Calgie
@christiancalgie
Senior Political Correspondent @Daily_Express. Sometimes on TV and radio. YIMBY. Tip-offs: DMs or [email protected].
It’s really astonishing that Essex, one of the soundest counties in England, has had its police force taken over by such an extremely ideological and left-wing movement. Essex also has the highest rate of recording non hate crime incidents, and has spent more money and time…
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 This video proves @EssexPoliceUK transported left-wing protestors to The Bell hotel in Epping. There is no way Chief Constable BJ Harrington can stay in position.
The actual greatest podcast of all time - the one that basically invented the genre and set every early podcasting record - was The Ricky Gervais Show.
Introducing TIME's list of the best podcasts of all time: 100 podcasts that shaped the genre and pushed it forward ti.me/451XhfW
Manchester airport police attacks trial. Judge Neil Flewitt has told the jury the two Pakistanis are of ‘good character’ and as they have no past convictions “it is less likely that they acted as the prosecution allege” He’s basically saying the police have lied. This same…
Surely Corbyn and Sultana now have to go with 'Change Yookay'
It seems that @christiancalgie and I have different ideas of what constitutes ‘interesting’
It’s time to admit that the UN is a pointless and out of date institution. Time to Brexit.
Enough Is Enough. I spoke with Nottinghamshire Police yesterday about this case. I was asked not to go public on this matter as it may affect the trial. Why would it affect the trial? Are our judges and juries incompetent? Or is there another reason I am being asked to remain…
There’s a capacity for a Tory Shadow Cabinet reshuffle and active MPs elected in 2024 need to be promoted, says @christiancalgie. #TheDivisionBell 🔔 Watch: youtu.be/esKxDI9K46o Listen: pod.fo/e/2fdadf
Could Chlamydia Ponsonby-Smythe here be any more of a walking cliché if he tried? 😅
Rachel Reeves flogging Britain’s bitcoin reserves would be her own ‘Gordon Brown sold the gold’ scandal and she would not be forgiven.
Couldn’t cut £5bn from our crippling welfare bill, but dw guys they’ve got this all in hand
EXCL: Government will stop using wax seals on official documents. Seals were first used by Kings 1,000 years ago and have been used by the Govt for 150 years. It will be scrapped as part of red tape slashing drive to speed up govt for taxpayers Fab story by @SophiaSleigh
Spanish kids when they start getting free school meals
🚨🔵🔴 BREAKING: Marcus Rashford to Barcelona, here we go! 🏴 Verbal agreement in principle between all parties involved with Barça planning for medical tests next days. Loan deal with buy option, details being finalised today then Man Utd will authorize his travel to Spain. ✈️
You cannot hate judges enough
Judges have decided the word "family" doesn't mean what any normal person thinks it does - but instead includes *anyone* you want to bring to the UK. Yet another reminder why we must leave ECHR.
Do you guys know any books or movies with an unreliable narrator who gets more and more unreliable as the story goes on untill you slowly discover they're actually detached from reality?
Do you guys know any books or movies with an unreliable narrator who gets more and more unreliable as the story goes on untill you slowly discover they're actually detached from reality?
It’s fine in theory. But not reality. Polling showed that votes at 16 was overwhelmingly the least popular Labour policy last year. And if ‘being in the manifesto’ is the sole mandate, why could a party not just put a deeply unattractive policy in there in size 1 font?
Rather than a referendum, I have a radical idea - how about political parties list their policies in some kind of document, a ‘manifesto’ say, then the party who wins implements those policies.
The biggest core problem with Starmerism is it is devoid of ideology. They think that’s a strength. That organised bureaucracy and policy based on independent commissions will produce the right outcome. That is fundamentally not how politics works, and it results in this shit
Early in the week we get @RachelReevesMP saying all the right things on risk, regulation and the City. Now we get this bloody appalling surrender on housing and planning. I wish the govt would actually decide if growth is a priority or not.