Economist and former analyst and negotiator of trade, environment and agriculture policies.

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Derrick Wilkinson retweeted
You can now read the Rape Gang Inquiry report on the link below. static1.squarespace.com/stat… From Scotland to London, children were raped, trafficked, tortured, and murdered. Children as young as four years old were passed on and sold by their own mothers to men to be raped. Children endured decades of trafficking, filmed blackmail, "red rooms" of torture, animal rape, and witnessed murders of other girls. They were subjected to extreme violence including penetration by objects, strangulation, and backstreet abortions. Pure evil has been allowed to continue since as early as the 1950s. The majority of perpetrators were Muslim men, and the people paid to protect these children didn’t just turn a blind eye; some were directly involved in the abuse and rape. As we head into Stage 3 of the inquiry, we will be naming those individuals involved and pursuing private prosecutions. So far, the inquiry has held two weeks of hearings in London, initiated multiple criminal investigations, taken legal action against dozens of services, collected files and evidence, and continues to give survivors and families a platform. Some survivors are still being ignored and waiting for investigations to open. The NCA have still not responded to us and the interest of the NPCC is to safeguard the people we intend to name. I would like to thank MP Rupert Lowe for starting the inquiry, our team, all participants, the donors who made this possible, and, of course, the public for supporting us. Our work is far from over.

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Derrick Wilkinson retweeted
I recently wrote to @CommonsSpeaker to complain about the way ministers and the PM fail to answer questions put to them in the House The specific example I cited was on 2 June when @ClaireCoutinho asked @Ed_Miliband who was responsible for making sure there's no blackout in the UK and what would happen to them if there was He replied to say she was scaremongering, expressed sorrow she no longer supports net zero and made some irrelevant comment about green jobs Today I received the attached response from the Speaker's office basically saying it's not up to them to evaluate the accuracy of answers and that they do not have "the authority to require Ministers to give proper answers to questions" While technically correct, the Speaker can absolutely notice when no substantive answer has been given and remind the minister of their duties to Parliament More broadly their reply exposes the accountability gap. Parliament has a rule or expectation that answers should address the question, but it has very limited machinery to enforce that in real time The practical sanction is political: MPs, the Opposition, select committees, the media, and ultimately the House itself. If the House wanted the Speaker to have stronger powers, the House would need to grant them, probably through changes to Standing Orders or procedure So we need to lobby our MPs to raise this with the Procedure Committee
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Labour's new social media regulations apply to EVERYBODY! "Adults will still be able to access social media with age checks like facial recognition, digital IDs, passports and credit cards."
🚨 SUMMARY: The UK's social media ban for children from early 2027: - "User-to-user" apps where people create, share and interact with content (e.g. TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, X, Facebook) will be banned for under-16s - WhatsApp, Signal and YouTube Kids will be exempt - Under-16s will also be banned from livestreaming, messaging strangers on gaming apps like Discord and using disappearing messages - 16 and 17 year olds will face nightly social media curfews and limits on infinite scrolling with more details next month - AI "romantic companion" chatbots will be banned for under-18s - Adults can still access social media through age checks like facial recognition, digital IDs, passports and credit cards
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This video is a standout scene from the famous British feature film "Brassed Off" (1996). The excerpt deeply reflects the core theme of the movie: the spiritual power of music as a saving grace and the sole remaining pride of poor working-class people in the face of the harsh wave of coal mine closures in Britain at that time.
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Why are there so many dangerously stupid people running the country's most important institutions? "Accident & Emergency (A&E) patients will be forced to complete online questionnaires before getting treatment under NHS plans for iPad-style check-ins."
