I asked questions about belief, the soul, and the unknown.
I never expected the answers would turn into a book.
Whispers Between Worlds is my journey through spirituality, science, and the silence in between.
Out now.
Link in bio.
Absolutely blown away by the support for https://t.co/h09mnvDNoE over the last 24 hours.
Didn’t expect this many people to be playing, sharing teams, spotting bugs and debating ratings.
Been working through feedback all day. A few of the bigger updates so far:
• Added full 2000/01 and 2001/02 seasons
• Added shareable results cards
• Added season awards, stats and final league tables
• Improved match simulation
• Fixed a load of missing players, duplicate players and rating issues
• Fixed Steven Gerrard missing from 2014/15
• Updated ratings for players like Mahrez, Kanté and Ronaldo after community feedback
Currently working through Prime Player ratings for some of the older seasons that haven’t been fully fleshed out yet.
Has anyone actually managed a 38 win season yet?
Inspired by https://t.co/OjIvlQbDhO, but for football.
Draft a Premier League XI from random clubs and seasons. Build your team. Simulate the season.
Can you go 38-0?
https://t.co/znFjgOW4Wj
#football#soccer#fifa#premierleague
The BBC has just released a statement about their outrageous decision to exclude Restore Britain from yesterday’s Makerfield Question Time - explaining they consider ‘panel selection carefully’ and they ‘recognise the multi-party nature of UK politics’.
This is the most blatant example of BBC bias I have ever witnessed - it is scandalous.
They had the irrelevant Lib Dems and Tories, along with the Greens. We will outpoll all of them combined, easily.
Ask yourself. Why is the rotten establishment so desperate to censor Restore Britain?
Here is why.
Restore Britain’s policy platform is robust and unapologetic.
We will do what needs to be done.
- The largest deportation programme ever seen in Britain to remove those migrants living in our country illegally. The entire asylum system will be abolished. The boats will stop.
- Net negative immigration. Far more must leave than arrive.
- If a foreign national can’t speak English, lives in social housing, claims benefits, doesn’t work, hates our way of life - they go too. If millions go, millions go.
- Close entire visa routes from countries proven to supply us with illegals, criminals and sex pests. The immigration ‘Red List’. We will discriminate.
- Fairer spouse visas - so that British men and women can bring their spouses to Britain without the endless bureaucracy and cost currently inflicted on them.
- An overhaul of British agriculture that puts growing and farming at the heart of any policy for rural Britain. Food security is national security. Slash red tape, simplify payments, ease planning laws, encourage farm diversification and more. Crucially, help youngsters into agriculture. We will ensure a level playing field for British farmers.
- Restore Britain will force the British public sector will buy British - it will support British farmers, producers and small businesses.
- We will encourage and fund youngsters to take up apprenticeships and learn a proper skill instead of some nonsense university degree. Teach children at school the life skills they will actually need in modern Britain.
- An education system that teaches, respects and celebrates British history and the triumphant contribution our little island has made to the world.
- Businesses freed from crushing regulation, red tape and tax. Reward hard work. Let entrepreneurs enjoy their success.
- Lowest corporation tax in Europe. IR35 scrapped. VAT threshold doubled. HMRC brutally slashed back. Dividend thresholds raised.
- High streets restored. Safe, secure and welcoming. Business rates for small businesses abolished. Turkish barbers, vape shops and other suspicious businesses investigated. Graffiti cleaned, litter picked. Pavements fixed. We will make Britain clean again, and we will take pride in our communities again.
- We will implement free parking in select areas to drive back footfall from the retail parks and back into our town centres. Councils will be forced to accept common sense.
- Fly-tippers will be crushed under the law. It will not be tolerated. Foreigners indulging in the destruction of our countryside will be deported.
- Personal tax slashed. Trust families to spend their money, not the bureaucrats.
- Put pro-family policy at the heart of everything we do. If British families want to have more children, let’s use the power of the state to enable that. Make childcare more accessible and more affordable.
- Reform family courts - so that good, decent fathers, and mothers, are not kept away from their children for malicious reasons. This is important.
