🟢 Most of the world’s finest jade comes from one place: Hpakant in Myanmar’s Kachin State. Revenues from the lucrative industry are central to the country’s expanding civil war. 1/6 🧵
BREAKING:
5 hospitals have been closed for quarantines in Siberia due to a possible plague outbreak.
The 28-year-old lab technician Darya Shipilova, died yesterday after breaking a test tube with live Yersinia pestis the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute on September 25th while handling samples.
A mask mandate has now been introduced at the huge aluminum plant in Irkutsk.
Some U.S. politicians are now calling for commercial air travel to and from Russia to be stopped until the situation is clarified.
This first symptoms of pneumonic plague typically start about 4 to 7 days after exposure. 200 people are under observation.
🚨☣️More details on the Oct 1st pneumonic plague outbreak in Siberia, after a lab accident at a BSL-3 lab.
"FSB units accompanying ambulances transporting people who had been in contact with [lab tech] Shipilova for medical examination," as per local news. This is significant. FSB is Russia's domestic security / counterintelligence service, tasked w/implementing the national security of Russia." (Its predecessor was the KGB). This suggests quarantine was not voluntary.
It also means Russian authorities are treating the lab accident and plague outbreak as a national security issue, involving a lot more than routine public health.
I’ve been warning about the spike in diesel prices, followed by shortages of supply, for several weeks now. Especially if Trump goes along with an export ban. A third of the diesel we import is from America, which is the world’s biggest diesel exporter (1.5m b/d). There are no alternative sources of supply. A US export ban would throw us into recession by Christmas. The economy, from farm machinery to road haulage, is powered by diesel.
In the US unleaded petrol is 94p/litre. 11p of that is tax.
Here it’s upwards of £1.70 and 81.43p* of that is tax.
Without tax the US and UK price at the pump would be 83p/l and 89.5p/l
It’s not international prices forcing up our fuel to unaffordable levels.
It’s our government. 😡😡😡
(*UK pump price of 170.9p per litre, tax is 81.43p per litre, meaning 47.6% of what you pay goes directly to the government.
Tax Breakdown
•Fuel Duty: 52.95p per litre
•VAT (20%): 28.48p per litre (charged at 20% on the underlying cost of the fuel plus the fuel duty, creating a "tax on a tax").
◦VAT on the fuel duty alone: 10.59p of that VAT amount comes directly from taxing the 52.95p duty.)
This photograph was posted proudly. Here is everything they hoped you would never know about the man in it, what his family did to this country, who his money funds, and why your Foreign Secretary standing next to him is one of the most dangerous things a British minister has ever done in public.
Today. 25 September 2026. New York. United Nations week. While you were working, paying your bills, sitting in traffic, watching the news about yet another boat arriving on our shores, our Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband was smiling for a photograph with Alexander Soros and posting it online with the caption "inspired by his energy, ambition and determination to get things done."
We are going to tell you exactly who Alexander Soros is, what his family has done to this country, what his money funds right now, and why this photograph is one of the most revealing and disgusting things a British government minister has ever done in public.
Stay with us. Because this is the whole picture, and it is worse than you think.
THE FAMILY THAT ALREADY BROKE BRITAIN ONCE
You cannot understand Alexander Soros without starting with his father, because the son is simply a continuation of what the father began. And what the father did to this country was unforgivable.
On 16 September 1992, Black Wednesday, George Soros bet ten billion dollars against the British pound. He single-handedly forced the Bank of England to its knees. He made one billion pounds profit in a single day. One man. One trade. One billion pounds taken directly from British families while ordinary people watched their mortgage rates explode overnight, their businesses collapse, and their government humiliated on the front pages of every newspaper in the world. Interest rates hit 15% in a single day. We did not do that to ourselves. He did it to us deliberately, cold-bloodedly, for personal profit.
That is the family we are talking about. That is the blood money that built this empire. And now the son controls it.
