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@I_amMukhtar @DillyHussain88 West Cornforth says it all. Like entering a scene from Snatch.

38-year-old Jonathan Olley from Durham has been jailed for 80 weeks for racially abusing a taxi driver before punching him repeatedly in the head.

@lowerformofwit They most likely got there by living within their means and still are. My pensioner parents spend but they didn't take us on holidays, trips or coffee shops that they couldn't afford when we were growing up and no one felt entitled to those things.

Hang around your average garden centre on a week day and witness the consumer orgy of pensioners loading trolleys with premium price plants and garden furniture, over priced cakes at the deli, then hopping on here to have a go at young families daring to try to have a good time

@kaizen000000000 An argument that relies on a notion of God as all powerful, all knowing, prescient. And yourself as able to comprehend it all despite being none of those things. It's an argument that only throws doubt on a very primitive concept of God.

Atheists don’t hate God. Most of us simply aren’t convinced He exists. A perfect being shouldn’t create an imperfect world full of pain.

@RmSalih Maybe you could be as dynamic calling out hate preachers, extremists, rape gangs and everyone other bad actor in your community. Then you might find the Islamophobia dies out. You can't fix your reputation without dealing with the devil within.

Alhamdulilah, the brothers sorted the family out who were being intimidated by thug neighbours. No Muslim needs to suffer racism or Islamophobia or abuse of any sort. The police should be dealing with these situations but if they won't we will protect each other. My message to any Muslim being intimidated: You are not alone and never will be. Any issues, pick up the phone. My message to the far right: You mess with a Muslim and you will be messing with all of us.

@RWTaylors They've done the research, as if mere observation weren't enough, the data is in, it's harmful to children. He needs to do his job and figure out how to change hearts and minds towards safer practices, not just carry on because it's tradition then pretend he's all about caring.

British MP Iqbal Mohamed became emotional in Parliament, arguing that a ban on cousin marriage would be discriminatory and Islamophobic, as he considers it a practice rooted in his cultural background.

@Heccles94 Protecting minorities isn't protecting the country, it's just protecting minorities. The left think everything looks after itself while they go on marches and sing kumbaya.

The right wing try to defend their country by attacking minorities The left wing defend their country by protecting minorities That’s the difference

@JeremyVineOn5 Well why not? I mean it's not as if a bus stopping at any random place will be more dangerous for traffic since our actual bus stops are generally in the most hazardous overtaking places possible. Hills, blind bends, pinch points, you name it.

Should women be allowed to get off late night buses anywhere they want? The government could advise buses to let female passengers request stops anywhere so they don't have to walk as far home. 9 out of 10 women report feeling unsafe in the dark. Do you think this could work?

@Heccles94 Forget the science of sample selection. All you need to represent an entire group, is the people Harry's met.

I haven’t met a trans person who isn’t simply a kind loving person who wants to live their life. It’s the transphobes that scare me.

@RmSalih It's only credible if you know who's going to do it? Be serious.

I see the Batley teacher conspiracy theory is doing the rounds again. The one which claims he received death threats from Muslims which forced him into hiding. For the record, I believe this story is nonsense. If the teacher (who showed blasphemous images of the Prophet Muhammad pbuh to pupils) had received credible death threats then there would have been a prosecution by now. Muslims have the right to lawful protest in this country just like anyone else. And they were right to protest the actions of that teacher who acted irresponsibly. Why he disappeared we can only guess. But that was his decision and it should not be blamed on Muslims.

@BobFromAccounts Rubbish. A horse is just as annoying. Ambulances are saving lives. And the others are either still going faster than a bike, or there's a problem because they can go faster. Bikes are so slow you have to go around and that can be risky. Hence, we hate it.

and again Things drivers are happy to be stuck behind for more than 30 seconds: other cars vans trucks buses horses ambulances ice cream vans Things drivers are not happy to be stuck behind for less than 30 seconds: cyclists

@Iamme428 @AntiWokeMemes His own skin? He's mutilated his own skin. Whether because he's deranged, spotted an opportunity to make money, or both I don't know.

