ColinG 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

Pro life, Pro Brexit, Pro U.K., but currently live in the French Alps. Have a fantastic day. 👌

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

The same police force who handcuffed Henry Nowak and called him a liar as he died, did this to the people protesting it.

Nobody can say there's no two tier policing and judiciary in the UK.

The whole world sees it.

[David Frost @DavidGHFrost]

I spoke today in the Lords on the fallacy of believing that just building 'more of everything' - nuclear, gas, renewables - will make electricity cheaper.

Renewables are the problem. Until we stop adding more to the system, our electricity costs will continue to increase.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🇬🇧 A Greek sailor named Pytheas wrote down our name in 325 BC. 🇬🇧

It is older than Rome. 🇮🇹

And it is still in your mouth.

In 325 BC, a Greek sailed north. His name was Pytheas. He came from Massalia, on the south coast of what is now France. A Greek colony of merchants and navigators.

And Pytheas was the most curious man in it.

He sailed past Cádiz, around Iberia, and headed north. Past the limit of the known world.

And he found a sophisticated people working tin. They lived in roundhouses set into the hills. They traded tin into the wider world.

And they had a name for themselves.

They called themselves the Pretannoi. Which meant the painted people.

Their land was called Pretannikē. The Pretannic Isles.

And Pytheas wrote it down.

📜 He returned to Massalia and wrote a book about it. He called it *On the Ocean*. The book itself was lost. But other writers quoted from it for the next 500 years.

And the name he wrote down for Britain survived.

The Romans wrote it as Britannia. The English wrote it as Britain. And you write it the same way today.

The name has not changed in 2,350 years.

🏛️ Pytheas did not find a backwater. He found a sophisticated people. Working metal at scale. Trading across the sea. And living on land they had named before Rome could write.

The Pretannoi became Britons. Their descendants became the British. And the British are still here. Still answering to the name that Pytheas carved into wax 2,350 years ago.

Britain is older than Rome. Older than English. Older than the language you speak.

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Britain is older than English itself.

Most Britons don't know.

Our work is made in Britain, for Britain.

Tell your kids. 🙏

👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 👈

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Harman Singh Kapoor @kingkapoor72]

Carrying a kirpan like this also solves the issue of religious belief.
We don’t need a long and sharp blade to fulfil our need to carry a ceremonial dagger.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

I fear I have been too hard on Nicola Sturgeon for not seeing the camper van parked on her mother-in-law’s driveway. I now understand her husband hid it behind 108 loo rolls. Apologies.

[Eva Vlaardingerbroek @EvaVlaar]

The @SaveEuropeAct is in essence an initiative to protect the rights of the Native peoples of Europe.

Our rights often remain unrecognized, and have been disregarded and violated by replacement migration and its disastrous consequences.

We demand change. The ethnocultural continuity of our peoples is crucial for Europe’s preservation. This is our home and we are not willing to lose it.

Here is the Act. Sign it now at https://t.co/IRZRt6lJCD

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

South Wales Police is enforcing its own bespoke Islamic blasphemy law — and it won’t be the only force to do so.

When the FSU warned that the Government’s official definition would silence legitimate criticism of Islam, some accused us of being hysterical.

Our warning has been vindicated time and again.

South Wales Police is now effectively enforcing a blasphemy code, with officers instructed to record speech that goes beyond what they regard as “legitimate discussion” of Islam.

But what constitutes “legitimate discussion” of Islam in a country that abolished blasphemy laws in 2008? And why should officers at South Wales Police have the power to decide what may and may not be said about Islam and Muslims?

The Government’s official definition of Islamophobia — now repackaged as “anti-Muslim hatred/hostility” — was a gilded invitation for public bodies to go even further with their own definitions and guidance.

The result is legal uncertainty. Individuals cannot know whether their lawful speech or beliefs will be recorded by the police, nor how any resulting record may be retained, used or disclosed.

