Black working class writer of The Corinthian, The Bookies, Outro, & Alföld. BBC Scottish Voices 2025. Co-host of The Twin History Podcast. Father of Atlas.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined March 2013
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Joe McCann retweeted
A societal pariah isn’t automatically a political prisoner, Lee.
Danny Tommo isn’t simply accused of “popping a rubber dinghy”.
He’s accused of slashing a vessel with a knife while an emergency responder was aboard. He also faces a separate charge of failing to disclose his phone PIN to police. He denies both.
And what about Dover?
He’s already pleaded guilty to entering a restricted zone at the Western Jet Foil migrant processing facility.
He also faces separate allegations involving threatening behaviour, obstruction, unauthorised entry into Dover Docks and racially aggravated harassment. These remain contested allegations, not convictions.
His barrister proposed bail conditions in the Channel case. A Crown Court judge refused bail, explicitly setting political considerations aside.
You can question that decision. But reducing this entire history to someone “popping a rubber dinghy” while declaring our legal system corrupt is hardly an honest presentation of the facts.
Innocent until proven guilty applies to everyone. So does the law.
Sources:
Dover charges and guilty plea:
portsmouth.co.uk/news/crime/…
Channel incident and charges:
news.sky.com/story/anti-migr…
Bail refusal and judge’s comments:
lbc.co.uk/article/anti-migra…
Joe McCann retweeted
I’m sure your words would have been of great comfort to the women imprisoned for months in those stinking, cramped dungeons, taken out at the governor’s pleasure or left in the blistering sun without food or water if they resisted his advances, before being marched through the Door of No Return.
Sister
Africans fully participated in the slave trade at Elmina, Ghana.
Trade records from the Dutch West India Company, Royal African Company, and Danish ledgers from Elmina, Cape Coast show African rulers and merchants negotiating prices, quantities, and terms with European factors.
African brokers and rulers controlled who could trade and where.
African-authored testimony, for example, Ottobah Cugoano, a Fante man enslaved around 1770, wrote that he was kidnapped by fellow Africans and sold into slavery.
In fact the Asante expansion in modern-day Ghana involved conquering neighbours like Denkyira, Akyem, and Gonja. The prisoners taken in those wars- by Africans- supplied both the coastal trade and domestic labour.
The fort archaeology from excavations at Elmina, Cape Coast, and inland Asante sites back all of this up.
On your logic, the government of Ghana should be apologising for their involvement in slavery.
Joe McCann retweeted
You were the foreigner, cunt.
Today, I could have died at the hands of masked foreign savages.
One foreigner recognised me and shouted ‘FASCISTE’, and hundreds of masked thugs chased me down as they were being kettled by the French police.
God willing, I outran them and escaped.
This will be the norm in Britain if we don’t get a grip on migration.
Footage coming soon.
Joe McCann retweeted
Just insane white supremacy, out in the open brazen racism, from Trump cabinet members.
But hey, let’s return to our regularly scheduled programming on Hasan Piker and the left.
Joe McCann retweeted
Really weird way to honor Stewart’s memory. You can’t see the difference between asking a Black actor on the rise if he wants to play a literal piece of shit versus asking a celebrated, white thespian with over half a century of roles?
Reminder that when they offered the role of the poop emoji in the emoji movie to Jordan Peele, he took it as an insult and thought it was beneath him and it led to him quitting acting, so they were like "fine, we will offer it to Sir Patrick Stewart," and he gladly took the role and made jokes about how it was one of the most important roles of his career. RIP to a real one.
Joe McCann retweeted
One day, Billy, this will all be just a blip in forever. We’ll be lying side by side under the bluest skies in your meadow full of wildflowers, and we’ll laugh about the time we were apart.
Because the days that feel so impossibly long, the years that tick by without you, in the end, will surely be the shortest part of our story.
A separation that feels so endless from here will one day feel so brief.
And in the meantime, we fight, we live, we love, we find joy, and we have the most fun we can.
And on the hardest days, that joy might be something we stumble upon, something brief, something small. But we’ll find it somehow, because of you.
I know you’re there, full of hope, full of life, cheering us on, willing us to make the most of it. And I would hate for you to see our lives play out any other way.
To give you a life here you would love and be proud to be part of. Because you are still a part of it. Even if you cannot be here. Even if you cannot have it.
Happy Halloween, Billy. My little Ray Stantz. 🎃
Please help me reach 80K by NYE. For Billy: justgiving.com/page/billysba… ❤️🩹
Joe McCann retweeted
It starts to be unfair when and IF others don’t receive the same consideration and understanding when and IF they go through something, health-wise (including mental health)
That’s how fairness works. Someone getting something they need is not an unfairness to you. And unfairness to you is not receiving the same, when you’re in need.
Joe McCann retweeted
FC Augsburg believes it's quite terrible to have 17 other Bundesliga clubs sitting on a bunch of the league's limited supply of points.
Joe McCann retweeted
Heartbroken by the death of Sir Patrick Stewart.
From Shakespeare to Star Trek, he boldly went where few had gone before, and took millions of us with him.
He never forgot his roots, nor did he shy away from using his voice to stand up for others, particularly those affected by domestic violence.
May he rest in peace and rise in glory.
Joe McCann retweeted
Mike, it’s 9 a.m. Pace yourself.
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Joe McCann retweeted
Where do all the Pilots that never make it go? Like is there a vault somewhere with thousands of shows we never got to see? Or did they chuck them all in a big fire/ wave a magnet over the hard drive?
Coming in November to timrobbins.com: I’m thrilled to present my never-before-seen television pilot about the pharmaceutical industry called Possible Side Effects. It tested incredibly well but never went to series. Hmmm. Great performances from Ellen Burstyn, Josh Lucas, Tim Blake Nelson, Maya Rudolph, Sarita Choudhury, Betty Gilpin, Eva Amurri, and Miles Robbins. See for yourself, starting November 1st.
