#vul #vulcan2 #yolo These are exactly the kind of macro trends that will benefit #vulcan2 ! And could lead to sales growing 30% a year for the next few years I own the stock (a reasonably fat position, borderline obese position 😉😂😀)

1066: King Harold could not defend the country from an invasion from France by small boats full of fit young aggressive men. It was the Norman Conquest 2026: King Keir cannot defend the country......

Apart from Mad Ed Miliband, who is clearly obsessed with it, is there anybody else left in Britain who thinks NetZero is a Good Idea? The world increasingly shows it doesn't care. So we're not 'leading' anyone anywhere Just sacrificing ourselves for nothing So why do it?

Our institutions don’t care about Henry Nowak because he is white. I do, and he deserves justice. Release the bodycam footage.

Family Man Beat To Death By Migrant Teenagers In Dublin. On Sunday 17 May 2026, at around 4:15pm on Mill Road in Blanchardstown, 37-year-old Alex Coughlan was attacked by two 16-year-old boys without warning. The defenceless Irishman was forced to his knees, pleading for mercy as one teenager repeatedly punched and kicked him in the head. The second boy filmed the assault on his mobile phone. Alex screamed for help and begged them to stop. He had already handed over his wallet and bank cards, but hesitated when they demanded his gold ring, a gift from his father. That moment of hesitation cost him his life. The beating continued. Alex was left unconscious on the ground. He died three days later on 20 May in Connolly Hospital from catastrophic head injuries. His family made the selfless decision to donate his organs. Two 16-year-old boys were arrested and charged with assault causing serious harm and robbery. The main attacker is a second-generation migrant born and raised in Ireland. The other, who filmed the attack, is a migrant with dual nationality. Both were described by locals as having non-native features. Gardai later recovered the stolen ring from one of the boys homes, and Alex’s father identified it in court. The teenagers appeared in Dublin Children’s Court on 27 May. A judge imposed strict reporting restrictions, warning against naming them or sharing the video of the attack circulating online due to their age. Bail was refused, and both teenagers remain remanded in custody. On Saturday 30 May, what would have been Alex’s 38th birthday, hundreds gathered in Ballyfermot to farewell him. He was remembered as the glue of his family, a kind, gentle, and selfless man who brought laughter and joy to everyone around him. A dedicated Bupa worker and passionate rugby fan, Alex is survived by his mother Brigid, father John, sister Zara, and brothers Philip and Jack. Mourners sang Happy Birthday and Ireland’s Call. Tributes described him as a truly beautiful soul and caring human being. A private cremation followed at Glasnevin Cemetery. While Alex’s funeral took place, the Irish mainstream media gave far more coverage and focused far more outrage on the death of Congolese national Yves Sakila, 35. Sakila, who had dozens of previous convictions and multiple prison terms for repeated shoplifting, died on 15 May after being restrained by security staff during another shoplifting attempt. His death was quickly framed by activists as Ireland’s George Floyd moment, sparking protests, political speeches, and claims of racism. Alex’s killing, a local Irish family man robbed and beaten to death in broad daylight while pleading for mercy received far less attention. Coverage focused on the attackers age and anonymity, with zero discussion of backgrounds or nationalities. There were no mass candlelit vigils when Alex died, no major protests demanding justice, no political statements, and no national campaigns declaring that his life mattered. No Netflix documentaries will ever examine Alex's final moments. Certain tragedies fit a preferred political narrative and ignite weeks of outrage. Others, like the brutal murder of a gentle Irish family man, are treated as less newsworthy. This selective response from the Irish media and political class is an insult to Alex and every family who has lost someone in similar circumstances. Alex Coughlan’s life mattered. He deserved better, and the people of Ireland deserve the truth. RIP Alex Coughlan. Both teenagers are next due in court on 24 June. #Ireland #CrimeNews #Dublin

Energy bills are rising again. Labour will blame Iran, but you’re paying more because of Ed Miliband’s net zero taxes and refusal to drill our own oil and gas. Our Cheap Power Plan would cut bills by 20% by scrapping the green taxes, scrapping VAT and drilling in the North Sea.

When the Romans came to Britain in 43 AD, they brought their farming with them. Mostly grain. Wheat, barley, the kind of arable agriculture that worked in Italy and southern Gaul and required a lot of organised labour and the kind of climate where summer is reliable. They discovered, fairly quickly, that Britain did not have that climate. The summer was a rumour. The winter was a threat. The rain was constant. The soil in most of the country was either acidic, waterlogged, or sitting on top of clay that turned to concrete in July and slop in January. The native Britons, watching the Romans struggle, were running a different system. They had cattle. They had sheep. They had pigs that lived in the woodland and ate the acorns. They moved animals seasonally, between summer uplands and winter shelter. They built their food production around the things that Britain actually grew, which was grass and acorns and not very much else without an enormous amount of effort. The Romans, eventually, adapted. The villas they built had grazing land attached. The estates were structured around livestock as well as grain. They learned, with some reluctance, that you cannot impose Mediterranean agriculture on a country that has decided to be Britain. In 2026, a government policy unit in Westminster is suggesting that we should replace livestock with plant proteins. The Romans got the message in two centuries. We appear to have forgotten it in less than one.

