Janet Jackson

Detest the Tories. Desperately want back into the EU. Fully paid up member of the anti growth coalition and very, very woke.

[Hacked Off @hackinginquiry]

Just fyi @Nigel_Farage "Leveson" (1) has still not been implemented for national press and (2) would increase protections for public interest, investigative journalism. If we had "Leveson" we wld see less intruding into bereaved families and more investigations into powerful politicians. Not sure if that's what you're after

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Andy Burnham looks like he might cancel the NHS England contract with Palantir, they also have one worth 2.5x as much with the MoD.

RT if you want them both out of the UK.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Ed Davey tells a story of Reform UK activists telling a British Indian woman her passport would be "seized" if the party came to power

Starmer: "Racism and intolerance is permeating everywhere. We have to deal with it. It is tearing our society apart"

#PMQs

[Full Fact @FullFact]

A video claims to show massive crowds "shutting down London" to demand halal food standards.

But this supposed footage is AI-generated and entirely fake, despite hundreds of comments appearing to believe it’s genuine.
https://t.co/fgdW6YrUuD

[JmRoyle #LFC #YNWA #BLM #RejoinEU @MyArrse]

Mega poll shows ‘Vote Rejoin’ would win new EU referendum by 26-point margin.
Rejoin - 63%
Stay Out - 37%
https://t.co/Gcj07K0V44

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: Boris Johnson failed to declare to parliament a gift of private jet flights from the same cryptobillionaire, Christopher Harborne who gave £5m to Nigel Farage, leaked documents reveal.

New #HarborneReceipts investigation from @thenerve_news
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[YesCymru @YesCymru]

The Crown Estate made £200 million profit from its assets in Wales last year.

✅ 12% went to the Royal Family.
✅ 88% went to the UK Treasury.
❌ 0% came to Wales.

Not a single penny!

YesCymru has long campaigned for control of these assets to be transferred to Wales as happens in Scotland. Every Welsh council has voted in favour of the YesCymru led campaign, yet Tory and Labour UK governments have refused.

This is yet another example in a long list of Westminster ignoring Wales.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

We can be certain of one thing as a result of these catastrophic heat waves, we all need to fall in love with trees

[Theo Bertram @theobertram]

Misinformation about Andy Burnham's wife is now the most viral political story in the UK. How does a rumour that started in a local Facebook group in January 2022 become national misinformation?

Here's the anatomy of an online rumour.

[Gav 🏆🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Spurs_Optimist]

Interesting fact.

At no point was the summer of 1976 as hot as today. Not one weather station recorded temperatures of 36°c all summer. Not even in August.

Another interesting fact.

1976, if it happened in the last ten years, would be the coldest year in those 10 years.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Dear @EnvAgency.

In February this year, after 4 years of asking you to look after the Aldersbrook, I led a team of volunteers to do your job for you & clean out tonnes of silt & leaves, as well as hundreds of bags of rubbish. Through the effort of community volunteers & donations, & at zero cost to the taxpayer, we turned a forgotten silted up ditch back into a river again.

Last nights intense rain storm showed why our actions are the very definition of “strengthening water resilience”. A huge amount of rain fell in a short time, but the restored section of the Aldersbrook has been able to hold 100’s of thousands of litres more water, stopping this water running into the Roding, & thereby *reducing* local flood risk. The first photograph below is of the Aldersbrook after the rains this morning- a big contrast to the area before we did the work.

Perhaps more importantly, this water, instead of running straight off into the Roding & hence the sea is now being held in the Aldersbrook & gradually released so it can be used by nature. It is feeding marshes, trees & wildlife, topping up groundwater & helping to reduce our flood/drought cycle. If you want to strengthen water resilience, we need thousands more projects like the Aldersbrook around the country.

So the question I ask you, Environment Agency, is why you are threatening me with two years imprisonment, rather than offering to meet & discuss how we can work together to restore the Roding & its tributaries, which could become a blueprint for you cooperating with local river guardians nationwide?

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Dear @EnvAgency.

In February this year, after 4 years of asking you to look after the Aldersbrook, I led a team of volunteers to do your job for you & clean out tonnes of silt & leaves, as well as hundreds of bags of rubbish. Through the effort of community volunteers & donations, & at zero cost to the taxpayer, we turned a forgotten silted up ditch back into a river again.

Last nights intense rain storm showed why our actions are the very definition of “strengthening water resilience”. A huge amount of rain fell in a short time, but the restored section of the Aldersbrook has been able to hold 100’s of thousands of litres more water, stopping this water running into the Roding, & thereby *reducing* local flood risk. The first photograph below is of the Aldersbrook after the rains this morning- a big contrast to the area before we did the work.

Perhaps more importantly, this water, instead of running straight off into the Roding & hence the sea is now being held in the Aldersbrook & gradually released so it can be used by nature. It is feeding marshes, trees & wildlife, topping up groundwater & helping to reduce our flood/drought cycle. If you want to strengthen water resilience, we need thousands more projects like the Aldersbrook around the country.

So the question I ask you, Environment Agency, is why you are threatening me with two years imprisonment, rather than offering to meet & discuss how we can work together to restore the Roding & its tributaries, which could become a blueprint for you cooperating with local river guardians nationwide?

[Simon Harris @SimonHarrisMBD]

How many people dislike Keir Starmer because of their own measured opinion of his track record, compared to the number of people who dislike him because they’ve been exposed to arguably the largest anti-PM media and social media personality onslaught this country’s ever seen?

