🚨 BREAKING: Everyone who joined our NHS–Palantir campaign has now had a reply from NHS England's Data Protection Officer. In writing, they confirmed: ▸ Palantir staff can access identifiable patient data before it's pseudonymised ▸ There is no opt-out from the Federated Data Platform ▸ Your Article 21 right to object has been formally refused They've confirmed it. They won't change it. Next step: a formal ICO complaint, citing their own response. We're building a one-click escalation tool for campaign participants. Watch this space.

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Athanasios Psilopoulos, a Greek marble mason who has been working on the restoration of the Parthenon since 1995, talked about what he discovered: "When we took down the last column from the pronaos (the porch at the front of the temple), we found an ancient wooden dowel that had been there for 2.500 years. The fact that it hadn’t rotted away means that not even air was getting in. They took it and immediately put it in a vacuum chamber so it wouldn’t deteriorate. This is astonishing, two pieces of marble sealed so airtight that no air could enter. It’s incredible that you can join two marbles together and, after 2.500 years, find the wood inside still perfectly intact, and discover what was inside. I was stunned when I saw it. I said to myself, “We are nothing.” That’s what I said." I hope that one day we get to see the Parthenon fully restored and complete, exactly as it was 2,500 years ago, with its original colors and the mythological representations of the ancient Greeks on the pediments.

Please watch this 2 minute video about Burnham. I campaigned for many years on behalf of child abuse survivors and I can tell you every word in this is true.

So Starmer & co say social media ban isn't ‘a rush job,’ yet: ▪️Civil servants had just three weeks to analyse the biggest public response to a consultation for more than a decade. ▪️Internal government documents 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. ▪️Sir Jeremy Wright, who as culture secretary spearheaded the Online Safety Act, questioned why the ban had been announced before ministers had established whether there was technology to verify the ages of children at 16. ▪️Baroness Kidron, the architect of the children’s code, said: “The biggest problem is not that they did it quickly...It is that they took it away from parliamentary scrutiny, whipped against all our detailed and sophisticated solutions and now have gone for a headline without a plan.” ------------------------------------------------------- And let us not forget, Starmer was anti the ban. In the words of the shadow technology secretary: "The Prime Minister instructed his troops three times to vote against a ban. We have had debates. The Prime Minister would not give a view. But, lo, a career-critical by-election comes along, and on realising that protecting kids is not just popular but vital, the Prime Minister has finally found his voice." telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06…

Most people still don’t see the full intention behind what’s happening in Britain. They view mass immigration, endless NGO funding, open borders for illegals, and the creeping digital ID push as separate failures or unfortunate coincidences. They’re not. This is a deliberate, multi-decade project. The goal is not simply “more diversity.” It is the managed transformation of Britain: diluting the historic British population, creating a dependent client base, breaking social cohesion, and building the infrastructure for greater centralised control (digital ID being the key piece). The NGOs, human rights lawyers, and political class aren’t incompetent — they are implementing the vision. Every grant, every hotel contract, every legal aid payout, every refusal to secure the border serves the same end: replacing the old Britain with something new, more manageable, and less attached to its own history and people. This isn’t chaos. It’s engineered change. The refusal to acknowledge the intention is what allows it to continue.

🚨 THE DIGITAL PRISON IS ALREADY HERE. Good morning to the millions of hardworking Brits waking up to a brand new surveillance state. 55 million adults will soon need to hand over their passport or face scan just to use X, Instagram and YouTube. Every single adult. Not just teenagers. 450,000 people signed a petition to scrap it in days. The government said no! The same government that cannot track 224,700 failed asylum seekers wants your biometric data before you are allowed to post a tweet. This was never about children. Screenshot this before they bury it. RT if you refuse. 🇬🇧🔥

