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[YouGov @YouGov]

How strong is county identity in England?

Cornwall: 53% have very strong attachment
Cumbria: 44%
Northumberland: 42%
Devon: 42%
Tyne and Wear: 41%
North Yorkshire: 41%
Merseyside: 38%
Dorset: 38%
West Yorkshire: 37%
South Yorkshire: 36%
Bristol: 36%
Norfolk: 36%

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Here's what the world looked like a century ago - thread 🧵

1. Kids on the streets of England in 1901

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

The chart I can't quite get out of my head is this one👇
Population-adjusted net migration since 1855(!)
We've NEVER seen net migration flows like this before.
Whether you put it down to post-Brexit migration rules, post-Covid shifts or something else, it's an ENORMOUS shift...

[BBC Merseyside @bbcmerseyside]

Liverpool-born John Tinniswood is officially the world’s oldest man at 111 years and 223 days according to @GWR The previous title holder died in Venezuela on Tuesday aged 114.John who lives at The Hollies rest home in #Southport attributes his longevity to his Friday chippy tea!

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

There is something deeply upsetting about seeing photographic evidence of the most depraved male violence inflicted against women - captured by men, of course - being celebrated with a photojournalism award.

https://t.co/9JZJFs69iW

[Iconic Settings @IconicSettings]

A journey into Ireland's architectural and natural landmarks ☘️
A thread 🧵

[Fred Sculthorp @skulthorp]

For @unherd I went in search of where London ends and found Ulez vandals, reactionary home counties dads, lost international students, dystopic millenials and a quiet sense of upheaval in the city's shire facing suburbs

https://t.co/61jQm2j2KX

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The UK is drifting, unhappy, losing faith in previously respected institutions (like the police), buffeted by extremists (often allowed to run amok), dismayed by decline, angry at the inability of the political class to do anything about it, despairing that the Westminster politico/media bubble pursues an agenda, issues and priorities (look at the obsession with Lee Anderson) which are not most people’s — and had enough of being lectured to by a disconnected, de haut en bas chattering class. Yet we have a Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition incapable of speaking up for the moderate majority, who still have pride in their country and are desperate for strong leadership and guidance through the current morass — plus some hope/sign things will get better — all within the bounds of traditional British tolerance and fair play. This vacuum is dangerous.

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

Motorway in Britain: “Go 40mph for a bit”

You: “Why? What’s happened?”

Motorway: “Absolutely nothing”

[Louise Perry @Louise_m_perry]

the feeling that something big is coming – politically – is like a roaring in my ears getting louder and louder. The gov has lost the plot. Labour will be worse. We have pre-revolutionary material conditions, in particular the fact that incoming young elite are downwardly mobile.

[Dr Rakib Ehsan @rakibehsan]

Certain parts of the world are hotbeds of sex-based persecution and violently patriarchal cultural practices.

The UK's asylum system should be prioritising women & girls in those areas - not allowing itself to be overrun by illegal single-male migrants originating from them.

[Louise Perry @Louise_m_perry]

The fact that this convicted sex offender was wandering around in the UK and attacking little children was a policy decision. None of this is inevitable. We could be governed differently.

https://t.co/LtFJhMmKWN

[Jonathan Calvert @JCalvertST]

Today a @sundaytimes Insight team undercover investigation with @arbuthnott reveals the backdoor routes used by Britain’s cash-strapped universities to bring in high fee-paying overseas students on lower grades. Read about it here:

https://t.co/gUIcw7TJkS

[Callum Mason @CallumCMason]

Sometimes it feels like politicians think that difficulty saving a deposit is essentially the only thing stopping young people buying homes rather than the fact that many simply do not earn anywhere near the vast sums required to get a mortgage.

Tweaks like this won’t fix that.

[The Magic Mod @TaylorMod]

This may be the best cover I’ve ever seen in my life wow what a voice 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

The world's most beautiful towns and cities at Christmas - a thread 🧵

1. Dresden, Germany 🇩🇪

[Jordan Tyldesley @PippyBing]

Thick, sheltered, privileged, snobby, self-loathing, pretend leftwingers in our media and politics are going to create a situation that is hell for everyone.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

It's amazing that the people who claim they're deeply concerned about the "rise of the far right" are doing everything, step by step, to push normal people away from the centre and towards the extremes by consistently ignoring their legitimate concerns over decades.

It's equally amazing that the people who spent years calling everyone a Nazi can't recognise that they have taken sides with an anti-Semitic, Nazi-inspired terrorist organisation that has just committed the biggest pogrom since the Holocaust.

I'm starting to think they don't know what any of these words mean...

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Imagine you're a British Jew. You've just witnessed the worst atrocities against Jews since World War Two. And then a wave of anti-Semitic & pro-Hamas chants on Britain's streets. And now your national leaders fall over themselves to warn the country about "Islamophobia".

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

The difference between having vaccines and not having vaccines is just so stark.