- Trust parents to make the best decisions for their families. A limited number of days for a term-time holiday for well-developed children. This is just common sense.
- Restore Britain will make Britain safe again. No-nonsense policing that does what it needs to do. Widespread stop and search back - accusations of racism will stop nothing. Brutal sentences for carrying a knife. Foreign criminals deported, third world sex pests removed before their feet can touch the ground.
- Welfare radically slashed back. Those who can work, will work. Litter picking, graffiti cleaning, whatever else. Don’t like it? No benefits. That simple.
- Support those Brits who genuinely need the help, particularly children, but under a Restore Britain Government the piss-take will end.
- A foreign policy that puts the British interest above all else - proudly and unapologetically. We won’t participate in never-ending foreign wars. We will act when, and only when, the British interest is served.
- Rebuild and rearm Britain. We will have a big stick, and we will wave it when we want.
- A comprehensive support system for British veterans - including fast tracked recruitment into immigration enforcement field roles.
- Arbitrary foreign aid targets that serve no British interests, gone.
- Restore Britain will reverse the creeping islamification of Britain - no burqas, sharia courts, halal slaughter and so on. Cousin marriage will be banned. If you want to sleep with your family, this is not the country for you. This is Britain, we do things our way.
- Exemptions for barbaric religious practices will be removed. Gladly.
- Anti-white racism, eradicated. No more DEI. The Equality Act repealed, along with the various iterations of the Race Relations Act.
- Self-defence rights restored. If an intruder tries to kill you in your home, and they end up dead? So be it. That’s their problem. Pepper spray legalised.
- End the war on motorists. Cut fuel duty, no more 20mph zones. Motorway speed limit raised to 80mph. Sort out our decaying road network.
- Biological reality respected. Men are men. Women are women. No amount of surgery will ever change that. That filth will be kept away from children.
- Inheritance tax abolished - for farms, for small businesses, for everyone. The scam will end. Death will no longer be taxed under a Restore Britain Government.
- An infrastructure first housing policy. Developers forced to fund proper infrastructure before a shovel goes in the ground. British homes for British families.
- A Government that prioritises building roads, bridges and projects HERE in Britain. Can you even imagine it?!
- We will purse a British first energy strategy. Net zero will be scrapped. Domestic energy production will be ruthlessly prioritised. Nuclear, oil/gas, fracking. We will make it happen.
- End the lockdown legacy. Inquiry into COVID vaccine harms, lockdown convictions quashed, a truly independent look at how that was all allowed to happen.
- No Digital ID, ever. Repeal the Online Safety Act. Protect free speech.
- Defund the rotten BBC. Make it a subscription service and let it wither on the vine.
- A binding referendum on the reintroduction of the death penalty for the most evil criminals. One of my favourites.
- A national strategy, working from the findings of the rape gang inquiry, to ruthlessly tackle and decapitate the national crime network of primarily Pakistani muslim sexual slavery, torture and murder.
- Restore Britain will end political Islam. Abolish postal voting except for those in genuine need. Remove voting rights for foreign nationals.
- Foreign language translation ended, in the NHS and beyond. You live in England, you speak English.
- The NHS will be restored as the NATIONAL health service. Serving British people as its first and only priority. It will accept ultra-high skilled migrants to work, it will not support millions of low-skilled migrants who contribute nothing, yet take so much.
- Free car parking for NHS staff, patients and visitors on tight permits. We all pay for the NHS, we shouldn’t be ripped off for the sodding parking too. Especially medical staff.
- Medical school caps will be demolished. We will allow talented young British men and women to train in medicine - the NHS will then be forced to employ them over foreign staff. We will prioritise our own people.
- Reclaim our fisheries - take back our seas and take back our fish. We will take back control. Finally.
- The quangocracy will end. Power will be returned to the people through their MPs. Parliament will be empowered.
- Restore Britain will crush the parasitic state. It will all be hacked back in the most spectacular fashion. Unlike anything Britain has seen before.
I could go on.
