Jacquie Thompson

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[Jacquie Thompson @Tommo100]

Loving #Lufc press conferences with these two. Couldn’t be bothered watching previous managers #alaw

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Then stop your government from hounding them in the courts.

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

Oh how stunning and brave to walk out on the Israeli PM. 🙄

National leaders that delegates chose NOT to walk out on at this week's UN General Assembly:

Masoud Pezeshkian, President of Iran - where 40,000 innocent civilian protesters were slaughtered in the street

Ahmed al-Sharaa, President of Syria - an Islamist terrorist who fought with Al Qaeda in Iraq

Emmerson Mnangagwa, President of Zimbabwe - accused of mass atrocities under Mugabe, including deaths of thousands in the 1980s

I wonder what it is about the Israeli PM that bothers them so much... 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Mike Gardner @mikegardner_wb]

In just two years Labour have hit us with over £64 billion in extra taxes & over £244 billion in extra borrowing - and they’ve squandered the lot with nothing to show for it.

Fancy thinking that the answer is more taxes and more borrowing.

The mind boggles.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Obama did ban Fox, and waged almost constant war against press freedom. You should so this one out, President @BarackObama .

[Think Beautiful @ThinkBeautiful_]

Imagine being 62 years old and writing a book about a 5 minute argument you had with your dead sister’s ex 29 years ago.

Meanwhile in that 29 years he has been married 3 times, had 3 divorces and ruined his relationship with his 4 adult children.

But apparently the 5 minute argument is what he still focuses on 🤔

I wonder why 💰💰💰

#charlesspencer #kingcharles

[Kirk Lubimov @KirkLubimov]

Canada as Associate Member of the EU?
Watch this, Canada‼️

Greek MEP Afroditi Latinopoulou:

"Ms Ursula von der Leyen, there is no greater racist against Europeans than you.

You flooded us with illegal migrants.

You suffocated us with taxes and bureaucracy.

You crushed our farmers.

You shutting down Europe's factories.

You destroyed the nuclear family.

You imposed on us the Green Agenda, the Green Madness, The Islamisation of Europe."

This is who Mark Carney is working on and the the ideologies he wants Canada to join.

[Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins]

Bstshit Bonkers Britain. Paloma Faith says Free Palestine to her young children each night. That’s right up there with Watch Out Wilf

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Hello, I’m Alastair Campbell and I lied to get this country into a war that cost 1000's of lives.

And I’m Rory Stewart, I believe the Pakistani grooming gangs are an irrelevant problem.

Watch our podcast to understand what views you should hold in order be a good person.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

No wealth tax anywhere in the world has ever generated anything like £25bn/year. It’s a fantasy.

[Michelle Dewberry @MichelleDewbs]

I barely even have words anymore when it comes to this stuff…(well I do, but they are no longer polite ones).

It is an absolute disgrace.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

🚨👀 NEW FSU BRIEFING: Misinformation about Misinformation

The British Government is preparing an apparatus of internet censorship without precedent in the modern era.

The Orwellian DCMS Green Paper proposes forcing social media algorithms to favour "trustworthy" state-approved sources. Labour's Lucy Powell wants platforms under broadcast-style duties of "accuracy and balance" during elections. The Government Office for Science wants a state-linked database of "false and misleading narratives" and official "prebunking" in schools.

None of this fell from the sky. It is the demand of a lobby, the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, co-founded by Sir Keir Starmer's former Chief of Staff, Morgan McSweeney, and the Foreign Office-funded Global Disinformation Index, whose members then sat as "expert" reviewers marking their own homework on the evidence for the policy they demanded.

That review cost taxpayers almost half a million pounds. It relied on AI-generated summaries of two hundred and twenty-eight papers nobody read, contained no climate scientist, economist, clinician, or epidemiologist, and grounded its central claim, that algorithms are "exclusively profit- and engagement-driven", on a single AI-synthesised paper from an institution ranked ten thousand three hundred and seventieth in the world.

The real evidence contradicts the panic. A Science study found flagged vaccine misinformation on Facebook drew just 0.3% of 2.7 billion views, while unflagged, accurate content had forty-six times the impact on hesitancy. A Nature synthesis put "fake news" at roughly 0.15% of the average American's media diet. Twitter's own researchers found no evidence of algorithmic bias toward extremes. Only 33% of adults think the BBC, the state's model of trustworthiness, is impartial.

