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[Paddy Power @paddypower]

There’s a growing Mexican community in Scotland.

Ahead of the game against England, we paid some of them a visit…

18+ GambleAware

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Fascinating.

Messi earns around $1.5 million *per week* from football + football-related commercial deals.

Who do you think builds the stadiums he plays in? Makes the kits he sells? Mans the cameras which broadcast his "product" to the world? Cleans the dressing room he changes in? Makes the food supporters buy in the stadium? Brews the beer fans buy in the stadium? Sells the beer fans buy in the stadium? Cuts the grass he plays on? Makes the boots he wears and the millions of replica boots he sells?

All of these people's labour goes into making him $1.5 million a week.

What do you think the ratio of his weekly earnings is to those people? He earns around $80 million a year from football alone which is approximately 5 times the average top 500 US CEO so by your logic he is FAR more "exploitative" than they are.

The fact that you don't understand this proves my original point perfectly. Thank you for your help.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

This is because the anti-capitalist left is not actually against people being crazy rich. They're against certain types of people being crazy rich.

Artists and athletes make sense to them because they've played music and sports and because their success can be explained by "luck" and "talent". Messi's wealth is not offensive to them because they understand Messi is much better at football than they are.

But when it comes to business, the anti-capitalist leftist has no framework for understanding why Jeff Bezos might be super rich since 99% of them have never ever created a product, business or service that was of value to other people. They've never taken entrepreneurial risk. They've never employed people and felt the burden of responsibility that comes with that. They've never pick up a business and given it a play in the way they've picked up a ball or a guitar.

They *literally* don't understand wealth creation. They think there is a fixed amount of money and the only thing a business does is split it unfairly.

It's why they rage at Elon and other successful business leaders. Because they genuinely don't understand why they're wealthy.

Also, and this is just as important, athletes and artists are disproportionately young, attractive, "diverse", left wing etc. Business leaders are "evil" middle aged white men whose success offends the average anti-capitalist leftist because they don't understand a) what it is they do and b) that Elon Musk has the same talent advantage on them as Messi does, it's just harder to measure.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

This astonishing story by the Spectator’s @johngconnolly should be seen as a national scandal. After the George Floyd protests, the Treasury – yes, the *Treasury* - ditched its numerical reasoning test for prospective employees because it created an adverse impact on candidate diversity. Utterly staggering.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

125,000 years ago, the Thames was full of hippos.

2,000 years ago, the Romans grew grapes on the Scottish border.

Today, British councils force people to rip out their aircon because of "unprecedented climate change".

https://t.co/DhOjKIDFxN

[BoxingMMAHub @Annjoy_O]

The best first round in boxing history wasn't a match it was 3 minutes of pure violence. 🥊

Hagler ate bombs that would've slept anyone else just to drag Hearns into an absolute bloodb*th

They survived the opening exchange, but the real nightmare had just begun. Watch below 👇
#boxing #boxinghistory

[Patriotic 🇬🇧 Nation @HoodedClaw1974]

Why do feminists try and argue with Jordan Peterson?

It never ends well for them.🤣🤣

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

“I will do whatever it takes to keep children safe”.

As a grooming survivor, I only have one thing to say to Keir Starmer:

How dare you pretend to care about us when you’ve silenced, gaslit, demonised, and exploited us at every turn.

How dare you.

[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.

[Dr Philip Kiszely @KiszelyPhilip]

We’re at the stage now where beheadings are regrettable, but tweets are unforgivable.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Here’s the problem. The liberal political class wants us to treat atrocities like Belfast as single, random, isolated incidents. “Yes, it’s horrific, but don’t overreact,” they say. “Let the police do their job. Justice will be delivered. Let’s remain united,” and so on.

But the public can see that such incidents *aren’t* random or isolated. They are, in fact, all the consequence of massive state failure in the area of asylum and immigration. All roads lead back there.

That’s why people are angry.. They are sick of the platitudes that get trotted out after each fresh incident. They don’t want to hear them anymore. They know that the decisions of establishment politicians have brought us to this current pass, and they don’t trust those same politicians to fix things, especially when some of them refuse to even recognise that the public’s anger is justified.

There has been a huge vibe shift in recent years. Imagine - God forbid - there were another 7/7. Does anyone think the public response would be anything like as restrained as it was then? We are in really dangerous territory.

The public don’t want flowers and candles and “Don’t let them divide us.” They want someone who says, “I recognise that the state has failed abjectly. We have allowed far too many people to settle in the country without knowing who they truly are. It has disrupted your communities. Your anger is justified. And I will do everything in my power to put things right.”

