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[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Oh brilliant! … tougher sentences for men who rape children are delayed! because there isn’t enough prison space.

But the man who denies criminal damage after allegedly slashing a migrant dinghy is on remand because they say he poses a “significant risk to public safety.”

Which tells us apparently child rapists aren’t a “significant risk to public safety” then?

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Charlie Ireland was supposed to meet with representatives of the Labour Party including 'The Labour Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' to discuss farming & agriculture. They’ve cancelled on him, for the third time.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

This is unbelievable. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has offered his solution to rising petrol and gas prices by giving advice to use Google maps to find the cheapest petrol stations. Cutting fuel duty might be a bit more helpful to millions of cash strapped motorists.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The Tories are proposing to build an integrated UK air and missile defence network. It’s long overdue. They did nothing about it in the 14 years they were in power. 

Now they promise a £10 billion plan — but only over 10 years. So not exactly a rapid build out. 

But better than the government. Which called missile defence a priority — then allocated under £800m over four years to it. 

This despite the fact a Commons defence committee recently reported we have ‘next to nothing’ when it comes to missile defence.

The Tory plan is to start with protection for critical infrastructure and military bases then build out to protect the UK mainland and British bases overseas. 

A basic capability would be in place in a first Tory term, if there ever is one, with stockpiles and coverage expanded over the following five years. 

A few of the pieces are already in place. Sky Sabre is mobile medium-range interceptor that’s already been deployed to Poland and the Middle East. 

Type 45 destroyers carry Sea Viper interceptors for coastal and fleet defence. 

RAF jets can be scrambled to take out drones and some missiles — though that’s expensive and they can’t deal with ballistic missiles. 

But none of that comes anywhere near a standing national defence against longer-range ballistic missiles, the biggest threat. Nor do we have the necessary stocks of interceptors and counter-drone weapons. 

Some media comment has likened the Tory plan to Israel’s fabled Iron Dome missile defence. But that’s misleading. 

A truly national missile defence would cost a lot more than £10 billion. And Israel’s Iron Dome is much misunderstood. It is not one but three defensive systems for different missile threats. 

The Iron Dome itself has been in operation since 2011 and takes out short-range rockets, artillery and some drones from the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah. Britain doesn’t face such a threat. 

Then there’s David’s Sling which deals with mid-range missiles: cruise missiles, aircraft, drones and tactical ballistic missiles, out to roughly 100–300 km, with the hit-to-kill Stunner missile.

And at the very top — most relevant to the UK but the least discussed here — is Arrow 2 and Arrow 3, sculpted by Israel Aerospace Industries, with US involvement. 

This is the system that takes on medium- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles. Arrow 2 works inside the atmosphere; Arrow 3 intercepts outside it, above 100 km, at ranges out to about 2,400 km. 

This should be of most interest to Britain. Because threats to us are much more likely to be from longer-range missiles. 

It is significant, though apparently unnoticed by the Tories, that Germany signed up for Arrow 3 in 2023, the first time the Israelis have exported the system under licence. 

The first deployment was made south of Berlin last December. A second site has been announced in Bavaria. 

Germany is planning full operational readiness with sites in the north, centre and south of the country by 2030. Not in 10 years time, as the Tories envisage. 

Just as significant, the cost of the first Arrow 3 deployment was under £3 billion. Total Arrow spend including interceptors and launchers will be under £5 billion. 

Which rather makes it a mystery why nobody in Labour or the Tories is saying we should follow suit — buy off the shelf the most sophisticated, tried and tested missile defence system on the planet. 

Germany will is acquiring Arrow 3 as part of the European Sky Shield Initiative. Which you’d think might appeal to Europhile Labour. The cost should appeal to the Tories. 

At least the Tories have put missile defence on the agenda. Labour, it’s reported this morning in The Times, is still dithering about how to get defence spending to 3% of GDP — and looks like postponing the matter for another year. 

In the current dangerous geopolitical climate that is close to a dereliction of duty which shames the Burnham government. You wonder how John Healey can even look at himself in the mirror

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Greenland's ice loss is decelerating.

NASA's GRACE satellites track the full ice sheet: snow, melt, runoff, and ice discharge into the ocean.

That full record exposes the climate alarmist script.

It doesn't show accelerating loss, as claimed, rather it shows decelerating loss. And if the trend continues, recovery comes next.

There is no runaway collapse, no tipping point deadline. Activists warn Greenland is melting into oblivion, but the satellite data say the opposite.

[Lee Nallalingham @LNallalingham]

🚨 Why are auditors questioning £74 MILLION of payments made by DEFRA?

