You couldn't write A Christmas Carol today because half of people would root for Scrooge.

British.

Andrea Jenkyns, Mayor of Lincolnshire, DOGE warrior...

A story in three parts....

Real patriotism is wanting your country to be better.

Real patriotism is wanting every single person who lives in it to have a stake in its success.

Real patriotism is wanting the best for everyone in it. To have the best healthcare, education and life chances.

I don’t need a flag outside my door

"The idea she was the PM's political prisoner, or had an 'unfair trial'? She pled guilty!"

Lucy Connolly - jailed for a race-hate post after Southport - is being used to criticise the British judicial system by the right.

Lucy Connolly had thought her tweet very funny (paragraph 9), and when she realised she was in trouble, said she would "play the mental health card" (paragraph 10).
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Migrants can't answer back.

They have no voice.

So they make the perfect scapegoat for the pent-up rage of the angry, self-loathing far right who can unite around this issue.

In addition it gives the media something to write about in the long summer recess.

That is what is really going on here.

Nigel Farage has released ReformUK’s “manifesto” via the Daily Mail, and it’s every bit as unhinged and unserious as you’d expect.
Let’s break it down—with facts.
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🏆 CHAMPIONS AGAIN OLÉ OLÉ!!!

Are Muslims really banning dogs in parks? 🤔

Let’s look at this perfect example of how rage baiting works, and how disinformation spreads, sticks, and fuels division, even years after being debunked…

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Rand Paul: "The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit with my grocery store"

Wisdom

🤩 Presenting our first video to hit 1,000,000 views on Youtube:

🇬🇧 Honest Brexit Ad.

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I will never understand how a billionaire, the richest man on Earth, spent millions to buy an election for ANOTHER billionaire, and told us that his policies would cause all of us non-billionaires “temporary hardship...”

...and the public didn't tell BOTH OF THEM to fuck off.

Try this: move the BlueSky app icon to where your Twitter icon is. Then slide your Twitter icon off your main screen. You’ll notice a vast improvement in your blood pressure.

Let me say something that is controversial because our brains are broken:

Vaccines are a miracle and amazing

Today was my first day without logging on to Twitter in many many years. And everything feels better.