@AntiWokeMemes That is a human trying to be happy in their own skin.

If Dylan Mulvaney is not a woman, then what is he?

@PeterTatchell Who controls the number of staff on each section of passport control? Not Brexit voters. Not the EU. Geneva airport did that to you. On the plus side, since Geneva is so horrifically expensive for everything, the delay probably saved you a few quid.

Another misery caused by Brexit voters Geneva airport: EU citizens queue for passport control empty. Brits queue for over an hour Brexit voters should have to pay a £5,000 tax surcharge for the misery they have inflicted on the rest of us: Higher prices, job & trade losses

@andysayshi1 @Heccles94 Wow. That was well put 👍

I hate that we’re two dudes having this conversation, but since you apparently don’t value the choices of women, let me try to get through to you: Young girls/young women often feel vulnerable, anxious, self conscious. One of the purposes of groups like Girl Guides is to foster friendships and strengths through similarity: sharing common experiences, vulnerabilities and dreams. Girls and women have unique experiences that men cannot understand, and vice versa. As these girls approach puberty they often become even more self conscious, particularly about their bodies and physicality. They can become awkward, shy or even introverted. In Girl Guides there will be dressing, bathing, changing rooms, and sleeping together in close quarters like tents. The added tension of boys in these spaces may well cause significant discomfort, or even self-exclusion, for many of these girls. Female spaces exist for this very reason: to protect the privacy, dignity and safety of females. Why would you place the needs of a tiny minority of confused boys above the time-proven necessity of women to have safe spaces? Why can you find empathy for a confused boy, but not for a vulnerable or self conscious girl?

Can someone tell me how banning trans children from girl guides protects women’s safety?

@OWS1892 Based on your extensive personal experiences of billionaires, I assume? No. You're just making shit up.

Whereas the billionaire wouldn't distinguish between you and the Afghan. That's the difference.

@Heccles94 What of it? Does that suggest to you that endless, uncontrolled and unlimited immigration must therefore be forever a good thing? Don't be childish. People can be both a resource and cost. We don't have infinite resources so immigration has to be managed and it's not being.

Britain was built by immigrants.

@narindertweets If they're locked out of understanding, that was a compromise they chose in coming to a country without the language. What's most wrong with electioneering in a foreign language is that you elevate one minority over others. That's not integration, it's doubling the exclusion.

People can live here, work here, pay taxes here… but aren’t allowed to read election material in a language they actually understand? My parents came from India. They couldn’t read English when they arrived. By this logic, they’d be expected to fund a system they’re locked out of participating ? STOP this racist claptrap

@SamCKx You're being as misleading as those you're attacking. Yes, immigration isn't new and we recruited a lot. Very different to uninvited, high volume, not working immigrants. People are a resource and cost. It's right to demand immigration be managed regardless of other issues.