If an officer decides that someone has crossed the line of what they consider “legitimate” debate about Islam and Muslims, the police will, in all likelihood, record it as an anti-social behaviour incident.

That record could then appear on an enhanced DBS check and cost someone a job.

We will inevitably see women who describe the burka as a tool of oppression logged alongside those who criticise halal food or public prayer events.

Most concerning of all, the policy will deter people from speaking out on sensitive issues — from the grooming gangs scandal to Islamist extremism — including public officials and journalists, for fear of acquiring a black mark against their name.

The Free Speech Union has written to South Wales Police demanding that it withdraw this guidance. If it refuses, it has been warned that judicial review proceedings will follow.

Read FSU Campaigns Officer @MaxHThompson’s opinion piece for @GBNEWS 👇

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

In October 2024, the Free Speech Union came to the aid of Rick Prior, the elected Chair of the Metropolitan Police Federation, after he was suspended for saying that rank-and-file officers had become so fearful of complaints of racism — and potentially losing their jobs — that they no longer dared challenge allegations of racism, particularly when made by people of colour.

According to Prior, some officers were reluctant to intervene when they suspected a crime was being committed if the perpetrator was a black or brown person for fear of being accused of racism.

Fortunately, with our support, Rick Prior won his

Given the circumstance of Henry Nowak's death, it's clear that Rick Prior was right to raise these concerns.

The police have overcorrected in response to the perception that the force is institutionally racist, and that needs to be addressed.

People like Rick Prior — and other elected federation chairs — must be free to speak out about what they believe has gone wrong and propose common-sense solutions without risking suspension or dismissal.

The lack of free speech within policing on these issues has contributed to the current state of affairs in which officers appear to be more concerned about not following up accusations of racism than protecting people from violent criminals.

Watch the Free Speech Union’s General Secretary, Lord Young, below 👇

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Since the 1980s, the Sahara has shrunk by roughly 8%. Satellite data show widespread greening, a pattern that is playing out across the planet.

Around 50% of Earth's vegetated land has become significantly greener, an area roughly three times the size of the United States.

The dominant driver is not rainfall or land use change, it is rising atmospheric CO2.

Higher CO2 lets plants photosynthesize more efficiently, they lose less water, they tolerate heat and dryness better.

The effect is strongest along desert margins, across the Sahel, the Middle East, Australia's interior and the southern edge of the Sahara.

Rising CO2 is making the deserts, and the planet as a whole, greener.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A tenant farmer in the Cairngorms says land that sold for £500 an acre a few years ago now goes for £5,000. He is being moved off ground his family has worked for generations, because he cannot outbid the people buying it. The buyers are corporations, and they have no intention of farming a single acre of it.

Here is how the trick works. A company keeps emitting carbon exactly as before. Same factories, same flights, same supply chain, same product. Then it buys a Scottish hillside, plants some trees, and announces to the world that it is now carbon neutral, or, if it is feeling brave, carbon negative. The emissions never fell. It simply bought a landscape to point at.

Take BrewDog. In 2020 it bought a 9,300-acre Highland estate, propped up with public grant money, and promised a million trees and the crown of the world's first carbon negative beer business, removing twice the carbon it emitted, forever. By 2023 roughly half of the 500,000 trees it had managed to plant were dead, killed by drought, with critics noting the planting was drying out the peat and releasing carbon of its own. The advertising regulator ruled its carbon-negative claims misleading. In 2024 it quietly dropped the badge and dismissed the entire carbon credit market as a flood of cheap schemes whose benefit was "questionable, maybe even non-existent." Then it sold the estate to a firm whose actual business is selling carbon offsets.

That is the whole model in one story. Public money in. Dead trees out. A green halo worn for four years and then dropped. The farmer who used to be on that land, gone. The hillside passed to a company that exists purely to sell other people the right to keep polluting.

