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[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

@neso_energy and @FintanSlye_neso continue to astonish with their sheer ineptitude

You know you have multiple whistleblowers yet you think nothing of spouting such nonsense knowing there's a good chance the whistleblowers will repeat it because their concern appears to be that NESO management is more focused on PR than running the grid securely

How stupid do you have to be to keep blatantly doing the thing the whistleblowers were complaining about in the first place?

In any case, @ofgem has just announced it's going to investigate system security over the late June period, so let's see if Ofgem agrees that cutting exports to the Netherlands without their prior knowledge or consent is consistent with safe operation of the grid

Let's see if that aligns with agreed operational procedures

NESO already admitted yesterday that Corporate Affairs WAS involved in operational decisions. It said this made no difference, but admitted the media team wasn't just informed about operational decisions, it had "input" into them

How is THAT acceptable? What exactly does the PR team contribute to operational decision making? Are these people trained engineers? I doubt it so what do they contribute to these decisions?

I agree with @ClaireCoutinho that the control room staff do a vital job, and they do it well with outdated tools and apparently an unsupportive management. That they have kept the lights on despite demand forecasting that's a joke in the industry is amazing

But if the system is insecure this luck won't last. In a rapidly evolving grid, increasing parts of which the control room can't even see or communicate with this luck is likely to run out

I have written time and again of the problems...

* demand forecasting models not updated in "10-20 years"

* balancing tools (SORT) written in the 1980s, a literal relic of privatisation. A 2009 project to replace it was scrapped in 2024

* increasing amounts of solar and batteries on the low voltage grid which NESO cannot see or control... It has to try and guess what it's doing

* tens of thousands of balancing actions being taken per day when the automated tools that communicate these to power station control rooms (EDL/EDT) is also old and prone to outages. When it's offline instructions are made by phone... Imagine trying to instruct thousands of batteries by phone in real time when you have maybe 20 people in the control room!

Several people in the NESO control room have clearly decided the risks are so high they have gone outside all internal process and blown the whistle to the Shadow Secretary of State

The response of NESO, @Ed_Miliband and @mgshanks validates their approach

Claire Coutinho has promised not to let this go, as has @TiceRichard who also wrote to NESO with concerns about grid safety last month

@ofgem has weighed in saying it expects to be kept updated on the progress of the NESO investigation and that it is essential that engineers are able to speak to the external investigators without their managers knowing who said what

Otherwise we may find more whistleblowers coming forward

NESO and Fintan Slye need to stop fighting the PR battle and start asking why their own engineers think the grid isn't safe

Because I'd take the word of a control room engineer who's doing the job every day over the word of the CEO or comms team on engineering matters without any hesitation. The question is, why won't they?

@Ed_Miliband @ClaireCoutinho @AndrewBowie_MP @griffitha @NJ_Timothy @TiceRichard @DavidGHFrost @mattwridley @cmackinlay @Iromg @AllisonPearson @MerrynSW @EdConwaySky @mattotele @jonathan_leake @afneil @ofgem @energygovuk

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Shout out to all trans activists sharing the blacklist of women's and gay rights organisations published by @AmnestyUK! You're demonstrating very effectively that in spite of their hasty backtrack it can be easily accessed forevermore, increasing legal liability. Thank you!❤️

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

🚨 36 UNIVERSITIES BACK DOWN ON EDI JOB REQUIREMENTS AFTER SUSTAINED PRESSURE FRON ALUMNI FOR FREE SPEECH (AFFS)

This is a victory for free speech on campus, but revels the extent that university’s have ignored their duty to protect free speech on campus.

A new report by Alumni For Free Speech (AFFS) has found that 36 universities have remediated unlawful Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) requirements from their recruitment processes after sustained pressure. Another nine made partial improvements, meaning 45 universities changed their practices following intervention.

AFFS reviewed recruitment practices at 162 universities and higher education institutions. It found that 70 (43.2%) were requiring applicants to demonstrate their commitment to EDI or expected staff to promote EDI as part of their role — requirements that the Office for Students has made clear are likely to be unlawful and incompatible with free speech protections.

After AFFS contacted the institutions and, where necessary, reported them to the regulator, the OfS, 36 universities fully remediated, nine partially remediated, and the overall failure rate fell by 52.9%. However, 33 universities are still believed to be in breach of their free speech obligations, while 43 English universities were reported to the Office for Students after failing to act.

Particularly concerning is that 17 universities identified as failing in 2025 were still failing in 2026, despite the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 now being in force and clear regulatory guidance from the OfS. Four Russell Group universities — Birmingham, Durham, Newcastle and UCL — received warnings in both years but continue to impose inappropriate requirements.

As William Mackesy of @AFFSUK put it:

“Universities have been warned so often: in the absence of another explanation, it is reasonable to assume that the worst offenders knew they were acting non-compliantly. Put briefly, it looks like they knew but still did this. This is very serious and should be causing management panic.”

No university should be demanding ideological conformity as a condition of employment. Academic appointments should be based on merit, not on whether applicants can demonstrate allegiance to contested progressive political beliefs.

This is an important reminder that robust regulation, public scrutiny and determined campaigning can make a real difference in defending free speech.