Woman of the Day journalist Evelyn Graham Irons, born OTD in 1900 in Glasgow, the first woman war correspondent to reach Eagle’s Nest, Hitler's retreat at Berchtesgaden (she helped herself to a bottle of his wine) and the first woman to be awarded the Croix de Guerre. After graduating from Somerville College Oxford, Evelyn began working as a journalist for the Evening Standard (now the Daily Mail) and was promptly assigned to the beauty page. It wasn’t her ideal job. She had no interest in make-up, had never worn any in her life, and was eventually sacked for “looking unfashionable” but she ended up editing the “women’s interests” pages. That’s how she came to interview poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West. They began a short and tangled affair in 1931 (Vita dedicated her "Collected Poems" to Evelyn) but it ended when Evelyn fell in love with Joy McSweeney. I mention this only because newspaper articles of the time fixated on her private life and not on what she actually achieved, yet she was a woman of immense courage. She had already won the Royal Humane Society's Stanhope Gold Medal for “the bravest deed of 1935” for rescuing a drowning woman in very courageous circumstances at Tresaith Beach, Cardiganshire. It was the first time the medal had been awarded to a woman since Grace Darling. Work was humdrum — the “women’s interests” pages still weren’t to her taste — and she was tired of desk work so when WW2 broke out, she told the news editor, "From now on I'm working for you”. The Standard made her a war correspondent. I can’t help but wonder whether they set her up to fail. Field Marshal Montgomery refused point blank to have any women war correspondents with the British forces but that didn’t deter her. She wangled accreditation to the Free French Army, crossed the Rhine with Charles de Gaulle, accompanied French troops through Germany and Austria, and was one of the first journalists to reach liberated Paris. En route, she helped to capture a village in Bavaria. "We somehow had got ahead of the advance, and four of us in a jeep came to this village and found no Allied troops had arrived. So we took it ourselves. We were armed - the French would have none of this nonsense about war correspondents not carrying weapons - so we held up everyone at gunpoint and accepted their surrender. Then we helped ourselves to all the radios, cameras and binoculars we could find and drove off." That’s how Evelyn earned the Croix de Guerre with Silver Star, the first awarded to a woman. She was also the first woman war correspondent to reach Hitler's mountain retreat, Eagles Nest at Berchtesgaden, after it was captured. She crawled through snow to get there and helped herself to some of Hitler's "excellent Rhine wine” on arrival. In 1952, she moved to the US to cover the Eisenhower v Stevenson presidential election and settled there with Joy. By 1954, she was working for The Times when she became a bit of a journalistic legend, breaking a news embargo in Guatemala to stop any reports of the overthrow of its president. Journalists were forbidden to cross the border while the revolution was in progress so they hung around in a bar in Honduras. Not Evelyn. She bought a mule for £9 to carry her to Chiquimula in rebel territory, and was the first journalist to reach the HQ of the provisional government. This prompted a rival editor to cable his idle reporter: "OFFGET ARSE ONGET DONKEY SOONEST". Evelyn retired at 68 after many years as the Sunday Times New York bureau chief. She died in April 2000, just two months short of her 100th birthday.

To the idiots celebrating government controlling kids, you just agreed to adults having to hand over facial recognition, digital ID, passports and/or credit card details to prove you are not a child. Your stupidity is immeasurable.

I can believe I've been on this app so long! #MyXAnniversary

I totally agree. My old military and tech friends all say one thing: Data capture, then total control. With the added fun bit, the risk of a major hack and data grab then an outage that takes down… Government services such as: Pensions Benefits NHS data ID which will no doubt be linked to banking and credit cards. Then just like India seeing people locked out of services and payments. A disaster foretold. And we will be the victims. But guess what the MPs and their families will. Then imagine the civil service, police, armed forces and teaching services get hacked and they don't get paid. Karma is a bitch.

A row of houses built around one idea: artists need light. St Paul’s Studios have held painters, dancers, writers — and even became part of The King’s Speech. But what fictional story is hidden inside those windows? My latest Dundory Story: thedundorypapers.substack.co…

An 8.5-acre complex on an island in a Siberian Lake, built more than 1,200 years ago: Por-Bajin is exciting today, but no one seems to have used the place in its own time. Archaeologists turned to some heady tree science to figure out why. archaeology.org/issues/septe…

For those who missed it, this turned into a thread. Check the comments for lots of interesting related info... #MythologyMonday you guys might like this too...

🚨 STARMER IS NOW BEING CALLED OUT ON THE WORLD STAGE For years, concerns about mass migration were dismissed as a domestic political issue. Not anymore. Nile Gardiner argues that Donald Trump is right to speak out because what is happening in Britain and Europe affects the future of the entire Western world. The significance of this moment is not simply the criticism of Keir Starmer. It is the fact that Britain's migration policies are now being debated far beyond Westminster. What was once dismissed as a local issue is rapidly becoming an international one. And the scrutiny is only increasing.

x.com/JimFergusonUK/status/2… 🚨 IF YOU DON'T HAVE DIGITAL ID, YOU DON'T WORK. Keir Starmer has said the quiet part out loud. "You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID." So much for "optional."

If this was about 16 and under being children, then they would also ban gender affirming treatment to U16. This is not about children but about control.

Pakistani Muslim a Home Office employee was caught “fixing” the visas for his fellow countrymen for cash..