Under this regime, questioning heat pump efficiency or electric vehicle range counts as "misinformation." Whoever controls the label controls the debate. Britain has not seen anything like this since the Star Chamber licensing decrees of 1637 under King Charles I. Milton's answer still stands: let truth and falsehood grapple, for truth's confuting is the best and surest suppressing.

Read the new report from FSU Director of Policy and Research @DavidRoseUK 👇

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Steve Reed tried to cancel the May elections for 5 million people. Reform stopped him in the courts.

He tried to abolish local councils. The Government backtracked facing certain defeat in the courts.

Now this, his nakedly partisan attempt to stop British citizens donating to Reform

On past performance this will also fail.

He’s already cost the taxpayer millions in legal fees for his failed schemes and tens of millions in needless prep for his cackhanded council reorganisations.

He’s been so dire that even Andy Burnham has had enough of him.

He’s one of many Labour MPs who’s more interested in saving their own skins than fixing the country.

[The AI Colony @TheAIColony]

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Here are 9 mind-blowing features you cannot afford to miss:

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Ministers want social media platforms placed under broadcast-style duties of "accuracy and balance" before elections, forcing government-approved "trustworthy" news into every feed while demoting everything else. Barely noticed by opposition or media, this is the most restrictive speech-control regime since Charles I.

The justification: that algorithms engineered to monetise outrage now threaten democracy itself. Repetition has made this narrative feel like fact. The evidence says otherwise. A 2024 Nature review led from the University of Michigan found exposure to misinformation is low on average and concentrated among a small fringe who actively seek it out.

"Untrustworthy" sites made up under 6% of news visits; "fake news" was roughly 0.15% of the average American's media diet. A 2023 Science experiment switched off Facebook and Instagram algorithms for tens of thousands of users. After three months, no measurable change in political attitudes, and the algorithms served less untrustworthy content than a plain chronological feed.

None of this appears in the Government Office for Science review commissioned to justify the crackdown. Its claim that algorithms are "exclusively" profit-driven rests on a single 2025 paper from a small private Indonesian institution ranked outside the world's top 12,000 universities. A freedom of information request revealed the review cost taxpayers just under £500,000.

Even the word "misinformation" is being stretched to cover dissent: questioning net zero timelines, heat pump efficiency, or electric vehicle claims now counts. The US Embassy has formally objected, warning that boosting "government-preferred media" would not be meaningfully different from removing disfavoured speech. In 1637, Charles I's Star Chamber controlled the presses. Now it is platforms. He failed.

As David Rose writes, “Charles I also hoped to stifle opposition and, of course, he failed. Now we are being asked to accept analogous curbs on free speech based on terrifying claims that are undermined by evidence the Government ignores”.

This Government is peddling misinformation about misinformation, and we will all suffer for it.

Read more from FSU Director of Policy and Research @DavidRoseUK In @Telegraph 👇

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

It was never a ‘stretch target.’ The manifesto promise came with no caveats. It only became a ‘stretch’ when it was clear they’d never hit it — not by a long chalk. Would be more honest just to admit that. But that’s not how politicians work. They think we can’t see their dissembling.
So let me do their work for them: there is no chance — no chance — Labour will build 1.5m new homes in England between 2024 and 2029. End of.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

When Quadrature Capital, a hedge fund based in the Cayman Islands, donated £4m to Labour, I don’t recall there being any calls for a donation cap.

I don’t recall it when the South African businessman, Gary Lubner, donated £11m either.

Why is that @AngelaRayner?

[Mike Gardner @mikegardner_wb]

It’s nauseating to listen to Rayner talk about “protecting democracy”.

Her party tried to stop millions of people voting in local elections and were only forced to backtrack by legal action.

Labour’s have made major changes to the law to help the unions who pay them millions of £s and have showered peerages around like confetti.

They don’t give a damn about democracy.

[Jacquie Thompson @Tommo100]

RT @kelvmackenzie: The outrage from Labour at Reform pocketing £72million from a couple of crypto guys makes me laugh.
Do you know how muc…

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Labour’s rules:

Lord Sainsbury donating £10 million to Labour = Fine.

Dale Vince donating £5 million to Labour = Fine.

Labour receiving £128m in donations since 2021 = Fine.

Labour spending £30m on its 2024 GE campaign = Fine.

Ben Delo donating £36m to Reform UK = Not ok. 🥴

[Darren Grimes @darrengrimes]

Ignore the media hysteria.
The money that has poured into Labour and the Conservatives far outstrips anything raised by Reform since its creation in 2021.