Read the report below 👇

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

You relied on an Emergency Instruction to the Netherlands on 23 June

That's a MANDATORY reduction in exports

Without their agreement

So stop telling us it's normal and secure. If you're cutting off exports to neighbouring countries WITHOUT their agreement then it's not reliable and resilient

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Should any of the women's organisations targeted by @AmnestyUK's recent 'anti-rights' blacklist wish to take legal action, applications can be made to the JK Rowling Women's Fund. https://t.co/iyohnrgVZN

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

I’m glad NESO have launched an investigation into my whistleblower's allegations about the events of 23rd June.

However, why is this not being run by Ofgem or the Department for Energy (who we’ve heard nothing from throughout)?

Who is setting the terms of reference? If it is NESO leadership and, for example, they restrict who is spoken to as part of the investigation, then that is deeply problematic.

ALL engineers in the control room must be interviewed, and any others who want to raise concerns should be able to do so in confidence.

There is still no denial that Corporate Affairs influenced decisions to stabilise the grid, nor that live documents with no audit trail are being used - both of which should have been easy to rule out.

All I want to see is for staff in the grid operator to be able to raise any concerns they might have and for those concerns to be addressed so we don't risk blackouts in this country.

If the difficult and important work they do is being made impossible by poor government policy or poor management, then we should know so we can fix those problems.

They do us a great service and they deserve to be listened to.

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

@ClaireCoutinho has posted this on LinkedIn...

If you work in the control room or anywhere else in the electricity system and you have concerns over the security of our electricity supplies it's NOT misconduct to approach a Member of Parliament with those concerns

Claire Coutinho appears to be pursuing these claims with vigour which is encouraging

Approaching @ofgem is also an option

Contact info for both are in the image below

[Safe Schools Alliance @SafeSchools_UK]

We were also libelled alongside @jk_rowling’s @beirasplace in this poorly researched & defamatory hit piece from disgraced former human rights charity @amnesty.

Firstly amnesty clearly know nothing about our group as they listed us a ‘gender critical’ group. We are not. We are a child #safeguarding group.

If Amnesty feel that standing up for child protection is ‘anti rights’ then we have a lot of questions regarding exactly what ‘rights’ Amnesty are advocating for.

We are aware that many people object to effective child safeguarding & that those that do will resort to slurs & name calling. This is nothing new & is to be expected.

We are not affiliated to any other group named in Amnesty’s disgraceful ‘briefing review’. Some of the other organisations we have never heard of. Those that we have heard of our understanding is that they campaign on issues such as women’s rights, Gay rights, Lesbian rights, free speech or like ourselves child protection. Hardly issues that any sensible person could interpret as ‘anti rights’.

We hope that one of the larger groups will be taking legal action.

The @ChtyCommission should also investigate but based on past experience we do not hold out much hope.

Once again when a child safeguarding organisation is being attacked & libelled like this it is further evidence that a #PublicInquiry is needed into the infiltration of safeguarding.

There are widespread systemic failures & public & professional understanding of what effective safeguarding actually entails is currently extremely poor.

The biggest right children have is the right to be protected by the adults in their society, particularly their parents.

#RestoreSafeguarding #Edutwitter #WomenEd

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

Finally, after nearly three years, the UN admits what Israel was warning:

Hamas is hijacking aid.

[David Banks @DBanksy]

Someone has been arrested in connection with the death of Ann Widdecombe - that means publishing anything, including posts on X, which risks seriously prejudicing a trial, is an offence. It also doesn’t help her friends and family in obtaining justice. Link in next post…

[Lord Miles @Lordmiles]

What I love about the British transport police is that you can message them about minorities and then they’ll come on the train in 5 mins and tell the wildlife to behave

[REM @empress_rem]

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[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Tatchel, who approves of adults having sexual encounters with children, should be ostracised

Until he has listened to some of the victims of the Catholic Church

[Gay Men’s Network @MensNetwork1]

1/ Amnesty International chose to libel the Gay Men's Network as an "anti-rights" group along with several LBG organisations. We object to NGOs who espouse gender ideology misusing their formidable funding and influence in this fashion and we are seeking a formal apology.

[Michael Button @MichaelButtonX]

In 2015, ISIS captured Palmyra and demanded its head of antiquities reveal where the treasures were hidden.

He was 81 years old. He refused.

Khaled al-Asaad had spent over 50 years excavating and protecting Palmyra, the caravan city that once rivalled Rome in the Syrian desert.

He learned Aramaic to read its inscriptions. He raised his children among its ruins and named his daughter Zenobia, after its rebel queen.

Before the city fell, he helped evacuate hundreds of artefacts to safety. ISIS interrogated him for weeks to find them. But he gave them nothing.

They executed him in the square and left his body among the columns he had spent his life defending.

Archaeology is not a soft profession. Sometimes the people who guard the past die for it.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I have always admired the Buddhists.

It's noticeable how few of them are among the illegal immigrants

Perhaps it's because they like living in their own countries

Which are, of course. run by Buddhists

I think there's a lesson here somewhere

[Catherine McBride OBE @CeeMacBee]

This is a subsidy farm, not a solar farm.
Without government subsidies it would not be built.
Your taxes are subsidising farmland destruction.

[Rɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ Kᴇᴍᴘ ⋁ @COLRICHARDKEMP]

Gazans have been among the most obese populations in the world for many years, despite fake claims of starvation, ethnic cleansing & the rest against Israel.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

https://t.co/m3sP9zxj2T

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

I invite you to imagine how you would want our government to respond if a single rocket was fired into a neighborhood near you by an enemy sworn to kill you all. Now watch this video and remember it isn't rain you're seeing.