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History, Politics, France, Shawlands. Midwife by trade.
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Have written up some of my thoughts about the increasingly sinister use of 'non-UK born' and 'white British' in the British press. The obsession with 'white British' citizens over other British citizens harms all of us and needs to be called out. benansell.substack.com/p/who-counts

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Referring to events in Ballymena as "disturbances" is a euphemism too far. We are witnesses to a pogrom. And it behoves us to say so, loud and clear. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

I crossed the street at the same time as RDJ in NYC in 2006. I turned back to check it was him and he was looking back at me over his sunglasses. He defo fancied me, but was in the throes of heroin addiction at the time 😑.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

A gay man, who died by suicide as a result of his sexuality, made one of the single biggest contributions to espionage and ending WW2 years earlier than would have otherwise been the case. Alan Turing is only one of hundreds of examples as to why the intelligence services should support Pride.

submitted 13 days ago • 69 comments

Five years today, the statue of Edward Colston was pulled down in Bristol. Boris Johnson accused protestors of trying to "photoshop" the past and "lie about our history". I'm reposting below a thread I wrote at the time: on history, memory, and how we decide who to celebrate in our public spaces.🧵

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submitted 15 days ago • 58 comments

Trump administration considers "requiring all foreign students applying to study in the United States to undergo social media vetting". That would be the same administration that just sent a team to the UK, because of concerns about "free speech". www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

The sheer barefaced dishonesty of a regime that is snatching people off the streets for their speech; painting over testimonials to women & minorities in US history; subjugating universities & trying to crush research into subjects it dislikes, standing as a champion of "free speech" is staggering.

submitted 27 days ago • 47 comments

In short, Starmer has taken a massive hit among Labour voters, for no gain elsewhere, while boosting Farage's popularity, including doubling his ceiling among Labour voters. I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.

submitted 36 days ago • 74 comments

NEW: GMB Union says scrapping care visas could decimate care sector. “Scrapping this visa will be deeply damaging –potentially catastrophic for our beleaguered care system. "The whole sector is utterly reliant on migrant workers – yet we still have more than 130,000 vacancies."

submitted 40 days ago • 11 comments

This is an absolutely disastrous framing to adopt. “Immigration beings great gains but it needs to be controlled to maximise benefits” was/is right there on the table. Instead they have opted to lead with the strongest possible “Nigel Farage is right, don’t vote for him” headline.

submitted 40 days ago • 28 comments

What would public choose on social care workers coming to Britain? Increase the numbers: 44% (18% a lot, 26% a little) Maintain current levels: 27% Reduce the numbers: 22% (11% reduce a lot, 11% a little) Focaldata for British Future (2nd - 6th May 2025) www.britishfuture.org/white-paper-...

submitted 41 days ago • 7 comments

11/05/83. Immortalised in the Gothenburg rain 🏆

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