When I see people shutting their twitter accounts.

It seems inarguable to me that Jenrick is trying to calibrate an “acceptable” racism; it seems likely that he doesn’t mean, or even understand, some of what he says (he is being fed lines by his web-poisoned advisors). But you wouldn’t do it at all if you weren’t already partial.

Friar Occam, you dropped this razor.

A less Jupiterian president might have realised he was the problem. Instead he dismantled the cordon sanitaire against the right, erected a new one against the left, and in so doing became the biggest roadblock to his own reforms. Terrific work, Manu.

Might be time to dig out my old exam results. A B2 in Higher French has to count for something.

I thought he said he was always going to show up, never a backwards step, etc. etc.

This kid exists, is what I’m saying.

We hired Brian as a spokesperson. He showed up thinking he's our CFO. Now he insists on proving himself in Flatiron Plaza on October 14th. We couldn't talk him out of this. RSVP here—someone needs to witness this.

Oh, I don’t know. I’ve met at least one baby who would have been out stealing hubcaps if only they could have held their head steady.

The implication being that the community is not sufficiently British to understand “British values” for itself.

I wonder what people like Allison imagine life was like in Gaza. It may have been walled off, but it wasn’t a monoculture. Global news organisations had headquarters there. The schools were mostly UN-run: the curriculum would be recognisable to a westerner.

Not only are these students guilty of past massacres, they seem to be guilty of massacres as yet uncommitted.

Peculiar interviews with Aimee Lou Wood and/or Walton Goggins in which they insist that everything’s FINE, thanks for asking. There’s another thing that’s gone out.

Willie will eventually get around to singing every song, with every conceivable duet partner, so this is only temporarily untrue.

birthday boy string

“A missed opportunity for growth.” Give me strength.

Given that thousands (literally thousands) of people have been detained under terrorism legislation for attending these protests, being called ‘un-British’ counts as deescalation.

You think Taylor Swift has sucked the fun out of Taylor Swift, and then you read the commentary and realise how much fun people are prepared not to have.

Aw.

"Looking at the demographics of the area, Heaton Park, 57% Jewish, right next door to Crumpsall South, 69% Muslim. It's almost as if we've got the Middle East conflict playing out in the streets of Britain" That's quite the number of racist boxes ticked in less than 20 seconds

Not being religious at all, it logically shouldn’t make any difference to me, but an additional weight drags on my heart when people are murdered at prayer.

I’d speculate that it has to do with a culture of general disenfranchisement that leads people to expect self-dealing among the elite, except that the other big scandal (decanting sick and elderly people straight from hospital into nursing homes) also largely produced a shrug.