Foreigncorrespondent

A foreigner living in Alberta.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

This is the kind of thing that was said about the Jews in the 1930s.

It is not hyperbolic to say that degrading an entire culture leads us to a very dark place. Reform are playing with fire right now trying to stop themselves being outflanked by the extremists of Restore.

[Joss Sheldon @JossSheldon]

> Fred West killed 12-20 people. No riots.
> Harold Shipman killed 215-250 people. No riots.
> 522 murders took place in England and Wales, in the year ending March 2025. No riots.
> An immigrant kills 1 person. Violent riots.

It's two-tier rioting, isn't it?

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

"Very poor white people” are being convinced that “very poor, hard-working brown or Black people” are responsible for the “problems caused by billionaire white men”, Allison Morris, Crime Correspondent at the Belfast Telegraph, says in the wake of the riots that spread through the capital of Northern Ireland overnight.

[Tomos Doran 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 @portraitinflesh]

The New Yorker exposé of the Tate brothers is long but essential reading. These men are cartoonishly evil; if a novelist invented them, it would feel like hack writing. I'm going to share a paywall-free link in the next tweet, because as many people as possible need to read this.

[Ben Harris @btharris93]

Regardless of your feelings towards our current government (and I have an extremely low opinion of it), there is no doubt that Tommy Robinson is a traitor and an enemy of the British people.

[Richard Corbett @RichardGCorbett]

There are dozens of horrific murders, rapes and other crimes committed every month. But the extreme right only gets worked up when the perpetrator is someone from an ethnic minority background, when they use it as an excuse to run riot, attack and intimidate whole communities.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump three rules:

1. Never admit when you're wrong
2. Never concede defeat when you lose
3. Attack anyone who attacks you even when you're wrong.

50 years later - in 2026 America - we are living under the insanity and tyranny of those three rules.

[Matthew O'Toole @MatthewOToole2]

Just home from dealing with the consequences of tonight's lawlessness.

Perhaps some of the English right wing influencers and local politicians enthusing about these protests would explain to children I met why they have no beds to sleep in tonight.

Utterly disgusted.

[Mimi Williams (she/her) @MimiProbably]

Devin Dreeshen looked workers in the eyes and told them the Cargill plant was safe when he knew damned well it wasn't. Three people died.

He was warned that removing speed enforcement would lead to increased fatalities. He didn't care.

'Minister Death' it is!

#ABLeg #ABPoli

[Joolz Denby @JoolzDenby]

As of June 2026, 30 women have been violently killed in Northern Ireland since 2020. You didn’t go riot for them, did you? Fucking burning cars & houses with families and disabled children in them, you absolute dregs of humanity. Racist scum.

[Stephen Nolan @StephenNolan]

My children are locked in the house afraid to go to school because of racists

Anselme has been living in Northern Ireland since 2013

He and his family - including his two sons aged 9 and 8 years old, and his 2 year old daughter - were forced to flee their home last night

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

You created them. Every single one of those NEETs is a product of your former party's choices. The ones you made while you were in Cabinet.

Adult education and apprenticeship spending: 25% lower in 2024-25 than when your former party took office (IFS, Nuffield Foundation).

Publicly funded adult further education courses: fell from 5.4 million in 2004 to 1.7 million by the time you left office. A 70% reduction, the majority of it on your watch (IFS, January 2026).

College funding per student: 11% lower in real terms than 2010. Sixth-form funding per student: 23% lower (IFS, January 2025).

Adults taking qualifications at GCSE level and below: down 50%. At A-level equivalent: down 33% (IFS, Nuffield Foundation).

Intermediate apprenticeship starts, the entry-level route for young people without degrees: collapsed from 200,000 in 2010 to fewer than 50,000 by 2020. Your government did that (IFS).

Youth services: cut by 70% since 2010 (Mind, Big Mental Health Report 2025) .

You had 14 years to invest in British young people. You cut adult education by 25%. You cut FE courses by 70%. You cut college funding. You cut sixth-form funding. You cut apprenticeships for the people who needed them most. You cut youth services. Then you left office and started tweeting bollocks about NEETs as though they materialised from thin air.

