'Please, you don't have to have your hand on me'
Watch the moment ITV News' @PeterAdamSmith was grabbed by a Reform UK staffer after being told to move on from his line of questioning while interviewing the party's new Scottish leader, Malcolm Offord
"When you hear them saying anything they're always saying 'Oh I'm not racist mate'."
Singer Billy Bragg on why context matters around the flying of the flag.
#Newsnight
Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks—keeps it simple without being condescending.
“The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion. I don’t know a lot of people who think we’d be better off if our lives had more uniformity, inequity, and exclusion.” @PeteButtigieg
Our problem is clear though: too many value uniformity over inclusion, and they’re the ones running the government today.
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Why is it so difficult to be open, fair and quick.
It is disgusting the Betty Brown at 92, is still waiting for the return of Her money.
JUST PAY HER what she is owed.
🚨 NEW: Half of Brits support introducing a Proportional Representation voting system with just 26% supporting the current First Past the Post system
PR 49%
FPTP 26%
Don’t Know 25%
[@YouGov]
Blaming the air traffic controller - and somehow linking it to 'diversity' - is incomprehensible nonsense from a man devoid of empathy.
ATC audio can be listened to by anybody, including the American president who can't be bothered to do that.
I'll go through the transcript. /1
We’re overwhelmed by all the generous donations from Traitors fans after hearing @alexanderdragonetti’s story! 🎉
You’d wanted to know how much has been raised...
Over £30,000 has been donated since Friday by 2,000 people and the total is going up all the time!
‘Next expects profits to rise by 3.6% to more than £1bn next year.’
Or Next could absorb the £73m increase in wages to pay its workers a living wage and have an annual profit margin of £927,000,000 instead. Tough call. https://t.co/BUNkvd35yH
"These girls are being exploited all over again. Politicians jumping on the bandwagon after years of silence is 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭."
Andrew Norfolk, who exposed the grooming gang scandal in 2011, condemns the reuse of the abuse for political gain.
@maitlis | @lewis_goodall
I once contacted @jessphillips out of the blue for advice about a woman I was trying to support who had fled domestic violence. I emailed her at 7pm on a Friday night not really expecting a response. 1/2
This is Jess Philips.
Do you know who should really be ashamed? @RobertJenrick who was Home Office minister Oct 2022 to Dec 2023 and is capitalising on far right lies.
The Tories for allocating child sex abuse victims £40 each and Elon Musk for being a dangerous ignorant moron.