So now we buy poor quality steel from China, where they are opening 2 coal power stations every week. And hope that we don’t ever have any national security needs for that steel that their communist regime don’t agree with. What a mess.
A big moment in Britain's industrial story happened today.
The coke ovens at the Port Talbot steelworks were closed.
This was where they baked the coal used to make millions of tonnes of steel.
What you're looking at here is the last coke ever made in the UK. Pix: @TataSteelUK
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'Dr. Craig said nothing can be done to stop an airborne virus, and the principle of ‘first do no harm’ was ’turned on its head' during the COVID-19 pandemic.'
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Former NATO Advisor: We Are at War and Britain Needs Coal
Professor Gwythian Prins said coal is needed for both national security and energy security, and ‘luxury beliefs like net zero need to be chucked overboard.’
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Carlyle saw this coming 170 years ago!
"In times when men love wisdom, the old man will ever be venerable, and be venerated, and reckoned noble: in times that love something else than wisdom, and indeed have little or no wisdom, and see little or none to love, the old man will cease to be venerated; and looking more closely, also, you will find that in fact he has ceased to be venerable, and has begun to be contemptible; a foolish boy still, a boy without the graces, generosities and opulent strength of young boys."
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Criminalise the Prescribing of Puberty Blockers to Children, Urges Family Lawyer
"Barrister Sarah Phillimore says more needs to be done to protect children from gender and political ideology."
@SVPhillimore @ukepochtimes @BritishThgtLdrs
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The long version of my interview with Doctor Tony Hinton is now on Youtube. And he won the best tie contest!
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@TonyHinton2016 @BritishThgtLdrs
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Chinese generals are rubbing their hands in glee at our Net Zero policies: Prof Prins
WATCH NOW: Professor Gwythian Prins, advisor to NATO and MOD, talks to @LeeAlanHall about the urgent national security need to reinstate key UK industries, the folly of carbon-neutral war vehicles, and why China’s military leaders are delighted by Britain’s Net Zero policies.
@NetZeroWatch
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Robin Aitken: BBC Ideologically ‘Groomed the Nation’
The top journalist who spent 25 years at the BBC said he believes it’s time to end the licence fee because the public broadcaster is no longer impartial.
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Excited to be at the @DontDivideUsNow event in the Unherd bar, as @ASCphiled talks to @AllisonPearson about her latest report
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It gives me hope that our universities are still producing people like Charlie Bentley-Astor. Ready to stick her head above the parapet and take risks to uphold freedoms. The world needs people like this!
@Astor_Charlie talks to @LeeAlanHall about going undercover at Cambridge Uni to stop cancelling of controversial speakers such as @JordanBPeterson, @DocStockK, @HJoyceGender
And the secret societies resisting the progressive orthodoxy...
Watch below or piped.video/BxSuMzmeDm4
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Better watch it now before the Left-wing pile-on takes it down!
WATCH NOW: Pete North @FUDdaily talks with @LeeAlanHall about Far Left & Far Right extremism, our decaying democracy, the brewing Brexit 2.0, and the growing threat of censorship.
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It was a real eye-opener to sit down with Catherine Perez-Shakdam @ShakdamC to hear about Iran's mapping of the Jewish diaspora and plans to destabilize Western capitals in light of current events.
WATCH NOW: Journalist & Middle East expert @ShakdamC talks to @LeeAlanHall about the dangerous and disruptive role Iran is playing in Israel and the West.
FULL INTERVIEW: piped.video/watch?v=Kp8B9K7q…
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The only upside to this whole Net Zero malarkey is that we get to use the word Dunkelflaute in everyday conversation
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Kenneth Clark’s speech at the end of his ‘Civilisation’ BBC series is an incredible moment in TV history. A wonderful statement from someone who wanted to help ordinary people connect with the culture and knowledge that made the West great.
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Hooray for Net Zero, can't wait to be penniless! 🥳
“Things like entertainment, holidays and all the leisure activities we prize: they all go… It will be like the Second World War where people made their own amusement but essentially didn’t have any money to spend because all that money was redirected to a wartime economy. That’s what a Net Zero economy is — a wartime economy."
Former World Bank adviser Gordon Hughes warns a Net Zero economy is a wartime economy.
His new Global Warming Policy Foundation @GWPF_org report highlights how the 2050 target comes with a steep price tag, and means people will have to give up holidays and leisure to pay the taxes needed to fund an energy transition.
