I get rugged by this. It’s the only app that I trust. But she absolutely should. The spiralling embarrassment of being a U.K. citizen is palpable now and it will take legitimate technologies leaving us in the dark ages to demonstrate how regressive and foolish these policies are.
The UK government spyware demand means that the government decides exactly what should be censored on every mobile device. They say they will start with nude pictures (if you don’t identify yourself as an adult). But it could at any time be expanded to anything the government disapproves of. Today, 30 people are arrested every day in the United Kingdom for writing something online that the government classifies as "grossly offensive". It is obvious that they will use this tool to restrict free speech.
Currently, there appears to be no requirement to report findings outside the device. However, with both legal and technological decision-making power taken away from individuals and transferred to the government, that is only a pen stroke away.
This means that the government could also use this system for total mass surveillance.
And they can do so in secret.
The government recently, in secret, tried to pressure Apple (which is now agreeing to client-side scanning) to build backdoors into its end-to-end encrypted cloud service. They can do this under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, also known as the "Snoopers' Charter" – a law that makes it illegal for tech companies to disclose secret demands from the government.
I am deeply grateful for the trust President Trump placed in me and for the opportunity to lead @ODNIgov for the last year and a half.
Unfortunately, I must submit my resignation, effective June 30, 2026. My husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. He faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months. At this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle.
Whoever replaces Starmer will fail.
Just as the Conservatives failed.
You can’t build a country on low growth, low productivity, high tax, high welfare, high inflation and heavy regulations.
It’s basic math - you materially make the lives of the majority worse.
Reform, Greens, whoever else wants the gig - you will face the same.
Until someone defeats the managerial state, nothing will improve and we’ll have more PMs than Tottenham has managers.
Since Brexit we’ve been unable to sustain a PM for more than a couple of years.
The circus is ungovernable.
Not helped by a political media clique that, emboldened by social media, thinks its job is to start a ticking clock on a PM’s downfall the second they start.
Grim.
I think a huge part of the reason why no government has been able to enact difficult pro-growth reforms is that the average voter still believes we remain a rich country.
You hear this in politicians’ rhetoric “the sixth richest country in the world”.
We’re the sixth largest economy but now far from the richest. Per capita we’re tanking down the rankings.
One of the reasons why Poland or China have been able to have growth miracles in recent years is they think like a developing country.
They know they were poor and they have to build to get rich.
We think we are rich and that we don’t have to build anything anymore, or that when we do, it has to be the most expensive possible version of what we build.
Bat tunnels. Fish Discos. Kittiwake hotels.
We think we’re rich so we can afford to chase some wealth creators away, afford to mandate public biodiversity net gain on every development in the country, and afford to ratchet up state pension spending five times faster than the rate of growth in the economy.
We’re suffering from acute ‘rich country delusion’.
It’s only once we realise we’re far poorer than we should be that we can start to fix this nonsense.
He’s the peak liberal. Arrives at the obvious conclusion years after demonising those who called it out before him. But then acts like he came to the conclusion all on his own at the “right” time
people need to go to jail for this because what do you mean Britain is intentionally concealing and smuggling weapon parts through a country that has banned arms exports to Israel and how is this not a major international incident
Are yall seeing how crazy it’s getting? ISRAEL tweeting about Ye banned from headlining a festival. People don’t realize while they’re upset at Ye’s “antisemtsm” they’re actively siding with the country carrying out a genocide, the very same country that has conditioned you to believe his rants came out of nowhere. All while you have free Palestine in your bio and username. People need to wake up. ISRAEL are the new nazs. Israel is controlling festivals now, I hope Coachella enjoys this blood bathed cookie being thrown at them. Ye apologizing to a Rabbi, wanting to meet with Jewish communities, issuing apologies in Hebrew and in Wall Street Journal is still not enough. According to them, if you’re not zionist, you can fck off and die.
It's extraordinary how Israel can go on a murderous rampage and steal land from three different countries at the same time and our leaders will look you dead in the eye and say Iran is the rogue state in the region