Ok, let’s do this🙄

We’ll start with an explainer covering:

🕒What is a 15-minute city
🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford
👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from

And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article

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1/25 What is a 15-min City?

It is a term coined by urban planner Carlos Moreno, a professor at Sorbonne University, in 2016.

It is how towns and cities evolved before cars were invented.

People lived, worked, and socialized in their local vicinity. Everything they needed day to day was easily accessible

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I’m sure the “protect our women and girls” brigade will have plenty to say about this👍🏼

There are indeed some parts of our society that don’t treat women properly…

Here is a former TORY Councillor (and 5 OTHER men) charged with the rape and sexual assault of HIS WIFE

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1/10 6 men are charged with more than 60 sexual offenses, including rape, against his wife over a 13 year period.

Young himself is accused of 56 of them, including 11 rapes…

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Needless to say, the teacher was not banned *because* they told a Muslim child that Britain is a Christian country🙄

I mean that was *one* of the things he said

And he was banned *after* several incidences

So technically the headline is true, but that’s not the actual story!

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1/12 This took place nearly 2 years ago but has now been picked up by the Free Speech Union who are helping fund this teacher’s appeal.

They have apparently found about 12 cases related to teachers “expressing right wing views”.

Let’s see what that looks like in reality?

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Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.

Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph

Because this does NOT add up!

No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…

🧵1/9 Here’s Paul

He’s 56

So he’s still a good 10 years away from retirement

He lives in Cobham, the Second most desirable town to live in the whole of Britain!

He apparently hasn’t been saving into a pension because of a scandal that happened - before he started his working life…🤔

2/

Let’s have a look at a crazy Twitter to newspaper pipeline story and debunk as we go! 🔎👍🏼

@BROKENBRITAIN0 shared the following post claiming “Tesco are no longer celebrating Christmas”

With a picture of their “Evergreen” Trees

2.2Million views to date🙄

🧵1/26 @Councillorsuzie - Leader of the London Conservatives - shared it a few hours later with the words “No no no Tesco they are Christmas trees”

I mean she’s not wrong! They ARE Christmas trees and there’s not a person out there who doesn’t know that! 🤷🏼‍♀️

But we need the faux outrage, apparently!

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Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.

Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.

You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!

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1/6
Background facts:

⏺️Unemployed Heroine user living with his Mum

⏺️Previous conviction for causing actual bodily harm (which he initially denied)

⏺️Shed containing:
Lethal Poisons
Live ammunition
Suspected IEDs
Radioactive Material
White Phosphorus (that had to be destroyed by the military)

2/6

There seems to be some *confusion*
amongst Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them.

“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”

“But, but he was in UKIP then”

“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”

So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵

1/14 In the 2014 European Elections, UKIP won 24 seats

By the end of that parliament in 2019, they had 3 left!

5 had become Independents
1 had moved to SDP
1 had moved to Conservatives

14 were Brexit Party!

In 2019, UKIP won 0 seats.
Brexit Party won 29

2/14

It was suggested I took a look at this tweet.

Then we all got sidetracked by 🦢s🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

So, a couple of days late, here you go!

🧵1/25 This is less of a “debunk” and more an explainer to dampen down the pearl clutching and lower the temperature of the rhetoric against asylum seekers.

NONE of this is on them!

2/25

Last week the @Daily_Express ran with the following front page.

So obviously I had to take a look!

Is it true?

How does it compare to other professions?

Because anyone familiar with British RW media discourse knows they reserve a special venom for civil servants…🤷🏼‍♀️

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1/25 The article contains a whole section from @the_tpa referring to:

“A simply unbelievable 1.6 million sick days over 3 years”

“Particularly a problem in our tax collector”

“Low-standards culture”

“Staff aren’t expected to turn up to work”

2/25

Following Farage’s announcement that he plans to make “serious cuts to the welfare budgets” if he wins the next election, I’ve seen this claim being repeated from last year’s headlines again.

So let’s take a look at the the reality rather than the weaponised version

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1/20 The stat comes from an ONS report published last December, which found that:

“The proportion of people living in households receiving more in benefits than they paid in taxes decreased from 53.6% to 52.6%”

Cool. Job done 👍🏼

The headlines are correct, right?

Not exactly…

2/20

This is getting absolutely ridiculous now.

Headline: Rayner’s family home was valued at almost twice the amount of other recently sold properties on her street.

Article: Behind a paywall so most people will take that insinuation at face value

The reality?

🧵1/10 The house was valued in 2023, by a third party, independent, professional valuer who would have visited the house, taken in all the information and gone away and found local comparables.

It was valued at £650,000.

