Law; wine; the Rolling Stones; cheese; America; pro wrestling. Cooks a good pork chop.
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How did Britain end up with a government so petty, small minded and delusional? It’s government by deranged people.
Ed Miliband imposes new net zero restrictions on underfloor heating and towel rails
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The evidence that the Tories view it any differently is distinctly shaky.
Jun 11
Not taxing something is not a subsidy. This is a fundamental problem with Labour’s world view. They think your money is a common good. If they leave you with some of it, you should thank them. They look at pensions in the same way.
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No, it absolutely is “protest”. Just because you disagree with the protesters’ cause doesn’t mean you should be able to subvert the ordinary meaning of words. And injury to police officers does not, in itself, make the protest wrong.
Jun 12
Smashing up property and attacking a police officer with a sledgehammer is not “protest”
It’s violence
Zack Polanski is a disgrace. Anyone voting Green is supporting this nonsense
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Just don’t care about these fights and confrontations between police officers and Palestine or JSO activists. It’s just regime in-fighting at this stage, and neither side wishes me well.
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The ‘nasty’ angry mob seeking vengeance against those who have wronged them is as old as recorded history. I’m hoping I live long enough to see the editorial team of The Economist suffer the fate they deserve from that ‘nasty’ mob.
Jun 12
Reform UK and the Conservatives are being pulled further to the right with a simple remorseless logic: that there is no limit to how nasty the British public can be economist.com/britain/2026/0…
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Is this guy a joke? A plant? He is an MP of a party that enthusiastically, for ideological reasons, does all the things of which he now complains. He sought votes on the back of the agenda which he now claims to disavow. Hypocrite.
This week the most advanced AI model on the planet got switched off by a foreign government. British researchers were studying it. British companies were testing it. British hospitals were piloting it. Not any more.
This isn't an AI story. It's the story of every industry we used to lead.
Britain has some of the best AI talent in the world. DeepMind was built here. Our AI Safety Institute writes the rules other countries follow. We have the researchers, the universities, the standards.
What we don't have is the power stations to run the data centres, the planning system to build them, or the industrial base to make the chips. So the work happens here and the value lands somewhere else. We invent. Others build. Others decide. Then we read about it on Saturday morning.
Same story as the kit our soldiers don't have. Same story as the factories we used to.
I spent nine months in government making this argument inside the room. I'll make it louder from outside.
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Jun 13
No, he wouldn’t. Starmer is letting us see the nation we’ve become in all its authoritarian arrogance and grim ideological failure, in a way that Sunak wouldn’t. And for that reason alone, Starmer is doing us all a great service.
Jun 11
Let's be completely honest: Rishi Sunak would be doing a better job right now than Keir Starmer is.
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If you haven’t already worked out that the police are liars, and you shouldn’t believe anything they say without concrete evidence that it’s true, it’s time that you did so.
Jun 12
This hasn't aged well. I swallowed Police Scotland spin about "misinformation" being spread about an incident where "a Bulgarian couple were approached by youths".
In fact, was the one assaulted and verbally abused by the Bulgarian couple.
Sorry Sophie from Dundee
But all credit to Dundee Sheriff Court for getting to the truth.
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Jun 12
The arrogant and mistaken assumption that every Restore voter would automatically vote for Reform if Restore dropped out is now central to the legacy media narrative.
Jun 12
Exclusive from @patrickkmaguire
Restore Britain is set to hand Andy Burnham the victory in Makerfield, according to a poll of the constituency that will electrify the final days of the by-election campaign.
The mayor of Greater Manchester is five points ahead of Reform UK in a race that remains too close for comfort with less than a week until ballots are cast, a survey by More in Common and the UCL Policy Lab suggests.
It shows Labour’s lead over Nigel Farage’s candidate, Robert Kenyon — 45 per cent to 40 per cent — is smaller than the 8 per cent share for Restore Britain, the hard-right party led by Rupert Lowe, with more than one in ten voters yet to decide how to vote.
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Jun 12
The police are invariably quick to take sides but it’s never going to be yours.
Jun 12
A 12 year-old girl dubbed 'Sophie of Dundee' who was arrested after police initially believed a Bulgarian man's claims that she had called him a "f**ing migrant" has been vindicated after he was found guilty of assault. dailysceptic.org/2026/06/12/…
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It is allowed because these people are supportive of the regime, its values and its agenda. Simple as that. The police, as the regime's defence force, know they must leave them alone.
Jun 12
💥Chaos outside Woolwich Crown Court before the sentencing of the four convicted of smashing up a factory in Bristol and assaulting a police officer. I don’t understand why this is even allowed.
🎥 @fatdafevy
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Jun 12
In America at the moment and digesting the various pageantry and commentary around the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Viewed from here, it seems both fitting and a strange coincidence that Britain, as it descends very publicly into an oppressive political tyranny going completely off the rails, has gone out of its way in 2026 to demonstrate the absolute wisdom of the rebellious colonists in 1776 in doing whatever they could to rid themselves of the British government.
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If and when the regime falls, there will be hundreds of former regime loyalists doing stuff like this, desperately trying to reposition themselves to avoid exile or punishment.
Jun 12
The brother and sister in the “Sophie of Dundee” incident have been found guilty of aggressing those young girls. I was overly hasty in expressing scepticism about the narrative as it happened. I’ve deleted the tweet and - yes - lesson learned.
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Jun 11
They continue to pretend the chancellor has any agency in these matters, and the gullible who rant on about Reeves believe it, but the reality is that the Treasury tells her what to do.
Jun 11
TREASURY source hits back to say Chancellor "will always do what is right and needed to keep this country safe... Let's be clear on what John is asking for: cuts to schools and hospitals."
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Given the present condition of the British state, and its priorities and agenda, I am not in favour of increasing military spending. It’s inevitable that the money would either be squandered on corrupt procurement projects or used for domestic security measures to quell popular dissent. Don’t feed the beast.
Jun 11
John Healey has resigned as defence secretary over Sir Keir Starmer’s defence investment plan, accusing the Prime Minister of failing to "meet the moment" over his long-delayed proposals to boost military spending. dailysceptic.org/2026/06/11/…
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He is right, but the destruction of so much of London nightlife is because the law allows it. Planning authorities are not allowed to dismiss complaints simply because the hypocritical complainant moved in long after the alleged 'nuisance' first arose. Change the law.
Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums.
Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space.
It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?
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Jun 11
Who does she think she is? I am certain that a Nigerian woman more than understands that taking matters into your own hands, burning down homes and driving unwanted people out of your town is exactly what is needed if you want to effect real change. Her part of the world is proof of that, surely.
Jun 10
The scenes in Belfast are deeply disturbing.
People have a right to be angry. And people have the right to expect their politicians to secure our borders.
But no one has a right to burn families out of their homes.
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Sorry, but saying “pogroms never solved anything” is the definition of being obtuse (or, at the very least, ignorant of history).
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I'm not being obtuse or wilfully thick.
I really don't understand how torching buses or immigrants' homes helps?
Pogroms never solved anything.
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Jun 10
Britain really is going to end up as a totalitarian pariah state, isn’t it?
Jun 10
Those who use social media to incite violence and disorder are breaking the law.
Next week we will lay in Parliament an update to the Online Safety Act requiring services to take quicker action to remove illegal content circulating during times of crisis.
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I’m sure Ceaușescu said things like this as his regime came under pressure and he ordered the state security apparatus to step up attacks on ordinary people.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said the disorder in Belfast was “shocking and completely unacceptable”, adding: “It is clear that people were targeted last night because of their background and I will not tolerate it.”
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