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[Tom Hatfield @WordMercenary]

They are literally sending out guys called Rich Baron to tell the poor to pony up more cash for wars.

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

Billions and billions of public money to puff up the share prices of American arms companies, just because Starmer wants the NATO job once he's done pretending to be an MP.

[𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎 @hellspatisserie]

>do nothing materially to stem the tide of right-wing populism
>associate left-wing government with a censorious nanny state that will bind but will not provide
>leave

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Every time I read about an attack on a Muslim place of worship, it is in a community press release on social media, & not in headlines across mainstream media.
🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

[sean @Sean_Collinsss]

Fewer things infuriate me more than the whitewashing and rewriting of history pertaining to violent resistance groups by state institutions. Defanged versions absorbed into the national mythology of a country to promote an idealised and false history of civil resistance.

[Harriet Williamson @harriepw]

The Lady Chief Justice said proscription of Palestine Action “struck a fair balance” and that PA is not a peaceful civil disobedience group like the Suffragettes

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Palestine Action never used arson or bombs.

[sean @Sean_Collinsss]

We are a country completely occupied by American tech companies. They want data of every last detail of your life and this government is full of easily-bought career politicians who believe in nothing and roll over for anything the billionaires demand.

[keewa 🇵🇸 @keewa]

That Oswald Moseley's grandson is the UK boss of Evil Inc. is so hack that you'd be laughed out of a writer's room for suggesting it

[sean @Sean_Collinsss]

Any politician not calling out these riots for what they are - racist pogroms against black and brown people - then they are either cowards or they are racist themselves. That is the bare minimum.

[jude @judeblay]

I hate white racists who act like they were Ancient Romans or Templars. Your ancestors were serfs, stop begging it.

[Raphael Dogg @raphaeldogg]

This has little to do with children, in fact. AI stocks are vastly over-inflated. Economists fear massive devaluation. Those Starmer's gov actually works for, the markets, are desperate for him to push AI, as they stand to lose billions. Hence the public purse to the rescue.

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

It is not just the far right. It is the media themselves, including the so-called progressive ones.

Violence in Britain has fallen 83% since the mid-1990s. Burglary 86.6%. Vehicle theft 86.4%. ONS, Crime Survey for England and Wales, forty years of data.

89.5% of prisoners serving for violence against the person are British nationals. 89.4% for sexual offences. 73% of the prison population is white.

Convictions by ethnicity are 84% white, matching population share almost exactly. Violence is the largest arrest category at 47%, and the MOJ confirms this is "broadly consistent across ethnic groups".

The disproportionality is in drug offences and weapons possession, not violent crime.

The Oxford Migration Observatory found that controlling for age and sex, foreign nationals are underrepresented in prison: 3,193 fewer than demographics predict.

The LSE found "the increase over time in offending is much stronger among the British than the Foreigners. Indeed there is essentially no change in the violent incarceration rate of foreigners over the whole period in spite of the two large immigrant waves that occurred".

A study of 55 countries over three decades (Journal of Economic Perspectives) found no correlation between immigration and crime. Homicide fell by a third globally from 1990 to 2019 while the immigrant population grew by two thirds. A separate analysis of 216 regions across 23 European countries found "no significant link between immigration levels and crime rates".

Yet the public believes the opposite. A MORI survey found the British public believed 23% of the population was foreign born. At the time, the actual figure was around one in nine. The public perceives the most negative impact of immigration to be crime. The data says foreign nationals are underrepresented in violent crime. That gap is not an accident. It is a product.

Violent crime is over 60% of tabloid crime coverage despite being 20% of reported crime. An analysis of 402,819 articles found the immigration-crime link in public perception exists because of selective coverage and breaks when native criminality is given equivalent prominence.

Arendt (2010) found over-representation of "foreign crime" articles directly led to readers overestimating foreign offenders.

Blinder and Jeannet (2017, British Journal of Political Science) showed media depictions directly affect the accuracy of British public perceptions.

The Erasmus study found coverage "disproportionately focused on crimes involving immigrants, fueling misconceptions even when data showed no substantial increase". A CEPR study found this coverage directly increased populist voting by 5%.

And it is not just the tabloids. Conservative papers focus on immigrant crime. Liberal and progressive papers focus on "group-related problems". Both frame immigration through threat.

A study of 40,000 articles found systematic bias against Muslims across UK media. The BBC, Sky, ITV, the Times, the Guardian: they all amplify crime when the perpetrator is an immigrant or non-white, not because it is more common, but because it is more engaging.

A domestic murder in Sunderland does not get 3.4 million views. A white British man who commits one of the nine out of ten violent offences in this country does not trend.

The result: a population that believes crime is rising when it has collapsed, believes immigrants are dangerous when they are statistically less so, and believes the country was safer decades ago when every dataset says the opposite.

The far right did not build this machine. The media did. The far right just learned how to drive it.

[Matthew J. Hunter @MattHunterMCR]

When @lewis_goodall says Hasan is too attached to an anti-colonial ideology that’s a real mask off fascist moment. Lewis is unashamedly a colonial and genocide apologist. Anything that’s against colonialism is wrong in his mind.

[thelefttake @thelefttake]

Actual Nazis mobilising and rioting on the streets of Southampton today.

The moustached man in this video is Luke Jahn of the National Rebirth Party, a neo-Nazi movement led by Alek Yerbury, an infamous Adolf Hitler cosplayer.

[mersomas @mersomas]

Google is revamping its entire search engine to this btw

[sean @Sean_Collinsss]

It's not fair that there is no cure for hay fever and official medical guidelines basically boil down to "don't go outside".

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

Protect Our Women and Girls™

[sean @Sean_Collinsss]

Why isn't there wall-to-wall coverage of Reform having an antisemitism problem? Literal neo-Nazi councillors don't matter if Reform don't threaten capital and foreign policy goals-whilst Greens do. Even with a Jewish leader, criticism of Israel gets you antisemitism media mania.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Another newly elected reform councillor has been suspended.

Nathaniel Menday from Sheffield described himself as an ethnonationalist, shared posts praising the Nazis, Hitler and images of swastikas.