☕⚽ Good morning!
For anyone heading to Orangefield pitches today (or in the future), there’s a brand-new coffee shop open right at the pathway to the pitches.
The shop is run by Bloomfield FC, so if you’re at the pitches make sure to pop in.
I’m a bleeding-heart liberal. I’m pro-immigration and I love the fact that the country I live in offers asylum to the oppressed.
My life and my surroundings are better because of people whose parents or grandparents came to the UK from the Middle East or Africa. Despite cultural differences or skin colour, they were still primarily British.
As a working-class kid, I was part of one of the first generations to experience mixed-race schooling and culture. It was the perfect antidote to the excesses of racism from the generation before me.
But that is not what is happening now. What is happening now is completely different. A large, undefined number of foreign, fighting-age men are being transplanted into working-class towns.
That has just happened in the northwest Manchester town where I live. In the last 48 hours, it has become obvious that a local hotel has been turned into an immigrant HMO.
Tonight my partner and I walked home from my sister-in-law’s. The walk takes 15 minutes. Passing the hotel, and the streets beyond it, we were met with an endless stream of Middle Eastern men, speaking another language and leering at my partner. She was in a summer dress. The stares were entirely inappropriate.
It felt like running a gauntlet. She felt unsafe, and I found myself staring down every man we passed. When we finally got through, she told me, “I would have felt really unsafe if you weren’t here.”
That is the first time she has ever said that to me on any walk home. From anywhere.
We need to stop pretending none of this matters.
📢BREAKING: Hamit Coskun has been found guilty of religiously-aggravated public order offence for burning a Quran in protest, in a significant blow to freedom of expression in the UK.
https://t.co/zKGkaIyEqV
@naomi_long@richardtgarland Would you be able to show me the evidence based report that stated vaccine passports would save lives?
Also,
I was just following orders isn't the argument you think it is...
@richardtgarland@naomi_long People on Naomi side of the political spectrum tend to use the word fascism very loosely. At no point have I said it doesn't exist or implied that.
🚨BREAKING🚨
Two men will face each other for a women's championship title at the Ultimate Pool Women's Pro Series Event 2 tonight in Wigan, UK.
Harriet Haynes and Lucy Smith, both trans-identified males, beat all female competitors to take the spots in the women's final event.