Melanie Young

Nottingham girl and master organiser. Independent woman, wife, Queen and music lover. Traveller, foodie and knowledge seeker. Ambitious and determined to rise

[Richard Seiler @richardseiler]

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦

Jeremy Clarkson has never pretended to be anything other than exactly what he is

Brutally honest. No oil painting. A pot belly, a lifelong smoker, a drinker. Not exactly the modern alpha male or is he?

And somehow that is the whole point

I have watched him for most of my life
First as a motoring journalist who could make you want a car you would never own and never need
Then as something bigger
The loudest, funniest, most unfiltered mouthpiece the ordinary person ever had
A man who said the thing everyone was thinking while the rest of television tiptoed around it

From Top Gear he built something that should not have worked
Three middle aged men, The Stig, a track and a chemistry you cannot manufacture
James May the patient one
Richard Hammond the brave one
And Clarkson the force of nature dragging both of them into chaos and somehow back out again

When it all fell apart at the BBC he could have disappeared
The fracas was not his finest hour and he never pretended it was
He owned it, apologized and carried on
No reinvention, no groveling tour, no carefully managed comeback
He just kept being himself and let the work speak

The move to Amazon and The Grand Tour proved something I think a lot of people missed
The format was never the magic
The men were
You can take three friends out of a studio and drop them anywhere on earth and the loyalty between them travels with them

But it is Clarkson's Farm where the whole picture finally comes into focus

Here is a man with nothing left to prove walking into a field he barely understands and refusing to fake competence he does not have
He has run that farm at break even and then at an outright loss in full public view
No editing it into a success story
No pretending the numbers work when they do not
His farm manager hands him one brutal truth after another and he sits there and takes it

A whole season swallowed by drought even after he leaned into robotics and the most advanced farming money could buy
Technology was supposed to be the answer and the weather did not care
He showed that too
Most people would have cut it

And through all of it he has done something quietly remarkable
He has dragged the plight of the British farmer into the light
The paperwork, the council, the margins that vanish, the weather that ruins a year of work in a week
People who had never thought about where their food comes from suddenly cared because he made them care

And then there is the part nobody warned me about
Men who raise animals for meat and still love them
Who name them, worry about them, sit with them
Who treat them with respect and dignity right up to the moment they cannot keep them
And feel the full weight of sending them off

He does not hide that
He lets the camera sit in the discomfort of it
The grief of a man who knows the deal he made and still finds it hard

That is not weakness
That is honesty most people are far too afraid to show

We live in an age that rewards the polished, the curated, the carefully built personal brand
And here is a scruffy, swearing, chain smoking farmer who has done the opposite of all of it and won
He stayed exactly who he was while the world begged him to become a product

That is the whole secret
There is no act
There never was

And that is exactly why we keep watching

Praying for a full recovery mate, looking forward to another season of Clarkson's Farms!

[BanksyCat @Banksycat]

UNBELIEVABLE. Your entire life sold to a billionaire and you never got a vote. DIGITAL ID. Blair brokered it, the King read it out like a shopping list, and 2.96 million of you signed a petition begging them not to. They read it, smiled, and did it anyway.

Here’s this COCKY IDIOT, smirking down the camera, telling you it's only what he was elected to do. The sheer NERVE.

They tried to force this in 2006 and the country threw it back. So they got clever. You don't force a leash on a country, you call it child safety and let them clip it on themselves. Optional, they say. Until the bank needs it. Until the job needs it. Until you can't buy milk without it. Optional the way a cliff edge is optional.

Embedded so deep that pulling it out takes the whole system down. Surviving every election. Every Prime Minister. Every one of you who never agreed to a word of it.

That's not a service. It's a LEASH. Heavy surveillance with a friendly logo, built to watch you, price you, and switch you off the second you say the wrong thing. Once it turns, it never turns back.

Now watch him smirk through it. FIVE times he stood there and said it's not possible. FIVE. Like a parrot that learned one phrase and mistook it for genius, reciting his greatest hits to a country that stopped clapping months ago, taking a bow in an empty theatre.

Wrong every time, he sneers. No, sunshine. Wrong about the boats. The bills. The borders. The only thing he's right about is how much he adores the sound of his own voice telling you he's right.

Watch what he's smirking THROUGH. The most despised Prime Minister this country has ever recorded. Ministers bolting for the door. MPs begging him to leave. A man waist deep in his own wreckage, straightening his tie for the cameras.

