Billig Bragg 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇮🇱

Slowly transitioning from 🇸🇪 to 🇬🇧 (or rather 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 /🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿) Proud neofobe. Anti progressive from instinct.

[Billig Bragg 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇮🇱 @E4anKo]

There's no such thing as English culture...

[Billig Bragg 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇮🇱 @E4anKo]

@FredrikKarrholm @SeastedtInc Men snälla. Det kan innebära att 200000 svenskar flyttar utomlands och bara 199000 analfabeter från Afrikas horn kommer hit. Varför tar du oss väljare för idioter?

[Pete North @FUDdaily]

I don't condone any of what I've seen in Belfast. I mean, I'd go to prison if I did, but all the same, it's not my preferred way of doing things. But then my preferred way of doing things (voting and public debate) hasn't made the slightest impact on the decision-making of the state. As such, there was a certain inevitability about this.

Moreover, it's not really my place to judge. I am an extremely fortunate individual who happens to live in a 99% white area, miles from any "diversity" and thanks to my self-employed status, I don't have to self-censor or live a double life at work. I don't have to bottle up my opinions. I actually make a modest income by expressing them.

Most low income working class people, meanwhile, have to live in close proximity to diversity and the squalor that goes with it. Their votes are even more worthless as mine, and they can't speak their minds freely because there'll be some HR ghoul in the mix who will fire them. Ordinary people bear the burden of potentially losing everything for having the wrong opinions.

Meanwhile, they can work hard to carve out a little corner of peace for themselves, just for the local authority to turn next door into a migrant HMO with illegal Deliveroo drivers coming and going at all hours. It's their communities being turned into alien, hostile and violent slums. To then say there is no justification for riots is to tell them they simply have to suck it up - even when they run the risk of an African savage beheading them. What are they supposed to do? Write to their MP? Everyone has a breaking point.

While politicians call for calm, they can only expect to be heeded if they actually do something, but remaining calm when the politicians continue to sit on their hands as people are butchered in the street is absolutely bovine. Ultimately these riots are a consequence of the wilful deafness of politicians, and the blame for what we've seen tonight lies squarely in their shop.

[David Betz @DavidBe31099196]

It is pointless trying to understand the contemporary British media complex as ‘media’ in the conventional sense—journalism, reporting, or even opinion. The correct frame is propaganda: mood and sentiment management, with its sharpest tool today being crisis communications.

The dominant technique, visible daily if you still watch, is inversion—systematic reversal. It flips reality: victim into perpetrator, aggressor into defender, truth into falsehood, good into evil. It constructs Walter Lippmann’s ‘pseudo-environment’, an alternate reality in which the public is meant to dwell.

A key subtype is projection, or ‘accusation in a mirror’, neatly summarised by a Rwandan Hutu propagandist in a 1990s manual: impute to your enemies exactly what you and your own side are planning or doing.

When a genuine crisis erupts—such as the racially aggravated murder of Henry Nowak—the first imperative of the machine is to stall, dampen, and defeat the natural eruption of public outrage.

Call it ‘restoring calm’ if you like the euphemism. In practice, it means herding people back into anaesthetised normality so that inversion can resume.

Once the majority has been shamed, distracted, or bullied into silence, the remnant still angry can be ridiculed by the usual chorus—eye-rolling panellists on Have I Got News for You, columnists sneering at those ‘harping on’, and accusations of crypto-racism or worse.

Thus, the brutal stabbing of an unarmed 18-year-old student, the false cry of racism by his killer, and the police reportedly handcuffing the dying boy as he bled out on a Southampton street is repackaged as another ‘knife crime’ tragedy (note Shaban Mahmood’s flaccid parliamentary statement this afternoon)—preferably illustrated with a generic white face in the style of the BBC's so-called reality-based drama 'Adolescence' or the more recent but equally putridly manipulative 'The Capture'.

Real patterns (grooming gangs, crime disparities, two-tier policing) are airbrushed. This is projection at work: the actual sources of predation and institutional failure are recast, while legitimate grievance is pathologized.

