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I believe his PhD is from Liverpool John Moores.
Douglas Carswell putting professor in quotes is an interesting link to LJMU.
The LJMU VC has been made a professor. He has never held a Faculty academic position nor has a higher degree by research.
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It’s never enough for these greedy bastards at the BMA
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Paul, what you’ve touched on here is key.
The IOPC.
They had already tried to diminish the failures of the officers. Like us, it took the Nowak family to fight back against their shoddy work to get it reopened.
In the Nottingham Attacks there are 16 strands over two police forces being ‘investigated’ by this not fit for purpose watchdog.
Three and a half years of appalling work, endless delays and U-turn and still no satisfactory outcomes.
The review into the IOPC that’s currently underway with Dame Lynne Owens and Jason Beer KC MUST expose the truth about how ineffective they are and must be replaced with a fair and robust mechanism that holds our policing (and therefore public safety) to account in this country.
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Shocking neglect and abuse of retired Lt Col Stephen Maguire DCM SAS, a natural born leader of men who spent 40 years in service to his country, and his son's long fight for justice. Please share Ben's post widely: "My father, Retired Lt Col Stephen Maguire DCM SAS, is a man who spent nearly 40 years in dedicated service to this country, serving from 1970 until 2009. He is a natural leader, a decorated soldier, to those who served with him. However, he has been completely abandoned and betrayed by the very system he gave everything to.
I am fighting for justice for my father. This struggle is a mirror of my own life; my own journey marked by the negligence of MPs, charities, and veteran services which led me to the absolute rock bottom of homelessness as a veteran myself. I know exactly what it is like to be discarded by the people who promised to provide support.
After years of fighting, we finally have a pathway toward the right care, but the damage is already done. The sheer scale of the failings along the way has crippled a man who likely only suffered from PTSD. What should have been a manageable recovery became a total collapse because of institutional incompetence.
This isn't a failure of one person or one office it is a systemic rot. For too long, the UK government, regardless of which side of the fence they sit on, has played a political game with the lives of our veterans. Whether it is Labour or the Conservatives, the result is the same: service men are treated as assets when they are useful and as liabilities the moment they are broken. We are told our sacrifices are "remembered," but the reality is that once the uniform comes off, the care vanishes.
We sought help for my dad, worried about PTSD and dementia resulting from his service. Through the SAS Association and Veterans’ Aid, he was referred to various healthcare facilities. Instead of professional care, he found negligence from these referrals.
In the last few years alone, he has been through multiple institutions that have failed him. We've dealt with incorrect diagnoses, doctors who tried to push him out of their care because he was "too difficult," and the removal of life-saving medication that led to him being sectioned under the Mental Health Act. He was sedated and left to decline without specialist care. His PTSD was completely ignored, and his medical history was dismissed. In one instance, he was admitted to the hospital due to low sodium caused by the excessive use of anti-psychotic medication.
The most infuriating part is the silence from the top. MPs have explicitly ignored this situation and failed to act for a Lt Col in 22 SAS. The "Military Covenant" is nothing more than a piece of paper used for photo opportunities while men like my father are left to rot.
The system has failed. The NHS has failed. Veteran charities have failed. From the MOD passing the buck to the medical incompetence of the facilities, my father has been abandoned like thousands of others.
I am posting this because we need accountability. It is not enough to simply "help" now; there must be justice for the way he was treated. My father spent four decades looking after his men and serving at the highest level for the United Kingdom; it is a national disgrace that the government failed to look after him and many like him.
Do not listen to the rhetoric the government continues to push. As this is an example of what happens after 40 years of dedicated service.
Please share this. We need the people in power to answer for this. We need leaders who actually lead, not politicians who just talk."
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Colonel Brighton retweeted
I was a criminal intelligence analyst for a decade, then a consultant in that kind of thing. I've never seen crime data portrayed like this, for good reason.
Logarithmic scales are used to compress exponential differences (bacteria multiplying, stock markets doubling year on year, differences between towns and cities).
In the Economist's case, a log scale would make sense if there was a reason for Afghan men to commit more of these crimes (if each Afghan had a hundred cocks, or was actually ten men inside one suit). But there isn't. The log scale just obscures the vastly higher rates of offending by these imported Labour voters.
The casual reader will skim over it and assume it's a linear scale. The one advantage is that it makes proportional differences below/close to the baseline easier to see. But it obfuscates the truth.
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I’ve come to realise something about modern political disagreement following my appearance last year on BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze to discuss Net Zero. The whole experience completely changed my perspective on politics and sent me on a massive intellectual journey, forcing me to examine deep philosophical assumptions and beliefs I had long taken for granted.
During the discussion, I found myself returning to two deeply held convictions that I had long taken for granted: that Western civilisation has been, on balance, a moral force for good in the world, and that the Industrial Revolution represented an enormous advance for humanity. Both convictions are rooted in the Anglo-American Enlightenment tradition, with its belief in reason, individual liberty, scientific progress and the capacity of human beings to improve their material circumstances. I believe this view of modern Western civilisation is now under serious threat from within (left- and right-wing populism, eco-pessimism and Islamism) and from without (revisionist powers such as China and Russia).
Following the debate, I came to realise that if you want to understand why intelligent people can disagree so profoundly about what ought to be done in life, it is often insufficient to examine their immediate political or policy arguments. You need to understand the deeper philosophical premises from which those arguments proceed, including their assumptions about the nature of reality, human nature, progress and what constitutes a good society.
