Ben Cobley @bencobley Twitter profile

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Ben Cobley

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3 years

From what I'm seeing, it seems that everyone in the world should be living in Britain because nowhere else is safe, yet simultaneously we're the most awful, barbaric, racist country in the world.

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7 months

Sometimes soldiers are pretty good at washing away bullshit.

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3 years

The news no longer feels like the news anymore. It feels like a collection of things that people who run media organisations want us to hear.

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7 months

Islam is starting to appear increasingly as a public religion in the United Kingdom, even before an Islamophobia law. I don't recall seeing religious tracts of other faiths published by public bodies in this way.

David Algonquin

@surplustakes

7 months

King's Cross main concourse this morning:

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2 years

It's now nearly *six years* since the Brexit vote and our elites still can't accept that the plebs dared to vote the wrong way.

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5 years

"the saddest day in the entire history of the UK," so sadder than the first day of the Somme Offensive, sadder than being left alone to fight the Nazis in 1940. It's remarkable how these people assign themselves such towering knowledge while being so terribly ignorant.

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4 years

A week of media and activist bedlam ends up with us finding that there “might have been a minor breach" of the regulations, in return for which someone may have been told to go home. What a huge bloody waste of time and effort.

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6 months

'How did Hamas win the support of the European transgender movement?' would make a great question in political science.

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Ben Cobley

@bencobley

4 years

Today feels like the culmination of four and a half years of Remain Twitter: the apotheosis of self-righteous synthetic outrage, the absolute hatred and obsession with securing the kill; it's like a tribe of ivory hunters driven mad in the Belgian Congo.

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3 years

The Diversity and Inclusion Officer is the political commissar of our times: an alternative centre of authority within our institutions, threatening management and employees for non-compliance with its weird, often arbitrary codes.

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3 years

From the adverts going around at the moment, I think an outsider might think that the UK is ethnically: ~ 70% black and mixed race, 20% white, 10% South Asian and 0% East Asian and everything else. The drive towards apparent 'racial justice' is a very strange phenomenon.

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3 months

'Illegal' migration redefined as 'irregular' - a long-held demand of pro-migration activists.

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@ukhomeoffice

3 months

Today Home Secretary @YvetteCooperMP set out what we are doing to boost our border security and deliver a properly managed asylum system.

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Ben Cobley

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4 years

The attacks on #VEDay75 commemorations are part of a wider effort to erase the 'us' - the existence of a people and a country that has a distinctive identity + a positive role and memory of its own. It's no coincidence the attackers all appear to be progressive ultra-Remainers.

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5 years

Plenty of others have said it already, but this article is horrific. It's like an anti-Semitic tract directed at British Indians, explaining how they are on the oppressors' side of social justice wars - privileged, allied to Tories, against the true Volk.

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Ben Cobley

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3 years

Progressives tend to believe that progress happens by abolishing anything that gives meaning to our lives: the family, the nation, the Royal Family, our institutions, customs and manners, our political system. Basically they want to get rid of us as we are.

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Ben Cobley

@bencobley

6 years

Social media has proved to me beyond all doubt that educated people are just as vulnerable to bullshit and deception as less educated - maybe even more so.

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@bencobley

4 years

This will take 11 minutes of your time. If you have that to spare, do watch. via @YouTube

Liberating Bergen Belsen | April 1945

In April 1945, two members of the 1 S.A.S. Regiment were conducting a routine patrol behind enemy lines when they stumbled across something that would haunt ...

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Ben Cobley

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4 years

Just a brief look at American Twitter is enough to tell you where our culture war came from, and where it's going if we're not careful.

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5 years

Confirming what we already knew: that Channel 4 News is now dedicated to issuing instructions and acting as a moral arbiter rather than behaving as a news provider.

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4 years

On Nationalism: Scottish nationalism: great. Irish nationalism: wonderful, romantic. Welsh nationalism: to be encouraged. EU nationalism: great (but don't mention it). French nationalism: yep, fine. English nationalism: terrible, evil. British nationalism: doesn't exist anymore.

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Ben Cobley

@bencobley

5 years

Crikey. The national broadcaster is using the nation's money to educate its children that the nation, its people and culture are worthless. And this at a time when its top people admit it's facing a crisis. It seems to have a death wish.

