Jon Collins ⚜️

Enjoy cycling, politics, science, sport & finance.

[Jon Collins ⚜️ @joncollins85]

Now we are the masters of our fate. That the task which has been set us is not above our strength.

[Jon Collins ⚜️ @joncollins85]

To laugh in court having killed a police officer on duty, hours before he was due to go on Honeymoon… what better demonstration can there be of the futility of rehabilitation?

On what conscionable basis should my loved ones be compelled to share a country with them?

[Benonwine @benonwine]

PC Andrew Harper was dragged to his death at 42mph. His uniform was torn off and his injuries were so bad that first responders thought he was a deer carcass.

The men who killed him showed zero remorse they even laughed in court. They got just 13 years each for manslaughter.

Now, under Labour’s new early release scheme, two of them could walk free after only 6.5 years.

This is a total insult to PC Harper, his family, and every police officer. Killing a cop and showing no regret should mean real time behind bars — not a slap on the wrist because prisons are full.

How can any government release such evil monsters back onto this country’s streets especially after they have shown no remorse or empathy of their atrocious crimes.

Any government that is prepared to release such evil into society is itself an enemy of the people.

[Jon Collins ⚜️ @joncollins85]

@numbertalker @Red_Velvet_ESR @LilyLilyMaynard @MayorofLondon It is suggesting talking to the *woman*, and mentioning “the game” implies you know her - and thus make the harasser withdraw.

[Jon Collins ⚜️ @joncollins85]

Amazed Wes Streeting finds this kind of stuff funny; I have no doubt PC Harper’s killers will offend again. Labour Party just laughing in the face of the law-abiding public.

[Jon Collins ⚜️ @joncollins85]

@rutlandcouncil "While this is not the proposal Rutland County Council initially supported"....

We just eagerly signed a letter saying this IS exactly what we wanted, months before we had to, and before consulting with residents...

[Jon Collins ⚜️ @joncollins85]

Thankfully I can summarise what they say... "We are total morons, and think Britain should suck up to China, let's kill this thing whatever way we can, and stonewall any serious attempt to get answers"... plain and simple

[caroline wheeler @cazjwheeler]

💥 Breaking: The Foreign Office has refused to hand over the minutes of a key Whitehall meeting to Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), fuelling fresh scrutiny over the collapse of the prosecution of two men accused of spying for China.

In a highly critical report, the ISC reveals that it requested the minutes of a meeting held on 28 August 2025 as it sought to understand the events leading up to the Crown Prosecution Service's decision to abandon the case against Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) declined to provide them.

The Committee says it was "disappointed" that the department was unwilling to assist its inquiry, noting that the meeting took place just days before the Director of Public Prosecutions decided to discontinue the prosecution.

It says the refusal underlines the need to strengthen the ISC's powers to obtain evidence from departments outside its existing oversight arrangements.

The missing minutes will raise eyebrows follows my reporting in The Sunday Times last year that Sir Olly Robbins, the Foreign Office's former Permanent Under-Secretary, raised concerns during discussions chaired by National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell about the diplomatic and economic consequences of securing convictions in this case.

Ministers have consistently denied any improper political involvement in prosecutorial decisions.

[Jon Collins ⚜️ @joncollins85]

Presumably just so Labour can tax my ‘windfall’…

[Dept. for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade @biztradegovuk]

BREAKING: British Steel now belongs to the British people.

[Jon Collins ⚜️ @joncollins85]

@LincolnshireCC What's so unique about N. Lincs and N.E. Lincs that they don't get swallowed up by the giant unitary?

[Jon Collins ⚜️ @joncollins85]

I hereby announce that I have not seen this.

Unless the Gov faxes a notarised copy to my home three times a year for the next decade - I can just feign ignorance, right?

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The Government is now set to raise the state pension age to 68 in 2037 - seven years earlier than originally planned

[Jon Collins ⚜️ @joncollins85]

@StuartBudd1 How is this ‘Brexit ending’? Border controls predated joining and leaving the EU.

[Jon Collins ⚜️ @joncollins85]

@RealCounties Should County Durham include Crayke, or should it be in Yorkshire?

[Jon Collins ⚜️ @joncollins85]

@nebx500 @PolitlcsUK Farage is the reason we’re having a farcical by-election. Binface is the byproduct of farce, not the cause.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

tbh, am a bit disappointed that Count Binface's tax policies are the same as every other party.

[James Hanson @jhansonradio]

Desperate people do stupid things and Farage’s desperation to avoid legitimate scrutiny has made him call a needless by-election that is already backfiring.

His best outcome is a pyrrhic victory that sees him limp on until the Standards Committee reports back.

The worst is that he loses to Count Binface in the most humiliating political defeat in modern history.

[Jon Collins ⚜️ @joncollins85]

@jayforeman Surely the correct cover of The Smiths at the end would include 'I was bored before I even began'...?

[John Hundeslit @JohnHundeslit]

Twelve weeks, suspended for 18 months!? Only a year's ban?! This person should never be behind the wheel of anything bigger than a bicycle ever again.

[Jon Collins ⚜️ @joncollins85]

@anja_weimer @sybiltherabbit @AlexTaylorNews So the EU must have fixed this and re-banned glyphosate by now, right? Right?

[Jon Collins ⚜️ @joncollins85]

@sybiltherabbit @AlexTaylorNews Of course the EU will be wholly objective in determining what is safe and what isn’t… oh wait…

[Jon Collins ⚜️ @joncollins85]

Germany u-turn: agrees EU should allow use of dangerous herbicide glysophate - after German company acquires largest producer!

How crazy to think that what’s best for Bayer might not be what’s best for Britain! #Brexit

[Rob Kniaz @RobK]

The UK summed up in one picture

[Jon Collins ⚜️ @joncollins85]

@AshyCompounds Right - but what if your stocks pay small amounts in dividends? And your ISA provider charges you for each trade? You might want to wait some time for the size of the trade to be worth the commission - but the government steps in and says: "no, pay your broker or pay us".

[Jon Collins ⚜️ @joncollins85]

Car parked in shade - do I leave a window open or no? I think no… ☀️ #heatwave