The metropolitan liberal elite sneer at putting a flare up your bum, drinking 20 ciders, snorting Coke and storming Wembley - and they wonder why people voted Brexit. My latest for Spiked, by Brendan O’Neill.
It’s not about the ties of the taking a knee to BLM - who defaced war memorials in London. Right wing idiots use the poppy - should I drop that?
It’s about empathy with our fellow countrymen who suffer appalling abuse. Empathy. What it’s like to be them. It’s not hard.
Punditry based on what people are saying on Twitter is equivalent to those reports the BBC always have from somewhere randomly selected that just happens to be in central London next to Broadcasting House.
You don’t get to stoke the fire at the beginning of the tournament by labelling our anti-racism message as ‘Gesture Politics’ & then pretend to be disgusted when the very thing we’re campaigning against, happens.
This isn’t mentally healthy. There’s no evidence for this at all. Not a shred. There’s a world of difference between being strongly critical of things the govt have done or plan to do & inventing plans you cannot in any way substantiate. It’s a QAnon level conspiracy theorising
With the Holocaust Museum in the news thanks to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, it's worth remembering this extremely depressing aspect of the museum. https://t.co/wYsUsrG2Js
49.7 - Patrik Schick's second goal (49.7 yards) is the furthest distance from which a goal has been scored on record at the European Championships (since 1980). Ridiculous.
#Euro2020#CZE#SCOCZE
Newquay surfing 78 years ago: This fantastic photo of three British munitions workers taking a surfboarding break from the rigours of their war-work, at the Cornish coast in September 1943. It is original colour, not colourised.
Child marriage is abuse.
That’s why I have decided to introduce a Private Members’ Bill to raise the legal age of marriage to 18 to protect vulnerable youngsters from religious and cultural pressures to marry too young.
Read more about my plans👇🏾
https://t.co/nw8X1evGfc
I don't know enough of the law to know if he is right or wrong, but this statement is so very fundamental on the overarching principle and it is so very much what was missing in the last administration. Do what the law requires .. not what makes your supporters happy!
Hard to imagine a more 2020-21 student experience than having to pay large amounts of money for no face-to-face teaching, & then have academics refuse to teach you because of a statue. https://t.co/ru20g7yv4G