Any politician unwilling to articulate that message, fully and sincerely, is effectively sanctioning more years of growing social disharmony and discord. Things cannot heal until those in power recognise the extent of the problem and what it will take to fix it. And, on both counts, most of them don’t.

That’s why the next few years are going to be very, very turbulent.

[Benedict Spence @BenedictSpence]

What terrifies me about this attempted beheading is the potential backlash against peaceful beheaders.

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

Two days after Henry died Hampshire Police secretly recorded Digwa in a police van speaking Punjabi to his brother. Digwa admitted stabbing Henry. Discussed claiming self defence. Made zero mention of racial abuse. Not one word.

Hampshire Police had that tape.

They knew Digwa was lying about the racist attack. They had the evidence. They had his own words and then tried to smear Henry as the aggressor anyway.

Three days after his death their statement read “it was reported two men had been assaulted by an unknown man.” Henry was the unknown man. The boy bleeding out on the street. They flipped it.

Family complained. Statement changed. Then police told the family their NEXT update would again infer Henry was the initial aggressor. His family had to fight them a second time. While grieving their murdered son.

Then during the trial Hampshire tried to issue a statement telling the public to stop talking about it online. Calling it disinformation. The CPS had to step in. Told them they were about to collapse their own murder case.

This is the force that handcuffed a dying boy. Missed the murder weapon twice. Had a secret tape proving the killer lied. And still tried to bury Henry's name.

That's not incompetence. That's a machine protecting itself. At the expense of a dead boy's reputation and three officers are still on active duty. Not suspended. Treated as witnesses. To their own actions.

Hampshire Police didn't just fail Henry on that street. They kept failing him for six months after he died.

- @Banksycat

[Ami Kozak @amiKozak]

Would be a nightmare having this Dad in your class

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Starmer on Henry Nowak: "Don't exploit this for politics"

Starmer on George Floyd:

[Skint Eastwood @Skint_Eastwood1]

🚨 Piers Morgan Exposes Hypocrisy of UK Politicians Over Taking the Knee for George Floyd But Not Henry Nowak

In a discussion with Simon Jordan, Piers Morgan called out UK politicians who rushed to take the knee for American George Floyd but haven’t done the same over the tragic case of British teenager Henry Nowak.

“We’re seeing a little bit now in the news with this young boy Henry Novak who got murdered.

When it was George Floyd in America, we had British politicians taking the knee over George Floyd.

But here you have a very, very similar situation where due to the behavior of appalling police work, we’ll never know whether they could have helped save this boy’s life, but they went out of their way not to, and it was a disgraceful stain on the British police and on our country.

But I haven’t seen yet any politicians take the knee for Henry Novak.

Why would you do it for something that happened in America but you won’t do for something that happened on our own doorstep?”

The selective outrage says it all. Virtue signalling seems reserved for narratives that fit, not for uncomfortable tragedies demanding real answers here at home.

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

From my Daily Mail article today

[The Footy Section @FTBLsection]

Ruud Gullit: "If winning the Champions League feels tough today, imagine how it was in my era. Only the actual national champions could enter, it wasn't even a yearly tournament for most teams.

"The title 'Champions League' has lost its true meaning: now even the fourth-place team qualifies.

"Back then, lifting the trophy was a mission that took two seasons: first win your league, then face Europe's finest straight away.

"No group stages. No safety net. One mistake and you were out.

"You could meet a giant in the very first round… and a single loss ended everything."

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

If you listened to the British media today, you'd think Henry Nowak was killed by Nigel Farage's comments.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Britain had a moment of silence for George Floyd. Our politicians kneeled en masse to show their outrage at his killing. "I can't breathe" became a slogan.

George Floyd died on the other side of the world. He wasn't British.

Henry Nowak *was* British and his treatment by the police was shocking and negligent in the extreme. Yet there is no minute of silence. There is no coordinated public campaign. There is no kneeling at sporting events.

And we all know why.

During the summer of BLM, some people said "All Lives Matter". This was treated as the highest form of racism and anyone who said this was immediately cancelled. Why? Because the people in charge don't actually think all lives matter in the same way.

They have created a racial hierarchy of victimhood where a career criminal who died through mistreatment by police in a foreign country with 0 evidence of racism like George Floyd is automatically sanctified because of the colour of his skin.

And Henry Nowak, a British man, one of ours, is automatically dismissed and ignored because of the colour of his.

This is the ugly fruit of so-called "anti-racism", an obsession with race that has created a two-tier society which treats people differently because of the colour of their skin.

This needs to stop.