The truth? The system enabled both the attack and the immediate inversion of its aftermath and that stands exposed to anyone with eyes and functioning brain by the video evidence. That’s the problem, your own 'lying eyes', that crisis communications has to handle before there can be a return to normal levels of public mood management can be restored.

This is precisely what Dan Hodges is performing when he labels people demanding we talk about the murder ‘scum’ for refusing to respect the family’s wish that their son’s death not be politicised. It is phase-one grunt work in the inversion protocol: shame the angry back into silence so the pseudo-environment can be restored.

Smart enough to know his role, malleable enough to perform it willingly—exactly as Noam Chomsky described the filtering process that keeps the right sort of voice prominent in the system.

The technique still works on some. But it is wearing thin. Every overplayed inversion, every *scummy* dismissal of raw public grief, prepares the ground for sharper identities and clearer grievances against the system itself. Normal people do not remain moderate forever when the machine insists their reality is the problem.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary published this Race Action Plan covering 2024 to 2026. It is the operational document of the force that handcuffed Henry Nowak as he died.

Read it carefully because every element of what happened on that Southampton street in December 2025 is visible in its priorities, its language and its omissions.

The plan states the force will pursue offenders and deal with offences that cause the most harm to ethnic minority communities. Not all communities. Ethnic minority communities specifically. The document that is supposed to govern equal policing contains within it an explicit hierarchy of whose harm the force prioritises.

The plan commits to training officers on the history of policing minority ethnic communities to understand the trauma and failings of the past. Officers are to be trained in the grievances of specific communities. They are not trained to treat every member of the public as an equal before the law regardless of which community makes an accusation against them. The consequence of that training is documented on body cam footage that the Prime Minister described as making him feel sick.

The plan establishes a Black and Ethnic Minority network called BEAM with scrutiny powers over the Chief Constable's Legitimacy Board. A community network defined by ethnicity has institutional oversight of the force's legitimacy decisions. The force that handcuffed Henry Nowak built that oversight structure into its own governance framework.

The plan commits to making the force anti-discriminatory and to explaining or reforming any disproportionality. Disproportionality in policing is the term used when members of one community are stopped, searched or arrested at higher rates than their population share. The entire framework of anti-racism training in British policing is built around reducing that disproportionality. The officers who arrested Henry Nowak and did not arrest his killer were acting within a framework designed to avoid exactly the kind of disproportionality that arresting a Sikh man on the word of a white victim might have produced.

Shabana Mahmood said there must be no two tier policing. This is the document that built it. It is Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary's own Race Action Plan. It is publicly available. It was in force on December 4th 2025. Nobody is investigating it.
https://t.co/cV7UOuRkXn

[Billig Bragg 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇮🇱 @E4anKo]

@RaminNasibov Age of Empires. The first one. Then I got bored of computer games.

[Billig Bragg 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇮🇱 @E4anKo]

@byronicgirl Just had to provide a face shot to book my next stay on Airbnb. Maybe the host is as racist as me?

[Billig Bragg 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇮🇱 @E4anKo]

@MrJohnNicolson I'd say the sexual preferences of lesbians is something you shouldn't have to think about. If you know the meaning of the word lesbian that is. So I'll just assume you're illiterate. And stupid. And dishonest. And a misogynist.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A tenant farmer in the Cairngorms says land that sold for £500 an acre a few years ago now goes for £5,000. He is being moved off ground his family has worked for generations, because he cannot outbid the people buying it. The buyers are corporations, and they have no intention of farming a single acre of it.

Here is how the trick works. A company keeps emitting carbon exactly as before. Same factories, same flights, same supply chain, same product. Then it buys a Scottish hillside, plants some trees, and announces to the world that it is now carbon neutral, or, if it is feeling brave, carbon negative. The emissions never fell. It simply bought a landscape to point at.