This is a platform that millions and millions of British men and women are agreeing with.
The BBC does not want you to hear about it. So please, tell your friends/family. Get the message out there.
There is finally a political party with the balls to put you all first - to put the British people first.
Restore Britain.
Hayden Christensen was 23 when Revenge of the Sith came out. He was 42 when he returned to the role in Ahsoka.
For 17 of the 19 years in between, he was effectively exiled from the franchise and from Hollywood.
The exile was not voluntary at first. Christensen was the focal point of the cultural backlash against the Star Wars prequels in the mid-2000s. The performances were mocked. The dialogue was mocked. The acting choices were mocked. He was 22 years old playing the most analyzed character in cinema history and the analysis decided he had failed.
He kept working for a few years. Jumper in 2008. Takers in 2010. A handful of smaller films. None of them landed. By 2012, the offers were drying up and Christensen had largely stepped back from acting. He moved to a farm in Ontario. He spent years out of public view. The Hollywood narrative was that he had been broken by the prequels.
Two things happened during those years that the Hollywood narrative missed.
The first was the cultural reassessment of the prequels. The generation that watched them as children grew up and rewatched them as adults. What had read as wooden dialogue in 2005 started to read as deliberate stylization. The political plot, which critics had dismissed as boring senate scenes, started to read as one of the most substantively serious treatments of how democracies collapse into autocracy ever put in a blockbuster. By 2017, the prequels were being rediscovered as the most thematically ambitious Star Wars films in the franchise.
The second was what Christensen was doing on the farm. He kept training. The lightsaber choreography he had learned for the prequels was technically demanding stage combat, taught to him by stunt coordinator Nick Gillard over months of rehearsal for each film. Christensen never stopped practicing it. When he came back to the choreography in 2022 for Obi-Wan Kenobi and 2023 for Ahsoka, the muscle memory was intact. He was technically better at 42 than he had been at 23, because he had spent 17 years quietly preparing for a return nobody had told him was coming.
The Ahsoka scene that the fan accounts keep posting is from the episode where Anakin confronts Ahsoka in the World Between Worlds. The choreography is fast, precise, and recognizable as the same combat style Christensen used in the prequels two decades earlier. The body knows what to do. The body has been keeping the role alive while the rest of the industry was writing him off.
What landed differently in the return is that Christensen at 42 has a stillness the 23-year-old version did not. The 23-year-old was performing Anakin's intensity. The 42-year-old is embodying it. The role finally fits the actor in a way it did not when he was first asked to carry it.
The audience that mocked him at 23 had also grown up. The audience that watched the return at 42 had spent fifteen years missing him without realizing it.
The exile turned out to be the preparation.
Everyone is panicking about @RestoreBritain_ splitting @reformparty_uk vote and allowing Burnham to win.
The panic is misplaced.
The worst political outcome would be Restore stepping aside to allow Reform a victory.
With its current direction of travel, Reform offers the country no redemption. By stepping aside, Restore would concrete in Reform’s hopelessness.
Restore must fight this election and do the best it can. If it were to gain 7% of the vote, as predicted, that would send an earth quake through Reform.
Reform might then correct its ways.
A Burnham victory makes not a blind bit of difference to the country. Labour has a 156 seat majority. Whether Burnham or some other idiot from Labour becomes PM makes no difference.
And for those worried about an early general election - turkeys do not vote for Christmas. It is not happening.
Restore and Rebecca Shepherd must fight this by election tooth and nail.
I know @_AdvanceUK supporters are already in Makerfield campaigning on their behalf. I will help where I can.
Restore Britain is under brutal assault by the establishment.
Listen to me when I say this - they want us gone.
Everything will be thrown at us - false allegations, dishonest polling, media hysteria, vile personal attacks. They’ve already tried to put me in prison. It will all keep coming and coming. It is going to get a lot worse, the more support we gain.
The establishment is getting very nasty with us.
Good. It shows we are making progress.
Ask yourself why? Why do they want to destroy us? Why do they react with such fury whenever ordinary British people begin organising outside their control?
