Mark Clapson

Self-unemployed. Historian of suburbs, new towns, urban reconstruction and gambling. Recovering Academic. 🇬🇧 🇮🇱

[Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio @LeoKearse]

Hooray for the patriarchy! (as long as it's brown)

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

This is total madness from another unaccountable quango. The government must overrule Natural England and stop it immediately.

Keir Starmer is on his way to making his last acts in office the shameful underfunding of our military and the mass slaughter of Dartmoor ponies.

[Adrian Hilton @Adrian_Hilton]

These were the six children to whom #C4News gave a platform this evening to share their views on the social media ban for under-16s. They were diverse, informed, and eloquent. But which group doesn't see themselves represented? Was the omission accidental or purposeful?

[Alex Hearn @hearnimator]

🚨🚨 Palestine Action ban upheld. The judge’s damning verdict on their charade:

“Palestine Action overtly promotes unlawful violence amounting to terrorism. It is not, as it claims, a direct action civil disobedience protest group, like the suffragettes”

[Mark Clapson @MarkJClapson]

Tech savvy young people will get around this ban. Like illegal gambling and prohibition it will create a shady shadow world. (2)

[Scott Bryan @scottygb]

BBC: “What was your screen time?”

Student: “Nine hours.”

BBC: “You’re gong to have a lot more time to fill. What will you do?”

Student: “Stare at a wall.”

[Mark Clapson @MarkJClapson]

The illegality of off-course cash betting in the UK from the 1820s to the 1960s led to a significant illegal network of street betting that was difficult to regulate. Prohibition in 1920s USA led to an underground dangerous drinks trade. (1)

[Scott Bryan @scottygb]

BBC: “What was your screen time?”

Student: “Nine hours.”

BBC: “You’re gong to have a lot more time to fill. What will you do?”

Student: “Stare at a wall.”

[Stop The Hate UK @StopTheHate_UK]

We are witnessing a pro-terrorist protest outside a synagogue. This hate has been spurred on by disinformation spread by London's mayor @MayorofLondon

[Mark Clapson @MarkJClapson]

I absolutely hate these people, and hate that they’re in our country. This antisemitic rabble is also supported by leading politicians in the Labour Party and the Green Party. I dread to think what might happen if we have a Labour-Green coalition government after the next GE.

[habibi @habibi_uk]

Justice Abused in Woolwich - Hating the Judge

"We need to make sure that complicit Zionist judge can hear you!" Hate march leader Tabassum Khan attacking the judge who sentenced racist vandals at Woolwich yesterday. Yes, abuse and intimidation is the aim of these protests. 1/9

[David Collier @mishtal]

@ZackPolanski One of them broke the back of a policewoman. They brandished sledgehammers and cause damages of over £1 million to a factory. Of course they belong in jail

What a dangerous and stupid man Zack Polanski is.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Horrific. A 30-year-old man has been arrested after attempting to stab a 17-year-old girl in neck in Burnley. Completely unprovoked.

Are we really going to accept that this is the new weekly norm in Britain?

This is not what a civilised, first world country looks like at all.

[Never Again @Never_Again2020]

This hits the 🎯. HT/@GermanLessonsUK

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

This was the statement released by Police Scotland after the footage of the incident in Dundee went viral last year. It seems that everything was done to give the impression that the young girl was the aggressor and the migrant couple the victims. A court decided yesterday that it was the other way round. Blatant disinformation. Police Scotland owe everyone an explanation.

[Never Again @Never_Again2020]

Palestinian terrorist Ismat Mansour murdered a civilian in 1993 and served 20 years in prison. He's now a contributor to @BBCArabic and is introduced as an “analyst” of Israeli affairs. This is the BBC's idea of impartial, public service broadcasting.

https://t.co/f3jijEQE05

[Don_Falcone200 @Don_Falcone2]

@HoodedClaw1974 @ElznGaz Remember when a stabbing in Britain made headline news and we were all shocked? Now, we just read and shrug our shoulders. How bad is that. What in the fuck has happened to this country?

[Sophy Ridge @SophyRidgeSky]

🚨Sir Mark Rowley has just told me London will be “less safe” by the end of the year because he’ll have to lose 500-700 officers from doing frontline jobs after Sir Sadiq Khan blocked plans to use Palantir AI

Q - You wanted to roll out AI provided by Palantir to try and speed up tasks in the Met like searching through reports, searching through phone data. Sadiq Khan, mayor of London, said, no, that's not happening. You've been blocked from doing it. So what does that mean?

ROWLEY: I'm having to shrink the Metropolitan Police because of our budget, so we've shrunk by 3,300 people in 3 years. We're going to lose another 1,150 people this year. We had a plan to avoid doing any damage to the policing of the streets by using technology to automate behind the scenes, as well as improving what officers could do. Now that's been blocked we're going to be taking between 500 and 700 officers out of frontline services equivalent…. 500 to 700 officers and staff who were part of delivering services to London, maybe from call handling through to street policing, we're going to have to reduce that. That will have an effect on the streets of London. That's why we were trying to do a sort of a sort of rapid tech procurement to make a difference for Londoners.”

SOPHY RIDGE: Will it make London less safe?

SIR MARK ROWLEY: “Well, we're going to be smaller at the end of the year. So it'll be less safe at the end of the year than it was otherwise.”

[Mark Clapson @MarkJClapson]

What happened on Tuesday night wouldn't have happened if what happened on Monday night had been prevented by governments that actually protected their citizens and kicked out migrants who behead innocent working-class Brits.

[Kirstie Allsopp @KirstieMAllsopp]

What happened in Belfast on Monday night was sickening, wrong & deeply disturbing.

What happened in Belfast on Tuesday night was sickening, wrong & deeply disturbing.

[Mark Clapson @MarkJClapson]

The Guardian couldn't give a damn about the victim, and 'far right' is cynically deployed to divert attention from the growing number of murders and criminal acts by migrants.

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

"Wielded a knife over another man" #lamenews https://t.co/KS2Uf5aOuX

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: Zack Polanski was the only party leader to not release a statement condemning the attempted beheading or send condolences to the victim yesterday

[Mark Clapson @MarkJClapson]

Green Party leaders have a soft spot for anti-gay Islamic site 5 Pillars. Polanski and Ali have actively engaged with them.

[5Pillars @5Pillarsuk]

Ladybird Books has published a Happy Pride image on Instagram featuring a Muslim woman in hijab.

Ladybird is one of the UK's biggest children's books publishers and its books are read by kids as young as two.

The image features a Muslim woman in hijab carrying a baby alongside another woman.

A caption reads: "Everyone should be free to be themselves, no matter who they are or who they love."

Homosexual acts are strictly forbidden in Islam.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

This is deeply troubling. I hope my union - @fbunational - will explain to fire service bosses that firefighters must be free to express their political views without fear of sanction by their employer. @manchesterfire has seriously overstepped the mark here.