Nigel Driffield

Markets only work when there is equality of opportunity to engage in them.

[Nigel Driffield @nigel_driffield]

The ONS reckons (it’s still deciding how to collect proper official data on the sector) that UK higher education as a whole exported £25.6bn a year in 2020 despite the pandemic, more than exports of pharmaceuticals, or aerospace
https://t.co/RAKmIDvFXd

[Nigel Driffield @nigel_driffield]

This is a cesspit I’m off

[Anand Menon @anandMenon1]

No. What you're seeing is a fundamental disagreement between people attempting to justify racist rioting and others who think spreading hate and making people (H/T @BBCr4today this morning) feel terror in their own homes is utterly wrong and wholly unjustifiable

[Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov]

GB News complaining that nobody from the Government will talk to them any more, just seconds after falsely telling their viewers that Keir Starmer has been "labelling anyone concerned about immigration as far right".

[Nigel Driffield @nigel_driffield]

@afneil You mean we are buying nuclear from France instead of burning gas ?

[Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov]

These are just some of the tweets that were put out by GB News presenter Darren Grimes in the run up to the general election.

The same channel that is now accusing the left of inflaming racial tensions in the UK

https://t.co/Pgiz74ELuu

[Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov]

"Repeated and urgent counsel that far-right extremists were exploiting gaps in the law to foment violence on social media were ignored while top-rank politicians... sought to gain advantage by waging culture wars" -Sunak's former anti-extremism adviser https://t.co/VAspTPFh2s

[Nigel Driffield @nigel_driffield]

@anandMenon1 My dad knew derek Pringles dad, fairly sure derek Pringle (who played for England) would fail it if England played Kenya.

[Nigel Driffield @nigel_driffield]

@s8mb Indeed, so process them and return invalid claims, or do what the tories did and weaponise them ?

[Nigel Driffield @nigel_driffield]

@NJ_Timothy See what I mean ?

[Nigel Driffield @nigel_driffield]

@NJ_Timothy If you want to engage with a wider audience can I suggest not just writing in a paper that seems to specialise these days in demonising anyone its owners / editors disagree with ?

[Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov]

A reminder that the last Conservative Government published a review just last year claiming that there had been "too much focus" on tackling threats from the far-right.

[Nigel Driffield @nigel_driffield]

Arriving on campus 10 mins ago i overheard a contractor (NB not warwick staff) pleading with someone on the phone NOT to go to a “protest” today “they are evil and you could fuck your life up” ….

[Nigel Driffield @nigel_driffield]

@duolingo what do i do when ive finished the (french) course ? Sell me something else or add more lessons ?

[Nigel Driffield @nigel_driffield]

But while those “patriots” who believe this crap are doing time, the authors of this are just getting richer.

[Brendan May @bmay]

No idea how yesterday happened. None at all.

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

"Politicians saw privatisation and private infrastructure as a way to get access to a big bucket of money...in fact, the failures of privatisation are numerous and obvious."

Sound familiar? An Australian perspective on the scam of privatisation🇦🇺

https://t.co/0CHy8BbUfz

[Nick Cohen @NickCohen4]

Arrested rioters are about to find out that, when they are alone in their cells, Elon Musk, Nigel Farage, Isabel Oakeshot, Richard Tice and the staff at GB News won't come out to help them and their families. They'll be safe and secure at home while you do time

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

A reminder
After the Aug 2011 riots, police & my prosecutors examined all the video evidence for MONTHS identifying & bringing offenders to justice - 1000s of them
Some didn’t get arrested till a year later!
Prison was the usual sentence
My boss was someone called Keir Starmer

[Nigel Driffield @nigel_driffield]

Buy my substack …..

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

"Stand in your capital to show concern about the state of Britain? That's far right. Protest after the murder of children? Far right. Suggest we leave foreign courts so we can control our borders? Far right. Call to lower immigration? Far right. Point to grooming gangs? Far right. Vote for Reform? Far right. Sing a song about England? Far right. Fly the flag? Far right. It's really not hard to see why millions of ordinary people are fed up"
https://t.co/26hxnUcWiD

[Nigel Driffield @nigel_driffield]

do the client journos write stuff and then he tweets about it, or do they write to order? How is this buffoon still a thing ?

[David Frost @DavidGHFrost]

Remarkable that Labour have reached the hubris stage after just a month in power and while the country faces its biggest civil disorder for many years.

Their apparent belief that the Conservatives can be 'destroyed' is also remarkable. Of course in the worst case (which I think very unlikely) we could be replaced by another party on the Right, but I don't think that is what Starmer means. Rather, it reflects something more scary: his belief, and that of so many in Labour, that there is no actual need for opinions on the right in British politics, even that there is something illegitimate about such opinions, and if the opportunity arises British politics could, and should, be reconfigured as a set of debates between various formations of the centre-Left.

[Jessica Simor KC @JMPSimor]

The BBC says: “Protesters target mosque”. Can you imagine saying “Protesters target synagogue? These are criminals. By platforming Farage, Oakeshott, Tice, Goodwin etc, the BBC normalised the far right. Now it legitimises them as so called “protesters” https://t.co/yofMbolcM5