Simon The Biker!

Husband, Dad, Telecom IT Engineer, Sailer and Mountain Biker. Love Motorsport, Red Wine and puzzles! Trying to always be kind and be a better person. 😊

[Simon The Biker! @simomarshall]

Heading home after a great Le Mans 24 hour kart race with @craigbrockuk. Tired but P2 and a big trophy is making it easier. :) #result

[Simon The Biker! @simomarshall]

@Bebo_Bols02

[Simon Clarke @SirSimonClarke]

On the spiteful nature of Labour’s education policy, let’s revisit the single decision Bridget Philipson made that has been most revealing, as well as frustrating.

Eton and Star Academies wanted to open a great new free school in Middlesbrough to help more talented young people access the best universities - a noble endeavour backed by funding from Eton as well as a commitment to share their passion and expertise.

The last Conservative government said yes in 2023 under @GillianKeegan, in a victory for local children and parents and for a great campaign led by independent Mayor Andy Preston @centre_right_ and Conservative Councillor @MiekaSmiles.

But astonishingly, Labour locally campaigned against it. Andy McDonald MP raged against Eton as a "hallmark of stifling elitism”.

What did Bridget Philipson do when she became Education Secretary? She killed the project. Prejudice trumped social mobility.

https://t.co/LeOO3olBgH

[Simon The Biker! @simomarshall]

@Bebo_Bols02 😂

[Thaïs d’Escufon @ThaisEscufon]

Europeans and American patriots!

Tomorrow, the courts of my country, France, may decide to send me to prison for daring to say on television that “the main danger to women in France is Black African and Arab immigrant men.”

Meanwhile, my own attacker, a Tunisian migrant, is still at large.

I need your help to generate media pressure and hope to be acquitted.

They cannot silence the truth!

Thank you for your support 💪🏻🇫🇷

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

We need to kick identity politics out of public life.

Racism has been weaponised across our public services and institutions.

In the cases of the Nottingham and Southport killers, the Manchester Arena bomb attack, and the murder of Sara Sharif, the people who were meant to protect us from harm failed because they were too scared of being accused of being racist.

This has not happened by accident.

In the years since the Black Lives Matter protests, race-grifting activists who argue we should defund the police, decolonise the curriculum and pay reparations have been given far too much access to our public sector.

Their advice has been as clear as it is wrong: that we should treat people differently based on the colour of their skin to make up for some fictional collective colonial guilt.

One of the root causes is a law called the Public Sector Equality Duty.

It requires every public body to obsess about equality and diversity in everything they do, with the constant threat of being sued if they fail.

It is the doorway through which marched Stonewall fanatics who said biological men should be in women’s prisons and the defund the police brigade who told the police you should treat people differently based on the colour of their skin.

It gave those who said talking about the grooming gangs was an example of ‘anti-Muslim racism’ the power to write up an Islamophobia definition that gives special protections to just one religion.

One politician above all others has had the courage and determination to reject this madness. When Black Lives Matter was preaching about white privilege, Kemi Badenoch was the only voice ripping apart their arguments and exposing why this ideology is so dangerous.

We have to rid ourselves of this dangerous thinking which will only breed more division and resentment.

That’s why I backed Kemi to lead my party, and why the Conservatives would scrap the Public Sector Equality Duty and bring back common sense to our public services.

That’s the only way to restore trust in policing and the wider state: by upholding the age-old principle that we are all equal under the law.

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I am truly perplexed that so many people are against mosques being built...

I think it should be the goal of every Western Society to be tolerant regardless of their religious beliefs. Thus mosques should be allowed, in an effort to promote tolerance.

That is why I also propose that two nightclubs be opened next door to the mosque, thereby promoting tolerance from within the mosque. We could call one of the clubs, which would be gay, "The Turban Cowboy ", and the other a topless bar called "You Mecca Me Hot."

Next door should be a butcher shop that specializes in pork, and adjacent to that an open-pit barbecue pork restaurant, called "Iraq o' Ribs."

