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→ Immigration soars to top of UK voter concerns
Immigration is now the top concern for UK voters, according to an Ipsos poll conducted shortly after riots broke out following the Southport attack last month.
NEW @IpsosUK August Issues Index shows the impact of this month’s riots:
-Concern about crime leaps by 19ppt to 25%
-Immigration becomes the most important issue for Britain
-Race relations enters the top ten issues for the first time since 2020https://t.co/3RXLvmmPxW pic.twitter.com/rXPOSkyP6v— Michael Clemence (@mwclemence) August 16, 2024
It’s the first time the issue has topped the charts in eight years, chosen by 34% of respondents. Meanwhile, crime concerns surged 19 points from July to August, with a quarter of respondents now reporting that it’s the most important issue. Race relations have also unsurprisingly risen up the list of top concerns at 11%, jumping ahead of climate and education. Will the Government take note?
→ Taylor Lorenz spreads disinformation
Taylor Lorenz, the celebrated disinformation reporter, has apparently been spreading falsehoods of her own.
I know I’m hard on “misinformation” reporters like Lorenz, but it’s for a good reason. This is really bad. Not the anti-Biden message, which, whatever. But lying about it and trying to pass it off as misinformation, according to these several sources.https://t.co/tPdPuXohsL pic.twitter.com/VwWNhicXPK
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) August 16, 2024
Her employer, the Washington Post, is investigating Lorenz over a selfie with Joe Biden in the background which she reportedly shared as a private Instagram story. A caption placed over the President reads “war criminal :(”. NPR confirmed the veracity of the post with four sources, and Lorenz herself reportedly told her associates that a friend had added the caption, which she merely shared. Publicly, however, Lorenz is claiming the image is fake: “You people will fall for any dumbass edit someone makes.” It’s always the ones you least suspect…
→ The war on phones continues
Teachers are getting on board with the no-phones-in school movement, per a new study. Allowing each teacher to set the rules on phone use results in the highest rate of disruptive phone use in class, with 79% of teachers working under such policies reporting phone disruptions. Further, a policy allowing phone use only between classes was considered nearly as disruptive, at 73%.
Major new survey from National Education Association gives very strong support for phone-free schools. Any policy that lets kids have phones BETWEEN classes disrupts what happens IN class.
Give teachers a chance. Go phone-free.
https://t.co/bjJGaHM6vl pic.twitter.com/dAP52o3Gw2
— Jonathan Haidt (@JonHaidt) August 16, 2024
Meanwhile, only 28% of teachers reported that phone use was disrupting classes under policies requiring phones to be completely stored away. The Zoomers won’t be happy about this…
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SubscribeUnnecessary repetition as post disappeared.
Personally I gave up trying to post longer comments at UnHerd. Far too many times the staff withholds posts until well after the thread has gone off the boil, or got triggered by a common but, for UnHerd, very naughty word. So only short posts from me now, and only occasionally. Because UnHerd prefers to disincentivise commenting, I don’t have such a high incentive to read other people’s posts either (sorry, but that’s reality). It all degrades the potential of the conversation, but that’s how UnHerd likes it.
Even duff articles can produce interesting exchanges in the comments, but I agree it is irritating posting anything substantial that disappears into limbo for a significant period. I don’t post anything of substance outside the censorship working hours for this reason.
“outside the censorship working hours”
Gave me a wry chuckle
Immigration, Law and order and race relations rise up the ladder of concerns. Who would have thought it? Pupils with phones turn out to be disruptive if they have them in class. Solution ban them. Could be applied to the rest of us being distracted by phones and social media misinformation after all even disinformation reporters can’t be trusted not to spread misinformation. That links all three reports.
Soma should keep us all calm in this Brave New World.
re. Taylor Lorenz. I have absolutely no interest in the media talking about the media. Perhaps Unherd could avoid articles where such as is the content… “he said, she said, in instagram, and then published in the NYT etc. etc. etc.”
Immigration is not the problem, all those that say it is are wrong. The problem is white people who, by the way are all rich racists and the hard right. And the Tories. And Islamists. There, Labour race relations manifesto in a nutshell.
PS Ceasefire now, Leeds for Gaza, blame the Zionists
Immigration is very much the problem, legal and illegal, the electorate want radical change to the present migration numbers.
The political classes will be forced to respond as the economy declines and unemployment goes up.