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Senior figures at Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, under the command of Andy Burnham, have cautioned firefighters who support Reform UK over their political views. In a further chilling assault on free speech, staff have also effectively been urged in an email to report colleagues who support Reform. Fire brigade bosses have also said they are seeking legal advice on what to do about firefighters who decide to stand as Reform UK candidates. This is despite the fact that, unlike police officers, there is no legal bar preventing firefighters from participating in national or local politics. In their email, fire brigade bosses Mr Petch and Ms Ahmed said: ’We are aware that some staff members have chosen to represent Reform UK in their local areas. We know this may cause concern within our network and wider. ’The individuals involved have been spoken to, to make it clear that as members of GMFRS (Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service) our core values and professional behaviours must be displayed at all times. ’The service is currently seeking formal legal guidance… to ensure we are protected from all perspectives and that our inclusive culture remains safe. ‘Our priority is and always will be ensuring that every member of this network feels supported, respected and safe at work.’ They also confirmed that they would be consulting the Fire Brigades Union on the matter. In his role as Mayor of Greater Manchester, @AndyBurnhamGM — who is also tipped by some to be a future Prime Minister if he wins the Makerfield by-election — is also Greater Manchester’s Fire Commissioner, responsible for overseeing the service. General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, Lord Young of Acton, has now written to Mr Burnham to raise concerns about the chilling effect this has on free speech. Lord Young said that the ‘clear implication’ of the email from the fire brigade bosses was that ‘representing Reform UK constitutes an inherent threat to the institution’s culture and values and is to be treated as morally suspect’. He also highlighted that no action appears to have been taken against firefighters who support other political parties. The letter also states: ‘Staff are further invited to report colleagues who support any groups that go against the service’s values, which effectively amounts to an instruction to inform on colleagues for their political beliefs. ’The email will create a chilling effect on the free speech of GMFRS employees who support Reform. ’The practical effect is that a public fire and rescue service governed by you is treating the lawful political activity of your electoral opponents as a reputational risk to their employer. ‘Regardless of whether this reflects your instruction, it reflects your governance; and a public office-holder who permits his institution to demonise or chill the speech and political activity of those who support his principal electoral rival cannot claim to be discharging that office with the impartiality it demands.’ Read more below 👇

"Boys aged 14-17 accounted for 98% of victims of sextortion". Terrible number increase. All these boys are defined by successive governments as victims of violence against a girl! @IWFhotline @NSPCC @mollyroseorg @ukhomeoffice @MoJGovUK #VAWG #Orwell theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…

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Report shows 27% of domestic abuse linked suicides feature a male victim. We believe it is higher due to male non-disclosure and police and definitely coroners not believing bereaved families because it was a man. @CollegeofPolice @PoliceChiefs @TheVKPP news.npcc.police.uk/releases…

I had to go check the 98% figure because I didn't believe it, and it's true!

How it should be: “We give ALL victims a voice.” How it became: “We give WOMEN victims a voice.” How it is now: “We give SOME WOMEN a voice, AS LONG AS THEY AGREE WITH OUR NARRATIVE”.

Have you watched The Manosphere with Louis Theroux on Netflix? As the Dad of a 17 year old son, I think @jimmycarr is spot on. What do you think?

This whole article is a who’s who of statistical manipulation. Even when men were ‘one in three’ victims of abuse, the UK Stats Regulator ruled words like ‘vast majority’ to be inappropriate descriptors of the female:male disparity. So now this has risen to ‘41% of domestic abuse victims are men’, words like ‘overwhelming majority’ are even more unwelcome and misleading. @Jess4Lowestoft your job is to represent your constituents equally, rather than virtue signal, lie, and twist statistics to fulfil some egotistical ideological agenda. Shame on you.

Thank you to @SammieB1980 for these important findings. Hugely and deeply concerning...sadly we are not surprised.

You're out of your mind On just about every measure things are worse than before the General Election and were before the Iran war before you go blaming that Inflation is up Unemployment is up Youth unemployment is massively up Business closures up Deindustrialisation up Energy bills up (despite Keir Starmer saying you would ban them from increasing) Gilt yields ie cost of government borrowing up The only people who think this is good are our enemies

Hot off the press! My new article ‘Masculinity: don’t demonise it, use it’ © This article was first published in Therapy Today, the journal of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)

WHO Is Falsifying the Truth about Women in Medical Research endtodv.org/who-is-falsifyin…

@Ed_Miliband is as bad. He keeps saying renewables are cheap when they are clearly more expensive than gas fired generation The most recent offshore wind subsidy was 13% higher than the gas based wholesale power price Renewables backup costs are going up Renewables curtailment costs going up Renewables connection costs going up Renewables balancing costs going up

I must thank the Sunday Times and Dan Neidle for their detailed article confirming that my tax planning was entirely legitimate. The libellous headline is the work of a desperate Establishment trying to smear me and Reform. If you want successful people to save our economy and country: Vote Reform

There’s a strange asymmetry where relatively niche manosphere slop content is treated like a major cultural threat, while massively popular female-oriented content (e.g., Call Her Daddy) whose popularity builds on misandry and sowing conflict between the sexes rarely receives any scrutiny. Meanwhile, the male-oriented podcasts that actually dominate the charts (@hubermanlab and Modern Wisdom) are about healthy physical and intellectual self-improvement. That tells you far more about what most young men actually find aspirational. The kids are alright!

Your local friendly criminal barrister here! 👋 I need you to know that anything up to a three year prison sentence imposed without a jury trial is really not the same thing as scraping your knee without seeing a consultant.

Over 3,200 legal professionals including 22 retired judges and 303 KCs have written to the Prime Minister urging him not to reduce our jury trials. Barristers enable complainants/victims/survivors and defendants to give their evidence in court. Barristers want to lift the criminal justice system out of the crisis. Barristers have pioneered proposals to reduce delays and welcome their implementation. They need to happen urgently. Juries do not cause the unacceptable delays and are not the remedy to reduce delays. @thebarcouncil #JusticeNeedsJuries

🚨 UK IN DANGER 🚨 You are not signing this petition for me. You’re not even signing it for yourself; you are signing it for our children and our children’s, children. Right now in the UK, convicted terrorists are standing in our upcoming elections. I will continue to use Shahid Butt as just one example. He is an Islamic terrorist who plotted to blow up BRITISH buildings. He was caught and convicted. He is standing in the May elections, in the UK, this year. This petition is vital! petition.parliament.uk/petit…

I’ve written to every Member of Parliament today. Proposals before Parliament would remove jury trials from offences carrying up to three years in prison. Freedoms rarely vanish overnight. They are chipped away in the name of efficiency. Juries did not cause the crisis in our courts. Removing them will not fix it. When the state seeks to take someone’s liberty for serious offences, the judgment of ordinary citizens should never be optional. This is close to becoming law. Please read the letter. Contact your MP now.

Completely agree with this. Nothing will change without equal access to paid parental leave.