As Toby Young points out, Black people are over-represented in advertising. He somehow forgot to mention they are over-represented in poverty, unemployment and homelessness statistics too.
10.10.2025 13:06 โ ๐ 400 ๐ 85 ๐ฌ 22 ๐ 6@davidosland.bsky.social
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As Toby Young points out, Black people are over-represented in advertising. He somehow forgot to mention they are over-represented in poverty, unemployment and homelessness statistics too.
10.10.2025 13:06 โ ๐ 400 ๐ 85 ๐ฌ 22 ๐ 6Abolition of stamp duty would be worth ยฃ80,000 to the average person whose girlfriend buys him a ยฃ900,000 second home in Clacton
10.10.2025 12:51 โ ๐ 200 ๐ 86 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 0The Nobel Peace Prize has been denied to the man who ended the war between Azerbaijan and Albania. That's just cruel.
10.10.2025 12:22 โ ๐ 88 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 0Kemi Badenoch's leader's speech quoted Martin Luther King. MLK was a socialist, of course.
08.10.2025 12:24 โ ๐ 177 ๐ 42 ๐ฌ 15 ๐ 1Scrapping stamp duty will cost ยฃ11.6bn a year. But it won't house a single one of Britain's 240,000 homeless.
08.10.2025 12:24 โ ๐ 283 ๐ 89 ๐ฌ 24 ๐ 5Don't forget that 41 Tory MPs in the last government took Russian donations. That might account for media reticence to report on the Nathan Gill case.
07.10.2025 10:01 โ ๐ 825 ๐ 378 ๐ฌ 23 ๐ 11Robert Jenrick owns two ยฃ2m homes in London and a ยฃ1.1m manor house in Herefordshire. He's shocked by the poor housing conditions in Handsworth, apparently.
07.10.2025 10:00 โ ๐ 236 ๐ 78 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 1Since 1980, the ECHR has heard just 29 UK immigrant deportation case, and the UK won 16 of them. Quitting will make no material difference to immigration, just weaken protections for absolutely everybody in this country. But Farage and the Tories know that.
06.10.2025 11:10 โ ๐ 615 ๐ 281 ๐ฌ 23 ๐ 9Reform-led Kent county council is set to increase council tax next year. It's almost as if the 'wasteful local authority spending' Farage keeps banging on about isn't really a thing.
06.10.2025 11:09 โ ๐ 198 ๐ 78 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 2As Kemi Badenoch rightly points out, America and Australia are not in the European Convention on Human Rights. I should just add here that El Salvador is not in the African Union, either.
05.10.2025 11:04 โ ๐ 265 ๐ 50 ๐ฌ 12 ๐ 4The leader of the Conservative Party helpfully pointed out on television this morning that the US, Australia and Canada are not in the European Convention on Human Rights. I guess the clue is in the name, Kemi.
05.10.2025 11:03 โ ๐ 114 ๐ 30 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 4At least 860 UK healthcare workers died of covid-19 and the British Medical Association says the true number is likely to be higher. Yet Michelle Mone unashamedly defends her cynical profiteering.
04.10.2025 14:02 โ ๐ 459 ๐ 164 ๐ฌ 15 ๐ 6Delighted to announce I have won the franchise to be official cocaine dealer to the 2025 Conservative conference
04.10.2025 14:02 โ ๐ 67 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 1We now have a woman Archbishop of Canterbury. One day it may even be possible to have a woman leader of the Labour Party.
03.10.2025 11:11 โ ๐ 172 ๐ 17 ๐ฌ 37 ๐ 4The highest electricity prices in the world, the highest train fares in Europe and rivers full of sewage. It's almost as if privatisation was fundamentally flawed.
03.10.2025 10:29 โ ๐ 1273 ๐ 404 ๐ฌ 46 ๐ 20If Michelle Mone gets to keep the superyacht, the private jet and the seat in the House of Lords, at least give the 'benefit scroungers' narrative a break for a couple of weeks
02.10.2025 11:12 โ ๐ 491 ๐ 126 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 3Shoplift from Tesco and get sent to jail. Rip off the NHS for ยฃ122m and get politely asked to pay the money back.
01.10.2025 14:29 โ ๐ 216 ๐ 70 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 1PPE Medpro will almost certainly go into administration and Mone will repay almost none of the ยฃ122m she stole from the NHS. But she'll keep the superyacht and the private jet she scammed from the public purse.
01.10.2025 12:08 โ ๐ 222 ๐ 104 ๐ฌ 29 ๐ 9Michelle Mone must now repay the ยฃ122m she stole from the NHS. But she remains an unelected lawmaker for life.
01.10.2025 11:30 โ ๐ 248 ๐ 85 ๐ฌ 30 ๐ 6If Sunak had been prime minister in world war two, Michelle Mone would have had the contract to supply Spitfires
01.10.2025 11:29 โ ๐ 116 ๐ 20 ๐ฌ 13 ๐ 3Michelle Mone was extremely lucky to get a new yacht on the NHS. Because most of us can't even get a GP appointment.
01.10.2025 11:28 โ ๐ 347 ๐ 100 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 2If your party welcomes the woman who tweeted 'set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards' as a star conference speaker, maybe don't accuse other politicians of 'inciting violence'
30.09.2025 16:05 โ ๐ 186 ๐ 59 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0The NHS is routinely described as 'unsustainable'. But that adjective never gets applied to arms spending, bank bail-outs or tax dodging by the rich.
29.09.2025 09:43 โ ๐ 540 ๐ 175 ๐ฌ 15 ๐ 4Calling digital ID a 'Brit Card' might not go down too well in parts in of Belfast and Derry
26.09.2025 09:33 โ ๐ 76 ๐ 11 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 2I'm sick and tired of people in politics telling us they 'accidentally deleted' 5000 WhatsApp messages, 'forgot' they owned seven flats, 'couldn't recall' taking a ยฃ6m loan or didn't declare ยฃ700,000 in donations due to 'administrative error'. What do they take us for?
25.09.2025 11:52 โ ๐ 1259 ๐ 331 ๐ฌ 94 ๐ 16I told the Inland Revenue that my failure to declare ยฃ700,000 in freelance earnings on my last tax return was simply an administrative error. But they didn't believe me.
25.09.2025 11:22 โ ๐ 100 ๐ 15 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 0It's a good job Morgan McSweeney didn't fail to declare a five quid Universal Credit overpayment, because he'd really be in trouble then
25.09.2025 11:21 โ ๐ 120 ๐ 39 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Where I live in London, churches and synagogues sit side by side with mosques and same-sex couples walk arm in arm in the streets. Doesn't look much like sharia law to me.
24.09.2025 11:26 โ ๐ 822 ๐ 147 ๐ฌ 27 ๐ 1Charlie Kirk sent 80 coachloads of activists to Washington to join a bid to overthrow a democratically elected government. Then Liz Truss demands the BBC be defunded for entirely accurately describing his politics as far right.
23.09.2025 09:45 โ ๐ 101 ๐ 31 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 0If you can't get a job, they call you 'a scrounger'. If you get a job and can't make ends meet, they tell you to find a better-paid job. And if you do get a well-paid job, they tell you train drivers earn too much.
23.09.2025 09:43 โ ๐ 226 ๐ 54 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 2