Claire Jones
@claireaj
Politics writer for West England Bylines, Bearly Politics & Left Foot Forward + co-ordinator for campaign group Compass Oxon. Democracy, womens rights, far right ideology, disinformation, Labour, etc.
Re the footie, there was real grief yesterday at Blighty's lost chance for cultural repair and for a much needed national, unifying success narrative about ourselves. Seriously - the investment of hope on Count Binface is even more intense now -
Since Facebook is blocking this Insta clip, I'm just gonna quietly put it here instead - US planes loaded with bombs taking off from RAF Fairford. Gloucestershire, UK www.instagram.com/reel/DWG4zBZ...
Could it be time for the new year 'peace prize' caption competition? Ideas welcome. Please form an orderly queue 😂😂
Good that someone's on the ball. Precisely! Wake up America. Though it's not clear what you can do to stop him now - now that you've voted him in. Answers on a postcard?
Our ability to teach the lesson below will depend on whether democracy can survive him. Honestly right now, no-one, including the world's experts on authoritarianism, really knows -
This is absolutely ridiculous - the abolute lowest point our wretched government has reached 😡😡 I suppose it made the proscription decision, like the fiscal tightness one, the 2 child cap, the winter fuel cuts + the disability benefits cuts all with the same knee-jerk 'look at us, we're so tough