[NewsCord @newscord_org]

It is shameful that we even have to do this. That a report this shallow, this lazy, this nakedly bigoted can land and be swallowed whole, while the journalists whose job is to take it apart simply look away. So we will do their work for them.

Lowe's "Rape Gang Inquiry" takes a real and painful truth and bends it into something else. The abuse in towns like Rotherham and Rochdale happened. Children were failed for years by police and councils too frightened to act, and in some of those places men of Pakistani heritage were genuinely over-represented. Baroness Casey's official audit said so plainly. We will not insult the survivors by pretending any of that away. But that truth is exactly what is being hijacked.

Here is the sleight of hand. Every serious source- Casey, the Home Office, the Jay Inquiry- treats this as a Pakistani-heritage problem rooted in clan, kinship and cover-up. Lowe quietly swaps the word "Pakistani" for "Muslim" and then puts Islam itself in the dock. That one switch is the whole trick, and nothing in his 219 pages earns it.

Pull on his evidence, and it comes apart in your hands. The headline "87% had Muslim names" is not a government figure. It is a list one anti-Islam author drew up himself, guessing men's religion from their names and counting only those convicted, in a category he had already decided was Asian.

The "250,000 victims" was never a count. It started as a throwaway line from a former UKIP peer who multiplied Rotherham's numbers across the entire country. He then drapes these numbers in phrases like "forced Islamic conversion" so the whole thing reads as a holy war.

He even blames immigration for rising rape by pointing at Poland, ignoring that crime figures between countries measure how willing victims are to come forward, not how much actually happens.

And here is what they never tell you. The overwhelming majority of child sexual abuse in this country is committed by white men, inside families and online, and most of it never surfaces at all.

The government's own 2020 research found group offenders are most commonly white. By aiming his torch at one narrow corner and leaving the rest in darkness, Lowe makes a sliver of cases look like the face of the whole crime, and makes child abuse look like something foreigners carried in.

The religious claim is almost too crude to dignify. Islam forbids fornication, rape, alcohol, harming children and forcing anyone into faith. A man who spits "kuffar" while doing what his religion condemns is no more acting on Islam than the countless abusers exposed inside the Church were acting on Christianity. Nobody put Christianity on trial for them. That double standard is the entire game.

Read to the last page and the real purpose is impossible to miss. A report about protecting children does not end in deporting millions, stripping citizenship and reviving the death penalty. Lowe says migrants have "colonised" Britain and that he will "remove millions," and his followers cheered it as proof of a "great replacement." This was never a safeguarding document. It is an anti-immigration manifesto wearing the suffering of abused girls as a costume.

And it does not stay on the page. This is the rhetoric that thickens the air before the violence comes. Anti-Muslim hate is already at record levels, with more than 6,300 cases logged in 2024, up 165 per cent in two years. We watched where it leads after Southport, when a single lie about the killer sent mobs to set mosques alight. Days after Lowe's report, five men were attacked across Edinburgh, and a man was arrested as counter-terror officers moved in.

The Prime Minister himself said the suspect appeared driven by anti-Muslim hatred. The Muslim Council of Britain called it the direct consequence of rhetoric that demonises whole communities. No, you cannot pin one attacker on one report, and we will not pretend to. But you do not get to pour petrol across a country for years and then act shocked at the fire.

That is why we have no choice but to answer this. Not because it has earned a response, but because too many people with far louder platforms refuse to give one.

[Alessandra Libutti 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 @a_libutti]

Starmer si dimette. Ci sarà chi applaude, e chi - come chi scrive - lo ritiene un colpo alla democrazia. Perché un leader democraticamente eletto, con una maggioranza di oltre 400 deputati, forzato a dimettersi dopo 2 anni, sotto i colpi di un'operazione mediatica, interferenze estere, e l'opera di fronde interne minoritarie non è un buon segno per la democrazia.

E non è un buon segno per l'Occidente e per l'Europa. Non lo è perché segna un precedente. Perché quello che è stato fatto a Starmer potrà essere fatto ad altri leader europei. Nelle stesse modalità: usare i media per prefabbricare impopolarità, creare il panico tra le file interne, e spingere a rimpiazzare un leader basandosi non sulle politiche, i risultati, o una maggioranza stratosferica, ma su sondaggi influenzati da algoritmi.

Non è un buon giorno, lo ripeto, per l'Europa perché la sicurezza europea passa anche da qui e non c'è niente, ma proprio niente da guadagnare dall'instabilità del Regno Unito .

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

If you apply the 250k amateur extrapolation of Rupert Lowe's grooming gangs "inquiry" to other crimes, then because Harold Shipman murdered 215 patients in Hyde, GPs have murdered 470k people in the UK.

[Damian Low @DamianLow3]

A note of caution. The same media who hounded Starmer, will give Burnham 12 hours before they start hounding him.

For some reason, they won’t be happy unless Farage is in power. Why would that be?

[JBL @johninsouthfla]

The BBC may have forgotten Farage's £5m grift, but if you remember it, please repost! Thanks.

[Mark Leonard @markhleonard]

1/Ten years ago, Britain voted for Brexit.
New ECFR/Mandate polling out this morning reveals something Westminster hasn't noticed: the country has quietly changed its mind — and not in the way you'd expect.
The Leave/Remain divide is dead. Here's what replaced it. 🧵