Academic Biochemist (PhD). Classical Liberal. Interests: Science, Philosophy, Economics, Politics and Investing.

Joined August 2022
Steve Burston retweeted
The Spectator has reported that before Jonathan Powell started his role as Britain’s national security adviser, he wasn’t security vetted. His wife, Sarah Helm, has shown online support for Hamas and Palestine Action. Outrageous. Heads need to roll for this.
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URGENT: The Islamic Republic of Iran has sentenced 23-year-old Najmeh Amini to death for “blasphemy” over a social media post. She was already serving a 12-year sentence for participating in January’s protests. .@UN_HRC, end your silence and demand Amini’s immediate release.
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Steve Burston retweeted
This #bbcqt audience member (how did he get in?) absolutely nails it on Brexit. “The Remainers never accepted the result.” “The Brexit we voted for wasn’t delivered and left us in a half way house.” “The EU is crumbling and our future doesn’t lie within it.” A fine summary.
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Labour insists that crime is falling. But does that include new categories of crime which we never had before. Such as attacking your fellow citizens with machetes?
Just seen the footage from that Arriva bus stop in the UK. Immigrants on the bus fighting with knives, full-on chaotic scrap, innocent people scattering to avoid being hurt or drawn into the violence. This isn’t some one-off anymore. Same story keeps cropping up on public transport, fights, knives, people not feeling safe just trying to get home. Drivers are dealing with it constantly. And they still want us to chant “diversity is our strength.” Give me a break!! Does anybody seriously believe that? When you’re watching this stuff play out at bus stops and on the buses themselves? This is Modern Britain in 2026, that’s the sad reality we are now in.
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The most dangerous person in history is an intellectual with zero real-world experience who believes they are smart enough to engineer human society from a desk. They don't understand supply chains, price signals, or human drive, yet they demand absolute veto power over your life. Hubris kills millions.
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A genuine (not sarcastic) question: Is it time to provide a mandatory statistics course for anyone who is elected to parliament? 📊
Of the 12 people to have taken a Covid PCR test in Islington. 7 have tested positive.
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Steve Burston retweeted
Reform UK should be held to high standards. I don't think anybody is disputing that. But watching the latest Channel 4/ITV investigations I did wonder: Where is the year-long undercover investigation into the grooming gangs and the Labour-held councils and police officers who enabled them for years? Where's the year-long investigation into the mosques, Islamic charities and educational foundations that are suspected of supporting Islamism in this country? Where's the prime-time investigation into the pro-Palestine or pro-Hamas activists who have been marching through our streets for years? Where's the investigation into the civil service and why supposedly impartial government units are now becoming so openly political? Where's the undercover sting operation into the Green party, Stand Up To Racism, Hope Not Hate, and other far-left groups -- including their links to the Labour Party and funding from British taxpayers? Where's the detailed uncover work on the global multinationals that are ruthlessly exploiting British workers, the corrupt regimes exploiting foreign aid from the British people, or the organised foreign national networks exploiting Britain's welfare state? None of this is to downplay the investigation into Reform UK. Personally, I think all this makes the party stronger over the longer-term. The party should and no doubt will improve its internal policies as a result. It is also now crystal clear to everybody in this country what is going on. Establishment interest groups are trying to dismantle the party. But I still ask: if the media and journalists are going to do this kind of deep undercover work then shouldn't they be doing it to everybody? Because right now it looks like they are only interested in discrediting the one political party that wants to overturn the broken status-quo.
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Robert Jenrick swings back about vetting: "Look at the BBC for example. Can you now give a guarantee to your listeners this morning that no BBC presenter in the future will be exposed as a paedophile as a number have been in the recent past? No of course you can’t." Fair point
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Steve Burston retweeted
Ireland has been completely conquered by Israel Derangement Syndrome. For us normal Irish people, it all feels so mortifying, says Brendan O’Neill buff.ly/N59XzNo
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Steve Burston retweeted
There are two ways for economists to become famous. One way is to spend decades doing rigorous research and developing new theories in the hope of winning the Nobel. The other way is to parrot childish left-wing nonsense to The Guardian. theguardian.com/business/202…
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A lesson in how one can try to win by weaponising one's weaknesses
These men always talk about ‘trans women being frightened’, ‘breaches of their rights’ all Because they want to be in spaces made for women. India never turns that on its head and thinks of women who are frightened, women who are having their rights breached. Yes we have a right not to have men in our spaces. End.
