Harry Peto (@harrypetolitics) 's Twitter Profile
Harry Peto

@harrypetolitics

Barrister. Labour Party, GMB.

Interested in poverty reduction, long-term policy, animal rights, foreign policy.

Views mine. RTs/likes ≠ endorsement.

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Over 100,000 people and NO arrests. Well, two arrests - Tommy Robinson, whose presence was rejected by organisers, and a guy shouting antisemitic abuse at the marchers as they left Whitehall. Fair to say neither of them count as part of the march. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-675373…

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Thinking this Shabbat of Denil Kimenfeld, a 65-year-old who has spent 62 days and counting in captivity by Hamas terrorists. #bringthemhome #youbetheirlight May this Shabbat bring you peace and this Chanukah bring you light and joy. Shabbat shalom and Chag Urim Sameach.

Thinking this Shabbat of Denil Kimenfeld, a 65-year-old who has spent 62 days and counting in captivity by Hamas terrorists. 

#bringthemhome #youbetheirlight 

May this Shabbat bring you peace and this Chanukah bring you light and joy. 

Shabbat shalom and Chag Urim Sameach.
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SURELY a lot of people thought they were being asked about whether these restrictions were justified in the past. No way 28% of folks aged 25-40 think we should CURRENTLY be in a full lockdown?!

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Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, where we remember the 6 million Jewish men, women and children, the thousands of Roma and Sinti, black, gay, disabled and other groups, systematically murdered in the Holocaust, as well as in subsequent genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia and

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As a campaigner against Mike Freer I am profoundly disturbed that he is resigning over threats to his personal safety by Islamist groups. The law should come down hard on any activity designed to bully our public representatives out of office. It is a threat to our democracy.

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Do read this brilliant analysis by Howard Jacobson Who hijacks the Holocaust? And why doing it takes no courage at all. There is disagreement about the meaning of this clumsy formulation. Is Glazer refuting his Jewishness full stop, or refuting his Jewishness being hijacked

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So what other options did Israel have after October 7th? There are many possible answers, which were clear from the beginning. You may disagree with some or all of this, but six months later, and after all of the most recent disasters, I believe even more strongly that this was

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There's no such thing as a human right which isn't dependent on the labour of another. Rights don't exist without enforcement, which requires the labour of legislators, police, judges etc.