Rob Pratt

[Rob Pratt @RobPratt84]

This is amazing! Well done that man 👏

[Kent Police (UK) @kent_police]

Praise has been heaped on a van driver who gave an impromptu lift to armed officers chasing a suspect in Thanet.

👉 https://t.co/tPNJzXrWA6

During the chase on Tuesday 16 June, a passing motorist stopped to help and told a pursuing armed officer to get in the back of his van.

[Rob Pratt @RobPratt84]

Then don’t buy one. Problem solved.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Corporate greed is Tim Cook, the billionaire Apple CEO, claiming that hiking prices on Apple products by over $200 is "unavoidable" after it made $112 billion in profits last year & spent $310 billion on stock buybacks.

These price hikes aren't unavoidable. They're unacceptable.

[Rob Pratt @RobPratt84]

@Telegraph They need to make space for all the social media arrests

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇸 England fans stayed behind to help clear up a bar in Dallas after their team smashed Croatia 4-2 in its World Cup opener

Take note PSG fans; this is how you celebrate, not by trashing a city

Writer: Ian

[Rob Pratt @RobPratt84]

@owenjonesjourno Are you thick, or just evil? You know we can just click the “is this true?” option in X

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

Well done Rupert Lowe
The Government wouldn’t do it and Reform didn’t do it despite promising to do so.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is nuts

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

@PolitlcsUK @Bloomberg The secret ingredient is honesty.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

UK is a police state

[Rob Pratt @RobPratt84]

My kids won’t - it’s full of losers

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

X is banned for under 16s, but Bluesky isn't.

X is a platform where people regularly share videos of crime, protests, political scandals and government failures.

The other is overwhelmingly left wing and far more sympathetic to the establishment, with no videos of crime, or government failure.

Naturally children, who have no other options, are now going to flood onto Bluesky and only see left leaning viewpoints.

This is a two tier social media ban.

[Rob Pratt @RobPratt84]

Of course you won’t… you’re a communist, and communists are evil

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Don’t worry, we ain’t gonna stop at Musk

[Rob Pratt @RobPratt84]

😂🎯

[Retard Finder @IfindRetards]

Found one

[Rob Pratt @RobPratt84]

1,000,000,000,000 reasons capitalism creates wealth and socialism keeps keeps people poor.

A dude is worth $1tr, from nothing, and you refuse to learn.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Reason #1,000,000,000,000 why we should tax the rich.

[Rob Pratt @RobPratt84]

You’re right. Communists should have learned by now that left wing economics keeps people poor.

There’s literally a dude worth $1tr from nothing and you still won’t learn.

The fact there are poor people, and there doesn’t need to be, is a massive failing.

[The Pink King @DayalSami]

Call me a hater but I think living in a world where both trillionaires and global poverty coexist is a sign humanity has failed as a species

[Rob Pratt @RobPratt84]

Ahhh the “experts” were told we should always listen to

[🇦🇪 HGS @Sajwani]

And who these “experts” are ? 😂😂

[Rob Pratt @RobPratt84]

😂😂

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

Legend

[Rob Pratt @RobPratt84]

Here’s your 1 example @LBC - that caller wasn’t well researched, but it doesn’t mean he’s wrong.

@BenKentish trying to get a “gotcha” moment for his own social rankings.

Wouldn’t it be nice if MSM listened to people, rather than constantly trying to prove them wrong.

[LBC @LBC]

'You can't think of a single example...'

Ben Kentish ends debate with pro-Farage caller Rob with one question.

[Rob Pratt @RobPratt84]

@LBC Your single example… @mrjamesob

[Rob Pratt @RobPratt84]

“Is a fact, claims bbc” 😂😂😂

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

The BBC Has Ruled. Brexit Damaged The Economy. No Further Debate Required.

The BBC's editorial complaints unit has decided that the negative economic impact of Brexit is now a settled fact. Not a contested judgement. Not one side of a live debate. A fact, in the same category as man-made climate change, requiring no balancing view.

The ruling followed a Radio 4 Today programme segment featuring Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, alongside Liam Byrne and Sir John Gieve, both long-standing advocates of closer EU alignment. All three agreed Brexit had damaged growth. The presenter, Katya Adler, did not challenge the premise or introduce a dissenting voice. A complaint followed.

The ECU's response is the revealing part. It acknowledged the segment failed to "acknowledge the alternative case" for pursuing opportunities outside the EU rather than realignment with it. That part of the complaint was upheld. But the central complaint, that three pro-EU voices agreeing with each other on air is not balance, was dismissed. The reasoning given was that this reflected "the consensus among economists" and there was no "significant body of economic opinion" on the other side.

This is worth pausing on. The BBC is not claiming it found balance. It is claiming balance was unnecessary because one side of the argument does not meaningfully exist. The institution that is legally required to be impartial has ruled itself the arbiter of which questions are still open and which are closed, and Brexit has just been moved into the closed file.

The economics itself does not support the certainty on display. The headline figure driving much of this narrative, an 8 per cent hit to GDP since 2016, comes from an NBER paper built on a "synthetic control" model that constructs a hypothetical non-Brexit Britain from a basket of comparator countries. The largest weighting in that basket, over 60 per cent, is the United States, a country currently riding an AI investment boom and a separate fiscal stimulus. The model also weights Estonia and Greece more heavily than France or Germany. On a straightforward per capita basis against France and Germany, the actual comparators, Britain's performance since 2016 sits roughly in line with both. An 8 per cent gap simply isn't visible. This is a model producing a number that then gets reported as "the consensus," which the BBC then cites as the reason no alternative view is required.

That loop, model produces number, number becomes consensus, consensus becomes fact, fact requires no balance, is the mechanism. It does not require a conspiracy. It requires an institution that has decided which conclusions are respectable and which are not, and which then treats its own prior decision as evidence.

The same posture has been on display all week. A government department can decide its diversity targets are lawful without seeking legal advice to check. A police force can decide a book about dismantling "inner white supremacy" is leadership training. A broadcaster can decide an economic question is closed and that deciding so does not breach its own impartiality rules. In each case, the institution marks its own homework, and the mark is always a pass.

None of this requires Brexit to have been a triumph. Britain's economy has genuine problems, most of them unrelated to single market membership. But a state broadcaster, funded by compulsory licence fee under threat of prosecution, has now formally placed one of the most consequential political decisions in modern British history beyond the reach of its own impartiality obligations. Reform's Lee Anderson called it being "blinkered by groupthink." The more precise description is an institution that has stopped being able to tell the difference between its own assumptions and the facts.

"The BBC is not claiming it found balance. It is claiming balance was unnecessary because one side of the argument does not meaningfully exist."

[Rob Pratt @RobPratt84]

@bitcloud Exactly right