I went through its latest audit to find out.

They have some questions to answer.

Read here: https://t.co/65IexBtD49

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

There's an old saying:

"A mine is a hole in the ground with a Cornishman at the bottom of it. ⛏️"

For a hundred years, it was true almost everywhere on earth. 🌍

Cornwall had been mining tin since the Bronze Age.
Its miners built giant engines to pump the water out of the deepest mines. ⚙️

Then, in the 1860s, copper crashed. Tin followed.
The mines closed. Families had a choice. Go hungry. Or go. 💔

Around a quarter of a million people left Cornwall.
To America. To Australia. To South Africa. To Mexico. 🚢

The world called them Cousin Jacks.
The story goes, whenever a boss needed another man, a Cornish miner would say, "My cousin Jack could do that." 😄

In Mexico, they brought their dinner. The pasty.
Mexicans still eat them today. They call them pastes. With chilli in. 🌶️

After their shifts, they kicked a ball about.
They started Mexico's first football club. Pachuca. Still playing today. ⚽

Above the old mines in Mexico, there's a little English cemetery.
Every grave turned to face home. 🙏

They teach you Britain sent soldiers around the world.
Not that it sent miners. With their skills, their football and their dinner. 🇬🇧

A little corner of this island taught the whole world how to dig.

Your country did that. Hardly anyone knows. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Help us tell the world. 👇
https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf

Be Part Of Us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

The Met Police weren’t "powerless" when they banned a UKIP march from Tower Hamlets.

The Hampshire Constabulary wasn’t "powerless" when they placed a section.34 over Gosport.

British police have the power but don’t apply it consistently. That’s two-tier policing.

[Benonwine @benonwine]

Stephen Gray gave nearly 30 years to Cleveland Police. He and his wife foster children. At 65 he has a criminal record because he reposted a meme.

The post said: “Fun facts about bacon! People who eat bacon have a lower chance of marrying a 9-year-old!”

He told the court it was satire, pointed at the traditional account of Muhammad’s marriage to Aisha, and meant to start an argument about child marriage. A district judge called it “grossly offensive,” said the jokey tone meant it could not be a serious point, and fined him a bit over £1,000.

The Crown Prosecution Service first said there was no case. A neighbour he was already rowing with over a sewage pipe asked for a review. Then there was a case.

England abolished blasphemy in 2008. It has not abolished the habit. A man who spent his working life enforcing the law can now be branded a criminal for a Facebook repost that hundreds of other people shared and walked away from.

That is not public order.

That is a state that has decided some facts are too awkward to joke about, and some people are too ordinary to protect. Stephen Gray is appealing.

He should not have to. We now live in a totalitarian state.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

🚨 The Government has imposed a de facto Islamic blasphemy law by the back door — and almost certainly allowed Islamist extremists to influence the process.

At the start of the year, the Free Speech Union revealed that all five members of the Government’s working group had troubling links to Islamist organisations, including the Muslim Council of Britain and MEND. Successive governments have had a policy of non-engagement with both since 2009, citing concerns about their views.

A Freedom of Information request by Shadow Justice Secretary @NJ_Timothy revealed that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) had said it deleted all responses to the Working Group’s consultation, which informed the drafting of the definition. That appeared to conflict with the Government’s own data policy, which requires key information of historical importance to be retained for 20 years.

The Free Speech Union sent MHCLG a pre-action protocol letter, threatening judicial review unless the department disclosed who had been given the opportunity to influence the definition.

After considerable delay, MHCLG has written back to @SpeechUnion and admitted that they had located ‘at least one available copy of the dataset’.

This is a shocking revelation — and raises serious questions about the handling of the process.
Angela Rayner must come clean.

Why did officials originally claim that the data had been deleted?

If it has been deleted, and subsequently “recovered”, why did this happen, and why did they attempt to hide behind data protection legislation?

Did the Government allow extremists to influence the drafting of a definition that has had a chilling effect on free speech — and then mislead the public about what happened to the consultation responses?

The public deserves to know the truth.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

WTAF! … as we all get poorer the government continues to piss away our tax!

The Cabinet Office has just written off £7.7 MILLION on a recruitment system it abandoned. But that isn’t even the total amount!

The stupid ‘reset’ will cost taxpayers £26–£38 MILLION and they’ve already spent £9m in Civil Service staffing costs! (For a platform no department will ever use!!)

But “lessons have been learnt”…

No private business could ever operate in this way. It’s disgusting 💣

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

The Evidence Wasn't Deleted. So Publish It

For months, the government's answer to who shaped its new definition of anti-Muslim hostility was simple: the evidence was gone. It never was.

