UpInArms

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 3,500 years ago a Welsh goldsmith beat a single ingot of gold...

Thin enough to wrap around the shoulders of a child.

In 1833 quarry workmen broke it into pieces.

It took the British Museum 120 years to put it back together.

In October 1833, a team of workmen dug into a Bronze Age burial mound at Bryn yr Ellyllon, Mold, Flintshire, looking for stone for a wall. They broke into the cist. They found a small skeleton. And beside the bones, beaten flat against the stone, a sheet of gold.

564 grams of it. About 75% pure. Hammered thin. Worked in concentric bands of beaten pattern across the surface. Shaped to wrap around the shoulders of someone small.

🏛️ The workmen had no idea what they had. They split the gold between themselves and took it home.

Pieces were sold off, melted down, used as keepsakes.

A vicar wrote it up in The Cambrian. Decades later a museum officer began the work of finding the fragments and buying them back.

The reassembly took until 1953. 120 years from the day it was broken open. The British Museum's conservators pieced it back together against a leather backing, one fragment at a time, until the cape was whole.

It is the finest prehistoric goldwork ever found in Britain. Worked by a Welsh hand. For a child the village had set apart. In a country where the gold for it was mined, the bronze for the tools came from Cornwall, and the people who walked the hill knew the shape of every slope.

🇬🇧 You were told the finest prehistoric goldwork was continental. It was Welsh. And it is still in the British Museum.

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They preserved the child in gold.

Help us preserve their story. 👇🙏

👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 👈

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧

Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[David Frost @DavidGHFrost]

I spoke today in the Lords on the fallacy of believing that just building 'more of everything' - nuclear, gas, renewables - will make electricity cheaper.

Renewables are the problem. Until we stop adding more to the system, our electricity costs will continue to increase.

[Jason | 🇬🇧 🇿🇦 🇮🇱🇺🇲 @Ajaon_of_All]

Let me categorically Debunk this utter rot. @sainsburys.

I am a poultry Breeder. The hens that lay white eggs (Amberline/White Star) DO NOT have a lower carbon footprint.

Yes they eat a bit less and produce roughly the same amount of eggs as the Brown egg layers (Bovan/Lowman/ISA Brown) but they live shorter lives, are prone to dying suddenly when startled, a flighty and nervous and because they live shorter productive lives (12 -18mnths) vs brown 18/24mnths (both commercial farmed), you have to incubate more which is increased (Electricity/gas costs) and their eggs are not the same quality.

I breed and keep 20+ different breeds, including: ISA Brown hens and White Stars. All my hens are 100% free range, Not a single barn kept bird, I have ISA browns that are 5yrs old and still laying beautiful Brown eggs, I have not seen a White star live beyond 3yrs and certainly none have laid eggs past 18-24mnths.
White stars Lay themselves to death. They are slender birds and because they dont eat a lot, it drains their personal vitality to keep up laying the eggs you want to sell because of the nonsensical lie that they are "More Carbon Neutral"

You want to know about eggs, come talk to someone like me, Don't rely on some hairbrained imagination of a buyer who's trying to squeeze the profit margin for a few extra pennies at our expense and to the poor hens detriment.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

I’m starting to worry that the Labour Energy team can’t read.

This is not a report about jobs that only exist because of Net Zero.

A sizeable chunk of the jobs included are ‘waste and recycling’ and nuclear power. To state the obvious, we had those before Net Zero.

They aren’t explicit, but they appear to also include burning trees at Drax, which nobody thinks is green but which our Net Zero legislation forces us to do.

It also includes water monitoring and soil restoration - again, nothing to do with Net Zero.

It includes jobs which are not strictly a result of Net Zero, but ‘are not in conflict with it’ - for example, solar panels on roofs, or engineering consultancies. But again, there is no evidence that these jobs would not exist regardless. China, the world’s largest polluter, and the US, which doesn’t have a net zero target, have an abundance of clean tech jobs.

