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15 Oct 2020
Circuit Breaker Benefits Overstated
Following the leak of the SPI-M model to the media, a number of people have focussed on the claim that is could save "up to" 107,000 lives
This is a flawed conclusion. The most obvious and major flaw is that the model stops at 31/12/2020....
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🚨🇬🇧 BREAKING: Petition to stop the social media ban.
kids are having none of it.
Let’s get some signatures on this petition to stop the social media ban.
Anyone with half a brain knows this isn’t about child safety it’s about sneaking in Digital ID through the back door.
Please sign and share 🙏🏼 🇬🇧🫡❤️
Petition: Do not ban social media for under 16s
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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Don’t take it from me.
Take it from one of the internet’s greatest pioneers @jimmy_wales
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@Telegraph asked me to write about my recent health misadventure which has sparked so much discussion here with so many people sharing similar stories
@NHS @NHSEngland @PublicHealthW
@WelshAmbulance @jamesmurray_ldn
@StuartAndrew @Keir_Starmer @KemiBadenoch @TiceRichard
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06…
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We need to be serious. There are several orders of magnitude more context to the story than the one that puts Ed Miliband at the centre of the green agenda -- as much as he would like to claim otherwise.
1. The green agenda is global -- mostly western/European -- and precedes climate.
2. The British Establishment in *toto*, right, left and centre, absorbed environmentalism to its core, with practically zero resistance.
3. Miliband is a late entry to that party, and is a symptom, not a cause. He is a bit part. A zombie. A cipher.
If you want to understand the history of the green agenda and its hostility to industry and economic growth -- which was programmed from its start -- you should read @RupertDarwall's articles and three books on the topic. *Especially* so, if you are from the Tory camp.
Blaming Miliband is lame at this point, frankly.
NB:- I am not making some trivial, nuanced, snarky point here. Growth scepticism was written into Tory party doctrine (by its wealthiest members) several years before the Climate Change Act. And yet a group that aims to "look for growth" seems blind to the forces of degrowth.
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BBC News had a good run, inoculated from market forces and producing news - increasingly aimed, not at customers - but newsroom peers and awards judges. In recent years, most notably its coverage of the 2015 migrant crisis, Brexit, Trump and Israel, BBC News showed itself to be institutionally incapable of balance. It doesn’t deserve to be decimated. It deserves to be shut down.
BBC News to Lose Hundreds of Jobs in Cost-Cutting Drive order-order.com/2026/06/15/b…
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Letter in the Times...
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This is a thread no-one would ever see if not for X .
14 Jan 2023
As a miner for 40 years I have worked in various mines around the world. Gold, platinum, copper, coal, lead, zinc, oil and salt. I'm going to tell you something, and here it is. We will destroy the earth in the name of "Green Energy" Follow along and I will explain. 🧵
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Farage says Starmer’s social media ban ‘is well-intentioned’.
We disagree. It is not well-intentioned.
It is sinister.
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Anyone remember the Online Safety Act? Wasn't it supposed to solve all these problems?
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The number of messages I get similar to below (received today) has been increasing for the last few years. It's absolute madness HGV drivers feel they have to risk their safety because hard shoulder's been removed and technology which is meant to offset that, is not up to the job
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Zero seats.
Jun 15
Today’s U-turn is fantastic news for young people, and the parents trying to keep them safe.
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Chinese car manufacturer decides not to Build Your Dreams in the UK after all
Millivolt must be pleased, all those green jobs lost because of his high energy costs, caused in large part by Chinese solar & wind renewables
Schadenfreude is a great word
thesun.co.uk/motors/39389193…
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British policing derives its authority not from force, but from consent.
If increasing numbers of ordinary citizens begin to question whether that consent remains justified, that is not merely a policing issue. It is a constitutional issue.
The document in the post below does not ask the public to hate the police. It asks whether the relationship between the public and the police remains balanced, healthy and true to the principles upon which British policing was founded and that question matters, because legitimacy cannot be legislated into existence. It must be earned, maintained and renewed.
This serves to remind people that in a supposed free society, institutions derive their authority from the people.
🔥🔥 The people give consent to police and the people can take it away. 🔥🔥
1, 100 or a 1000 people won’t make a difference.
But, millions removing their consent to police, what can they do?
Nothing. 🤷
As long as the people stand in their honour and do not cause harm or loss to another the police become irrelevant.
Tell them at every interaction in a calm and respectful way.
“I do not consent to your unlawful style of policing and I will not comply.”
Then walk away.
Print off this document and hand it to the police, leave it on police vehicle windscreens, police station windows and doors.
ethicalapproach.co.uk/Polici…
Share this post.
Change your profile photos to the blue and white do not consent badges.
Add the badges to your story on all social media platforms.
The power of the people and the will of the people is now what matters.
When the police remember their role in society then consent will be returned.
Absolutely no burning of buildings or vehicles or hurting anyone.
Just say, “no, I do not consent I will not comply.”
This applies to The Government too and they all know it.
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UK is a police state
JUST IN: UK Government clarifies adults will still be able to use social media by verifying their identities with digital IDs, facial recognition, passports and credit cards.
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Any attempt to impose mandatory Digital ID will be fully repealed, scrapped and eradicated by a Restore Britain Government.
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This censorship law is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The real goal is to enable the UK government to track everyone.
Jun 15
It’s important to know that the social media ban for under 16s is not a ban for under 16s.
It is a ban on *selected* social media for EVERYONE. Until you identify yourself.
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Missing the point with politically balanced compromise:
The real answer here is to get the state out of parental responsibilities
Jun 15
Whilst the social media ban is well-intentioned, it’s unlikely to work given the mass adoption of VPNs.
It will also mean the introduction of Digital ID via the back door.
The real answer here is handsets for children with limited features.
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Markets, as you would expect, already reacting to news of a peace deal with Iran, which has been stated will be signed on 19th June
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Do not allow your face to be scanned just to access social media.
DO NOT ALLOW IT.
No face scanning, no passport scanning, no giving them bank details, nothing.
Under no circumstances should you allow this.
Just DO NOT DO IT.
The future is in your hands.
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