The other segments at least rely on model-based claims that are more arguable - but still contestable - but to have the central claim of an entire wing of the model trivially rebutted by data from an organisation Portes is linked with is unworthy of a schoolboy

What really gets me is the mad clashing of class in the image of
- 20 fourteen year old skinheads
- ⁠a choral rendition of Rule Britannia

There’s been plenty of footage from protests from far right to hard left on social media over the summer - it’s just not hard to make up something believable

The first obvious tell that the story is made up is that the freelance writer involved hasn’t got any documentary evidence

I’m not a journalist and even I would wanna get a photo of the mad scene she paints here

archive.is/kg3zH this is one of the most gloriously fake stories I’ve ever read and is genuinely embarrassing for the @the-independent.com about their editorial standards

The charts really do tell the story quite precisely