Stuart Arnell
@stuartarnell.bsky.social
IT Architect in the north west of England. Shovelling money into pension funds in the vain hope of ever retiring.
Racism isn’t about language used, it’s an idea, a thought process, a view.
If all you care about is the language she used, you are racist as well.
If all you care about is the language she used, you are racist as well.
Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp repeatedly refusing to say that he thinks Reform MP Sarah Pochin saying she doesn't like seeing black people on TV was racist.
Says he wouldn't use her "language" but it's right for her to express "legitimate concerns" about migration
Says he wouldn't use her "language" but it's right for her to express "legitimate concerns" about migration
October 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Racism isn’t about language used, it’s an idea, a thought process, a view.
If all you care about is the language she used, you are racist as well.
If all you care about is the language she used, you are racist as well.
Fireworks already? Really???
October 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Fireworks already? Really???
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Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
October 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
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Off with his head.
Prince Andrew gives up royal titles including Duke of York after 'discussion with King'
He has been under increasing pressure for his links with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with calls for the Palace to take action.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Off with his head.
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Great news.....
Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @carbonbrief.org
Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @carbonbrief.org
Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far
Clean-energy sources have powered Great Britain entirely for a record 87 hours this year — a milestone toward 2030 targets
eastangliabylines.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Great news.....
Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @carbonbrief.org
Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @carbonbrief.org
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Rachel Reeves set to blame Nigel Farage for tax rises in the Budget, saying he delivered Brexit with “easy sloganeering” and then walked away
It’s about time
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
It’s about time
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises
With Reform UK threatening the end of two-party politics, both Labour and the Tories are fighting to stay relevant as conference season comes to an end
www.thetimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Proper TL cleanser.
No idea what’s going on here, but do keep watching.
No idea what’s going on here, but do keep watching.
October 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Proper TL cleanser.
No idea what’s going on here, but do keep watching.
No idea what’s going on here, but do keep watching.
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The conservative brain simply lacks imagination
If they haven't experience "it", or thought of "it", it doesn't exist
bsky.app/profile/tada...
If they haven't experience "it", or thought of "it", it doesn't exist
bsky.app/profile/tada...
October 11, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Yes indeed.
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hmmmmmmmmmmm
surely the point of being a digital native and being Online is to be able to sniff out stuff like this
not sure the BBC gets to put this on our people
surely the point of being a digital native and being Online is to be able to sniff out stuff like this
not sure the BBC gets to put this on our people
NEW: A false claim about Euan Blair found its way into Have I Got News For You.
It was from an X post seen almost 3m times - and it was wrong.
Production chief blames a "digital native" culture.
A very online media class drinking in social media = danger:
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
It was from an X post seen almost 3m times - and it was wrong.
Production chief blames a "digital native" culture.
A very online media class drinking in social media = danger:
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
October 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Yes indeed.
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Social media posts claiming UK banks have introduced restrictions on cash withdrawals for people aged over 65 are not true.
No such policy has been implemented or announced.
No such policy has been implemented or announced.
False claims about cash withdrawal limits for pensioners circulate online – Full Fact
Social media posts claiming UK banks have introduced restrictions on daily cash withdrawals for people over 65 are not true.
fullfact.org
October 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Social media posts claiming UK banks have introduced restrictions on cash withdrawals for people aged over 65 are not true.
No such policy has been implemented or announced.
No such policy has been implemented or announced.
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Man who hates everything else about Britain hates our schools too.
Hardly news.
Hardly news.
Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM
Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM
Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education
Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors.
The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Man who hates everything else about Britain hates our schools too.
Hardly news.
Hardly news.
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I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
October 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Latest news in ‘you can’t Buck the market’ land
'Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls.' 1/3
Badenoch’s number caps plan would cut 100,000 university places
Tory leader to use conference speech to attack ‘debt trap degrees’ and pledge more money for apprenticeships
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Latest news in ‘you can’t Buck the market’ land
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All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.
Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’
Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
October 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.
They really need to decide whether sharia law is a good thing or a bad thing.
It’s awfully confusing trying to keep up.
(PS: you can’t emulate UAE in any meaningful sense unless you are floating on liquid gold)
It’s awfully confusing trying to keep up.
(PS: you can’t emulate UAE in any meaningful sense unless you are floating on liquid gold)
October 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
They really need to decide whether sharia law is a good thing or a bad thing.
It’s awfully confusing trying to keep up.
(PS: you can’t emulate UAE in any meaningful sense unless you are floating on liquid gold)
It’s awfully confusing trying to keep up.
(PS: you can’t emulate UAE in any meaningful sense unless you are floating on liquid gold)
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Firms running hotels make vast profits, while often providing appalling conditions.
People seeking asylum don't choose to get stuck in hotels. Firms choose to make money off their lives, and governments choose to pay them rather than implement better alternatives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
People seeking asylum don't choose to get stuck in hotels. Firms choose to make money off their lives, and governments choose to pay them rather than implement better alternatives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper
Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of
www.bbc.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Firms running hotels make vast profits, while often providing appalling conditions.
