Merlin

Part time Shrubber and Curious Observer. Enjoys Behavioural Science and History.

[Claire Fox @Fox_Claire]

Do too many young people lack an appetite/resilience for working? Why are so many 16 to 24-year-olds claiming they're too ill to work? Obviously the welfare system is full of perverse incentives - you can be better off on benefits than with a job. But it seems there are deeper problems eating away at generational resilience - eg, the medicalisation of everyday problems, or the fact that many young people have internalised the Lockdown lesson that health trumps jobs, school, economy etc...

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

This is an outrageous, disgraceful smear on John Healey — and an outright lie. There are a ton of ways to finance more for defence — starting with net zero — without taking a penny from schools or hospitals. Reeves should be ashamed of herself for allowing this nonsense. Suggests she’s really desperate.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The Economist really has lost the plot: this is exactly the de haut en bas contempt for plain folk that fuels the rise of the Right it affects to be so concerned about.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Absolutely disgraceful

I hope Labour are decimated at the election

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

A more dangerous world demands serious leadership. But Keir Starmer is paralysed.

We must cut welfare spending to fund our defence.

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

This is simply not true @Keir_Starmer.

You absolutely DO tolerate abhorrent scenes of violence like this attack. Just like you tolerate all the rapes and sexual assaults of women and girls by illegal migrants.

You - and most of the political class - decided long ago that these crimes are a price worth paying in return for achieving your multicultural, diverse, open bordered nirvana.

So don't pretend to be shocked and don't wring your hands in sadness. This is the predictable (and predicted) result of the policies YOU support.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

“George Floyd looked like me.”
David Lammy.
But those of us who look like Henry Nowak aren’t supposed to mind police programmed by the Lammy class treating white person with disdain in his dying moments?

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The idea that a government populated by ministers who, combined, have close to zero proper business experience, dribbling out small dollops of cash to companies they favour will play any role in finding ‘the UK’s first trillion-dollar firm’ really is one for the ages. If it ever happens it will be despite the government, not because of it. They really have no clue.

[Sebastian David Lees @sebs_tweets]

The first bank with the guts to launch a card like this would get thousands of sign-ups overnight. Our heritage belongs on our currency. Shame on the Bank of England.

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

Are people seriously voting for this guy? Really? @ZackPolanski is openly and proudly giving his wholehearted support to a CONVICTED TERRORIST WHO KILLED FIVE INNOCENT PEOPLE. That's who Marwan Barghouti is.

And that tells us exactly who Zack Polanski is too. This man is a dangerous joke.

[Merlin @Milnerpa]

@rorysutherland Interesting to see no mention of Charles in the marketing. Surely that would be part of the bragging rights?

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Sky's @TrevorPTweets, a former head of the Commission for Racial Equality, says he feel "rage" because the Henry Nowak case is one of many examples of "misjudgements about people based on their race leading to a young life being cut short."

He shares three other examples ⬇️

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

It won't be much of a problem once I launch my new "Bomber Harris" commemorative Mastercard.

[Douglas McWilliams @DMcWilliams_UK]

This article by Bailey turns out to be untrue. They are removing Churchill from the notes because a market research company said he wasn't woke enough. We've discovered that Bailey can't be removed because of incompetence. Could he lose his job for lying?
https://t.co/gW3Axr6SPU

[Robbie @Robbie_Reasons]

The Somerset Farmhouse of 1 North Street, Williton were approached by a "food influencer" that wanted to charge them £2,000 for a review.

They put out a video of Sally eating a sausage roll instead 😆.

Lets make Sally and the Somerset Farmhouse famous for free.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Is there any reason why the European view on culture should not be Eurocentric ?

Or would that be racist ?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Yes, period huts are back. Because girls just aren’t embarrassed and awkward enough about menstruation.

But what happens when the trans-identified boy feels excluded from the period hut? What if he feels less of a girl? Perhaps it would be easier just to tell girls to stay home.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Since this was published Saturday morning it’s been revealed that the Royal Navy’s entire available fleet of hunter-killer submarines is stuck in port unable to sail — all five Astute class subs currently laid up awaiting maintenance and other repair work. Leaves the UK’s sub-sea internet and power cables dangerously vulnerable to sabotage by the Kremlin

[Merlin @Milnerpa]

@SteveSangster @rorysutherland Hedgehog is a close second but unfortunately has all the pricks on the outside.