I think this gets to the heart of what we mean when we talk about political polarisation and the so-called “culture wars”. People are not simply disagreeing about policies. Nor is it about “comms” or individual personalities.
Increasingly, we are operating from fundamentally different understandings of the world itself. Yet few politicians articulate the philosophical assumptions underpinning their vision of society. Take the nature of reality. Is it an objective order that we must discover and adapt to, or something we can shape through our will and values? These are the underlying questions in many of today’s debates, from transgender identity to energy systems and whether governments can override the laws of supply and demand.
Instead of telling us what they fundamentally believe and why, politicians jump straight to political positioning, tactical messaging and policy announcements, leaving voters totally confused. I think this contributes to the growing fragmentation of our politics, which technologies such as social media are accelerating by reinforcing competing worldviews and making it much harder for people to recognise, let alone understand, the assumptions from which others are reasoning.
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I mean, in another life, @tescomobile
Could just give me my PAC Code.
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Buzz's Bedtime Stories: “Clinton White House Staffers Behaving Badly”
Tonight’s “Buzz’s Bedtime Story” is an embarrassing tale, not for me personally but for us as Americans. Prepare to be outraged.
In the summer of 1997, I accompanied Bill Clinton on a European trip. One of our several stops was Denmark and meetings with the Danish Queen Margrethe II.
We landed on Air Force One at the airport in Copenhagen and boarded Marine One for a nighttime tour of the coast en route to Kronborg Castle (for Shakespeare, the place he used as his “Hamlet’s home.”
It was a beautiful summer night, and the castle was lit spectacularly. Marine One circled at about 500 feet. We did a couple of circuits around the castle while Bill and Hillary, the doctor, Secret Service agents, and I gazed out Marine One’s windows. It was breathtaking.
After our sightseeing tour was complete, we flew directly to the Queen’s summer refuge, the Marselisborg Palace. We landed at around midnight on the castle grounds and were welcomed with open arms by the Queen and her staff.
A procession of Danish military guards accompanied us to the castle. It is beautiful and historic, and yet another incredible experience seeing the world. I'd been to Denmark before as an Air Force pilot, but not like this!
I made sure POTUS was down for the evening, said goodnight to the senior staff, and went to bed.
The Danes put me up in the “Scottish Military suite.” It was stunning. As an Air Force guy who was normally used to substandard hotels and the occasional tent, I was floored. It was a beautiful room that they’d fully stocked with a spread of meats, cheeses, breads, fruit, and a full bar. I couldn’t drink, but the options were incredible.
All served, of course, with fine china and crystal. I honestly have no clue what the association was with the Danish and the Scottish military, but I wasn’t asking any questions!
I called my wife to say goodnight, and she couldn’t believe I was calling from a Danish castle. She told me to never complain again. 🤣
The next morning, the Queen had a breakfast spread for the Clintons and staff. Again, everything was first class. Nothing was spared. A Danish breakfast served on fine china and crystal, served by uniformed butlers. Again, very impressive.
As we headed to the motorcade to leave for an event and the long flight home, I was pulled aside by the Danish military aide. We’d become fairly close during our short stay. “Buzz, we have a problem,” he said. “Your staff stole liquor, china, and crystal from their rooms. And took other things as well.”
I was stunned and chagrined. Talk about feeling like the ugly American. I apologized profusely and told him I’d handle it. I talked with the White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, and told him what had happened.
I liked Erskine. He was previously enlisted in the Coast Guard, and we’d share war stories from time to time. Erskine just shrugged his shoulders.
They didn’t work for me; they worked for him. Bill.
Ultimately, there would be no apology. Nobody would be held accountable. Nobody called on the carpet. No repayment to Denmark.
Just another day in the Clinton White House.
Colonel Brighton retweeted
"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here"
Colonel Brighton retweeted
Planning Application for a WAITROSE superstore on the London Road, Bath ACCEPTED
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Nose ring, face full of make up, bright red hair…
Great professional look for a police officer.
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Seems the fact that Calocane can be considered for release in January came as a shock to many.
He can.
It happens.
Appalling as it is.
….plus hundreds of criminal ‘patients’ like him.
So I’ve written this to explain just how the ´hospital’ system works in this country.
-‘Patients, Not Prisoners’
Not scaremongering - just fact.
Please read and share if you can.
This is what we are fighting against…
Ps:
Thanks to @hundredfamilies for input and support. God knows where I’d be without you Julian Hendy!!
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The decision not to vet the National Security Advisor, Jonathan Powell, was a deliberate one.
The reason behind that decision could only be that the person who took it did not believe he would pass it and did not care.
Which means that Jonathan Powell was deliberately put in post by someone at the very highest level to deliver something that could not or would not be delivered by someone else who was properly vetted.
Keir Starmer personally appointed Jonathan Powell as the UK’s National Security Adviser on 8 November 2024.
Keir Starmer, it should be remembered, also appointed Peter Mandelson to the post of UK ambassador to the United States before vetting was even completed, and then confirmed him in post, ignoring the vetting agency's recommendation.
Both Powell and Mandelson are/were advocates of an ever deeper relationship between the UK and China. Powell being a significant advocate for the surrender of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a development that could only strengthen China’s position in a contested region of the world.
I’ve said for a long time that I believe Starmer has been compromised and this revelation that Starmer personally appointed Powell to such a critical post without vetting shows that Starmer ‘s actions were at the very least highly irregular, extremely questionable and certainly undermining of UK national security.
Consider every action of Starmer as PM and the conclusion becomes self evident.
Jonathan Powell was not vetted before being appointed National Security Adviser, we can report.
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