Back in Cornwall, Riding bikes, silliness and wibble. He/Him ๐ต๐ธ
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Jamesk retweeted
This Governments branding of protest as 'terrorism' has seen grandparents arrested and dragged through the courts simply for holding up signs.
It's deeply authoritarian when people are speaking out against a genocide and for a free Palestine.
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Jamesk retweeted
Journalists going out of their way to show how much they donโt understand that different things are different is always class
There will be lots of outrage today about the social media ban & legitimate fears about privacy/data protection
But worth pointing out how much personal information we already give away. Face scans every time we use Apple Pay. Email addresses logging into random WiFi networks.
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Jamesk retweeted
Murdering women and children in Gaza = not terrorism.
Causing minor damage to property = terrorism.
Make it make sense.
๐จ BREAKING: The Court of Appeal has ruled the decision to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was lawful
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Jamesk retweeted
Hereโs the kicker: want to tweet? Then submit your photo to an identity verification company founded by ex- Unit 8200
๐จ SUMMARY: The UK's social media ban for children from early 2027:
- "User-to-user" apps where people create, share and interact with content (e.g. TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, X, Facebook) will be banned for under-16s
- WhatsApp, Signal and YouTube Kids will be exempt
- Under-16s will also be banned from livestreaming, messaging strangers on gaming apps like Discord and using disappearing messages
- 16 and 17 year olds will face nightly social media curfews and limits on infinite scrolling with more details next month
- AI "romantic companion" chatbots will be banned for under-18s
- Adults can still access social media through age checks like facial recognition, digital IDs, passports and credit cards
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Jamesk retweeted
The Guardian was a bastion of British liberalism and whatโs happened is - its management have clocked that the public do not want more Thatcherism, austerity and crackdowns, and they donโt like the politicians selling it. So itโs cheerio to liberalism, hello bullshit propaganda.
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Jamesk retweeted
The Guardian editorial team still have libs amongst them, bless โem. The Guardian politics desk are crackpipe-hitting, saluting Labour right partisans who might as well be on the payroll, and youโll get little except sales pitches for whatever this weekโs new bullshit is.
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Jamesk retweeted
"The IDF will remain in the security zones in Lebanon.. the area will be cleared of local residents"
The genocidal apartheid regime confirms it won't withdraw from Lebanon & it will ethnically cleanse the land it occupies.
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Jamesk retweeted
If Palestinians attacked a synagogue in Israel & set it on fire I have no doubt it'd be reported on UK mainstream news.
But Israelis attacking mosques in the occupied West Bank is a regular occurrence & it rarely (if ever) gets reported here.
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Jamesk retweeted
The authoritarian tendency to just prohibit and ban is not going to help
We are banning social media access for under 16s.
These days kids must find their feet in a world where technology intrudes into every area of their life.
I just canโt let that go on anymore. So weโre giving children their childhoods back.
Community note
The UK Government's 'careful review' of the research found a small correlation between children's use of social media and wellbeing, but no evidence of a causal effect:
gov.uk/government/pubโฆ
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0b46โฆ
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Jamesk retweeted
'Lebanon will not be resolved overnight; its millions of displaced citizens will not return and rebuild the moment a deal is signed โ Israel is not known for its wise de-escalatory appetite for relinquishing seized land. Gaza remains an open wound.'
'There is little about the Iran deal that inspires confidence. The problem with war is that, the longer it goes on, the more it creates new realities on the ground, and new, diverse agendas that cannot be wrested back to what preceded the conflict.'
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Itโs incredible to me how people have moved on from this. It still stands as a reminder of the worst tragedy in Londonโs modern history and it feels like it has been totally swept under the rug
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Jamesk retweeted
Again, you should ask how our political/media class came to be ram-packed with foaming-at-the-mouth wingnut crackpots whose horrible views are *wildly* out of step with the public. Did this happen organically, because far right cranks are simply the best and most talented?
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Going all-in on the depleted resources in the North Sea is literally the stupidest thing you could do if you wanted energy security, but especially while building renewables and battery storage capacity is the cheapest it's ever been.
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You can't defend a country abroad if it's just about holding it together at home.
Security is energy. It's industry. It's whether a kid in Aberdeen still believes hard work gets them somewhere.
That's the foundation to build everything else on.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06โฆ
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Jamesk retweeted
Good to get a bit of well-wishing from the guy who once tweeted that when he saw me in the street he booed and if his wife hadn't been with him, he didn't know what he would have done.
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Jamesk retweeted
Jonathan is a great guy, as I explain here:
michaelrosenblog.blogspot.coโฆ
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Jamesk retweeted
Jun 14
The UK government and Met Police allowed an event to go ahead that breached international law
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URGENT ๐จ
We're outside the Edgware United Synagogue where Zionists are holding an Israeli Real Estate conference - selling illegal land in the Occupied Territories. The government and Met Police have allowed this event to go ahead. And now, it looks like the blow back has started as things are quickly escalating.
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55% of the welfare bill is pensions. If that's ringfenced, then all you're left with are more cuts to the poor, sick, and disabled.
It'll certainly kill people and cause an acceleration of poverty that will cost more than it saved to fix. It'll push disabled people out of work.
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This is incompatible with his pledge to cut welfare to pay for war, btw.
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๐จ NEW: Andy Burnham has pledged to keep the state pension triple lock if he becomes Prime Minister
[@theipaper]
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