CBBC

@cbbc

5 years

"British things… turns out there’s hardly any.” @MrNishKumar and @HHTV_ are spilling the tea on British stuff in #HorribleHistories #Brexit special ☕️ Streaming now on @BBCiPlayer 👉 @RealMatBaynton

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4 months

The extent to which Tory centrists don't understand what just happened is pretty remarkable. Willful blindness.

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Ben Cobley

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4 years

Credit to Farage for highlighting how our taxes are being used to subsidise the multi-billion dollar people-trafficking industry and illegal immigration en masse. Also shines a light on our mainstream media, which appears unable to cover it except as a good-news story.

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Ben Cobley

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6 months

This style of politics is why I could never vote Labour nowadays. It's claiming an opposing politician is *dangerous* and must be stopped (thereby effectively justifying vigilante action against them). Highly dishonest and irresponsible. And this from a Labour 'centrist'.

Wes Streeting MP

@wesstreeting

6 months

A win for Susan Hall and the Conservatives is a win for racists, white supremacists and Islamophobes the world over. Susan Hall’s campaign has been fought from the gutter with dangerous and divisive politics. London, we cannot let her win. Vote Sadiq.

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Ben Cobley

@bencobley

3 years

The US Government is openly opposing trial by jury, a core principle of free societies.

The Hill

@thehill

3 years

. @VP Harris: "The verdict really speaks for itself. As many of you know, I spent a majority of my career working to make the justice system more equitable, and clearly there is a lot more work to do."

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8 months

David Amess' successor as an MP on visiting a mosque to express sympathy on the Gaza situation:

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@bencobley

3 months

West Midlands Police policing Birmingham like they were fearful 'occupational authorities' in Iraq or Afghanistan, relying on local leaders to keep the peace on their behalf - and thereby giving them impunity to impose their own rule.

Sky News

@SkyNews

3 months

West Midlands Police discuss disorder that kicked off after misinformation spread online. The Sky News crew covering the unrest in Birmingham were followed by a man holding a knife and wearing a balaclava after broadcasting live.

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4 years

It's very gracious of the EU to offer Britain 18% of its own fishing waters.

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Ben Cobley

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9 months

Islamist intimidation works. In this case they have succeeded in their aims and issued a powerful warning to anyone who might follow. As if we needed more evidence, we have entered a very dark space for our democracy and society.

F&GGConservatives 🎗️

@Finchleytories

9 months

Statement from Mike Freer MP

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6 years

"Mr Lammy has become the very thing he claims to oppose: a shrill, unreasoned, over-emotional propagator of loathing towards certain sections of the population."

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2 months

I think we're going to start using the phrase 'the regime' much more regularly. It expresses the uniformity between state, party, broadcast media and other important non-state institutions that we can see now - and that has been seen in other places where the term applies.

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@bencobley

9 months

This was an Islamist assassination of a British politician on British soil, quickly consigned to the memory hole (unlike the killing of Jo Cox).

Tony Dowson

@TonyDowson5

9 months

"Horrified daughter of murdered MP David Amess suing police for failing to stop terrorist killer "Ali Harbi Ali had been referred to the Home Office’s deradicalisation scheme Prevent 7 years earlier but fooled officials into believing he was not a danger"

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3 years

I think the EU has basically become a religion. It's a place of refuge, faith and ultimate redemption, a place where we can overcome our doubts and the never-ending difficulties of politics. The EU relieves us of these heavy burdens, takes away our problems and responsibilities.

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Ben Cobley

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2 months

Blair and New Labour were much more sensitive to what people were really like - and Blair himself clearly liked people. There is a coldness to the Starmer administration that stands in quite stark contrast to that. They feel like they know best, and that's the end of it.

Barrister's Horse

@BarristersHorse

2 months

I mean, it wasn't my thing back in the day, but Cool Britannia, Love Actually & that whole vibe represented the image Blair wanted to portray. Now we've got: 'shut tf up, or it's gulag for you racist proles' I'm not sure govt. advisors have got it right this time? 😳

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Ben Cobley

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5 years

The Queen's speech last night shows us what it means to have a monarch rather than a President. You have that sense of continuity and stability; of family as a bedrock of community, society and the nation.

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Ben Cobley

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3 years

Theory: the effect of Remain campaigning over Brexit has been disastrous for the EU and for France especially - helping to confer a vastly inflated sense of their own righteousness and power, and of the UK's wrongness and impotence.

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Ben Cobley

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1 year

Braverman's article is pretty mild on the facts. The reason it has provoked such wild opposition is that she is criticising an organising principle for many of our institutions, the Labour Party especially. Favouritism by identity. The system of diversity. Uniting by division.

