Top Tweets for #StateFail

"Fundamentally, this violence is the fault of the state, which isn't listening to people." Journalist David Shipley warns that the UK government is exploiting the Belfast unrest to justify authoritarian social media censorship. "The reason they don't want this stuff shared is because it is inherently radicalising." "The thing about living in the United Kingdom in 2026 is that reality is radicalising. And that is why they want to shut down these sorts of videos." "The UK has become a very authoritarian society because they have no other way of trying to control things." "We have violent, awful migrant crime after violent, awful migrant crime. And all they've got is trying to shut things down, stop people talking about it—control, control, control." "It's been a long time... since the United Kingdom was a free society, and it should frighten us all." "I very much understand why those people in Belfast are rioting and setting fire to things because, actually, if you can't get a solution at the ballot box... if you're told that your very normal political concerns are just not acceptable—they can't even be voiced—what do you have left?"