Felicity Colville

Interested in: Teaching, History, Post 16, Corrie Spoilers, training Wisteria, haphazard capitalisation.

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

It's not just the exploitation of a tragedy.

JD Vance's picture of Britain - where migrants have led to a crime surge - is the opposite of the truth.

https://t.co/y5El5FUj7v

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Britain has gotten poorer over the last decade. Brexit didn't work.

Disposable income has fallen more than in other European countries and certainly more than in the US.

They cut their nose off despite their economic face, a populist, nationalist, emotional decision, and now they're stuck because you can't get the same deal with the EU you once had.

People are done with both parties and they want to throw the bums out.

Now Farage is rising. I've met him and think he’s a con.

Go read his economic proposals — some of them are hate-based, some are tribally based.

Farage's broader economic proposals are populist noise that will make the country weaker and hurt the very people supporting him.

[Felicity Colville @TheRealMissRead]

@underxmastree No

[Felicity Colville @TheRealMissRead]

@suttontrust @restisents For anyone worrying about this and looking for a way to push back a bit one fantastic idea would be to read and share this story of bravery and talent and, if you can, donate https://t.co/Yq1zvzhz3u

[Thomas Gorton @AngstromHoot]

Attenborough has no respect for crabs. Always gives them ridiculous music. They are jesters to him

[David Wolfson @DXW_KC]

My local Jewish nursery has stab-vested guards, constant CCTV and thick iron fencing.
But perhaps they should just get the children to sing ‘The wheels on the bus condemn Israeli government policy …’?

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

One thing on the pro-Palestine marches. If you accept they directly intimidate the Jewish community (which they do) then you must also acknowledge the Unite the Kingdom rallies have precisely the same effect on Muslim and other minority communities. We ban both, or neither.

[Sayeeda Warsi @SayeedaWarsi]

This must stop
Asking all Jews to condemn the killing in Gaza & other violence committed by Jews is racism
Asking Muslims to condemn any Muslim group or individual engaged in violence is racism
This collective responsibility on all sides is wrong& must🛑 https://t.co/Xl9L8KaG6E

[SHANE REACTION @imshanereaction]

The only Michael Jackson movie I want to see is the one that recreates the day he and Martine McCutcheon had their picture taken together

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

By sheer coincidence, it was my turn to do Thought For The Day at TTA this morning, so I chose to talk about the horrific attack in Golders Green yesterday, and what it means to be a Jew in 2026 Britain.

Please give it a few minutes of your time if you can.

[Felicity Colville @TheRealMissRead]

@Andy_Coates @gerrylynch You are great at merry local traditions like tolerating drunk hostesses at christmas parties. Apparently….

[Kate Degerdon @KDegerdon30481]

Viviane posts these updates regularly. If you're not already following her, might be worth considering? Then repost - astonishing how many ppl challenge me to 'tell me one thing Labour's achieved since it came to power'.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Britain is 6% Muslim. Germany 5%. France 10%. Sweden 9%. Belgium 7%.
At this rate of Islamic conquest, Europe will be majority Muslim sometime around the year 2847. I’d pencil in some mild concern for around 2600 and see how things look then.

Now. The refugees. Since someone asked who’s paying for all this. Let’s follow the money back a bit further.
America invaded Afghanistan, spent 20 years there achieving absolutely nothing, then left in such breathtaking chaos that people were literally hanging off aircraft. It then invaded Iraq over weapons that turned out not to exist, killed somewhere between 150,000 and a million people, and converted a functioning country into a sectarian hellscape. This is before we even get to the drones over Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan.

The people washing up on European shores are, in very large part, the direct human wreckage of American foreign policy. America created the disaster. Europe is housing the survivors. And America is on the internet asking why Europe keeps letting people in. Remarkable cheek, really.

As for eliminating indigenous culture: the United States actually eliminated its indigenous people. Deliberately. With rifles and government paperwork. Europe took in Syrian doctors. These are not comparable situations, and pretending they are requires a truly heroic indifference to history.
The culture is fine. France still has the cheese. The Louvre is still there. Bach is still there. Nothing has been eliminated except, apparently, the ability to read a percentage.

[Edward Luce @EdwardGLuce]

World is changing. British and Irish leaders far more sympathetic to each other than the US president. When in history was that ever the case?

[Jack Aspinall @jackaspi]

This is a good framework, and seems applicable to other industries. Too often Britain only focuses on Rung 3 - the high value, high tech firms - forgetting that they rely on secure supply.

Satellite firms rely on launch capability/access.
Robotics firms rely on electronics and structural supply chains.
AI relies on compute.

We can't compete in the high-end, high margin industries without securing the low margin base.

[NPRG @CptHastings1916]

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England

[Ben Stiller @BenStiller]

Hey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip. We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie.

[Andrew Old @oldandrewuk]

In normal weather, it is entirely healthy for children to go a few hours without drinking water. This was once understood as obvious.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe has declared that British people owe a "great vote of thanks and gratitude to Elon Musk."

The register of MPs' interests reveal Lowe has been paid tens of thousands of dollars by Musk for posting on this site. You can see for yourself here:
https://t.co/qdmieXu4HY

[steve richards @steverichards14]

Powerful and much needed framing from Andy Burnham in the Guardian..should be repeated every day by ministers or they will find they are blamed for ‘broken Britain’:
“If the question at the centre of British politics is “who broke Britain?”, let’s be clear and unequivocal. The four horsemen of Britain’s apocalypse are deindustrialisation, privatisation, austerity and Brexit.
In my time in politics, there has been a tendency for too many in Labour to accept too much of the framing of the right, but we must firmly reject its narrative and call it out in no uncertain terms. Figures on the British right talk of taking back control, but people can see that they are the ones who gave it away.”