He was elected to serve this country. Not gift-wrap your private life and post it to the highest bidder who filled Blair's pockets fastest.

A landslide, he calls it. Won on barely a third of the vote, the emptiest mandate in living memory, worn like a crown God lowered onto his head.

Biggest NHS drop in 17 years, he beams. For ONE month. While 7.3 million still rot on the list.

Highest growth in the G7, he says. For ONE quarter. The next month it shrank. Funny how he forgot that bit.

Then everything he left off the brochure. TEN things not one of you voted for. Not one in his manifesto.

Winter fuel torn off ten million pensioners. Biggest tax raid since 1993. The thresholds Reeves swore she'd never freeze, frozen. Energy bills up after he promised cuts. The family farm tax. WASPI women promised the earth, handed a shrug. Grooming inquiry sat on six months. Post offices for the chop. Chagos given away.

And the tenth, buried deepest. Digital ID, held up behind the children like a human shield, because who argues with protecting kids. Then they vote to come for your VPN, the one tool that let you slip the net, and bolt the last door behind you.

Here's the punchline that should make your blood boil. Australia tried this exact ban. Months later the children strolled straight through it. It didn't protect ONE child. It was never built to. The children were never the point. The contract was.

Blair gets richer. Ellison gets richer. Then they plug it into Europe so the same machine prints money across a continent. Every regime that ever pulled this used the same excuse. China. Russia. North Korea. Protect the people. Then own them.

The children were never the target. They were the costume. You were never protected. You were harvested, and told to say thank you.

So watch him smirk and call it a mandate. It was never a mandate. It's the biggest robbery in plain sight this country has ever seen, dressed up as the will of the people and sold back to you as kindness.

Once it turns, it never turns back.

[WasAcop @WasAcop]

🚨VPNs to be forced to collect digital id data🚨

UK Labour government is pushing draconian digital control under the guise of “child safety.”

The House of Lords amendment now forces VPN providers to implement highly effective age assurance (ID checks, biometrics, etc.) to block under-18s from using consumer VPNs.

This comes right as they announce a full social media ban for under-16s — with further “VPN restrictions” due in July.

They’re turning privacy tools into surveillance gateways.

Digital ID-style verification creeping in everywhere.

This isn’t protection. It’s overreach.

Proof:
• Lords amendment text: https://t.co/qhZ0z3nKxR
• Lords vote & details: https://t.co/3Hv4zDaeob
• Liz Kendall on July VPN update + social media ban: https://t.co/4r67cC24JO
Wake up before it’s too late.

[Fiona Rose Diamond @CoviLeaks]

Look closely at what the government is promising you here (published 15th June). They claim that if your account is over 16 years old, you are safe from the dragnet. But then comes the casual, insidious trap: if you do have to prove your age, they say it will be 'as simple as a facial recognition check.'

Do not let that soft language fool you. 'As simple as a face scan' means surrendering the unchangeable, mathematical architecture of your human identity.

Here is the brutal reality: this is a biometric harvesting operation masquerading as child safety. Your biometrics - your face, your irises, your unique biological signature - are the most sensitive pieces of data you possess. If a password leaks, you reset it. If your biometric blueprint is hacked, leaked, or scraped into a government database, your identity is compromised for life. They are normalising the idea that you must scan your body just to access the public square. It is the ultimate blueprint for a permanent digital cage.

Once your biological data is stored in their centralised databases (which it will be) your privacy is dead forever. You aren't just logging into an app - you are voluntarily handing over the keys to a corporate and state surveillance engine.

An app-level 'under 16s ban' is universally recognised by security experts as unpoliciable and structurally broken.

Following the mass backlash from tech companies, the UK government reconsidered its stance... But this is what they're not telling you - something we have warned you about for years.

The UK Gov already appointed an expert panel to 'fast-track' a national, official Digital ID scheme earlier this year, that will (despite their current lies) eventually serve as the master credential to 'solve the problem' with an unenforceable 'under 16s social media ban.'

It has NEVER been about Children's safety. Ever. So, to coerce compliance of all UK adults, we will soon see the beginning of another textbook manufactured crisis.

Do not be fooled by the ongoing political theatre. The predictable failure of this ban is completely by design. As the system intentionally glitches, the media will flood the headlines with weaponised fear - amplifying stories of online horror and grooming to rile up panicked parents.

