Ian Hampson

Ashington supporter - socialist - old enough to remember a proper labour Government- Steve Bell fan - tries to keep fit

[Ian Hampson @profoundpenguin]

@MikeTappTweets You want Burnham to dash before he becomes unpopular running on a manifesto with PR thus potentially baking in unaparty dominance. Cynicism posturing as principle.

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

Trump’s press conference was INSANE:

He confirmed that:

• Iran gets $300B + $100B unfrozen
• Iran has the RIGHT to ballistic missiles
• The U.S. was running out of oil
• A worldwide depression was coming

I was predicting all of this from the first week including that REPARATIONS were coming and got a lot of hate for it.

The sellout MAGA frauds are now going to change their entire life-philosophy and deeply held “principles” over night.

Trump is on his knees. This was ALWASY the ONLY way it was going to end. Even if he thinks he can start the war again. Iran will always win.

It’s check mate. Always has been.

[Etienne @EtienneJS]

@WingsScotland Any chance you could do your anti-Nostradamus thing every, I dunno, 20 minutes or so until it's 4-1 to Croatia?

[Greg Hadfield @GregHadfield]

I agree.

It is quite something when the most consistent - but long-delayed - bulwark against attempted injustice by an MP, by Sussex Police, and by the CPS is a single judge/magistrate.

Having said that, Senior District Judge and Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring is both impressive and decent.

I say that having witnessed him in action on multiple cases.

[Massif Valuus @MassifValuus]

@DPJHodges So the proposition is, not only do Russia not know the PM lives at number 10, they thought the best means of carrying out his assassination was 3 rent boys armed with a couple of bottles of paint thinners?

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

Last year, the British people forked out £1.5 billion just for big renewable companies to turn their turbines off.

By 2030, this same system will cost us £8 billion.

This cannot go on.

Our Emergency Energy Bill stops the scandal and GETS BILLS DOWN by £300.

[Ian Hampson @profoundpenguin]

@NeilClark66 Got scared by the 'Labour isn't working' Saatchi poster

[Alex Macdonald @alexfmac]

It’s insane that a party supposed to represent the working class have caused more poverty through their energy policies than any other govt in history.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

The Dover Strait is exactly that in international law. A strait.
The British Navy has just - absolutely illegally - pirated a Russian oil tanker engaged in free passage through the strait.
Total hypocrisy. And "shadow fleet" has no legal meaning, it is purely propaganda.

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[Richard @ricwe123]

"We are the only people in history who are expected to witness our own genocide,and then watch what we say so we don't hurt the feelings of the people who did this"

(Susan Abulhawa, Palestinian/US scientist and writer)

[Richard @ricwe123]

"Western values"

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

We owe those who serve the UK the kit to do the job and the loyalty to stand by them when it's done. We are failing on both.

I’ve spent my whole time in government making that case. Number 10 will not listen, so I am resigning as Minister for the Armed Forces.

Letter to the PM below.🫡🫡🫡⬇️⬇️

[Noa Hoffman @hoffman_noa]

EXCL: The Green Party has received a damning audit of its workplace culture and pay to staff by Unite the Union.

A staff survey found that 47 per cent of workers for the party are struggling financially and 46 per cent believe they are underpaid.

Among the workers, 30 per cent were unsure whether they wanted to stay in their job, while 14 per cent intended to leave.

Unite also warns that ‘salaries remain considerably below market rates for comparable roles in the campaigning and political sectors’.

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Von der Leyen is coming for Europe’s wallet

The Multiannual Financial Framework. Even for a body as jargon-prone as the European Union, the phrase feels almost bewilderingly dull. Perhaps that’s the point. For hidden amid the technical language of the EU’s new budget is a kind of technocratic coup — one that promises more power for the Commission, less for member states, and which would ultimately make Brussels even less accountable than it already is today.

Over the past decade, the EU’s institutional balance has already tilted heavily towards the Commission, which has extended its reach into areas once considered the preserve of national governments — from fiscal policy and public health to foreign affairs and defence. The mechanism has been consistent: each crisis — the sovereign debt crisis, Brexit, the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ukraine war — has served as a pretext for the Commission to assume more authority, make “emergency” decisions and lock in permanent changes to the exercise of EU power. None of this has required formal treaty changes. It has occurred surreptitiously, outside the arena of democratic debate, through what scholars have called “integration by stealth”. The result has been a creeping “Commissionisation” and supranationalisation of European decision-making, with a corresponding erosion of national sovereignty and democratic accountability.

