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donmercutio.bsky.social @donmercutio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Boat crossing are dropping and relatively small compared to legal migration, despite a lack of safe legal routes. There is no evidence they cause more crime, put a significant strain of services and is 0.4% of total annual public spending. But the top news story is still a relatively small number...

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donmercutio.bsky.social @donmercutio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The overall healthy life expectancy has officially dropped by about two years across the UK between 2012 and 2026 to 60.7 years. The retirement age has been raised to 66. But top news story a relatively small number of people crossing in boats seeking asylum.

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donmercutio.bsky.social @donmercutio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Since 2012 there has been a 20% drop in the birth rate in the UK.The UK's drop to 1.39 puts it 34% below the replacement rate, placing it alongside some of the lowest-fertility nations in the developed world. But top news story a relatively small number of people crossing in boats seeking asylum.

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donmercutio.bsky.social @donmercutio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Since 2012 there has been 45% increase in " acute homelessness" with over 299,100.houaeholds experiencing it. But top news story a relatively small number of people crossing in boats seeking asylum.

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donmercutio.bsky.social @donmercutio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Average spend per pupil in 2012 was £5100. It is £8400 in 2026, essentially 0% when accounting inflation but as funding is per pupil, falling children numbers mean less money per school. But top news story a relatively small number of people crossing in boats seeking asylum.

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donmercutio.bsky.social @donmercutio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In 2012 UK prison capacity was 85000. In 2026 it is 86,800 despite population increase & longer sentences. There is mass overcrowding. Budget cuts have gutted the workforce and there is an explosion of violence. But top news story a relatively small number of people crossing in boats seeking asylum.

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donmercutio.bsky.social @donmercutio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In 2012 the average time from offence to completion in Crown court cases was 245 days. Now it is 451. But top news story a relatively small number of people crossing in boats seeking asylum.

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donmercutio.bsky.social @donmercutio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

7% of UK working people use food banks. Not 'benefit scrounging layabouts'. People whom work. This has been getting worse & worse for over a decade. That is 2.3 million people depend on charity to eat. But top news story a relatively small number of people crossing in boats seeking asylum.

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donmercutio.bsky.social @donmercutio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Since 2018 the number of 'small boat asylum seekers' is 206,800. Total asylum seekers is circa 600,000 Legal migration 7.2 million. But once again BBC has people on talking how the policy has failed and we must leave the ECHR etc etc. I will keep repeating - boat number are small.

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donmercutio.bsky.social @donmercutio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "Calderdale Council has voted to scrap its climate emergency declaration several years after it was introduced. The decision was made by the Reform UK-led administration" Ultimate 'la la la not listening' policy

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Climate emergency declaration scrapped by Calderdale Council

Two members of the public are removed from the gallery during the Calderdale Council debate.

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donmercutio.bsky.social @donmercutio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is amazing when there is increased borrowing and interest rates, public spending must be cut never 'oh the increases in oil company profits or the rich should pay more tax' As us stupid peons do not understand economics. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Rich nations must cut debt as global shocks push up borrowing costs, IMF chief tells BBC

In an interview with the BBC, Kristalina Georgieva says economic shocks had pushed "debt levels up like a staircase not to heaven".

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

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donmercutio.bsky.social @donmercutio.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

HM Coastguard is a government-funded emergency service and coordinating authority within the Department for Transport that organizes maritime rescues. They ask the RNLI to rescue people - so now what they will be required to go out & do a passport check & if the wrong sort, let them drown?

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The same people who said ‘all lives matter’ in response to BLM are now arguing that refugees should be left to drown in the Channel.

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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 19/09/2026

'Facism thrives when you let it.' Portsmouth RNLI temporarily suspended services after volunteers received abuse following an anti-migration protest. @mrjamesob.bsky.social says it's one of the most 'disgusting' stories he's heard throughout his career.

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Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

my god this is awful

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...

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donmercutio.bsky.social @donmercutio.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Is @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social going to do a careful study of kids school meal or a cheap 'huh kids heh"? . In developmental psychology and nutrition research, the sudden shift to not eating vegetables is known as the "School Lunchroom Effect." But put a kids on saying they prefer ice-cream to veg

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 12/09/2026

Reform has already enjoyed several years of support from a loss-making TV channel whose main function seems to be to give money and favourable coverage to its MPs. The government has done nothing about this. It's probably a more effective way of spending millions than Farage will manage.

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donmercutio.bsky.social @donmercutio.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In a good year Labour or Tories maybe raise £30 to £40 million. In two days Reform have double that give to them on top of millions already given. Essentially they can buy huge ad campaigns and smother everything else.

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donmercutio.bsky.social @donmercutio.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

When someone shows you who they are believe them... (Arron, Ukraine is Russia, Banks)

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/09/2026

London's homicide rate hit its lowest level since records began. Yet 40% of the public thought that murders had risen since 2019. That’s the danger of disinformation. We cannot accept it, and to defeat it, we’ve got to put pressure on the social media companies who profit from it.

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donmercutio.bsky.social @donmercutio.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Hampshire Police said officers found no offences had been committed, and the crowd dispersed by about 21:00 BST." So it is okay to go into a hotel and harass guests - not a public order or trespass or anything - then?

