James Ventham

writer, director, producer, actor and disability rights activist . Passionate Liverpool fan. All my views are my own.

[James Ventham @JamesVentham]

@declanjonez hey mate, were you at the academy at LFC for a while?

[TheGeordieButcher @A6er_Part_2]

Motability customer launches legal action against Treasury over tax measures that put ‘lifeline’ at risk
Charlie Proctor sent a legal letter to the Treasury arguing that the tax measures announced last November were unlawful
Full story 👇 https://t.co/R1aeNAK045 via @johnpringdns

[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

CLINICIANS! PLEASE SUBMIT A RESPONSE TO THE PIP CONSULTATION BY 28TH MAY OR SIGN THIS LETTER.

Many of us have watched patients deteriorate under this system — panic, suicidality, retraumatisation, terror of the brown envelope. We must lobby for better! https://t.co/o0rKZb10zV

[James Ventham @JamesVentham]

@Realaldo474 RIP Alex,
#ynwa

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@Braden_LFC He’s on £25k a week, keep him on improved terms, very good squad player and last scouser in the team!

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Save the Ultimate Picture Palace - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/cDf4KuGyR2 via @UKChange

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@CubePickering I can now hear a lot of sirens, must be a big fire, hope it’s not the tip!

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@DanielMileB1 @CubePickering Hope no one is hurt!

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@Irishgirlbragh_ Good luck with it!

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@lightfirerob Where are you based my friend? Trying to work out where it is, I’m on The Green in Kings Norton, didn’t hear anything can’t see it?

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@RoyalMail please can you help me, I have a parcel missing that you have in your possession, tired of being fobbed off? Any customer service at all via the @RoyalMail? I’d very much appreciate your help please, it’s a surprise present from a friend and you have it #royalfail

[James Ventham @JamesVentham]

@RoyalMail are a joke, customer service? There is none! I’ve had a parcel missing since they scanned it into THEIR system on the 26th of March! No one from customer service can do anything via the phone and that appears to be the only option, never going to select them again!

[James Ventham @JamesVentham]

@LfcNuel Easy, Sadio Mane.

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Dear @RoyalMail I have a special delivery stuck in your system somewhere, I have the tracker but the phone line has been pointless dealing with it, is there anyone I can phone or email? Thanks, James.

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@BonniedaWestie @RoyalMail @hornby Notice there lack of reply! I’ve phoned and spoken to them about a missing special delivery, it’s apparently five miles from my house at a main distribution hub but I can’t go and get and they haven’t sent it to my local D.O, online it says “unable to confirm the status of item”!

[James Ventham @JamesVentham]

@RoyalMail please can someone help me with a missing special delivery? Please message me asap!

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@RoyalMail how can I find out where my special delivery by 1pm is? It’s been stuck on the same message since last night, I’ve got the tracking number and it said it would be here by 1pm today, 50 minutes on and no show, can I have some help?

[Sam @SamCKx]

I can no longer hold my tongue seeing the utter lies being spread about Britain, our history of migration, and how this country was built into what it is today. For those so deeply buried in fake news, manufactured outrage and billionaire‑funded propaganda, I’m going to lay out the truth – and exactly why you’re being fed all this poison.

Britain was never a sealed white island. From Roman times there were African soldiers stationed on Hadrian’s Wall and living in British towns, people from across the empire walking these roads nearly 2,000 years ago. Through the Middle Ages and Tudor England you still find Black people in the records – sailors, craftsmen, servants, musicians – even Black musicians at the royal court and Africans being baptised, marrying and being buried in English parishes like anyone else. This isn’t some modern experiment; it’s older than half the castles people visit on their bank‑holiday tours.

As Britain went out into the world, the world came here. Sailors and traders from India, Yemen and beyond were arriving in British ports from the 1600s. Some of those men were practising a new faith to most Britons at the time, praying quietly in boarding houses near the docks while they worked brutal shifts in the engine rooms of British ships. Over the centuries, more people from North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia passed through and settled, bringing their languages, foods and beliefs into port cities that were far more mixed than today’s nostalgia merchants like to admit.

After two world wars, the truth is simple: this country asked the Commonwealth to come and rebuild it. People from the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia didn’t sneak in; they were recruited. They came to drive buses and trains, staff the NHS, work in mills and foundries, clean offices, run corner shops, open takeaways and small businesses, and yes, build prayer spaces and community centres alongside churches and temples in the neighbourhoods everyone now pretends were always “traditional” and “unchanged”. They did the work that kept Britain going while being told to go home, refused housing, and treated as permanent outsiders.

And what have they been paid back with? Scandals where people who’ve lived, worked and paid taxes here for decades get told they don’t belong. Policies designed to make life so hostile that some give up and leave. A media that uses their names, accents, clothes or places of worship as props in endless scare stories. The message is always the same: you might toil for this country, but you will never fully be of it.

So when you hear that “Britain was white until recently” or that the country has been “overrun”, understand that you don’t arrive at that belief by accident. You get there because your history has been deliberately ripped out and replaced with a comforting myth: that “real” Britain is white, homogenous, and constantly under siege from people who look, speak or pray differently.

Now look at when this myth has been turned up to max volume. Wages frozen. Housing a sick joke. Energy and food prices out of control. Public services hacked to pieces. At the same time, the number of people hoarding unimaginable wealth at the top has exploded. Funny, isn’t it, how every front page is about boats and “swarms” and “our culture”, and almost never about the landlords, hedge funds, private equity and offshore trusts quietly buying up your city and your future.

That’s because this isn’t just prejudice; it’s a strategy. If you’re sitting on a mountain of wealth, the last thing you want is ordinary people – of every colour and background – realising they have the same problems and the same enemy. Much safer if the factory worker is furious at the new family down the road. Much safer if the person who can’t see a doctor blames the nurse with an accent instead of the minister who cut the funding. Much safer if a man who can’t afford his rent spends his rage on the woman in a headscarf at the bus stop instead of the billionaire who owns half his city.

Racist rhetoric, religious dog‑whistling, all of it, exists to break solidarity. It turns neighbours into enemies and stops people seeing that Black, brown and white working‑class communities have far more in common with each other than any of them will ever have with the people flying in on private jets. It keeps you so busy policing skin colour, passports and prayer mats that you never get round to asking why your kids can’t afford a home, why your parents can’t get a hospital bed, why you’re working harder and standing still.

The real story of Britain is this: a crossroads, not a fortress. Africans on Hadrian’s Wall. Black people in Tudor courts and city streets. Sailors, traders and workers from South Asia, the Middle East and beyond in the ports. Caribbean, African and Asian workers rebuilding the country after the war, staffing surgeries and hospitals, driving cabs, running shops, cooking food, teaching kids. Today’s multi‑ethnic, multi‑faith working class is not a glitch; it is Britain. It built this place and it keeps it running.

If you’re genuinely angry about what’s happening to this country, good. You should be. But aim it where it belongs. Britain was never pure, never untouched, never “theirs” to take back. The people ruining your standard of living are not the ones risking their lives to get here, or the ones whose names you struggle to pronounce. They’re the ones buying politicians, owning media outlets, writing the story of this country so you never learn your own – and never realise who is standing beside you.