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6% of Americans think they could beat up a grizzly bear. Further proof of the Atlantic voyage selecting for optimism
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Have to admit I'm more shocked and disturbed by what happened in Israel than probably anything in my life. Far crueler and bestial than 9/11 or even Paris. A little window into genocide - and anyone who still thinks Hamas wouldn't kill every Jew in Israel is deluding themselves
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The common American idea of the French as dainty weaklings, rather than the most militaristic and belligerent country in western Europe, is v strange
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Whenever I now read about a woman committing a horrific crime, especially the sort of crime women almost never commit, I just start at the end of the article
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Almost no one ever talks about the great covid realignment, completely forgotten to time
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Where is the moral outrage about Britain’s grooming gangs? | The Spectator
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'Around 10 per cent of Germans support the restoration of the royals' but 'among those under 34, that number is nearly one in five.'
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A defeated and demoralised people
@edwest
What’s more fascinating is less than 70% of limeys don’t think they could take a rat.
A rat.
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Really don't think it's wise for a member of the British royal family to speak out about American politics. He's not American, and it's really none of his business
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To quote Churchill, 'By God, man, it makes you proud to be British'
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This is an absurdly harsh punishment: six weeks in jail for a tweet, in a country where violent offenders are regularly spared jail
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BBC News is *still* leading on Lee Anderson and the narrative that the problem facing Britain is islamophobia in the Tory party. Yesterday’s bulletin didn’t even mention that female MPs needed extra security or that Parliament had changed its rules under threat of violence
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Denmark's centre-left government signs deal with Rwandan to transfer asylum seekers
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Last year the CPS dropped all charges against men accused of driving through north London shouting 'F*** the Jews... F*** all of them. F*** their mothers, f*** their daughters.'
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If you steal a bike in London, and it's reported, you have a less than 2% chance of being identified and precisely 0% chance of going to jail. And there is no one you can vote for who will change this
Just had the 12th bicycle in my life nicked. Someone came into the station with an angle grinder and took a job lot. These days, reporting them to the police feels like an act of pointless civic duty for the crime stats, rather than an attempt to actually achieve anything.
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Same judge who imprisoned a man for 20 weeks for sending racist messages in a private WhatsApp chat
Judge Ikram says he has decided not to "punish" the trio and gives all three a conditional discharge for 12 months. He says they are free to go (5/8)
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Would love to have a mayor of London - apparently one of a handful of global top tier cities - who didn't just repeat every single American political meme like he was governor of some backwater of the Roman Empire no one in the imperial capital cared about
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Interesting how community notes seem far more effective than most fact-checking or 'misinformation' teams. Anonymity is really beneficial when it comes to taboo subjects that can be statistically measured.
"White people kill other white people at almost the same rate black people kill other black people & yet you never hear anyone complaining about 'white on white crime'. These aren't points of sage wisdom from Maher. They are classic racist dog whistles."
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Most People Rejected His Message
Trump made some outrageous claims about German energy at the UN — and the German delegation’s reaction was priceless
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the main thing is that he left with his dignity. cant take that away from him
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The Tate seemed to have hired the staff at Teen Vogue to write the notes for the Hogarth exhibition
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great idea. let's fly 90,000 people over from eastern Europe in the middle of a lethal pandemic while keeping millions of healthy young people here imprisoned in their homes
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(70% think they *could* beat up a rat. Need a boost of self-confidence!)
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Pathetic worthless cowards
"The Football Association is unlikely to light the Wembley arch in the colours of the Israel flag because of fears of a backlash from some communities."
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So many people feel deeply depressed, angry and scared about what is happening to England right now. Our history is being erased before our eyes and no one has the strength of will to stand up for us
UPDATE: The statue of slave trader Robert Milligan has now been removed from West India Quay.
It’s a sad truth that much of our wealth was derived from the slave trade - but this does not have to be celebrated in our public spaces.
