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You’re neither blind nor stupid, it’s been a popular trope that the Conservatives tried to weaponise in the last mayoral campaign and which understandably backfired badly. Londoners live London every day, and when somebody who wants to be their mayor runs a campaign telling them how dreadful...

I would like to see a Venn Diagram that showed the intersections between regular readers of the Daily Mail and Daily Express, or viewers of GB News, and those who believe London is overrun with violent crime. I’m not a regular visitor these days, but have never had any problems there, and I...

Glad it didn’t send you toward the nearest Travelodge with a box of matches and a crazed expression.

I’m sorry, but the market is made up of competing organisations, vying for the attention of those with capital. There are many ways of determining which companies to invest in, but a popular one is ROCE or Return on Capital Employed. Effectively, if you took two otherwise identical companies...

I’ll have you know I’m as middle of the road as a centre parting on Terry Wogan. 🤨 Thank you though, so many seem completely unconcerned/unaffected that I do periodically think “it’s only me seeing this.”

Well certainly when I was young, and we computerised our workplace, and we were told how much faster and more efficient we would be in our new connected workplaces, I think the assumption was that we’d all retire at 50 and our robot butlers would bring us drinks as we sat by our pools. Instead...

Well, there will always be a minority of people who just like to stir the pot and fancy a scrap, and like to go where there’s the most noise being made. Having said that, there wasn’t a great deal of randomness to the targets selected, the chants being chanted, and the people being terrorised...

:lolol: - absolutely arrogant, but still true. The poor fuckers who arrive on these shores have had very much the same experience as an established British citizen waiting for a minor operation. Delays and cancellations, waiting months and years for decisions. Underfunded public services are...

As others have already stated, there isn’t any middle ground between racist and non-racist, nor do I particularly want there to be. The problems that those rioting place at the doors of immigration are actually political and economic problems caused mainly by multinational firms cornering...

He’s caught, he’s in custody. I would far rather that the police and the CPS made sure every i was dotted and every t crossed, than they went in half-arsed and he got off on a technicality due to a botched/rushed investigation. Edit: beaten to it by post above.

Well, as I understand it, selective documents were cherrypicked by Musk to “prove” him right, but there was no “smoking gun”, just compliance with reasonable requests from the state. The article you’ve linked to actually states that Musk is the danger here, not Twitter’s previous ownership.

I appreciate that those are Clarkson’s words and not your own. However, I have to ask: Do you feel that Brexit has been a roaring success? Do you believe that people are incapable of learning from their mistakes? There are excellent reasons for our current migration levels being pretty much...

Ok, the statement at the end felt like it was a generalisation on immigration generally. I know there are issues with Albanian criminal gangs, but again, if we go back to “if person X is from country Y then they’re characteristic Z”, we’re still tarring everyone with the same brush, and not the...

Disappointed to see that from you @sydney. Our NHS and social care both run mainly on migrant labour, and our farmers rely on migrant labour for harvesting crops that can’t yet easily be automated. Immigrant labour gives absolutely everything, and takes only a little in return.

Do you think so? I think they’ve been quite severely embarrassed here. They gave it everything they’ve got, all out direct conflict with the authorities, who now have catalogued who they are, where they live, and how they get organized. If they wanted to get the security services attention...

Great post and I agree with 95% of it. Where you and I differ slightly, my view is that giving up the streets of my city to allow these fuckwits to roam unopposed rather gives the impression that either I’m cowed and willing to cede my streets to them, or even worse am in tacit agreement with...

Sorry about that 😁

You’d be surprised, people rarely leave their homes wearing a balaclava. This is far from the first event where the police have had to track down people hiding their features. I suspect they’ll be looking at CCTV on the transport services and from the stations and bus stops, and tracing...

Seems perfectly sensible to me. They knew who the people were, they had officers present, there’s been an arrest and there will be more based on the evidence gathered. This was a protest within a known local community. In contrast to the EDL where they don’t know who’s going to be there until...

Can’t be certain, however the fact that the trouble appears to be being created by individuals travelling to towns suggests that arrests will start to have an effect. (Smaller crowds, fewer agitators) Until the full “I’ve lost my job, I’ve been given time inside” stories begin to filter...