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[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

TODAY is the day. The DOJ must charge Fauci for lying under oath or lose the chance forever. This man oversaw gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, lied to Congress about it repeatedly, and watched as you were called crazy for asking questions. The statute of limitations expires tomorrow. The American people have waited long enough for accountability.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

You’re the energy secretary. Yet you don’t seem to know that BP’s ‘excess profits’ come from its global oil trading division, which is not subject to UK ‘excess profits’ windfall tax, not from its North Sea activities, which are. Remarkable.

[Mike Gardner @mikegardner_wb]

BREAKING NEWS: “Starmer denies knowing he was Prime Minister”

Sir Kier Starmer has revealed that no one told him until last Tuesday he won the 2024 election and had become PM.

He told Beth Rigby “I was totally kept in the dark by my officials. I’m really angry about it.”

[Matt Ridley @mattwridley]

Twitter @X is good at exposing hypocrisy...

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Here is the full 42 minutes of my crew and I exposing Minnesota fraud, this might be my most important work yet. We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day. Like it and share it around like wildfire! Its time to hold these corrupt politicians and fraudsters accountable

We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening, the fraud must be stopped.

[Rɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ Kᴇᴍᴘ ⋁ @COLRICHARDKEMP]

Here is a list of your Members of Parliament who wrote to Foreign Secretary David Lammy this time last year, demanding that Egyptian extremist El Fattah should be brought to UK, despite his incitement to murder. His release from Egypt & entry here became the govt’s top priority.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

On Instagram or Facebook, misgendering a trans person resulted in an immediate ban, but trafficking child prostitution allowed 17 strikes!

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

British politicians now lie openly about the so called Dublin Convention. It was used in a derisory number of asylum cases and where it was applied resulted in the UK being a net recipient of asylum seekers.
Davey should have been asked: to how many asylum seekers did the Convention apply on an average year?
Since it worked both ways, how many did we send back and how many came here under it?
Did we return more than we received under Dublin?

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

This is deranged. Despite tens of billions invested in solar and wind there are only about 40,000 jobs in both sectors combined. Given the subsidies involved, each one at a cost of over £200,000, which is unsustainable.
The result is the most expensive industrial electricity costs in the world, which has destroyed far more jobs than expensive renewables have created. The claim that there’s a cornucopia of big salaried green jobs is a myth of the net zero zealots.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I sit in Parliament listening to these ministers, and it’s all just so depressing - the vast majority of them have never run a business, and it SHOWS. You would not believe how bad it is.

They think ‘work’ means turning up to an office between 9 and 5, answering a few emails, and going home at the end of the day. Nice lunch break, few coffees away from the desk, probably a smoking break or several. It doesn’t - not for the millions of men and women who actually create the wealth that funds the state.

Running a small business isn’t a job. It’s a way of life. It is life. It’s 24/7/365. It’s relentless. You are the accountant, HR department, compliance officer, cleaner, marketer, and customer service team - all in one. There’s no sick pay, no safety net, and no taxpayer-funded pension waiting for you.

Holiday? Good luck. If you do manage to get away, it’s checking the phone all day, every day. Wife/husband obviously getting pissed off. We’ve all been there...

It’s all on you. Every invoice chased, every tax deadline met, every bit of red tape navigated is on you. And if you make one mistake, one error, one small slip-up, the state comes after you - in a relentlessly efficient manner that is never afforded to us when we ask questions of it.

Most MPs have no idea what that feels like. They just don’t. We’re going to see more of this in the budget I’m sure. More hurt. More pain. More tax. They don’t get it.

They don’t understand that when a small business owner gets hit with another tax, it’s not absorbed by a ‘budget’ - it’s taken straight out of their family’s pocket.

There is no ‘deficit’ in the business world - that’s called going bust.

And they certainly don’t understand what real risk looks like. Politicians can vote through a policy on Monday and forget it by Tuesday - a small business owner lives with the consequences of that policy for years, decades. The MP monthly salary is safe. It always has been. In the public sector before, and in the public sector after - if not that, some charity/NGO funded entirely by the public sector.

GET A REAL JOB.

If MPs actually spent a week running a small firm - paying suppliers, tackling VAT, navigating health and safety law, sorting out HR issues, chasing clients for payment, trying to expand while staying compliant with everything from GDPR to local planning regulations - they’d legislate very differently. I can promise you that.

They’d realise that most of Britain’s problems could be solved by the state doing less, not more.

Cutting tax. Simplifying regulation. Slashing back the HRification of the country. Trusting people who actually produce things to get on with it.

Instead, we have a political class that talks endlessly about ‘growth’ while brutally punishing the only people capable of delivering it - especially going after the family businesses/farms, which is a particularly spiteful policy decision.

Small business owners are people who work harder than almost anyone in Parliament could imagine - and who are treated worse for it.