People seeking asylum don't choose to get stuck in hotels. Firms choose to make money off their lives, and governments choose to pay them rather than implement better alternatives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
People seeking asylum don't choose to get stuck in hotels. Firms choose to make money off their lives, and governments choose to pay them rather than implement better alternatives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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And yet, if anyone in the press calls this racist (which it patently is), they’ll face more outrage than the man who lamented a shortage of white faces.
So we’ll politely rebrand it as “unwise,” perhaps “ill-judged,” or “not in keeping with the spirit of inclusivity.”
Sick. To. The. Back. Teeth.
So we’ll politely rebrand it as “unwise,” perhaps “ill-judged,” or “not in keeping with the spirit of inclusivity.”
Sick. To. The. Back. Teeth.
October 7, 2025 at 6:10 AM
And yet, if anyone in the press calls this racist (which it patently is), they’ll face more outrage than the man who lamented a shortage of white faces.
So we’ll politely rebrand it as “unwise,” perhaps “ill-judged,” or “not in keeping with the spirit of inclusivity.”
Sick. To. The. Back. Teeth.
So we’ll politely rebrand it as “unwise,” perhaps “ill-judged,” or “not in keeping with the spirit of inclusivity.”
Sick. To. The. Back. Teeth.
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Why is it, do we think, that a large number of people in the UK believe local government is stuffed full of wasteful spending on woke nonsense that left wing bureaucrats refuse to cut? Is this an organic belief they came up with by themselves, or did people tell them that was what was happening?
*gasp*
October 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Why is it, do we think, that a large number of people in the UK believe local government is stuffed full of wasteful spending on woke nonsense that left wing bureaucrats refuse to cut? Is this an organic belief they came up with by themselves, or did people tell them that was what was happening?
If you cut immigration (even without deporting 150,000 pa) the National debt will go up faster and higher.
Quick Look at demographics of age will tell you that.
Why isn’t the ‘stop immigration’ narrative challenged?
we can’t afford it.
(Note: not the only reason, just a response to Mel Stride)
Quick Look at demographics of age will tell you that.
Why isn’t the ‘stop immigration’ narrative challenged?
we can’t afford it.
(Note: not the only reason, just a response to Mel Stride)
October 6, 2025 at 7:33 AM
If you cut immigration (even without deporting 150,000 pa) the National debt will go up faster and higher.
Quick Look at demographics of age will tell you that.
Why isn’t the ‘stop immigration’ narrative challenged?
we can’t afford it.
(Note: not the only reason, just a response to Mel Stride)
Quick Look at demographics of age will tell you that.
Why isn’t the ‘stop immigration’ narrative challenged?
we can’t afford it.
(Note: not the only reason, just a response to Mel Stride)
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Meanwhile back in Kent they’ve got “DOLGE” instead of DOGE and it claims to be independent of ReFuk HQ.
“Everyone thought we’d come in and there would be huge costs we could cut away, but there just aren’t “
Shocked. Shocked I tell you 🙃
“Everyone thought we’d come in and there would be huge costs we could cut away, but there just aren’t “
Shocked. Shocked I tell you 🙃
October 6, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Any time a politician says we should leave the ECHR, the very next questions any interviewer should ask are
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose
#r4today
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose
#r4today
October 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Any time a politician says we should leave the ECHR, the very next questions any interviewer should ask are
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose
#r4today
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose
#r4today
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Just had time to properly read this brilliant piece by @benansell.bsky.social. It left me even more convinced than I already was that what he calls Labour's (and indeed the Conservative's) "prole-whisperers" are horribly mistaken if they genuinely think chasing after Reform voters is the way to go.
British Politics' Midlife Crisis
Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters
benansell.substack.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just had time to properly read this brilliant piece by @benansell.bsky.social. It left me even more convinced than I already was that what he calls Labour's (and indeed the Conservative's) "prole-whisperers" are horribly mistaken if they genuinely think chasing after Reform voters is the way to go.
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Absolutely astonished @hignfy.bsky.social just stated that Multiverse will be running the government's digital ID scheme
An incredibly basic failure of fact-checking
fullfact.org/technology/d...
An incredibly basic failure of fact-checking
fullfact.org/technology/d...
Has Euan Blair’s company Multiverse been chosen to run the government’s new digital ID scheme? – Full Fact
Multiverse is an “upskilling company”, not a software developer, and both it and the government say there’s no truth to viral claims linking it to the scheme.
fullfact.org
October 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Absolutely astonished @hignfy.bsky.social just stated that Multiverse will be running the government's digital ID scheme
An incredibly basic failure of fact-checking
fullfact.org/technology/d...
An incredibly basic failure of fact-checking
fullfact.org/technology/d...