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Joined November 2010
Adam Melia retweeted
it’s so funny these idiots try to act like socialists aren’t regular upstanding members of society trying to improve the awful system we’re subjected to. they think we are like the nazis on the far right and get mad when normal people don’t feel that way.
"Abdul is not a socialist" ...He just hangs out with @DemSocialists a lot 😉
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#News: @thebeatles are on their way home. 🎶 And they'll be bigger than ever! Apple Corps Ltd has unveiled plans for a spectacular new 100,000 sq ft Beatles experience in the heart of Liverpool, opening in 2028. Situated within the former market hall within St Johns Shopping Centre, it will be the first official fan experience to be operated in Liverpool by the company, creating a truly world class authentic destination befitting of the world’s greatest musical legacy. Four times the size of the existing The Beatles Story, the new immersive attraction will take fans from post-war Liverpool to Hamburg, The Cavern, Beatlemania, Shea Staidum, Abbey Road and beyond. Liverpool’s iconic St Johns Beacon will also become home to a new Yellow Submarine experience, giving fans the opportunity to enjoy a panoramic 360-degree view of Liverpool, taking in the landmarks and key locations where pop history was made. And whilst the new attraction will celebrate Liverpool’s greatest musical export and draw visitors from around the world, its impact will also support the city’s next generation of talent. Every ticket sold to The Beatles Story will contribute to the The Apple Corps Liverpool Trust, a charitable initiative established to provide financial support and opportunities for emerging Liverpool artists and local cultural endeavours. More at: thebeatles.com/liverpool #TheBeatlesLiverpool28
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If I was Prime Minister , if I was Burnham , watching European cities ablaze . . . I’d instigate a ‘wealth tax’ at about 9.01am tomorrow morning . Just saying . Or should we just ‘eat cake’ ?
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Adam Melia retweeted
There are practical and financial reasons why we don’t have a direct train to Liverpool Airport but it would be a real game-changer if we did.
Having a train that takes you directly to the airport is genuinely one of the top 10 things a city can offer. No expensive taxis, no sitting in traffic, no begging someone to drop you off. Just get on the train and arrive at the airport. Every major city should have this.
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As we’ve been saying for decades, often in the face of roaring verbal abuse: means-testing bad, universalism good
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John Chapman from Poole was murdered by the Israeli military while working for World Central Kitchen. The Government must secure justice for John and impose an arms embargo. We must have no connection with a military that kills aid workers and denies any accountability.
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Keeping everyone (including Africans) completely ignorant about Africa and the central role it plays in the economic and natural world is a core feature of Europeanised education, not a bug. You're not supposed to know that the DRC is the most resource-rich country in the world, with an estimated $24 trillion sitting under its soil. You're not supposed to know that the rise of "western civilisation" from the 15th century on was entirely made possible by European contact with Africa, and that the resources and labour extracted from coastal West Africa from 1492 onwards are the entire reason why both American continents exist in their current form. You're not supposed to know that both WW1 and WW2 were essentially wars fought over the right to African colonial domination and expansion, and that even the uranium that was used in "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki came from Shinkolobwe uranium mine in eastern DRC. You're not supposed to know that the reason the country of France exists in its current form is because tens of thousands of conscripted West African soldiers fought and won against the Nazis in Europe, and the French thereafter shipped them back to West Africa and massacred them at Camp Thiaroye in Senegal to avoid paying them their due wages. You're not supposed to know that there was nothing cold about the so-called Cold War, because the vast majority of the hot theaters it was physically fought in were on the continent of Africa. (Zimbabwe, DRC, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Angola, Eritrea, Zambia etc). You're not supposed to know that the ongoing Ukraine war and the war in the Sahel are in fact the same conflict being fought by the same 2 sides, and that the reason France is desperately pushing funding and arms to Ukraine even as it falls into internal crisis is that Ukraine is acting as its proxy army in West Africa, as it tries to regain its lost colonial territories there, especially Niger where the cheap yellowcake uranium for its famously cheap nuclear energy used to come from before the 2023 revolution. You're definitely not supposed to know that the entire global economy and system of trade as you know it is built on ruthless extraction from Africa and ensuring that Africa does not control anything it exports. You're not supposed to know that "Italian leather" doesn't come from Italy - it comes from Kano, Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that "Swiss chocolate" does not exist because cocoa does not grow anywhere in Switzerland or Europe - it comes from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that Israel and the UAE control the global diamond and gold markets even though Israel has no diamond mine and the UAE has zero gold mines, because both resources are literally being stolen from the DRC and Sudan on an industrial basis. You're basically not supposed to understand that the entire geopolitical world as you know it, rests entirely on extraction from Africa, poverty of Africans, and your own ignorance about where everything you use comes from. Completely deliberate 500+ year-old feature, not accidental bug.
