Anyway since you now can't buy so much as a cheese grater on Amazon without a note from your mum, why not buy one of my books instead? First two are now available on Kindle (free with an Unlimited sub!) #ShamelessSelfpromoWednesday amazon.com/author/simonlevac…

- Give 16 & 17 year olds the vote - Impose a YouTube/social media curfew for 16 and 17 year olds and ban under 16s, thus making loads of new or soon-to-be voters hate you - Kill the ponies You know, I'm not entirely sure that politics is really Keir Starmer's thing

the purpose is not to remove young people from the internet. the purpose is to remove anonymity from the internet in a country where the government routinely punishes dissent with jail. the british caliphate is no longer free.

If we have to refight the Battle of the Dogger Bank (1904) does that mean we can have the Grand Fleet back?

Bloody suffragettes

Just left the @mcrjewishmuseum. I was the only visitor. A lovely volunteer gave me a private tour, and halfway through I turned to her and said: “This is all happening again. The same tactics. The same words. The exact same hatred.” And it is. We forget how recent it all was. Yet today Jews still integrate, build businesses, enrich this country - M&S, the raincoat, Slazenger… the list goes on. They have every right to be here. I’m not Jewish. None of my family are. But I will NOT stay silent while Jew hatred explodes in the UK. To the Islamists (not Muslims but extremists) and the middle-class white lefties cheering Hamas: you can simply do one. I’ve spoken to @antisemitism, Jewish students, and so many others in and around London. This vile poison must not win. Antisemitism is NOT British 🇬🇧. It goes against everything we stand for. ‼️Non-Jews: stop whispering support to your Jewish friends or local businesses. Be loud. Post it. Say it in your groups. Stop treating Jew hatred as some taboo because of the Middle East. Antisemitism existed for centuries before any of this. Antizionism isn’t “just criticism” - when they chant “put the Zios in the ground” and polls show 70-85% of British Jews identify as Zionist, who do you think that means? “End the Zionist occupation of the British government” - swap “Zionist” for “Jewish”. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? If it was Black people facing this - places of worship attacked, ambulances set on fire, students hounded - we’d never hear the end of it. But Jews? Too many stay quiet. Look at Iran. Persecution never stops at the Jews. Next it’s Christians, churches, gay people, women. History is screaming at us. The “antizionist Jewish” voices in London? When the next mob comes, they won’t ask if you’re Zionist. You’re Jewish. That’s enough. Hitler didn’t check political views either. I’m a Zionist. I believe the Jewish people have the right to a homeland. Being Zionist doesn’t mean I defend every action of the Israeli government - it’s complicated. But the deliberate “genocide” language is weaponised for a reason. And so, I’ll keep speaking up. Loudly. Working with groups fighting this. If it was this level of hate against Black people, Hindus, anyone - I’d do the same. I’ve always stood up to bullies. Non-Jews especially - Do Not let this become normal. #StandWithJews #NoToAntisemitism #ManchesterJewishMuseum #BritishValues @StopTheHate_UK

What if I don't want my social media to be a 'safe and healthy environment'? What if I want to see everything, warts and all, with options for sensitive users and children to control their content access. Don't I have a right to choose too?

This is remembered well where I live as a standoff between two local celebrities, the very popular Bluey (who skippered Farage's boat) and the not quite so popular Geldoff...

Why Do I Hate The Designation Of The Term ‘Carer’ For Family Caregivers? , by @Furedibyte open.substack.com/pub/frankf…

One of the funniest things about being a visitor to Japan was seeing other tourists trying to cross against the lights, stepping into the road, sensing the bafflement and disapproval from the surrounding pedestrians and hastily jumping back on the pavement.

If only we could scale this down and I could get one for the garden.

I'm not sure what annoys me more about this, the slure implied by comparing Trump with an honourable man like Chamberlain, or the misquotation.

Accelerating a multicultural experiment that isn’t working while restricting people’s ability to find out and talk about its failures is a further step towards tyranny. It is all about erecting a totalitarian surveillance state that will micromanage avoidable conflicts.