@NTDNews @ntduknews
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Nice to be back in the Houses of Parliament for a very well attended @NoXYinXXprisons event
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Thoroughly enjoyed interviewing Prof Eric Kaufmann, despite his terrifying predictions of a woke future! Available to watch now at ntd.com/eric-kaufmann-britis…
@epkaufm @BritishThgtLdrs
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News-Watch Founder: I’m Not Sure the BBC Can Be Saved
The former BBC journalist said the public broadcaster lacks innovation and an independent complaints system, and said its ‘Verify’ service is ’truly sinister.’
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My full interview with the fabulous @LoisPerry26 from @CAR26_ORG is now available to watch on:
ntd.com/lois-perry-british-t…
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Stephanie Davies-Arai: Gender ‘Affirmation’ for Children Is Cruel
The campaigner @cwknews said we can’t teach children both the reality that sex can’t be changed and the ideological belief that it can.
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‘Climate: The Movie’ Filmmaker: Science Doesn’t Back ‘Ridiculous Hysteria’
Martin Durkin said he ended up interviewing older scientists for the film because climate skepticism can end a scientist’s career.
@Martin_Durkin
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U.K. politicians have pledged to quadruple solar generation by 2035. There is one problem — no one wants to live next door to acres of fields crammed with solar panels.
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A report from @ClimateDebateUK and @Togetherdec challenges the London Mayor's claim that thousands of people will die from toxic air, used to justify his ULEZ expansion
@ukepochtimes
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I've always found @dieworkwear's understanding of British tailoring and culture exceptional.
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I'm not really one for role models but if I had to pick, I'd go with @ZubyMusic, seems a level-headed, upright guy
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The Chinese Communist regime has decided it identifies as a democracy, and insists you use its pronouns Democracy/Champion 😂
Democracy is not an ornament or a show. It should be about solving real problems for the people. From day one of its founding, the CPC is a champion for democracy. Ours is whole-process people's democracy. It is a democracy in both process and outcome; a combination of both procedural and substantive, and direct and indirect democracy. It is people's democracy in nature, and at the same time represents the will of the state. The Kennedy School's decade-long surveys in China showed that over 90% of the Chinese people are satisfied with the central government.
Community note
China is an authoritarian regime, ranking bottom 19th among 167 countries around the world at the Democracy Index.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Econo
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@mattwridley Check out from 01:55
Interesting.
Answering @benedictrogers excellent question, @mikepompeo (in a *very* punchy reply) says that failing to secure #HongKong’s freedoms was his biggest failure in office.
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Islamists and Far Left Exploit Anti-British Sentiment: Commentator
Momus Najmi cautioned that neglecting the real threats posed by Islamism could lead to the rise of a far right ‘ethno-nationalist’ movement.
@theworldofmomus @BritishThgtLdrs
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Thoroughly enjoyed interviewing the powerhouse @alanvibe from @Togetherdec about freedoms, 15-minute cities and what we need to do to create a better future.
Watch now at ntd.com/alan-miller-british-…
@BritishThgtLdrs @NTDNews
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@ShaunBaileyUK on the “gangster-like power” of Forfeiture.
🥩@ShaunBaileyUK URGES GOVT BEEFS UP THE BILL🥩
One of the most refreshing and authentic interventions on leasehold the Lords heard today.
Lord Bailey does an epic takedown of the “gangster-like power” of Forfeiture.
Homeownership means liberty.
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Undercover to Protect University Events From Cancellation Mobs
The college graduate said she had seen ‘ringleaders’ of protesters making up false allegations to cancel an event she had organised.
@astor_charlie @BritishThgtLdrs
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Hamas Attacks on Israel Only the Start of Iran's Onslaught on West, Says Middle East Expert
@ShakdamC
@BritishThgtLdrs
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I see the weekly @calvinrobinson hit piece has dropped. He must be doing something right!
I want to give a special mention to the @Independent for publishing a hit piece about me on this holy day.
Thank you for the assured blessings. 🙏
“Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you.”
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Rupert Darwall: Net Zero Policies Favour the Super Wealthy While Stifling The Poor
The former special adviser to the chancellor warns that net zero ‘aggressive decarbonisation’ is worsening the productive potential of the economy.