Will Garton, director general at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, has confirmed in writing that more extensive searches, including technical work by departmental IT specialists, found that "the underlying Call for Evidence response dataset is still held on Departmental systems." Nick Timothy was first told the material wasn't held. He kept pushing. The department eventually discovered that it was.

This isn't some incidental pile of correspondence. The government's own published account calls the working group's evidence gathering "significant" and says the Call for Evidence "forms the basis of the definition that the government is now adopting." If this evidence underpins a definition ministers want organisations across Britain to use, the public has an obvious interest in knowing who submitted it and how it shaped the outcome, personal data protected where the law requires.

Questions about the process predate the dataset reappearing. Rayner appointed Dominic Grieve to chair the supposedly independent group despite Grieve having written the foreword to the 2018 APPG report proposing the earlier Islamophobia definition. Akeela Ahmed, a panel member, had publicly championed that same definition. Harder to find among the five members is any voice for the free-speech or secularist case. Sir John Jenkins, a former ambassador the group approached, refused to take part, believing its direction already appeared predetermined.

There's also a question ministers haven't properly answered. In June, James Cleverly asked specifically whether MEND, CAGE, the Muslim Association of Britain or the Muslim Council of Britain had submitted written evidence. The government replied that the consultation was open to everyone, that the department hadn't engaged with those groups, and that the working group hadn't met them. Cleverly hadn't asked who they'd met. He asked who had submitted evidence.

That distinction matters. An organisation doesn't need to sit across a table from Grieve to shape an open consultation. It only needs to send a submission. That alone doesn't prove the process was captured, even though it might look that way. It does mean transparency matters more, not less, and the records now survive to provide it. Publish the submissions, redact what the law requires, and let the public see who tried to shape this definition.

The deeper problem goes beyond Islamophobia. A department built national policy on what it calls a substantial evidence exercise. When an opposition MP sought the material, officials said it wasn't held. Only further pressure and a forensic search found it was. Garton's letter says ministers weren't involved in handling or retention decisions, so there's no evidence yet that ministers ordered anything concealed. There's every reason to ask how an official FOI process missed evidence important enough to justify government policy.

The government can no longer claim disclosure is impossible because the evidence vanished. Its own director general confirms it survives. If the process was as rigorous as ministers maintain, publishing it should only prove that. If it wasn't, the public deserves to know that too.

The question was never really where the evidence went. It's why, now the government admits it still has it, the country still isn't allowed to see it.

"Rayner appointed Dominic Grieve to chair the supposedly independent group despite Grieve having written the foreword to the 2018 APPG report proposing the earlier Islamophobia definition."

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A single cowpat supports more life than a hectare of wheat.

A cow drops about 10 tonnes of dung a year, and each pat is a city. Over 250 species of insect live on or in it in Britain, dung beetles first, then the flies, the mites and the worms, and above them the birds and the bats that eat them.

Dung beetles alone bury the pat, feed the soil, cut the parasites that would reinfect the herd, and save British farming about £370 million a year in labour the farmer never had to do.

The lapwing, the starling, the swallow, the yellow wagtail: half the birds of the British countryside feed on what lives in a cow's leavings.

A wheat field has none of that. It has wheat, a sprayed margin, and whatever can survive between the two.

Now the countryside is told the cow is the ecological problem, and the wheat field with no insect in it is the sustainable use of land.

Take the cow off the hill and the dung goes with her, and the beetle, and the bird that ate the beetle, and the soil the beetle built, and what is left is bracken, which nothing eats.

The bird charity's reserves are grazed by cattle. They know. The leaflet does not mention it.

Every living thing in a British field above the size of a worm has a cow somewhere underneath it.

[Renée Hoenderkamp @DrHoenderkamp]

Help raise awareness of the safety issues with the drug folic acid and the fact that it is being added to our flour.
Please share and ask people to sign the petition:
https://t.co/UX2AmxCSaM

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Here is what the animals in the meat aisle actually ate.

The chicken: soy, corn, wheat and a vegetable oil pellet, every day of its 42 days, in a shed. Its fat is over 20% seed oil. It is sold with the word healthy.

The pig: soy, barley and wheat, from weaning, in a shed. Its fat is 15 to 20% seed oil. Sold as the other white meat.

The salmon: a pellet of wheat, soy and rapeseed oil, in a cage. Its omega-3 is half what it was in 1990.

The British cow: grass, from birth, outdoors, for 18 to 20 months. Silage, which is grass, for the winter. Barley for the last 90 days to finish. Her fat is 3 to 4% seed oil, because the rumen refuses the rest.