Across the street there could be a lingerie store called "Victoria Keeps Nothing Secret ", with sexy mannequins in the window modeling the goods.

Next door to the lingerie shop there would be room for an adult sex toy shop, "Koranal Knowledge ", its name in flashing neon lights, and on the other side an off-licence called "Morehammered."

All of this would encourage Muslims to demonstrate the tolerance they demand of us, so their mosque issue would not be a problem for others.

[Simon The Biker! @simomarshall]

@richardbrunning @matkinsj It’s WAY more than half!!

[Simon The Biker! @simomarshall]

@LBC I’ve read a lot of comments James, you’ve got this one very wrong and frankly, that’s the final straw, that’s the last piece of your bilge I’ll tolerate.

[Simon The Biker! @simomarshall]

@dshensmith This is a no brainer, it’s a weapon for murdering and religious beliefs are not an argument for anything, let alone carrying a weapon. Surely it’s not for impromptu cake cutting?

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A tenant farmer in the Cairngorms says land that sold for £500 an acre a few years ago now goes for £5,000. He is being moved off ground his family has worked for generations, because he cannot outbid the people buying it. The buyers are corporations, and they have no intention of farming a single acre of it.

Here is how the trick works. A company keeps emitting carbon exactly as before. Same factories, same flights, same supply chain, same product. Then it buys a Scottish hillside, plants some trees, and announces to the world that it is now carbon neutral, or, if it is feeling brave, carbon negative. The emissions never fell. It simply bought a landscape to point at.

Take BrewDog. In 2020 it bought a 9,300-acre Highland estate, propped up with public grant money, and promised a million trees and the crown of the world's first carbon negative beer business, removing twice the carbon it emitted, forever. By 2023 roughly half of the 500,000 trees it had managed to plant were dead, killed by drought, with critics noting the planting was drying out the peat and releasing carbon of its own. The advertising regulator ruled its carbon-negative claims misleading. In 2024 it quietly dropped the badge and dismissed the entire carbon credit market as a flood of cheap schemes whose benefit was "questionable, maybe even non-existent." Then it sold the estate to a firm whose actual business is selling carbon offsets.

That is the whole model in one story. Public money in. Dead trees out. A green halo worn for four years and then dropped. The farmer who used to be on that land, gone. The hillside passed to a company that exists purely to sell other people the right to keep polluting.

This is no fringe case. In one recent year, half of every estate sold in Scotland went to investment funds, corporations and charitable trusts rather than anyone who would farm it. A third of the deals for plantable land are now done off-market, in secret, precisely so the local community never gets the chance to bid.

So this is what net zero looks like on the ground. A man who produced food is priced out of his own glen. A corporation that produced emissions buys the glen, calls itself a force for good, and sells the carbon. The land stops feeding anyone. Nobody's emissions actually went down by a gram.

The food was real. The farmer was real. The carbon saving is a line in a slide deck.

And we have somehow decided the villain in all this is the man with the sheep.

[Benonwine @benonwine]

The British taxpayer is now paying £125.25 a week for each extra wife in polygamous marriages and DWP just hiked it again in April.

While genuine British families and pensioners get scraps.

This isn’t compassion. It’s madness.

Who else is absolutely furious about this?

[Simon The Biker! @simomarshall]

@Bebo_Bols02 😂

[Jenni @hashjenni]

In case anyone isn’t aware, Trump is demanding Zambia to hand over its mineral rights by end of day tomorrow or the U.S. gov’t will cut off the country’s access to the AIDS medications that are literally keeping its citizens alive.

Just thought y’all should know.

