Hey @andyburnham
3 million signed a petition saying No to Digital ID
You’ve now said you’ll be banning VPNs?
As you know I’m the guy who helped you & your team get briefed on hospitality.
Take note: we at Together will fight with every fibre we have to see off any attempt to
Impose or outsource imposing digital ID on us all. That includes of course Social Media Ban which will mean de facto Digital ID Verificafion to ‘prove’ age for all adults
Pushing to ban VPNs is a breathtaking assault on freedom in Britain
We are not going to stand idly by while you think you can turn Britain into digital prison island.
So I’ll ask you and your team now politely - stand down from this.
We set up #openforall after I handed over The NTIA with thousands of operators in Britain saying they would not become a Papers Please Venue
Then we all launched @Togetherdec and delivered 370000 signatures to Downing Street
You’ll be receiving The Pledge from people
We have only just begun. This is our commitment to British Freedom, privacy and autonomy
I know you take counsel. Be wise on this. Take a breath. Step back.
I promise you this will be a fight you will not want to be engaged in ongoing.
This will be your albatross from Keir Starmer otherwise.
We all Stand Together #scrapdigitalid
Over the years, as I've listened to people calling for more devolution within Scotland, I have voiced the concern that the British state will intervene – as it has already done with direct funding to councils – in a way that has less to do with improving democracy and more to do with undermining Holyrood. Andy Burham evidently hasn't given much thought to the annexed territories on England's periphery, and such thought as he has given appears to regard Scotland as being on a par with England's regions and cities. That Burnham should think of Scotland in this way should not be surprising given that he was brought up in an England where casual contempt for the non-English has been normalised.
It may well be that Burnham himself is not minded to use a process of extending devolution to undermine Holyrood, but he will be surrounded by people who are. The vagueness with which Burnham speaks of Scotland suggests that his plans for us are nowhere near being fully formed. He is ripe for being pushed in a certain direction by the advisors and civil servants who form the bubble that will envelope him should he become prime minister.
It is not Burnham as prime minister that worries me or his entourage. My worry is that John Swinney is not the man to defend the Scottish Parliament or our internal affairs. I just can't envisage Swinney standing up to Burnham.
https://t.co/HTEwXABFg7 #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI
So, just keeping track:
- we’re not allowed to know when MSPs actually turn up for work
- we’re not allowed to know what sex they say they are
- and now we’re not allowed to have journalists approach them to ask questions
Wings Over Scotland has this morning sent the following further letters to Police Scotland and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service. https://t.co/Bhba62RlEz
Very strange events around our Palestine Action hearing tomorrow
1) The Advocate General Catherine Smith is appearing in person for the govt - very rare
2) The permission hearing was Court No 1 with live streaming. Now no live streaming and Court no 6 - small public gallery.
Why are they being suddenly much less open?
An 81-Year-Old Grandma Streaming Minecraft To Pay For Grandson’s Cancer Treatment Has Been Swatted. Humanity, you really do suck.
Sometimes we don't think you're worth saving.
Story: https://t.co/m6lB63RJWv
If you're looking for a new book to read?
Why not delve into Aldo's explosive return?
A gangland drama that delivers it's fair share of laugh out loud moments.
I just saw a tweet on hurling and it reminded me about the time the Kinlochshiel shinty keeper intentionally saved a 100 mph projectile with his head. Still one of the maddest things I've ever seen in sport.
I have tabled the following amendment to the King’s Speech to defend two foundational liberties: the right to trial by jury & the right to access public services without digital ID. Ancient safeguards against arbitrary power must not be surrendered without mandate or consent.
🚨 Clearing your cookies does nothing.
That is not how they track you anymore.
Texas A&M and Johns Hopkins just published the first peer-reviewed proof.
It is called browser fingerprinting.
Here is what they found and what actually stops it:
Akira Kurosawa recounting the unforgettable experience of watching Solaris with Andrei Tarkovsky:
“Andrei Tarkovsky was sitting in the corner of the screening room watching Solaris with me, but he got up as soon as the film was over and looked at me with a shy smile. I said to him, ‘It’s very good. It’s a frightening movie.’ He seemed embarrassed but smiled happily. Then the two of us went to a film union restaurant and toasted with vodka. Tarkovsky, who does not usually drink, got completely drunk and cut off the speakers at the restaurant, then began singing the theme of Seven Samurai at the top of his voice. I joined in, eager to keep up. At that moment, I was very happy to be on Earth.”