Lucy Connolly finally returns home to her family today. At last. Her punishment was harsher than the sentences handed down for bricks thrown at police or actual rioting. At that time, after Southport, Keir Starmer branded all protesters ‘far-right’ and called for “fast-track prosecutions”. Days later, Lucy was charged with stirring up racial hatred - an offence that doesn’t even require intent to incite violence. Why exactly did the Attorney General think that was in the public interest? Meanwhile, former Labour councillor Ricky Jones called for protestors to have their throats slit. Charged with encouraging violent disorder, he pleaded not guilty and was acquitted by a jury who saw his words as a disgusting remark made in the heat of the moment, not a call to action. Juries are a cornerstone of justice, but we shouldn’t have to rely on them to protect basic freedoms. Protecting people from words should not be given greater weight in law than public safety. If the law does this, then the law itself is broken – and it’s time Parliament looked again at the Public Order Act.

Just landed in Heathrow Airport T3. Went into M&S. Three @marksandspencer staff speaking in another language. I asked them “What language are you speaking?” They responded “Hindi” I have a voice recording & their names to report to M&S. We must confront them every time.

I really respect you Ben and wish you and the party all the luck in the world but I do worry re splitting the vote and Labour just winning again which would seal the death knell of this country

So: large benefits for a small number of billionaires who are already here. Little potential to attract anyone else here. Deters highly skilled workers from moving here. Costs £34bn. Not great.

Dreadful failure of national security. Life in prison for these traitors 👇

Very predictably, Reeves is throwing more and more money at the NHS. It doesn’t need it, it needs to sort itself out. How much waste is there in just one NHS hospital? Millions, and millions, and millions. NHS worship is boring, and it’s fed this monster to the point we can’t even begin to talk about how ineffectual it actually is. The lanyard mob will no doubt be sharpening their pitchforks as they read this... Proper frontline staff have my full respect, but I’d like to see thousands and thousands of bureaucrats lose their jobs. I mean thousands. Vast swathes of middle management, gone. Every DEI related role, gone. Translation/interpretation, gone. Net zero officers, gone. Afuera on NHS-prescribed steroids. The national health service is a mess, an absolute mess. But taxpayers are expected to be eternally grateful to a system that is unquestionably failing to deliver for them? Why? What would be delivered in days in countries of similar wealth, takes months in the NHS. Why? And no, it’s not the NHS or the American way. There are dozens of systems that deliver FAR better outcomes FAR more effectively. Let’s look to them, and steal their ideas. See what works, implement it here. Full Royal Commission. Nothing off the table. I can already hear the lanyards being angrily flung against the wall. It’s not just a broken system. It’s a cult. And like all cults, it goes after the heretics who dare to ask basic questions. There’s a few of those around, at the moment… The NHS fails the very people who fund it. Politicians need to find the courage to say so. More interested in rainbow zebra crossings than actually delivering for British patients. Isn’t it all just so very boring? Endlessly throwing money at the problem will solve nothing - the rot goes far, far deeper than that. But above all, we need some honesty. The NHS is not fit for purpose.

Reeves. An incompetent chancellor, in an incompetent cabinet, in an incompetent party, in an incompetent government. What a combination.

Don't be a smart arse with Farage..he's smarter than you

As a magistrate of 20 years, Lucy Connolly’s case is clearly an example of the two-tier justice we are facing in this country. While I do not condone her tweet, a 31-month prison sentence is ridiculous.

Where’s the footage of the actual driver in Liverpool getting arrested?