Thom

Amateur photographer. Looking to improve.

[Thom @BaxterThom]

@MathsMyles @ShakinthatChalk Many schools have. But what happens when seen? Can you put it away? Meaningless. Confiscation? Causes conflict and at times requires SLT/year team. Chuck it out the window so it can't be used? No. The ban is easy, what happens after is where you see differences between schools.

[Thom @BaxterThom]

@LauraTrottMP I'm sure you will be on the front line implementing the ban.

[Mrs Kensington @Londonlife44]

"If we come to logic... the entire purpose of the Human Rights Act is to defend the citizen against executive overreach, against abuse of power by the executive. And what the judges are saying is that there can be no abuse of power by the executive because they're democratically elected... In which case, what's the point in having a Human Rights Act?"

Standing outside the Supreme Court in London following the appeal against the proscription of Palestine Action on behalf of Huda Ammori, Craig Murray breaks down the alarming reality of executive overreach and the erosion of judicial accountability in the UK. When the courts defer entirely to the Secretary of State, claiming the executive cannot commit an abuse of power simply because they are democratically elected, the foundational purpose of the Human Rights Act collapses. If citizens are stripped of their livelihoods, assets, and legal recourse without independent judicial protection, we cross a dangerous line. As Murray highlights, it is a massive mistake to confuse the law with justice when the two no longer meet. Watch the full breakdown and share your thoughts on where this leaves our rights.

#PalestineAction #HumanRights #RuleOfLaw #CraigMurray #SupremeCourtLondon

[Thom @BaxterThom]

@ClarksonsFarm1 Billionaires shouldn't pay tax whilst plebs should. Am I right? High five.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.

Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.

To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.

The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.

And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.

We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it.

Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.

They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.

One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.

[Thom @BaxterThom]

@MathMath901 Presumably, in a Medium School Test the prospective mediums should be able to forsee what actually happens. Alice will pick 3 socks before getting a pair and Charles will take a blue and a red and wear odd socks.

[Thom @BaxterThom]

@wannacuppateaUK @JerseyPSC @metpoliceuk You should feel privileged to express your own point of view.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

Sam Altman thinks RAM sitting in personal computers is a waste when it could be put to better use in data centers.

Weird. I was just thinking that all those billions sitting in billionaires’ bank accounts could be put to much better use in our communities.

[Thom @BaxterThom]

@HeidiBachram Until it is you that gets arrested for no reason.

[Thom @BaxterThom]

Zia, not an MP, gets first rebuttal to the government on QT. The party he belongs to has 8 MPs. This is stupid.

[Thom @BaxterThom]

@TolentinoTeach Parental expectations

[Thom @BaxterThom]

@rastokke Isn't it more that this shouldn't be the only things you are doing? Understanding is important but you only really understand through the play of supporting ideas which is seen by some as opposed to your bullet points but actually what follows.

[countrymouse @cox2_edel]

Ukraine voting to starve Cuba but we're supposed to believe they are hereos and defenders of Europe?

[Thom @BaxterThom]

@PreetKGillMP @birmingham_live @bbcwm @_LFI @BoardofDeputies @UJS_UK @JewishChron @JewishLabour @edgbastonCLP Funny old world when MPs think that they should shout down an ordinary viewpoint that opposes a genocide whilst believing that they hold the moral high ground in doing so.

[Thom @BaxterThom]

@nw_nicholas When is the standards commissioner revealing his findings? I thought they had finished over a week ago.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The protests are huge in France.

The people will not be silenced.

It truly is the Socialist Spring for Europe.

[Thom @BaxterThom]

@GillianLazarus Why would you make other forms of racism lower down on the hierarchy?

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

We had such outrage for one building burning down.

But silence when Google illegally chops down an entire forest.

Even though that has done far more harm.

[Thom @BaxterThom]

@Nigel_Farage Do you rarely turn up to parliament because your teachers turned up 3 days a week?

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Norway has removed all of its $2tn Investment Fund from Israel linked banks, as it continues its policy of BDS against Israel.

Well done Norway.