This really worries me A month ago in Wales I suffered a ruptured aneurysm in my abdomen. I lost over 2 units of blood But the Welsh ambulance service refused to send an ambulance. I was still breathing so apparently didn't need one I spent 7 hours lying on the ground in a car park. Every time I moved I threw up from the pain. The owners of the car park called 999 6x One of the people there was a fireman. He couldn't believe that 999 treated each call as a separate incident and couldn't see the details or link to previous calls. He was frustrated because they could see I was seriously ill but you can't see internal bleeding and so there was no way to persuade 999 that it actually was an emergency Eventually my husband arrived by taxi, journey of more than 3 hours from our home He gave me my pain meds (the car park people were worried about liability and I was too ill to get them myself). This meant I was able to crawl into the car and he drove me to A&E He got me into a wheelchair. We waited 75 minutes to see a doctor. I was shivering, heaped with blankets and threw up all over the floor As soon as a doctor looked at me I was taken straight to resus. The next day I was transfered by blue light ambulance to another hospital, had a blood transfusion and spent 5 days on the high dependency unit If my husband hadn't been able to come and look after me I have no idea how I would have survived. As it was I nearly didn't I would not have been able to get myself to hospital nor would I have been able to log into some digital triage system This scheme seems to assume if you're seriously ill you'll arrive by ambulance and if not you're well enough to navigate a digital portal My experience suggests that's a dangerous assumption A week later, back home in England I had another ruptured aneurysm. This time an ambulance came in 2 hours and again I was taken straight to resus It wasn't the same because I had a recent diagnosis of a ruptured aneurysm so we could tell 999 I was almost certainly bleeding internally. But I was too ill to get myself down the stairs and out to the car. We still needed that ambulance and I still wouldn't have been able to fiddle around with an ipad Proper triage REQUIRES an actual doctor to look at the patient. It takes a matter of minutes to differentiate between a life threatening emergency and not a life threatening emergency. That's not minutes to get a diagnosis but to know that the person is stable or not stable and if not that needs immediate attention Seriously ill people can't do it themselves. It doesn't matter how smart or articulate they are normally. Or how tough. Expecting people to manage their own emergency care isn't what a modern health service should do telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06…
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Sweet Home Chicago – Pure Acoustic Duo Magic by MG Shuffle!
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Yes, in the UK there are nearly 2 arrests for speech offenses every hour 24/7 Of those, around 3 people are sentenced every day And somebody goes to jail every 3 days for a speech offense - and the laws are set to get even tougher!!
"More people are arrested for speech offenses in the UK than any other country. This is insane." Elon Musk
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All roads lead back to the Home Office!
🇬🇧 A Sudanese thug who attempted to behead a man in Belfast received asylum through a simplified procedure Instead of a standard interview, he filled out a ten-page Home Office questionnaire, a scheme introduced in 2023 to speed up the processing of migrant applications. Even at the launch stage, the organization Migration Watch UK, which advocates for stricter immigration, called the initiative “dangerous folly.” After the attack in Northern Ireland, protests and riots began.
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Derrick Wilkinson retweeted
Here’s the problem. The liberal political class wants us to treat atrocities like Belfast as single, random, isolated incidents. “Yes, it’s horrific, but don’t overreact,” they say. “Let the police do their job. Justice will be delivered. Let’s remain united,” and so on. But the public can see that such incidents *aren’t* random or isolated. They are, in fact, all the consequence of massive state failure in the area of asylum and immigration. All roads lead back there. That’s why people are angry.. They are sick of the platitudes that get trotted out after each fresh incident. They don’t want to hear them anymore. They know that the decisions of establishment politicians have brought us to this current pass, and they don’t trust those same politicians to fix things, especially when some of them refuse to even recognise that the public’s anger is justified. There has been a huge vibe shift in recent years. Imagine - God forbid - there were another 7/7. Does anyone think the public response would be anything like as restrained as it was then? We are in really dangerous territory. The public don’t want flowers and candles and “Don’t let them divide us.” They want someone who says, “I recognise that the state has failed abjectly. We have allowed far too many people to settle in the country without knowing who they truly are. It has disrupted your communities. Your anger is justified. And I will do everything in my power to put things right.” Any politician unwilling to articulate that message, fully and sincerely, is effectively sanctioning more years of growing social disharmony and discord. Things cannot heal until those in power recognise the extent of the problem and what it will take to fix it. And, on both counts, most of them don’t. That’s why the next few years are going to be very, very turbulent.
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Another great example of the "suicidal empathy" that does so much to divide and inflame society!
Despicable woman.
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Blowin' in the Wind - The Petersens.
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Brilliant! 😂
I tried the government's new AI "Jobcentre in your pocket" chatbot. Could it write me a CV? It could. It also suggested that I should consider employment law and whether I've been discriminated against. Key detail: I'm a parrot.
