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Phykell retweeted
Hahahaha …Councils don’t want fireplaces because they are bad for the planet …
then force builders to spend £1,200 per house installing fake PLASTIC (made from oil)
You couldn’t invent this level of stupidity 🤡
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Phykell retweeted
No knowledge at all is better than a little knowledge & have been many examples of this in past 24 hrs.
Judge did not decide "it was terrorism".
"Terrorist connection" was an aggravating factor for the purpose of sentencing.
That is how sentencing works - aggravating & mitigating
Jun 12
You can vehemently disagree with Palestine Action activists goals, whilst simultaneously be horrified a judge can decide AFTER a conviction if it was terrorism related amd double a sentence.
Being able to class an offense as terrorism AFTER conviction without charging them with terrorism should bother everyone.
Any protest action that is now determined as trying to "change government policy" can have this applied.
So today it's Palestine Action, but next it'll be immigration protests, farmers protests, NHS, tax etc etc.
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Phykell retweeted
Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named.
The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river.
The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn.
Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound.
"Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever.
It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin.
"Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather.
I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet.
In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair.
And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge.
You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain.
The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste.
I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind.
Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again.
"Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up.
Discipline is a journey.
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Phykell retweeted
The left last week: Attacking police officers is outrageous.
The left this week: Fracturing a policewoman's spine is fine.
No-one should be taking these idiots seriously.
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RT @andrewdoyle_com: So the Green Party’s official position is that fracturing a police officer’s spine with a sledgehammer ought not to be…
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This is brilliant, and also adorable
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I have a timeline full of stabbing attacks and violence happening today in the UK. Grok verifies them all as true.
Not one mainstream media outlet is reporting any of these incidents.
X is the news, make the most of it…
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Jun 13
Zack Polanski’s genuinely believes that fracturing a female officer’s spine is just “protesting” against Israel.
He’s either stupid, disingenuous or belongs on a watchlist.
I say he’s all three and shows why he’s woefully unfit to be PM.
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Jun 13
These thugs fractured the spine of Sgt Kate Evans, who spoke in court of the medical and emotional trauma she still lives with.
Prison is where they belong.
Unlike Zack Polanski, I want serious consequences for anyone who attacks police officers risking their lives to protect us.
Jun 12
Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel.
Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it.
A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.
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Phykell retweeted
Jun 12
You asked. We listened.
Our post about Stokes brown sauce struck a chord last week, so we've gone and stocked it.
Properly English, made in Suffolk, and a real step up from the supermarket bottle.
Now live on the site, here:
madeinengland.com/products/s…
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Jun 12
All week Zack Polanski has been attacking Reform politicians for their so called “extreme” language.
Here he is outright defending criminals who broke a female police officer’s back with a sledgehammer.
He’s a dangerous extremist and I’m glad he is being exposed for what he is.
Jun 12
Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel.
Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it.
A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.
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Jun 12
Brilliant appointment.
Jun 12
CBS News to hire Sky News presenter Trevor Phillips as global correspondent
British journalist to become one of most prominent appointments made by embattled editor-in-chief Bari Weiss
theguardian.com/media/2026/j…
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Jun 12
🔥 Nigel Huddleston Just Delivered A Masterclass In Economic Reality And Labour’s Bridget Phillipson Didn’t Like It
In a heated exchange, Shadow Treasury Minister Nigel Huddleston cut through the spin with blunt truth about tax:
“It’s not government’s money. It’s not your money. It’s the public’s money.”
When Labour’s Bridget Phillipson snidely shot back with “Thanks for the lecture,
Nigel,” Huddleston fired right back, visibly frustrated:
“It’s not a lecture, it’s economic reality. All government expenditure comes through raising taxes, taking money out of people’s pockets, and then you’re choosing to give it to other people. Do you understand how angry people are that you are taking from hard-working families who are struggling as well?”
Spot on, Nigel.
Hard-working Brits are being squeezed harder than ever by this Labour government, higher taxes, National Insurance hikes, and endless spending, while many feel the money is being funnelled toward those who aren’t contributing and open-door policies that prioritise illegal migrants over our own struggling households.
People are fed up. They’re working longer, paying more, and seeing less in return. Families are cutting back on basics while the government lectures them about “fairness” and reaches deeper into their pockets.
Nigel isn’t grandstanding. He’s stating what millions of taxpayers already know in their bones: Government has no money of its own. Every pound it spends is taken from someone, usually the same people already battling bills, rents, and stagnant wages.
Well said, Nigel. Keep holding them to account. 🇬🇧
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Phykell retweeted
Jun 12
Britain spent a decade choosing to be smaller in the world.
Right now the rules on communications, energy and trade are being rewritten. By China. By Russia. By countries that take their own security seriously. We need to be at that table. That's a choice we must make.
Strong countries get cheap energy. Weak countries pay whatever the strong ones decide.
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Jun 12
We very nearly lost the brilliant and irreplaceable Kathryn Porter because of the dire state of @NHSWales.
It’s appalling. The ambulance service would shame a third world country. My mother’s elderly Welsh neighbour fell and waited 17 hours on the floor.
How much longer can the British people stagger on with this appalling health service?
I’m so glad @KathrynPorter26 lived to tell the tale.
