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Worrier of scones. Kerfuffle enthusiast. I like writing about current affairs, history n that. https://t.co/ANVvmN7s1O

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Today in a sleepy, small sweet village in Cornwall, where everyone wears their Sunday best to go to church, the locals crochet little toppers for the post boxes and the trees, little community centres, pubs and churches, nobody locks their doors, the neighbours all look out for each other... Now home to large groups of lone men. I wonder how this will turn out.

Today in a sleepy, small sweet village in Cornwall, where everyone wears their Sunday best to go to church, the locals crochet little toppers for the post boxes and the trees, little community centres, pubs and churches, nobody locks their doors, the neighbours all look out for each other... Now home to large groups of lone men. I wonder how this will turn out.

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A thread of migrants eating swans, ducks, and local carp. A Thread🧵 (Feel free to add)

A thread of migrants eating swans, ducks, and local carp. A Thread🧵 (Feel free to add)

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London Council has released a video showing a white man sexually abusing a black woman on public transport. It’s the same pattern we’ve seen before—crimes that, statistically, white British men are far less likely to commit are being deliberately misrepresented. Netflix’s Adolescence did the same when it turned a real-life case of a black boy stabbing a girl to death into a white boy doing the stabbing. It’s happening over and over again. This isn’t about attacking ethnic minorities. It’s about accuracy. Either these adverts and films are made to warn and educate, in which case they should reflect reality, or they’re being made just to demonise a particular group. There’s no point pretending these are crime prevention campaigns if they’re pushing an entirely false picture. In London, 56% of arrests involve ethnic minorities, despite them making up 46% of the population. Per capita, ethnic minority men are 1.5 times more likely to be arrested than white men. Knife crime, gang crime, sexual assaults—official figures show white British men are far less likely to be responsible. Yet, in media and advertising, they’re almost always cast as the villains. This is about fairness. People should not be unfairly targeted in crime prevention campaigns—whoever they are. If a warning is meant to protect the public, it should be based on who is actually committing the crime, not on a narrative designed to shift blame.

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For no reason at all, I was just fondly watching the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu. For those who don’t know, he and his wife lived in obscene luxury while the Romanian people starved, kept under surveillance, policed, and beaten down. He destroyed farming, bled the people with taxes, and used the army and police against them. Under Ceausescu, the police and army were turned into blunt instruments of control. His regime maintained one of the most suffocating surveillance states in Europe, run through the Securitate, the secret police. Ordinary Romanians were monitored at work, in church, and even at home. Neighbours spied on neighbours, children were encouraged to inform on parents, and any hint of dissent could mean interrogation, prison, or worse. When people resisted, whether farmers hiding food, workers striking, or villagers refusing demolition of their homes, the state responded with the army and police. Protesters were beaten, arrested, tortured, sometimes shot. In December 1989, when demonstrations broke out in Timisoara, the army opened fire on unarmed crowds, killing hundreds. Soldiers and police filled hospitals with bodies, and doctors were ordered to falsify death certificates to hide the massacres. Ceausescu had forced mass collectivisation on farmers, drained villages for prestige projects, and overtaxed the people to pay foreign debts, leaving them hungry and cold. The police enforced food rationing, electricity cuts, even restrictions on how much bread or milk a family could buy. Women were subjected to state gynaecological inspections to enforce his insane ban on contraception and abortion. The Securitate prowled maternity wards and workplaces alike, policing wombs as much as minds. By the end, even the army and police had had enough. In Bucharest, when Ceausescu tried to order the military to fire again on civilians, soldiers began to mutiny, and the balance turned. Within days he was dragged out, put before a firing squad, and the regime that had starved and brutalised its own people collapsed with him. They dragged him out, held a swift trial, and executed him on Christmas Day. Like I say, there's no reason for watching it…

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