David Selling

@bbcthree She couldn't cut her hair anyway. Scissors were first used in Asia so probably best to close up shop and us Brits can just tear our hair out with our hands from now on if it gets too long.

@SamCKx If anyone can just be British automatically, then what the hell are wars fought for? Why are Ukrainians resisting Russians? If Ukrainians just let hundreds of thousands of Russians migrate to Ukraine every year, Ukraine would become Russia without the need of weapons.

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.

This is just stupid third world agitprop. When will the UN pass a vote condemning the Arab slave trade or the African slave trade that continues inside Africa today?

I understand this is not something people want to hear, but has absorbing a large number of people that do not share Western values worked out well for the UK, Sweden or Germany? No, it has not.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate that his first instinct upon seeing it, was to pet it.

I, as an Anglo Saxon, demand reparations from the Danes.

@RonaiChaker Maybe they're under scrutiny because of...well...stuff like this...

According to reports, a 16-year-old Yazidi girl was raped by nine Arab boys at a youth center in Berlin. Officials from the youth welfare office and the youth center did not file charges and protected the perpetrators. The report states: "Alleged rapists and sex offenders were not reported by the authorities because 'Muslim boys are already under enough police scrutiny.'"

They were slavers until we stopped them So, obviously, no.

@wil_da_beast630 Do the people waiting to die actually have to lay there until it happens, or are they out shopping & they just get Thanos snapped?

@wil_da_beast630 Can't you just keep doubling forever? Is there an upper limit or do more people spawn forever? Are there people actually tied to a tramline? Because the tram will jam up long before it gets through all 16,777,216 people. Or is that just a visual aid & it's actually just magic?

Kill. Someone has to be the leader.

@WingsScotland One of the most enlightening bits of data on the differences between men & women & how it can have massive effects on group behaviour, is that women in universities are more likely to believe comfort is more important than the truth whereas for men, it's more likely the opposite.

In large part, the country is fucked because we let so many of these simpering, brainless, “be kind”, middle-class middle-aged liberal-guilty white women run everything from government to the police.

🚨SMOKE-BREAK HERO TALKS ISIS RADICAL OUT OF BLOWING UP MATERNITY WARD MASSACRE – NOW GETS BRITAIN’S SECOND-HIGHEST GALLANTRY MEDAL! Nathan Newby, 35, was having a fag outside Leeds’ St James’s Hospital when he spotted Mohammad Farooq swaying with a homemade pressure cooker bomb – an ex-hospital worker self-radicalised by Islamic State with a sick grudge against nurses. For HOURS Newby kept calm, built trust, gave the bomber cuddles when he begged, moved him to benches away from the entrance and convinced him: “Phone the police before I change my mind.” No explosion. Hospital saved. Farooq jailed for life (min 37 years). Now speaking for the first time as he prepares to receive the George Medal. Ordinary bloke, absolute legend! Nathan Newby (left) Mohammad Farooq (right)

RIP Sora, you gave us the greatest ai video of all time

Rita Moreno is one of just three people to win an Emmy for The Muppets, the other two: Bernadette Peters and Peter Sellers. The comedy timing during her performance of "Fever" while Animal attempts to railroad her is incredible. It was also done in one take "Dat my kinda woman!"

This could be a comedy sketch "Have you noticed the demographic change in the UK?" "No... not really" Literally walking past him as he says it 👀

@BBCNews Can they give the full context of who did/does it like they normally don't?

UN votes to recognise slavery as 'gravest crime against humanity' bbc.in/3PnDIe6

There are more people enslaved today than at any point in human history and 70% of them are women and girls. Slavery did not end. It evolved. And it is still happening, everywhere.

Not only do we know this for a fact from decades of polling that proves it, but it shouldn't come as a surprise. The "online right" is mostly made up of normal people who found the current state of affairs intolerable and felt the need to speak out.

@wil_da_beast630 I honestly don't know what my "body count" is. I've never asked anyone either, because I'd rather just not know and not think about it. Don't ask, don't tell. And when I'm asked my response to her usually is "Do we really have to do this?"

You guys know women can simply...lie about their "body counts," right?

We WISH this wasn't true. We HATE that it's true. But it IS true.

@ImtiazMadmood @4thOfJuly365 They will conflate this with about 0.001% of weddings in the US when two 16 year olds get married consensually. I mean, I don't think it's ideal either but it's not this.

Dear Feminists, This is called Forced Marriage. - @4thOfJuly365