🛟BREAKING: ASSISTED SUICIDE BILL DEFEATED!🏆
In a victory for hope, compassion & life, MPs have voted against assisted suicide by 286 votes to 270, choosing to protect vulnerable people & stop our country going down a dark path that would have changed society forever.🧵1/
Easter is one of the principal holidays, or feasts, of Christianity. It marks the Resurrection of Jesus three days after his death by crucifixion. For many Christian churches, Easter is the joyful end to the Lenten season of fasting and penitence.
אני מביע את תמיכתי המלאה בפטריארך הלטיני של ירושלים ובנוצרים בארץ הקודש, שנמנע מהם לחגוג את מיסת יום ראשון של כפות התמרים בכנסיית הקבר.
אני מגנה את החלטת המשטרה הישראלית, שמצטרפת לרצף מדאיג של ה��רות מעמד המקומות הקדושים בירושלים.
יש להבטיח את חופש הפולחן בירושלים לכל הדתות.
לדברי כל מי שמתנהל מולו, הקרדינל פיצבאלה הוא אדם ישר והגון שמקפיד לקיים יחסים תקינים עם ממשלת ישראל.
וגם אם הוא לא היה כזה – כך לא מתייחסים לנציג הכנסיה הקתולית על 1.4 מיליארד מאמיניה.
האיוולת הזאת חייבת להיפסק מיד. יש להתנצל בפניו, להזמין אותו לקיים את הטקס עכשיו, ולהבטיח ששטות כזו לא תחזור על עצמה בעתיד.
https://t.co/4UJJ5c7jk9
بيان مشترك من البطريركية اللاتينية في القدس وحراسة الأراضي المقدسة.
Joint Press Release: The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custody of the Holy Land.
https://t.co/ujB3t50j67
Another 22 infants remains found at Tuam, all in coffins. This totally contradicts the widespread view that the nuns dumped all the babies in a 'septic tank'.
Digital ID for every adult is not progress. It is the end of a free society dressed up as convenience.
I am a cyber security specialist. This is my take.
They are selling it as a fix for illegal migration. That is bollocks.
We spend hundreds of billions a year on cyber security and yet the volume of breaches is breaking records. The threat is growing faster than the spend.
Digital ID will not stop boats. It will not stop trafficking gangs. It will not fix a broken border.
Criminals will work around it.
Honest citizens will pay the price.
It builds giant data banks that track where you go, what you buy, what you read and who you speak to.
It links your identity to every checkpoint in daily life.
One breach and your life is exposed.
Look at Jaguar Land Rover and the airports in recent weeks. Now imagine that at national scale on an ID system tied to everything you need to live your daily life.
Here is the risk that ministers will not admit.
Ransomware seeded through a supplier or an insider:
It lies quiet for months. It rolls through the backups. On trigger day the register and the recovery sets are both encrypted.
Payments fail. Health and benefits stall. Borders slow. Citizens are frozen out until a ransom is paid or the state rebuilds from scratch.
Centralise identity and you centralise failure.
Do not fall for the pitch.
Function creep is certain. It starts as login.
It becomes access to money, travel, speech and public services.
It turns rights into permissions controlled by the state and its contractors.
It creates a single point of failure for criminals, insiders and hostile states to target.
It will punish the elderly, the poor and anyone who is not always online.
It will centralise risk and outsource blame.
It will not stop fraud.
It will not stop illegal migration.
It will build the machinery for a social credit system by stealth.
If ministers cared about the border, they would enforce current laws, resource patrols and processing, close loopholes and remove those with no right to stay.
You do not need a national ID to do any of that.
We scrapped ID cards in 2010 for a reason.
Britain does not need a central register to prove age or status.
Yes to privacy first proofs. No to a database state.
Labour’s plan for compulsory digital ID risks creating a more authoritarian state.
Under constant surveillance, we would have to pass through digital checkpoints just to live our daily lives — with even more barriers for minorities, migrants and the digitally excluded.
Tony Blair tried this 20 years ago. We stopped it then, and we must stop it again.
I will not be supporting this.
Tony Blair has been pushing this agenda for more than two decades, always using one excuse or another to justify it.
It's never been fully implemented - and we must make sure it's stopped this time too.