Carolisasinger
@karenshaw.bsky.social
Not a huge fan of Brexit…or the Tories. It’s not my fault, I voted to Remain.
Not a huge fan of unsolicited DM’s either. Please don’t. Many thanks.
From Stoke on Trent. Love music, antiques and collectibles, travel and cooking
Not a huge fan of unsolicited DM’s either. Please don’t. Many thanks.
From Stoke on Trent. Love music, antiques and collectibles, travel and cooking
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“How many refugees have been granted asylum in the UK?”
Most people overestimate the number - by a lot. With far-right figures spreading misinformation, it’s hard for the public to know the truth.
Watch the video to see just how wide the gap is between perception and reality.
Most people overestimate the number - by a lot. With far-right figures spreading misinformation, it’s hard for the public to know the truth.
Watch the video to see just how wide the gap is between perception and reality.
November 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“How many refugees have been granted asylum in the UK?”
Most people overestimate the number - by a lot. With far-right figures spreading misinformation, it’s hard for the public to know the truth.
Watch the video to see just how wide the gap is between perception and reality.
Most people overestimate the number - by a lot. With far-right figures spreading misinformation, it’s hard for the public to know the truth.
Watch the video to see just how wide the gap is between perception and reality.
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Happy Sunday everyone
November 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Happy Sunday everyone
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I like immigrants.
I like their food.
I like their work ethic.
I like it they are different from me.
I can’t be the only Brit who feels this way.
I like their food.
I like their work ethic.
I like it they are different from me.
I can’t be the only Brit who feels this way.
November 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I like immigrants.
I like their food.
I like their work ethic.
I like it they are different from me.
I can’t be the only Brit who feels this way.
I like their food.
I like their work ethic.
I like it they are different from me.
I can’t be the only Brit who feels this way.
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i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
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I think this so often these days...
November 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I think this so often these days...
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I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
May have a very good point 👇. However, still think Paul McCartney’s best work was with Wings. There you go 😁
Anyone who says that the Beatles are overrated listen to Martha My Dear and sit the fuck down.
November 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
May have a very good point 👇. However, still think Paul McCartney’s best work was with Wings. There you go 😁
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Public trust in media (Reuters/Oxford) 2024
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Public trust in media (Reuters/Oxford) 2024
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...
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A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
November 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
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How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
The 'Great Noticing' Era
Ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
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“Check out my beautiful demolition job Bibi!”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
October 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM
“Check out my beautiful demolition job Bibi!”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
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The reform party nativity scene.
No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation.
And not a wise fvcking man in sight…
No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation.
And not a wise fvcking man in sight…
October 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The reform party nativity scene.
No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation.
And not a wise fvcking man in sight…
No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation.
And not a wise fvcking man in sight…
Woman gets angry at watching human beings on the tele
Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, “It drives me mad seeing adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of anything other than white"
Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀
Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀
October 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Woman gets angry at watching human beings on the tele
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Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
October 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
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34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.
adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/
adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/
October 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.
adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/
adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/
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🚨Small boat migrants getting “private health care” while the rest of us have to use the NHS?!🚨
That’s outrageous!
Or is it?
Might the reality be a little more mundane and a little less clickbait-worthy?
Let’s take a 👀
1/17
🧵
That’s outrageous!
Or is it?
Might the reality be a little more mundane and a little less clickbait-worthy?
Let’s take a 👀
1/17
🧵
October 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🚨Small boat migrants getting “private health care” while the rest of us have to use the NHS?!🚨
That’s outrageous!
Or is it?
Might the reality be a little more mundane and a little less clickbait-worthy?
Let’s take a 👀
1/17
🧵
That’s outrageous!
Or is it?
Might the reality be a little more mundane and a little less clickbait-worthy?
Let’s take a 👀
1/17
🧵
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Shots fired but statistically, they aren’t wrong.
October 18, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Shots fired but statistically, they aren’t wrong.
One food that you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again and one song you can’t stand…
- Fish
- Star Wars
- Opportunities - Pet Shop Boys (anything by the Pet Shop Boys actually - just awful)
- Fish
- Star Wars
- Opportunities - Pet Shop Boys (anything by the Pet Shop Boys actually - just awful)
One food that you refuse to eat. One movie that you'll never watch again. And one song you can't stand.
Black pudding.
Alien.
Never gonna give you up by Rick Astley.
Black pudding.
Alien.
Never gonna give you up by Rick Astley.
One food you refuse to eat. One movie you'll never watch again. And one song you can't stand.
Tomato Ketchup
The Elephant Man (original)
Tina Turner, Simply the best.
Tomato Ketchup
The Elephant Man (original)
Tina Turner, Simply the best.
October 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
One food that you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again and one song you can’t stand…
- Fish
- Star Wars
- Opportunities - Pet Shop Boys (anything by the Pet Shop Boys actually - just awful)
- Fish
- Star Wars
- Opportunities - Pet Shop Boys (anything by the Pet Shop Boys actually - just awful)
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If I had £1bn and someone made me pay 1% of it, I’d still have £990,000,000.
If I’m lucky I’ll live for another 40 yrs. I’d have to spend nearly £70k per day, every day (and shops close early on a Sunday) for the rest of my life in order to spend that £990m.
Cont..
If I’m lucky I’ll live for another 40 yrs. I’d have to spend nearly £70k per day, every day (and shops close early on a Sunday) for the rest of my life in order to spend that £990m.
Cont..
October 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
If I had £1bn and someone made me pay 1% of it, I’d still have £990,000,000.
If I’m lucky I’ll live for another 40 yrs. I’d have to spend nearly £70k per day, every day (and shops close early on a Sunday) for the rest of my life in order to spend that £990m.
Cont..
If I’m lucky I’ll live for another 40 yrs. I’d have to spend nearly £70k per day, every day (and shops close early on a Sunday) for the rest of my life in order to spend that £990m.
Cont..
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ECHR; what is it; idiots edition.
European Convention on Human Rights is an international treaty established to protect human rights & fundamental freedoms in Europe. Signed 1950, it allows individuals to bring cases against states for human rights violations to the European Court of Human Rights.
European Convention on Human Rights is an international treaty established to protect human rights & fundamental freedoms in Europe. Signed 1950, it allows individuals to bring cases against states for human rights violations to the European Court of Human Rights.
October 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
ECHR; what is it; idiots edition.
European Convention on Human Rights is an international treaty established to protect human rights & fundamental freedoms in Europe. Signed 1950, it allows individuals to bring cases against states for human rights violations to the European Court of Human Rights.
European Convention on Human Rights is an international treaty established to protect human rights & fundamental freedoms in Europe. Signed 1950, it allows individuals to bring cases against states for human rights violations to the European Court of Human Rights.
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Worth a read on the cost of clothing
This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.
Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
October 13, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Worth a read on the cost of clothing