I can no longer hold my tongue seeing the utter lies being spread about Britain, our history of migration, and how this country was built into what it is today. For those so deeply buried in fake news, manufactured outrage and billionaire‑funded propaganda, I’m going to lay out the truth – and exactly why you’re being fed all this poison. Britain was never a sealed white island. From Roman times there were African soldiers stationed on Hadrian’s Wall and living in British towns, people from across the empire walking these roads nearly 2,000 years ago. Through the Middle Ages and Tudor England you still find Black people in the records – sailors, craftsmen, servants, musicians – even Black musicians at the royal court and Africans being baptised, marrying and being buried in English parishes like anyone else. This isn’t some modern experiment; it’s older than half the castles people visit on their bank‑holiday tours. As Britain went out into the world, the world came here. Sailors and traders from India, Yemen and beyond were arriving in British ports from the 1600s. Some of those men were practising a new faith to most Britons at the time, praying quietly in boarding houses near the docks while they worked brutal shifts in the engine rooms of British ships. Over the centuries, more people from North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia passed through and settled, bringing their languages, foods and beliefs into port cities that were far more mixed than today’s nostalgia merchants like to admit. After two world wars, the truth is simple: this country asked the Commonwealth to come and rebuild it. People from the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia didn’t sneak in; they were recruited. They came to drive buses and trains, staff the NHS, work in mills and foundries, clean offices, run corner shops, open takeaways and small businesses, and yes, build prayer spaces and community centres alongside churches and temples in the neighbourhoods everyone now pretends were always “traditional” and “unchanged”. They did the work that kept Britain going while being told to go home, refused housing, and treated as permanent outsiders. And what have they been paid back with? Scandals where people who’ve lived, worked and paid taxes here for decades get told they don’t belong. Policies designed to make life so hostile that some give up and leave. A media that uses their names, accents, clothes or places of worship as props in endless scare stories. The message is always the same: you might toil for this country, but you will never fully be of it. So when you hear that “Britain was white until recently” or that the country has been “overrun”, understand that you don’t arrive at that belief by accident. You get there because your history has been deliberately ripped out and replaced with a comforting myth: that “real” Britain is white, homogenous, and constantly under siege from people who look, speak or pray differently. Now look at when this myth has been turned up to max volume. Wages frozen. Housing a sick joke. Energy and food prices out of control. Public services hacked to pieces. At the same time, the number of people hoarding unimaginable wealth at the top has exploded. Funny, isn’t it, how every front page is about boats and “swarms” and “our culture”, and almost never about the landlords, hedge funds, private equity and offshore trusts quietly buying up your city and your future. That’s because this isn’t just prejudice; it’s a strategy. If you’re sitting on a mountain of wealth, the last thing you want is ordinary people – of every colour and background – realising they have the same problems and the same enemy. Much safer if the factory worker is furious at the new family down the road. Much safer if the person who can’t see a doctor blames the nurse with an accent instead of the minister who cut the funding. Much safer if a man who can’t afford his rent spends his rage on the woman in a headscarf at the bus stop instead of the billionaire who owns half his city. Racist rhetoric, religious dog‑whistling, all of it, exists to break solidarity. It turns neighbours into enemies and stops people seeing that Black, brown and white working‑class communities have far more in common with each other than any of them will ever have with the people flying in on private jets. It keeps you so busy policing skin colour, passports and prayer mats that you never get round to asking why your kids can’t afford a home, why your parents can’t get a hospital bed, why you’re working harder and standing still. The real story of Britain is this: a crossroads, not a fortress. Africans on Hadrian’s Wall. Black people in Tudor courts and city streets. Sailors, traders and workers from South Asia, the Middle East and beyond in the ports. Caribbean, African and Asian workers rebuilding the country after the war, staffing surgeries and hospitals, driving cabs, running shops, cooking food, teaching kids. Today’s multi‑ethnic, multi‑faith working class is not a glitch; it is Britain. It built this place and it keeps it running. If you’re genuinely angry about what’s happening to this country, good. You should be. But aim it where it belongs. Britain was never pure, never untouched, never “theirs” to take back. The people ruining your standard of living are not the ones risking their lives to get here, or the ones whose names you struggle to pronounce. They’re the ones buying politicians, owning media outlets, writing the story of this country so you never learn your own – and never realise who is standing beside you.

@davehomeless89 Because what's to be said? Could their crimes have been avoided by managing immigration? Has there been a systematic cover-up? White offenders exist. That doesn't excuse failure to fix any other problem.

Whenever reform voters see a white British peado or rapist

@Bbmorg So dismantle the arguments. You could do a power of good if you can.

Arrogance and ignorance is strong below.

@MothinAli Politicians directly to blame? Politicians curry favour by echoing public sentiment. Blame Muslims peddling hate and the dearth of Muslims speaking against them. Honestly, people commit offences in the name of your religion but you attack the people offended. Make it make sense.

The rise in Islamophobia is absolutely disgraceful. Politicians peddling hate and division are directly to blame. The relative media silence with this attack is disappointing bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…