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@ukepochtimes @RupertDarwall @BritishThgtLdrs
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Molly Kingsley: Government’s Counter Disinformation Unit Had ‘Pages-Long List of Everything They Had Been Monitoring on Me’
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@lensiseethrough @UsforThemUK
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Cancel culture strikes again. Keep up the great work you're doing @ASCphiled
One session is missing -onIndoctrination in Schools. The only person on a panel of three to be disinvited is myself - a woman of colour-seems like my belief in colour-blind meritocratic approaches to race upset a few people who don't have the courage to make their case publicly.
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Can’t recommend this highly enough
New book, 'The Illustrated Empathy Gap' book by William Collins has just been published!
(Not to be confused with his previous book 'The Empathy Gap')
Further details here empathygap.uk/?p=4565
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Wonderful post from @professorstokes
"...the vast majority of the population in Britain at the time of Transatlantic slavery and after its ending were desperately poor and lived in conditions where disease, hunger and poverty were rampant. The vast majority were dead at 40 years old. Britain was not a democracy, and nobody voted for slavery or the empire."
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Sorry to hear this. Well done Kate & the team on all the great work you’ve done.
After considerable thought we have decided to close KPSS down. Our last day of operation will be 30th June 2024.
We have agreed that Kate will continue to support and work with the individual prisoners, former offenders, and CJS whistleblowers with whom we have relationships. Kate is contacting everyone individually to advise them of this.
We have some materials still available and can post these out to whomever wants them: our email address will remain live, so please use this to contact us. All reports and leaflets are also available on our website which, together with our Vimeo, we will maintain as a resource, although content will not be updated.
It is no longer possible to make a donation to KPSS and all regular donations have been cancelled - however, please do check your own accounts. Our PayPal account is now closed. Both KPSS shops have been closed.
KPSS USA is unaffected by this decision. Their work will continue. Please give them a follow @NoXY_USA Any funds remaining after closing down KPSS will be transferred to them.
Thank you to everyone who has supported us. Between us we achieved some truly great things, including two Ministry of Justice policy changes that centre the safety and rights of women in prison. Be proud of what you have done, because none of what KPSS achieved would have been possible without you.
Kate & The KPSS Team, 7th June 2024
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Sunday funny: Prof Gwythian Prins examines the folly of carbon neutral military vehicles
@BritishThgtLdrs @NetZeroWatch
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“What fills the void when you can no longer celebrate the sacred?”
Excellent piece from @MiddleearthMixr
I regret to inform you all that I am a journo for the weekend. Check out my words in The Blaze! theblaze.com/op-ed/commentar…
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It was fascinating to talk with @etinarcadiaego -- never thought I'd be interviewing someone about people being arrested for thought crimes but such is the world we are living in! ntd.com/ryan-christopher-bri…
@ADF_UK
WATCH NOW on NTD.com: @etinarcadiaego director of @ADF_UK, a legal advocacy group. Ryan discusses his thoughts on recent public order issues, the advent of thought crimes, and the challenges faced by the police in the shifting landscape of human rights.
📺 ntd.com/British-Thought-Lead… with @LeeAlanHall
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It was inspiring to talk with Clare Page
@nosecretlessons and hear about the important work she is doing so that parents can know what their children are being taught in sex education lessons.
WATCH NOW:
Clare Page @nosecretlessons, a concerned parent and campaigner, talks to @LeeAlanHall about the fight for parents to know what their children are being taught in school sex education.
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Another wonderful sartorial thread from @dieworkwear
The city (in this case, London) was where men did business in dark worsted suits, white shirts, and black oxford shoes. The country (often Scotland) was where men played sport in brown tweeds, tattersall shirts, and pebble grain oxfords.
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Having an incredible time at @acadofideas Battle of Ideas. So many wonderful speakers and tremendously knowledgeable audience contributors #BattleFest
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The only way to preserve forests is chopping them down and replacing them with Chinese metal windmills. Obviously.
"The project is being led by local Hesse Green Minister Priska Hinz who is reported to have said: “Wind energy makes a decisive contribution to the energy transition and the preservation of nature. It is the only way to preserve forests and important ecosystems.”"
Germany has begun felling up to 120,000 trees from the 'fairy tale' forest of Reinhardswald – setting of many Brothers Grimm tales – to make way for wind turbines. But not a peep in protest comes from the Greens. dailysceptic.org/2024/03/08/…
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Why are we still giving financial aid to China?! That's ridiculous
UK Aid to China Falls by 90 Percent but Transparency Problems Persist
Aid went from £80 million in 2019 to around £8.2 million. But a watchdog says there's still too little transparency over how taxpayers’ money is being spent.
