Ryan Alderson

Software Engineer 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚽️ who has a kick about for @pentwynmawrafc when not injured

[Louis Mosley @louismosley]

@ZackPolanski - this is magnificent. Three things I can’t deny:

1. It is a video.
2. You are wearing a jacket.
3. Then you aren’t.
4. Then you are again.

Unfortunately that’s where the accuracy ends.

A few corrections for you:

Peter Thiel is not our CEO. Alex Karp is — and has been for 20+ years. (A lifelong Democrat, for anyone keeping score.)

We are not a “spyware company.” Spyware is malware. Malware is illegal. Calling a software company spyware is, technically, defamatory (don’t worry, we are not suing).

We don’t build surveillance technology. We build software that helps organisations make sense of data they already hold. Not the same thing.

There was no “private tour” of our HQ. There was a public photocall to which the media came. Hence, why there are so many pictures of the event.

Our MOD contract is not “the biggest defence contract in UK history.” Ajax armoured vehicles = £5.5bn. Dreadnought submarines = £31bn. We’re grateful for the work, but let’s keep a sense of scale.

We have no more access to NHS data than Microsoft has to the contents of your Word documents. I think you know this by now.

We don’t have access to patient medical records. Same story.

I agree that “nothing matters more than our health.” Which makes it worth reminding you of what Palantir’s software is actually doing in the NHS right now:

->110,000 additional operations
->15% fewer delayed hospital discharges
->7% more patients finding out within 28 days whether they have cancer

Respect again for what you did with that jacket.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Today marks the end of the survivor participation for our rape gang inquiry hearings. I simply have no words that describe the bravery and courage of these women who have come forward.

No words.

What they have been through is indescribable.

It has been a life-changing experience for me. I never thought such evil was possible. Never. Not here, in Britain. In our towns, in our communities. It is pure evil. These men are so utterly depraved.

If it were up to me, thousands of them would receive the death penalty.

To do what they did, on such an industrial scale, to innocent young girls - many of whom were already in such an incredibly vulnerable place? There is no redemption possible. The world is a better place without them in it.

I started this inquiry because so many others failed.

Speaking honestly, I did not understand how deep this evil is rooted in our society.

Police, politicians, council officials, the NHS, social workers, children’s homes - it is everywhere.

IS everywhere. Not was. IS.

Meeting these women, and men, listening to how severely they were failed by those tasked to protect them? My views have changed forever. I knew it was bad. I never knew how bad it was.

Every single one who has come forward is a hero in my view.

The courage and grace in how they have conducted themselves is unlike anything I have seen in my life. All because they don’t want others to suffer the same fate. That is an extraordinary sacrifice. They could have just moved on with their lives. Tried to forget. But no, they chose to do this. I am in awe of all of them.

Our hearings will finish tomorrow, following the contribution of three more expert witnesses.

Then the next stage begins. We will produce a report, and then we will seek to put people in prison. There are FAR more testimonies and evidence to release - this will keep coming and coming and coming.

Even with a media blackout, we have reached tens of millions. We have made real progress.

And following such immense demand, we will reopen the portal so that more women can tell their stories.

This is just the beginning.

Politicians from all parties have failed these girls, again and again and again.

I do not intend to join that list.

To everyone who donated, thank you. To our team, thank you. And especially to the survivors, thank you.

I believe that together we can start to make Britain understand what is happening, and then finally do something about it.

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

One thing the situation in Iran has made crystal clear is that whichever country, regime, group or political ideology, no matter how vile, disgusting or repressive, however many people are massacred or exterminated, as long as they are anti-West, specifically anti-US (and by extension anti-Israel), they will have the unquestioning support of the majority of the liberal left and the entertainment world.

The same “progressive left” who happily live in the west, profit from its relative freedoms, yet turn their activism on and off like a switch, or in some cases, even make a living out of it.

It is disappointing and exhausting.

But grateful to all those who have spoken out. Especially in the comedy community. It takes a lot of guts to do so when everyone around you is looking the other way.

[Richard Donaldson @RDonaldson91]

🚨 CONVICTED TERRORIST is set to stand in UK election.

[I Am British 🇬🇧 @IAmBritishReal]

Our voting system is rigged, this is why.

WATCH THIS!

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

WATCH: @RobertJenrick’s full defection speech via @GBNEWS

I’ve never seen such a scathing attack on the Tories current and former track record.

[Alex Phillips @ThatAlexWoman]

Suddenly the UK Government are cracking down on sexually abusive images...and have chosen to target X

Not the myriad porn websites that disseminate billions of misogynistic, violent and paedophilic content

Not Snapchat which is often used by creeps trying to groom kids

No. The platform that has become the UK's number one news source.