#BlackLivesMatter
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This conflict is extremely dangerous, it has the potential to destabilise the Middle East and to cause carnage in Europe. I have no idea who did this, but if it turns out Israel didn't, this is extremely bad from the BBC, incredibly irresponsible
just the BBC casually putting the Hamas narrative on their news front page
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I find that clip really interesting as an example of 'permission structures', a change in the social environment that allows people to openly laugh about something they previously wouldn't have (or only joked about in DM and WhatsApp groups)
Have I Got News For You finally mocking gender ideology - 20 years and hundreds of damaged children too late, and only after it's been categorically proven to be a crock of shite.
Well done, boys. So brave.
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The worst weasel word in the Discourse today is 'controversial'. It means 'idea or person we deem beyond the pale'. It might apply to an opinion shared by 60% of the population, or a scientific idea with the weight of evidence behind it
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George Bush's letter to his successor Bill Clinton, who had just beat him in the election
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'Two years ago, 50 Albanians arrived in the UK in small boats. Last year, it was 800. And this year, so far, it’s been 12,000, of which 10,000 are single adult men.' Dan O’Mahoney, the Clandestine Channel Threat Commander at the Home Office
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What a horrible thing to do (and to be proud of it)
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Remember that time a bunch of passengers stopped a man being deported to Somalia and it turned out he had been part of a gang which raped a 16 year old girl? He's still here. Can't be deported still served with deportation papers in 2008 after the crime
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it's been insane. one of the strangest moral panics I can remember
A dribble of racist tweets & instagram posts in response to a lost penalty shoot-out, the vast majority of which were likely by trolls from abroad & 3 whole days later its the first item on every news bulletin on every single channel I switch on. This country has lost its mind.
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Imagine if we’d just done the obvious and shut the borders in January
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The college kids thousands of dollars or pounds in debt with a gender studies degree are the equivalent of the younger sons of Norman lords who were never going to inherit land and had nothing to do but forment rebellion and war
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I wrote about Prince Philip, Greatest Living Englishman and the sort of man you’d want to go for a pint with
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And here’s the most recent railway station built in Britain, Thanet Parkway
The best place to start is with the world's oldest surviving grand terminus — Liverpool Lime Street in England, opened in 1836.
The station hotel, pictured here, was built in 1871 like a French château in the Second Empire style.
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the scale of this across England is simply staggering. far worse than I thought possible, almost too horrific to comprehend. I can't think of anything in modern British history that comes close
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Is it really wise for a prince to be lecturing ‘white people’ about their privileges and advantages?
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After the Bully XL the next campaign should be lifetime driving bans for people who cause death or serious injury through reckless driving. look down the thread to see how dangerous drivers are routinely allowed to drive again after as little as a year
Man kills woman by doing 110mph on the A40 in an attempt to show off. Has several previous driving convictions, including driving 95 in a 50 zone, for which he received just a six month driving ban. He will serve 5 years and be allowed to drive again in 12
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The organisation behind this protest is banned in almost every Arab country for being so extreme.
There will be a demonstration in central London tomorrow, organised by
@PSCUpdates
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The update below gives details of the policing operation, the law on support for proscribed organisations, flags and chanting.
It also includes the conditions which have been imposed.
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For the love of God listen to your grandmother
NEW: The Queen has urged Prince William to stop flying in helicopters with his wife and children, as she fears a crash wiping all of them out would spark a constitutional crisis. Prince Harry would then take the throne after Prince Charles. [Via
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Iconic
Peter Hitchens refusing to “take the knee” at a gathering in Oxford yesterday is my current mood.
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My political beliefs aren't political, they're just basic decency!
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This is the biggest tragedy of modern British life and I genuinely feel sorry for people in their 20s. everyone responsible should hang their head in shame
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Incredibly sad what’s happened to England
Breaking: A British woman is left in tears after she and her husband were confronted in Victoria Station in London for the Palestine “Million Man March.” They were apparently accosted for the patriotic pins they were wearing for
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#VeteransDay
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As Tony Dowson points out below, the same magistrate who sent a man to jail for four months for sharing a George Floyd joke in a WhatsApp group
"Trans activist Sarah Jane Baker found not guilty of encouraging violence with ‘punch a Terf’ speech"
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Japan's population falls by 800,000 in a year
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Man goes to girlfriend's flat armed with an iron bar, kicks her door, steals her bank card, pours vodka over her and threatens to light it. Is punished with 18-month community order and walks free. Two weeks later he murders her
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The BBC's coverage of Australia's referendum is really odd - highly editorialised and doesn't even pretend to be impartial. Another thing which makes me worried about generational change at the corporation
This is how the article, with the bizarre and illiterate title “The Voice: Why Australia trails New Zealand on Indigenous journey”, characterises the “No” side in this referendum.