Britain’s small businesses don’t succeed because of politicians, they survive in spite of them.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If you argue with @Grok, better bring your A+ game 😂

[Pavel Durov @durov]

I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating.

Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers.

What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.

Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU).

Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy.

A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast — while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away.

We’ve been fed a lie.

We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech.

By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction — moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological.

So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. WE are running out of time.

[Katie Amess @KatieAmess]

‼️Reminder: It is now MORE THAN 6 MONTHS since my mother and I met with Sir Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper at No 10 with our team, seeking a public inquiry into my father’s murder. They REFUSED to do that and instead urged us to work with Lord Anderson who was going to do a further review of all the previous reviews into what happened. Reluctantly, we agreed and Sir Keir assured us that he would meet with us again if Lord Anderson was not able to answer the long list of questions we still had as a family. Sure enough, he wasn’t able to help us. His report was published in July and my team wrote IMMEDIATELY to Sir Keir and the Home Secretary setting out all the unanswered questions, requesting that further promised meeting, and repeating our call for an inquiry. That was almost three months ago and there has been TOTAL RADIO SILENCE since then despite repeated chasing.

My family and I are becoming increasingly frustrated and upset with this government and it is now beginning to feel like they are trampling on my father’s grave. He was a good kind man who stood up for right V wrong and worked with everyone, even those who disagreed with him. He went to work the day he was killed, to help his constituents. That was his only crime.
My family and I are also becoming increasingly concerned about the tone of political and public discourse and have noted that Sir Keir himself is now using language towards other politicians which my father would have been completely against. He should be focusing instead on helping people and keeping them safe.

My family and I are not going away. He needs to understand that. We are entitled to answers as to why my father was allowed to be killed by someone known to the authorities. A public inquiry is the only way forward, not only for us but in the interests of public safety too. My mother and I are writing to him again shortly.

@keir_starmer @raddseiger
#justice4SirDavid

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Is this you @jimmykimmel?

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

No wonder Ed Miliband’s deputy was lost for words when I challenged him on how they will cut bills.

Ed’s botched wind auction is going to lock us into paying much higher prices for decades.

Labour must stop lying to the public and put cheap, reliable energy first.

[Steve Loftus @LoftusSteve]

The problem in the UK is that everyone for the last 15 years has known this is a terrible tax and that something needs to be done about it. But nobody can be bothered.

It's just too much work, everyone just wants low-hanging fruit that plays well in the media.

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

20 years ago, Islamic terrorists blew up this bus in London and murdered 56 people. The man behind the attacks, Haroon Rashid Aswat, is now being released.

A mass murderer, walking free in London, while British moms sit in jail for social media posts.

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

As a result of this I have long ago stopped using Wikipedia. It has been captured by malevolent actors. In ChatGPT my customisation instructions forbid using information from Wikipedia or providing links to it, but it does so regardless.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Gladwell’s career wouldn’t have been destroyed if he’d spoken out against the glaring unfairness, not to mention dangers, of allowing men to compete in women’s sport. He’d have faced loss of approval from the cultural elite and received activist blowback, and even that wouldn’t have come with the tsunami of death and rape threats women face when they speak.

Non-famous people, mostly women, girls and gay people, have genuinely had their careers and indeed lives destroyed for saying what Gladwell was too pusillanimous to say, and Gladwell didn’t lift a finger in their defence. Like many well-known liberals, he was happy to watch members of the great unwashed bullied, traduced and defamed, fine with the erosion of freedom of speech, comfortable with young women being robbed of sporting honours and facing serious injury, because he valued his own standing and security more highly than acting on the feeble promptings of his conscience.

A rash of condescending men will swarm my mentions when I post this to tell me I should be pleased about Gladwell’s cautious backtracking. No. He hasn’t changed. He’s merely sensed a shift in what it’s acceptable to say and feels safe to align himself with the new consensus, excuses for his previous behaviour to the fore. He isn’t an ally, he’s a weathervane.

Changing sides years late, and only after you’ve realised the non-elite opposition is winning, isn’t a mark of integrity but of arse-covering. Those whose overriding focus is remaining in good odour with the in crowd can never be trusted. Gender identity ideology has been the modern arts world’s McCarthyism, and all Gladwell’s done is reveal himself as a man who’d have named names, but felt a bit uncomfortable about it afterwards.

[Stephen Knight 🎙️ @GSpellchecker]

This is insane. Graham Linehan (@Glinner) landed at Heathrow airport to be greeted and arrested by 5 armed police officers. His 'crime'? Someone had reported some tweets he'd sent.

The UK's speech laws are a disgrace in their own right, but the way they can be blatantly abused to attempt to settle personal scores should at least bother everyone.

I just got arrested again https://t.co/nYj2d6BjQI