Catholic, Political Strategist #postliberal Co-Founder @ClimateDebateUK
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In 100 seconds @clim8resistance Co-Founder of @ClimateDebateUK explains why we are in such a mess on energy:
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In the mid noughties Russell Brand became a huge name. He traded on being sex mad. Every channel lapped it up and promoted him. They used him up and got what they wanted out of him. He may be a sex mad pervert, he may even go to jail for it, but what of those media platforms who encouraged him and profited from him?
We consider ourselves righteous if we punish @rustyrockets yet we continue to flog the lie that sex is recreational, that human persons are fair game to be medicated, used and thrown away. Every person who advocates for the contraceptive pill, abortion and sex outside marriage is culpable.
What pervs came up with Naked Attraction and Naked Dating? What penalties will they face for doing so?
If Brand is guilty (and he may well be) then so is the whole industry that perpetuates the lie that sex is not sacred but recreational. You absolute degenerate scum bags.
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The alternative headline 'Miliband slammed for commissioning wind turbines that could not be used'.
Looks like AR8 faces some serious headwinds @I_D_A_U_ @KathrynPorter26 @RichardLyon_ @7Kiwi @latimeralder @aDissentient
ALT Times Sat 31st October
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New Zealand FM Winston Peters on stopping funding to @UNRWA:
“We want to know our money is going for a legitimate purpose. And you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to work out it certainly was not. We're not financing cases where they are actually engaged with terrorists.”
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One fears that this is Labour’s preferred version of social justice: public confession and humiliation for non-crimes all to enforce a dystopian view of universal victimhood and ubiquitous culpability - so that human freedom can be erased by the state seeking recompense
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You can cancel an election and ban the winner from running (Romania), you can ban your opponents from ever running again (Hungary), you can threaten to ban the main opposition party and subject it to relentless investigations by the secret police (Germany), you can threaten a ban on the leading presidential candidate and make them wear an ankle monitor (France), every member of your circle can be investigated for corruption (Spain), you can try and cancel local elections because you will lose them (Britain), and you can storm the constitutional court with riot police because you want to control it (Poland).
You can just do all these things. The secret is you just have to be on the right side of the European Commission.
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In 1948, the House of Commons debated whether to fix Easter to a particular Sunday.
The Home Secretary Chuter Ede said:
'I was brought up as a Nonconformist, and it was always a great mystery to me how Easter was fixed, until a school fellow of mine, who attended the rites of the Established Church, explained to me that during a dull sermon he used to work out the dates of hypothetical Easters in the future from the tables in the last pages of the Book of Common Prayer.'
Tom Skeffington-Lodge, Labour MP for Bedford, interrupted: 'In the first pages'.
Ede responded, 'That shows that I still remain a good sound Nonconformist.'
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#BREAK the 🇨🇳 mega-embassy judicial review claimants @StopTheEmbassy will have a hearing regarding permission to appeal in 2027.
Means that, if nothing else, we have delayed this mad project by at least one year. Beijing will not be happy. 😘
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It's almost as if the penny is dropping...
Europe’s energy ministers are running out of ideas to protect citizens from surging energy prices as winter approaches.
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Churchill authorised & sent over 900,000 tons of grain to India between mid 1943 to end of 1944 to alleviate the famine, despite the concurrent shipping crisis & Japanese naval threat. You’re an associate professor at Cambridge. The Churchill Archives are literally in Cambridge. Do better. Utterly embarrassing & shameful.
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Across Margaret Thatcher's entire 11-year premiership, defence spending averaged ~4.8% to 5.2% of GDP, significantly higher than today's target of around ~2.6% of GDP.
We now spend ~1% more in GDP on debt interest payments than on defence.
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I cycle through here every weekday, and this is representative. Few cyclists stop on the red light, and this is the same across central London. It happens because there are no repercussions for breaking the rules.
‘What wrong with you?’ Terrified pedestrian asks dangerous Lime bike rider skidding past her on pavement opposite St Thomas’s Hospital, London. Other pedestrians subjected to people riding bikes at speed & close passing them when they have green man to cross road. @ShabanaMahmood
I pray this isn't true! 🙏
Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson is reportedly about to leave the newspaper amid significant job cuts to the newsroom theguardian.com/media/2026/o…
One wonders if anyone one is ever going to be in a position to give Andy Burnham a genuinely rigorous and tough interview.
