200 years on Shelley's still right "the House of commons is not a representation of the people" but exercises sovereignty 'in contempt of them in a hospital for lunatics" #brexit #Parliament

Can I just remind @leicesterliz her government has no voter mandate from uk for social media ban..it wasnt in Labour party manifesto, if it had been they wouldn't have won GE...You.are not our masters, you're our servants in parliament who we fund..since covid both main parties have become totalitarian,you.have no right to force policy on this country no person in it voted for..

🚨BREAKING: Leading Peer calls on Lauren Edwards NOT to bring back assisted suicide Bill, in light of past comments, The Times reports tonight. The MP still has 36 hours to make a final decision on her Bill. Lord Shinkwin statement in full:

For a lawyer, Lammy is remarkably bad at understanding either the law or justice.

Tories launch campaign to Save The Ponies and party sources insist Starmer "has a history when it comes to supporting the slaughter of defenceless quadrupeds."

Kill the quango, not the ponies.

The wolf in sheep's clothing emblem of the Fabians is very apt for this introduction of digital ID in the guise of protecting children online.

So you'll have internet privacy restrictions spread across different Bills relating to children, data and policing. The hope is that we're too thick to read different Bills and assess the cumulative effect. @KemiBadenoch response? "WEL-FAAAAAARE," or "Great idea!"

'Tread lightly in your lives' - Fabius Cunctator @Keir_Starmer 5 July 2024. Since, the below. His Fabianist strategy spreads the outrageous authoritarianism over various Acts in different subject areas. Gormless @KemiBadenoch does nothing apart from support it.

If you want to live more than just one life, read voraciously. Reading lets you live the lives of others. When you read a book about a physical activity, your brain simulates it as if you were actually doing it. Neuroscience has shown that reading about running, for instance, engages the motor cortex. Reading activates the same networks that process real emotions and bodily movements — the characters' experiences feel like your own. In a very real sense, they ARE your own experiences. Deep reading also alters brain connectivity in a way that persists for days after finishing the book. A good novel physically reshapes parts of your brain. There's a reason the great men of history read the great men who came before... "An illiterate person who dies, let us say at my age, has lived one life, whereas I have lived the lives of Napoleon, Caesar, d'Artagnan. So I always encourage young people to read books, because it's an ideal way to develop a great memory and a ravenous multiple personality. And then at the end of your life you have lived countless lives, which is a fabulous privilege." ― Umberto Eco

The last day of our trip was spent in Paris at the liberation museum & Mont Valerian. A sobering site where over 1000 men & women were executed. My final lecture was about the Sultan of Morrocco. I was honoured to be part of this trip. Next stop is Chalke History Festival.

The state has no solutions to the problems we've been talking about, whether it's borders, education, or the economy, but that its big idea, the Blair Institute's and Tony Blair's big idea, is that we can monitor, survey, evaluate, and assess people. It's like when they said that digital ID was needed to stop illegal migrants crossing on boats. That argument was ridiculed, so now protecting and safeguarding children is being used to justify the same thing because it's a much more difficult argument to oppose. No decent person is going to say, "Of course I don't want to protect children," right? But the upshot of what this means is a situation in which our devices are continually monitored. We’ve just been through a period a few years ago during lockdown when we had surveillance of doctors, journalists, and ordinary citizens. We had a Rapid Response Unit and a Counter Disinformation Unit that was revived. Things that were said could result in you being shadow banned or pursued. We've seen this through the Twitter Files and the Lockdown Files. So we've got a situation where this is already happening within the state apparatus. The idea of extending that across the board is a kind of technocrat's dream. They say they're not going to misuse the data. They say it's about protection. Remember the phrase, "We're keeping you safe?" That's often the language that's used. "We're keeping you safe. We're going to protect the children. We're going to protect you." But what it will actually mean is that we have to digitally verify ourselves in order to participate. Do Not Allow this government to impose Digital ID Verification via big tech on us all! @NewCultureForum Stand Together @Togetherdec

@KemiBadenoch ACKCHERLY Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) were a political surveillance & secret police service. Bridget is thinking of the Schutzstaffel (the SS) who did "march hundreds of thousands of people to their deaths". ...so Kemi's analogy was not far off, tbh.

Don’t take it from me. Take it from one of the internet’s greatest pioneers @jimmy_wales

Starmer’s social media ban branded ‘a rush job’ Prime Minister accused of expediting restrictions for under-16s in effort to save his legacy Not just a ‘rush job’ It’s an assault on all adults - Forcing Digital ID Verification on everyone in Britain Internal government documents, released on Monday, revealed concerns from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s (DSIT) own expert panel that there was a “substantial” lack of evidence to justify key aspects of the plans 3 weeks to ‘assess’ it?! This will not protect kids. Australia demonstrates this. What it would do is force us all into Digital ID to get on Digital Public Square It is a hit job on privacy & is draconian & wrong @Keir_Starmer Make your voice heard challenge this

Almost 8,000 of you have signed my letter to protect our moorland ponies. A quango wants Dartmoor's grazing cut, condemning up to 9 in 10 of them. We don't hate Natural England enough. Bat tunnels, fish discos, and they still can't protect biodiversity. We are all poorer for it.

Exclusive from @oliver_wright Dartmoor ponies could be subject to mass culling to reduce the impact on biodiversity after a controversial ruling by the government’s environmental quango Natural England has demanded that all livestock grazing on the moor is reduced by about 75 per cent to protect other habitats, plants and species The move looks set to result in the culling of up to nine in ten of the semi-wild ponies as farmers prioritise their own cattle and sheep to remain within Natural England’s limit to minimise the impact on their own livelihoods Natural England argued that the move was necessary to protect the diversity of Dartmoor, which is a designated site of special scientific interest However, the plan goes against a government commissioned review into the future of Dartmoor, published two years ago, which concluded that Natural England “should not take actions likely to result in a reduction in pony numbers”, adding they were “invaluable for conservation grazing” The move has led to claims that the quango is acting as judge, jury and executioner of the ponies — a species which is itself seen as endangered Dartmoor ponies could be put to death under biodiversity plans thetimes.com/article/ba529f3…

Harman’s views on how old children have to be to consent to various things do seem to have shifted somewhat over the course of her life

Starmer is the useful idiot fronting the agendas of backroom men who use him like a weak puppet. They are railroading their to-do list through before he loses power.

People who concocted story about McSweeney having phone stolen (ANYONE believe that?) and who're illegally deleting messages from Petie (if using services which delete, breach of Min Code), abolishing online privacy for everyone else. Two Tier Keir @Keir_Starmer @leicesterliz