Charlie

Mentally ill

[James McMurdock MP @JMcMurdockMP]

I can’t let this go unchallenged.

That young man was, in my opinion and based on the video below, the clear victim of an assault.

The video shows, for reasons that are entirely beyond my comprehension, the officer steaming directly into the victim.

The officer made no effort to prevent the attack or apprehend the men who had just administered the violence.

What I see in the video is the officer using speed and aggression at the moment of peak danger and confusion against the victim.

The victim then controls himself the moment he realises it is now a police officer attacking him and not one of the multiple men who were attacking him a fraction of a second earlier.

In my opinion Birmingham Police should drop the charges against this young man and ask the officer why she went for the victim on the ground and not the attackers!

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

This is deeply concerning.

Photographer Alastair Hilton was enjoying a pint with a friend when two Metropolitan Police officers tracked him down and warned him about his posts on social media.

Mr Hilton was asked to step outside the pub, where the officers read out the section of the Crime and Policing Act 2026 under which they threatened to arrest him should he cross the line.

This was all because Mr Hilton had shared a post protesting the actions of a local Green councillor, who had successfully campaigned to remove the outdoor seating from three pubs on the Thames riverside near his home.

While we do not approve of intimidating public office holders at their homes, gathering at a pub in the vicinity of a councillor’s house and standing up for your right to sit outside and enjoy a beer is not a crime.

We can already see how this legislation — with this provision having come into force only on 29th June — can be manipulated to silence dissent.

The Met Police again appear more interested in dealing with free speech disputes online rather than tackling real crime.

@London_W4, the FSU will write to you today.

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

The UAE does not tolerate terrorists; it deletes them from the equation.Iraq is now arresting members of the Islamic regime. Lebanon has normalized relations with Israel and is pushing Hezbollah out.Meanwhile, in the EU, the UK, and across the West, Muslim Brotherhood terrorists get upgraded to “activists,” the IRGC plays street politics, and antisemitism is treated like a fashionable opinion instead of a crime. That is not tolerance. That is political cowardice wearing a human-rights costume.

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

Rick Rowe just came to the pub I was in with his boyfriend, knowing I was there, because he’d sent the police to intimidate me earlier. His boyfriend filmed me half the evening. Rick tried to grab my phone twice. It’s on film. He also said confidential information about me that the police had told him. I’m very happy to prosecute him and the police.

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

I am having a drink this evening with a friend in a Chiswick pub. Two policemen have just come into the pub and asked me to step outside. I have stepped outside and they have threatened me because I tweeted about a councillor banning seating outside pubs in Chiswick. They admit on video (watch it!) that I did not break the law at all. They came to threaten me. To warn me off tweeting about councillors and the council. This is modern Britain. This is the police state. Please, please, please watch this video. It does involve me using very bad language, but this has got to be seen. Police coming out to threaten someone who hasn’t committed a crime. I’m fuming.

[Danny Kruger @danny__kruger]

The hounding of Nigel Farage and his family over their personal finances and living arrangements is a transparent attempt by established power - in the government and the media - to disable Reform because of the threat the party poses to their privileges. All these attacks haven’t revealed a single incidence of wrongdoing. They’re playing the man and not the ball. The British public will see that, and see it is unfair, and it won’t work.

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

This is the City Barge pub in Chiswick right now. What do you notice? It’s 3pm and they’re open. It’s a sunny day. Yes, that’s right; they have had to remove all of the tables and chairs outside. They have had to destroy their own business. Why? Because Rick Rowe, a Green Party councillor on Hounslow council, who lives very, very, very close to this pub and complains about it almost daily, has banned all three pubs here on strand on the Green Chiswick, from having outside tables. I can only assume he hates pubs, hates business and hates the British way of life. This would usually be buzzing with people enjoying their afternoon. However, they’re the wrong sort of people for Rick.

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

David Lammy’s plan to appoint for diversity not merit is probably unlawful.

So I asked to publish his legal advice.

He says it’s "not in the public interest" - and told me to submit an FOI!

What does he have to hide?

[Charlie @singlenap]

@Gaz3putt @JB_Allen @mrgarethbrooks Wouldn’t make him captain of the raft though would you?

[The Footy Section @FTBLsection]

Question: “The woke community didn't like that some fans went to the games as Ruud Gullit and painted their faces black, what do you think?”

Nathan Aké: “I don't see a problem. Can I be honest here? These topics are getting out of hand, we should be allowing things like this to happen. Ruud Gullit already said he finds it an honor too. Let's stop making a problem out of things like this.”

Huge respect to Ake 👏

[Angela Rayner @AngelaRayner]

I agree with the @DailyMirror

#GeneralElectionNow

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

In yet another Orwellian move, the Government announced in a green paper this week that it wants to decide what news people can and cannot see, with plans to push approved outlets to the top of social media feeds.

Ministers should not be deciding which news sources the public read — especially in an era when three-quarters of under-25s say they get their news from social media.

As written in The Times, “In a state-sponsored ­regime in which inconvenient news was pushed out of view, would the grooming gangs scandal or the excesses of transgender ideology ever have come to light? You shouldn’t choose to trust ­everything you read online; but you shouldn’t trust the state to make the choice for you, either”.

This is dystopian.

Read more below in @thetimes 👇

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

Do we just pretend she isn't a fraudster now? or is a year on the subs bench adequate punishment before you get to wreak havoc on the economy?

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

And now I’m here. I can’t tell you how happy this makes me. I’ve come to a proper village fete in Frogham in the New Forest. I’ve paid 50 pence for raffle tickets at the bottle tombola (I won a bottle of Diet Coke and not the alcohol I’d hope for), I totally failed to knock a single coconut off at the shy, but I did win a little packet of sweets by knocking tin cans down with a bean bag at the stall next to it. This is exactly like the village fetes my Mum took me to fifty years or so ago. It hasn’t changed a bit. A totally perfect slice of English life.

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

Madness. Putting solar panels over car parks, as is required in France, makes every kind of sense. It generates clean power, provides shade to the cars, and protects countryside from solar farms. But the Government has inexplicably rejected it.

https://t.co/TbfDeoV1UF

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

A shop owner in my constituency was ignored by the police when he reported shoplifting.

But when he displayed pictures of the thieves, the police showed up - to tell him that those pictures violated GDPR.

Madness. A free run for criminals, while normal people get crushed.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Trees. Plant them everywhere.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

I’ll be glad to see the back of Lord Hermer.

He has resurrected the Chagos deal & determined to give it away.

He signed off the prosecution for Lucy Connolly.

Compared political opponents to Nazis for wanting to leave the ECHR.

Hounded brave British veterans.

Odious man.

[Andrew Man @TegoArcanaDei]

“The single decision Bridget Philipson made that has been most revealing.
“Eton and Star Academies wanted to open a great new free school in Middlesbrough to help more talented young people access the best universities - backed by funding from Eton.”
“When Bridget became Education Secretary she killed the project.”
Prejudice trumped social mobility.

[Claire Fox @Fox_Claire]

Me on #PoliticsLive: fuss re Kemi's toxic language is SO irritating from party that gave us Lucy Powell's dog whistle attack on mentioning grooming gangs, Lammy labelling Brexiteers as Nazis & nasty, ugly demonising of dissenters as far right/racist/ignorant gammon. Grrr
https://t.co/jeRcFASuHi