Chris Wilkins

Absolute bollocks, as actually going to the West End after 9 pm will tell you.

Astonishing

Others have noted that this means foreign-born people are LESS likely than UK-born people to be in prison. What I want to note is that The Times is now referring to foreign-born UK citizens as ‘foreigners’. This includes Boris Johnson, Sir Mo Farah, Emma Watson, Rory Stewart and little old me.

That Melanie Phillips is a lunatic conspiracist bigot and racist is not remotely shocking. But the fact that the Times continues to employ her should be.

How far the Tories have moved. Impossible to imagine Badenoch or Jenrick saying that.

This is a great listen. Masih is a star and doesn’t hold back.

Israeli tactics:

1. Stop aid entering Gaza
2. Deny famine is taking place
3. When famine becomes undeniable, stall as long as possible
4. When western pressure mounts, do the minimum possible
5. When western attention moves on, return to step 1.

Finally, something in the Telegraph I can agree with.

Funny, I was just talking about this case earlier. It is clearly mad that these men went to prison at all. And then we wonder why our prisons are running out of space. Our justice system is so messed up.

Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse

In "Legitimate Concerns" news.

41% of the 899 arrested for taking part in Farage Riots last year had been reported for crimes associated with intimate partner violence.

For those arrested by one police force, this figure was 68%.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Man arrives in country from which his mother emigrated to complain about dangers of immigration.

A *third* of the Commons has called on the PM to recognise Palestine as a state. Never seen anything quite like this.

Good to talk to @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social about today’s Foreign Affairs Committee Report on Israel/Gaza and why I think British recognition of a Palestinian State is not a question of ‘if’ but ‘when’. As I said, public opinion is ahead of our politics on this.

"Is Britain about to blow?" asks Matt Goodwin promoted a two hour special event on the subject.

Their greasy desperation for violence and carnage, so they can profit off it, is so disgusting.

(Noted) I'd like to say yes but truth is there's a vacuum. In part it's caused by the exhaustion of 14 years of govt & chaos of past few years in particular. Everyone feels a bit defeated. But I agree we need to regroup & organise. Starting point is for mods to accept the need to be a bit less nice

Everyone's been desperate to avoid the kind of split that could be terminal so we've been dancing around it. The leadership election was the time to have this debate but we just... didn't. Told ourselves Labour would soon screw up and we'd be back because 'that's what always happens'. Not this time

True. One issue is that we're just not as factional as the Labour Party, so the moderates have spent too long trying to be inclusive and accommodate the Right, when they should have been taking them on. The Right of course have simply banked everything they've been given & then gone further Right

Sooner or later something terrible is going to happen at one of these hotels and the politicians and media outlets who have spent the past year whipping it all up will have to carry the blame

Make no mistake, Reform are discretely cranking up tensions with a view to stoking summer unrest/rioting again, from which they will attempt to leverage political gain. It’s not even that subtle at this stage.

Now I’ve left Britain, here’s what you look like It’s painful to see a great country stagger while trashing its traditions and values but the view is clear from Portugal

What has become of the Times? Publishing nonsense like this. Essentially a rant against immigration from an American who lived in the UK for years and has now moved to Portugal. The lack of self-awareness is astonishing. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Farage, Goodwin, Young & others are fanning the flames by circulating a MAGA-style conspiracy theory that undermines & creates hostility towards the police. Appallingly irresponsible. They are desperate for further violence to validate their ‘tinder box’ grift.

"Grow up, Tim" should be trending. This is abject, embarrassing stuff

Shroedinger’s Asylum seekers - simultaneously not wanting to work and also taking all the difficult and lowly paid jobs.

By a fellow human being working incredibly hard to support themselves and secure a better life?

Absolutely vile advert by No 10.

Brilliant piece here by @paulmason.bsky.social which contains this slice of reality

www.thenewworld.co.uk/paul-mason-h...

We are receiving desperate messages of starvation from #Gaza, including from our colleagues.

Food prices have increased 40 fold.

UNRWA has enough food for the entire population for over three months, stockpiled just outside Gaza.

Lift the siege and let aid in safely and at scale.

Heartbreaking.

A few years ago in 2017 the Tories were on the brink of an historic breakthrough in Wales. Then (we) they threw it away. This is a good overview of where the party stands now and why next year could be particularly grim…

Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.