Take BrewDog. In 2020 it bought a 9,300-acre Highland estate, propped up with public grant money, and promised a million trees and the crown of the world's first carbon negative beer business, removing twice the carbon it emitted, forever. By 2023 roughly half of the 500,000 trees it had managed to plant were dead, killed by drought, with critics noting the planting was drying out the peat and releasing carbon of its own. The advertising regulator ruled its carbon-negative claims misleading. In 2024 it quietly dropped the badge and dismissed the entire carbon credit market as a flood of cheap schemes whose benefit was "questionable, maybe even non-existent." Then it sold the estate to a firm whose actual business is selling carbon offsets.

That is the whole model in one story. Public money in. Dead trees out. A green halo worn for four years and then dropped. The farmer who used to be on that land, gone. The hillside passed to a company that exists purely to sell other people the right to keep polluting.

This is no fringe case. In one recent year, half of every estate sold in Scotland went to investment funds, corporations and charitable trusts rather than anyone who would farm it. A third of the deals for plantable land are now done off-market, in secret, precisely so the local community never gets the chance to bid.

So this is what net zero looks like on the ground. A man who produced food is priced out of his own glen. A corporation that produced emissions buys the glen, calls itself a force for good, and sells the carbon. The land stops feeding anyone. Nobody's emissions actually went down by a gram.

The food was real. The farmer was real. The carbon saving is a line in a slide deck.

And we have somehow decided the villain in all this is the man with the sheep.

[Billig Bragg 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇮🇱 @E4anKo]

@ClaesClasse @SofieLowenmark Personer som du fascinerar mig. Tragisk självförstörelse i aktion...

[Billig Bragg 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇮🇱 @E4anKo]

@CutMyTaxUK @PankhurstEM A few days ago I had a nice meal and a couple of pints at the Cricket Inn on the outskirts of Totley. The whole experience was superb, surrounded by ordinary English people and gorgeous countryside. Pubs like that should be celebrated rather than penalised.

[Vodka & Seledka 🇬🇧 @seledka_vodka]

There is a scene in @HBO's Chernobyl that most viewers miss. A scientist presents evidence of the disaster to a Belarusian party official. The official dismisses her expertise, then boasts that he used to run a shoe factory.

It is not central to the plot, but it explains everything. The Soviet Union was governed by a snowball of incompetence - decades of nepotism where ministries were handed to people with no relevant knowledge, provided they had the right party connections. Pedigree was political, not professional.

I grew up there. My parents were subject matter experts who spent their careers battling apparatchiks enforcing decisions they did not understand. That is why I flinch when I hear the same logic here in Britain.

@UKLabour politicians celebrate the "right background" - the poorer, the more deprived, the better. Council house to government, presented as triumph. Progress and resilience deserve recognition. But in these jubilations, merit vanishes. And celebrating ascent without competence is not progress. It is the embryo of disaster.

Look at the Labour Party's front bench. Britain's central challenge is wealth creation - economic growth. Yet these are former charity workers, public sector lifers, people who have always been on the receiving end of funds rather than generating them. They have never had to create value others willingly pay for. So they look to regulators for growth ideas. It is farcical. It is only possible in a culture where navigating party structures replaces proven ability.

A friend told me recently his wife had to close her coffee shop - high traffic, real revenue, still unprofitable due to taxes and business rates. In his frustration he said something raw: he no longer cares if folks running the government are toolmakers' sons or landed gentry. He wants competence. He found himself saying he would rather be ruled by Old Etonians.

Not because Eton College guarantees talent. It does not. But sheer competence - knowing your subject - has become so scarce in British governance that the impulse is understandable.

We are not the Soviet Union. We are nowhere near collapse. But on the left of our politics, the distance is shrinking faster than we admit.

[Billig Bragg 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇮🇱 @E4anKo]

@Heidi_Labour @Keir_Starmer 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤑🤑🤑🤑🤮🤮🤮 how a normal person read your silly post.

[Billig Bragg 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇮🇱 @E4anKo]

@London_W4 Next time I'm in London Gail's will be on the top of my list of coffee shops to visit. (Quite a few pubs will take priority though)

[Billig Bragg 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇮🇱 @E4anKo]

@DanCardenMP Before you dare calling out all the scroungers you've fed for the last 70 years, and your colleagues who've fed them for votes, nothing will change. And you don't have a strong enough spine to come close to doing that.