Once again, they are engineering a crisis of fear so severe that the public will ultimately beg for the exact Digital ID grid they would have otherwise rejected.

Cast your mind back to September 2025: 'mass illegal migration' didn't work as an excuse for Digital ID, did it? So the Epstein Class now use Children's safety as the excuse.

By wrapping the digital credential inside the emotionally charged issue of child safety, dissent is effectively silenced. Anyone arguing against the tracking framework is politically painted as being against child protection.

https://t.co/0I7TNOXtJq

[Melanie Young @XxMELLxX]

Exactly this! And the Government want our most personal information submitted for a Digital ID. I can see people just stop using social media as to confirm people are under 16 means surveilling everyone

[Laila Cunningham @policylaila]

My 17-year-old daughter:
“I’m confused. We’ve always been taught not to share personal information or anything that identifies us online because it isn’t safe. Now they want us to do exactly that to access social media.”

[WasAcop @WasAcop]

🚨Labour confirms ID requirement at device level - VPNs useless.🚨

By forcing Apple and Google to verify age at the device level during phone setup…

Keir Starmer’s government isn’t protecting kids — it’s building a surveillance infrastructure.

The OS itself will restrict platforms like TikTok, Instagram and X, making VPNs largely useless because the block happens before any traffic leaves your phone.

🚨Once every device carries a verified age profile, authorities gain an easy route to identify users through legal requests to tech firms.

This is digital ID by the back door, sold as child safety.

Classic Labour: expand state control first, ask questions later.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

https://t.co/Ca4aMkAZqw

[PotatoRustler @PotatoRustler]

🚨 For anyone tracking the under-16 social media bans in Canada and the UK, you might have noticed the government suddenly walking back some specific wording.

They backed off forcing you to upload credit cards or facial scans because of the public backlash, and now they’re pushing a "backend token system". It sounds less intrusive on the surface, but here is the truth about what that actually means, because most people are being completely misled by that marketing:

A cryptographic token isn't a magic, anonymous poker chip. To work, a token has to be anchored to something verified. That means your physical device, your phone carrier contract, or your real identity is permanently tethered to that token.
Every single time your phone throws that token to let you log into an app, it logs exactly who you are, where you are, and what you're doing.

It isn't a privacy shield to protect kids. It's a digital passport that tracks an adult's every move across the internet.

[Melanie Young @XxMELLxX]

@DrSdeG Please never stop fighting. They want you to give up and be worm down. We need doctors to speak out as those in the profession know better than anyone. You are appreciated. Keep going

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

The government said the Online Safety Act was about protecting children. We were called conspiracy theorists for saying it wasn’t!

Well er … Ofcom is writing to platforms about “crisis situations”, civil unrest and enhanced moderation measures. (Blocking posts they don’t like)

Children aren’t mentioned once. NOT ONCE.

The problem isn’t removing genuine incitement to violence. The real problem is that unelected regulators will pressure platforms to decide what millions of ADULTS can and cannot see whenever a “crisis” is declared.

many platforms will remove perfectly lawful content rather than risk the punishment of Ofcom.

Read the letter for yourself. Link in the thread.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇬🇧 Not to alarm anyone, but the UK wants to scan every photo, video, and message on your phone before it's encrypted.

Tech CEOs who refuse to comply face up to 5 years in prison.

They're calling it a safety measure. It isn't. Pre-encryption scanning means governments can see everything before you've even sent it, and they can expand what gets flagged whenever they want.

The track record here is brutal. Europe's age verification app was hacked in under 2 minutes. Over 70,000 IDs and selfies were exposed in a separate breach.

These are the people who want access to every device in the country.

Once the infrastructure exists, no government in history has ever chosen to use less of it.

Source: CSOOnline / Writer: Jamie

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

This really worries me

A month ago in Wales I suffered a ruptured aneurysm in my abdomen. I lost over 2 units of blood

But the Welsh ambulance service refused to send an ambulance. I was still breathing so apparently didn't need one

I spent 7 hours lying on the ground in a car park. Every time I moved I threw up from the pain. The owners of the car park called 999 6x

One of the people there was a fireman. He couldn't believe that 999 treated each call as a separate incident and couldn't see the details or link to previous calls. He was frustrated because they could see I was seriously ill but you can't see internal bleeding and so there was no way to persuade 999 that it actually was an emergency

Eventually my husband arrived by taxi, journey of more than 3 hours from our home

