24 May 2021
Supporters of Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson blamed the media for her shooting during a vigil held outside of the hospital where she remains in critical condition.
A vigil held in the Ruskin Park bandstand in Lambeth, London on Monday afternoon which was promoted by the official Black Lives Matter UK organisation saw around one hundred well-wishers gather to support Sasha Johnson, the self-described “Black Panther of Oxford” who was shot in the head in the early hours of Sunday morning.
A recording of the vigil captured by an amateur livestreamer showed a speaker saying: “I want to say to some of the media here, you guys caused some of this shit.”
12 May 2021
Former prime minister Tony Blair has launched a “withering” attack on “woke” politics, which he claims is one of the reasons why the Labour party he once led is now unelectable.
Ordinary people don’t like “woke” politics, Blair argues in the
New Statesman in an essay
which is being viewed in some quarters as a bid by the fanged horror creature to replace Sir Keir Starmer as Labour leader.
Blair writes:
They’re suspicious that behind the agenda of many of the culture warriors on the left lies an ideology they find alien and extreme; and they’re instinctively brilliant at distinguishing between the sentiment and the movement. They will support strongly campaigns against racism; but they recoil from some of the language and actions of the fringes of the Black Lives Matter movement.