronavirus it seems.

Do ties and V-Neck sweaters hold the key? We should be told!

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Horseman coaches. JFC.

I trust the government had hired four of them?

The returned Britons are in a safe medical facility being fed cream crackers and After Eights. Not the usual hospital food but it's the only stuff that fits under the door.

I forgot horseman coaches existed until a month ago when I drove past my old school and they're nearly opposite, made me think of Bojack.

That's one of them driving the bus.

Yup. In Wirral peninsula it seems.

Safe from Scousers and beyond the posh footballer Wags in Liverpool and Manchester.

Fuck me there's four of them!

5 I reckon.