Proposed Vaping Tax, 01-Oct-26: It is said a heavy vaper uses 5ml of 18mg/ml eliquid a day (5x18=90mg nicotine) 30ml of 3mg/ml eliquid is 90mg nicotine. The bottle on the right represents four days of such low nicotine cloud vaping. Close to the price of three bottles of scotch

Hey @KeirStarmer, how about educating parents on how to do this? Or would that not achieve the desired result you're *actually* aiming for?

Rogue police push over the elderly mother of Rhiannon Whyte who was stabbed to death by a migrant. The Vichy copper did this whilst Antifa were chanting "Rhiannon Whyte deserved it!" What does identikit Chief Constable Jo Shiner of @sussex_police have to say about this outrage?

And you want their brains filled with this shit. Unable to speak, voice and opinion lest they ‘offend’ Social engineering on children, and everyone else, has always been the realm of the left

How can we tackle misconceptions about nicotine? It starts with how we think about policy. On The @SmokelessWord: Live from the Lab, Dr James Murphy and Joe Gitchell explore the role of policy in reducing smoking prevalence and misconceptions about nicotine. Watch now.

The BBC Has Ruled. Brexit Damaged The Economy. No Further Debate Required. The BBC's editorial complaints unit has decided that the negative economic impact of Brexit is now a settled fact. Not a contested judgement. Not one side of a live debate. A fact, in the same category as man-made climate change, requiring no balancing view. The ruling followed a Radio 4 Today programme segment featuring Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, alongside Liam Byrne and Sir John Gieve, both long-standing advocates of closer EU alignment. All three agreed Brexit had damaged growth. The presenter, Katya Adler, did not challenge the premise or introduce a dissenting voice. A complaint followed. The ECU's response is the revealing part. It acknowledged the segment failed to "acknowledge the alternative case" for pursuing opportunities outside the EU rather than realignment with it. That part of the complaint was upheld. But the central complaint, that three pro-EU voices agreeing with each other on air is not balance, was dismissed. The reasoning given was that this reflected "the consensus among economists" and there was no "significant body of economic opinion" on the other side. This is worth pausing on. The BBC is not claiming it found balance. It is claiming balance was unnecessary because one side of the argument does not meaningfully exist. The institution that is legally required to be impartial has ruled itself the arbiter of which questions are still open and which are closed, and Brexit has just been moved into the closed file. The economics itself does not support the certainty on display. The headline figure driving much of this narrative, an 8 per cent hit to GDP since 2016, comes from an NBER paper built on a "synthetic control" model that constructs a hypothetical non-Brexit Britain from a basket of comparator countries. The largest weighting in that basket, over 60 per cent, is the United States, a country currently riding an AI investment boom and a separate fiscal stimulus. The model also weights Estonia and Greece more heavily than France or Germany. On a straightforward per capita basis against France and Germany, the actual comparators, Britain's performance since 2016 sits roughly in line with both. An 8 per cent gap simply isn't visible. This is a model producing a number that then gets reported as "the consensus," which the BBC then cites as the reason no alternative view is required. That loop, model produces number, number becomes consensus, consensus becomes fact, fact requires no balance, is the mechanism. It does not require a conspiracy. It requires an institution that has decided which conclusions are respectable and which are not, and which then treats its own prior decision as evidence. The same posture has been on display all week. A government department can decide its diversity targets are lawful without seeking legal advice to check. A police force can decide a book about dismantling "inner white supremacy" is leadership training. A broadcaster can decide an economic question is closed and that deciding so does not breach its own impartiality rules. In each case, the institution marks its own homework, and the mark is always a pass. None of this requires Brexit to have been a triumph. Britain's economy has genuine problems, most of them unrelated to single market membership. But a state broadcaster, funded by compulsory licence fee under threat of prosecution, has now formally placed one of the most consequential political decisions in modern British history beyond the reach of its own impartiality obligations. Reform's Lee Anderson called it being "blinkered by groupthink." The more precise description is an institution that has stopped being able to tell the difference between its own assumptions and the facts. "The BBC is not claiming it found balance. It is claiming balance was unnecessary because one side of the argument does not meaningfully exist."