The problem is not clean tech, it is legislation which forces you to pick decarbonisation *when it does not work for the economy or living standards*.

If industries are paid through extremely expensive subsidies on everyone’s energy bills, of course they will be raising private capital - it’s a rent seekers’ paradise - but is that positive for the economy overall?

This is almost as bad as their ‘independent evidence’ that Clean Power 2030 would cut bills, which also turned out to be pure garbage.

For all of those repeating the Labour lines, please at least do the basics of reading the report.

[Robert Midgley @RobertMidgley07]

What the Mandelson files reveal about Chagos Islands:

• Officials knew about Chinese interests in outer islands

• Officials wanted to rush the deal over fear of public and media scrutiny

• Mauritius was to keep the outer islands empty - betraying Chagossians (again)

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🇬🇧 On a Berkshire hillside there is a chalk horse 3,000 years old.

100 generations of British people have refused to let it fade.

Its name is the Uffington White Horse. It sits on the chalk of the Berkshire Downs. And it was cut around 1,000 BC by Britons of the Late Bronze Age.

They cut a trench into the turf. And filled it with crushed chalk. They cut a horse 110 metres long. Visible from miles.

Chalk hillside art does not last. Grass grows. Silt fills. Without care, a chalk figure disappears within a generation.

🏔️ The Uffington White Horse should have vanished by the Iron Age. It did not.

Because every generation that has lived near it has scoured it. Cleared the grass. Refilled the chalk. Kept the design alive.

The Iron Age tended it. Rome tended it. The Anglo-Saxons named the hill after it. A Welsh poem of 600 AD mentioned it as already ancient. Medieval villagers held a festival to scour it. Victorian villagers wrote songs about it. And every year, modern volunteers continue.

3,000 years of British people. Bronze Age carvers. Iron Age tribes. Roman Britons. Anglo-Saxon farmers. Medieval villagers. Victorian families. And the British still here today.

The carvers who cut the horse became Britons. Their descendants became the British. 100 generations have tended the same horse. 100 generations have refused to let it fade. The horse is alive because the people have stayed.

This is what continuity looks like. Not a memory. Not a museum. A horse kept alive by hand.

🇬🇧 If you want to know whether the British are still here, look up.

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The chalk has been re-cut by hand for 3,000 years.

Most British kids have never been up the hill.

Our work is made in Britain, for Britain.

Take your kids up the hill. 🙏

👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 👈

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

More good news in Parliament - Restore Britain's successful petition on deporting every last illegal migrant living in our country has delivered a debate on July 13th.

We are forcing the parliamentary agenda to debate issues that matter to millions of British people.

Progress.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The Mandy Files — 7
Perhaps a succinct précis of what ails this government, with Keir Starmer the heart of the problem:
Mandelson: ‘They [10 Downing Street] don’t work as a team, they are not led and none of them really know what Keir [Starmer] thinks or wants.
‘In fact most of them don’t think Keir knows what he wants.’
In these 33 words Mandelson sums up why this government , despite its landslide majority, has gone off the rails so quickly and so completely.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

Yesterday Nigel Farage said the UK needed to have a serious conversation about whether Cousin Marriage should be legal

Rupert Lowe said we should just ban it.

That’s the difference.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Farage has just gone to the media to attack Restore Britain, again. He says that Elon Musk is supporting a party 'that’s one man with a social media account.'

This is where Farage is so very wrong.

There are thousands and thousands and thousands of Restore Britain members, backed up millions of Brits who are with us.

Those numbers increase every day.

Farage can arrogantly insult me over and over, but he has never been more wrong.

Restore Britain is a team. This is a movement of millions of British patriots unlike anything that has ever been seen before.

This party isn't about me, it never has been. It is about our members, our people, our home. Not me. Them.

That is something he will never understand, and ultimately it's why he will lose.

The Restore Britain movement will win.

We are going to take our country back.

We are going to Restore Britain.