Sadiq Khan

@SadiqKhan

1 year

The Home Sec’s article in The Times is inaccurate, inflammatory & irresponsible. At a time when we should be seeking to unite communities - she is dividing them. The Home Sec should support the police to keep everyone safe at this delicate time, not make their job harder.

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4 years

The EU every day for the past week...

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3 months

Islamism in the West seems to have passed into a new phase since the 7/10 Hamas attack on Israel: notably more assertive, confrontational, confident and also more successful - routinely making the authorities and media bend to their will.

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Ben Cobley

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5 years

There seems to be a sharp distinction in how people see democracy. Some see it as the means by which they win; ergo, any obstruction of them winning is obstructing democracy. Then there is the old-fashioned view: that it's a way of deciding who wins, in which the winner wins.

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4 months

It seems like the favoured causes at Glastonbury this year are: 1) organised crime; and 2) anti-semitic mass murder. I guess that just about sums up where we are.

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3 months

The liberal-left establishment has been prostrating itself before these thugs, their family and 'community' over the past few days, rather than for the policewomen brutally attacked by them. They are very much part of the problem, falling into the same hole over and over again.

ariaclast

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3 months

You can still say the copper shouldn’t have kicked him in the head. What you can’t say is it wasn’t deserved.

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3 years

For me, Brexit was largely a revolt against distant, unaccountable rule and the technocratic mindset. The #BrexitIsntWorking tag shows this instrumental mindset applied to Brexit itself. After five years, these people still don't have a clue what it was all about.

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3 months

It is noticeable how the institutions of state are responding immediately and with full commitment to government instructions. Very different to what happened during the previous 14 years, with ministers reduced to being mere commentators.

Liz Kershaw

@LizKershawDJ

3 months

Comment by a police officer for 31 years: "I constantly saw offenders get lenient sentences for far more serious crimes. Do politicians now control the judiciary and the police? This is the road to a broken British constitution and a totalitarian state"

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1 year

I fear that Jew-hate, and its accompanying West-hate, will be beyond the capacities of law enforcement agencies to counter. Hate crime legislation was not designed for this. It's designed for individuals saying hurty words, not mass movements prepared to engage in violence.

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1 year

The Islamists are showing that it's not just about defeating Israel, nor intimidating Jews. It's about intimidating all of us, unless we submit to their dictates. It's domination they seek, not just in the Middle East but here.

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6 years

“The UK must promise never to tax former EU officials based here – such as Peter Mandelson or Neil Kinnock – on their pensions, or tax any current ones on their salaries. The EU and its employees are immune to our tax laws. (Article 104)”

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4 years

Will the Remain campaign ever end, I wonder? It's been five years now and they're still pumping it out, day upon day, hour upon hour, minute by minute.

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3 years

Let's fight hate by spewing bile against anyone we disagree with.

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3 months

Passive voice again - 'being hit by' - often a giveaway that they're trying to play something down.

BBC Bristol

@BBCBristol

3 months

A vehicle was used to ram the entrance of defence technology firm Elbit Systems in Patchway shortly before 4am. During the incident, two officers were assaulted with a sledgehammer. Details here ➡️

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Ben Cobley

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3 years

Imagine moving to another country, being educated there, working there in a highly-paid, high-status job while also spending time on social media slagging its people off for being inferior. I can't imagine doing that. Yet it's normal here and is even embraced by progressives.

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Ben Cobley

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3 years

I'm the Queen. I do what I want.

ABC News

@ABC

3 years

Queen Elizabeth II insisted on cutting a cake using a ceremonial sword at an event on the sidelines of the G7 summit. When told there was a knife available instead, the monarch replied, “I know there is! This is something that is more unusual.”

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Ben Cobley

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3 years

I wrote a piece about how Gareth Southgate's 'Dear England' letter wasn't so great as *those who have the correct opinions* have been saying - and how 'taking the knee' isn't straight moral righteousness like they have been making out.

No, Gareth Southgate, ‘taking the knee’ is not a protest against injustice

Fans know exactly why they are booing. They do not want football to submit to racial ideologues.

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Ben Cobley

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4 years

The philosopher George Santayana said: “England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humours.” I think it’s quite clear that all of these things are currently at risk - and indeed have partly disappeared already.