The sheep: grass, heather and whatever the hill gives, from birth to the lorry, and often not a grain in its life.

Only two animals on that list spent their lives eating what their bodies were built for, and only two have a stomach that turns whatever they ate into clean fat.

They are the two with the warning. Red meat. Limit to 70 grams. For your heart.

The three that ate the seed oil, in a shed, are the three with the heart logo.

Every farmer in Britain could have told the committee that. The committee has never met one.

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

Have you got the facts on synthetic Folic Acid yet ?
Have you signed the petition to stop it being added to your diet via flour ?
The Government and its controllers rely on your apathy and ignorance to get their plans through.
Don’t let them get away with it again.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The chips you had on Saturday night were fried in oil that went into the fryer on Tuesday morning.

Chip shops change their oil roughly once a week. It is filtered, topped up and kept hot, because 20 litres of oil costs money and a fryer never sleeps.

That fryer runs at 180 degrees for 12 hours a day. Tuesday to Saturday is 60 hours.

Every one of those hours, the linoleic acid in the oil is breaking down into aldehydes, the family that includes formaldehyde, and the longer it runs the faster it makes them.

A British chemist heated the common cooking fats to frying temperature and measured what came off. Sunflower and corn oil threw out aldehydes at up to 200 times the daily safety limit. Lard, butter and coconut oil barely registered, because a saturated fat has nothing in it to break.

By Saturday, the oil in that fryer is not the oil that went in on Tuesday. It is a different chemical, sixty hours into a reaction, and your fish was dropped into it.

For 100 years every chip shop in Britain fried in beef dripping, which is half saturated and sits in a fryer for a week without turning into anything.

In the 1990s they switched to vegetable oil. On health grounds. Because the dripping was bad for your heart.

So the one pan in the country that runs hottest and longest was moved from the fat that cannot oxidise to the fat that does nothing else, and the leaflet called it an improvement.

Tonight is Monday. The oil you ate on Saturday is still in there, hotter than ever, waiting for the Monday rush, and it will be changed tomorrow.

The chip shop that still fries in dripping has a queue down the street, and nobody in it has read a word about aldehydes. They can taste it. Their bodies know.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Angela Rayner still has urgent questions to answer.

The Government’s Islamophobia definition, repackaged as “anti-Muslim hostility”, has been weaponised to silence legitimate criticism of Islam, its history and its practices.

The FSU exposed troubling links between all five members of the Working Group tasked with drafting the definition and Islamist organisations, including the Muslim Council of Britain and MEND.

It has now emerged that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) deleted all responses to the consultation that informed the definition.

Why would the Government do this if it had nothing to hide? Were Islamist extremists given a chance to influence the definition? Who ordered the department to delete the responses, apparently in breach of the Government’s own data policy?

An investigation is now under way. The department’s top civil servant has said that no minister ordered the deletion. That raises another question: who is running the show?

The public deserves to know the truth. We must not allow an Islamic blasphemy law, enforced by the Government and law enforcement, to take root in Britain.

In a free society, no religion should be beyond legitimate criticism, challenge or debate, or receive greater protection than any other.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The only class of drug that ever cured anything is the one the industry walked away from.

Antibiotics cured. A course, a fortnight, a well patient who never came back. Pneumonia, sepsis, a scratch gone bad: the things that killed your great-grandparents at 40 became a week off work.

The last new class of antibiotic to reach a patient was discovered in 1987. Nothing since.

In 2016 AstraZeneca sold its antibiotics business. In 2018 Novartis shut its own down, and Sanofi followed. The biggest companies on earth left the one field in medicine with a 100% cure rate.

In 2018 a small company got a new antibiotic approved against a superbug the old ones could not touch. It went bankrupt within the year, because a drug that fixes a patient in ten days and is then put back on the shelf cannot pay for its own trial.

Resistance now kills more than a million people a year, more than malaria, more than HIV, and the pipeline is empty, because the spreadsheet says fill it with something taken for life.

So the same companies put the money into cholesterol, blood pressure, reflux, mood and weight. Conditions nobody is cured of. Drugs nobody stops.

A cure destroys its own market. A manager grows it. They read the two numbers and chose.

Every operation you will ever have depends on an antibiotic working. The industry decided that was not worth the money, and spent it on a tablet you take forever for a number.

The drug that works was shelved. The drug that manages was funded. The leaflet calls that healthcare.

The one cure still on the market is on your plate, and it is the thing on the plate with the warning.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

A reminder to our American friends, keep an eye out for the brand name 'Perfecta', this is not food. 🇺🇸🤝🇬🇧