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Remember - Come the Reckoning The mob don’t do subtle. The mob don’t do nice. The mob don’t talk soft. The mob don’t ask twice! When the torches are lit, When there’s fire in their eyes, When they’ve taken the streets, Who’ll then hear your cries?
Belfast Tonight. Britain Tomorrow. The Trajectory Is Set. On Monday night a man was pinned to a residential street in north Belfast and stabbed repeatedly in the face and neck. Members of the public intervened. One used a hurling stick. By Tuesday night three houses and a Middle Eastern supermarket were burning. Infants were carried from neighbouring properties. A police vehicle was set alight. Politicians called for calm. Remember this night. Not because it is exceptional. Because it is not. This is where the road leads. Not in twenty years. Now. Belfast has experienced serious immigration-related disorder for three consecutive years. The same cycle every time. Attack. Outrage. Disorder. Calls for calm. Nothing. The next incident. What is playing out in Belfast is not a malfunction. It is the destination. A state that cannot name the cause manages the consequence instead, and calls it governance. Now project forward. Not with imagination. With arithmetic. Over 200,000 people have arrived by small boat since 2018. The majority are unvetted young men from countries with no cultural alignment with the host society. They are housed in communities without consent. Dispersed without warning. The removal rate is four percent. The government knows the other ninety-six percent are staying. It has decided to manage that fact rather than reverse it. Every year the number grows. Every year the concentration deepens. Every year the friction increases. In ten years those concentrations will not be streets. They will be districts. In twenty years they will be cities within cities, governed by parallel authority, answering to parallel loyalties. We have watched this happen in France. The banlieues were built accommodation by accommodation, retreat by retreat, until the French state no longer entered them except in force. Britain is on the same road, travelling faster. The trigger events will multiply. One policing incident. One foreign conflict landing on a British street. One court case, one arrest, one viral video. Any spark will do because the kindling has been laid by policy and left to dry by neglect. The riots will not be contained to one city for one night. They will spread, as they spread in France, as they spread across England last summer, because the grievance is not local. It is national. And the anger on both sides will harden with every cycle. Public order will not hold at current trajectory. The police already negotiate where they once enforced. Investigations are quietly dropped. Reports go unfiled. The state keeps the peace by lowering the bar for what constitutes peace. That bar will keep falling because the alternative requires confronting what the political class has spent thirty years refusing to confront. The political system will bend to the new demography. It already has. Candidates selected on foreign conflicts. Councils controlled by sectarian bloc voting. Representatives answering to communal leaderships rather than constituents. That process will accelerate as the demographic weight shifts. And somewhere in this trajectory a trigger event will occur that cannot be managed. A mass casualty attack. A riot that becomes an insurrection. A video so barbaric it breaks the remaining political consensus around managed silence. After that the response will be less controlled, less proportionate and less reversible than anything a government could have delivered by acting fifteen years earlier when the choice still existed. Britain is not sleepwalking into this. The eyes are wide open. The trajectory is known. The choices being made are deliberate. Every week that passes without a closed border, a functioning removal system and an honest political reckoning is a week in which the future described above becomes more certain and less avoidable. Belfast on Monday night is not a warning. The warnings came years ago and were ignored. Belfast on Monday night is the bill beginning to arrive.
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Derrick Wilkinson retweeted
Just when you think Claire Fox couldn’t be more brilliant … she is. Here’s Claire on Alien Culture. “We do not think for example that stoning women for adultery is modern, that it’s just a cultural practice, what’s wrong with that? We do not think that child marriage is an interesting cultural expression. We have to say that’s a backward medieval thing. So ‘Alien culture’ was well chosen, it’s importing Alien culture” Exactly what we were all thinking🔥
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"Marina Favaro and Jack Clark, the head of Anthropic’s research arm and its president, said AI technology was approaching the point where the systems would develop themselves. They said that this moment, known as “recursive self-improvement”, could trigger an explosion in capabilities but could also mean humans being unable to control the AI systems." World’s most valuable AI start-up calls for global freeze in AI development telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
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Derrick Wilkinson retweeted
Anthropic, the world’s most valuable AI start-up, has called for a global freeze in AI development and warned that humans risk losing control of the technology. Its chief executive Dario Amodei has said there is a 25pc chance that “things go really, really badly”. 🔗: telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
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