God Save The King

[God Save The King @TrespassingAL]

The UK national debt has officially surpassed £3 trillion for the first time. And the Prime Minister is doing this !!
#Labour #AndyBurnham

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham will appear on Channel 4’s Goggle Box tomorrow night with Liverpool Mayor Steve Rotheram

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham will appear on Channel 4’s Goggle Box tomorrow night with Liverpool Mayor Steve Rotheram

[Paul Cox @PaulCoxComedy]

In a truly extraordinary attempt to rewrite history, Andy Burnham denies his own words while simultaneously throwing the left-wing commentariat under the bus.

There’s just one rather inconvenient problem: he was filmed saying them.

Extraordinary stuff.

[Susan Hall AM @Councillorsuzie]

We don’t have a First Lady. We didn’t vote for Burnham. All very unsatisfactory

[God Save The King @TrespassingAL]

The Archbishop of Canterbury should resign. @ArchbishopSarah
@churchofengland

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

🚨 Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally is facing calls for her resignation after being forced to rescind an award, given on the anniversary of 9/11, to a Muslim cleric who praised Bin Laden

[RedWave Press @RedWavePress]

Bill Maher: “I know why you’re happy today. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are going back to England. *Crowd Cheers* I tell you that ICE doesn’t f*ck around, huh?”

“This was Harry’s idea he just wants to be closer to the family that’s not speaking to him.”

[God Save The King @TrespassingAL]

@BorisJohnson No.

The prodigal son in the Bible was truly sorry for all his past wrongdoing.

[Neil O'Brien @NeilDotObrien]

Deeply dishonest piece by the Chancellor of Cambridge.
The quote below summarises the broken culture - where "be kind" vibes, conformity and safetyism are now more important than truth or knowledge.
- The exact culture that caused this tragedy.

[Steven Edginton @StevenEdginton]

I consumed (nearly) all of the BBC’s coverage of Jason Arday, dating back six years.

What I found was extraordinary: years of uncritical interviews, repeated nonsense claims, and, once Arday was caught out, a broadcaster that chose to ignore the story, then double down on its favourite black academic.

I’ve documented it all for The Spectator.
https://t.co/DAcNEVyQK6

[Professor Alice Sullivan @ProfAliceS]

It is utterly irresponsible of Diane Abbott MP to smear academics for raising concerns about plagiarism and academic fraud.

[Committee for Academic Freedom @ComAcFreedom]

STATEMENT: The Committee for Academic Freedom (CAF) was troubled to see academics smeared from the stage at last night’s vigil for Jason Arday in Trafalgar Square.

As reported by several national media outlets, Diane Abbott MP claimed that “other professors” had waged a three-year “vicious campaign” against Arday because they “just didn’t believe that a black man should be a Cambridge professor”.

That is a serious, categorical imputation of racist motive, and those familiar with the controversy could reasonably have understood Abbott’s remarks as referring to a small, identifiable group of academics known to have raised concerns about Arday’s work.

Unfortunate though it is to revisit those events at such a desperately sad moment, we feel obliged to restate what the factual record — much of it established publicly long before Abbott’s remarks — shows about one of those academics whom CAF is supporting.

David Harris, Professor Emeritus at Plymouth Marjon University, first raised concerns about Arday’s doctoral thesis and subsequent peer-reviewed publications in May 2023. A sociologist with a longstanding interest in how ideas from the critical theory tradition are used in empirical educational research, Harris encountered Arday’s work amid the publicity surrounding his appointment as Professor of Sociology of Education at Cambridge two months earlier.

Harris privately raised concerns with Arday about what he called “puzzling similarities” in reported data, repeated passages and possible failures of attribution. His covering email concluded simply: “I would welcome any response.”

This was not, in other words, a “vicious campaign”, but an emeritus professor engaging closely with another scholar’s published work, identifying apparent problems and asking that they be examined. Several of Harris’s concerns subsequently resulted in corrections to Arday’s published work.

When it emerged last month that Arday had reported Harris to the police for harassment, CAF warned of the chilling effect of invoking the law against awkward scholarly criticism, exposing academics who test published claims or raise questions about research integrity to allegations of criminal wrongdoing and prolonged police investigation.

That same chilling effect arises when Harris’s scholarly scrutiny is retrospectively recast by a senior parliamentarian as racial animus before a large public gathering and amplified through the media.

The scholarly community has traditionally governed its own standards, and its ability to continue doing so depends upon academics being free to ask difficult questions about one another’s work, even where those questions may prove embarrassing or reputationally damaging. Without that freedom, the processes through which scholarship corrects itself and academic standards are maintained cannot properly function.

In those circumstances, CAF will be writing to Ms Abbott asking her to withdraw or correct her remarks and making clear the seriousness with which we regard them. Should those remarks cause him serious professional or reputational harm, including any loss of academic title, status or institutional privileges, we will ensure that he receives appropriate specialist advice on any legal remedies that may be available to him.

[God Save The King @TrespassingAL]

Do you realise how unpopular you are, Keir Starmer? Just resign.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

I’ll always champion peaceful protest. But the Unite the Kingdom march organisers are peddling hatred and division.

We’ve already blocked visas for far-right agitators who want to come here to spew their extremist views.

They don't speak for the decent, fair, respectful Britain I know.

[God Save The King @TrespassingAL]

Wes Streeting's resignation letter is so long. #Labour

[God Save The King @TrespassingAL]

Lol. And so sad for the country.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

I must confess to having underestimated Keir Starmer. Thumped in Thursday’s elections, this weekend he turns to Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman to rejuvenate his government with young, fresh blood. A stroke of pure genius. I foresee a second Starmer landslide come the next general election. Respect, sir.

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

UK Politics is in the gutter. How can The Prime Minister be allowed to lie so openly in Parliament ?

#PMQs

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Rachel Reeves wanted her Budget for Benefits Street so badly, she lied about the OBR’s forecasts so she could justify breaking her promise not to raise tax on working people.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

It now turns out that Rachel Reeves had been briefing blatant lies for months.

She misled the public & the markets about a £20billion black hole in the public finances that didn't actually exist.

Disgraceful deception by the Chancellor after breaking election promises.

Resign.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Yet more evidence, as if we needed it, that the Chancellor must be sacked. For months Reeves has lied to the public to justify record tax hikes to pay for more welfare.

Her Budget wasn’t about stability. It was about politics: bribing Labour MPs to save her own skin. Shameful.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

How did Britain end up in this moral abyss?
* Abortion up to birth
* Elderly, mortally sick and disabled encouraged to put themselves to death
* Chemical castration trials on children to check whether chemical castration of kids is harmful.
Satanic.

[Chris Dod @ChrisDod1]

What on earth is going on at the BBC. Apart from falling apart! The coverage from the National Memorial Arboretum was awful! Wobly main camera and the commentator nattering away just before the silence. Even referring to the Princess of Wales as Kate Middleton! #Armisticeday