Twenty years ago, racist extreme views were mostly only pushed by fringe groups like the EDL or Britain First.
Now those extremists sit in parliament and incite violence on the streets of their constituencies.
The far right has gone mainstream by design, not by accident.
After Belfast, I’ve been looking at some of the most extreme accounts flooding UK discussions.
A striking number appear to have little or no genuine connection to the communities they’re commenting on, yet they’re relentlessly amplifying division, anger and far-right narratives.
Meanwhile, X’s algorithm rewards outrage because outrage drives engagement.
At what point do we stop pretending this is an organic public conversation and start asking whether anonymous networks, bots, and location-masked accounts are helping inflame tensions in Britain?
The Government cannot keep ignoring the role social media platforms play in amplifying social unrest. #Belfast
Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.
One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??
The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.
Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!
Nigerian Immigration Officer: Where are you flying from?
Me: Nairobi
NIO: What did you go there for?
Me: A conference.
NIO: What do you do?
Me: I’m a researcher.
NAO: So what do you study?
Me: Corruption.
Mondo Duplantis 🇸🇪 loses a Pole Vault competition for the first time since 2023!
He only managed to clear the 5.80m bar and failed to clear 6.00m (twice) and 6.05m.
His 40-meet win streak is broken in front of a home crowd in Stockholm.
@FacebookAIslop Newly hatched, the baby soldiers dig themselves out from the sand and cross the beach into the sea together. The females will return to this very beach to lay their own clutches of eggs in ten to fifteen years.