Jack Hughes

THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS Along with Hoggart's The Uses of Literacy, this book represents a view of the working class and "progress" being about their struggles that died as the 50s turned into the 60s. From the perspective of today, both books are prescient of a type of rooted, conservation, reactionary cultural analysis. In it's day, this book was hugely influential. I read this a few years ago when my thought was less developed, but it has floated around in the back of my mind. Time to return to it, I think...🧵

@BlacknessinXtra @i_am_AnishaM @MsRade92 Successive postwar governments from Attlee on regarded the overwhelming majority of Windrush as an unwanted added burden at a difficult time and tried to get them to stop coming. Only a tiny % of Windrush were ever invited. Centuries-old rights to come existed, and they came...

@i_am_AnishaM @MsRade92 The Windrush generation were invited here by the government and promised the essentials yet got nothing. They payed their fare to come here. Perfectly legal.

There are literally white men right behind her, looking at her in disgust all while she’s tap dancing for them. SMH

Another book in the hunt for details of the postwar recruitment from the Caribbean. This one is wild. The corrections are hand-glued in slips of paper.

@jaquie_f @JeremyCordite Not quite sure. My son and his mates used to use it a couple of years ago. They now regard it as cringingly uncool, hence as a dad... I feel compelled to use it wherever possible, ideally incorrectly.

@ThreeJacques @JeremyCordite What is a peng munch?

The Labour Party wanted to stop Windrush coming to England.

The idea of living, moving, potentially malign, potentially benevolent, potentially dangerous trees is apparently a West Country tradition and inspiration for Tolkien.

I like this mournful one...

I thought this might be a wholesome thing to read and likely to have the odd gem. The folklorist behind it lost their original folklore archive, gathered as oral history, in a fire in 1966, so this is made up of the scraps that survived.

The last of the fag ends of the Covent Garden of Eliza Doolittle...

Found an old book of photographs from the 70s, from Covent Garden market in the years building up to its closure...

BRITISH POLLING & PUBLIC OPINION From the 24th British Social Attitudes Survey 2007/2008. Back in 2006 there was a feeling that the country was becoming more racist. #SocialTrends #PublicOpinion

@JimMilton821 @AmiriKing No, just a reasonable belief of serious injury. Whether that belief was correct or not doesn't matter.

@ThreeJacques @AmiriKing To justify shooting someone, yes you do.

CHUD LIVESTREAM EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT: - ‘Tell me exactly what happened.’ So it all started when Chud went to the courthouse on official business. People say he was there for a civil matter, I don't really know what it was for but it makes sense considering he was well dressed in a suit. He's just taking a stroll talking about his upcoming interview with Harrison smith from infowars saying how it's good to just take a stroll before giving an interview etc. he notices a black couple pointing at him and he walks past them and asks if they're having a good day and if they like his suit. Really just trying to have a conversation with them because they initiated by pointing so he's curious to know what's up. After he asks how they're doing, the guy responds with "get out of here" or something to that effect and Chud says "I'm free to be where I want to be" Black dude says something else and Chud simply walks away. As Chud walks away, the black guy tells him he has PTSD and that he won't put with him calling him a n!gger or say that chimp out stuff to him. Chud then says "or what? You gonna start chimping out?" Chud is still recording but walking away. That's when you can see the black guy stand up from about maybe 50 or 60 ft away from Chud idk exactly how many feet but it was quite a significant distance and he begins to advance towards Chud. Chud stops walking and the black catches up to Chud and they're in each others faces. Literally inches apart. The black guys tells Chud "Call me a nigger" "Mace me. Mace me" trying to provoke Chud and when he gets no response from Chud, he punches Chud in the head. The camera is then knocked to the ground. Seconds later, you can hear 4 or 5 gunshots pop off. Then you can hear people running towards them and Chud saying "get him off of me" The rest of the audio you can find online if you look around. But that's what I saw happen live on stream. - ‘Did Chud use any racial slurs?’ Nope. Never used a single racial slur whatsoever. - ‘So how important do you think the livestream footage is?’ Yeah I'm sure they are trying to subpoena that. As they should. If they can get their hands on that footage, it will basically exonerate Chud.

@JimMilton821 @AmiriKing You do not have to prove your life was in danger.

@AmiriKing Courts favor in-person testimony over live-streamed witnesses. I supported Chud but he will most likely serve time. The DAs will present his clips saying this guy provokes people. Also, you can only claim self defense if you can prove your life was in danger.

CLERK SAUNDERS youtu.be/-cN6y8gn3Uo?si…

@CumbrianFella_ Mostly it is by agreeing with things Keir Hardie believed.

How does one get labeled far-right?

@AuntyMatter Everybody needs good neighbours.

@ThreeJacques Neighbours?🤣

@daveshepperd2 Indeed, what is to be done with people who have lived here illegally without breaking any law? Few know today that the majority of the original Indo-Pakistani migrants after WW2 came through immigration fraud. They had their situation normalised by Harold Macmillan in 1960.

Johnson 'repeats call for amnesty for some illegal immigrants' in wake of Windrush news.sky.com/story/johnson-…

@justaminitt @James530719 @MorgothsReview That is a children's story invented decades later. Successive government from Attlee on regarded the overwhelming majority of postwar Commonwealth immigration as an unasked for added burden at a difficult time.

@James530719 @MorgothsReview Colour is not the issue. Culture and quality matter oh and a passport helps!people from the colonies were invited in many to fill the shortage in workplaces during the 50's

If you’re over 35 in the UK then you remember clearly a time when the country was 90-95% white. Yet today, from the Tories to Farage and Reform, the ethnic and racial changes are supposed to be a non-event. Concerned people are to be snitched on, purged and blacklisted. The fanciful ideal of a race-blind society is dead in the water, yet the mainstream right demands we believe in the dream so they aren’t asked awkward questions at dinner parties and on lucrative media spots. This situation is untenable.

@darciebean @vitt2tsnoc That's how Sean Bean begins to work on people.

@ThreeJacques @vitt2tsnoc You see, at the risk of starting an argument, Sean Bean does nothing for me

I can not stress this enough… We ABSOLUTELY fucking DON’T

@haywoodchrisjen @modernhistory 11 years changes a body...

@ThreeJacques @modernhistory

Ellen Page to Elliot Page in 10 years!!

@darciebean @vitt2tsnoc You're doing yourself down. You know Danny Dyer would be a second-rate cacker eater... Now, Sean Bean... there's a man who could eat a cracker and have you coming back with another packet.

@vitt2tsnoc Got to be honest, I wouldn't kick him out of bed for eating crackers

@vitt2tsnoc Ah, you just say that to make Danny Dyer chase you.

@jason73_14_ It's great he says that, but what is he going to do about it? The world is full of people with big mouths who don't do anything.

@mrG_Lincoln @Sargon_of_Akkad Look at her jelly! Imagine Sargone's strength to say "begone, thot!"

@ThreeJacques @Sargon_of_Akkad Lol

Makes me think of Jess Phillips' relationship with @Sargon_of_Akkad. He wouldn't even have a nibble...