As a new Farmer myself who bought our farm 4 years ago, I can’t tell you how accurate Clarkson’s Farm actually is! We spent £3.5m buying our farm and subsequently in the past 4 years we’ve had to spend at least £527,000 on farm machinery and much, much more on running the farm. We’ve lost money every year since so far, and have had challenges or refusal from local authorities everytime we’ve tried to diversity, or do something to generate extra income. I cannot stress how difficult it is for farmers who have to rely on farming for their only income. We don’t get any subsidies or BPS payments at all (because we’re new farmers) and the grant system might as well be in Greek! As a CEO and professional businessman of some note, I felt I could easily apply for the grants myself. I kid you not, you’ve never seen a more complicated form - for ANYTHING! The farm we bought had been in the same family for 3 generations, but it was sold because it was getting tougher to support the farmers growing family and now I’ve been in it for 4 years I can see why. It’s a crying shame that more and more food is going to be imported and more skills lost because, for some unknown reason, the government obviously don’t value farmers. Sad.

On the morning of November 30, 2021, a judge in a Frankfurt courtroom delivered a verdict no court anywhere in the world had ever delivered before. The defendant, a former ISIS member, was guilty of genocide. The specific crime: the death of a five-year-old Yazidi girl named Reda. He and his wife had purchased Reda and her mother as slaves in 2015. As punishment for wetting the bed, he chained the child outside in the open sun in Fallujah, Iraq — in heat that reached fifty-one degrees Celsius — and left her there until she died. Her mother survived. She testified. It was the first time any court anywhere had convicted an ISIS member of genocide. The first time any court had ruled in law that what was done to the Yazidi people constituted genocide. The path that made it possible to use that word, in that courtroom, six years after Reda died, leads back to a twenty-two-year-old Yazidi woman who decided, in December 2015, not to speak in generalities. Her name is Nadia Murad. She was born in Kocho — a small Yazidi village of about seventeen hundred people in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq. On August 3, 2014, ISIS surrounded Kocho. They separated the men from the women and took the men to the edge of the village and shot them. They shot the older women too. Among the dead were six of Nadia's brothers and her mother. The younger women — Nadia among them — were loaded onto buses and driven to Mosul, where they were sold. She was twenty-one years old. She spent the next three months in captivity, passed between captors, until one day she found a door left unlocked and ran. A Muslim family in Mosul sheltered her at enormous risk to themselves and helped her escape. She crossed into northern Iraq, then a refugee camp, then Germany, which granted her asylum. She was free. She was also free to be silent. Most survivors of mass sexual violence choose silence — and that choice deserves every ounce of respect. Nadia Murad chose differently. On December 16, 2015, she walked into the chamber of the United Nations Security Council — accompanied by human rights lawyer Amal Clooney — and described what had been done to her and her community. She did not use diplomatic euphemisms. She did not speak in abstractions. She said the women had been sold. She said the children were as young as nine. She said her mother had been executed. She said what had been done to her. Then she made the demand her testimony had been built to make: international recognition that this was a genocide, and prosecution of those responsible. The room went silent. The transcript exists in the UN archives. That specificity was not accidental. Vague testimony cannot become evidence. A genocide conviction requires testimony precise enough for a judge to rule on intent, on system, on pattern. Nadia's testimony — and the testimony of survivors she helped gather in the years that followed — was precise enough to do exactly that work. In 2016, the UN Commission of Inquiry formally determined that ISIS's treatment of the Yazidis met the legal definition of genocide. The United States, the European Parliament, and the UK Parliament reached the same conclusion. In 2017, the UN established a specialized investigative body to collect evidence to courtroom standard. In 2018, Nadia Murad was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She used the acceptance speech to remind the room of the women still missing. And in 2021 in Frankfurt, in a case where Amal Clooney represented Reda's mother, the legal architecture built from that testimony produced the verdict that had never existed before. Further convictions have followed. Open prosecutions continue in multiple countries under universal-jurisdiction laws that allow genocide to be tried wherever the perpetrator is found. Nadia Murad is thirty-two years old. She continues to travel and testify and run Nadia's Initiative, which rebuilds water systems, clinics, and schools in the Sinjar region she came from. More than two thousand eight hundred Yazidi women and children are still missing or held in captivity. Mass graves are still being excavated. The first time a court used the word genocide for what was done to her people, the year was 2021. The first time anyone said it in a chamber where the law could hear it was December 16, 2015. The woman who said it was twenty-two years old. She did not speak in generalities. She spoke in names, and ages, and facts — and the law followed.