A Deeply Fractured World

[Fishbone Jones]

Somewhat misleading headline vs what is actually in the article.

I'm pretty sure most of us know what headlines are and how they are used. A headline needs to capture the readers attention in mere seconds, otherwise they move on to something else. If they stretch it a bit to draw that attention, that's what they do. Common practice among news vendors. None of it is open to editing it myself. If I did, the article becomes mine. If it does, it moves from information to opinion. I do not have one at this juncture. I want to wait a bit to hear the defence by Starmer and the Labour party and the opinions of the Conservatives and Reform parties before I start to draw conclusions and forming opinions.

I concede your point, but we don’t control what the media writes. After all that though, it made you read the article anyway, right?

 

[daftandbarmy]

Meanwhile, in Germany...

Leon Hill on Instagram: "🇩🇪 In Germany, there are around 17,000 Australian citizens who live in the country. But last year, they were suspected of only two crimes in total. Just two. But compare that to the 27,000 Algerians in the country, that same

5,572 likes, 144 comments - iamanticitizen on May 16, 2026: "🇩🇪 In Germany, there are around 17,000 Australian citizens who live in the country. But last year, they were suspected of only two crimes in total. Just two. But compare that to the 27,000 Algerians in the country, that same year they...

www.instagram.com

 

[Halifax Tar]

Interesting thread.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2074037550826553684

 

[Kirkhill]

The supremacy of law and the infallibility of judges.

The Atlantic is not noted as particularly right wing in its views.

When Following the Rules Leads to Disaster

A supreme-court decision helped cause the Ceuta disaster.

www.theatlantic.com

"On July 8, Spain’s supreme court issued a seemingly reasonable decision, unaware that by the end of the month, it would contribute to the deaths of at least 57 people, many by drowning. The court ruled that people who had migrated illegally could be sent back summarily only if they’d circumvented a physical barrier at the border. If no barrier exists—if they’d walked across open ground, say, or swum—then the government must go through a much more complicated process to deport them.

"And if you’re trying to swim to Europe from Africa, there may be no better destination than Ceuta, a speck of Spanish territory in North Africa, surrounded by Morocco on its western edge and the Mediterranean elsewhere. Every year, some migrants try to swim to Ceuta, especially in the summer, when the waters are relatively calm. Ceuta has a facility that can process about 500 people at a time. But Thursday, 100 times that number—an estimated 50,000 people—made an amphibious attempt to swarm Ceuta and emigrate illegally from Morocco."