Dr Julia Reid PhD

Former Brexit Party MEP for the SW (2014-19) - now retired. A retweet/follow is NOT an endorsement

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

🚨Waitrose erases womanhood🚨

A whistleblower from Waitrose has just leaked an internal document to me, in which senior leaders have pledged to remove the name ‘feminine care’ from sanitary products, on the basis that “not all people who have periods are women”.

Disgraceful.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

See below. So many people who talk about men in women’s sport have no real understanding of the complexities, rules or differences in equipment or hurdle/net height for men’s sport compared to women’s. It frustrates the **** out of me. Good explaining below 👇🏼

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

The Timms Review into PIP disability benefits is "co-produced by disabled people" and it shows, says Mary Gilleece. Its credulous acceptance that one in four working-age Brits are disabled spells trouble for taxpayers. https://t.co/hywtJbLKBV

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

322 Labour members of Parliament have nominated Andy Burnham for leader.

He will become PM unchallenged. This is still unacceptable right @DavidLammy?

We need a General Election NOW.

[Net Zero Watch @NetZeroWatch]

Britain risks fuel shortages over the winter if Andy Burnham fails to approve a new gas project in the North Sea, its operator has said, warning: “If I were the secretary of state for energy security and net zero, I’d be looking closely at where’s my next source of energy security." Adura has invested £1.5bn in Jackdaw in addition to setting up a separate oil drilling project, Rosebank, off the Shetland Islands, before they were blocked by a court ruling.

#CostOfNetZero

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

I have two friends that have walked away from teaching because it’s impossible to apply discipline anymore & they literally had chairs thrown at them on a regular basis.

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

The proposal for a National Food Service with 9,500 state run restaurants serving free meals is one of the most chilling ideas I've seen.

Estimated cost? Around £101 billion a year. Paid for by taxpayers.

Britain can't keep building a society where the answer to every problem is another state funded handout.

They will promote this as “free meals” but someone always pays the bill, and it's the millions of hardworking people who get up every day, earn a living and pay their taxes.

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

🚨Ed Miliband approves 4,000 acre One Earth solar farm.

Labour have declared war on Nottinghamshire.

In the last month the government have cancelled our largest road project, and now they’ve signed off on one of the largest solar farms in Europe.

They’re battering local people every day, destroying our livelihoods and our countryside.

This is devastating news for local residents. Many people’s lives will be ruined by this decision. Campaigners have fought so hard and I salute their commitment. I can’t express enough my sadness and frustration at this outcome. Their views and interests have been utterly disregarded.

My petition, my statements and debates in Parliament, my submissions to the planning authorities have all been ignored by Miliband.

Will residents get cheaper energy prices? No, of course not.

Some of the best quality agricultural land in the country will now be covered with Chinese made solar panels, subsidised to the hilt by working people, enriching a few speculators.

We are being mugged by the government.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Millions of people see Nigel Farage, however flawed he may be, as “our last hope”.

The establishment don’t understand how broken people feel their country is, nor how urgent the need to fix it.

I wrote this: 👇
https://t.co/45WmaYbL9U

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

In this week's @Spectator, I've written about the worst aspect of the current heatwave: being button-holed by eco-zealots who think the soaring temperatures 'prove' they're right and you're wrong.

The first person to confront me during the current sunny spell was a Guardian journalist at at the ARC conference, which the newspaper had clearly identified as a hotbed of 'denialism'. It didn't help that the air conditioning wasn't working and it was approaching 40°C in the main auditorium.

'I see you're sweating profusely,' he began, shoving a microphone in my face. 'Still think climate change is a hoax?'

I had to patiently explain that few people on my side of this debate deny that climate change is real. We don't even maintain that man-made carbon emissions aren't a contributory factor – not many of us, anyway. The disagreement is about how much of the 1.5°C rise in average global temperatures since the 1850-1900 period is due to these emissions and how much to other factors, such as solar variability, natural ocean cycles and land-use changes.