[Billig Bragg 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇮🇱 @E4anKo]

@bphillipsonMP Change eh? Why not deliver a better life for honest and hard working british people? Sweet jesus you politicians are scum.

[Billig Bragg 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇮🇱 @E4anKo]

@CharlotteCGill Maybe laying on a bit ....😁

[Billig Bragg 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇮🇱 @E4anKo]

@TheNorskaPaul Are Norwegians as weird as the English in having warm custard? I'll never ever get used to it. Kall vaniljsås ftw.

[Billig Bragg 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇮🇱 @E4anKo]

@London_W4 Well. It might be possible to right the ship but it's going to take something stronger than what Reform is offering. Unfortunately.

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

@UKLabour has completely betrayed its core blue collar constituency

@Ed_Miliband pushes a deindustrialisation strategy because he thinks he's a "world leader" (world leading muppet maybe)

@RachelReevesMP has no clue about business. She sees it as a source of tax but otherwise something distasteful if not outright evil rather than the entities that employ the workers she claims to care about

@AngelaRayner championed workers rights that will make employing people less attractive

@Keir_Starmer thinks people just voted Reform in huge numbers because they want more Labour policies

These people are beyond incompetent. Call a General Election and put us all out of our misery

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Meet @simonmaechling.

Simon has a PhD in organic chemistry.

He is very proud of his PhD in organic chemistry. He can't wait to tell you about it, it's in his twitter bio.

Simon identifies as a scientist.

In fact, he identifies as all scientists, ever, since the beginning of history, and his pronouns are we/us/ours. He uses these pronouns as he informs us that, by writing and defending a thesis, he has inherited credit for every engineering and technological advance in human history.

He fed billions of people because he is Norman Borlaug. He saved millions of cancer patients because he is both Francis Crick and James Watson simultaneously. He powered nations because he is inhabited by the very soul of Enrico Fermi.

If humanity conquers the stars, he will retroactively become Werner Von Braun and Elon Musk, as well.

Please clap.

Unfortunately, there has been one small oversight.
Simon doesn't actually know what science is.

Perhaps universities in France don't require coursework in the history or philosophy of science, to attain a PhD degree. Or perhaps he was sick that day. But whatever the reason, his hat or his shoes, Simon doesn't understand that science is an algorithm.

Not a person.

Not an institution.

Not a body of knowledge, or a set of data.

An algorithm.

It is a simple, stepwise procedure. It is the act of examining the universe to see what is there.

It is not the act of examining one's baguette to see which side it is buttered on.

Which is precisely why a lot of institutions, who prominently, proudly, and fraudulently use the word "science" in their names, have lost the public trust that Simon feels entitled to.

They took money.

They sold their judgement and modified their results.

They took money from Proctor and Gamble, and they told us that beef, butter, and eggs are bad for us, and we should eat crystalized cottonseed oil instead.

They took money from Coca-Cola, Kraft-Heinz, and Unilever, and told us a calorie is a calorie is a calorie, and that the worldwide obesity epidemic is your fault because you somehow magically were born lazier and greedier than previous generations.

They took money from a cabal of grifters in the federal bureaucracy, and told us the planet has a fever, and we all need to pay more taxes so they can give it to their grifter friends.

They told us that if we didn't use our entire population as guinea pigs for an untested medical technology, we were personally killing grandma.

These people expect to share in the respect we have for Newton and Einstein, for Watt and Tesla, for Fleming, for Turning and Von Neumann.

But they are not any of these. They are Pravda. They are Squealer. They are Baghdad Bob.

They are not scientists.

They are whores.

No, wait a minute... upon reflection, I wish to apologize to the world's whores for that last sentence. A whore is infinitely better than a fake scientist, because, however degrading her profession, however much it scars her mind and soul, a whore only takes money from those who freely give it, and delivers something they value in return.

I've never had a whore try to poison or rob me.