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@higgyboson Have the TV Licensing people bothered you yet? They were the worst in my experience.

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@Elainebks @thequentinletts “We don’t sell newspapers but we do sell drugs”. That kind of reply?

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@PollyOartist @clairebhiscott @LucyGoBag We are all born ignorant

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@TurnbullOrigin @ConorGogarty @damian17236445 As are psychologists…

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@MuireannCait @redrumlisa You’re judging other people to be the same as your daughter.

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@clairebhiscott @LucyGoBag Doesn’t say anyone was actually IN the shop when she said it

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@SonOfSirico @hellothisisivan What a brilliant piece of knowledge! Please let it be true

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@OhBlimey @tomhfh 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[The Nowhere Photographer @thenowherephoto]

SURVIVORS

I filmed the survivors arriving back at Calais Port today, before buses took them away.

Three people who set out on the same crossing never came back.

Two women and a child died after a boat carrying more than 100 people got into trouble while attempting to reach England.

Three human beings dead.

@ShabanaMahmood, you are the Home Secretary.

How many more people have to die in the Channel before this route is stopped?

People can argue politics all day long.

Today there are three families facing the reality that their loved ones are never coming home.

This cannot continue.

[The Nowhere Photographer @thenowherephoto]

What kind of parent does this to their child?

This footage was filmed yesterday.

Today, three people died trying to cross the Channel.

One of them was a child.

And this is what was happening just 24 hours earlier.

Children being lifted onto these boats and pushed out to sea.

Look at them.

They are children.

They do not understand the weather, the waves, the overcrowding, the engine failures or how quickly the Channel can kill.

They trust the adults putting them onboard.

Then today, a child died.

How many more children have to be put on these boats?

How many more have to die before somebody finally says ENOUGH?

[Charlie Walsham @CharlieWalsham_]

As someone who works for the BBC and knows how absurdly difficult it can be to get pieces commissioned for the website - the hoops, the meetings, the endless process - it’s genuinely staggering that something like this sails through.

For starters, it isn’t news. Yet there it is on the BBC News website, complete with twaddle about how the way a woman does - or doesn’t do - her nails can apparently be linked to white supremacy.

I was blissfully unaware of the supposed politicisation of nail polish, and I’m sure most people were. But by reporting claims like this, the BBC doesn’t simply observe a debate - it helps create one. It amplifies a narrative and gives prominence to voices that seem determined to detect white supremacy in the most mundane aspects of everyday life.

There’s something deeply unhealthy about that. Imagine the BBC publishing an article suggesting some equally trivial cultural habit was evidence of a “black supremacist mindset”. You can’t really imagine it, because it would never happen. Yet the nation’s broadcaster apparently has no difficulty amplifying extraordinary claims about white supremacy.

This is the sort of thing that makes me despair about the BBC. I’ve criticised it for years for being captured by progressive ideology, identity politics and gender woo-woo. Every so often I start to wonder whether things might finally be improving.

Then an article like this appears and disabuses me of that notion pretty quickly.

If anything, the problem seems to be getting worse.

“How the bare nails trend became a class issue” https://t.co/PZyzuUPvsT

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@lltbr123 @ArchRose90 Tories were in power when all this happened

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@SamaHoole NHS has told me to avoid butter in order to lower my cholesterol. I’m ignoring this

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@catmaclaggan @ripx4nutmeg No it doesn’t, stop trying to victim-blame

[ripx4nutmeg @ripx4nutmeg]

A single woman tells Mumsnet that she shares a loft with her next-door neighbour.

Without any consultation, her neighbour's house was converted into an HMO and five or six migrant men - on rotation - have moved in.

Crime has soared and she now can't even insure her own home.

[Lynne Pinches @PinchesLynne]

@libsoftiktok @RutgersU When inclusivity is deemed more important than the safety of women then society is lost

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@MetaFatigue @PositivFuturist How did you work that one out?!

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@HuddsPrsrvtnSoc Somalis are slim but don’t let that interfere with your misogyny

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@Fludded @OldRoberts953 @ChristianCawley Good point. You could use any number of stand-ins too, if they sounded similar…

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@OldRoberts953 Aren’t ’white tears’ as valuable as other tears then 🙄