@ItsTaz1989 I just got back from Japan. Despite their birth rate crisis, every employee at the airport was Japanese. Quite a contrast with Heathrow.
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Edward
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I think it’s the other way around. When immigrants started doing these jobs (often more cheaply) they became ‘immigrant coded’, to use a modern internetism, that made them low status. Perceptions changed. How to undo that is the big question.
We need another Cromwell@AriseLeviathan
@Sargon_of_Akkad No. She has a valid point. The root cause of the immigration catastrophe was white indolence. We didn’t want to dig ditches, clean toilets, run corner shops or drive buses. It’s always been the white curse, caused by welfarism, Trotskyist agitation, unions and postwar entitlement
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Evening RIP Chuck Norris we met a few times in America just at the start of his film career, he asked me if I wanted to take up Karate I said no I'll stick to the aftershave (Hi Karate for those of you a little younger was an aftershave in the 70's & 80's) Chuck had amazing strength. Nice man
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Ex-Blockbuster employee here. And I mean it with 100% sincerity that the world would be a better place if we shut down all streaming services, re-opened Blockbusters and video stores worldwide, and shoved people back out into the world to find and enjoy their entertainment.
Washingtons ghost@washghost1
That’s a good use of free will
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I remember when Grand Muftis could speak without notes. Now they just read fatwas off their phones.
The 2024 intake of grand muftis was the worst ever.
Decline.
Afghanistan Defense@AFGDefense
🚨 BIG The Grand Mufti of the Supreme Court of Afghanistan, Sheikh Mawlawi Abdul Rauf, has issued a fatwa of jihad against the Pakistani military regime. He stated that it is obligatory upon all Muslims to go to or join the battlefield against the Pakistani military regime.
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Edward รีทวีตแล้ว
A real tragedy of historic proportions. The pygmies of the current Parliament dancing around the ruins of a once great civilization.
James Heale@JAHeale
News: the Hereditary Peers Bill has tonight finally passed the Lords, ending centuries of tradition. Expect a handful of life peerages for a smattering of hereds.
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I used to post under my own name, then one day someone contacted my employer because they didn’t like a tweet of mine about Alan Partridge
Paul Embery@PaulEmbery
Why do so many ethno-obsessives on this site operate under fake names? I mean, if they really believed their arguments were mainstream and respectable, why wouldn't they post under their own names? Could it be that they know deep down that their views are seen as extreme by the real mainstream?
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@hector_drummond To be fair More Tba sounds intriguing. Kenyan philosopher, I think.
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I've always been accused of being cynical. But in fact I was not cynical enough. It's hard to be too cynical.
For example, there was a time when I would have seen this sort of event and thought that looks good. Now, though, it makes my skin crawl.
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@CptHastings1916 Exact definitions are a trap. There's no easy way to express why walking through London makes me intensely sad while at the same time I would happily punch someone who claimed that Frank Bruno wasn't English.
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@holland_tom @James1940 As CO of the 1st Battalion, he successfully fought to get first pick of the strongest, toughest men in the regiment. Hence the expression "That's why he earns the big Bucks".
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I learn from @James1940 that the nickname of Lieutenant-Colonel Burnet-Brown, commander of the 1st Buckinghamshire Battalion in May 1940, was Toast
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@HonorAndDaring I always assumed that it referred to the election of the President, and how the voters would select one leader from among themselves.
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One of my pet peeves is that moderns use this to mean “out of many immigrants from many countries, one country.”
In reality, the US use of the motto originally meant “out of these 13 British colonies, we are forming one country.”
Learn Latin@latinedisce
Ē plūribus ūnum — “Out of many, one.”
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@Daniel_Sugarman @BarbaraRich_law John Bercow denied yet another honour, then.
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Ahmadinejad now achieves the impressive accolade of becoming the first ever presenter of Channel 4's Alternative Christmas Message to have been taken out by an Israeli airstrike.
