Another source said: “Imagine the public outrage if someone who we took from France under the scheme went on to kill someone" Story: thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…

🚨 NEW: The Government has limited the "one in, one out" migrant deal with France - currently 896 in, 921 out - due to the risk some migrants pose "They’re mainly young men more likely to engage in criminal activity, so we don’t want to take many more" [@thetimes]

I agree with @mattyglesias.

This is all, spiritually, the same country. You may disagree, you really may, but you are wrong. This is one nation.

Those who use social media to incite violence and disorder are breaking the law. Next week we will lay in Parliament an update to the Online Safety Act requiring services to take quicker action to remove illegal content circulating during times of crisis.

How many times throughout history do the Irish need to prove that you shouldn’t fuck with them?

I think job retention subsidies would slow down job creation in this post-AGI world and make the transition more painful and chaotic. They would repeat the mistake the UK made with Covid furlough instead of the (totally vindicated) US approach of just raising unemployment insurance and letting labour markets work. Fewer new jobs and companies can be created if people are being paid to stay in their existing, economically redundant, ones. I like the other ideas, though. Wage subsidies are straightforwardly good – even without AGI!

My pinned tweet explains the background to Healey resignation. We got real numbers in 2020 for first time in ~20 years. Since then everything reverted to fake. Thanks to Trolley & Wally, they let HMT and MoD shovel cash into things they KNEW were broken, like AJAX, and scuppered funding the future (e.g drones, robotics, AI, cloud). The nuclear weapons supply chain is a multi-billion multi-decade fiasco and reinforces fake budgets. MoD & CO used UKR war to prop up the lies and disasters, not to fix them. Trolley, Sunak and Starmer all went along with: classify, punt, spin fake budgets. All these chickens are coming home to roost. The DIP is a disaster because it combines: a/ continuing to fund old things which shd be scrapped but senior people's careers rest on lying about, b/ failure to fund the future, c/ more dodgy accounts, d/ classified nuke shitshow, which forces lies/cannibalisation of conventional, and e/ continued failure to change procurement and long term budgets despite covid and UKR. Ive said this 100 times for years. Also relevant to resignation -- In 2020, I got the PM & CHX to agree to take the next gen fighter AWAY from HMT and MoD. (FOI the doc screenshotted below!) They were using a bogus 'above STRAP 3 study' to claim that AI would be irrelevant to future fighters in 2045. This 'top secret' study was written *before* DeepMind was created!! We agreed to take away the next gen fighter/drones from MoD/HMT and put them into a new civilian project with huge commercial development of drones/robotics/AI, with procurement and budgets done totally outside normal system (like vaccines, ARPA etc). After I left this was u-turned along with shredding all the true budget numbers. The MoD and HMT proceeded with the usual procurement with BaE. This has now blown up *as it was obvious it would SIX YEARS ago'. HMT is refusing to fund it because the MoD is a corrupt shambles. And MoD is knackered by the HMT's insane budget processes and insane procurement. HMT and MoD have reasonable complaints about each other. 'Everyone's right and everyone's unhappy'. The only way out is the Vote Leave plan and No10 smashing heads together with the full authority of the PM, as in the secret process of 2020. It cannot be left to 'normal processes'. Senior people must be forced to tell the truth 'or you're fired'. We did this. It works! The MPs refuse to engage. The MPs on defence committee say they cannot ask officials re the 2020 process because 'they'll just refuse to answer'. But our enemies know everything everything I say is true! It is impossible for dud Starmer to solve these problems. It is good timing that Burnham will soon take over and could draw a line under decades of Tory failure and set out a new path... But there will be HUGE pressure from the old system, in HMT and MoD, to patch everythign up with more lies, spin, fake accounts, and massive classification... Maybe some MPs could finally pay attention to these issues and resolve to stop constant lies, please! Our security, prosperity and critical technologies are at stake and the old parties and old Whitehall are pathological! NB. In 2020 we also bought LEO satellites. SW1 laughed. Starlink has been critical in UKR. Whitehall sold off the satellites! NB. In March 2022 when the UKR disaster started I wrote: 'Prediction: 1) lessons from UKR will overwhelmingly support the arguments of those who in 2020 argued for radical MoD changes (including taking money from old tank projects that everybody privately admitted were a multi-billion pound disaster) and 2) the correct criticism of the review and connected documents will be seen as a) they did not go nearly far enough, b) the collapse of No10 follow through on defence reform in 2021 was — like the collapse of 2020 plans for planning reform, tax cuts, deregulation, Project Speed, intense focus on R&D and skills etc — a disaster for the country (and a political disaster for the Tory Party).' NB. Special Forces who have observed the drone wars in UKR have told the senior MoD repeatedly that the mega expensive things they want to plough cash into in the DIP will get VAPOURISED in a real war by cheap drones! The SF are told to shut up and not give HMT a chance to cut the budgets! I know it's psychologically extremely hard for SW1 but Vote Leave worked with the deep state on this in 2020 and we were right on all the big things. The disastrous old processes have now blown up with unprecedented resignation over these exact issues. 6 years have been wasted. Tens of billions have been wasted. Lives lost. Talent resigned.. Opportunities to lead squandered... All over Whitehall are officials involved in 2020 who know what I say is true, the MPs and hacks should finally get the details into the public... Maybe SW1 could update its mental models?! Ps. if you're a hack still getting Ciaran 'AI is fake, PRC infiltration is overrated' Martin to comment on tech, you're as dud as Starmer

In my final piece as @CapX Deputy Editor, I reflect on the last two and a half years of profligacy. There's much to be done, and I'll be continuing the fight at @Prosperity_Inst as Senior Press Officer. From Tuesday, I'll also be writing a fortnightly column in @CityAM👇

Labour triggers Belfast attack censorship row as it sets out plans for new crackdown on social media content 'in times of crisis' trib.al/R7V6uTE

🚨 WATCH: Ed Davey calls on Keir Starmer to crack down on platforms like X which are "fuelling violence" Starmer: "We will crack down on anyone who is fuelling this division" #PMQs

So it's ok to torch people's homes, as long as immigrants live in them?

'We were warned in no uncertain terms "do not go closer"'. @CDP1882 reports from Belfast as violence intensifies in wake of the knife attack carried out by a Sudanese migrant.

Goodbye 3 Commando Brigade, and we thank you. Welcome, UK Commando Force. The name change - formally announced by HM The King while presenting the Royal Marines with new Colours - reflects a decade of transformation. ➡️ Read more: royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2026/j…

The next two weeks will see an avalanche of Brexit articles. In terms of the options going forward, they aren't serious if they don't recognise that people movement will be an element of any of them, including Customs Union. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…