Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

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The men who raised the flags Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."

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Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.

Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.

You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!

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Zia Yusuf is attacking Robert Jenrick over the admission of Aghan refugees under the ARAP scheme, whose purpose was to relocate to the UK Afghan citizens who worked for the UK government in Afghanistan and were at risk of reprisal from the Taliban

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It is innumerate to compare the % of adverts containing any black person with the % of the population: unless adverts contained 1 person each.

This massively exaggerates the (actual) "over-representation" of black voices and flips the actual under-representation of South Asians in TV advertising

This happened in full view of Sky News cameras and a bunch of police just standing there. Why is THIS not on the news all day? Why don't we show people what these thugs are turning the country into? I could only find it on the far right TikTok page that proudly boasted about the incident. SHARE!

Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of some Charlie Kirk highlights

Important update from ScoutsCymru regarding CRAI Scout Activity Park CRAI Scout Activity Park is an inclusive and welcoming campsite and activity centre in the South Wales Valleys offering a range of outdoor activities for youth and community groups. We are aware of a racially aggravated incident targeting under-18s who were leaving after visiting our activity centre and are working closely with the South Wales Police to address this situation. We are committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of everyone on site and will continue to take immediate and robust action against any behaviour that threatens this. END

Village idiots verbally abusing an influx of "illegal immigrants" at a campsite in Newbridge, Wales

They were a group of Scouts from Scotland

Anti-immigrant rhetoric has consequences

Statement from Scouts Cymru

"We are aware of a racially aggravated incident targeting under-18s"

‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles. But a series of shocking incidents – from drivers trapped in burning vehicles to dramatic stops o...

Long, and every paragraph is scary: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets

What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn

Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf

Non-Disabled People's Delusions That Disability 'Is Nothing To Do With Them' Only Harm Disabled People As Government cuts to disabled people's benefits lead to more dehumanising rhetoric, Penny Pepper reminds us that disability is an embedded reality of human experience as much as it always has been

🔴 Non-Disabled People's Delusions that Disability 'Is Nothing To Do With Them' Only Harm Disabled People

As cuts to disabled people's benefits lead to more dehumanising rhetoric, @penpep.bsky.social reminds us that disability is an embedded reality of human experience as much as it always has been

"I will finally be able to pay the cleaner" - 🤣🤣🤣🤣

The US right is coming for disabled people. Here’s why that threatens everyone Trump’s administration is dismantling disability rights and education. History has shown this can be a warning sign for all civil liberties

Amazing piece by @novicsara.bsky.social - highly recommended

I’m sending it to many people to help them understand the importance of what’s happening to my field

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

Her parents were injured in a Tesla crash. She ended up having to pay Tesla damages Tesla has sued its own customers and journalists in China for defamation – and won just about every time.

Zhang Yazhou could never have imagined that Tesla would sue her for defamation — and win — after she claimed the brakes of her Model 3 had failed in an accident that sent her parents to the hospital.

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YouTube video by Rosie Holt Really convincing argument on why Elon Musk is the savior of the UK.

Really convincing argument on why Elon Musk is the saviour of the UK:
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Kemi Badenoch has never actually met any grooming gang survivors The Tory leader's spokesman said she didn't need to meet with victims, because she's read all about it in the media - and had no current plans to meet with anyone - but denied she was jumping on an El...

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Kemi Badenoch hasn't actually met any grooming gang survivors - and doesn't think she needs to
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My latest for @theneweuropean.bsky.social about @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social and her tireless fight to protect women.

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‘We stand by Jess’: Telford survivors criticise Musk’s attack on Phillips Exclusive: Victims of male violence sign letter praising minister for devoting life to ‘fighting for women and girls’

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Democracy For Sale - Safeguard Democracy A survey to make a people-powered plan to safeguard Britain's democracy from leading investigative journalists who write about lobbying and dark money

If, like me, you’re worried about the role of money in British politics and the threat of foreign influence, do take Democracy for Sale’s survey on this

Only take a few minutes and really useful to have data to back up public concern about this. Thanks!

democracyforsale.co.uk/safeguard

Thank you

Well there was 1 in the respiratory ward 2 weeks ago where my seriously ill father died of respiratory failure 😔

Friends of GW "wouldn't be surprised" if he "turned out to be" autistic because of his "inability to read a room." Likewise I "wouldn't be surprised" if he turned out to be merely an entitled selfish prick because of his "inability to merely stop behaving like an entitled selfish prick."

Text from a news article saying ""It comes after a friend said Wallace had "no filter" and claimed he may have autism himself. Wallace has never been tested for autism due to a feeling of responsibility that he passed it down to his son, the close therapist friend said. They said they believed it may have contributed towards his alleged inappropriateness on set."

People need to stop using being autistic as an excuse for being an arsehole. It just embeds misleading stereotypes.
Yes, being autistic can mean you find social interactions difficult, I know I can.
It doesn't mean you default to walking around with a sock on your c**k.
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Reported - I kind of guessed it wasn't you when they sent me a personal message lol

Reuters 25 March 2024: British farmers protest outside parliament over food imports. With picture of tractors blocking streets in Whitehall.

BBC 25 March 2024: In pictures: Moment tractor convoy reaches Parliament. With pictures of tractors blocking streets in Whitehall.

Telegraph 26 March 2024: Tractors bring rush-hour chaos to London as farmers stage protest. With picture of a digger outside parliament.

Euronews 26 March 2024: 'Slaughtered': UK farmers protest post-Brexit rules and trade deals. With picture of tractors blocking streets in Whitehall. The front one bears a placard: "No Farmers. No Food. No Future."

Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: "We had a budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards."

Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂

It is only anecdotal but I have had five sessions with children and foster carers cancelled due to illness over the last three weeks. I know one of them tested for covid and was definitely positive - none of the others test. Either way, I'm seeing increased sickness again (coughs, "colds", "flu")

If any journalists reporting/ writing about the role of racism in the Exodus from X, keen to talk to you about it

I have some fresh personal experience of the further deterioration, some of which could be significant/useful if Musk/his people do get quizzed in parliament on X, the riots & racism

Jeremy Clarkson, James Dyson and Junk Stats: Is This the Best the Anti-Inheritance Tax Farming Lobby Has to Offer? Millionaire landowners are using dubious statistics to campaign against the Government's inheritance tax reforms

🔴Jeremy Clarkson, James Dyson and Junk Stats: Is This the Best the Anti-Inheritance Tax Farming Lobby Has to Offer?

How millionaire landowners are using dubious statistics to campaign against the Government’s inheritance tax reforms
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If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up.

If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds