Ian Johnston 🗽

@VIBUK1
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Pro vaccination (with proper risk assessment)
Company Director, IT bod, data analyst and problem-solver

[Polly @Polly778899]

@AllisonPearson Pretty obviously because international aid devotees George and Alex Soros pull the strings of Labour.

All Labour's main policies are the same as Soros' policies which is why Liz Truss said Soros captured Britain!

[Martin Beckford @martinbeckford]

Kitty Ussher gets a peerage - she had to quit as a Treasury minister when I revealed she had avoided £17,000 in Capital Gains Tax by temporarily changing her main residence

[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

Edward is a brave boy who lives with SMA Type 1 in Clacton. After receiving life-saving treatment, he requires ongoing care and support to live a normal life.

Today, Dan, James, Mark and Grace are running a half marathon from Clacton Pier to Walton Pier to help fund the treatment that Edward needs.

If you’re able to, please donate using the link below. Every donation makes a difference.

[The Spectator @spectator]

How is he going to reverse those 40 years of deindustrialisation? Taking industries back into state ownership, as happened to British Steel yesterday?

If he wants to reindustrialise Britain he is quickly going to have to learn that the rest of the world is not going to give up on neoliberalism; he is going to find himself trying to prop up industries which are battling against lean and mean competitors (as well as ones which are not bogged down by the sky-high energy prices delivered by the government's net-zero policies, of which he said nothing, other than he doesn't want to 'out green the Greens').

Burnham's wife is famous for having appeared on an episode of Blind Date, in which she chose a wrong 'un with whom she turned out to be hopelessly incompatible: a man in dungarees Cilla Black called 'Andy Pandy'.

Britain is in much the same place now: on a blind date with Andy Pandy.

✍️ Ross Clark

Article | https://t.co/6CQBLVujWw | @RossjournoClark

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

🚨 Andy Burnham has made his Director of Political Strategy a man campaigning to reinstate the British citizenship of the Rochdale Monster - Shabir Ahmed.

Matthew McGregor is not only a former Director of Hope not Hate, he is currently a Trustee of a charity actively campaigning for the reinstatement of all citizenships revoked since 2010.

Including the Rochdale Monster - Shabir Ahmed - the Pakisitani national convicted of raping 30 girls as young as 12. 

including the ISIS beatles.

including other terrorists and Rochdale grooming gang rapists.

No wonder Jeremy Corbyn says he is “suspiciously optimistic” about Burnham.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

We live on a largely pleasant, yet historically cool world, where average temperatures hover around 15C.

This current baseline includes the 1.4C rise since the start of the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago. We are rarely reminded Earth's climate is roughly 10 degrees 'colder' than the long-term global average of 18C to 26C across hundreds of millions of years.

A warmer climate would not be a crisis, and never has across the history of biological life.

Humans and our unique, symbolism-based culture evolved against this cooling, drying backdrop of the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, which has lasted 34 million years since the glaciation of Antarctica. We are currently in its coldest phase — the Quaternary glaciation — which has endured for 2.58 million years.

Almost all human civilisation - and our acute sense of modernity - arrived during a brief, 11,700-year warm interglacial oasis known as the Holocene. This demonstrates that we are an 'ice age adapted' species, as are all modern mammals. Yet the current climate crisis is built around an institutional dogma, which ignores this vast geological history, operating as if the earth works just like a greenhouse, which it doesn't.

It's all complex. While orbital cycles dictate the 'macro' climate epochs of the Earth over millennia, the current debate focuses entirely on the 'micro' trend of the last 250 years. Our planet is constantly responding to the orbital aberrations identified by Milutin Milanković.

Over the short term, this changeability comes from natural variability in solar radiance, ocean currents, atmospheric water vapor and volcanic activity; over the deeper long term, it is guided by the ponderous tectonic creaking of continental plates.

The world's oceans, water vapor and clouds contribute 50% to 70% of atmospheric warming. The geological record reveals that only after the oceans — especially the Southern Ocean — have warmed for centuries does dissolved CO₂ outgas from the deep waters, a process unfolding over 5,000 to 10,000 years.

To focus exclusively on a trace gas like CO₂ is to ignore the true scale and power of these natural systems. Furthermore, the narrative completely missed the biological utility of this gas: NASA satellite data has shown a significant increase in global green foliage over recent decades, largely driven by elevated CO₂ levels acting as an airborne fertiliser. This green wave, alongside booming global agriculture, was entirely unanticipated by backers of the crisis agenda.

Today, this narrative runs directly counter to thermodynamic reality: we simply cannot run a modern economy without high-density fossil fuels, a baseline power that wind and solar cannot replicate.

To pretend otherwise is to forget our place in the natural world, where we live largely by chance, and only as invited guests — not as Overlords.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Yes taxpayers, last night Labour really did decide to give Pakistan £153 MILLION in aid! … because they struggle with getting their own citizens to pay tax!

And they did this even though Pakistan has refused to take back a grooming gang boss saying it’s our own fault 🤡

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Starmer’s final u-turn.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Keir Starmer — ever a man of his word til the end.
In June 2023 he explicitly ruled out ever indulging in a resignation honours list (BBC Radio 4 Today).
Today he’s marked his resignation with 21 peerages, overwhelmingly public-sector/legal jobsworths. Barely a single wealth creator among them.
Classic line up of the New Establishment which has run the country under Labour and Tory governments for the past three decades and is now firmly in control. Largely (if not entirely) with the following characteristics:
*Career almost entirely in public sector, often taking salaries from several sinecures at once as they work up the greasy taxpayer-funded pole.
*Associated with various ‘right-on’ causes.
*Largely middle class, London chattering class, Oxbridge well represented (of course).
*Fashionable left but not too left. Good mainstream Labour links.
Thus is the antediluvian House of Lords perpetuated by the Left as well as the Right as a comfortable state-funded retirement home for the well-connected ‘good and great’ past their sell-by date — when it should simply be abolished.

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

They need to stop giving our money away.

[Kate Hoey @CatharineHoey]

This is just so shocking I don’t recall the BBC allowing anyone on their programme a few days after the terrible murder of Jo Cox to criticise her political or religious views

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

The “hate” against Reform has been propagated by Ed Davey, David Lammy (“Nazis”), Keir Starmer and every MP in the Commons who jeers and drowns out Farage when he tries to speak.
The entire political and media class has blood on its hands.

[Dr Clare Craig @ClareCraigPath]

Every cancer patient needs to be shouting loudly about this.

Write to your MPs, journalists anyone you know with any kind of platform.

Mass medication crosses an ethical red line.

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Andy Burnham left Greater Manchester £1.34 billion in the red – the highest debt of any combined authority in England, analysis shows. https://t.co/2RE01e8KeW

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Right then … as Ross Clark points out, the claim that 2,700 people were killed by the heat is bollocks. (Technical term)

It was presented as an actual death toll. It wasn’t. It was a modelling exercise and er.… not actual mortality

UKHSA found NO excess mortality during the May heatwave.

And in the 2 published ONS weeks covering most of June’s heatwave, death registrations were actually 918 BELOW expected.

But the hysterical headlines pushed the narrative as if it was fact. As always, question everything.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

When the Government announced its social media ban for under-16s, it published an indicative list of platforms that included Facebook, Instagram and X.

BlueSky was nowhere to be seen. The Government has since rowed back, insisting that it was only an indicative list.

We think it is more than a coincidence that these perceived centre-right platforms were included from the outset, while the left-leaning platform was omitted.

In Australia, where this Government borrowed the idea for the ban, BlueSky was not on the list. In typical fashion, however, it has since volunteered to be included.

Once Ofcom has finalised the regulations, we will have a clearer idea of what qualifies a platform for the ban.

In the latest episode of the FSU Podcast, Lord Young argues that the initial decision not to include BlueSky points to something quite alarming: that this is a selective ban.

The problem with a selective ban is whether Ofcom can genuinely be trusted to make politically impartial decisions that do not benefit the Government of the day.

That concern is particularly pertinent at the moment, given that the Government is pushing through legislation to give 16-year-olds the vote.

Watch the full episode of the FSU Podcast on the FSU YouTube channel 👇

[Matt Ridley @mattwridley]

Just as with David Amess and Jo Cox, they quickly try to turn this terrible tragedy into an excuse for more censorship online.

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

If Andy Burnham wants to overhaul our electoral system, he either needs to fight an election in which PR is front and centre of the manifesto or hold a referendum. To do it without doing either of those things would be a constitutional outrage.

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

"Oxford scientists debunk claims '2,700 people died in heatwaves' - 'Where are these heat deaths?"

Climate change is a con.

https://t.co/pKVHO1z3sF

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey said the biggest threat to UK was not Russia or Iran but Reform UK.

Such irresponsible (blatantly absurd) demonisation of Nigel Farage’s party could stir up hatred in impressionable young men online,

Was dear Reformer Ann Widdecombe a victim of “online hate” spread by hysterical, poisonous progressives?

If so the self-righteous left has a lot to answer for.