So is it only actually worth £325K as the headline suggests?! 😱

2/10

The desperation by those on the Right to smear Angela Rayner is wearing thin🙄

And no - don’t bother replying UNTIL you’ve read the thread!

I’ve trawled through multiple versions of this “story” in the Telegraph and Daily Mail to try and piece together what’s going on!

🧵1/17 So let’s lay out the facts.

It is complicated, which is why the Right Wing media can have such a field day throwing around claims and insinuations to make you believe something dodgy has gone on.

To be clear - there is no suggestion she has broken any laws or failed to pay what she needed to pay - and they know that!

2/17

Ok, You've GOT to be kidding me!

The Conservatives - who oversaw every single thing on this list, who are responsible for all of it - are trying to claim that only the Conservatives would "stop the madness" - that they created...?

So incredulity aside, what about the list itself?

Let's go Debunking!

(I’ve written and tried posting this twice now and X is playing silly buggers so be patient as I might have to post it tweet by tweet😩)

1/24 📍Housing and food provided
directly by the State📍

Yes, the state has a legal obligation to provide shelter to anyone claiming asylum who has no access to any other place to stay.

And yes, they have a legal obligation not to let them starve.

It's depressing that even needs saying

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Oh my God - this has to be THE most obsurd @GuidoFawkes “scoop” in a long time (and they have some truly terrible ones!)

🚨Civil Servants Handed Taxpayer- Funded Free Ice Cream for No Reason🚨

It was neither taxpayer-funded NOR for no reason🙄

Quick 🧵

1/7 This is what they’re referring to.

They’re being encouraged to sign up to DigiGov 2025 with a fun little marketing campaign that offers you an ice cream on a warm Summer’s day.

So - that’s the reason ✅

2/7

Oh my word….

The click bait merchants at the Telegraph are having an absolute field day right now! 🙄

Shall we take a look at the *reality* behind this sensationalist article?

Go on, you know you want to! 😜

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1/25 So, we begin with Samuel - not his real name - who travelled to the UK last year, was warned about London, and was then pickpocketed at Euston station.

A horrible thing to happen.

I was pickpocketed in London in the late 90s.

It’s not nice. It’s also nothing new.

2/25

I was asked to take a look into this tweet, cos, well, it’s Andrea Jenkyns!🤷🏼‍♀️

So first - the substance of the story…

1/20 Back in May, Anne-Marie Miles posted a video describing how she saw an elderly man having a discussion with a ticket inspector and she went to help.

She recognised him locally. He was homeless, carrying his belongings in a little trolly with his dog.

2/20

https://twitter.com/miles7marie/status/1928207671980675400

Right, so I was asked to take a look at this headline and as you can imagine, there is a lot wrong with it! 🙄

This was initially published in @thetimes and then picked up by the usual GB News, DM, Telegraph etc

Let’s take a look….👀

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1/26 Firstly, they state this “analysis” was done by the Conservative Party.

There is no link to the analysis or any report…

Nice to know a political party can just feed their “analyses” direct to the Right Wing media who will print it with no scrutiny 👍🏼🙄

2/26

What do we think?🤔

Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.

Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!

So, what’s going on here?

Let’s take a look!👀

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1/13 It’s a story about a young boy who was told he couldn’t be referred to their NHS Occupational Health therapist because he went to private school.

There are a handful of other examples in the article - all children being “denied” NHS education related occupational health care

2/

Oh @NeilDotObrien…..

Where do we start?

Disingenuous?

Ignorant?

Or just deliberately misleading for political gain?

A quick 🧵 to take a look!

1/12 Neil claims that Labour have ABANDONED their pledge to recruit 6,500 more teachers *over the course of this parliament* because teacher numbers were down for the 24/25 year.

2/12

Nigel Farage has been making some big populist promises.

But behind the soundbites lies not only a financial black hole, but tells us a lot about the future he sees for Britain:

Let’s take a closer look

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1/23 Last week, the leader of a party with just 5 MPs unveiled plans including:

📍Reinstating the winter fuel allowance (£1.5bn)

📍Removing the 2-child benefit cap (£3bn)

📍Raising the personal allowance to £20k (up to £80bn)

📍More tax breaks for married couples (~£4bn)

2/23

Well this is grim….

Rotherham Borough Council has a new Mayor.

And the Right are absolutely up in arms about the fact that she’s a Muslim woman.

And they are of course spreading vile lies about her.

So let’s just do a little sense check shall we?

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Rukhsana Ismail was born in Sheffield

In ENGLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 👍🏼

All they see is the Hijab.

They don’t care that she started volunteering for a domestic abuse and human trafficking charity while doing her A Levels.

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