WHO IS ALEXANDER SOROS
Alexander George Soros. Born 27 October 1985. Raised in a 14-room estate in Katonah, New York. Schooled at elite Connecticut prep schools. NYU degree. PhD from Berkeley in 2018. Lives in Manhattan. Married this year to Huma Abedin, the Clinton insider whose previous husband Anthony Weiner, a United States congressman, was jailed for sending sexually explicit messages to a minor. That is his inner circle. That is the world he lives in.
He now controls $25 billion. He chairs the Open Society Foundations, the largest private political funding operation on earth. He runs Democracy PAC and Democracy PAC II, the super political action committees that pumped $125 million into the American Democratic Party in a single election cycle. He visited the Biden White House 25 times in three years. Not 25 times over a lifetime. 25 times in three years. More often than most elected congressmen. He met with national security officials, foreign policy advisers, Senate leadership. He had more informal access to American executive power than the ambassadors of most allied nations.
He holds no elected office. He represents no one. He answers to no one.
He told the Wall Street Journal when he inherited control of his father's empire: "I am more political than my father."
More political. His father broke the Bank of England and made a billion pounds doing it. His father spent decades buying influence across Western democracies. His father was convicted of insider trading in France and lost the appeal at the European Court of Human Rights. And the son wants to be more political than that.
WHAT HE HAS ALREADY DONE TO OUR COUNTRY
This is not a foreign story. This is our story.
When 17.4 million of us voted for Brexit in 2016, we made the largest democratic decision in the history of this country. We voted clearly. We voted freely. We voted to take our country back from a system that did not serve us.
The Soros network decided our vote was wrong.
Open Society Foundations, the organisation that Alexander Soros now chairs, funnelled £3,021,689 into anti-Brexit campaigns. They gave £1,213,689 to Best for Britain in 2019 alone. £1,087,000 in 2018. £400,000 in 2017. They gave money to the European Movement. They gave money to Scientists for EU.
How did they get around our laws banning foreign donations to UK political campaigns? By routing the money through their London office. Open Society Foundation London. A company registered at Companies House. A company of which Alexander Soros is a listed UK director, verified by the British government as recently as 31 May 2026.
They used a legal loophole in our own system to inject foreign billionaire money into a campaign to destroy the biggest democratic vote our country has ever held. Best for Britain was investigated by the Electoral Commission. Irregularities were confirmed. The money kept flowing anyway.
And they did not even hide it. Open Society Foundations published a press release confirming every penny. They were that confident nothing would happen to them. They were right.
THE SOROS MACHINE FUNDS THE OPEN BORDERS LOBBY
Now we come to the part that should make every single person in this country who has watched those boats arrive day after day absolutely furious.
Open Society Foundations openly declares on its own website that it is "the largest private funder of independent groups working for justice, equity, and human rights." One of its primary and stated funding priorities is migration and asylum. Its own website says it supports "groups that work on a broad range of issues affecting the safety and well-being of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers." In 2016, George Soros pledged $500 million specifically to migrant and refugee investment programmes.
These are not neutral charities helping people in genuine need. These are political advocacy organisations that lobby governments to keep borders open, campaign against deportations, fight every attempt to control who enters our country, and tie the hands of every government that tries to enforce immigration law.
In Italy, prosecutors investigated NGOs funded by Soros foundations for operating ships that picked up migrants close to the Libyan coast and transported them to Europe. The Italian Parliament raised formal questions about it. Multiple Soros-funded NGOs were named. Italian authorities seized vessels. The prosecutor in Catania asked publicly whether private organisations were being allowed to "replace political forces and the will of nations."
The European Parliament formally asked the European Commission about the Ayatollah regime's collaboration with Open Society Foundation. The Commission confirmed it. That is not a conspiracy theory. That is on the official record of the European Parliament.
Then there is this. In 2017, Iran's own Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif openly admitted that his government had "worked closely" with Open Society Foundations. Worked closely with the Soros network. That is not an allegation from a hostile source. That is Iran saying it themselves.
THE IRGC IS USING OUR OPEN BORDER TO SEND KILLERS INTO BRITAIN AND SOROS FUNDS THE PEOPLE LOBBYING TO KEEP THAT BORDER OPEN
In July 2026, two months ago, The Daily Telegraph revealed in a bombshell investigation that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC, the military intelligence arm of the Iranian theocracy, has been using Channel crossing smuggling networks to move covert operatives into the United Kingdom.
