Since 2016 · Original British designs
Shirts for people who think the country's best days are ahead of it, not behind it.
Ranked by what people actually buy. Descartes is winning by a distance.
It comes off at checkout by itself, so there is no code to lose.
Find your shirt by cause, from rejoining Europe to keeping Clacton tidy.
Pick the occasion and we will pick the shirt. It opens on whatever is coming up next.
The pub
Starts conversations at the bar and finishes one or two. The bestselling shirt in the shop, by a distance.
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Christmas dinner
Friendly enough for the table and pointed enough for the uncle who brings up the boats.
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Your uncle's barbecue
He will miss the reference. Somebody else will sing the chorus at you, which is the whole point.
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The office
Safe for work, unless your work is making things up.
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Choose your sizeIncluding one whose dad did not approve.
Love it!!! (My dad didn't ) Lovely shade of pink and soft and comfy in this summer heat.
Brilliant. My husband (called Nigel and is a big XTC fan who dislikes Farage!) absolutely loved it ❤️
Bought it for the song reference. Wore it out the same week and someone sang the chorus at me.
Really nice shirt. Feels very light and comfy and print looks good too... also made my boyfriend laugh out :)
Love this. A few people have stopped me to read it.
Probably my favourite T-shirt at the moment. Gets plenty of attention.
Four claims you have heard at a dinner table, on Brexit, the climate, billionaires and the far right. Make your call, then see the answer. New ones every visit.
Brexit and Europe
“We send the EU £350 million a week.”
The side of a bus, 2016
FictionYou got itNot quite
It left out the rebate and everything that came back. The UK Statistics Authority called it “a clear misuse of official statistics”.
Source: UK Statistics Authority, September 2017
Brexit and Europe
“The EU banned bendy bananas.”
Tabloid favourite since 1994
FictionYou got itNot quite
A 1994 rule sorted imported bananas into quality classes. Curved ones were never banned.
Source: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2257/94
Brexit and Europe
“Turkey is joining the EU.”
Vote Leave poster, 2016
FictionYou got itNot quite
Its membership talks were declared at a standstill in 2018, and Turkey is still not a member.
Source: Council of the EU, June 2018
Brexit and Europe
“Leaving meant giving up the right to live and work anywhere in the EU.”
The bit nobody put on a bus
FactYou got itNot quite
Free movement ended on 31 December 2020, when the transition period ran out. Now it takes a visa, a permit or a very good reason.
Source: House of Commons Library
Brexit and Europe
“Brexit brought immigration down.”
Heard at a bus stop, confidently
FictionYou got itNot quite
Net migration peaked at a record 944,000 in the year to March 2023, after Brexit. Arrivals from outside the EU drove the rise. EU net migration turned negative.
Source: ONS, May 2026
Brexit and Europe
“Nigel Farage was an MEP for more than twenty years.”
A good one for the pub quiz
FactYou got itNot quite
He sat in the European Parliament from 1999 until Britain left the EU in January 2020. Five terms and more than twenty years.
Source: European Parliament
Brexit and Europe
“Margaret Thatcher campaigned to keep Britain in Europe in 1975.”
A surprise for some of her fans
FactYou got itNot quite
As Conservative leader she told the Commons the best course was to stay in the Common Market. She backed a Yes vote in the 1975 referendum.
Source: Hansard, 8 April 1975
Brexit and Europe
“The 2016 referendum was not legally binding.”
Argued about ever since
FactYou got itNot quite
The 2015 law behind the vote only required it to be held. It said nothing about acting on the result. In law it was advisory.
Source: UK Supreme Court, January 2017
Brexit and Europe
“Gibraltar voted to stay in the EU by about 96 percent.”
Referendum night, June 2016
FactYou got itNot quite
Gibraltar voted Remain by 19,322 votes to 823. That is about 96 percent, on a turnout of about 84 percent.
Source: Electoral Commission
Brexit and Europe
“Boris Johnson's father became a French citizen after Brexit.”
A May 2022 headline
FactYou got itNot quite
France's justice ministry confirmed Stanley Johnson acquired French nationality in May 2022. He had applied the November before. His mother was French.
Source: The Guardian, May 2022
Money and power
“James Dyson backed Brexit, then moved his company's head office to Singapore.”
A January 2019 headline
FactYou got itNot quite
He backed Brexit in 2016. In January 2019 his company announced it was moving its head office to Singapore. It said the move was not related to Brexit.
Source: Al Jazeera, January 2019
Brexit and Europe
“Jacob Rees-Mogg's investment firm opened funds in Ireland.”
A 2018 headline
FactYou got itNot quite
His firm Somerset Capital Management set up two funds in Dublin in 2018. He said the move had nothing to do with Brexit.
Source: The Irish Times, March 2019
Climate
“Wind turbines kill more birds than cats do.”
Every comment section under a wind farm story
FictionYou got itNot quite
Not even close. US wildlife officials estimate cats kill about 2.4 billion birds a year there. Wind turbines kill about 234,000. Tiddles has questions to answer.
Source: US Fish and Wildlife Service
Climate
“All ten of the UK's warmest years on record have come since 2006.”
Your weather app, sounding increasingly worried
FactYou got itNot quite
Met Office records go back to 1884. All ten of the warmest years have come since 2006. Four of the top five came this decade.
Source: Met Office, January 2026
Climate
“Heat pumps are most popular in Europe's coldest countries.”
