If your country wants to control social media algorithms to force people to watch state approved content, then you don't live in a free country anymore.
Reminder that if you are fully vaccinated and up to date on boosters, you are allowed to celebrate the Fourth of July.
Those vaccinated are even permitted to have a very small backyard barbecue. Five person maximum.
Yesterday morning I took an elderly lady shopping. My heart broke for her.
She's been placed in a house miles from everything. There are no shops, no doctor's surgery, nowhere she can walk to, hardly any neighbours, and she's been separated from her daughter and grandchildren. Every time she needs to see a GP, buy food or simply get into town, she has to pay for a taxi. I'd imagine she's spending around £100, at least, a week just on taxis. There are no buses to her house ans she cant walk far. She doesn't have the internet, only has a landline, and every week I see her becoming a little more lonely, a little more confused, and a little more overwhelmed. She worked all her life from 12 she told me, paid into the system all her life, and this is what she's left with.
My next passenger was a lovely Bangladeshi lady in a 4 bed council house on the estate the elderly ladys daughter lives on. She was genuinely really nice and sweet - this isn't a criticism of her at all.
She was travelling the train station to go to Plymouth to sit her citizenship test. She asked me for a receipt because her transport would be reimbursed, told me she has a free rail and bus pass, and receives food vouchers. If she passes, she hopes her family will be able to join her here.
This is absolutely nothing against her.
But surely people can understand why so many of us feel something has gone badly wrong with the system.
An elderly British woman, who paid taxes for decades, is left isolated, spending a huge chunk of her meagre pension simply trying to buy groceries and see a doctor, while the state is able to fund transport and other support elsewhere, in a county where over 30 thousand native Cornish are homeless, and the council is in £1.3bn of debt - this is absolutely insane.
Our priorities are completely upside down.
🚨NEWS: Patriots in Canada have organized a "pork only BBQ" cookout outside the Regina City Jamia Masji Mosque
It will take place tomorrow and locals have been instructed to bring their dogs
This is in response to the Mosque being granted a license to play the call to prayer
The Government say they're closing asylum hotels - but they're doing it by moving more illegal migrants into our communities.
They're bringing down the asylum backlog - by letting everybody stay.
They don't want to fix the problem. They're just trying to manage perceptions.
@andyburnham You are no more relatable than Starmer.
I don't care what you are having for dinner or what your favourite colour is.
I care that another failed Labour politician that couldn't even balance his city's books is now going to get his unelected hands on the economy.
The most chilling line in the Shabir Ahmed case isn’t that he raped children.
It’s that, 14 years later, parole judges say he still refuses to accept guilt, still believes it’s “acceptable to sexually abuse children”, STILL poses a high risk of reoffending – and the state’s response is: “sorry, automatic release, nothing we can do”.
This isn’t justice.
This is a bureaucracy so obsessed with sentence formulas and legal autopilot that it will knowingly release a self‑declared danger to children rather than admit the system it designed is broken.
When a man is too unsafe for parole but “safe enough” for compulsory release, that isn’t law – that’s moral bankruptcy dressed up as procedure.
@JenniferJS_@Keir_Starmer Starmer always answered a different question and Burnham deletes the ones he doesn’t like.
Labour: Hiding from the truth since 1900
Labour MP, Bell Ribeiro-Addy was elected to represent the people of Britain, yet she's backing Jamaica's campaign for reparations that British taxpayers will ultimately be expected to fund.
Who exactly is she representing?
The answer to reparations should be simple: no chance.
The Secretary of State responsible for the media has quit X — along with her department — because of what she says is the spread of misinformation, dubbing the platform a danger to democracy.
Despite professing to be a champion of free speech, Lisa Nandy also turned off comments on her post.
Lisa Nandy has served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in the most authoritarian government in modern British history.
If she truly believes in free speech, was she not concerned that around 30 people a day are arrested for allegedly “offensive” social media posts? Why was she in the House of Commons only last week spearheading government plans to dictate what content citizens see online?
And if Lisa Nandy cares so deeply about democracy, why was she so quiet when the Government sought to cancel a significant proportion of this year’s local elections?
Most concerning of all, Lisa Nandy — a close ally of our next Prime Minister, Andy Burnham — would, if she remains in post, likely be the minister charged with leading the Government’s campaign against Britain’s free press, acting on the wishes of Burnham and Hugh Grant.
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has said: “DCMS is supposed to counter and deal with misinformation, not run away because it’s all too much.”
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