The inconvenient truth of our times. 👇 "In the final analysis, these infringements generated negligible public health benefits while imposing a set of massive costs on society." #lockdown #CovidEnquiry

The Mayor of London, Sir Sadiq Khan, continues to call for greater intervention and regulation of social media platforms that highlight rising crime in the capital. Khan has claimed that London has been subjected to a “relentless and unprecedented attack of lies and hatred” on social media. He now argues that online “misinformation” is deterring tourists from visiting the city. Yet Home Office data show that there were nearly 100,000 thefts or attempted thefts in London last year, compared with around 45,000 in 2019. Rather than trying to shut down criticism and debate, or blaming social media for London’s problems, the Mayor should focus on tackling rising crime and making the case for his own policies. More open discussion is not the problem. It is part of the solution.

Wonderfully simple research which, if the government had any desire to actually stop fraud, it could easily do itself.

I used to play Xbox 360 late into the morning when I was in school. My parents found out and started turning the router off at night. Amazingly they didn’t require a parliamentary majority and royal assent.

This isn't the start of the slippery slope - we're already sliding and the slide is accelerating... 👇

Don’t take it from me. Take it from one of the internet’s greatest pioneers @jimmy_wales

UK is a police state

So true 🥲

> it’s not happening > it’s a right wing conspiracy theory > it may be happening > it’s happening and it’s good

This censorship law is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The real goal is to enable the UK government to track everyone.

It is literally insane simultaneously to think that 16 and 17 year olds are mature enough to vote but not mature enough to look at Instagram at 8:30pm. This is comically absurd.

You know what they say about the paving of the road to hell...

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Powerless? Parents have all the power, actually - they just don’t want to use it

And the regime and its NPC pundits are trying to persuade voters that @elonmusk is ‘the disinformation’, while they run these operations on the domestic voters as if they’re in Afghanistan

This mean students up to Year 11 will not be able to revise GCSE biology on Freesciencelessons YouTube channel. This also mean a 15 years and 364 days old not be able to read Facebook posts from their MP or councillor, but expected to vote for them tomorrow.

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This is the most bonkers combination of policies I have ever read. This government now wants to legislate so that older teenagers are allowed to vote on our laws, but has their bed time set by the many state. 👇 🤯

🚨NEW: A Daily Mail investigation claims a "shadowy" government unit, named RICU, intervenes to write statements by the families of victims of potentially racially linked incidents to stop them from inflaming tensions further with their remarks [@DailyMail]

The uncomfortable truths Ed & govt refuse to confront: - Net zero policy is one of the biggest drivers of poverty & inequality - Net zero for the UK means nothing for global emissions - no-one meaningful is following our example Abandon it or condemn the economy and an entire generation to poverty.

I’ve referred Lord Hermer to the Bar Standards Board. He went after British soldiers despite warnings murder allegations were false. He knew what he was doing: he sought "wriggle room if the killings did not happen." It says everything that Starmer made him Attorney General.