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Ben Cobley

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4 years

I find Remainerism one of the most fascinating phenomena of our time. I'm tempted to call it a 'condition'. It's a very public abandoning of affiliation to the nation and of mutual obligation to it, expressed in the name of that nation and its people.

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2 years

The truth on the NI Protocol is of course that the EU, Irish and Remainers in Parliament had pushed the Government into a corner: either agree to something like that or have no meaningful Brexit. To claim the consequences have nothing to do with them is somewhat dishonest.

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1 year

The comforting illusion that all the bad things happening in the world were really caused by Suella Braverman and Douglas Murray

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4 years

We now go from the whole of football unquestioningly backing Black Lives Matter to them all saying White Lives Matter is unacceptable. I'm guessing it is some far right nutcases doing the banner, however our unthinking powers-that-be have rather proved their point now.

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6 months

'This coward had been a member of a proscribed terrorist group and murdered people, he confessed to throwing grenades at people in public places in Libya, yet he was let into the UK and allowed to remain here.'

Families of three men killed in Reading attack react to court ruling

Khairi Saadallah shouted 'Allahu akhbar' as he fatally stabbed friends James Furlong, Dr David Wails and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, and injured three others in a park in Reading in June 2020.

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4 years

I went to visit a couple of elderly friends this morning. I told them this would have to be my last visit until this Covid thing is over, since they are so much at risk. Their response, without saying it explicitly, was, 'We'd rather die than not have people visiting'.

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3 months

Moments of unmitigated terror, which our authorities now routinely tell us are "not currently being treated as terror-related."

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2 years

Hopefully they will now realise how ridiculous they are being.

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2 years

WATCH: England soccer team takes the knee for Black Lives Matter while the USA remains standing moments before kickoff

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10 months

It's like a total low-level civil war we're experiencing, but with only one side fighting.

habibi

@habibi_uk

10 months

Zara has nothing to do with the conflict between Israel and Hamas. But let's shut it down in Leicester today anyway because we are insane haters. Note notorious Islamist troublemaker Majid Freeman in his Cage cap. Why are people allowed to impose their vile hatred this way?

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6 years

Farage could hardly have timed or orchestrated his return better. Set against an exhausted and in parts unhinged political establishment, he looks fresh and fun.

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6 years

I think having big-name scientists like Richard Dawkins and Brian Cox on Twitter has been one of the most illuminating things about the platform. We can see how they really feel and think, especially how they see their authority breaking well beyond the bounds of their science.

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6 years

I feel uncomfortable about Greta Thunberg. That she looks so young makes her appear beyond criticism. People having a pop at her look graceless, even nasty, but to be in the public sphere means you have to be open to criticism and worse.

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3 years

I'm rather uncomfortable with the way tweets like this are written using the first person 'I', yet are obviously written by his PR agency (c.f. "I want to progress" is classic American technocratic PR-speak).

Marcus Rashford

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3 years

Just heard @spectator are planning to run a story on me tomorrow about how I have benefitted commercially in the last 18 months…To clarify, I don’t need to partner with brands. I partner because I want to progress the work I do off the pitch and…(1)

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6 years

I love Brexit. Just love it. It's done a big dump on the kitchen table of those who oversee our society, saying, 'What about us?' That is precisely what should happen in a democratic society.

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4 years

I am among those who have signed this open letter organised by @Fox_Claire . 'Racial division is being sown in the name of anti-racism' via @spectator

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2 years

No doubt the people I follow are a particular bunch, but nevertheless it's striking how much support I'm seeing for @KemiBadenoch - from Tories and non-Tories alike. I've barely seen an endorsement of anyone else.

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3 years

The desperation to be offended is really a desperation to attack, to have a reason to attack.

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1 year

We are edging closer to a point at which national citizenship will be essentially meaningless, conferring no privileges on the citizen within the space of the nation.

Sky News

@SkyNews

1 year

London Mayor Sadiq Khan 'fully supports' Labour's consideration for European citizens with secure status in the UK to be able to vote in the general election and 'be active citizens'. Read more👉 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

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4 years

We all know the BBC is Remainer-central, yet no one in there seems to know or care about what actually happens in the EU. To find out, we have to go elsewhere, notably (for me) @BrunoBrussels , @nickgutteridge , the @spectator and @unherd .

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6 months

The idea of 'representation' for favoured identity groups, embraced by the Civil Service, is a political idea. And it has made the Civil Service into a political battleground, in conflict with democratic representation. I think its top dogs are in full denial about all this.