Because Restore Britain is not going to merely reform the establishment - we are going to destroy it. The system will be dismantled, the state will be torn apart and rebuilt as one that serves the people it always should have done - the British people.
The permanent Westminster machine that has grown rich and comfortable while Britain became poorer, weaker, more divided and less safe is biting back. Is that any surprise?
All-powerful bureaucrats who have lived the most comfortable life for decades in shadowy Westminster corridors will have it all taken from them.
Many will even go to prison.
That’s what will happen if Restore Britain takes power.
They do not want that. They will do everything to stop that from happening. We are already seeing it.
Reform, the Tories, Labour. With them, it all continues - their club is safe.
Different slogans. Same people. Same outcome. Same decline. Is it any wonder they hate Restore Britain so much?
The establishment understands it can accept a turquoise blue. Control it, use it.
They know they can’t with Restore Britain, and that is why they want us removed.
Because we are not here to ‘reform’. It is too late for that. The country is too far gone.
The old political consensus is dead. The system has failed too many people, in too many places, for too long.
We are here to restore Britain itself its borders, its safety, its confidence, its freedoms, its competence, its sense of who we are.
And no amount of smears or intimidation will stop us doing that.
Makerfield will show Britain the way.
If you want change. And I mean real change, radical change, unprecedented change.
Join us. Join the party. Join Restore Britain.
Get your country back.
Full list here Lea.
Corrupt as hell.
Cunha penalty not given for United despite clear foul.
Dowman dive against Leeds given as penalty
Gabriel not sent off for hitting Woltemede in the face against Newcastle (scored the winner)
Gabriel handball against Newcastle not given as a penalty
Saliba foul on Barry not given as a penalty against Everton
Merino not sent off aganst Villa despite blatently pulling back Rogers while on a yellow card
Trossard penalty on Wirtz not given despite a blatent foul while already on a yellow for Liverpool
Timber not sent off against Forest for pulling back Anderson for a clear 2nd yellow.
Gabriel not sent off against Brentford for a clear 2nd yellow for fouling Outtara
Gabriel Jesus not given a red card for attacking Mosquera after the Wolves game
Gabriel not sent off for last man foul on Kolo Muani against Spurs.
Spurs goal disallowed for Gabriel dive for Kolo Muani's goal.
Brighton penalty not given for Martinelli foul on Wiefer
Penalty for Chelsea not given despite Rice hands around Joao Pedro's neck/handball (take your pick)
Penalty for Chelsea not given for Raya punching Joao Pedro in the head.
Timber winner against Chelsea came from a corner that was won from a free kick that was a clear dive.
Gabriel not sent off against City for a blatent Headbutt on Haaland
Wilson goal disallowed for West Ham despite multiple fouls by Arsenal players and a similar goal for Arsenal given against United earlier on in the season.
Havertz not sent off against Burnley despite clear red card challenge.
I’m not a Tommy Robinson supporter but I intend to go to the march on Saturday. It’s the biggest march of the year, so, as someone who covers protests, I obviously want to be there.
But my face will be recorded and added to the government’s database of march attendees. You’d have to be pretty naive not to realise the government might use this against us down the line. Especially after the confirmation yesterday that digital ID is still on the agenda.
I could go to the pro-Palestine march instead and my face won’t be logged.
Has there ever been a regime that treats its own people with such contempt and suspicion while giving a free pass to those who actively hate the country or support terrorists? This is only the latest incident in a long series of two-tier decisions made concerning protests in recent years.
The kind of people who support Tommy Robinson aren’t even hard-line right wingers. Generally speaking, they’re relatively apolitical civnats who love their country and don’t mind foreigners as long they’re not committing crimes.
It really is quite incredible that proudly flying the national flag is enough to make the government treat you like a dangerous criminal.
I am a democratically elected Member of the European Parliament. I represent the European Union. You will pay for calling me a hate-mongering agitator. I will patiently wait until the British cast you onto the ash heap of history. Then I will come to defend my honor, and the honor of my voters, in court. I will not forget.