Sam Remfry

Pleb

[Morgan @MorganE07969703]

Soon be back to GMT. Peter Hitchins be like...

[Kate Hoey @CatharineHoey]

@mragilligan And yet he wants us to pay Mauritius to take the British owned Chagos Islands - Mauritius a country relying on China for so much - it really does make you wonder whose side some people are on ?

[Sam Remfry @SamRemfry]

@tedkel @GrunwaldSpier Might soon need to add Professor Dapo Akande.

[edwin heathcote @edwinheathcote]

The most Manhattan thing in London. Ideal House by Raymond Hood. 1928-29. Great Marlborough St.

[Sam Remfry @SamRemfry]

@tedkel @GrunwaldSpier Who's missing?

[John Wills @johndotwills]

I drive past a field where farm equipment auctions now take place with chilling frequency. Never saw one for ten years.

[London Traffic Watch @LondonTrafficW1]

Oxford Street

How @MayorofLondon was able to run roughshod over local residents to create his multimillion pound vanity project

https://t.co/nphYzvhHmO

[London Historians @LondonHistorian]

Came downstairs to find this in the kitchen. NotOurCat #2 whom we call Peanut. #Caturday.

[Bill @CageFooName]

A cynic could think that this is the point - to demonstrate the UK doesn't have jurisdiction over the rest of the world's web services from an inside-out perspective and so paving the way for far more draconian outside-in measures, such as a great firewall

[Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons]

This is the scandal that just keeps giving. It has emerged that national security adviser Jonathan Powell, who sits at the centre of Britain’s most sensitive intelligence and diplomatic secrets, and who happens to be married to a Gaza fanatic who has defended Hamas, was not vetted by security before he was handed the job.
The source is Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff, in evidence to Parliament about Peter Mandelson that came to light this week. “We made a political appointment for National Security Adviser, in Jonathan Powell,” he remarked, offhand. “As far as I remember, we appointed him and then we began the DV.”
DV stands for developed vetting, the highest routine level of security clearance. Any clearance Powell held from his days as Tony Blair’s chief of staff would have lapsed long ago; the rules require a review after seven years, and he left Downing Street in 2007. In other words, the government put a man in charge of national security first and determined that he wasn’t a security risk afterwards, just as it did with Peter Mandelson (and look how that turned out).
This is more than a procedural lapse. It is a window into how this government works: a combination of cronyism and complacency which, step by step, has allowed ideological zealotry to seep into the heart of our foreign policy. And when you look at what the vetting officers would have found had they been allowed to do their job first, it becomes clear why this matters so much...
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[GB News @GBNEWS]

Chagossians could get legal veto over 'surrender deal' with Mauritius after peers vote for draft bill
https://t.co/Bpx0KCZewo

[Sam Remfry @SamRemfry]

@DamoclesBDA @CageFooName Plenty of rain!

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

It’s weird how the “global price” of gas is lower in countries that drill for it.

[Sam Remfry @SamRemfry]

@UKLabour Rosebank is red,
Jackdaw is blue,
Labour are still gaslighting you.

[Penny Mordaunt @PennyMordaunt]

Given that our Government is preparing households for what may lie ahead (images from Sweden’s “warbook”), wouldn’t it be a good idea to deliver the funding and reforms that would deter and prevent much of it happening. A war would cost us 50% of GDP. It’s 5% to prevent one.

[NFBUK @NFBUK]

Thank you to @newdawn75 for her message to @andyburnham @10DowningStreet ‘Well unfortunately we are back here again, because no one is listening to us. Mr Burnham I want all floating bus stops to be halted. It is dangerous when you get off a bus with a white cane or a Guide Dog’.

[OnLondon @OnLondon]

Very significant intervention from @LonTravelWatch: https://t.co/0YyuwDL4H9 @LondonAssembly #cycling #transport #london

[Kate Hoey @CatharineHoey]

Today in the Lords a Private Members Bill

British Sovereignty Protection (Chagos Islands) Bill
– Second Reading – Lord Weir of Ballyholme / this would ensure a referendum for the Chagossians on their wish to stay British @LordWeirDUP

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Starmer Summoned to Rape Gangs Inquiry https://t.co/7yRaabUGhj

[Sam Remfry @SamRemfry]

@clarescastle The 'national emetic' would be more appropriate.