He gave me my pain meds (the car park people were worried about liability and I was too ill to get them myself). This meant I was able to crawl into the car and he drove me to A&E

He got me into a wheelchair. We waited 75 minutes to see a doctor. I was shivering, heaped with blankets and threw up all over the floor

As soon as a doctor looked at me I was taken straight to resus. The next day I was transfered by blue light ambulance to another hospital, had a blood transfusion and spent 5 days on the high dependency unit

If my husband hadn't been able to come and look after me I have no idea how I would have survived. As it was I nearly didn't

I would not have been able to get myself to hospital nor would I have been able to log into some digital triage system

This scheme seems to assume if you're seriously ill you'll arrive by ambulance and if not you're well enough to navigate a digital portal

My experience suggests that's a dangerous assumption

A week later, back home in England I had another ruptured aneurysm. This time an ambulance came in 2 hours and again I was taken straight to resus

It wasn't the same because I had a recent diagnosis of a ruptured aneurysm so we could tell 999 I was almost certainly bleeding internally. But I was too ill to get myself down the stairs and out to the car. We still needed that ambulance and I still wouldn't have been able to fiddle around with an ipad

Proper triage REQUIRES an actual doctor to look at the patient. It takes a matter of minutes to differentiate between a life threatening emergency and not a life threatening emergency. That's not minutes to get a diagnosis but to know that the person is stable or not stable and if not that needs immediate attention

Seriously ill people can't do it themselves. It doesn't matter how smart or articulate they are normally. Or how tough. Expecting people to manage their own emergency care isn't what a modern health service should do

https://t.co/RMi7L44fUy

[Melanie Young @XxMELLxX]

This is so sad. The arts must be protected. That space in schools is just as important as academic subjects

[Tes magazine @tes]

Entries for A-level music have plummeted to a record low, data has shown, with the government warned that it could ‘disappear from schools altogether’ if the trend continues
https://t.co/6ivYHsHEsM

[@medicalmodelwithabriochebun @medicalmodelbri]

3 GPs suspended from the @gmcuk register and their GP practice registration cancelled by @CareQualityComm due to serious patient safety concerns .

❌APs working out of scope

❌PAs not managing care or advising patients appropriately - not picked up by the GP

[Doctors.net.uk @Doctors_net_uk]

The British Medical Association has urged the new health secretary to intervene over the “unsafe and dangerous substitution of doctors” by advanced practitioners. https://t.co/OLY4ZUMo3m

[the woodlander @thewoodlander1]

Whilst we were distracted, the groundwork for our AI control grid has slowly been growing. The map below shows Data Centers in Britain. Each one of these data centres use up to 5 million gallons of water per day and enough energy to supply 50,000 homes.

[Jim Ferguson @JimFergusonUK]

🚨 ON AMERICA NOW: IS BRITAIN BECOMING THE TESTING GROUND?

I joined Ben Swann to discuss the UK's controversial Digital ID plans — and why many fear they could become the foundation for a system of surveillance, censorship and financial control.

What starts in one Western nation rarely stays there.

We discussed:

▪️ Digital ID
▪️ Free speech crackdowns
▪️ CBDCs and programmable money
▪️ Government surveillance
▪️ 15-minute cities
▪️ Agenda 2030

If governments can link your identity, finances, movement and online activity into a single system, who controls your future?

This debate is no longer about convenience.

It's about freedom.

Watch and decide for yourself.

@BenSwann_ @Truth_InMedia

[Melanie Young @XxMELLxX]

How sad 😔

[Cat @catdeans]

This is awful. The last ever Denby Pottery going to the kiln. Why is there not uproar? Where’s the government in this?? We all have Denby in our homes, in family heirlooms, as our history and now it’s closing through lack of support, such a sad sad day. #SaveDenby @denbypottery

[The BMA @TheBMA]

We've written to the Secretary of State and NHS England CEO calling for urgent action to address unsafe doctor substitution by employers.

The letter comes in the wake of our survey report revealing doctors' serious concerns over patient safety. 🔗 https://t.co/tqhjxqUQU6

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

And now the media finally report the news that the UK is a slave to the UN Agenda 2030.

No citizen was given a vote on the most expansive and destructive societal change in our history. It’s considered decided!

Only we didn’t decide … they did 💣

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

If this isn’t the front page of the newspapers tomorrow, I’ll eat my hat.

Despicable Labour 🥀