Steven Edginton

@StevenEdginton

6 months

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked docs show Home Office Islamic Network say they aim to recruit Muslim staff and "influence policymakers" to support "Muslim needs". The Islamic Network has recruited 700 Home Office staff so far. Only muslims can become "full members".

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4 years

Is anyone going to ask journalists writing incorrect stories to resign?

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2 months

There is always a 'lurch to the far right' going on, but never one to the far left (something I think we can see all around us).

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5 years

Like many people, I virtually never watch the TV news anymore, virtually never listen to radio news programmes. Such a change from 10-20 years ago. It's like you can smell the agendas at play immediately, so why bother hearing them out?

David Goodhart

@David_Goodhart

5 years

It’s v hard I know, but BBC 10pm feels morale sapping. Has to be bleak, but so much emoting so little explanation. Attempts at uplift twee. Yes to memorial for brave docs/nurses. But isn’t 100 out of 19k rather few? Maybe not, but as with all reports no context, no int comparison

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4 years

Incredibly given the way I used to think and feel, I've started to seriously consider stopping paying the licence fee. I barely watch any TV now and listen to little radio. When I do, I invariably get annoyed by the same politics being shoved in your face or inferred.

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9 months

It really is amazing how we are funding foreign sex offenders to stay in the country, have food & lodgings, and the people who support this then get put on TV to tell us it's our own culture's fault that they then go on to throw toxic substances in the faces of women & children.

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@bencobley

4 years

As Idi Amin said, “There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech.”

Charles M. Blow

@CharlesMBlow

4 years

Once more: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS CANCEL CULTURE. There is free speech. You can say and do as you pls, and others can choose never to deal this you, your company or your products EVER again. The rich and powerful are just upset that the masses can now organize their dissent.

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5 years

That democracy has become 'a right-wing coup' for left-wingers shows how far we have come away from democratic socialism. Now it's undemocratic government, the erosion of the nation and institutionalised free markets that is the default left position. Very sad.

Anna Turley MP

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5 years

Brexit is a right-wing coup. So why would any Labour voter support it?

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4 months

Labour winning big today is not the fault of voters but of the Tories. They treated their voters with contempt, doing the opposite of what they had signalled they would do. You can't betray your people like that and expect them to keep coming back, like a dog sniffing its poo.

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@bencobley

8 months

Every time you think the Tories are mad and bad and dangerous, the Labour Party says 'Hold my beer'.

Angela Eagle DBE

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8 months

Labour will: 🌹 Legislate for a trans-inclusive conversion therapy ban 🌹 Make anti-LGBT+ hate crime an aggravated offence 🌹Modernise Gender Recognition processes 🌹 Appoint an international LGBT+ envoy

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4 months

The sociological justification: Farage *caused* anger to brew up which led to him being attacked. In this sense the attacker was a victim who got a little carried away and didn't carry out his 'protest' intelligently enough.

BBC Newsnight

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4 months

“What happened around Nigel is not an acceptable form of protest, what I can’t pretend is that he hasn’t fed into a culture of anger that ends up manifesting in this kind of aggressive kind of politics.” Former Lab Mayor Marvin Rees reacts to objects being thrown at Nigel Farage.

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@bencobley

8 months

It seems clear Labour is going to institute an Islamic blasphemy law under the guise of 'Islamophobia'. This is from a leading figure in the party: & the party has already embraced the definition. The transactional politics of the Labour coalition probably make this inevitable.

Anneliese Dodds

@AnnelieseDodds

8 months

Why are senior Conservatives finding it so hard to call out Islamophobia? Perhaps because the Conservatives still refuse to adopt the definition used by every other major political party in Britain. To tackle the scourge of Islamophobia, we must name it.

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Ben Cobley

@bencobley

5 years

BBC story headlined ‘Comic Nish Kumar booed off stage at charity bash’ consists almost purely of Kumar’s interpretation of the incident and Radio 1 DJ Greg James supporting him. None of the routine quoted and no one who didn't like the routine mentioned.

Comic Nish Kumar booed off stage at charity bash

A bread roll was thrown at The Mash Report star after his Brexit jokes went down badly.

www.bbc.com

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Ben Cobley

@bencobley

4 years

I was just listening to some Stormzy. I'm thinking we're in real trouble given this stuff is being lauded and promoted by the 'culture industry'. It's pure warfare, no redemption. No love, no music. It's the soundtrack of our young people getting shot and stabbed. Ugliness.