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 08/09/2026

"You can't need a £5 million donation because you're concerned about your own security but allow your supporters to assault who they want, and just say 'boo hoo'." Why is Robert Jenrick OK with a young woman being attacked at the Reform party conference? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/refo...

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Reform is falling apart – and Robert Jenrick’s ‘boo hoo’ comment exposes exactly why | The News Agents

Tory defector Robert Jenrick responded to footage of a young woman being assaulted by Reform UK supporters by saying she should “get a life”. Why is the UK’s hard right OK with some incidents of…

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A suggested statement for Andy Burnham.

‘The British public decided in the 1930s that they would not tolerate black-shirted militias marching through their streets. They would cherish robust political argument; they would not accept thuggery and intimidation. When Oswald Mosley led his Blackshirts to Cable Street, local people turned them back. A new law – introduced by a Liberal, backed by Labour and carried by a Conservative majority – banned private militias, political uniforms and ‘the use or display of physical force in promoting any political object’. The British people are as determined today as in the 1930s that they will not accept the methods of Mussolini and the Munich Beer Hall. This government will uphold the law and defend the traditions of British democracy’.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/09/2026

It's sometimes remarked that a lot of modern harassment, doxxing and online abuse culture draws its roots from Gamergate. This is true, but it was also a perfect example of "legitimate concerns" reporting by mainstream outlets who should have known better.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"Rather than defeat Reform in a battle of ideas, the political and media class wants them defeated through the law." You see, I quite like "we should not allow dark money to infect our politics and corrode our democracy" as an idea. But that includes the Koch brothers funding pretend-journalism.

Reform’s critics are weaponising electoral law
The latest donations scandal is being exploited for anti-democratic ends.

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What is happening to Reform UK right now, from a legal perspective, is alarming. Reform is the breakout party of the moment. A party that has come from nothing to threaten the exhausted duopoly that has long dominated UK politics. Now, rather than defeat Reform in a battle of ideas, it appears that there is a solid constituency within the political and media class that wants them defeated through the law.

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donmercutio.bsky.social @donmercutio.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social there is the quote your a mug or a millionaire if you still support Reform. I would say many are Captain Ahab.. so consumed with hate and fear and anger at 'the left & woke' they would vote for an obviously corrupt, ineptly corrupt, if it hurt their supposed enemies.

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donmercutio.bsky.social @donmercutio.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Another say a big number & scare people... "With the government’s ambition to treble data centre capacity by 2030, this could increase to 19.8 million litres, equivalent to 60,000 homes.” So all the data centres in UK will use the water of 60,000 homes. They are around 30.4 million homes in the UK

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I just watched the documentary and strongly suggest you do the same.

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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

An essay I've just written for @nytimes on why Big Tech is the 21st Century’s equivalent of the East India Company: "What It Would Take to Dismantle the Most Powerful Companies in the World" www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/o...

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Opinion | What It Would Take to Dismantle the Most Powerful Companies in the World

A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I assume Zia is referring to the Tories who shafted the country for 14 years, like Suella Braverman, Robert Jenrick, Nadhim Zahawi, Lee Anderson, Nadine Dorries, Danny Kruger, Andrew Rosindell, Andrea Jenkyns...

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Cameron’s austerity model built on a Harvard paper “Growth in a Time of Debt” that suggested the Keynesian model (that Gov should spend in times of recession to promote growth) was erroneous and that Governments should reduce debt. But there was a problem that took some time to uncover

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 29/08/2026

"If you tech bros play your cards right you too can earn the universal respect and popularity enjoyed by those of us in finance," is a sales pitch so lacking in realism and self-awareness that I fully believe it was both real and well received by its specific audience.

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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 28/08/2026

Just spent an hour talking to Sky trying to remove my 89 year old mother’s £79pcm Sports/Cinema package I thought she’d cancelled months ago. The extent to which providers game the inability of the elderly to negotiate the online world is horrific. Without fleecing them, they’d probably go bust.

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donmercutio.bsky.social @donmercutio.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

That seems, well, pathetic really. Oh just over half of it, is in Canada. Mind you Mexico has the largest part of the Gulf of Mexico...

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 23/08/2026

New, from me. Losing a prestigious stage or affiliation is not the same thing as being censored or deplatformed, and we should stop letting terrible people pretend otherwise. dmitryopines.substack.com/p/youre-not-...

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You’re Not Censored, But Get Off My Stage

It’s not "deplatforming" when security won’t let me rap with Kendrick.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 22/08/2026

It's me, Cofnas, writing about how inferior black academics have it too easy in the age of DEI from my position at Ghent University, where despite being famously a pair of calipers away from preaching perfect Aryan skullshapes I was hired to research <checks notes> "the future of liberalism".

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donmercutio.bsky.social @donmercutio.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "Nathan Cofnas, a self-defined "race realist"" His role at a Cambridge college was terminated in 2024 after backlash to his view that, under a true meritocracy, black people would "disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment".

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Academic who accused Jason Arday of plagiarism suspended by university

Nathan Cofnas says he is being investigated for discriminating against the late Cambridge professor.

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