I am a vehement campaigner against pornification and for women's safety, but I'm frankly not buying this

This is gaslighting and deception to create faux moral outrage while the mad Commies literally shut down free society and censor information

[Daniel O’Reilly @dapperlaughs]

Keir Starmer considering banning X in the UK over Grok 😭😂 Na.

He's the first British leader to try to nationalise public opinion.

Here’s why he’s really trying to do it…

[🤍𝕁𝕆🤍 @jomickane]

Consultant Engineer in Wales, forced to stand and speak out against all the Net Zero crap planned for the area. He says none of it adds up or makes sense, somebody is clearly going to make a lot of money if this goes ahead

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

What Reeves should announce today, but obviously won’t.

Everything costs more. Food, rent, mortgages, insurance, childcare, energy, basic goods, services, the weekly shop, a pint. Britain is getting poorer, faster.

People feel it, and they’re right. Inflation has eaten us alive. Wages wiped out. Savings eroded. Families poorer. Britain weaker.

We are getting ripped off. Why?

Because Britain is addicted to the size of its own state.

Here’s what Reeves should say.

Tax cuts. Lots of tax cuts.

- Raise the personal allowance dramatically - let people keep the first £20,000 they earn, minimum. No tax. It will cost, but the savings it will produce from encouraging people back into work will be vast,
- Slash Income Tax/National Insurance, especially on middle-earners who’ve been squeezed the hardest. This is uncomplicated, Rachel. REWARD HARD WORK.
- Remove the stealth taxes they all pretend don’t exist - fiscal drag and frozen thresholds which quietly rob the British people every year.
- Give overseas skilled British workers vast tax benefits to relocate their tax revenue and skills back to Britain. Bring them home.
- Cut back VAT, reduce fuel duty, cut alcohol duty, none of this sugar tax bullshit.
- Stamp duty, gone for British families. Let’s get the property market moving.
- Licence fee, scrapped. On the bonfire. Day one. More cash in the pocket for families.

Unleash British business

- Cut Corporation Tax to the lowest rate in Europe. Undercut them. Compete. Win.
- Push back dividend thresholds and taxes. If people are successful, ENCOURAGE IT.
- Abolish Business Rates for small firms. Bring our high streets back. Turkish barber/vape shop fraud crackdown too - let's root out the criminals.
- Slash Employers’ National Insurance - the single biggest reason small firms won’t hire more staff. OBVIOUSLY. We need to get that right down. Non-negotiable.
- Supercharge deregulation, especially for small businesses. A redtape bonfire visible from space. Let it burn.
- End the HR-ification of Britain. Bosses should be able to sack people, and they’ll end up actually hiring more because of that.
- Scrap IR35, immediately. Leave people to interface between themselves.
- Double the VAT threshold, possibly more. Overnight, vast growth will be unleashed from businesses hovering just under £90k. The figures show it already!
- Super-deductions for investment, including capital allowances and R&D incentives. Encourage people to invest and they will!
- Get police policing, and restoring some confidence for investment. Make Britain safer, and that will make Britain richer.

A brutal restructuring of the welfare state. And I mean brutal.

- No benefits for foreign nationals. If you arrive here, you contribute. If you’re here and you don’t? You leave. Billions saved, with one stroke.
- Mandatory work requirements for all those able to work. If you want support from taxpayers, you must give something back. A fair time to search for a job, but then you’re put to work. Picking litter or whatever else.
- Full disability fraud crackdown using data-matching and HMRC-style enforcement. Weed out the piss-takers.
- A cap on total household benefit claims - it should never pay more to stay home than to work. Never.

Drive for self-sufficiency.

- Domestic energy production on a huge scale, like we’ve never seen before. Drive that cost of energy down. Fracking. North Sea extraction. New nuclear. Gas storage. Cheap dependable energy = lower prices for everything. It’s that simple.
- Food security, with domestic output boosted and less reliance on foreign supply chains.
- Support British farming. Scrap the family farming tax. Use the public sector’s purchasing power to BUY BRITISH from our farmers. End dependency. Boost farming apprenticeships.
- A national infrastructure plan focused on logistics, ports, roads, and freight efficiency. The cheaper it is to produce and transport things, the lower prices fall. Places like Great Yarmouth with our fantastic port will boom. Stop building roads in Guyana, and use that money in Britain.

A robust plan to deal with the cancer of inflation.