How did school teach us about the Amazon so much & never once mention the Congo Basin? It's the world's largest tropical carbon sink. The planet is literally breathing through it & nobody thought we should know 😳
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The propaganda is DEAD. Palestine will be free 🤲🏽🇵🇸 big up @ZachBryankip and the gang
Tonight at Gillette Stadium, Zach Bryan, one of the biggest country music artists in the world, wore a Free Palestine shirt onstage. Gillette Stadium is owned by Robert Kraft, who pushed Ed Sheeran and his promoter to drop Macklemore from his tour. Bryan isn’t just a major country artist. He is one of the biggest live draws in music, filling stadiums across the United States and in major cities around the world. Bryan served eight years on active duty in the US Navy and served overseas in Bahrain and Djibouti. Members of Bryan’s band also wore shirts supporting the Palestinian cause, including his drummer, who wore a jersey honoring the memory of Hind Rajab. Zach Bryan has a second show at Gillette Stadium tomorrow, Saturday night.
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Klopp is the best person
The controversy between Germany’s far-right AfD party and Germany national team head coach Jürgen Klopp continues. At the centre of the dispute are Klopp’s public criticisms of the AfD’s ideas, values and policies. AfD deputy leader Kay Gottschalk wrote on social media following Germany’s defeat to Greece: “Certain virtues and the spirit of teamwork are cultural values that develop over centuries and are shaped by shared historical experiences.” With these remarks, Gottschalk drew a comparison between the German national team of 1990 and the current squad. While the 1990 team consisted entirely of white players, Klopp’s current squad includes eight Black players. Klopp responded to Gottschalk’s remarks at a press conference in Munich: “Is Germany not white enough? Complete nonsense. I won’t comment on it. There is absolutely no reason to take these people seriously. You won’t hear my opinion on this. In everyday life, I have little time for nonsense, and even less on social media.” Klopp made the remarks ahead of Germany’s UEFA Nations League match against Serbia, which Germany won yesterday.
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This has always been it. And whenever anyone says "why did the panel take so long?" all of this is a key reason why. These would rather burst the ball than let anyone else play with it.
Etihad threatening to sue. UAE reportedly intimating that UK investment could be pulled. A Prime Minister couching any criticisism. If this sorry saga doesn't convince you that state ownership of football clubs should never be allowed, nothing ever will.
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Green Party deputy leader Mothin Ali: "Andy Burnham’s comments are staggering, just one day after saying people should come before profit, he sides with big money over the integrity of a sport that belongs to the people." huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/a…
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Etihad threatening to sue. UAE reportedly intimating that UK investment could be pulled. A Prime Minister couching any criticisism. If this sorry saga doesn't convince you that state ownership of football clubs should never be allowed, nothing ever will.
