Alex Thomson | UK Column

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[Alex Thomson | UK Column @Alex_UKColumn]

No.

Even Halsbury’s Laws of England admits grudgingly that (a) it’s the _Crown in_ Parliament, not Parliament; (b) that’s _said_ to be sovereign (i.e. this principle is not codified); and (c) it has never been argued to apply to Scotland.

https://t.co/NMPhFlu08O

[Kris @krxsctr]

UK Civil Service salaries never cease to confuse me, you can either help manage the UK’s nuclear defence for £47k or you can make TikToks for Andy Burnham for £57k

[Geopolitics of Romania @GeopolRomania]

🇷🇴🇸🇪 Sweden is abusively detaining Romanian children in an abhorrent case of anti-Christian religious persecution.

Tiana Samson: I want to live with my parents and siblings. Socialjänsten is completely ignoring me! They even took my Bible!

Tiktok: swedenreunitethesamsons

[Murdo Fraser MSP @murdo_fraser]

I can’t see @AmnestyUK surviving this. Donations will already have dried up, and they will be liquidated by the legal claims. It’s over.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I was a big supporter of Amnesty when they fought political imprisonment and torture

Now I renounce them entirely

[𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗜𝗧🌹🇬🇧 @graeme_from_IT]

Did you or your kids want to go to Heriot Watt this year? Well, bad news - they're not accepting ANY Scottish Students…

https://t.co/pkprMB9fy9

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Sky News yesterday: We have not contacted Nigel Farage's family.

Sky News today: Actually we did.

They lied and the government wants YouTube to artificially boost Sky News as a “trusted source”. They’re one of the worst for dishonesty.

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

🤯 Listen to this extraordinary exchange between Camilla Tominey and Labour’s Health Secretary James Murray. It is genuinely jaw-dropping.

Camilla: “You’re quite pro-trans, aren’t you? Do you think a woman can have a penis? Because you did previously?”

Murray: “No, I don’t.”

Camilla: “So you’ve changed your mind?”

Murray: “Yes.”

Camilla: “Why?”

Murray stumbles. He says he’s been thinking about the issue over recent years and would not now say trans women are women.

Camilla hits back: “You must have known that before. You are very well educated. How on earth can you have previously thought that a woman can have a penis?”

He had no real answer. Because there isn’t one.

This is not some backbench MP. This is the Secretary of State for Health, the man responsible for the entire NHS, puberty blocker policy, women’s health services, and child safeguarding.

He spent years either believing or pretending to believe that biological sex is fluid and that women can have penises. Only now, when the Cass Review, court rulings, and public opinion have made that position politically toxic, has he magically “changed his mind”.

Think about the damage done while he held that view. The eroded women’s rights. The confused children fast-tracked toward hormones and surgery. The female prisoners and athletes forced to share spaces with biological males. All enabled or ignored by senior Labour figures like him.

This level of ideological delusion at the very top of government is not just embarrassing, it is dangerous. Basic biology should never have been up for debate, let alone something a Health Secretary had to “evolve” on.

[Alex Thomson | UK Column @Alex_UKColumn]

“When I say ‘meaningful debate’, I mean one side only!”

[Lisa Nandy MP @lisanandy]

I've decided to leave this platform and my Department will too.

A platform originally designed for free speech and expression now favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate.

It isn't healthy for our democracy or our communities and I don’t want to support it.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Tucker Carlson says Trump is privately “very annoyed” with Christians over abortion and “hostile” toward traditional Christianity in general.

JACK NEEL: “Has Trump asked you to pray before?”

TUCKER: “Absolutely not. Trump is hostile to traditional Christianity.”

“Trump is mad at Christians for opposing abortion and mentions it a lot in private. A lot. And he’s very annoyed by it. And opposition to abortion annoys him a lot. He’s mentioned to me like 30 times.”

“I vehemently oppose abortion... I think it’s killing a child...”

“But I haven’t argued with him about it. I just listened. Maybe I should have, but I didn’t. But he’s got a really strong view on that.”

[Tim Newman @whitesundesert]

Great, it’ll be like Joe Biden: a devout Catholic who promotes abortion, child mutilation, and teaching toddlers about oral sex. Marvellous, can’t wait.

[Nik Stankovic @nikstankovic_]

Serbia's former foreign minister today revealed in an interview that after these public statements in 2009, Hillary Clinton told him in a private meeting that he needs to "stop activities on reversing Kosovo's declaration of independence else he AND HIS FAMILY will face consequences".

Jeremic said he explained that those activities are not his personal activities, but policy of the Serbian government, also their constitutional duty. That's when she said that.

(Jeremic also served one term as President of the United Nations General Assembly in 2012-2013)

https://t.co/C3Ai3jDmzN

[Jeannie McCrimmon @IndyLassie]

There was no democratic vote to down Scotland's ancients Saltire.

It was issued directly as an administrative internal edict by Midlothian Council management by
Dr Grace Vickers Chief Executive.

If you want to ask who is offended, [email protected]

[Benedict Spence @BenedictSpence]

What terrifies me about this attempted beheading is the potential backlash against peaceful beheaders.

[Department of State @StateDept]

Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline. They must be rejected across the West.

The United States sends our condolences to the family of Henry Nowak and the people of the United Kingdom at this troubling time.

[Ministry of Justice @MoJGovUK]

Sitting down with Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy, Freddie Fraser finds out what the new Judicial and Legal Diversity Board, co-chaired with Lady Chief Justice Baroness Sue Carr, really means for talented people from all backgrounds who want to become judges.

[Alex Thomson | UK Column @Alex_UKColumn]

I’m not buying what he’s godding.

[Breitbart News @BreitbartNews]

James Talarico: "God is not a Christian. God is not a noun at all. God is a verb."

[Mike Eckel @Mike_Eckel]

Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev says Russian and American officials tomorrow will be signing a MOU on building a tunnel, under the Bering Strait, between Chukotka and Alaska. 🙄

[Ranty Man @RanTeeThree]

They must really be worried, they're starting to show white kids in schools.

[Allum Bokhari @AllumBokhari]

🇪🇺 The Europeans have gone insane🇪🇺

At a summit in the UK, a French NGO executive discusses the use of *military force* to compel American tech platforms to follow censorship directives.

Moderator: "What do you mean by kinetic methods?"

Speaker: "Using the military. Yeah."

[Dries Van Langenhove @DVanLangenhove]

This is so cynical. I literally got one year in jail for bar jokes made by my friends in a private group chat.