Chris Puttick

They're laboratory mice Their genes have been spliced They're dinky They're Pinky and the Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain...

Net migration is at its lowest level, outside of the pandemic, for fourteen years, small boat numbers are collapsing and yet you still can't move for 'migrant crisis' stories in the British media

The Singers is a work of genius

@brettroberts.bsky.social wondering if you're in this picture somewhere...

Flat coats are basically just giant spaniels and all the oddness and risks that implies

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Richard Tice consistently claims to be standing up for "Christian values", on the basis that "we are a Christian nation". If that's your pitch, you can't just tell the Bishops to shut up when they criticise your policies.

You see, it's not the absence of the lowest common denominator that oppresses them, it's the existence of anything else

Most people are decent. Would be nice to see that truth reported

As noted elsewhere in this thread, Isaac from Crystal Clean Windows York Limited came over and cleaned the restaurants windows for free and helped remove the graffiti. That's patriotism! Trying to make your community better. Reaching out and helping others.

Nigel Farage has, inevitably, said that this ruling means “Illegal migrants have more rights than the British people under Starmer”. The court’s short summary makes it explicit in two separate places that didn’t even enter into its reasoning, which centred on criteria for injunction.

Journalists, and the public, really need to learn the difference between an asylum seeker and refugee, and stop using the terms interchangeably.

Dear Labour government. Please grow some balls. The collective racist madness is not representative of most of the electorate. Please start calling it out.

Trump threatens extra tariffs, tech export bans, for any nation that dares to regulate Big Tech

Sunday protests seem to be < 500 nationwide, maybe < 300, across 4-6 locations Yet ITV news using language of "erupt nationwide" (!) Epping: 100-150 London: 20 Birmingham: 30 Stevenage: 30-50 Norwich: ? anything of any scale Manchester: ? anything of any scale Dudley: ? anything of any scale?

This is so embarrassing. Just an absolute nonsense.

Yeah it didn't arrive

Worth reminding everyone in the UK Farage=Trump

Following the Trump-Putin summit I now know it's possible to be disappointed with something you had absolutely no expectations for. I am in other words I am now fully equipped to empathise with @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com when she finally reads my book.

Finally, as I've already pointed out, the "up to 1.2 million illegal migrants" number on which Thames Water and the Telegraph based their false claims, and which included legal migrants, has officially been retracted by Pew. No journalist should be using it. www.pewresearch.org/global/fact-...

Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...

I've read some bad takes in my time but this one...

Trump is sandblasting away at the foundations of finance and markets are like 'lol nothing matters, number go up' me, 300 free clicks, etc: on.ft.com/3HcyVIJ

What do you call a shellfish that can't get what it wants? ... A frustracean

And this data again confirms claims recent migrants are either not working or on low wages - a staple of right-wing "thinktanks" like @cps.org.uk or CMC and parroted by ignorant politicians- are based on a complete misreading of the data, deliberate or otherwise docs.google.com/document/d/e...

The week in which it's going to be 34 degrees celsius would of course be the same one we are asked not to attend our air-conditioned offices due to an elevated far-right threat. It would be easy to only blame the fascists for all this, but the Labour government has played a huge enabling role.

Trump puts Washington DC police under federal control, deploys National Guard to relocate homeless people . Assumes homeless people are criminals, hasn't looked at causes of petty crime. In the 1930s Nazi Germany relocated beggars, homeless, and the unemployed to concentration camps. What next?

Once the language of hate is normalised this sort of incident becomes inevitable

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Absolute shock and sadness at news of Our Lady's Abingdon closure, and understand the anxiety students, their families and teachers must be feeling now. We are engaging with OLA and the County Council as to what support is being offered for students now looking for new schools.

Buried in The Observer yesterday was this: UK police knocking on doors demanding details of social media accounts of people, to pass to a foreign government, simply because they happen to live near where a US politician wanted to have a holiday observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Letter of the day (in the Times)