Predictably the pro-Pals have kicked off outside court and are blocking the prison van from leaving. Where’s the riot police?

She's poor and white. That was enough for the Press to assume she was lying. Nothing ever changes.

Last year, a video went viral of a scared, 12 year old girl in Dundee. She was waving weapons, shouting at a migrant to leave her alone. Almost immediately, many on the left were calling this girl a liar (and worse). They were saying the “far-right” were whipping up ‘anti-migrant hate’. People like @HumzaYousaf & many more called it ‘bullsh*t’. Many, including people like @jdpoc while calling her a liar & talking about her ‘hatred’, showed pictures of the little girl. Just to make sure everyone knew who the ‘liar’ they were talking about, was. A fundraiser for the girl was mocked, suggesting she’d use the money to buy “machetes and IronBru” She was a child. Their posts were seen by hundreds of thousands of people. She wasn’t ‘hate-filled’, she was scared. Yesterday, her version of events was proven to be true. She was sexually harassed by a migrant and another child physically assaulted too. The man and his sister were prosecuted. How shameful that children need to arm themselves for protection. How shameful that adults will deny their reality. How shameful that some people are so desperate to defend migration into this country, that they will literally mock children who are victims of their crimes. Shame on you all. I’ll be fascinated to see how many of you publicly apologise to the girl, in the same public way that you called her a liar. I won’t hold my breath… I hope this girl is ok. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…

Further to this, during the Epping protest, the protesters attempted to block the migrant hotel using the court system. They had some initial success, but this was quickly overturned by a judge whose explicit reasoning was essentially "Damn what the law says, the government has a positive interest in housing migrants, which overrides whatever concerns locals may have." Voting didn't work, petitions didn't work, protests didn't work, and the courts didn't work. These peaceful avenues were patiently pursued for decades, and despite being very successful - elections won, legal challenges won, petitions and rallies with massive turnouts - the regime stymied them at every turn. So now they get war.

How is this even possible @fordnation @MarkJCarney young British doctors have no jobs available. We have plenty of need here in Canada.

I like Mr Benn, but for him to claim he does not understand what an ‘alien culture’ is, is precisely the problem we face.

This is the woman David Lammy wants to choose our judges. She says merit alone should NOT determine judicial appointments. “Merit is crucial but so is a focus on diversity."

.@zarahussain999, the far right card. Every time. Without fail. A man is nearly beheaded on a residential street in Belfast and within hours the story becomes about the far right. A Sudanese national, granted leave to remain, pinned a man to the ground and stabbed him repeatedly in the face, eyes and neck. A member of the public stopped it with a hurling stick. That is where this started. Not with protesters. Not with the far right. With a man who should not have been in that community, in that country, given leave to remain by a system that admitted it had no trace of him on any security database. The burning of homes is wrong. That has been said. Now say this: the near murder of a man on a residential street is also wrong. The policy that put an unvetted Sudanese national in that neighbourhood without the community's knowledge or consent is also wrong. Three consecutive years of immigration-related disorder in Belfast is also wrong. You feel unsafe. So does the man in hospital with stab wounds to his face and neck. So do the communities that have been told for years that their concerns are racism. So do the families who were not consulted before unvetted young men were dispersed into their streets. The far right label is a silencing mechanism. It has been used to shut down this conversation for thirty years. Look where that has got us.

echr.coe.int/documents/d/ech… echr article 15. I think the arson in Belfast is grounds for suspending asylum applications.

Since the UKs annual contributions to the EU would now exceed £30bn a year if the UK were to rejoin after 2028, what @b_judah is unintentionally saying here is that the cost of membership is higher than the returns, so we should stay out. Thanks for that Ben. Much appreciated.

ينبغي أن تكون الجامعات أماكن للتعلم والنقاش والتفكير النقدي، لا مصانع للتطرف.

Hampshire Police 'tried to smear Henry Nowak as aggressor' just THREE DAYS after his murder. They tried to cover it up and influence the trial. Alexis Boon, the Chief Constable of Hampshire police should be sacked and lose his pension. ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING!

She’s a trained doctor British white can’t get a job ? How is this possible ? Why are we importing foreign ones when we have our own?