Somehow I seriously doubt it.
Andy Burnham tells @DanielHewittITV his first Budget as prime minister wasn’t his ‘ideal budget’
Watch our ITV Tonight Special, 'Burnham: Inside The First 100 Days' at 1915 on Tuesday 3rd November, ITV 1, ITVX and STV
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Dr Mark Stocker reviews "Not Your Victim" by Marie Kawthar Daouda, an intelligent and courageous critique of how modern identity politics, victimhood culture, and the decolonisation of the curriculum entrap and divide society.
historyreclaimed.co.uk/not-y…
#HistoryRecliamed #CrMarkStocker #MarieKawtharDaouda #BookReview
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Tucked away on page 118 of the Budget document the Treasury announced a lowering of salary requirements to make it easier for businesses to hire immigrants rather than recruiting and training Brits.
This is totally wrong-headed. Alan Milburn’s interim report into Neets explicitly warns that too many employers have become accustomed to looking overseas for workers.
And Labour’s own immigration white paper, published last year, promised to RAISE salary requirements and ensure that recruiting from abroad never becomes a cheap alternative to paying people properly. In the paper’s foreword, Starmer wrote: ‘We will wean our national economy off its reliance on cheap labour from overseas…That is what our economy needs. It is what people want.’
Clearly Burnham/Healey don’t agree. And apparently the government’s solution to having a million young people doing nothing is to find somebody else to do the jobs.
I go into all the detail in my latest: spectator.com/article/the-bu…
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When social media and internet data are used to deliver the left a victory, it's fantastic. When they deliver the right a victory, it's sinister and to be suppressed. @davidjthunder
thetimes.com/article/dcd242b…
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PM heading off to the Caribbean shortly, just after a heavily-criticised Budget, with no political reporters allowed. Not the case in the past.
The King will be going with the entire royal press pack and will therefore get more scrutiny than the actual Prime Minister.
EXC: Burnham Breaks With Convention by Refusing to Let Journalists Attend Commonwealth Summit order-order.com/2026/10/13/e…
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A well written and accurate reflection on yesterdays results from @StevenScrase
It tells a very different story to the Tory surge the media is pushing.
#Reform
Look at the full slate from yesterday’s ballot boxes, and the establishment narrative of a Tory recovery falls apart at the seams.
In Worksop East, Reform pulled off a crushing gain straight from Labour, surging to 45.9% of the vote. Labour’s vote cratered by over thirty-four points down to 37.1%. And the Tories? Completely wiped out into fourth place on an embarrassing 6.8%, down over twenty points and beaten by fringe independents. That is a heartland industrial seat where the Conservative Party has ceased to exist.
In Halton’s Beechwood and Heath ward, Reform seized the seat with a massive gain on 35.3%, dumping the Lib Dems down eighteen points into second and knocking Labour into third. The Conservatives managed a pathetic 2.6% of the vote. Two point six percent. They are polling like a fringe pressure group in communities that decide national majorities.
Over in Dudley’s St James’s ward, Labour only held on by two single votes—874 to Reform’s 872—because Restore skimmed off 159 votes that split the insurgent challenge. The Tories were left in the dust on 317 votes, polling barely a third of Reform’s tally.
The only place the Tories held ground yesterday was Dover Beck in Newark and Sherwood, and even their own victory is an alarm bell. Their vote share collapsed by almost thirty points down to 41.7%, while Reform rocketed from a standing start straight into second on 33.5%. The Tories had to pull every parish lever they owned just to limp over the line by eighty votes in their own rural backyard.
The pattern across the board is undeniable:
The Tories are not reviving; they are being utterly erased in working-class and post-industrial Britain, registering single-digit humiliations like 6.8% in Worksop and 2.6% in Halton.
Their so-called strength is restricted to defensive, low-turnout rural holds where their historic majorities are being cut to ribbons.
Labour is in freefall across its working-class base, losing seats outright to Reform and clinging onto others by margins of two votes.
Reform is winning seats, gaining council territory, and proving that it is the sole challenger capable of dismantling the uniparty across the country.
Westminster pollsters can massage their spreadsheets and claim the Tory brand is recovering all they like. When people actually go out and vote, the Conservative Party is being cast into irrelevance, and Reform is taking the map.