This is no fringe case. In one recent year, half of every estate sold in Scotland went to investment funds, corporations and charitable trusts rather than anyone who would farm it. A third of the deals for plantable land are now done off-market, in secret, precisely so the local community never gets the chance to bid.

So this is what net zero looks like on the ground. A man who produced food is priced out of his own glen. A corporation that produced emissions buys the glen, calls itself a force for good, and sells the carbon. The land stops feeding anyone. Nobody's emissions actually went down by a gram.

The food was real. The farmer was real. The carbon saving is a line in a slide deck.

And we have somehow decided the villain in all this is the man with the sheep.

[David Frost @DavidGHFrost]

You will also see fewer services elsewhere, eg through London to Kent. Easy to reduce cancellations if you just remove the services instead.

This is how the railways worked when last nationalised: rationed capacity, increasing prices, low investment. Expect to see that again.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

The Earth is greening at a rate never seen before in all recorded history, according to NASA satellite records from 1982–2023.

Global crop yields have risen 15–20% since 1960, almost entirely attributable to CO₂ fertilisation (Idso, 2013; IPCC AR6 WG1 Ch5). Famine deaths have plummeted over a time when the world's population doubled and CO₂ deserves much of the credit. We have increased CO₂ over the past century to thank for this explosion in plant life and available plant food from booming agriculture.

There's been a more than 18% increase in the global leaf area in 40 years, with the largest gains in India and China from CO₂ fertilisation. Warmer and more balmy temperatures are lengthening the growing seasons. These are features of rising levels of water vapour and cloud cover around the world. Every 100 ppm increase in CO₂ typically boosts plant growth by 25–50% in all non-water-limited conditions.

This analysis draws on 776 studies from 1993–2019, showing an ideal average CO₂ level of 550 ppm delivers a 38% increase in global biomass.

It's an astonishing windfall for life on earth from CO₂, a trace gas at 420 ppm (or 0.04%). It also has a secondary benefit for life by contributing to baseline levels of warmth around the planet, along with water vapour and other trace gases with similar properties, like methane (approx. 1.9 ppm or 0.00019%).

However, water vapour and cloud cover are the mainstays of rainfall and the entire hydrologic cycle, returning water as precipitation to rivers, lakes, and oceans (where 78% of rain ends up).

These are the reasons why commercial greenhouses pump CO₂ to 1,000–1,500 ppm deliberately. It ensures that crop yields jump by 20–70% depending on the crop. If 1000 ppm is good for tomatoes, why is 420 ppm an 'emergency' for the planet?

The science says 600–1,000 ppm of CO₂ plus 1–2°C extra warming hits the sweet spot for all terrestrial and marine life, including human civilisation. We should not be waging war on a trace gas that makes the planet greener.

Higher CO₂ is a net benefit to life on Earth.

[Roger Helmer ☀️🏴‍☠️ @RogerHelmerMEP]

Time to say it out loud. The “Brexit was a disaster” narrative beloved of Remainers & Rejoiners is a downright lie. We’re doing better than comparable economies who stayed in the EU.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Portraying CO₂ as a threat to climate and health is being used to justify trillions in redirected capital, heavy regulation, and centralised control.

But the financial incentives driving this narrative ignore a basic biological truth. Commercial greenhouse operators routinely enrich their air to 1,000–1,200 ppm — nearly triple atmospheric levels — because it directly fuels photosynthesis, boosting crop yields by 30% to over 100%. If it were a pollutant, they'd be killing their profits. Instead, they are leveraging more robust plant food.

This same principle is taking place globally. At around 430 ppm, rising atmospheric CO₂ is driving measurable global greening and boosting crop productivity, as confirmed by NASA satellite observations and NBER analysis.

Higher CO₂ also improves plant water-use efficiency, allowing vegetation to thrive in previously arid or desert regions, such as the Sahara, which has lost 700,000 square kilometres of desert sands to new leaf growth. These real-world results overwhelm the harsh computer models every time.

