Given that there are so many stultifyingly ill-informed voters in the UK, here are a few verifiable facts that for some strange reason, populist politicians and UK news media rarely, if ever, mention: 1. Non-UK nationals (foreign citizens) make up 12-13% of the prison population and cautions/convictions in England and Wales (2024-2025 data), roughly matching their estimated share of the adult population (12%). This has stayed stable despite rising migration. 2. Migrants skew younger/more male (demographics that drive crime across groups). After controlling for age and sex, non-citizens are slightly underrepresented in prisons compared to British citizens. Conviction data is less granular but follows similar patterns. 3. The Great British public estimates that asylum seekers' share of total immigration is around 33%, when (based on 2025-2026 data) they account for around 10-11% of long-term immigration (88,000 asylum out of 813,000 total inflows in 2025). 4. Many Brits also believe immigration/net migration is still at record highs or rising. In reality, net migration fell sharply to 171,000 in 2025 (halved from prior years, and the lowest outside pandemic since 2012). 5. 32% think most immigration is illegal (higher among some groups like Reform UK and Restore Britain supporters). In reality, irregular/small boat arrivals account for just 2-3% or less of total immigration, and a majority of them are found ti be legitimate asylum seekers; the vast majority of total immigration is entirely legal (visas for work/study). 6. There is also a persistent widespread view that most asylum seekers are economic migrants with low grant rates. In reality, the overall success rate is around 60-66% for recent asylum seekers; many small boat claims succeed on protection grounds, though backlogs and appeals complicate it. So while public concern about immigration remains high, you do have to question why so many British people are still absolutely clueless about the reality after more than a decade of relentlessly discussing immigration. It's almost like we're being deliberately misled by privately educated multimillionaires who have selfish ulterior motives...

Scale of sentences on the 4 young people who took direct action against the arms supplier to Israel is truly shocking. To impose years of imprisonment for protesting to save lives in Gaza is unjust, especially sentencing on terrorist grounds they were never convicted of by a jury

Please repost if you agree that Brexit is the greatest betrayal of our country in modern British political history.

RT @Cherryopenmind: When I was a nine-year-old schoolgirl, my teacher asked us to write a news article. She told me, 'All I want to know…

The £20m loan taken out to compensate slave owners when slavery was abolished across the British Empire in 1835 wasn't fully paid off by UK taxpayers until 2015

A murmuration of Starlings perform an enthralling aerial display near Brighton's West Pier in Sussex, UK. 🎦 Credit: X Découvertes.

Donald Trump is the only person in the world who doesn't realise that the expression "Is the Pope Catholic?" is a joke

🚨 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt today: “Our nation was founded, almost 250 years ago, on Judeo-Christian values.” The Treaty of Tripoli. 1797. Signed by Founding Father John Adams. Ratified unanimously by the Senate: “The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” Thomas Jefferson — who wrote the Declaration of Independence — was a deist who literally cut the miracles out of his Bible. James Madison — the father of the Constitution — explicitly warned against the “diabolical hell conceived principle of persecution” by state religion. The First Amendment’s opening words: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” They put it first.

“Controversial” ? Seriously? How about: “immoral”, “unethical”; contrary to all democratic norms”? How about: “in breach of international law”? How about “heinous”, “stomach-turning”, “irredeemably revealing of a sick society in need of help”?

Apparently, it’s now patriotic to ...*checks notes*... divert as much money as possible from the public purse into your own pocket.🇬🇧💸 At least, that's one defence of Richard Tice’s aggressive tax planning. Here’s what his own reaction reveals about our 2 tier tax system. 🧵1/8

Happy St Patrick’s Day from Shaun and the flock! ☘️ #HappyStPatricksDay #LuckOfTheIrish #StPatricksDay

Hey, quick question, why have you photoshopped lots of red marks and scratches over @ZackPolanski's face so he looks kinda violent and scary? Do you think this is a fair and honourable thing to do?

Call me Mr Bastard, but might I suggest a prison sentence would be more of a deterrent than a fine the consumers will inevitably end up paying?

For various boring reasons we have to say that these are Hugh Grant’s views not ours, and that we definitely haven’t printed his post out and put it in a little frame on our desk

This is absolutely outrageous from @bbcquestiontime! One week before a by-election which is a 2-horse race between Reform and the Greens.... and they only invite Reform on to the show? How can this possibly be regarded as "impartial"?

This is genuinely one of the most disgusting statements I have ever seen issued by an American official. It should not stop shocking us that the Republican Party openly embraces this. Fine should be censured & stripped of committees. To ignore this is to accept and normalize it.

Ok, so we have established that Starmer is staying Can we now move on to those UK politicians who are actually in the Epstein Files? Perhaps start with the MP under the influence of the architects of the fascist uprising in the U.S. Public interest, and all that!

How is #Farage, leader of the party leading in the polls, being named in the #EpsteinFiles MORE THAN 40 times, not on the front page of EVERY U.K newspaper and across EVERY U.K news station? MAKE IT MAKE SENSE!!! So I suppose it’s up to us on here to share it, as per…

This should be the nail… it won’t be… but it should

Matt Goodwin is a liar, a charlatan and a conman. Watch him getting exposed 👇