The specific unit responsible is IRGC Unit 700, the logistics and smuggling arm of the Quds Force, Iran's elite covert foreign operations division. Unit 700 does not just occasionally use these routes. According to The Telegraph's sources including Iranian officials, people smugglers, and security analysts, Unit 700 effectively controls several trafficking routes stretching from the Middle East to the English Channel.
Suspected Iranian operatives intercepted in small boats are thought to have links to the Ministry of Intelligence and Security. Revolutionary Guard agents have been positioned in London through these networks. An Iranian source told The Telegraph directly: "We can make London unsafe."
LBC confirmed it. GB News confirmed it. Iran International confirmed it. The New English Review confirmed it. Every credible outlet that looked at the intelligence confirmed it.
The IRGC runs the Channel. The same Channel that has delivered hundreds of thousands of arrivals to our shores over the past several years. The same Channel that this government and every government before it has failed to close.
And now join the dots that they hope you never join.
The Soros network funds the open borders lobby. The open borders lobby campaigns to keep our borders exactly as they are: uncontrolled, unmonitored, effectively open. The IRGC exploits those open borders to run smuggling networks and move agents into Britain. Iran's own Foreign Minister has admitted working closely with the Soros network. OSF funded organisations are described by Italian prosecutors as facilitating migrant crossings across the Mediterranean. And Alex Soros has $46.7 million of his family's money flowing through the International Crisis Group, an organisation that has faced formal congressional scrutiny over its Iran-sympathetic positions.
We are not saying Alex Soros personally phones IRGC commanders. We are saying that the machine he runs, the money he directs, the open borders ideology he funds, and the Iran relationships his organisation has openly admitted to, all combine to create a situation where Iran's intelligence service is walking agents into this country through the exact same open door that Alexander Soros's political machine has spent millions lobbying to keep open.
If that is a coincidence, it is the most expensive and dangerous coincidence in our country's history.
THE DOJ IS TRYING TO PROSECUTE HIM AND OUR FOREIGN SECRETARY CALLS HIM INSPIRING
As of September 2025, the United States Department of Justice directed more than six US Attorney's offices to submit formal plans to investigate Open Society Foundations. The charge under consideration is RICO. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations. The law they use for organised crime.
Capital Research Center's investigators found that OSF under Alexander Soros's leadership directed more than $80 million to organisations the FBI connects to domestic extremism. Grantees include groups that trained activists in property destruction during the 2020 riots that left American cities burning. Groups with members facing over 40 domestic terrorism charges. Groups with connections to violent far-left movements.
President Trump said publicly: "We're going to look into Soros because I think it's a RICO case." Attorney General Pam Bondi said everything is on the table.
And right now, today, while that investigation is active, while those accusations sit in the public domain, while British intelligence is watching IRGC agents arrive on our beaches through an open border kept open by the very ideology Soros funds, our Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband stood in New York in his official capacity as Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, shook Alexander Soros's hand, and told the world he found him inspiring.
LET US TALK ABOUT ED MILIBAND
Because he does not get to hide behind his title today.
This is the man who, in 2010, stabbed his own brother David in the back to seize the Labour leadership. David Miliband, widely regarded as the more able of the two, was destroyed politically by his own younger brother's ambition. He never returned to British frontline politics. Their mother was reportedly devastated. As Louise Mensch, no friend of ours but someone who said it clearly in the replies to Miliband's own tweet today, put it: "You were about as kind as Cain was to Abel." A man who knifes his own blood for personal advancement will do the same to a country without losing a moment's sleep.
The Telegraph has called Miliband "even more dangerous as Foreign Secretary" than in any other role. The Spectator called his appointment "genuinely sickening" and "the most nauseating appointment of my lifetime." Multiple serious commentators across the political spectrum have confirmed in print that Miliband serves his own ideological conscience rather than Britain's interests. He has apologised to Palestinians on behalf of cabinets he was not even in charge of. He has courted Qatar while condemning allies. He ran an energy policy as Energy Secretary that blocked North Sea development and drove up bills for every family in this country. And now he is Foreign Secretary.