The narrative treats CO₂ as a toxin; the data shows it as a biological godsend.

[Edinburgh Lone Litter Picker @EdinburghPicker]

#Plastic is the last thing sea life needs. People need to be much more careful when dealing with their waste.

Picked up some #litter yesterday including plastic packaging like this along a road. Blown out of open bins it seemed.

Endangered loggerhead sea turtles live here! 🐢

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

26 Labour MPs have reported Reform UK to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) for alleged Islamophobia.

This comes after the Government announced its official definition of Islamophobia — repackaged as “anti-Muslim hatred” — in March.

The definition has already been weaponised to silence individuals, including prominent politicians, for criticising or challenging Islam, its practices, and its history.

In their letter, the MPs claim that “over the last few years, we have seen a number of @reformparty_uk politicians and members make comments that are clearly racist and discriminate against ethnic minorities, and in particular, Muslims.”

As evidence, they cite @Nigel_Farage criticising the mass Muslim prayer event in Trafalgar Square.

Parliament voted to abolish blasphemy laws in 2008. In a free society, no religion should receive special protection or be shielded from legitimate criticism.

Read more below 👇

[Catherine McBride OBE @CeeMacBee]

Dragging the UK back into EU SPS regulations

The EU has both Foot and Mouth Disease and African Swine Fever, the UK has neither. So why does the Labour Government want to follow EU SPS regulations and opening our borders to certificate free trade with the EU and EU low plant and animal health standards?

https://t.co/mKIveOjbiB

[Esther McVey @EstherMcVey1]

The only economy Labour is growing is the black economy.
Labour may look the other way, deny there is a massive problem with both the black and the shadow economy in the U.K. but the public knows the truth.
We see the empty barber shops, vape shops & American candy stores on our high streets and know they aren’t legitimate.
The problem is if the black & shadow economy grow beyond a certain point an advanced society collapses & I say under Starmer & Reeves the U.K. is racing towards that tipping point.
To see the full podcast click here 👇
https://t.co/hzd8J2MQYs

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Walk into any modern high-tech greenhouse, and you will find CO₂ levels artificially elevated to between 1,000 ppm and 1,200 ppm.

This is nearly triple ambient outdoor conditions. Raising CO₂ in controlled environments can supercharge crop yields by 80% to over 120% for staples like tomatoes and peppers. If CO₂ really was a toxic pollutant, commercial greenhouse operators wouldn't spend millions pumping it into their enclosures.

But this biological miracle isn't just found in greenhouses any more. It's happening right now in the open fields. CO₂ has climbed to roughly 430 ppm, becoming a silent tailwind behind a new green revolution. The climate agenda warned us of impending droughts, floods and food scarcity—fears based almost entirely on computer models.

NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellites reveal an unexpected new dawn. Between 10% and 40% of all historical crop yield improvements since 1940 are directly due to rising CO₂. For wheat, soybeans, and corn, the atmospheric fuel injection has driven a massive portion of the modern 'green revolution'.

This data comes from a recent landmark study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, which utilised satellite tracking to measure the exact impact of CO₂ fertilisation on broadacre field crops.

For C3 crops like wheat, rice, and potatoes, the extra CO₂ has been an immediate stimulant, accelerating growth and biomass. More CO₂ also allows leaf pores (stomata) to stay partially closed, reducing water loss by up to 40%. In dry broadacre zones, this creates unprecedented natural drought resilience.

CO₂ has been treated as an agent of starvation and ruin in the climate agenda. Yet the hard science proves it is a primary engine of agricultural abundance. The planet isn't dying; it's successfully feeding a population of 8 billion with unprecedented biological efficiency.

Perhaps they never expected this.

[Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins]

UK law:

If you are Muslim you can punch a police offer in the face, bang your first cousin and claim benefits for your fourth wife (also a family number)

If you are white, you get prison time for tweeting how pissed off you are about it.

Labour are inciting riots