@deborahturness
and
@jonathancmunro
do you consider this to be balanced reporting?
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There are now 12,000 foreign criminals walking around freely in Britain, the authorities unable to deport them. This includes many very violent offenders, and some have already gone on to reoffend
Astonishing.
In 2013 there were 14,500 enforced returns from the UK.
For all the rhetoric, in 2022, this was down to less than 4,000.
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Has anyone written anything about why almost all the poster removers seem to be women? I don’t have any grand theory, it’s just surprising (the whole phenomenon has surprised me tbh)
UPDATE: two women who have removed posters of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas terrorists have been identified as Colleen Topping (right) and Luci Hornbeck (left).
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'In 2021, 2 of the 4 UK fatalities were from a breed known as the American Bully XL. In 2022, 6 out of 10 were American Bullies. In 2023, so far all fatalities appear to have been American Bullies'
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19-year-old Leah Croucher was murdered because the authorities think these are appropriate sentences
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I never really got why people opposed HS2 in principle. What are the reasons? Obviously Britain should have high speed railway between its three biggest cities surely. (Reminded how painfully slow the London-Manchester train is)
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'You now compete with the world's richest on the housing market and the world's poorest on the labour market'. Great line, I'm going to nick that
Thanks to the wonders of UK immigration policy you now compete with the world's richest on the housing market, the world's poorest on the labour market, and lose your culture in the process.
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To paraphrase Kevin Phillips, the whole secret of politics is knowing who hates whose ancestors
Just a weird thing for an American television host to be spending his time stanning the British Empire. Is this nationalism?
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Wish Neil Oliver had been in charge of the unionist case in the last Scottish Referendum. Ultimately this is what it's about - are we a people and a family?
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63 percent of renters in London are now foreign-born
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New Dutch study on the economic impact of immigration migration from other rich countries a net benefit, migration from poor countries a net drain
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Boring thing to say but London really needs more squares. Every area should have one. Waiting in an up market suburb and there’s not a single place to have a coffee that isn’t on a road with continuous traffic
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Find this kind of thing really hard to understand Is this pathological altruism? Empathy? Oikophobia?
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This is the most-read thing I've ever written
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I'd love to see a Ben Stiller-style comedy about the making of a woke film which turns out to be obviously terrible, but all journalists feel compelled to sing its praise like delegates at the 1937 Communist Party conference clapping themselves to death
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to be fair, it was more of a tragedy for the people who got hit by an axe
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This guy is the most Roman-looking man I've ever seen. (no idea why he came up in my timeline)
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This is such a terrible idea and it's going to make life miserable for so many teenagers
Evidence shows children excluded from school are at higher risk of being affected by violence.
I’m pleased to announce
@LDN_VRU
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I know this is a very me thing to say but shouldn't leading satirists be satirising the powerful - ie groups and ideologies who can get you sacked and have the backing of leading corporations - rather than complete losers despised by everyone?
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2020 has been another case of Everything Your Grandmother Believed Was True. fresh air is the key to avoiding germs. I've seen so many offices where there were five different hand sanitisers on offer, and all the windows shut. there's no logic to it
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Yes. need to reinstall ASAP
I suppose it's futile to complain but not only is
@toad_spotted
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Without naming names, why do so many 'centrists' and 'classical liberals' who oppose radical wokeness turn out to be grifters and/or actually insane? is it just supply and demand?
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On the wall of a few paying school in the north of England. ‘Voter suppression’, ‘mass incarceration’. Completely America-brained
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Everything Your Grandmother Believed Was True applies to pretty much every area of life too - health, dating, politics, human behaviour. An intelligent but non-uni educated woman growing up c.1900 had a far better grasp of human nature than almost anyone giving a TEDx Talk today
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This is so miserable - and climbing stairs is great exercise, so terrible advice. They should have encouraging messages like ‘come on, fatty! Almost there!’
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