Ed Clarke

36. Founder, #ClarkesLatin. Author, CL & #Variatio. Writer & publisher. Written for Spectator, TES & Indie. Musician & comedian. Cat dad. Gay. Ex-Tory.

[Ed Clarke @ClarkesLatin]

My trusty Peugeot 306, pictured below in January 1999 and today respectively.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

Every single left wing account on here is like:

George Floyd = "I can understand the rage and fury"

Henry Nowak = "Don't be divisive"

[MrHobbes @VintageMrHobbes]

It's difficult to decide what it is that is most hateful about Starmer, but this tendency to be more angry about the reaction to a tragedy than the tragedy itself is certainly up there

[Charlotte Gill @CharlotteCGill]

70% of PhDs are a form of Universal Basic Income

Can't get a job? Get the taxpayer to fund your research on queer giraffes of indigenous identities

[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

Everyone who bent a knee for a crackhead in Minneapolis is telling you to be quiet about a teenager getting murdered in Southampton.

[Ed Clarke @ClarkesLatin]

@DreyfusJames @Bushra1Shaikh I'd not realised shit-stirring bitch month had come round again.

[Ed Clarke @ClarkesLatin]

Would "fuck off" be too brief?

[5Pillars @5Pillarsuk]

5Pillars has compiled a brief guide for Muslims living in the West on how to navigate LGBTQ Pride month during June.

https://t.co/jsI0Zb1Ozf

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

If you listened to the British media today, you'd think Henry Nowak was killed by Nigel Farage's comments.

[Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant]

Note how Starmer's 'happy place' is always standing on a soapbox and telling other people they should be ashamed of themselves and apologise. Ironic for a politician devoid of shame

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

*WHEN A FLY FALLS INTO A CUP OF COFFEE . . .*

*The Italian –* throws the cup, breaks it, and walks away in a fit of rage.

*The German –* carefully washes the cup, sterilizes it and makes a new cup of coffee.

*The Frenchman –* takes out the fly, and drinks the coffee.

*The Chinese –* eats the fly and throws away the coffee.

*The Russian –* Drinks the coffee with the fly, since it was extra with no charge.

*The Israeli –* sells the coffee to the Frenchman, sells the fly to the Chinese, sells the cup to the Italian, drinks a cup of tea, and uses the extra money to invent a device that prevents flies from falling into coffee.

*The Palestinian –* blames the Israeli for the fly falling into his coffee, protests the act of aggression to the UN, takes a loan from the European Union to buy a new cup of coffee, uses the money to purchase explosives and then blows up the coffee house where the Italian, the Frenchman, the Chinese, the German and the Russian are all trying to explain to the Israeli that he should give away his cup of coffee to the Palestinian so there will be peace.

[Carl Wilkinson @Wilbaforce12]

We really have reached Soviet levels of gaslighting.

A man is murdered, and somehow, the real problem is that people are angry about it.

Children are gang raped, and somehow the real problem is that people keep mentioning it and “dividing communities.”

This is moral inversion.

No. Crime divides communities. Institutional failure divides communities. Cover-ups, euphemisms, cowardice, and elite contempt divide communities.

[Ed Clarke @ClarkesLatin]

If we had the slightest glimmer of potency left as a state they would be immediately deported, and Vickrum Digwa deported upon serving his sentence, duly grateful not to have been hanged.

[SikhPressAssociation @SikhPA]

* Digwa family statement *

"We are deeply sorry...we would give anything to turn back time"

A statement from the Digwa family has been released regarding the tragic murder of Henry Nowak.

[Flesh Simulator @fleshsimulator]

The issue is not that Sikhs are so uniquely violent.

The issue is twofold: the first part is the clash between ethnic loyalty and the western legal system.

The second part is that the British legal system is so systemically anti-white that when presented with a pallid, barely-conscious white teenager laying on the ground, repeating "I've been stabbed" and a brown man saying "Nuh uh. also hes racist", the cops immediately handcuff the white teenager before even doing a cursory examination.

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

The Nowak case clearly highlights that we need to stop treating racism as an ~infinite evil, not because Nowak was racist (no evidence of this) but because any time you create a social superweapon like accusations of racism are now, it’ll be misused horribly.

What is racism? Ask 10 people and you’ll get 12 opinions. Historically, it meant someone who treats people badly in interpersonal interactions because of their race. Which is just, like, kinda annoying and slightly boorish. It’s not the apocalypse. There are many personal traits that are equally or more annoying.

Now the definition has been ludicrously expanded to include a bunch of things even less objectionable than that, including belief in very plausible scientific claims and policy preferences that were near-universal for almost all of human history.

Racism just isn’t a big deal. We have to take it off its pedestal. If Nowak had said something racist, it would morally change exactly nothing about the horror of what happened to him. He didn’t, but I feel over-focusing on that distracts from the fact that it wouldn’t matter if he had.

Murder is worse than racism. Hell, shoplifting is worse than racism. Enough. Who cares.

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Flashback: This is what happens when British police are trained in woke-jihadi madness.

In Manchester, Muslim men called the police, “offended” by a native British Christian man openly worshiping in public.

The police showed up and immediately forced the Christian to leave the “Muslim area.”
As he was kicked out, the Muslim crowd cheered and cursed him.
This is two-tier Britain in its purest and most shameful form.

[Charlie @barbourtwat]

"part of our island story for centuries" - they will never stop trying to rewrite history to suit current politics.

[Daniel Galleghost 🎃👻 @BeanWalrus]

"Niles, we're lost. That's the fourth time we've passed by the pile of frankly rather tasteless sheraton armchairs."

"Yes, the style clashes with the yellow wallpaper and endless billowing void. Then again, feng shui might fail to accommodate an open floor plan this... er, OPEN"

[Tom Sharpe 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇮🇱🤷🏼‍♂️🖕🤬 @PuzzlerSharpe]

I’m shocked by the Nowak murder. It recalled my last interactions with the police.

My (commercial) neighbour’s boyfriend came round to my flat, started banging on the door and shouting for me to come outside so he could fight me. I called the police for the first time ever.

[Stevio @Rothbury01669]

@nazirafzal I'll just pop this Labour pic here from a couple of years ago, where they exploited a criminal for political gain

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

If it hadn't been for X, nobody would have heard about what police did to Henry Nowak.

Because the media was covering it up.

[Ed Clarke @ClarkesLatin]

Ah, that frequent and perennial classic of the education sector: after painstaking research, patently bullshit policy does not in fact - to our total amazement - have a positive impact on anything. Who could have known.

[Natasha Porter OBE @NPorter_]

Somehow missed the publication of 4 evaluations of Trauma Informed Practice funded by YEF and the Home Office, the first RCTs looking at the connection between trauma informed practice and children's behaviour and involvement in crime.
Headline: "no or very small positive impact"