Here's a good joke for your Bank Holiday. A British magistrate identified in court papers only as "Taylor" has been deciding convictions and sentences for more than 100 British defendants from his home. In Portugal. The arrangement, conducted under the Single Justice Procedure - which is the streamlined process by which a magistrate can deal with minor offences without an open court hearing - was running for years before anyone in the British legal system noticed it was happening, and would still be running today if a fellow magistrate had not, at considerable personal cost, refused to take part and raised the alarm. The whistleblower in question is a serving magistrate who had concluded, after some study, that what was being done was unlawful. He is now suing the Ministry of Justice. He alleges that, having flagged the practice internally, he was bullied, ostracised and progressively excluded from the work he had volunteered to do. The only thing about this that's a surprise is that it's been exposed at all. This sort of baroque, even sublime level of piss-taking is, by now, a recognisable British institutional ritual. So, I must concede, is the reaction to it. An individual notices something is wrong, says so through the proper channels, is treated by the institution as the problem, gets bullied half to death, and ends up in court. We saw it with Alan Bates, with the consultants at the Letby ward, with the surveyors at Grenfell, and now with this magistrate, who has the additional indignity of having had to bring his case while his colleague was, presumably, still in the Algarve. The Ministry of Justice's response is the part of the story that most repays attention. Asked, by Sir Jeremy Hunt MP in Parliament, whether more than 100 convictions secured by a magistrate sitting from a different country might need to be revisited, the Ministry stated that there were "no grounds to suggest that any case where the magistrate conducted remote hearings from abroad was unlawful or needed nullification." The Senior Presiding Judge then advised, in a separate communication, that magistrates and judges should not, in fact, be conducting court proceedings from outside the United Kingdom, the diplomatic objections of the foreign states involved being one of the more obvious reasons. The two positions are not formally in conflict. They are, however, the same Ministry saying that an arrangement which the senior judiciary has now banned for the future was, until ten minutes ago, completely fine. Totally alright. One hundred British defendants (at the lower end of the magistrates' jurisdiction, sure, but the lower end is where most people in this country actually encounter the courts) have now been sentenced by a man from his holiday home. When the Ministry of Justice found out, it concluded that the arrangement was fine. When the Senior Presiding Judge found out, he concluded that it was not. The whistleblower who exposed the whole thing has, predictably, been treated by his colleagues as the problem and is now suing his own Ministry. The convictions, meanwhile, stand. I just hope I get the screenplay rights to this one. It's just too perfect an encapsulation of what the British genius, once responsible for the architecture of the world and man's command over nature, has been reduced to: running obvious abuses of office, rank, and authority for years under the noses of the people paid to notice but too thick or venal to actually notice. If we weren't being consistently saved by single people, heroic individuals, willing to throw themselves into the meat grinder to expose these charlatan prats by a single individual at his own cost, it's absolutely frightening to imagine where we'd be. In respect of abuses like this, like Chagos, like the rape gangs. Anyway, the arrangement ends and the convictions stand. The magistrate will fly back from Portugal (he's still sitting!). The Ministry of Justice will issue a procedural note. The whistleblower goes to tribunal. It's not only time we root-and-branched the criminal justice system in this country - in which 'criminal justice' has come to imply an affinity for the criminal, just as the 'Taylor Swift Holy Dinner Party & Human Affairs Circuit' implies an affinity for Taylor Swift - but our approach to whistleblowing as well. These are the only people preventing our slide into barbarism, as things stand. And whistleblowers who exposed dysfunctions of this kind will, under a Progress government, be honoured for the public service they have performed, and the institutions that punished them will be held to account for the punishing.

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#VUL Closing statement 🤞

Conservatives are resolutely against the de-industrialisation of our country and support British steelmaking, the steel supply chain and the hundreds of thousands in jobs in manufacturing (which depend upon steel made both here and grades imported from abroad). We would address the causes of de-industrialisation such as ruinously high energy costs and employment red tape rather than the symptoms. Labour’s Steel Nationalisation Bill in Parliament today is a terrible deal for taxpayers, gives ministers unchecked powers and represents a humiliating failure of Keir Starmer’s “kow towing” appeasement of China. It is part of a return to 1970’s style economics involving price controls, union powers and state spending. Todays Bill does not even secure the continued operation of blast furnaces in Scunthorpe which Labour admit will close. Read more about why we are the Party telling the hard truths here: ⬇️

After 18 months of “standing up to Putin” the Labour govt quietly issued a licence allowing imports of Russian oil refined in third countries. Yesterday Labour MPs voted AGAINST UK oil and gas licences. We are now importing from Russia instead of drilling in the North Sea. Insane.

#VUL Top pick for 2026 up 25pct so far from my 200p purchase. More to go for . Dowgate increase their stake to 15pct backing my strong view for more gains here. Onwards and upwards .

#MISSING Have you seen this #cat? She escaped from a car earlier today after having an operation at 608 Vets on #WarwickRoad, #Solihull #B91 Please REPOST this appeal so as many people see it as possible.

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Rishi was right 😔 I hate to say it, but he was

#AET a massive positive point made here, that feels like market hasn't fully taken on board yet ie the two imminent drills aren't just cash-flowed by Sonangol, but they're also totally risk free to AET as no repayment by them if well(s) is/are dry! directorstalkinterviews.com/…