Jun 11
This really worries me
A month ago in Wales I suffered a ruptured aneurysm in my abdomen. I lost over 2 units of blood
But the Welsh ambulance service refused to send an ambulance. I was still breathing so apparently didn't need one
I spent 7 hours lying on the ground in a car park. Every time I moved I threw up from the pain. The owners of the car park called 999 6x
One of the people there was a fireman. He couldn't believe that 999 treated each call as a separate incident and couldn't see the details or link to previous calls. He was frustrated because they could see I was seriously ill but you can't see internal bleeding and so there was no way to persuade 999 that it actually was an emergency
Eventually my husband arrived by taxi, journey of more than 3 hours from our home
He gave me my pain meds (the car park people were worried about liability and I was too ill to get them myself). This meant I was able to crawl into the car and he drove me to A&E
He got me into a wheelchair. We waited 75 minutes to see a doctor. I was shivering, heaped with blankets and threw up all over the floor
As soon as a doctor looked at me I was taken straight to resus. The next day I was transfered by blue light ambulance to another hospital, had a blood transfusion and spent 5 days on the high dependency unit
If my husband hadn't been able to come and look after me I have no idea how I would have survived. As it was I nearly didn't
I would not have been able to get myself to hospital nor would I have been able to log into some digital triage system
This scheme seems to assume if you're seriously ill you'll arrive by ambulance and if not you're well enough to navigate a digital portal
My experience suggests that's a dangerous assumption
A week later, back home in England I had another ruptured aneurysm. This time an ambulance came in 2 hours and again I was taken straight to resus
It wasn't the same because I had a recent diagnosis of a ruptured aneurysm so we could tell 999 I was almost certainly bleeding internally. But I was too ill to get myself down the stairs and out to the car. We still needed that ambulance and I still wouldn't have been able to fiddle around with an ipad
Proper triage REQUIRES an actual doctor to look at the patient. It takes a matter of minutes to differentiate between a life threatening emergency and not a life threatening emergency. That's not minutes to get a diagnosis but to know that the person is stable or not stable and if not that needs immediate attention
Seriously ill people can't do it themselves. It doesn't matter how smart or articulate they are normally. Or how tough. Expecting people to manage their own emergency care isn't what a modern health service should do
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06…
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Phykell retweeted
해변의 돌멩이를 하나씩 골라 바닥에 놓는다. 색을 맞추고, 위치를 잡고, 또 하나를 고른다. 영국 출신 아티스트 저스틴 베이트먼이 만드는 고양이 모자이크 랜드 아트다.
붙이지 않는다. 굳히지 않는다. 바람이 불면 흩어지고, 파도가 오면 사라진다. 그래서 영상이 남아있다.
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Jun 11
>Lola McVey MP thinks that not taxing something = subsidising it
>Lola is an elected lawmaker
>Lola doesn’t understand basic tax law
We are being governed by idiots.
Actual, genuine, certifiable idiots.
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Jun 11
This government is prioritising Net Zero and ever-rising welfare spending over the defence of our country.
Completely absurd. 🫣
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Jun 11
This really worries me
A month ago in Wales I suffered a ruptured aneurysm in my abdomen. I lost over 2 units of blood
But the Welsh ambulance service refused to send an ambulance. I was still breathing so apparently didn't need one
I spent 7 hours lying on the ground in a car park. Every time I moved I threw up from the pain. The owners of the car park called 999 6x
One of the people there was a fireman. He couldn't believe that 999 treated each call as a separate incident and couldn't see the details or link to previous calls. He was frustrated because they could see I was seriously ill but you can't see internal bleeding and so there was no way to persuade 999 that it actually was an emergency
Eventually my husband arrived by taxi, journey of more than 3 hours from our home
He gave me my pain meds (the car park people were worried about liability and I was too ill to get them myself). This meant I was able to crawl into the car and he drove me to A&E
He got me into a wheelchair. We waited 75 minutes to see a doctor. I was shivering, heaped with blankets and threw up all over the floor
As soon as a doctor looked at me I was taken straight to resus. The next day I was transfered by blue light ambulance to another hospital, had a blood transfusion and spent 5 days on the high dependency unit
If my husband hadn't been able to come and look after me I have no idea how I would have survived. As it was I nearly didn't
I would not have been able to get myself to hospital nor would I have been able to log into some digital triage system
This scheme seems to assume if you're seriously ill you'll arrive by ambulance and if not you're well enough to navigate a digital portal
My experience suggests that's a dangerous assumption
A week later, back home in England I had another ruptured aneurysm. This time an ambulance came in 2 hours and again I was taken straight to resus
It wasn't the same because I had a recent diagnosis of a ruptured aneurysm so we could tell 999 I was almost certainly bleeding internally. But I was too ill to get myself down the stairs and out to the car. We still needed that ambulance and I still wouldn't have been able to fiddle around with an ipad
Proper triage REQUIRES an actual doctor to look at the patient. It takes a matter of minutes to differentiate between a life threatening emergency and not a life threatening emergency. That's not minutes to get a diagnosis but to know that the person is stable or not stable and if not that needs immediate attention
Seriously ill people can't do it themselves. It doesn't matter how smart or articulate they are normally. Or how tough. Expecting people to manage their own emergency care isn't what a modern health service should do
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06…
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