[Simon Harley @simonharley]

A photo this evocative shouldn’t exist. Kings Cross, December 1956 by G. F. Heiron.

[Ellie Rofe @eliotranch]

Not once does this article ask "who is buying children and why?"

Nor does it ask "why are they selling their girls, not boys?"

Is a lack of basic curiosity a requirement for the BBC now?

[BIOTA @BIOTGov]

We’re biased, but we reckon the #BIOT flag is among the best in the world. It was gifted to the Territory by Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on the 25th anniversary of BIOT (which celebrated its 60th anniversary last year). His Majesty Charles III gave permission in October 2025 for it to be updated, to incorporate his preferred Tudor Crown. Note the lack of red velvet in the crown - it needs no adornment. There’s more about the flag on our website.

https://t.co/ODvwcR9BhR

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

402 Labour MPs elected

And not one of them is fit to be PM

So they want to parachute in this chancer 🤡🤡🤡

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Why I have decided to back Andy Burnham for Labour leadership http://t.co/0rwPLtkxaB

[𝕄𝕖 🫟 𝕄𝕪𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕗 🫟 𝕆𝕟𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕖 @MeMyselfOnline]

A few weeks ago, the company I work for issued compulsory "training", including statements such as:

“Remember, if Cathi is trans, saying ‘she used to be a man’ isn't accurate. Trans women are women, and they've never not been a woman”.

I shit you not.

So I've waited till today, when the company hosts one of its quarterly meetings with all the top brass across several sites, in person and online, to read out a statement on exactly what I thought of this “training”.

I made reference to the precedent set when @MForstater won her appeal in June 2021, and levelled an accusation to the entire company that they are indirectly, and possibly directly, discriminating against all its employees under the protected characteristic of their freedom of belief.

You could have heard a pin drop. At first.

The result?

HR is now bricking it. The training is no longer compulsory. They're taking matters under review, and I've had so many hugs and messages off support from my female colleagues. My boss shook my hand.

It isn't easy speaking up. I've been very nervous till today. But as @ThePosieParker keeps telling me: if not me, then who? If not now, then when?

I think it was important that someone saw a gay man stand up and defend the women he works with, and send a message that this absurd nonsense has no place being forced upon us.

I've sure I've made plenty of enemies at work today and pissed numerous people off.

And I'm glad. I'd do it all again in a heartbeat because it's simply the right thing to do.

[Barrister's Horse @BarristersHorse]

"He's good on the International Stage"

No he isn't. He's good at giving away land and money, without warning or mandate, or good reason. He's a liability and a dangerous one at that because he's so gullible & self absorbed.

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

@UKLabour has completely betrayed its core blue collar constituency

@Ed_Miliband pushes a deindustrialisation strategy because he thinks he's a "world leader" (world leading muppet maybe)

@RachelReevesMP has no clue about business. She sees it as a source of tax but otherwise something distasteful if not outright evil rather than the entities that employ the workers she claims to care about

@AngelaRayner championed workers rights that will make employing people less attractive

@Keir_Starmer thinks people just voted Reform in huge numbers because they want more Labour policies

These people are beyond incompetent. Call a General Election and put us all out of our misery

[UpInArms @LostInArms]

@Heidi_Labour @Keir_Starmer https://t.co/UKMla9OQyO

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

There is a myth, very widely held in Labour, that we achieved an huge popular victory in 2024 under Starmer.
In fact we won 9.7 million votes, over 3 million fewer than in 2017 and half a million less than the 'disastrous' 2019 poll.
We won because the Tories imploded in 2024.

[UpInArms @LostInArms]

@Keir_Starmer https://t.co/UKMla9OQyO

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

There is a myth, very widely held in Labour, that we achieved an huge popular victory in 2024 under Starmer.
In fact we won 9.7 million votes, over 3 million fewer than in 2017 and half a million less than the 'disastrous' 2019 poll.
We won because the Tories imploded in 2024.