Jimmy Nicholls

Politics punditry. Podcast @RightDishonour. Contributions @spectator @unherd @TheCriticMag @CapX

[Jimmy Nicholls @jdenicholls]

Boycotting half the World Cup in protest at ITV being allowed to show games

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@A_SHEKH0VTS0V @j_arthur_bloom It's fine to make disclosures within the article copy. Actually far more elegant than the alternatives!

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You could replace “AI” with most things, in fact

[Will Lloyd @Will___lloyd]

Hard for people who work in or around this stuff to conceive of, but most people in Britain do not give a fuck about AI, you may as well ask why aren’t the BBC writing about the latest update to Microsoft Excel

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@Stsantek This is true, but there's nothing the British can do about it

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“The American is the Englishman left to himself.”

[viebcano @delujog]

This is all true, and yet, even Americans with 100% Anglo ancestry do not perceive ourselves as “British.” We genuinely feel that we severed ourselves from them and became a new people. Idk how to explain this to Canadians; we fundamentally have different ethnic qualia

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Your terms are acceptable, but the Germans can keep Luxembourg

[🇪🇺 Ulidian 🇬🇧 @Socialulidian]

This is all, spiritually, the same country. You may disagree, you really may, but you are wrong. This is one nation.

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@BertDalziel American homeless are on a different plane to European ones. A third world class living in a first world country

[Adam Wren @aswren]

1) We are an aging country, crime SHOULD be dropping. The average age is now 42. The question is - is it dropping as fast as we would expect. Given that we have imported vast numbers of disproportionately criminal people, the answer is obviously, no.

2) The types of crimes have changed. Serious violence, beheadings, stranger rape, gang rape. Things that would have been national news for weeks when I was a child are now weekly occurrences, even if overall headline figures for things like assault are down.

3) People modify their behaviour to deal with crime. You keep a grip on your phone in your pocket rather than walking around with it. You let your friends know where you are and turn tracking on when you’re out. Your meat at the supermarket is now locked away in a cage. The visible degradation of daily life can’t always be captured in statistics, and this is without even getting into the obvious methodology problems with the datasets that he’s using

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@3octaves @DPearsonPHL I doubt that.

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@wallaceme Called it in January: https://t.co/lS3IL2ymbv

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@3octaves @DPearsonPHL Why would I bother when the depth of full fat adult fiction exists?

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@Will___lloyd @OliDugmore Oh yes, didn't mean to imply otherwise

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Popping out for some milk has really escalated

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

Wanting a "better life" does not make you an asylum seeker, and leaving your wife and child behind is very poor behaviour.

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@93vintagejones Praying for the quality of the Critic podcast

[Joshi Herrmann @joshi]

🚨 The High Court has ordered Claudio Di Giovanni to pay our full costs after we beat his defamation claims.

He sued me, @Coramazov and @millmediauk after @_TheLondoner exposed his subletting scheme.

Mrs Justice Steyn: "The Defendants are, unarguably, the successful party".

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums.

Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space. 

It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?

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@mehdirhasan Everyone is selectively outraged because people have different political priorities

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Seems to be more a men committing horrendous acts of violence in a way that calls to attention racially biased policing and a broken asylum system leading to public unrest story to me

[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

The story behind the week of riots from Southampton to Belfast is a foreign influence story. The fingerprints of Russian interference are unmistakeable. Story dropping soon.