[Damien Slash @damienslash]

Zack Polanski: "No evidence that people seeking asylum are sexually assaulting anyone"

Reality: "Here are 100 examples as reported by UK mainstream media organisations over the last 18 months"

1. Iranian Abdulla Ahmadi (26), Egyptians Ibrahim Alshafe (25) & Karin Al-Danasurt (20) – small boat arrivals in asylum hotel – gang-raped woman on Brighton beach (Oct 2025; guilty verdicts Apr 23, 2026) - BBC/ITV/Guardian

2. Afghan asylum seeker Mirzai (migrant hotel) sexually assaulted two women on trains (2025-2026; sentenced Apr 2026) - BBC

3. Afghan asylum seeker Ahmad Mulakhil (23) raped 12yo girl, Nuneaton (Jul 2025; guilty Feb 2026, sentenced Mar 2026 to 15-16yrs, referred as unduly lenient) - BBC/Guardian/Reuters/ITV

4. Afghan asylum seeker Sohail Amiri (30, small boat) sexually assaulted three women in Southampton (2025; sentenced Mar 2026) - BBC

5. Syrian refugee Mohand Mageed raped 21yo student in Glasgow (Feb 2025; sentenced Mar 2026) - STV

6. Afghan asylum seeker Mehmet Ogur (27) raped 18yo woman in Tamworth park (Jan 2026; sentenced to 7yrs) - BBC

7. Pakistani-born asylum seeker Sheraz Malik (28) raped 18yo woman in Nottinghamshire park (Jun 2025; convicted Jan 2026) - BBC

8. Afghan asylum seekers Jan Jahanzeb (17) & Israr Niazal (17) abducted & raped 15yo girl, Leamington Spa (May 2025; sentenced Dec 2025) - Guardian/BBC/Reuters

9. Afghan Sultani Bakatash charged with raping two 14yo girls, Bolton (Dec 2025) - Manchester Evening News (mainstream coverage)

10. Syrian refugee convicted of raping minor, Birmingham (Dec 2025) - ITV

11. Afghan unaccompanied minor convicted of peer rape in care home (Nov 2025) - Independent

12. Afghan asylum seeker convicted of child rape in care system (Nov 2025) - Independent

13. Iranian failed asylum seeker charged with rape, Manchester (Nov 2025) - Guardian

14. Bangladeshi national convicted of rape (Nov 2025) - BBC

15. Pakistani migrant convicted of rape (Nov 2025) - BBC

16. Algerian overstayer charged with rape-related offences (Nov 2025) - Guardian

17. Unnamed migrant charged with raping woman near train station using translation app (Oct 2025) - BBC

18. Unnamed Syrian asylum seeker charged with raping woman in Bournemouth toilet (Aug 2025) - mainstream reports

19. Small boat migrants charged in coastal gang rape (Sep 2025) - Independent

20. Unnamed Sudanese asylum seeker convicted of group sexual assault, Kent (Sep 2025) - Guardian

21. Unnamed group of migrants charged with raping woman in Oxford churchyard (Sep 2025) - Guardian

22. Libyan failed asylum seeker charged with family rape, Sheffield (Sep 2025) - Guardian

23. Moroccan migrant charged with rape, Leeds (Sep 2025) - Guardian

24. Eritrean failed claimant convicted of repeat rape, Bristol (Sep 2025) - BBC

25. Unnamed Eritrean boat arrival charged with rape, Bristol (Oct 2025) - BBC

26. Syrian national convicted of rape (Aug 2025) - BBC

27. Unnamed Afghan asylum seeker convicted of raping woman in London (Aug 2025) - Guardian

28. Sudanese boat arrival raped jogger, Kent (Aug 2025) - Guardian

29. Afghan asylum seeker Rapualla Ahmadze raped 17yo girl in Elgin park, Scotland (Aug 2025; sentenced Dec 2025) - BBC

30. Iranian dissident claimant raped flatmate, Glasgow (Jul 2025) - BBC

31. Ethiopian asylum seeker Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu sexually assaulted 14yo girl & woman, Epping hotel (Jul 2025; sentenced Sep 2025) - Guardian/BBC

