David Hall

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

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"Within two weeks you won't see a single migrant boat, they won't come," says Nigel Farage, on what he would do to stop small boat crossings.

Make a note of that one

Nick Timothy has always been an unpleasant authoritarian racist but the direct endorsement of racist mob violence (and attacking the police for preventing it) is genuinely a new low.

This absolute turnip lives in Mississippi.

He's LITERALLY an economic migrant.

Does he have ZERO self-awareness?

Does he just think nobody will notice?

Or because he's an entitled white man, does he perhaps believe that he doesn't count?

A scenario where no one trusts any statistical data produced by the US government will do remarkable things to the US government's position on global bond markets

So this is how democracies drift into dictatorship.

The organs of state nod along. The satirists crack jokes and do no more. The press and other appeasers simply turn a blind eye. The people... for the most part... just groan & let it happen.

And very soon the future is no more.

Good news for tractor production.

1 in 3 doctors were born overseas.

1 in 2 builders were born overseas.

1 in 6 nurses were born overseas.

1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas.

1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas.

1 in 5 university academics were born overseas.

The UK would be screwed without them.

16% of the UK population was born overseas (21/22 census)
12% of UK prisoners were born overseas
Therefore people born overseas are less likely to be in jail than people born in the UK.
That should be the headline.

I should have predicted Hannan would join in with the general rightwards drift towards incitement, even though he probably doesn't believe in it. His loyalty to the Right will always triumph. This is a guy who wore a blue rosette on his dressing gown at University.

Trump sent officials to see Ghislaine Maxwell quicker than he sent FEMA to Texas

Statistics can prove anything, especially if you ignore them.

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Policy designed to appeal to gullible fools by a party run by shameless fucking idiots.

In Sacramento yesterday morning a US citizen is tackled by ICE agents as his horrified wife screams.

The King and Queen: from The Lewis Chessmen, 12th Century, walrus ivory figures from a group unearthed at or near Uig Bay on the Scottish Isle of Lewis in 1831; part of 11 figures which remain in Scotland. 82 other pieces on display in The British Museum. National Museum Scotland #InternationalChessDay

The King and Queen: from The Lewis Chessmen, 12th Century, walrus ivory figures from a group unearthed at Uig Bay on the Scottish Isle of Lewis in 1831; part of 11 figures which remain in Scotland. 82 other pieces are on display in The British Museum.
National Museum Scotland #InternationalChessDay

Although the British government has for a decade maintained the fascinating position that Russia attempted to intervene in pretty much every Western democratic event except for the Brexit referendum, which it apparently sat out, presumably as a result of a sudden attack of decency.

This is an extraordinary piece of investigative journalism - and an absolutely extraordinary story

There's always a cartoon by @andy-singer.bsky.social that nails it.

I mean, look, if Mamdani actually had invented time travel, went back in time and invented Twitter so it existed six years before it was created, to tweet about something that happened when he was 9 yeas old, with a picture of him at age 33, well... then maybe it's something to talk about...

Funny how the US has basically the government of Iran now: Supreme Leader who rules by decree, priestly council with token opposition that decides whether the decisions are okay or not on arcane scriptural grounds, and completely ceremonial legislature

For those with a hangover from yesterday's Hannan Day celebrations.

Good Morning.

It's why all the debate trapped in geopolitical analysis ca. 2007 is problematic to downright misleading. This isn't a repeat of the incompetent attempts to remake the Middle East or Central Asia involving massive occupation forces. 2025 is about smashing it all up and walking out

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

Are you at Jeff’s wedding too?!!

“Brexit means we can make our own agreements with the EU, as we pick and choose!”

- UK chooses to make agreement with EU on a handful of issues.

“Brexit Betrayed!”

The U.K. fishing industry - weaponised & then betrayed & then abandoned, by Johnson, Farage & the rest of them - is better off under Starmer’s deal than it was under Johnson’s. That’s not an opinion. It’s counting. Anyone claiming otherwise is a liar.