To Quentin Letts and others who think that the desperate human beings crossing the Channel are coming here for benefits, a reminder.
Asylum seekers in the UK receive on average just £5.66 - a day.
For those who think "they all want to come here because we are a soft touch" - a reminder.
The UK - disgracefully - is home to just 1% of the estimated 26.4 million refugees, forcibly displaced by war and other events across the globe.
And finally for those who think France takes fewer refugees than us and that they all pass through there to come here.... you're wrong. France takes considerably more than we do as does Germany
Lee Anderson Tory MP for Ashfield Nottinghamshire wants to send asylum seekers to The Falklands
“The only way we will put these people off is by giving them the message that if you come here you are going to be sent 8,000 miles away."
Apart from anything else reprehensible about this, using the Falkland Islands as a glorified holding pen says a lot about this MPs contempt... for the Falklands
On the basis of what I've seen of his #bbcqt performance last night, it seems that Jordan Peterson and his acolytes have mistaken 'made up words' for intellect.
I recall that our old friend Chloe Westley was a major fan.
An extraordinarily ungallant comment from Boris Johnson about his wife, Carrie. How on Earth did he judge this appropriate? theneweuropean.co.uk/james-ball-bor…
You can tell a lot about a man by the things he says about his partner to other people - when they're not there.
The argument that "as long as he's doing a good job I don't care about his private life" doesn't wash. Because he isn't
War Christmas disaster as Bollington councillor and ex-mayor hire tank for Remembrance day, forget to put brakes on and end up wrecking the town's war memorial gates. cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-c…
I had to check it wasn't satire. It isn't. It happened
Here they are turning up at the event. Such a solemn moment
Something I've written about Dunkirk, Blitz Spirit flat Earthery and the lies we tell ourselves about our past for History Extra historyextra.com/period/modern/…
And if you wonder why it matters look af this nonsense.... "shared values"...
Shameless further plug for for this. Not least because people have said they like it.