Now the Commission is using negotiations over the EU’s next seven-year budget — the aforementioned Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for 2028-2034 — to push this process further still. And precisely for this reason it is keen to wrap up a deal by the end of the year. Brussels insiders are acutely aware that the French presidential election of April 2027 could produce a government led by Jordan Bardella of the National Rally — a party hostile to the integrationist agenda underpinning the new MFF. Since the framework requires unanimous approval in the Council, a Eurosceptic France could strangle the budget at birth. The unstated but operative goal is to seal the deal before that risk appears. That this is never said openly only underscores the contempt for democratic deliberation that now pervades the process.

Read my article on the EU’s latest power grab here: https://t.co/JckGAaGzqE

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

Lol. Such a bullshitter. The UK is the global capital of surveillance and literally pioneered signals intelligence. The govt don't give a crap about kids — they drop bombs on them all the time. This is all an excuse so they can backdoor devices.

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇮🇱 The Department of State responded to a request from Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro for answers on whether or not Israel has nuclear weapons.

The State Department responded saying: “We refer you to the Government of Israel for your questions about Israel’s capabilities."

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

The more a politician or public figure talks about ‘transparency’ and ‘accountability’ in the abstract, the less they mean it - and the less they uphold it in practice.

I call it ‘Keir’s Law’!

[David Betz @DavidBe31099196]

The Macpherson Report and the murder of Henry Nowak are causally linked through the corrosive logic of multiculturalism and its institutional offspring: two-tier policing.

By the time he was stabbed to death in December 2025, 18-year-old Henry Nowak would have been eight years younger than the 1999 Macpherson Report. The nature of the former—and especially the police response—is directly tied to the latter.

Sir William Macpherson’s inquiry into the Stephen Lawrence case redefined institutional racism expansively. It instructed police to prioritise perceptions of racism from minority complainants. This well-intentioned reform, born of genuine outrage at one racially motivated murder, embedded a structural bias: complaints from certain communities received swift deference, while the concerns of the native majority were often dismissed as prejudice.

Over a quarter-century, this shifted the state’s posture from impartial referee to quasi-imperial active manager of ethnic sensitivities. 

Fast-forward to Southampton, 3 December 2025. Henry Nowak, a Polish-British student, was stabbed five times—including a fatal chest wound—by 23-year-old Vickrum Digwa, who was legally carrying a 21cm kirpan, a privilege extended to no others in British society. As Henry lay dying in his own blood, Digwa falsely claimed racial abuse (citing a bruised eye). Officers handcuffed and arrested the victim rather than rendering immediate aid.

Police later apologised—unconvincingly, particularly after the leaked bodycam footage emerged. The IOPC is investigating. This is not mere incompetence. It is the predictable outcome of Macpherson’s legacy: officers socialised to fear being labelled racist more than failing to protect life.

Listen to Henry’s father. Watch the leaked video and don’t look away. Henry didn’t get a dignified death. He died frightened, drowning in his blood while being mocked and then advised of his rights. Scriptwriters would be sent back to the room if they suggested something so on-the-nose in a gritty drama—yet this is grotesque UK reality.

People should be furious about it. The government is paralysed by ideology, fear, and cowardly shamelessness. Genuine media that holds power to account is in short supply.

Setting anger aside for a moment, multiculturalism erodes the pre-political loyalty that underpins state legitimacy—the special sauce of governance. When institutions apply justice asymmetrically—aggressive on Islamophobia or native 'hate', hesitant or inverted when minorities are perpetrators—trust collapses. This is textbook anarcho-tyranny.

Polls show historic lows in institutional confidence. Incidents like Nowak’s, amplified by grooming scandals, knife crime disparities, and uneven protest handling, accelerate the collapse.

The consequences are stark: feral zones in cities, rural-urban fractures, nativist backlash, and escalating intercommunal violence. Would you choose to walk your dog where Wayne Broadhurst was stabbed to death, or send your son to university where he might be degraded while dying and begging police for help? What would you do if violence and rape regularly targeted you and yours and the police seemed indifferent?

It used to be brushed off as part and parcel' of modern urban life, or 'don’t look back in anger'. That was low, dishonest, and weak. Now the strategy is silence—which may be the least bad option left for this dishonest, discredited government.

We are sliding toward the civil conflict I have warned of—not as cause, but as consequence—of Britain’s unravelling as a coherent nation. The drivers are obvious because they strike normal people faster, wider, and deeper. The reactions are predictable. War is adaptive behaviour; civil war is simply more brutal and socially miasmic. Henry’s killing is not an isolated tragedy. It is a chapter in a larger, nationally suicidal debacle imposed on ordinary people by a governance system that has grown functionally undemocratic over thirty years.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Bodycam footage of Henry Nowak, as he’s slowly dying, is most grotesquely surreal thing I’ve ever watched. The officer managing the situation shouldn’t be allowed to walk a dog, let alone be a police officer. He should be dismissed.

Can’t imagine being a parent & seeing that.