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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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One of my favourite facts came up in conversation last night. First class men were more likely to die on the Titanic than third class women or children
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I imagine an AI of British soldiers coming back to life to see Britain in 2025 would have a rather different tone
Somebody in China made an AI-generated video of KMT soldiers who died fighting against Imperial Japan coming back to life to admire today's Communist China.
[Hundreds of thousands of KMT soldiers were killed by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War]
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'The British suspect is the son of a senior Hamas official'
Exclusive: British man arrested in UK over alleged Hamas terror plot itv.com/news/2025-11-04/brit…
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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 bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-cana…
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Almost no one ever talks about the great covid realignment, completely forgotten to time
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Lucy Connolly's punishment for this - 31 months in prison - is genuinely tyrannical
A must-read piece by @AllisonPearson on Lucy Connolly, the woman sentenced to 31 months in prison for a social media post.
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Where is the moral outrage about Britain’s grooming gangs? | The Spectator spectator.co.uk/article/wher…
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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.' spectator.co.uk/article/the-…
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The similarities with a rather controversial French novel do stand out
Left-wing theatre managers who invited 200 migrants to a free show will abandon the building and face bankruptcy as refugees still refuse to leave after three months and spark wave of sex-related violence trib.al/UTrJOv1
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The Sentencing Council only dates back to 2010, and its precursor to 2003. They could just... abolish it? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0m9…
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Always felt strange that the government appointed an 'anti-corruption minister' who was a niece of the ruler of one of the most corrupt countries on earth
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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 thesun.co.uk/news/12743837/p…
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'Did you see the Poland-Lithuania match last night?'
'No, who were we playing?”
Poland’s national football team has defeated Lithuania in its first match of the 2026 @UEFA World Cup Qualifiers.
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To quote Churchill, 'By God, man, it makes you proud to be British' dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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Something very odd going on at the BBC and suggestive of a huge generational shift
Oh, goodie! This BBC article almost exclusively uses the term "revert" to Islam, for people *converting*.
It is clearly not a neutral term, being predicated on Islam being the natural state of all humans.
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'Mauritius walks away smelling of roses and a few millions richer in its pocket, as are its lawyers. As for Britain, it has just announced that it is run by the world’s most gullible ruling class.' thecritic.co.uk/a-craven-sur…
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I genuinely don’t understand what they’re trying to do here thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
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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 dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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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 via.ritzau.dk/embedded/relea…
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One of the very notable changes of my adult life is how much more rubbish there is; not just in urban areas by even by the side of quiet country roads
The walk to Bradford City’s Valley Parade is some sight 😅🗑️ nitter.app/TomGtfc/status/1888262…
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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.' dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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Britain is host to 280,000 OnlyFans creator accounts, the highest concentrations in the world, meaning that '4 per cent of young British women are selling their wares on OnlyFans'. Louise Perry in today's Spectator
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Disturbing post about the activities of Hope Not Hate. This looks like clear criminal behaviour, and the police won't respond to any inquiry
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Quite clearly Lucy Connolly would also have been cleared by a jury - had she been given bail, she would have been pleaded not guilty and avoided prison. The question remains why she wasn't
BREAKING: Suspended Labour councillor Ricky Jones, 58, has been found not guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court of encouraging violent disorder after he called for far-right protesters’ throats to be cut at an anti-racism rally in the wake of rioting following the Southport murders.
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I’m a friend (and admirer) of Tom Holland, so not an impartial commentator, but the criticism he’s received today is totally unwarranted. He was describing the motivations of those in authority, not justifying them. Obviously the government of a multi-racial society takes inter-communal relations seriously, and there is an underlying and understandable view of minorities as potential victims. Often this is untrue and naive, and sometimes compassion becomes a cover for cowardice. But he was describing - using the much underrated principle of charity - why people did the wrong things. Multicultural societies always live in fear of communal violence (one reason I’ve long been critical of diversity being a ‘strength’). Sometimes people use this as an excuse for their own agenda, but it’s still reality. Many people are rightly angry about what happened and seem to need people to get angry at
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Before the Industrial Revolution given names in England still clustered in regional patterns - curiously the old borders of Wessex, Mercia and East Anglia are still obviously visible 1,000 years after Alfred's birth
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A cheerful Albanian dad in my daughter's class once joked that it was a great place to take the family on holiday: 'it's very safe - all our criminals are here now!'
