My trusty Peugeot 306, pictured below in January 1999 and today respectively.

Brilliant from Michael Deacon - telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06… Still, whatever the truth, my own family won’t be needing any assistance of this kind. Because, just in case I’m ever randomly murdered in the street by a failed asylum seeker, I’ve already prepared a statement for them. It reads as follows. “We, the family of Michael Deacon, are naturally disappointed to learn of his untimely beheading. But one thing distresses us even more. And that’s the thought that this unfortunate incident might in some way be used to criticise our nation’s beloved Prime Minister. The fact is that Michael’s death is definitely not the fault of the Government’s suicidally lax approach to border control, or its fanatical commitment to prioritising the interests of people from any country on Earth except our own. Michael himself was always the first to remind everyone that diversity is our strength, that Britain was built by immigrants, and that Our NHS cannot survive unless our superiors allow an endless deluge of mysterious men from extremely dangerous countries to be accommodated at tax-payer expense next to your local primary school. We therefore ask Nigel Farage not to politicise this completely unavoidable tragedy by making irresponsible and divisive calls for something to be done to prevent it from happening again. Instead, he and indeed everyone else in Britain should respect our wishes by carrying on as if nothing has happened, thus ensuring that this politically inconvenient event is helpfully forgotten, at least until the next one. Vote Labour.”

I’m actually a child online safety expert and was one of the pioneers in this space with Club Penguin and so I feel uniquely positioned to critique this. The groomer problem is real but it’s also vastly overstated. The far larger issue we saw at Penguin was suicidality or reports of sexual abuse in the home. There is no solution for lazy/bad parenting. You can implement all the ID laws you want but if parents are going to just hand kids their phones unlocked, those kids will have access to all the same things the parents have unfettered. What I found is that these draconian safety laws actually make it harder to be an honest operator of kids apps because on one hand it’s so much legal risk and so much user friction that it simply becomes uninvestible as a business. Parents will just lie to let their kids use the unfettered internet. For example, I have a friend who works in mobile gaming who has two kids, one above and one below the age limit but separated by just 2 yrs, and the two wanted to play and chat together on Roblox - which is reasonable. To do this, he just verified that his younger kid is old enough for the chat feature when he’s not. This happens all the time and will happen with these laws to. How far do we want to go with this? Scan the face of the user in real-time to make sure it’s not a kid using the device? We could do that but it feels like a massive unwanted intrusion of privacy. That’s how you know this law isn’t about kids. COPPA and GDPR-K and so forth already make it illegal to allow chat and other grooming vectors to kids. What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. And this is a far bigger issue that goes to core speech rights because if you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes. Starmer has already been doing this and he wants to do it at a much bigger scale. Starmer won’t even acknowledge the problem of actual grooming gangs in Britain’s neighborhoods but he’s worried about online grooming? No he’s not, and this hypocrisy gives away the game. What he wants is to kill online anonymity so he can enforce censorship of his unpopular policies. No politician should have this power.

"Dad, why can't I watch the drumming and guitar videos on YouTube anymore?" "Sorry, son. Keir Starmer is protecting your childhood"

It isn't conspiracy, though, is it? The only way to bar under-16s from social media is to mandate proof of age for everyone, creating a mass database of Digital ID, giving “powerful actors” the means to track anyone, including UK Govt for ‘safeguarding’. So @elonmusk is right.

I’m not a tech person so maybe this is dumb but isnt it easier to create a “children’s phone” at point of sale so you get a phone with built-in restrictions rather than asking every single person in the country whether they are over 16 or not through hackable digital ID software?

They don’t care about kids. They just want to force you to tie your passport to your social media so that they can arrest you for mean tweets.

For someone who believes pigs are haram he certainly seems very at home at the trough.

The UK state can no longer reliably heal you, house you, answer you, innovate, or maintain local services. But it can still bill you, tax you, summons you, and enforce against you. Name one thing the modern British state still does well for normal people?

So we just let Internet curfews for 17-year-olds happen, like we're North Korea or China, and no one bats an eyelid because "social media bad"? This is sinister, controlling, dangerous stuff.

Things that triggered the left this week: - a clean reflecting pool - a name on a building - a murderer getting convicted of murder - a sporting event at the White House - a successful IPO - welders and janitors becoming millionaires

Elon could literally solve homelessness tomorrow. All he needs to do is sell his stake in the companies he created from the ground up, crashing the price and evaporating his wealth as well as the savings and pensions of workers globally.. handing the control of these companies over to short term profit interests and preventing any long term vision from being enacted.. THEN take whatever money that remains which will be nowhere near 1tn and give it to homeless charities who have never solved homelessness anywhere on earth because they’re financially incentivised to do the opposite. Bam - homelessness solved. The reason he doesn’t do any of this is because he’s evil.

“Ware thee of the internett; ful many falsehedes liggen therinne.” - Geoffrey Chaucer

I have many more issues with Ilhan Omar being worth $30 million than Elon being worth a trillion.

Andy’s working class background will absolutely define his premiership. He grew up in one of the poorest Cambridge colleges, and was forced into an arranged marriage with a Dutch aristocrat, just to pay off his bar bills at the Cantab Footy Club.

Korean man tunes into a Zoom meeting while on a roller coaster. There's no way they didn't know 😂

Announcing £4,500 million for cyclists the day after saying there’s no money to defend the nation is magnificent And rally says it all

All our national heritage is now superintended by people who despise their country.

I honestly struggle to imagine a man temperamentally more ill-suited to leading Britain in 2026 than Keir Starmer We need leadership; he clings to procedure We need truth; he has only rigid ideology We need transformative vision; he has only fearful, authoritarian control

We are devastated by the loss of our family member, Name Surname, and would ask last night's protesters to remember that free breakfasts bring all our communities together

The Home Office (with a sense of suicidal empathy) set up a fast track migration pathway for people from some of the most violent and war torn parts of the world. This allowed the Sudanese Belfast stabbing suspect to be granted right to stay without an interview. We somehow constructed a migration system making it incredibly hard for productive people from peaceful developed parts of the world to come here, while incredibly easy for non-contributing people from undeveloped violent parts of the world to be granted leave to remain. This is insanity.