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[Andrew @techsocchange]

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[Nym @nym]

ANONYMITY IS NOT A CRIME

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

The Left: “Believe All Women!”

British Women: “250,000+ of us were systematically raped and tortured by mostly Pakistani men from the 1950s to now with help from our police, social workers, NHS staff and politicians.”

The Left: “Yea, not you.”

[Денис Казанський @den_kazansky]

The Russian army attacked ordinary passersby with cluster munitions on a street in Kramatorsk (Donetsk region).

Three civilians were killed.

This is a senseless act of terror. Putin calls this "helping the people of Donbas."

[John Longworth @john4brexit]

Heat pumps will push up energy bills, Labour report finds -Energy Secretary previously claimed net zero technology would save households ‘hundreds of pounds a year’

https://t.co/T8WLC37mcd

[Andrew @techsocchange]

@Channel4News More importantly. He provided a better strategy for dealing with Trump's war.

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

@ammo_echo_jail Same story there too. Only Sainsbury's and Tesco of big four will likely survive. And all down to bad management/financial trickery.

[Sorcha Eastwood MP @SorchaEastwood]

Keir Starmer needs to go.

Looks like reading the room is something he's still not managed to learn despite many painful lessons.

Please go.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Before & After…

If anyone doubts the power of community action over the @EnvAgency’s spineless inertia, you can walk to the outskirts of Ilford & walk along an ancient lost river to see for yourself.

With 10 days of intense effort by dedicated volunteers, the river River Roding Trust managed to clean up & restore 250 metres of the Aldersbrook (about 1/3 of the brook). This allows a direct comparison between the parts of the brook we restored & those we haven’t got round to yet.

These photos & videos are all from May 2026. The first is on a part of the Aldersbrook still to be restored & shows the old flood defences which are no longer needed & are killing the river but which the EA won’t remove unless we volunteers pay them £50,000 just for surveys. These defences have caused 2-3ft of stinking sludge & silt to build up over 70 years, such that the water in the brook is just a few centimetres deep. Combine with huge amounts of rubbish & and out of control knotweed infestation & the river ecosystem is essentially dead. A river that is older than England destroyed by official indifference.

A hundred metres away, and it’s a different story. The rubbish & the invasive species (I sprayed the knotweed myself last autumn) are gone. The silt that used to clog the river is now spread on the banks & rapidly providing fertile ground for native plants. Instead of sludge, there’s 2-3ft of water, so fish have returned to the brook for the first time in decades, along with dragon flies, herons & a nesting moorhen. We river guardians knew our intervention would make a difference, but have been shocked at quite how quickly nature has come back. The restored Aldersbrook is now a rare jewel: pretty much the last fully natural tidal brook in London.

The EA now has a choice. It can salvage some good from this situation & work with us to restore the remaining sections of the brook, or it can continue to do nothing. If the latter, river guardians *will* be back this winter to finish the job & the EA can see how well prosecuting volunteers for restoring a river without permission goes for them.

[NFBUK @NFBUK]

@thetimes @mortenmorland Not a bright future for blind people if @AndyBurnhamGM does not act on the issue of floating bus stops.

[Seán Ó Morchoe @JohnMurphy51]

This is Sinn Féin...

Telling people not to display their national flag because it upsets migrants while they drape it over the coffins of dead murderers and terrorists.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Make a note of this, and then make a note of which British public figures repeat these talking points. This will tell you all you need to know about those people.

[Andrew @techsocchange]

@BGatesIsaPyscho This man isn't Asian.

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Burnham to Labour: "This is a final chance to change."

[Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio @LeoKearse]

I love how The Guardian blithely reports on the Taliban smartphone ban as being an affront to civil liberties.

They seem determined not to notice any parallels between Keir Starmer's government and the Taliban.

"In September, authorities ordered an internet blackout which lasted two days and was vaguely justified by concerns over pornography; the order said the cutoff was to “prevent immorality”"

Of course I'm not suggesting the Taliban are as authoritarian or Islamist-influenced as Keir Starmer's government.

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

We are being looted…

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

You’ve listed the make up of the ‘counterfactual’ against which actual UK performance is being compared: 61% US, 11% Estonia, 10% Greece, 7% Italy. That alone should have made you realise the study’s not worth the paper it’s written on. What on earth makes you think that a proper comparison — 61% America, which has way outperformed all major European economies??!! It’s almost as if the counterfactual was specifically chosen to make UK look bad.

[Andrew @techsocchange]

Tactically, the best thing for Labour to do, is call a general election to demonstrate they're the party of choice. 🥀

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

Burnham wants to be all things to all men - but here's why he'll end up delivering NOTHING and pleasing no one. My column for @TheSun ⬇️ https://t.co/zKMrztgBde

[Jacob Rees-Mogg @Jacob_Rees_Mogg]

Is there a competition between the Environment Agency and Natural England for the worst quango of 2026?
“Barrister threatened with prosecution after cleaning up river”.

https://t.co/z3QNGsYqUK

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

A great takedown of a story that appeared across the media yesterday, not just the BBC