Ex-SF politician gets ban over ‘cracker’ tweet

Danny Morrison, the former leading Sinn Féin politician, was banned from Twitter for using the phrase “That’s a cracker!” in response to a picture of the English singer Adele that had been tweeted to him.

Commonly used in Mr Morrison’s native Belfast, “That’s a cracker” was the catchphrase of the late comedian Frank Carson.

However, in the US, “cracker” is seen as a racist reference to poor southern whites.