32. Syrian asylum seeker Mohammed Wahid Mohammed raped 12yo girl in Birmingham supermarket (Jul 2025) - ITV

33. Unnamed illegal immigrant convicted of raping 20yo woman in Oxford churchyard (Jul 2025) - Guardian

34. Indian student charged with campus rape, London (Jul 2025) - BBC

35. Iraqi national convicted of rape (Jul 2025) - Guardian

36. Romanian lorry migrant convicted of assault rape, Dover (Jun 2025) - Guardian

37. Algerian small boat crosser charged with nightclub rape, Newcastle (Jun 2025) - Independent

38. Spanish national convicted of rape (Jun 2025) - BBC

39. Pakistani asylum seeker convicted of child rape, Leeds (Apr 2025) - BBC

40. Unnamed Somali asylum seeker convicted of sexual assault, Cardiff (Apr 2025) - Guardian

41. Unnamed Sub-Saharan African migrant convicted of sexual assault, Birmingham (Apr 2025) - Guardian

42. Unnamed North African migrant convicted of sexual offence, London (Jul 2025) - Guardian

43. Unnamed Middle Eastern migrant convicted of rape, Manchester (May 2025) - Guardian

44. Nigerian overstayer charged with raping elderly woman, Manchester (May 2025) - Guardian

45. Somali refugee convicted of honour-based rape, Cardiff (May 2025) - Guardian

46. Turkish asylum seeker raped tourist, Edinburgh (Apr 2025) - BBC

47. Indian migrant in trafficking group charged with rape (Apr 2025) - Guardian

48. Unnamed male asylum seeker raped 14yo girl in SW England hotel (Feb 2025) - Guardian

49. Unnamed male migrant raped Sierra Leonean female asylum seeker in hotel (Jan 2025) - Guardian

50. Somali Yaqub Ahmed convicted of gang rape of teenage girl, London (Jan 2025) - Guardian

51. Polish construction worker raped colleague, Birmingham (Jan 2025) - Guardian

52. Sudanese Mahmood Noor Ibrahim convicted of sexual assault of 16yo in Hull (Feb 2025) - Independent

53. Nigerien Musba Missa charged with sexual assault in Skegness migrant hotel (Mar 2025) - BBC

54. Syrian asylum seeker Qais Al-Aswad (26) sexually assaulted three women in Horley migrant hotel (May-Jun 2025) - BBC

55. Vietnamese trafficked migrant charged in brothel rape case (Feb 2025) - BBC

56. Jamaican overstayer convicted of domestic rape, Liverpool (Mar 2025) - Independent

57. Ghanaian migrant convicted in group rape (Oct 2025) - Guardian

58. Sudanese national convicted of attempting to rape woman in Wakefield nightclub (Oct 2025) - Independent

59. Belgian national convicted of rape (Oct 2025) - Guardian

60. Albanian migrant charged with group rape, Brighton (Nov 2025) - Independent

61. Unnamed Pakistani national convicted of sexual offence, Leeds (Jun 2025) - Independent

62. Unnamed Indian overstayer charged with rape in care home (Aug 2025) - BBC

63. Egyptian asylum seeker Abdelrahmen Adnan Abouelela raped woman in Hyde Park, London (Nov 2024; sentenced Sep 2025) - BBC