A Finn, from inside a toasty sauna
FactYou got itNot quite
Norway and Finland have the most heat pumps per household in Europe. Norway has about six for every ten homes. Not bad for some of Europe's chilliest places.
Source: European Heat Pump Association, 2025
Climate
“Electric cars are worse for the climate than petrol cars.”
A tabloid column, again
FictionYou got itNot quite
Battery and all, electric cars emit far less over their lives. In Europe the cut is two thirds or more. The extra factory carbon is typically repaid within two years.
Source: ICCT life cycle study, 2025
Money and power
“Spending £1,000 a day, it would take over 2,700 years to spend a billion.”
A maths teacher trying to make billions relatable
FactYou got itNot quite
A billion is a million lots of £1,000. So that is a million days of spending, or nearly 2,740 years. Pace yourself.
Source: The arithmetic, plus Economics Help
Money and power
“Jeff Bezos started Amazon in a garage with no money.”
A LinkedIn post about grit
FictionYou got itNot quite
His parents invested $245,573 in 1995, according to a 1997 Amazon filing. Most of us would call that money.
Source: Amazon's 1997 SEC filing
Money and power
“Tesla was Elon Musk's company from day one.”
A business podcast, probably
FictionYou got itNot quite
Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning founded it. Musk was an early investor who later took charge. A 2009 settlement lets him call himself a cofounder too.
Source: NBC Bay Area and Forbes
Money and power
“The richest 1% emit as much carbon as the poorest two thirds of humanity.”
A placard outside Davos
FactYou got itNot quite
In 2019 the richest 1% caused 16% of the world's consumption emissions. The poorest two thirds, about five billion people, caused the same.
Source: Oxfam and Stockholm Environment Institute, 2023
The far right
“The fascists won the Battle of Cable Street.”
The BUF's own newspaper, putting a brave face on it
FictionYou got itNot quite
On 4 October 1936 crowds of East Enders blocked Mosley's Blackshirts. The fascists never got through and their march was called off.
Source: London Museum
The far right
“Tommy Robinson's real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.”
Every court report about him, eventually
FactYou got itNot quite
Tommy Robinson is an alias. Court papers and news reports name him as Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.
Source: High Court judgment, October 2024
The far right
“Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists won seats in Parliament.”
A history essay written the night before
FictionYou got itNot quite
The BUF never got a single MP elected. It sat out the 1935 general election promising 'Fascism Next Time'. Its later by-election candidates were trounced.
Source: Richard Thurlow, Encyclopedia of Modern Europe
The far right
“Tommy Robinson was jailed for travelling on someone else's passport.”
A pub quiz round on travel hacks gone wrong
FactYou got itNot quite
In January 2013 he got 10 months for using someone else's passport to travel to the US. He pleaded guilty to having a false identity document.
Source: BBC News, January 2013
Brexit and Europe
“The EU banned prawn cocktail crisps.”
A Brussels scare story from the early 1990s
FictionYou got itNot quite
They were never banned. The fuss was over a new EU list of foods allowed sweeteners, and flavoured crisps stayed on it.
Source: EU Sweeteners Directive 94/35/EC
Brexit and Europe
“The EU banned selling eggs by the dozen.”
A 2010 scare, revived in 2016
FictionYou got itNot quite
It never happened. In 2010 the European Parliament said plainly that eggs could still be sold by the dozen.
Source: European Parliament, June 2010
Brexit and Europe
“The EU ordered barmaids to cover up in the sun.”
A 2005 tabloid campaign
FictionYou got itNot quite
No such order was ever made. The final EU law on workplace radiation covers lasers and lamps. Sunshine was taken out.
Source: BBC News and EU Directive 2006/25/EC
Brexit and Europe
“The EU banned children under eight from blowing up balloons.”
Papers in 2011, then Boris Johnson in 2016
FictionYou got itNot quite
Latex balloons carry a warning that children under eight need adult supervision. No child is banned from blowing one up.
Source: European Commission, October 2011
Brexit and Europe
“The EU forced Britain to have burgundy passports.”
Said a lot in December 2017
FictionYou got itNot quite
EU passport colour guidance was never binding. Britain chose burgundy itself. Croatia, an EU member, has dark blue passports.
Source: TheJournal.ie FactCheck and NBC News
Brexit and Europe
“Britain's new blue post-Brexit passports were made in Poland.”
A February 2020 headline
FactYou got itNot quite
When they launched in 2020, The Times and CNN reported the blank booklets were made in Tczew, Poland, by the firm that beat Britain's De La Rue to the contract.
Source: The Times and CNN, February 2020
Brexit and Europe
“Britain had no control over its borders while it was in the EU.”
Leave campaigners in 2016
FictionYou got itNot quite
Britain never joined Schengen and kept its own border checks. EU citizens went through them too. What it could not do was cap EU arrivals.
Source: UK Government review 2014 and Full Fact
Brexit and Europe
“The EU wanted Bombay mix renamed Mumbai mix.”
A 2006 newspaper story
FictionYou got itNot quite
Pure invention. There was never any EU plan to rename the snack, and the EU dismissed the story.
Source: BBC News and NPR
Brexit and Europe
“The EU had rules on how bendy cucumbers could be.”
A tabloid staple since 1993
FactYou got itNot quite
This one is true. Top grade cucumbers could bend only 10mm per 10cm of length. Lower grades could bend more.
Source: EU Regulation 1677/88
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