Yes, we're fond of pointing out that the 1850-1900 period may have been unusually cold, coming as it did at the end of the Little Ice Age -- so may not be a reliable baseline; and that the rise in temperatures since may have been exaggerated by recordings being made in built-up urban areas or near airports. But that isn't to deny that the climate has changed in the past 125-175 years.

This all matters, I told the journalist, because if the 'climate emergency' lobby is wrong about the extent of global warming and its causes, it may not be necessary to immiserate ourselves to achieve Net Zero by 2050. Even if we allow that there would be some benefits (in the unlikely event of China, America, India and Russia committing to the same target), they would likely be outweighed by the costs, which, as we know from estimates of how many billions we need to spend to decarbonise the UK's power grid, are eye-watering.

Needless to say, none of this made it into the Guardian article.

https://t.co/xZi1SpFfXI

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

Sadiq Khan’s office blocked the Met’s Palantir deal, then the Commissioner had to stand up and warn that, without the automation gains, the force will cut up to 700 additional frontline posts on top of an already planned 1,150 headcount reduction.

The Mayor’s line is about “values” and “ethics”; the Met’s line – now backed by Palantir’s High Court filings – is that City Hall’s gesture means harsher cuts to real‑world policing services.

The contract would have replaced hundreds of back‑office roles in intelligence reporting, mobile device analysis and data processing so the savings didn’t fall on beat officers and serious crime units.

By blocking it, Khan has effectively chosen fewer cops over smarter tools, and then tried to sell that choice as moral leadership rather than operational vandalism.

If you strip away the rhetoric, this is brutally simple: activists and the Mayor get to feel good about snubbing a controversial tech brand; ordinary Londoners get fewer officers and weaker capacity to investigate and disrupt serious and organised crime.

That is ethics as theatre, not ethics as duty of care.

[Fi 🌻🏖😎🦖🌻 @Fibutton]

Good morning lovelies, let's start the day with an Awww...❤️
Just look at this little chaps face when he sees our Princess, and hers is just as excited!
It's the Catherine effect again, without fail, all children just adore her positive energy and relaxed manner... 🥰
📸 Credit to original owner.

[Daniko @dandaniko12]

@GoodwinMJ Why don’t the establishment media understand that the British people think allowing the mass rape of children and invasion of our country is worse than accepting money from your friend to pay for your security?

It’s actually wild how far detached from reality they are.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Doesn’t surprise me.

He’s a hard left activist masquerading as a journalist.

[Net Zero Watch @NetZeroWatch]

The world’s largest meat supplier JBS has scrapped a key climate goal, joining major polluters that have given up on accounting for the full environmental impact of their business. The decision by the Brazilian meat group with global operations involves dropping a net zero target that includes greenhouse gas emissions released into the atmosphere by suppliers, which make up the vast bulk of the company’s environmental footprint.

Net Zero meets reality...

#CostOfNetZero

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

How are we to function

If we cannot trust the state?

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

This is clearly an act of intimidation towards Nigel Farage's daughter & family.

Nigel Farage is a politician who has received regular death threats, and there was a serious arson attack at his home last year.

Then at 7:45am, a black Chrysler 300 with blacked out windows parks across his daughter's driveway.

This must have been terrifying for her and any other family members in the house.

The media involved should be ashamed.

[Darcy Trout @DarcyTrout]

@BenedictSpence The Uniparty say Clacton election is a sham.
So what was Makerfield, where they all stood candidates?

[Numen @news_numen]

@BenedictSpence Burnham’s North West has the highest number of #PIP claimants in England.
639,079 as per DWP statistics October 2025.
Productivity is 1/3rd of London.

[Arthur Muir @ArthurMuir1901]

@BenedictSpence The BBC and mainstream media prioritising an interview with Binface instead of scrutinising our next PM, who is days away from taking up office, is bewildering.