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Well done Nick, your hard work and great character paid off, an impressive result and next time will be even better.
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Forced Organ Harvesting Is ‘Wholesale Slaughter’ in China, Lawmaker Says
There’s ‘no act more heinous than taking a political prisoner, strapping them to a medical bed, and stealing their body parts from the inside out.’
.Rep. @ZachNunn at the hearing had a display board showing a #FalunGong practitioner whose heart went missing after death in Chinese jail.
“The time for the madness—the wholesale slaughter of a population—has to stop."
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This is a tremendous explanation of the communist spectre's subverting of our way of life from @Ayaan -- everyone should read it
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'Some children are still suffering the consequences of COVID-19 lockdowns and without intervention, this will incur a “huge cost” to themselves and society, according to journalist and author @HarrietSergeant'
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“He was encouraged that the UK hosted an AI safety summit at Bletchley Park last year, stimulating an international policy debate. But since then, he says, the British government “has basically decided that profits come before safety”.
"Godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton now thinks there is a 1 in 10 chance everyone will be dead from AI in 5-20 years
Weeks ago, we learned that Yoshua Bengio, another Turing Award winner, thinks there's a 1 in 5 chance we all die.
Hinton is worried about AI hive minds: “Hinton realised that increasingly powerful AI models could act as “hive minds”, sharing what they learnt with each other, giving them a huge advantage over humans.”
“OpenAI’s latest model GPT-4 can learn language and exhibit empathy, reasoning and sarcasm."
“I am making a very strong claim that these models do understand,” he said in his lecture.
He predicts that the models might also “evolve” in dangerous ways, developing an intentionality to control. “If I were advising governments, I would say that there’s a 10% chance these things will wipe out humanity in the next 20 years. I think that would be a reasonable number,” he says.
“He was encouraged that the UK hosted an AI safety summit at Bletchley Park last year, stimulating an international policy debate. But since then, he says, the British government “has basically decided that profits come before safety”.
“He says he is heartened that a younger generation of computer scientists is taking existential risk seriously and suggests that 30% of AI researchers should be devoted to safety issues, compared with about 1% today.”
“We humans should make our best efforts to stay around.”
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'Plethora' of Antisemitism Sweeping Throughout the Freedom Movement, Warns Jewish Expert theepochtimes.com/world/plet… via @epochtimes
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Shameful censoring
If you can't beat 'em, censor 'em!: @EliotJacobson: "I'm thinking we can get 10,000 people to report "Climate: the Movie" on YouTube as having harmful and misleading content." @Martin_Durkin @ClimateDepot @efenigson
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Christopher Moltisanti won’t stand for someone disrespecting the theatre!
Sopranos actor Michael Imperioli shoves an eco maniac out of a Broadway performance as he blathers about the ocean rising to "swallow the theatre whole." 2 more were also turfed out. Apparently this is now the place to protest for net zero garbage. Report: modernity.news/2024/03/16/vi…
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“The doctor, a tall, awkward, middle-aged man, known jokingly in the town as ‘Dr Death’, arrived at 6.45. With him was a nurse, whose job was to assist by handing him the appropriate syringes containing the lethal cocktails of drugs. In a surreal scene – a new form of rite which will doubtless be coming to the UK soon – we gathered in the living room to witness my aunt’s imminent death.”
This has to be the essay of the year in @TheSpectator unbelievable reading
The chillingly seductive glimpse of assisted dying spectator.co.uk/article/a-ch…
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Excellent interview thanks @alanvibe lot of important issues we touched on! @BritishThgtLdrs @Togetherdec
Good to do an interview about where we are with @Togetherdec currently & next steps with Lee Hall @ntdnews ‘British Thought Leaders’ out in a couple of weeks
More news coming re Together Cabinet , reports ++
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The BBC's children's channel promoting puberty blockers to children. NHS England will no longer routinely prescribe them after a review found "not enough evidence" they are safe or effective.
In 2014, CBBC - BBC's children's channel promoted puberty blockers to children as harmless and completely reversable.
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...with all of its flaws, the West’s individualistic spirit has fostered innovation, democracy, and the rule of law, unlocking “human potential in ways that nothing else can.” and... detractors of the West’s history and culture often don’t understand the Western roots of their values, and therefore are “sawing at the branch that they are sitting on.”