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Adam Melia retweeted
“I would be really concerned to lose them.” Prime Minister Andy Burnham on the possibility of Manchester City’s owners selling up. What?! These are owners found guilty of serial breaches of the Premier League rule-book by three judges on an independent commission after a lengthy investigation. Owners who outraged other clubs and countless fans by flouting the rules and inflating sponsorship income with the Disguised Funding Scheme. Owners who misled auditors and regulators, who threaten to bring this Premier League season – and, potentially, future seasons - to a standstill by their appeal, deny, delay tactics. Owners who are patently not proper custodians of a famous, historic club. Owners who many hope will sell up and ship out after bringing such shame and sham contracts to the game. So these are astonishing, alarming comments from the PM. “I do actually thank the City Football Group and the wider ownership for the money that they didn't just put into the Etihad and the campus around it but also into the city," Burnham told the BBC’s Chris Mason. Come on, PM. Read the room. Read the commission’s report. Read the belligerent statements from the Abu Dhabi owners and their chief executive like Ferran Soriano. Rather than thank CFG, perhaps thank the diligence of the Premier League in seeking to enforce its rules and protect the national sport. Perhaps thank the three judges for their pain-staking work in sifting through reams of evidence and coming to their considered conclusion. Burnham spoke as a politician seemingly with one eye on diplomatic and trade links. He spoke as a former mayor whose city benefited from investment in east Manchester by Abu Dhabi. “They've been such a huge partner in the building of modern Manchester and obviously the building of Manchester City into the global force that it is.” And how was that building financed? Burnham spoke as a politician and not the football fan that he truly is. The lifelong Evertonian is usually pretty sound on football matters. He misread the mood of many fans not wanting the possible return of drinking in Premier League stands but that was a rare misstep. This is far worse. This makes him look out of touch with the prevailing mood. He was speaking at Hill Dickinson Stadium. Maybe he should head to Anfield on Sunday week and witness the anger felt towards City. Burnham did add that he wasn’t getting involved in the process and that City had a right to appeal if they felt harshly treated. But how does the PM’s sympathetic words for controversial owners help the independent football regulator charged by Government with leading the fight against those who risk the credibility of their club, who play fast and loose with the rules and who damage the integrity of the national sport? How frustrating if Burnham’s words embolden City's owners and Soriano further. Bit of an own goal by No 10.
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Poor - and biased - response from Andy Burnham on Manchester City being found guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules by an Independent Commission. He says “I can’t intervene *more* in the process,” which requires an explanation in itself. Then offers commentary on previous proceedings he felt was unfair, AND states he wouldn’t want to lose the club’s owners who have “been such a huge partner in the building of modern Manchester. Obviously, the building of Manchester City into the global force that it is.” How was that force built? And on the investment into the city itself, per a 2022 Guardian report: “Nine sites were sold to Sheikh Mansour at a fraction of their value, and well below what other plots nearby fetched. They were on leases lasting 999 years, well beyond the norm. And the fund shifted what had been public assets to companies registered in Jersey. “That walk along the water from New Islington into Ancoats now passes blocks of privatised land owned in an offshore tax haven, which yields millions upon millions for a key member of the wealthy elite running a surveillance state halfway across the globe. One of the greatest cities in the world has sold itself to a senior figure in a brutal autocracy – and not even for a good price.”
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Me on some of the City stuff.
'The reason Jürgen Klopp builds a team that takes 110 from 114 and wins a European Cup and World Club Cup during that time span, the reason those players focus and treat every game as though it meant everything is because they were trying to beat a team that had cheated to the tune of £900m up to the end of the 17/18 season.' ✍️ @Knox_Harrington’s column… 👉 Read here: mailchi.mp/theanfieldwrap/ta…
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💯 Burnham and all of us owe huge thanks to @ZackPolanski and Hannah Spencer. Disappointing that some seem to think job over - there is now very little pressure from the left within the Labour party (very few left!) - so we need this from the outside otherwise Labour will revert to the status quo.
Now the Greens and Polanski are off their peak it’s tempting to dismiss as a flash in the pan. But regardless of what happens in Holborn, their influence on political landscape inc yesterdays speech has been outsized - like Farage in the 2010s. Would argue Gorton and Denton result even more consequential than Makerfield. On a par with Clacton 2014
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Adam Melia retweeted
Breaking: the Met Police has submitted charging files to the Crown Prosecution Service resulting from its Grenfell fire investigation. The files cover 54 individuals and 20 companies and cover charges including fraud, misconduct in public office and manslaughter
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Adam Melia retweeted
Good. She needs to go and Burnham next needs to shift on both anti-asylum cruelty and anti-Palestine Action authoritarianism.
Labour voters have turned on Shabana Mahmood over migration, a major new poll shows. Almost half of 2024 Labour voters are dissatisfied with the Government’s handling of immigration and asylum, according to a YouGov survey. 🔗 telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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The camera cut from a devastated Sir Alex to a joyous Kenny Dalglish was the most satisfying thing ever 😂 You just had to be there.
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Alcohol consumption - by police chiefs - was a significant factor.
It's irresponsible, vindictive and factually incorrect for @PoliceChiefs to attribute alcohol consumption (by supporters) as a cause of the Hillsborough disaster. A full retraction, apology and recognition of catastrophic policing failures causing the disaster is needed.
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