The £5,000 Reeves is offering is a reimbursement of the Immigration Skills Charge, a levy your own government introduced in 2017 to fund domestic skills training. You created the charge. You collected the money. And you still cut the training budget by 25%.

And these visas are for high-skilled workers: doctors, engineers, specialists in fields where your 14 years of cuts left a workforce gap so deep that British employers cannot fill it domestically. They are not competing with NEETs. They are filling holes your government drilled.

You were Home Secretary. You were Attorney General. You sat in Cabinet while all of this happened. You do not get to set the house on fire and then complain about the smoke.

Sources:
Adult education and apprenticeship spending 25% below 2010 levels: Institute for Fiscal Studies / Nuffield Foundation, October 2022 (https://t.co/ptZIX5c4b8)

Adult FE courses fell from 5.4 million to 1.7 million (70% reduction): Institute for Fiscal Studies, January 2026 (https://t.co/ViEuIX7qIj)

College funding per student 11% lower, sixth-form funding 23% lower: Institute for Fiscal Studies, Annual Report on Education Spending in England, January 2025, cited in House of Commons Library (https://t.co/c6qLKyCyjA)

Adults taking Level 2 qualifications down 50%, Level 3 down 33%: Institute for Fiscal Studies / Nuffield Foundation (https://t.co/1veNy8CJcY)

Intermediate apprenticeship starts collapsed from 200,000 to fewer than 50,000: Institute for Fiscal Studies / Nuffield Foundation, same source as above

Youth services cut by 70% since 2010: Mind, Big Mental Health Report 2025 (https://t.co/zTQbfpIdQq)

Immigration Skills Charge Regulations 2017: (https://t.co/IcciQZPTer)

Skills policy and apprenticeship data: House of Commons Library (https://t.co/trQjEw6FEZ)

Immigration Skills Charge parliamentary debate: Hansard, 21 March 2017 (https://t.co/yD8OvAthBl)

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

Full statement from the family of Stephen Ogilvie
"We want to make it absolutely clear that overnight unrest is not welcome, and peaceful protest is the only way forward...

"We have many migrants who make a deeply valuable contribution to our country, including in our healthcare system and hospitality sector and we depend on them to make our country work"

Read it over and over.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

That’s called a bribe.

[Stephen Bryant 🇪🇺 @Stephenmoogles]

Just a reminder to those asking @Nigel_Farage to condemn the burning down of houses in Belfast last night. Here he is with a woman who was jailed for inciting racial hatred connected with burning down hotels. #FarageRiots2 #farageriots3 #farageriots

[LBC @LBC]

‘Behind the “guy with a pint in the pub”, this is a man who consistently voted against the interests of working people.’

Trade Union Head Paul Nowak tells @AndrewMarr9 he finds Reform's 'party for the working class' image 'laughable'.

[David @Zero_4]

Medhi Hasan: “The 2 biggest hits to growth in the UK over last 10-15 years were brought about by Tory govts: austerity & Brexit”

Tory MP Jeremy Hunt: “Covid, global financial crisis, Ukraine?”

MH: “They were global issues. I’m talking about ones we did to ourselves”

#newsnight

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Mehdi Hasan slams Elon Musk, "He is obsessed with finding these cases where he can then amplify far right voices"

"He doesn't just do it in England with Tommy Robinson, he does it in German with the AfD, obviously he does it in the US with Twitter"

Victoria Derbyshire, "What is he seeking to do?"

Mehdi Hasan, "He's seeking to embolden some of the worst far right voices in the Western world"

"That's why he's funding so many people all over the place"

"This is his agenda. It's a very racist agenda. We see that in the US with the Republican party"

"Elon Musk amplifies some of the most neo-nazi voices on Twitter"

"You can take the boy out of apartheid South Africa, can you take apartheid South Africa out of the boy?"

[Dr. Brian Goldman @NightShiftMD]

A shortage of anesthesiologists in AB is being exacerbated by forcing them to work at chartered surgical facilities.

[Globe Eye News @GlobeEyeNews]

BREAKING:

U.S. transferred $3 billion to Iran from frozen assets via the UAE in exchange to halt recent strikes on Israel, according to Kann.