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31 months in jail for a tweet, even one inciting violence, is totally disproportionate. It is tyrannical bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3w…
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The transport minister of Singapore is paid £800,000 a year, because LKY thought he wouldn't get talented people into government otherwise, and didn't want politicians captured by corporate interests. The converse of that deal is zero tolerance for bribery nitter.app/SaulStaniforth/status/…
In the US and Britain, after their careers ‘they return to their private sector occupation as lawyers, company chairpersons, or lobbyists with enhanced value because they now enjoy easy access to key people in the administration. I thought this “revolving door” system undesirable.’
A former govt minister in Singapore has been found guilty of bribery after taking gifts while in office.
The gifts included "flights, hotel stays, musical tickets and grand prix tickets"
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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 nitter.app/whippletom/status/1615…
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The Rest is History 1066 series has reinforced my belief that we should build a gigantic statue of Harold Godwinson in the centre of London - what do you think? 👇
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There's a big gap in the market for a think-tank or organisation which campaigns entirely for this man
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Victory for the candidate who wants to end '“free mixing” between men and women.’
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I think this magic word is losing its power
'Is Nigel Farage racist?'
'I think Nigel Farage is actually almost worse than that', Shabana Mahmood tells @harry_horton
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There are going to be so many horrendous police scandals in the coming decade involving corrupt/incompetent officers recruited to 'represent the community'
🚨 NEW: West Yorkshire Police has temporarily blocked applications from white British candidates, with "under-represented" groups able to apply first, in an attempt to improve their diversity
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Polls suggest Kamala is down -20 in counties where Labour activists canvassed. Could be crucial
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Everyone deserves a 173rd chance
"One of UK’s most prolific shoplifters avoids jail for 172nd conviction"
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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."
Community note
According to the 2019 FBI stats there were 2594 white on white homicides and 2574 black on black homicides. In 2019, white population in the US was 60.1% of total population. Black was 12.2%. Thus the per capita murder rate was much higher in the black on black group. ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u… visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-u-
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Like with Manchester and 'Martyn's Law', another example of campaigners pushing for legislation which completely misses the problem bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgq3…
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In Colditz some French officers demanded (successfully) that Jewish compatriots be segregated. The British, outraged, invited them to dinner in solidarity, led by future Tory MP Airey Neave (from Ben Macintyre)
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Anarcho-tyranny is when people are sent to prison for making jokes in a WhatsApp group while others escape jail altogether after putting a complete stranger in intensive care in an unprovoked attack
‘You’re allowed to invent words… but they have to mean something.’
James O’Brien struggles to get his head around this week’s Unhinged Headline, which claims the UK has fallen into ‘anarcho-tyranny’.
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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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What did Jack Bennett write to Jess Philips that warranted six months in jail? None of the reports actually print it bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3rn…
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68 churches were burned down or vandalised after these allegations were made
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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 theguardian.com/environment/…
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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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An 11-year-old girl comes to London on holiday and is stabbed eight times while walking around Leicester Square. Horrific
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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 nitter.app/declamare/status/17143…
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Blaming Amazon for the Southport massacre feels like the sort of displacement activity that has become depressingly familiar. Questions need to be asked about why someone with a long history of violent and disturbing behaviour was not incapacitated by the authorities
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Why exactly? Didn't Azerbaijan just engage in the ethnic cleansing of 100,000 Armenians?
The UK and Azerbaijan have long cooperated in the field of Defence. We continue our proud tradition to send Azerbaijani Officers on training to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. We join 🇦🇿 Officer Cadet Asadov to congratulate Azerbaijan on its Armed Forces Day.
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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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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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