Paul Lewis

If it’s to be, it’s up to me. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[Paul Lewis @PaulLew209]

@youwhat79 I know plenty who like her

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

She couldn't have known. There were no signs. Nothing out of the ordinary happened right in front of her. What husband wouldn't shell out £4k for a pair of his wife's old shoes? Happens every day.
https://t.co/3qt8vP4q8G

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

A pro-EU Englishman and a pro-Brexit Englishman walks into a bar.

The barman says what can I get you Andy Burnham?

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

More examples of the Speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, reminding Boris to answer the question put forward to him.

There’s no excuse for allowing Keir Starmer to evade every question time and time again during #PMQs

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

If Starmer feels the EU is better at making laws for the UK then he should resign and so should his MPs . This is not just betrayal it’s high treason.

https://t.co/oMP7Gq1WWn

[Barrister's Horse @BarristersHorse]

When a teacher has to go into hiding for showing a caricature of Muhammed,
When a police officer asks protesters to leave their weapons at the mosque,
When police chiefs consult community leaders of one faith, but no others,
When grooming gangs still haven't been adequately investigated,
When ambulances are destroyed because they are funded by Jews,
And yes, when male Muslims pray en masse in public spaces,
We're all quite rightly concerned that the country is going to hell in a handcart, whilst politicians mumble incoherently about the far right being a threat.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

400 killed in Pakistan airstrike on Kabul hospital.

No posts about it Zarah Sultana, Corbyn, Iqbal Mohammed, Shockat Adam, Adnan Hussain or Ayoub Khan.

Nothing from Gary Lineker.

Where’s the campaign to boycott Pakistani products? Ban them from sporting events?

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Always follow the money….

[Ben Leo @Benleo]

Have the ‘Liberal Democrats’ thanked the Nazis at Reform yet for laying down the cash and holding the gov to account on elections?

Ya know, the democrats who did nothing but talk about it?

The same ‘democrats’ who call Reform fascists for… wanting elections

pointless party

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Keir Starmer, 2020: "When they made mistakes, I carried the can. I never turn on my staff and you should never turn on your staff."

Keir Starmer still hasn’t resigned over appointing Peter Mandelson but his chief of staff has resigned.

He never lives by his own standards.

[Paul Lewis @PaulLew209]

@GavinBarwell Don’t you think you bear responsibility for where we are as a country? Albeit Labour are even worse, Tories made themselves unelectable!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

What he said

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Remember when Suella Braverman rightfully called the pro-Palestine marches “hate marches”.

Rishi Sunak sided with Mark Rowley, Sayeeda Warsi and Gavin Barwell.

The Conservatives only have themselves to blame for their own demise.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Chagos should bring Starmer down.

What sort of lawyer overlooks a binding 1966 treaty with our closest ally in favour of a non-binding international court opinion? ….. a crap one.

It turns out Starmer is even worse at being a lawyer than he is at being Prime Minister.

He must resign surely.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Truly insane numbers from the UK

Number of people claiming universal credit welfare surges to 8.4 million while the number who are NOT EVEN REQUIRED TO LOOK FOR WORK surges to 4.17 million

[Paul Lewis @PaulLew209]

@afneil @TimesRadio Spot on Mr Neil. 👏

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

My monologue on what the new world order means for Britain, from @TimesRadio today:

For those of you who’ve not yet copped that we’re at a watershed in global politics I suggest you have a read of Mark Carney’s speech in Davos yesterday. It’s not often a Canadian prime minister charts a seminal change in world politics. But Carney, a former governor of the Bank of England, has. 

This is the key passage:

“Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy, and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration. And as a result, many countries are drawing the same conclusions—that they must develop greater strategic autonomy: in energy, food, critical minerals, in finance and supply chains. And this impulse is understandable. A country that can’t feed itself, fuel itself or defend itself has few options. When the rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself.”

Coming from a fully-paid up member of the liberal global elite, this is dynamite. Carney says the era of global integration is over and that what he calls ‘middle powers’, like Canada and the UK, who benefitted from it and got used to working through global institutions — like the WTO, the UN, COP, NATO, the EU — need to realise the game is up. 

If you can’t feed, fuel and defend yourself in this new world of rupture you’re finished. So these are his priorities for Canada. He’s junked a lot of his net zero baggage to increase Canada’s energy security. He’s moving from multilateral to bilateral deals he thinks will benefit Canada, most recently with China. And he’s doubling spending on defence. 

The British government should take stock. Carney’s world of rupture has been brought about by Donald Trump’s wrecking ball approach to the rules-based world order that has served us so well these past 80 years. 

It’s played into the hands of the autocrats of Moscow, Beijing and elsewhere who want to replace that world order with a system far more attuned to their interests. Trump is obliging them. 

Food. Fuel. Defence. These are Carney’s watchwords for a scary new world in which middle powers need to seek strategic autonomy when old alliances and multinational institutions no longer work. They should guide British policy too. 

We need to be able to feed ourselves better. To be able to count on cheap, secure sources of energy. And to be able to defend ourselves from multiple and growing threats. At the moment the Starmer government is doing none of the above. 

Instead it is lumbering business with the most expensive energy costs in the world and households with the second or third most expensive domestic energy in the world. 

It is pursuing a multi-billion pound dash to net zero while adding only a few crumbs to the defence budget. 

And it’s covering good farming land with solar panels. 

It would be hard to think of a set of policies less designed to give us the strategic autonomy Carney thinks middle powers must strive for. 

Britain needs a step change in its energy, food and defence policies. The billions earmarked for net zero need to be diverted to rearming the nation. 

We need an energy policy that couples secure supplies with lower prices so that we can start to rebuild some of our heavy industry, essential to defence. 

And we need a farm policy that champions growing food once more rather than prioritising various fashionable environmental wheezes. 

None of this is likely to happen under the Starmer government. The PM has no vision or aptitude for such a strategy. His party is a prisoner to old 20th century ways of thinking, as is much of British politics on the left and right. 

But unless the Carney challenge is recognised and policy changed in radical ways to meet it, we risk not only further economic decline in the rest of this decade but growing vulnerability to the evil intent of our enemies. And without America at our back to protect us.

[Mayra Flores @MayraFlores4TX]

Barack Obama’s ICE chief received an award for 920,000 removals.

Donald Trump’s ICE chief was called a Nazi.

It’s the same person: Tom Homan.

In 2012, Obama deported 409,000 people.

In 2025, Trump deported 290,000 people.

The difference is mainstream media brainwashing.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

He has no idea what he’s talking about. British national debt soared because:
We needed to borrow a ton of money after the Great Crash of 2008. Labour wanted to borrow more.
We needed to borrow more to keep the economy alive during Covid. Labour wanted to borrow more.
We needed to borrow more post-Ukraine invasion to subsidise fuel bills. Labour wanted to borrow more.
There. Fixed it. If he wants to be PM he’ll need to get up to speed fast on such matters. At the moment he sounds totally out of his depth (and debt!).

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

You said it, Keir