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People need to understand clearly what is happening here. Andy Burnham has never been a fan of Britain’s democratic decision to leave the European Union in 2016. The referendum was one of the biggest democratic processes in modern Britain, with strong views on both sides. The Prime Minister now claims officials told him that Russia interfered in the referendum. Burnham used his first speech at the UN to announce the creation of the National Centre for Information Defence. He said it would tackle Russian misinformation that sows division, interferes in our democracy, spreads false narratives about Britain and pushes people towards the “far right”. But today, a Foreign Office minister slapped down that claim, saying Russia was not successful in influencing the Brexit referendum. It is clear that this new centre will almost certainly be used to clamp down on those who do not subscribe to Burnham’s vision of Britain or the progressive orthodoxies he promotes. It looks as if Andy Burnham is now spreading misinformation about misinformation — the very thing he claims threatens democracy.
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Don't cry, Baba. 😔💔 Hours before his execution, Alireza Raeisi was allowed one final phone call from Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan. His father was crying on the line. So Alireza, with hours left to live, tried to comfort the man who raised him. "What can I do, Baba. They want to take my whole life from me." Then he asked for one last message: "Say hello to my uncle. Tell him I'm looking after Ramin over there." Ramin was his cousin. The son of that same uncle. He was shot dead in the streets of Isfahan during the protests. Now the regime has hanged the other one. At dawn. In secret. This is what the Islamic Republic calls justice: 18 days of torture. Electric shocks. A forced confession. A trial lasting minutes. An appeal thrown out in less than 48 hours. A gallows built beside a Revolutionary Guard executioner. They think the rope will end the uprising. The rope is only creating more anger towards society. When I talk to any of the family members of those who are in prison on the death road, they have a simple demand: tel the world: #StopExecutionsInIran, demand accountability for these unlawful executions. Sanction the judges and executioners. Silence is complicity. #AlirezaRaeisi
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Somali-born Islamic content creator Muhammad Saifullah, who grew up in Manchester and now lives in Bristol, openly said he would impose executions for homosexuality and adultery and kill apostates and people who insult Islam’s Prophet Muhammad if he ruled Britain under Sharia law. Asked whether homosexuals would be executed, Saifullah said “100%.” Asked how, he replied: “With a sword, cut his head off like that.” He also said adulterers would be “stoned to death.” On apostates, he went even further: “Personally, with the apostates, I would torture them.” He said he would make their deaths “hell.” Saifullah insisted these were genuinely his religious beliefs, saying: “This is Islam, and I’m proud of it.” He said he believes in it “to the letter” and would not change his beliefs to gain acceptance. He also defended Osama bin Laden, describing him as a Muslim defending Islam and comparing the way Muslims view him with the way Britons historically viewed Richard the Lionheart. He ended his comments about bin Laden by saying: “May Allah have mercy on him.” Asked about the Charlie Hebdo attackers, Saifullah rejected describing them as terrorists and said their actions were a religious matter and “a command from Allah.”
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There are more Gazans alive today than there were before the October 7th attack. It’s a fakeocide, not a genocide.
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Steve Burston retweeted
Is there an equivalent for the Green Party in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, or Saudi Arabia? No. Nothing even remotely similar. This has nothing to do with the environment (what the Green Party used to represent). The Green Party today is an Islamic project that aims at the Islamification of the UK and Europe. They are traitors and a fifth column and should be treated as such.
“This is what the Green Party does to you..” Enough said.
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Navi Pillay, Sept. 2012: “Charlie Hebdo is doubly irresponsible to publish these cartoons.” She called the cartoons “malicious and deliberately provocative.” Pillay “fully understands why people wish to protest strongly against the cartoons.” ohchr.org/en/press-briefing-…
BREAKING: Denmark's former foreign minister “shocked” over Nobel prize to Navi Pillay. “She is not qualified,” says Per Stig Møller. When Denmark was attacked by Muslims over cartoons of Mohammed, Pillay refused to help. “Her response was that we should introduce censorship.” 🧵
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"Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and courageous." - W.E.B. Du Bois, 1953
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Das kann man an vielen Plätzen auf der Welt machen, aber nicht in Palästina.
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