The Telegraph reported in September 2026, just this month, that Miliband is "serving his own conscience, not Britain's interests." That was written before today's photograph.
What he did today is worse than serving his own conscience. He served Alexander Soros's interests. He handed a man under federal investigation a diplomatic shield. He gave Soros access to the Burnham government at the highest level. He signalled to every government in Europe that Britain's Foreign Office is open to unelected billionaires with political agendas. He handed the Trump administration a photograph they can and will use to justify every suspicion that Britain is playing politics against them at the exact moment we need American goodwill for trade, security, and intelligence cooperation.
And he put it on the internet himself. Proudly. As if we would not notice.
THE FULL PICTURE
Let us put it together plainly because it needs to be said plainly.
George Soros made a billion pounds deliberately collapsing the British pound in 1992. His son now controls the machine his father built and has declared he wants to be more political than his father. That machine funnelled over £3 million through a UK company to overturn our Brexit vote in breach of the spirit of our foreign donations law. It funds open borders lobbying across Europe and America. It funds migrant advocacy groups on both sides of the Channel. Italy's prosecutors investigated Soros-funded NGOs for facilitating illegal crossings. Iran's own Foreign Minister admitted his government worked closely with the Soros network. The IRGC's Unit 700 controls Channel smuggling routes and has been moving covert operatives into Britain through those same routes. The US Department of Justice is pursuing RICO charges. $80 million went to extremism-linked groups. Alexander Soros visited the Biden White House 25 times in three years.
And today, our Foreign Secretary, a man who knifed his own brother to get where he is, who The Telegraph and The Spectator and multiple credible outlets have described as dangerous, self-serving, and unfit, stood in New York and told Alexander Soros he finds him inspiring, and posted the proof online.
This is not politics anymore. This is betrayal. This is the Foreign Secretary of our country publicly embracing a man whose machine has interfered in our elections, whose ideology keeps the Channel open, whose network Iran's own government has admitted working closely with, and who is currently being pursued by a federal RICO investigation in the United States.
We built this country. We work in this country. We bled for this country. Our grandfathers died for this country. We vote in this country.
And this Labour government is handing it over, one photograph at a time, to people who have never stood for election in our country and never will.
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The Black Wednesday profit: Investopedia, Wikipedia, The Guardian confirmed.
The Brexit funding: Open Society Foundations' own press release confirmed.
The Electoral Commission investigation: BBC confirmed.
Companies House UK directorships: https://t.co/KGi2v3j6it official records confirmed.
The DOJ RICO investigation: New York Times, ABC News, Axios, Reuters confirmed.
$80 million terror-linked funding: Capital Research Center investigation confirmed.
25 White House visits: Washington Examiner, Fox News, official visitor logs confirmed.
Iran FM Zarif admitting working with OSF: Jewish News Syndicate, Israel National News confirmed.
European Parliament question on OSF-Iran collaboration: Official European Parliament record confirmed.
IRGC Unit 700 controlling Channel routes: The Daily Telegraph, LBC, GB News, Iran International confirmed.
Italian prosecutor investigation of Soros-funded NGOs: European Parliament record, InfoMigrants confirmed.
Miliband "serving his conscience not Britain's interests": The Daily Telegraph September 2026.
The photograph: Alexander Soros's own X post, 25 September 2026.
Every claim. Every source. All public. All verifiable. None of this is hidden. It is all sitting there waiting for anyone who bothers to look.
We looked. Now you know.
SHARE IT. NOW.
Britain is sitting on a diesel time‑bomb.
The UK is the world's most exposed nation to diesel. And it is all down to successive governments closing down working refineries, drilling opportunities, and, of course, net-zero bullshit.