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Ben Cobley

@bencobley

7 years

Just saw a BBC report making a big deal of abusive messages received by Remainer MPs. Hearing them read out sounded like just another day in the life of @KateHoeyMP and other Leave supporters.

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Ben Cobley

@bencobley

5 years

This proposal, if implemented, would mark another stage in the abolition of British citizenship rights within the borders of the United Kingdom. The compact between a nation and its rulers further diluted in meaning and relevance.

Lewis Goodall

@lewis_goodall

5 years

This is radical stuff from Labour: extending the right to vote to 16 and 17 year olds and all those who are resident in Britain, even if they’re not UK citizens. That would be the biggest extension of the franchise since 1928. Millions would be added to the electoral roll.

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Ben Cobley

@bencobley

8 months

Postal votes make it much easier for community leaders to deliver bloc votes for their favoured candidates. At the time they were introduced, I believe they were meant to be for exceptional cases, not a third of the voting public in an urban area.

Michael Crick

@MichaelLCrick

8 months

In Rochdale, Azhar Ali's leaflets for Labour went out in free Royal Mail delivery last night/this morning. I hear there are 24,000 postal voters in Rochdale - a third - much more than normal - & they'll get their ballots on Saturday.

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Ben Cobley

@bencobley

2 months

The Royal College of Nursing recently argued that NHS staff should be allowed to refuse treatment if they decide someone is 'racist' (a common accusation against 'Zionists'). If medical professionals are advocating for discriminatory treatment, likely it's already taking place.

Daily Mail Online

@MailOnline

2 months

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: My Gaza ceasefire vote speeded up my NHS care, says MP Jess Phillips

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Ben Cobley

@bencobley

3 years

Amazing what's happened to Labour. I'm not sure but you do wonder if it's terminal. To not be leading this Government at this moment shows deep, visceral opposition to the party in the country.

Britain Elects

@BritainElects

3 years

Westminster voting intention: CON: 41% (+1) LAB: 30% (-1) LDEM: 13% (-) GRN: 8% (+2) via @IpsosMORI , 30 Jul - 09 Aug Chgs. w/ Jul

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Ben Cobley

@bencobley

4 months

'Dear France, Here's some patronising guff of the sort we've been throwing at our own people for the past eight years and now it's your turn to endure. Best wishes, The Clever People'

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Ben Cobley

@bencobley

7 months

The politicisation of the Civil Service has been one of the big trends of the last 30 years, yet largely unremarked upon.

S Sebag Montefiore

@simonmontefiore

7 months

"A series of meetings of the Civil Service Muslim Network (CSMN), a cross-government umbrella network that represents and supports Muslim civil servants, discussed how to force the government to change its policy on the Israel-Gaza war and has featured numerous antisemitic

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Ben Cobley

@bencobley

2 months

Just reminded that the United Kingdom's current Foreign Secretary (who accused me of having 'white fragility' in his latest book) said London should annex itself from the United Kingdom if Brexit was fully enacted. The grown-ups™ are back in charge.

David Lammy: London must be a city-state if hard Brexit goes ahead

The capital’s future as a thriving economic powerhouse depends on being open to the rest of the world

www.standard.co.uk

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Ben Cobley

@bencobley

5 years

Tony Benn in 1975, after losing the referendum on EEC membership: "When the British people speak, everyone, including members of Parliament, should tremble before their decision and that's certainly the spirit with which I accept the result of the referendum."

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Ben Cobley

@bencobley

2 years

Listening to a BBC radio discussion on migration, the presenter interrupts any suggestion that there might be a problem, reciting liberal-left talking points. The discomfort is obvious, the fear that the plebs might have been misled palpable.

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Ben Cobley

@bencobley

10 months

It's starting to look kind of permanent, that vibe of occupation becoming more pronounced.

Aviva Klompas

@AvivaKlompas

10 months

Central London flooded by people who claim to want peace, but back terrorists who call for the genocide of Jews.

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Ben Cobley

@bencobley

5 years

Trying to stop political opponents from expressing themselves, from using metaphor and engaging voters' emotions Meanwhile, we accuse & shout at will. We're seeing the same pattern repeated: authoritarianism wrapped up in identity politics, victimhood as a defence vs criticism.

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Ben Cobley

@bencobley

3 years

I like the fact that the UK cannot hide behind the EU at a time like this. Our responsibility is our own. We can still talk, co-ordinate and co-operate but not hide.

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