It Took Eight Years to Listen to a Bereaved Father. It Took a By-Election to Act. Molly Russell died in November 2017. Her father has spent the years since asking governments of both colours to act on the algorithms that fed his fourteen-year-old daughter suicide content until she took her own life. Eight years. The most recent stage of that process was a three-month consultation that closed last month, attracting some 100,000 responses. The Prime Minister told bereaved parents gathered in Downing Street that responding properly would be challenging given the volume, and that he would move as fast as possible by the summer recess. That timeline has now collapsed to days. On Monday Starmer will announce what he calls a "game-changing" ban on under-16s using social media, complete with facial age scans, curfews for teenagers and restrictions on addictive features. The announcement lands three days before the Makerfield by-election, in which Andy Burnham, the man positioning himself to challenge Starmer for the Labour leadership, is standing as the party's candidate. Ian Russell does not believe this is a coincidence. He told the Telegraph there was "no reason other than maybe a by-election in Makerfield" for the sudden acceleration, and called it "political opportunism." From a man who buried his fourteen-year-old daughter and has spent eight years pleading with successive governments for exactly this kind of action, the word "disgraceful" carries weight no opposition politician could match. What makes the timing more damning is the evidence Russell is citing against it. Australia introduced its own under-16s ban in December 2025. Six months on, six in ten Australian under-16s remain on the banned platforms because the tech companies have failed to enforce it and children have found ways around it. Russell's own charity, the Molly Rose Foundation, has just published research showing 47 percent of girls aged 13 to 17 are still being shown high-risk content relating to suicide, self-harm and eating disorders every week, under the existing Online Safety Act that was supposed to have already fixed this. Ofcom admits nine in ten children aged 8 to 12 are using platforms with a minimum age of 13, because nobody enforces the limit that already exists. Russell's argument is not that nothing should be done. It is that the government is choosing a headline-grabbing ban it knows does not work, over the harder regulatory work, forcing platforms to redesign addictive features, that experts say would. He fears that when the ban unravels as it has in Australia, the Prime Minister will be left asking why nobody warned him in advance. They did. This week. There is a precedent for how fast this government can move when it chooses to. Liz Kendall's powers to remove "incendiary" online content during a "crisis" went from announcement to legislation within forty-eight hours. Jonathan Hall, the government's own terror watchdog, raised the national security implications of mass migration through proper channels and received silence that has now lasted for weeks, in the same period that Belfast burned. Eighty-seven thousand four hundred and fifty people sit in the asylum appeals backlog, a figure larger than the population of Carlisle, with no comparable urgency attached to it at all. Two different forms of harm to children and to the country. One produced legislation in two days. The other has waited eight years and counting, and finally moved only once a leadership rival's name appeared on a ballot paper. The question Ian Russell is too polite to ask directly is the one that matters most. What, precisely, does this government consider urgent, and for whose benefit? "Ian Russell does not believe this is a coincidence. He told the Telegraph there was "no reason other than maybe a by-election in Makerfield" for the sudden acceleration, and called it "political opportunism.""

Hi @elonmusk, here’s an opportunity to do something hilarious

We saw this during the plague too, where HMG would spit out a new restriction without a jot of notice only for the edge cases and shenanigans it would cause to totally blindside them. The governance of the United Kingdom is distressingly piss poor.

They left out Blooski. Is that because it's considered acceptable or because nobody cares about it?

Actually, fuck this guy. And fuck anyone who automatically believed "the Bulgarian couple" and "the police" over a clearly terrified little girl, being sexually menaced, reduced to holding an axe and a kitchen knife to defend her even younger sister

Cannot believe my virtue signalling has come back to bite me in the arse. That's not how it's supposed to work WTF. Anyway I have deleted the tweets. I'm sorry they were posted.

Why don't you set up a business making rockets, electric cars and AI, Lewis? It's obviously so easy to do, anyone can do it. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Every single person who still cringes at the memory of trying to bullshit their way through an interview or exam question: today, the slate is wiped clean. Set down your burden of shame. Nothing - nothing, I say - could touch this.