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Think for yourself …

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

So in the blink of an eye, an attempted beheading by a migrant has been turned into a clampdown on freedom of speech by the Labour government. Everything Starmer does is designed to enforce an agenda that no one voted for. As always with him, it’s smoke and mirrors deflection.

[Daniel ShenSmith (BlackBeltBarrister) @dshensmith]

This is total lies.
State school parents do not in any way subsidise independent schools; if anything it is the other way round because independent school parents pay their taxes that fund the state schools, and they pay the fees for independence school on top. Thirdly, they save the state at least £8000 a year per Child by doing so

This is why many people no longer trust the BBC

[All Minus One @AllMinusOne1]

@heynavtoor @Fox_Claire AI is a misnomer. There is, thus far, nothing ‘intelligent’ about it - it’s just sophisticated data processing. A useful tool, but the hype and hysteria are overblown.

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@JakeWSimons This is indeed, unspeakably dim. The UK media and political ‘establishments’ are replete with idiots, wedded to lowering standards in virtually every facet of life. The nation’s economic decline and the erosion of social cohesion are the fruits of their efforts.

[Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons]

Siri, show me everything that's wrong with the British establishment right now

[All Minus One @AllMinusOne1]

@SMeaker18 Yes, you’re missing something. Whether or not you think it necessary, the fact is that the senior management imposed a curfew - presumably in response to the Ashes incidents. And Ben Stokes, holding a senior leadership position, promptly ignored it. It’s about team discipline.

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@toadmeister "Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them." George Orwell

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Today, we woke to the sickening scenes of a Sudanese man attempting to behead another man on the streets of Belfast.

In the aftermath, we’ve seen the all-too-familiar damage-control operation from the authorities.

People are being urged not to share the footage or comment on the incident because it may cause division, distress the family, or fuel the “far right”.

In a democratic society, people have the right to share footage of events that take place in public and to discuss why such horrific acts keep happening in our country.

Hear from FSU Case Management Director @BenBarryJones 👇

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@SpeechUnion @simonmontefiore Encouraging signs that, like the subsiding ‘trans’ mania, the tide is turning on the ‘establishment’s’ obsession with DEI.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

📣🚨 FSU Victory!!

The Free Speech Union has just heard from South Wales Police that it has withdrawn its guidance on “anti-Muslim hostility”.

The force had effectively adopted its own Islamic blasphemy law, instructing officers to record any conversation that went beyond “legitimate” discussion of Islam.

Under this guidance, criticism of Islam could have been recorded as an anti-social behaviour incident and potentially appeared on DBS checks, affecting someone’s ability to work as a teacher, carer, or in other regulated professions.

South Wales Police has backed down because the Free Speech Union threatened them with a judicial review if it chose to press ahead with the policy.

The force has described this move as a “pause” to the guidance — but we think it is highly unlikely to return.

We must also thank Shadow Equalities Minister @ClaireCoutinho for referring South Wales Police to the Equality and Human Rights Commission after we brought this issue to her attention.

Blasphemy laws were abolished by Parliament 18 years ago. We must not allow them to return through the back door.

Let this be a warning to any other public body — particularly police forces — considering the adoption of its own blasphemy laws.

Watch Lord Young below 👇

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@DanielJHannan While the 'chattering class' decries the 'reactionary' attitudes of those they consider their social inferiors, it has been obvious for years that the establishment's course on 'diversity' and immigration would undermine social cohesion and increase ethnic and religious tensions.

[Handre @Handre]

The Concorde stands as the perfect monument to government economic illiteracy: a $15 billion exercise in bureaucratic vanity that carried 100 passengers at twice the speed of sound and ten times the cost of rational air travel. Technological marvels mean nothing without willing customers at sustainable prices. Free market economists predicted this outcome from day one.

The British and French governments launched this folly in 1962, convinced they could engineer market demand through sheer political will. They burned through taxpayer money for two decades before the first passenger ever stepped aboard. By 1976, when commercial service finally began, the economics were already catastrophic. British Airways and Air France operated the fleet at losses so severe they required perpetual government subsidies just to keep the engines running.

You can measure the Concorde's market failure in brutal precision. Twenty aircraft built. Fourteen ever entered service. Zero sales to any airline willing to pay market prices. Pan Am, TWA, and every other major carrier took one look at the operating costs and ran. The round-trip London-New York ticket cost $12,000 in today's money while regular flights charged $2,000. Even wealthy passengers chose subsonic travel once the novelty wore off.

The final flight in 2003 ended this expensive charade, but the lesson endures. Politicians don't eliminate economic law by throwing other people's money at engineering problems. They just postpone the reckoning while the costs compound. Every government "investment" in commercial technology carries the same fatal flaw: bureaucrats spending money they didn't earn on projects they don't understand for customers who don't exist.

The market gave its verdict on supersonic passenger travel in 1976. Governments just took 27 years to listen.

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@spikedonline @Glinner This Labour government is made up of many of the lowest calibre people to have ever held high political office in the UK. And it shows in how quickly they have accelerated the decline inherited from years of Conservative mismanagement. This is what a feckless electorate chose.

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@DrChrisParry @IanSt_John David Lammy was disbarred in early 2009, after his disastrous performance on BBC’s Celebrity Mastermind. The Bar Standards Board found he had failed to comply with Core Duty 5, by exhibiting a level of stupidity likely to diminish public confidence in the legal profession.

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@ikeijeh @TrevorPTweets The UK’s government is populated with shockingly incapable people - @DavidLammy, a painfully dim deputy PM: @RachelReevesMP, a Chancellor who would be out of her depth in Halifax’s complaints department: @Ed_Miliband, seems genuinely unwell: Keir ‘reverse Midas touch’ Starmer …

[Ike Ijeh @ikeijeh]

Best political interview I've seen in years. Gloriously, Lammy is too stuffed with cognitive dysentery to fully appreciate the baroque splendour of the skewering he's being subjected to. Masterful from @TrevorPTweets, if only all the media were like this.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

This is what I explained in my OpEd yesterday. I repeatedly warned the police not to bring in race action plans that treat groups differently.

Senior police chiefs ignored my advice preferring to get it from activists who I warned them wanted to DEFUND the police, telling me they were operationally independent.

I’ll be speaking tomorrow about how we sweep away this rubbish and bring back common sense.

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@LiamHalligan This has been the UK’s trajectory for a lot longer than 12-18 months.

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

💥✍️ "When The Facts Change" Post

"Leading economists" finally admit the UK is on course for an IMF bailout ....

Where have they been for the past 12/18 months !?!!

If our careerist, complacent "economics establishment" had started speaking out earlier, clearly warning of the dangers of ever rising borrowing and spending, the UK might now be in a much stronger position ...

Instead, we are on the brink of a proper fiscal meltdown ...

Link to free-to-access "When The Facts Change" post below

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@SpeechUnion Just imagine the bounds of ‘legitimacy’ in any discussion of Islam being determined by the intellectual titans who populate @swpolice … 🤣