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@CptHastings1916 "Obviously many moderate people would respect your stance on asparagus, but what about this extremist nonsense about changing laws when they cause problems?"
"Oh, we just put that in for a joke - see you next year!"
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"We're krazeeeee, we are, just mad, we're a right laugh, here for a bit of subversive fun, but also how very dare you not support the policies of the ruling party?"
NPRG@CptHastings1916
Interesting confirmation here that the self-consciously "zany" and "wacky" candidates are very often just more tedious outriders for the po-faced moralism of the status quo.
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@SirSimonClarke I chatted with a family member about this today. He was unaware that the Greens had stood almost exclusively on Gaza, or that they campaigned in foreign languages, and when I mentioned it he looked sceptical and said it hadn't been on the news.
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An interesting question: how on earth do the people of Conservative - Green marginal seats like North Herefordshire or Waveney Valley respond to the Green Party campaigning in this fashion?
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@gideonrachman "This can't possibly be the end of a wedge, it's so thin!"
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I predict that Gorton result will lead to a surge in Reform-Maga scare that Britain is being “taken over” by Muslims. Worth remembering that Gorton is just one of 10-13 of 650 seats whose population is 30%+ Muslim
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@PlinthBotherer5 The basic premise of these articles is odd anyway. "I exchanged my fast-paced, busy life of salaried accountancy for the easy, simple joys of trying to build a working business from scratch in the middle of nowhere."
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They’re calling it the most Canadian caption of all time
Team Canada@TeamCanada
Silver shines just as bright ❤️
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@Michael_J_Hil When I was young I read a Jennings book where he goes to stay with his aunt in her council flat during the holidays, without anyone regarding it as unusual. Imagine a book now where a kid at boarding school has an aunt on a council estate and it's not a plot point of some kind.
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Prior to 1977 councils were allowed to exclude the most dysfunctional from council housing. Council housing was aspirational. After 1977 they were required to give the most dysfunctional council housing. People now pay lots of money to live further away from social housing.
Dr Jenny Thatcher@JennyAThatcher
It's not that people don't want to garden, it's because society stopped building mass council housing like this with gardens and sold off all those houses like this under the right to buy. In 1979, 42% of Britons lived in council homes. That figure is now 16.3%.
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An unpopular opinion of mine is that we should ban cameras in parliament.
Audio recording is fine. But video turns it into a circus, with everyone competing for views on TV or social media.
Daisy Christodoulou@daisychristo
I'm very sympathetic to the @j_amesmarriott thesis and I've also seen the same issues @b_judah talks about - select committees in the UK (and senate committees in the US) becoming content fodder for social media, very senior politicians apparently unable to focus without getting distracted by their phones. But there are obvious problems with the thesis too. Does anyone really believe that Britain was so exceptionally well-governed 1970s-1990s? Wilson & Macmillan were both very well-read - did that make them brilliantly effective leaders? Also, the peak of mass deep literacy probably isn't 70s-90s but pre-TV & post-universal schooling- so maybe 1890s - 1930s. There were two massive world wars then and public opinion did play a part in them. How does that fit the thesis? Plus do you know who else was a great reader? Hitler! He read a book a day and was apparently always quoting Shakespeare. Stalin loved literature and had a personal library of thousands of books. I don't want to completely dismiss the thesis because there is something going on here but it is not as straightforward as it first seems.
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@CapelLofft I also don't think they appreciate the personal risk. Left-wing extremism has sufficient institutional support that the occasional slip is usually overlooked; hard right statements are so rigidly policed that one badly-worded comment can end your career.
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My sense is that many on the Right are now making the same sort of mistake as the Left did in the pre-Musk Twitter days: they are being radicalised by groupthink on here and mistaking their timeline for public opinion. Such a phenomenon can apply both ways.
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@JJ_McCullough Actual New Yorkers have forgotten about September 11 sooner than the conspiracy theorists.
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