We import the vast majority of what we use, and almost 70% comes from just three places — the US, the Netherlands, and Belgium. When those supply routes tighten, British drivers get hammered overnight. No other major economy is this dependent, this vulnerable, or this quick to pass global shocks straight to the pumps
Britain has gone from nine major oil refineries to just four — soon three — in only two decades. That collapse in domestic refining capacity is one of the biggest reasons UK motorists are being hammered at the pumps. We’ve dismantled our ability to produce and stabilise our own fuel, and now every global shock hits us harder, faster and more brutally than almost any other developed nation.
This is a structural weakness the Government refuses to acknowledge but is of their own making
While other countries protect drivers with tax cuts, subsidies or strategic reserves, the UK has allowed its refining sector to wither. The result is a dangerous dependency on foreign diesel and petrol, volatile prices, and a system where British motorists pay the full price of every international crisis.
With US export restrictions being discussed and European refining margins at record highs, every geopolitical flare‑up becomes a price spike for UK motorists
FairFuelUK is calling for urgent action: transparency, domestic resilience, and a fuel pricing system that doesn’t leave drivers paying for every global crisis
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The UK's bond market is collapsing.
Today, the yield on a 30Y Bond in the UK hit 5.95%, its highest level since March 1998.
Yields in the UK are now 15 TIMES above 2020 levels, with the highest borrowing costs among G7 countries.
What is happening? Let us explain.
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The Arakan Army (AA) has effectively targeted a navy ship belonging to the junta regime, a vessel that has been responsible for launching missile attacks on towns and villages across Rakhine State, leading to the deaths of innocent civilians.
This unprecedented action is a landmark moment in Myanmar's history, marking the first time an ethnic armed group has successfully destroyed a multi-million-dollar navy ship associated with the junta regime.
Such a decisive and capable strike not only disrupts the regime's military capabilities but also underscores the resilience and determination of the Arakan Army.
Video/AA
The outrage from Labour at Reform pocketing £72million from a couple of crypto guys makes me laugh.
Do you know how much trade unions have paid to Burnham’s mob between 2006-2025?
£200million in donations and affiliation fees. Yes £200million.
For that money they run the country when there’s a Labour administration.
And you wonder why we have a new Employment Rights Act where you can now have sick pay from Day One ( the number of week one sickness has rocketed) and maternity rights from Day One which means new employees are turning up having just been hired to announce they will shortly be away for a year.
Almost impossible to fire the most criminal of employees without giving them a payoff because they know dimwitted employment tribunal judges are on their side.
Our nation is bankrupt because it’s at the beck and call of the unions and there £200million.
Never forget it.
Singapore's Prime Minister will earn S$3.6M a year from October 15th. That's about $2.84M, equal to a 64% raise.
Before someone feels outraged by that, let me remind that this was Lee Kuan Yew's recipe to avoid corruption. The logic was simple. If you pay ministers at market rate, nobody needs to buy them.
Personally, I've never understood why, to be an accountant reviewing and filing accounts with the State, you need a degree, exams passed, continuous education etc. To run the State itself: nothing.
Doesn't make too much sense, no?
Not to sound like a broken record, but Singapore's model is extremely reasonable: 35% of ministerial pay is variable. The National Bonus, as it's called, is set by four indicators: real median income growth, real income growth of the bottom 20%, unemployment, and real GDP growth.
So their pay is tied to how the country actually performs. Not to how well they campaign.
تتابع سفارة المملكة العربية السعودية لدى المملكة المتحدة باهتمام حالة المواطن السعودي الذي تعرض لحادث طعن في منطقة مايفير، وتنسق مع الجهات البريطانية المختصة، كما تحرص على تقديم الرعاية والدعم اللازمين له، ومتابعة حالته الصحية حتى خروجه من المستشفى بصحة وسلامة بإذن الله.
وتؤكد السفارة أنها تتابع ملابسات الحادثة مع الجهات الأمنية المعنية، وتشدد على أهمية الإسراع في استكمال التحقيقات وكشف جميع تفاصيل الواقعة ومحاسبة المتسبب فيها وفقًا للقانون. كما تؤكد أهمية اتخاذ ما يلزم من إجراءات لتعزيز سلامة المواطنين والزوار في المناطق العامة.
وتهيب السفارة بالمواطنين والمواطنات توخي الحيطة والحذر، وتجنب حمل المقتنيات الثمينة في الأماكن العامة.
