DanShears

26 // London

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

Look, says Chris Philp: 76% of social housing in an immigrant-heavy London neighbourhood is foreign-born!

What he doesn't say: the whole neighbourhood is 78% foreign-born. Private renters: 92%.

Also: 81% of those social tenants already hold UK passports. They are UK citizens.

[DanShears @dan_shears77]

@Stagecoach_East two busway buses due for St Ives have failed to turn up at Cambridge New Street this evening despite board saying they were due - awful service, what is going on

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

This stopped me in my tracks.

An independent study by @QMUL has found that after ULEZ was introduced, children’s lungs grew faster in Central London and have now caught up with children outside of the capital. Incredible.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Literal Nazis rioting in Southampton.

These are our 'patriots'!

People who value white British lives so much that they celebrate a German regime which killed hundreds of thousands of Brits.

Including over 600 killed in Southampton by Nazi bombs.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

When Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens kidnapped and murdered Sarah Everard, Nigel Farage released a five-minute video urging people not to attack men or the police.

Today, in response to the murder of Henry Nowak, he called for "pure cold rage."

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Tony Blair is the living embodiment of what happens when political office becomes a down payment on future plunder. Ejected in 2007 by his own MPs as a massive liability, he bequeathed Britain a wild casino economy primed for the 2008 crash. And when the British economy crashed and burned, Mr Blair kept quiet while honing his skills at securing power by other means.

His first job, after his ejection from 10 Downing Street, was as the West’s Middle East envoy, with a supposed emphasis on Gaza. It took six painful years for Mr Blair’s tenure to prove a failure so profound it amounted to active complicity in Israel’s ethnic cleansing, in Palestinian erasure, and in paving the ground for the ongoing genocide.

Soon after, the Chilcot Inquiry demolished Blair’s Iraq lies, exposing him as a liar, a chancer and a war criminal responsible for countless corpses of Iraqis, but also of British soldiers.

Then came Blair’s real innovation: the financialisation of the ex-premiership itself. The Tony Blair Institute, fuelled by £130 million from Oracle's Larry Ellison—coincidentally, the largest individual donor to the Friends of the IDF—became a shadow state, brokering governance contracts for autocrats and companies like Palantir that weaponise AI to produce mega-death abroad and full-on surveillance of Western populations.

Now, in May 2026, this corporate fixer issues a 5700 word tantrum demanding that Labour embrace Trump even more than Starmer already has, denounce what is left of Labour’s betrayed Green New Deal, and trash the remnants of workers' rights. This is not the wisdom of an aging statesman. It is the frantic squirming of a man fearing his grip on oligarchic power might soon wane and whose entire post-10 Downing Street existence depends on preventing the many from ever reclaiming what the few have plundered.

https://t.co/1Onlpx9Nkh

[Stewart Wood @StewartWood]

5. Lastly, Blair’s essay misses something fundamental about what voters want that is different to 20 years ago: the desire for control of our own lives, individually & collectively. Which is about having choices, but also putting limits on the scope of tech & corporate power.

[Simon Harris @SimonHarrisMBD]

Zack Polanski didn’t say ‘thank you’ to the person in front of him at the checkout when they put the shopping divider down on the conveyor belt so he could start loading his own items at a branch of Lidl in South London in 2005.

Source: Daily Mail

[DanShears @dan_shears77]

@TonyL_01 @cens11111 @owenjonesjourno Answer my question then

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

This will not stand up legally.

Zack retweeted — did not issue a statement — a questioning of the seemingly excessive use of force.

The head of the Met, during purdah, wrote a two page attack as if Zack had said it.

It is clear involvement in politics.

[DanShears @dan_shears77]

@TonyL_01 @cens11111 @owenjonesjourno How many terrorists have you gotten rid of Tony? Looks like the only thing you’ve successfully removed is your hairline

[DanShears @dan_shears77]

@ox_anna29 For a self-declared politics nerd it's staggering how politically naive you seem to be

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

@piersmorgan They have names, Fadi Abu Assi & Jumaa Abu Assi.

[DanShears @dan_shears77]

@YoungBobTPUK It’s a descriptor. Like saying “black women” or “lesbian women” or “disabled women”. Hope that helps

[Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics]

#MorepostgraduatedegreesthanRoryStewart

[DanShears @dan_shears77]

@of_elwher @AdnanHussainMP @h_j_sinclair Social rather than private ownership of the means of production - that doesn’t necessarily mean nationalising everything does it.

[cez @cezthesocialist]

For the first time with YouGov, most 2024 Labour voters now intend to vote for other parties.

Labour is losing almost 4 times more voters to the Greens and the Lib Dems than they are to Reform, despite being focused on chasing Reform voters.

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Interesting to see so many great British patriots on here begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.

[DanShears @dan_shears77]

@FrankCa61648721 @hawkins_carole @ZackPolanski @MikeTappTweets That’s not an explanation, that’s just repeating a falsehood

[High Yield Harry @HighyieldHarry]

This is so insane to me.