Tom Paine

An Englishman returned from 20 years abroad posts here and at his blog for liberty in Britain.

[Tom Paine @tompaine]

Most of us are humble enough to see it’s hard to make the right choices for ourselves and our families. To believe you know better than millions of others how they should live *their* lives is insane. Such lunatics mainly populate academia, politics, press and civil service.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

It’s important to understand that there will never be any future point at which the left will say there’s been enough redistribution or censorship.

Their revolution is permanent and eternal.

[Alan Wolan @AlanWolan]

Sowell explains:

“Why the difference behind the fierce cries of outrage at pay differentials in business, and the passing over in silence of far greater pay differentials in sports and entertainment?

One possible explanation is that business owners and managers have roles in which they can be replaced by political decision-makers, who in turn can impose the kinds of policies preferred by those who imagine that their own superior wisdom or virtue entitles them to dictate to others.

But professional athletes and entertainers have roles that obviously cannot be taken over by politicians or bureaucrats. So there would be no point in trying to discredit highly paid people in sports or entertainment, or to arouse public outrage against them.”

Thomas Sowell
“Discrimination and Disparities.” 2018

[Handre @Handre]

This 1min clip has changed the way I interact with people on a daily basis.

Enjoy.

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

Half the time, the government treats us like mentally handicapped children.

The other half, they treat us like criminals.

Why do we accept it?

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

YouTube can’t stop this. They need the US State Dept & White House to step in and counter with threats to British interests in the US. Threaten you will hit Shell/BP in energy, AstraZeneca/GSK in pharma, BAE in defense, & HSBC/Barclays in finance the second the Brits hit YouTube

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

The British government now wants to MANIPULATE social media algorithms to promote content from "trustworthy" sources like the BBC.

You know the real reason for this, right?

Narrative control.

If it wasn't for X, nobody would have heard about what police did to Henry Nowak.

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

If your country wants to control social media algorithms to force people to watch state approved content, then you don't live in a free country anymore.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

The more leftwing policies lead to an increase in real crime, the more the left will use the police to enforce non-crimes, censorship and political diktats.

This is what the UK is currently experiencing at epidemic proportions.

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

In 1907, Sir Francs Galton went to a livestock exhibition and accidentally stumbled on a phenomenon that explains why central planning doesn’t work. Seeing villagers taking part in a contest to guess the weight of a slaughtered ox, he decided to analyse the results. While individual guesses varied wildly, Galton realised that the mean of the guesses were remarkably close to the true weight of 1,198 pounds. In fact, the villagers had collectively managed to come within 1% of the correct result. He also noted that the supposed experts – farmers and butchers – guessed poorly on their own. What Galton observed was the “wisdom of crowds.”

In 2004, Journalist James Surowiecki popularised the idea in his book called “The Wisdom of Crowds”, where he put forward the thesis that individual errors averages out over large (diverse and decentralized) groups, leaving the average estimate to converge towards the truth.
That the judgement of large groups of individuals is generally more accurate than estimates from experts helps explain why centralised government bureaucracies struggle to match the efficiency of a free market. Friedrich Hayek labelled this phenomenon "spontaneous order." Complex social systems do not originate from central planners, but emerge naturally using the dispersed knowledge of individuals acting purely in their own self-interest and responding only to local market signals. The free market condenses the collective wisdom and preferences from all market participants into a market price. Central planners cannot possibly acquire or process the amount of information contained in that single number.

When central planners try to design an economy and fix prices, they are fighting against the mathematical reality demonstrated by Surowiecki: small homogenous groups of “experts” acting on incomplete information cannot replicate the result of the aggregate of individual choices. Collectively, we possess more knowledge than even the cleverest expert could hope to obtain. History has demonstrated how central planning leads to shortages or surpluses as bureaucrats fail to guess what the free market could have told them.

[Clyde Barrow @stella260573]

@LucyTCWife

[Tom Paine @tompaine]

Shabir Ahmed was a senior @UKLabour member in Oldham, employed by the council for 18 years. “Summon him first. Put Daddy under oath in Oldham and make him name every last one of them. Then, and only then, put him on the plane.” #DeepState https://t.co/YfAmMvZ1Os

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

Britain is so politically messed up that belief in free speech and equality under the law are now considered far-right, extremist positions.

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

America must stand up to our mad Government.

[Pat Condell @patcondell]

Desperate to stamp out free speech, the British government wants social media companies to prioritise content from ‘trusted broadcasters’ like the BBC, one of the least trusted and most despised sources in the western world.
We become more like the Soviet Union every day.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

The behaviour of the British police may seem Orwellian, two-tier and bizarre.

But they’re just acting according to the DEI protocols that have been a core part of their training for the last three decades and are now fixed in their organisational DNA.

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

No @BrumPolice you don't get to control this.

You messed up.

Not for the first time.

You are incompetent and systematically racist.

[Ben @BWoodzy99]

Today my feed has consisted of:

- The Birmingham Police lying about an incident and then demanding the video footage which proved they are lying be taken down

- The Met police intimidating a man on behalf of a Green Party Cllr for posting a legal tweet criticising him

[Rafe Heydel-Mankoo @RafHM]

Without @X & @ElonMusk the government would never have been shamed into having a rape gang inquiry

And we would never have seen the masked & armed Muslim gangs during the Southport protests

This is why our leaders hate X.

It stops them controlling the narrative.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

I judge someone’s character by how happy they are when another person achieves success.

Those of low character are resentful, envious and bitter at the success of others.

[James May @MrJamesMay]

@London_W4 I’m genuinely interested to know if you’ve woken up in the gulag. Bang on the pipes if you need us to batter the door down with a pub bench.