- Immediate ban on money-printing (QE) without explicit Parliamentary approval. No more splurges by the Bank of England and that toad Bailey.
- Slash public spending - genuine far-reaching cuts. Nobody is safe. All departments.
- Foreign aid. Gone. Entirely. Billions saved overnight.
- Freeze all non-essential recruitment across the entire public sector (excluding front-line staff). A workforce pause, until inflation is under control. Then follows strict limits.
- A structured debt-repayment schedule, legally binding, to get those vast billion debt-interest payments falling. If you want some awful perspective - we now spend more on debt interest than on defence. No serious country on earth behaves like this. Britain does. It’s like some third world African tinpot dictatorship approach to economic affairs.
- We need to cut the debt, not just the deficit.
- Public sector pension liability - all off balance sheet. Needs a total overhaul as state employees are radically cut.

Stop importing poverty, crime and sex pests.

- Shut down all illegal migration with mass deportations, rapid removals, third-country processing, and no exceptions. Billions saved on abolishing asylum and related costs.
- Cut legal migration to net-negative, especially low-wage migration that undercuts British workers.
- Remove those who are a drain. If they’re claiming benefits, living in social housing, unable to speak English, refusing to contribute? Thanks, but your presence is no longer required. Bye.
- Deport foreign sex pests and criminals. Make our towns safe again. Watch how investment flows back into our dying high streets.

We must urgently cut back the bankrupt British state. Growth only comes from the following things.

A smaller state. Lower taxes. More people working. Fewer people scrounging. Cheaper energy. Stronger borders. Mass deportations. Actual production.

That is it. Reeves sadly does not have the balls to do what is necessary.

Britain needs an economic revolution.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Jeremy Clarkson is 💯right. He’s just saying what the vast majority of people are thinking about the stupid policies and total waste of our tax money by our power hungry politicians.

[Laila Cunningham @policylaila]

We’re told higher taxes are “necessary.” Necessary for what?

To bankroll the Net Zero agenda, the biggest transfer of wealth in decades. Billions poured into subsidies and schemes that just make our energy bills soar. Every target, every scheme, every subsidy comes out of our pocket.
We once powered the world. Now we can’t even power ourselves.

We have also de-industrialised our country in the name of Net Zero

We used to be the workshop of the world, a nation that built and manufactured with pride. Now we import the same goods, made with the worst emissions, just somewhere else, It’s depressing to watch us offshore our jobs, our growth and our pride. And then be forced to fund our own self- destruction! 👇

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨ALEX PHILLIPS RAGES - IT'S THE GOVERNMENTS FAULT ALL OF THIS

I'VE HAD ENOUGH SADIQ KHAN. I'VE HAD ENOUGH KEIR STARMER

They took away stop and search
They stopped Policing certain communities
They leave our borders open
They've IMPORTED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF MEN who want to rape our girls

"I'VE GOT NO CHANCE IF SOMEONE WANTS TO ATTACK ME"

Well said @ThatAlexWoman 👏

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC CALL🚨

A London woman calls in and cries her eyes out in desperation

"WE'RE NOT RACIST WE'RE PETRIFIED"

"WHAT ARE THESE POLITICIANS DOING TO US. THEY'RE PUTTING EVERYONE IN DANGER"

"I DON'T LEAVE THE HOUSE WITHOUT A MAN"

- My local shop has had 3 stabbings. 1 Murder.
- My friend was murdered last year
- A girl I know was murdered in the park
- I'm begging my son to leave the country
- My cousin was murdered

"OUR FRIENDS. OUR FAMILY ARE DYING"

[Craig Hannan @C_Hannan7]

Literally only three months ago everyone was wondering how a football team (and manager) could be expected to just get on with it and play after their mate passed away in the worst circumstances and now loads on here have forgotten.

One point off top, give them a fucking break

[This Is Anfield @thisisanfield]

😂 "He's been listening to a lot of talkSPORT!"

Arne Slot pushes back on the narrative plenty are pushing about #LFC's summer spending

[- @AnfieldRd96]

Isak: I’d like to leave this summer.

Liverpool: Hello, we’d like to buy Isak, and we’ll offer you a British transfer record.

Rest of the world: Liverpool are a fucking disrespectful football club.

Newcastle fans: Boo, Isak is a rat.

I’m confused.

[Berk @trapdoor456]

Rishi was spot on 👇👇

[Samuel @SamueILFC]

Net spend 25-26 after the Eze deal:

Arsenal: £254.5m
Liverpool: £135m

“Liverpool are buying the league”.

[- @JoshLFC1909]

How can other clubs compete with this amount of spending???