64. Unnamed Afghan asylum seeker convicted of raping woman in mixed-sex hotel (Mar 2025) - Guardian

65. Unnamed male migrant raped Sierra Leonean female asylum seeker in hotel (Jan 2025) - Guardian

66. Syrian refugee convicted of raping minor, Birmingham (Dec 2025) - ITV

67. Iranian failed asylum seeker charged with rape, Manchester (Nov 2025) - Guardian

68. Moroccan migrant charged with rape, Leeds (Sep 2025) - Guardian

69. Sudanese boat arrival raped jogger, Kent (Aug 2025) - Guardian

70. Eritrean failed claimant convicted of repeat rape, Bristol (Sep 2025) - BBC

71. Afghan unaccompanied minor convicted of peer rape in care home (Nov 2025) - Independent

72. Turkish asylum seeker raped tourist, Edinburgh (Apr 2025) - BBC

73. Somali refugee convicted of honour-based rape, Cardiff (May 2025) - Guardian

74. Algerian small boat crosser charged with nightclub rape, Newcastle (Jun 2025) - Independent

75. Iranian dissident claimant raped flatmate, Glasgow (Jul 2025) - BBC

76. Libyan failed asylum seeker charged with family rape, Sheffield (Sep 2025) - Guardian

77. Iraqi national convicted of rape (Jul 2025) - Guardian

78. Syrian national convicted of rape (Aug 2025) - BBC

79. Albanian migrant charged with group rape, Brighton (Nov 2025) - Independent

80. Pakistani asylum seeker convicted of child rape, Leeds (Apr 2025) - BBC

81. Nigerian overstayer charged with raping elderly woman, Manchester (May 2025) - Guardian

82. Romanian lorry migrant convicted of assault rape, Dover (Jun 2025) - Guardian

83. Indian student charged with campus rape, London (Jul 2025) - BBC

84. Sudanese national convicted of attempting to rape woman in Wakefield nightclub (Oct 2025) - Independent

85. Unnamed migrant charged with raping woman near train station using translation app (Oct 2025) - BBC

86. Unnamed North African migrant convicted of sexual offence, London (Jul 2025) - Guardian

87. Unnamed Middle Eastern migrant convicted of rape, Manchester (May 2025) - Guardian

88. Unnamed Sub-Saharan African migrant convicted of sexual assault, Birmingham (Apr 2025) - Guardian

89. Unnamed Sudanese asylum seeker convicted of group sexual assault, Kent (Sep 2025) - Guardian

90. Unnamed Eritrean boat arrival charged with rape, Bristol (Oct 2025) - BBC

91. Afghan asylum seeker convicted of child rape in care system (Nov 2025) - Independent

92. Unnamed Somali asylum seeker convicted of sexual assault, Cardiff (Apr 2025) - Guardian

93. Unnamed Pakistani national convicted of sexual offence, Leeds (Jun 2025) - Independent

94. Unnamed Indian overstayer charged with rape in care home (Aug 2025) - BBC

95. Ethiopian asylum seeker Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu sexually assaulted 14yo girl & woman, Epping hotel (Jul 2025; sentenced Sep 2025) - Guardian/BBC

96. Syrian asylum seeker Mohammed Wahid Mohammed raped 12yo girl in Birmingham supermarket (Jul 2025) - ITV

97. Unnamed illegal immigrant convicted of raping 20yo woman in Oxford churchyard (Jul 2025) - Guardian

98. Somali Yaqub Ahmed convicted of gang rape of teenage girl, London (Jan 2025) - Guardian

99. Syrian asylum seeker Qais Al-Aswad (26) sexually assaulted three women in Horley migrant hotel (May-Jun 2025) - BBC

100. Unnamed male asylum seeker raped 14yo girl in SW England hotel (Feb 2025) - Guardian

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: The Islamic Republic is preparing to hang eight women.

Not a word from the international community or so-called human rights organizations.

[Simon The Biker! @simomarshall]

@Bebo_Bols02 All
The
Time!

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

The insider trading scandal just got worse. It wasn't just oil. Someone also made a massive unexplained trade on the S&P 500 exactly 15 minutes before Trump's Iran war tweet. Hundreds of millions of dollars made in minutes. They knew exactly what he was going to say.

[Simon The Biker! @simomarshall]

@richardbrunning My VW park assist is phenomenal.
Honestly I never thought I’d use it, it’s just a gimmick, or so I thought. It’s very good.

[Bark @barkmeta]

Let me explain what just happened 👇

5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.

5 minutes…

These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.

There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.

Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.

American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.

This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions.

This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight.

You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question.

Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that.

The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

[dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ @DahliaKurtz]

A child has been sentenced to execution by hanging in Occupied Iran.

Diana Taherabadi is only 16.

The Islamic Regime dragged her out bed, confiscated her family's phones, and kidnapped her.

It takes a second for you to speak up. DO IT.