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Things that are dragging down the country according to Burnham
Thatcher
Brexit
Bond markets
Things that are actually dragging down the country
Highest personal tax in history
Largest welfare state bill in history
Largest civil service headcount in history
Highest energy prices in history
Highest government debt in history
Britain’s biggest problem is too much Government. And their answer to everything… is MORE government
@peterrhague Here’s the UK 10y gilt yield-to-fucked scale:
4%: fucked
5%: proper fucked
6%: utterly fucked
7%+: time to buy tinned goods
Currently sitting at ~5.2% (highest since 2008). Proper fucked.
🚨BREAKING: Ceuta locals are now tracking down and BLOCKING vehicles belonging to the Red Cross NGO, in order to halt their operations across the enclave
This is unprecedented. They are warning the Red Cross to leave immediately.
An uprising has begun in Ceuta. 🇪🇸
Cathedral City is being sold. Canadian owner Saputo has agreed to sell its UK dairy business, including Britain’s best-selling cheddar, to Lactalis for £988m, subject to regulatory approval.
Lactalis is the world’s largest dairy company. It is privately owned by the French Besnier family and already owns Seriously, Britain’s third-largest cheddar brand. The acquisition would give it the first and third-largest brands, as well as Davidstow, Britain’s largest cheddar creamery.
Cathedral City will still be made in Cornwall with British milk, supporting British farms and jobs. But production and ownership are not the same. Control and the ultimate financial benefit will sit overseas.
This is about the growing concentration and foreign ownership of Britain’s food-production capacity. It is not an argument against France or French cheese.
Why are we so good at making valuable products, yet so willing to surrender the businesses behind them?
For a superb cheddar made and independently owned here in England, try:
https://t.co/VCxDQnNaVU
In the 24 months since Labour came to power, we've seen;
• Employer National Insurance increased from 13.8% to 15%.
• The employer NI threshold cut from £9,100 to £5,000.
• Income Tax and National Insurance thresholds frozen until 2031.
• Capital Gains Tax increased from 10% and 20% to 18% and 24%.
• Business Asset Disposal Relief increased from 10% to 14%, then 18%.
• Investors’ Relief increased and its lifetime allowance cut from £10 million to £1 million.
• Carried interest taxation increased and moved towards the Income Tax regime.
• Dividend tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Savings-income tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Property-income tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Most unused pension funds brought into the Inheritance Tax net.
• Agricultural Property Relief restricted.
• Business Property Relief restricted.
• Inheritance Tax thresholds frozen for longer.
• The non-dom regime replaced with a more extensive residence-based system.
• VAT imposed on private school fees.
• Business-rates relief removed from private schools.
• Stamp Duty increased on second homes and buy-to-let properties.
• The Furnished Holiday Lettings tax regime abolished.
• Pension salary-sacrifice benefits capped at £2,000 before National Insurance applies.
• The Cash ISA allowance cut to £12,000 for most under-65s.
• A 22% charge introduced on interest from cash held inside non-cash ISAs.
• Restrictions introduced on transfers and cash-like holdings within ISAs.
• The Energy Profits Levy increased and extended.
• Investment allowances for oil and gas producers reduced.
• A new Vaping Products Duty introduced.
• Tobacco duties increased above inflation.
• Vehicle Excise Duty increased for many new cars.
• Electric vehicles brought into the Vehicle Excise Duty system.
• A new mileage tax announced for electric and plug-in hybrid cars.
• Air Passenger Duty increased.
• Climate Change Levy rates increased.
• Plastic Packaging Tax increased.
• A new Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism introduced.
• Making Tax Digital extended to more landlords and self-employed people.
Together they represent one of the biggest transfers of wealth from households and businesses to the Treasury in decades - with no noticeable improvement in public services.
Whether you're a business owner employing staff, a parent paying school fees, a farmer planning succession, an entrepreneur building wealth or simply someone trying to save for retirement...
You keep less of what you earn.
You keep less of what you invest.
You leave less to your family.
Death by a thousand cuts is becoming tax policy.