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@ukepochtimes @marcsidwell
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I thought we’d already reached peak craziness. Obviously not…
If dad’s milk is as good as mother’s milk, why aren’t all men encouraged to breastfeed?
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Bravo @NigelBiggar
“The partisan distortion of the past your display presents is so demonstrably extreme as to be tantamount to a lie. Therefore, I urge the Kelvingrove Museum to make itself thoroughly inclusive, telling the whole truth and not just those bits of it that serve an empirically dubious and racially divisive political agenda, uncritically imported from the United States.”
.@aroberts_andrew .@DouglasKMurray .@tiffanyjenkins .@davidtorrance Read in full my letter of protest to the Kelvingrove Museum at its travesty of the truth about Scottish (and British) involvement in slavery: wp.me/pdKHcd-Lt
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He needs to get his facts straight, listen to less Paul Ehrlich and more Paul Morland 😂
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Wow.
“The activists’ anonymous campaign of coercion and misinformation has put intolerable pressure on authors and the festival community. We step back with the hope that the festival will thrive this year and into the future. We hold the activists squarely responsible for the inhibiting effect their action will have on funding for the arts in this country.”
Getting pretty sick of activist bigots managing to coerce cultural events into caving in to their harassment. This is a desperate, but rightly angry declaration by @edbookfest.
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It’s happening in Oxford, Cambridge, Bath, Sheffield…
Road blocks have caused immense damage already in Oxford; LTNs harm business & residents mobility & @OxfordshireCC now wants to restrict & charge more via 15 Min City @duncanenright
Richard Parnham John Skinner @ReconnectingOx @alanvibe say end LTNs & no to 15 Min City
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Excellent @DontDivideUsNow @EquianoProject event on Antisemitism in the UK, very inspiring speakers
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And so it escalates...absolutely shocking
#BREAKING Pro-palestine protesters DESTROY historic painting of Lord Balfour in Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, by spraying and then slashing it.
nitter.app/Pal_action/status/1766…
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'Oliver Dowden, the deputy prime minister, is expected to tell parliament on Monday that Beijing is behind a string of cyberattacks on MPs and peers.'
🔺 Exclusive: China has targeted a group of senior politicians at Westminster as part of a new wave of state-backed interference aimed at undermining British democracy. thetimes.co.uk/article/china…
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UK Legal Centre Chief: 1,000-a-Year Get in Trouble Over Christian Views
Andrea Williams, chief executive of Christian Concern, said people get in trouble for holding Christian views on marriage and gender.
@A_Minichiello @CConcern
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'Gangs in London are a “colossal problem” which are too often ignored by critics of the police, according to a commentator who served in the Metropolitan Police for 30 years.'
@obbsie @BritishThgtLdrs
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Very informative @BritishThgtLdrs interview with the fascinating Professor Andrew Tettenborn @seatradelaw
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He probably sent the same message to Georgia Meloni 😂
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It was inspiring to talk to @JamesEsses — an important voice of reason in a world that seems to be running on chaos. Keep up the great work James
WATCH NOW: Writer, commentator @JamesEsses talks to @LeeAlanHall about gender ideology & its impact on children, as well as the dangers of transgender athletes competing in women's sports. He also discusses his ongoing legal case after being expelled from his Masters’ degree for speaking out about these issues.
More info on James's legal battle is here: crowdjustice.com/case/expell…
Watch the interview:
📺 NTD: ntd.com/james-esses-british-…
📺 Epoch TV: theepochtimes.com/james-esse…
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“We talk of celebrities and influencers as “heroes” but what of the heroism of “ordinary people”, people who do not seek the spotlight but whose selfless actions under pressure so often reveal the backbone of that abstraction we call society?”
Must-read from @matthewsyed
Riots and violence across England but my time in Southport showed the courage and kindness of this nation. A fantastic town that has endured terrible grief…
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Fascinating @BritishLeaders interview with the eminently stylish Elliott Rowland from @FellerRedwood
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Liz Truss: Conservatives Don’t Understand That Communists Want to Destroy Western Civilisation
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Wow, nice to see an accurate headline
Trump Warns US Will See Economic ‘Bloodbath’ If He’s Not Elected theepochtimes.com/us/trump-w… via @epochtimes
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