Jane Miles

Mum Creative Director OCD ADHD Ex-Physicist Pres-coolWI #AutismAcceptance #T1D #TheHugeHound Mum of Pugzo

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🐠 “Sold down the river”

Cornish fishermen who overwhelmingly backed Brexit now say they were betrayed.

Promised by Farage they’d get full control of UK waters and an end to foreign trawlers!

Instead they got continued EU access until 2038, damaged gear from French/Belgian vessels, higher export costs, and broken promises.

Fishing was used as emotional bait by Farage and Leave campaigners. The industry is still paying the price.
Brexit’s betrayal of its biggest symbolic supporters continues.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

There are credible allegations made against Donald Trump that he mutilated a child’s nipples while raping her.
Allegations so serious, his inner circle had to meet in the Situation Room to discuss them.

I mean, how the fuck isn’t this the biggest scandal in the world right now?

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

BREAKING: Undercover footage shows the nightmarish warehouse cells where NYC carriage horses are trapped in deplorable conditions when not in dangerous NYC traffic.

These poor animals have a HORRIFIC LIFE of walking the busy streets , in and out of congested traffic in hot and cold temperatures. These horses NEVER touch grass, never graze in pastures and no socialization with other horses .

They have NO pasture for grazing and interacting with other horses as herd animals NEED to be healthy and they are denied proper veterinary care.

THIS HAS TO STOP. TAKE ACTION BELOW TO END THIS ABUSE.

Everyone can call NYC Council Health Committee Chair Lynn Schulman at 718.544.8800 and press 0 to leave a message to ask her to cosponsor and fast- track #RydersLaw Intro 967 to end this criminal horse abuse!

NEW YORKERS: please make a quick call or send an email to your own New York City COUNCIL MEMBER urging them to POST sponsor and pass intro 967,
#RydersLaw.

#CentralPark #BanHorseCarriages #centralparkcarriagerides #nychorses #nyctourism #CentralPark #BanHorseCarriages #NYClass
#centralparkcarriagerides #nychorses #nyctourism #RydersLaw

🎦 Credit: Unbridled Heroes.

[Dr Iain Overton @iainoverton]

1/ Nigel Farage took £50,000 in speaking fees from two crypto firms in Oct 2025 — then told Reuters he was “not aware” of crypto businesses funding Reform UK. But I found his Parliamentary records show
• £30k from Blockworks Inc
• £20k from Zebu Group

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage failed to pay a debt of £9,400 and had a County Court judgment imposed against him in 2024

https://t.co/otcbJQl1UA

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

And we won’t understand that until they are lost…

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Immigration makes Britain brilliant.

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

To sum up yesterday's posts - Farage said he paid for his £1.4m house with the £1.5m fee for I'm a celebrity. He told FT he paid that fee into his company, Thorn in the Side (who will have invoiced ITV). That money never left his company. So he's lying again.

[Cllr Lee Scordis @LScordis]

Hi Russell, considering I am the only Labour Councillor on the authority and I was not at the induction (as I have been here 9 years), this is a complete lie and a breach of standards @reformexposed

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

2020: Boris Johnson describing Brexit, "We will prosper mightly"

2026: Ben Habib, "Christopher Harborne donated £1,000,000 to Boris Johnson"

Christopher Harborne is a foreign-based crypto billionaire who is now also a Thai citizen and has been living there for over 20 years

Ben Habib, "Without Christopher Harborne there was no Brexit party"

"In the general election of 2019, Farage stood down 319 Brexit party candidates against the Tory party. Every single Tory MP had no Brexit party opposition"

"Farage killed the Brexit party prospects in the 2019 election and he ensured a Boris Johnson government"

"The argument Farage gave in 2019 was if we don't do that we might get Corbyn there will be a second referendum and we might lose Brexit. I bought that argument"

"Then I at the start of 2023, the same Christopher Harborne give £1m to Boris Johnson"

"Christopher Harbone used to say to be in 2019 and 2020 that Boris Johnson is biddable. He kept saying, Boris Johnson is biddable"

"What I thought he meant is that you can make an argument with Boris Johnson and he will listen to you"

"Actually, I think he was much more literal than that"

"He was saying I can buy off Boris Johnson"

"And he paid £1m to Boris Johnson in 2022 after Boris Johnson had screwed the country. After Boris Johnson had screwed up Brexit"

"And I have it on good authority that he also paid Nigel Farage £1m in 2022"

"Now that we've discovered that £5m went to Farage in 2024, I'm obliged to disclose the £1m went to Farage in 2022"

In his interview with Harry Cole where Nigel Farage says the £5m gift was for his 27 years working to deliver Brexit, he said, "Hang on a second, hang on a second, I can't be bought by anybody"

To which Elon Musk said, "Farage is lying"

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

Another whopper from Farage. His Celebrity money was paid into his Thorn in the Side account (his tax dodging vehicle) and never left it to buy a house.

[Robert Peston @Peston]

Reform UK told the BBC that he paid in cash for his £1.4m house in Surrey with his “I’m a Celebrity” fee from ITV and not with the £5m gift from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne - which Farage says was to provide him with security (physical, not financial). But the ITV “Celeb” fee was £1.5m, which would be £825,000 after tax, for a top-rate taxpayer like Farage. That’s £575,000 less than the price of the house.

And even if the fee was paid into his “Thorn in the side” media company rather than directly to him, it would still be taxable, one way or another

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Because nobody in public life has ever had a journalist at their house.

[Damian Low @DamianLow3]

Rayner has been cleared, but the media ran 30 front pages in total, averaging 4 front pages a day during the peak of the story.

Farage's £5 million gift has had two front page stories.

Why would there be such a difference in reporting standards for the two?

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

I thought it was for his 'personal security'? That's the problem when you lie so much. You forget whatever bollocks you said in the past.

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

Farage says his £5 million gift was a “reward” for Brexit.

The rest of us were rewarded with higher bills and years of chaos.

This grifter must not become prime minister.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 Another day, another Reform/Tory scandal.

Robert Jenrick’s 2024 Tory leadership campaign accepted a £40,000 donation linked to convicted US fraudster Gary Klopfenstein.

Jenrick’s wife, solicitor Michal Berkner, was reportedly warned about the source of the money. The donation was routed through a UK company and police are now investigating potential breaches of foreign donation rules.

Jenrick says he had no knowledge.

[Barry Halverson @barry_halverson]

Remember the huge media fanfare when Farage launched a crowdfunder in March 2025 for his “independent grooming gangs inquiry”?

The Crowdfunder page showed c.£788k raised.

A year later: no inquiry, no published accounts, no explanation of where the money went, and no refunds.

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

Oh what a tangled web they weave...

Farage now admits he bought the Clacton house, having told everyone last year that his partner Laure Ferrari bought the house.