🧵 Ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum vote on June 23rd, we’re sharing 10 misleading Brexit ads over 10 days.
The third: Channel 4 reported that this ad was a "dark ad" targeted to a specific audience on Facebook which made it hard for journalists to track at the time.
It says a lot about where we're going that the BBC is now running stories in which they ask lifeboat crews whether they will apologise for using their boats to save lives
Windows 11 has warned me that today is International Cat Day. I can only assume this means social media is going to be 87% more fluffy today.
Does NATO even really exist anymore? Time to think about that European defence force?
President Pushes to Strip Citizenship From American for Criticizing Him
One reason we’re in that situation—not the only reason, but a significant contributor—is because of figures who proclaimed a national speech crisis when people they consider lesser talked back to them.
I’ll never get over that
With Farage inciting his supporters to kickstart the Farage Riots again this Summer, watch him claim to know nothing again if he succeeds.
Quite a few people are asking why Angela Rayner didn't just put a call into the head of HMRC.
That would be wildly improper in 2025. However it was absolutely the done thing in 1925
A completely tangential thread:
