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The Past is a Foreign Country

[Simon @LiberalSimon]

Make the Boomers do it for their state pension. Getting out would improve their physical and mental health. Which would also save the NHS money…

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

@cleanupbritain Most households on UC are in work. Do these people now have to do a second job picking litter too?

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Moment brother of Henry Nowak killer holds Sikh ceremonial sword in 'road rage incident' outside temple - as fury grows at police 'two tier' response to his murder https://t.co/6Uc4vTfSTU

[Silkie Carlo @silkiecarlo]

Put simply, the Labour Government is introducing ID checks for the internet.

No one in a democracy should need to show their passport just to get online.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

The Environment Agency, trading standards, police. A lot of it doesn’t exist anymore. Placebo state infrastructure.

It pretends to exist - and that’s enough for *some* people to act accordingly.

Ultimately, though, without enforcement, rules are no more than suggestions.

[WasAcop @WasAcop]

🚨 David Lammy, caught on LBC when asked if he’d take the knee for British stabbing victim Henry Nowak:

“I think… no. Because, look, I don’t think the family are asking for symbolism. They’re asking for genuine common sense policing and a reduction in knife crime.”

Yet this is the same Lammy who was all-in on BLM knee-taking for George Floyd.

Symbolism only when it suits him? 🔥

#NickFerrari #DavidLammy #KnifeCrime

[Simon @LiberalSimon]

Fewer on the high street is no bad thing!

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

British Heart Foundation plans to close 150 charity shops https://t.co/jXXiuLGc22

[Paul Walsh @Paul__Walsh]

1. Most parents will let teens setup their own phone

2. The rest will give their kids a used phone that's already setup for an adult

This has to be the single most stupid thing I've seen in online child safety since the start of my tech career in 1996 when I started at AOL.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Said this before but had a schoolfriend who had decent A-levels, was 6'3/4, gymrat, amazing high jumper, cricketer, very good footballer and rugby player. Nice guy too. He didn't want to go to university and wanted to join the police. But at 20 they weren't interested in him!

[Silkie Carlo @silkiecarlo]

🚨 NEWS: UK Government set to force tech companies to restrict phones “for the children”.

It’s likely to mean:

🔴 ID requirement for all devices (or child-locked phone without one)

🔴 government spyware in your pocket (aka client side scanning)

😱

https://t.co/S42gJUmdpu

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Ishaya_]

It's absolutely baffling to see the backlash against this announcement.

Imagine complaining that the UK is securing a multi-billion-pound private investment.

Let's look at the actual numbers: taxpayers are funding £1.3bn for local roads & a new rail station. In return, Universal is spending £5 billion to build the park and another £1 billion operating it.

Bedford(& the UK) gets 28,000 total jobs, a massive revitalization of a former industrial site, & a projected £50 billion economic boost.

The sheer cynicism around projects like this is exactly what holds the UK back. If we treat massive, job-creating investments as something to be outraged about, we only guarantee our own economic stagnation.

[Matt HB - matthodg.bsky.social @matthewhodg]

*we do not infact own the trains….

[Victoria Freeman @v_j_freeman]

This is an example of an intelligent person rendering themselves stupid very deliberately. The failure of the police, an institution tasked with protecting us, is the fundamental difference in the two cases. That should be immediately plain.

[Noa Hoffman @hoffman_noa]

EXCL: The shrinking Labour Growth Group suffered because some of its MP members 'lacked any interest in the growth agenda’ and only signed up because ‘they saw it as the loyalist faction that might advance their careers’, party insiders have told me.

[Jenny 🌺 @G0AwayHeat]

All the kids’ favorites are here: Luigi, Mario, Bowser, Prostitute, Toad.

[Simon @LiberalSimon]

This should already be a thing.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The Government is being advised to ban NHS staff from wearing political badges to stop antisemitism

The antisemitism adviser said: “I don’t expect my dentist to be wearing an ‘I love Palestine’ badge, or indeed an ‘I love Israel’ badge, on their uniform”

[Stu thats all you get🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Boldyboy1975]

The UK police are on a roll recently it seems🤔

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Murdered teenager Henry Nowak was "stereotyped" by his attacker as a "drunk, white, working-class lad who is racist" and that makes the case "political", academic Lisa McKenzie says

[Adam Wren @aswren]

Reminder that anyone, even the shadow Home Secretary, that makes claims of a two tier justice system is a far right extremist according to the home office review commissioned after the Southport murders

[Henry Hill @HCH_Hill]

You'd think the apology for their son's actions would be owed to the Novaks before the Sikh community, wouldn't you.

[Kiera Diss @KieraDiss]

I’ll leave you with a Happy Ramadan from West Yorkshire Police handing out dates to the community in Bradford.

This is actually a real police sergeant.

Money well spent 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Andrew Lilico @andrew_lilico]

Reform tends to do best in the polls when they say nothing. They then serve as a kind of blank canvas upon which voters imagine a drawing of their own fantasies of what Reform should be. Whenever Reform actually speaks that disappoints those fantasies, & their poll ratings drop.+