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@DPJHodges I have wondered whether Starmer is reducing the military so they don’t mutiny and try and take control. If he wanted to demoralise them it’s hard to see how he could do worse.

Over the past week I’ve had a lot of Starmer supporters furiously castigating me for having the temerity to point out the chasm between his rhetoric and his actions. Not sure you can find a more perfect example than this.

@TheBMA As caring professionals, do you worry about the one small Jewish democratic homeland positioned next to the many large Muslim countries where they once used to be able to live peacefully?

The BMA is extremely alarmed by the Israeli strikes in Lebanon. Read our full statement bma.org.uk/news-and-opini…

@G_S_Bhogal A friend who is going through a very long, very difficult time told me they are working to ‘find some joy in every single day’. If they can enjoy a Tuesday, or even a Wednesday, then anybody can.

“You have to be the kind of person who can make the best out of a Tuesday. You know those people who live for the weekends? They're wishing their life away.” —Drew Marvin

@SkyNews Can’t wait to hear what Ja Rule thinks about UK government policy.

The UK government will build a central YouTube content channel featuring influencers and everyday people in a bid to better communicate its policies to the public. 🔗 Read more trib.al/uWa3X1n

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@Satnaai @benbrownuk @JonjoBamjo @7Kiwi @TariqEl_Sayed The way we buy wind and solar means it can’t be cheap, we have the most expensive energy in the world, much higher than China or the US and it’s killing our economy.

@RichYorks @benbrownuk @JonjoBamjo @7Kiwi @TariqEl_Sayed Wind and solar are the cheapest and fastest to deploy as things stand. Battery costs continue to fall with scale.

They never answer this question: How much battery storage do we need and how much will it cost?

@benbrownuk @JonjoBamjo @Satnaai @7Kiwi @TariqEl_Sayed 100% agree that one day renewables will be the answer but I’m totally unconvinced that can happen soon as we don’t have the technology. We need more, low cost, energy for new technologies and the route we are on does not do that. We are dropping back and need cheap energy fast.

@RichYorks @JonjoBamjo @Satnaai @7Kiwi @TariqEl_Sayed Weve pulled double what they have from these fields. They're just doing it decades later than we did.

@benbrownuk @JonjoBamjo @Satnaai @7Kiwi @TariqEl_Sayed It’s a wonder that Norway even bothers pumping billions of pounds of energy from the same fields. It really makes no sense at all, you’d have to ask them why.

@JonjoBamjo @Satnaai @7Kiwi @TariqEl_Sayed Osborne dramatically reduced the north sea tax to encourage new exploration. They found virtually nothing and gave up in 2015. How many times? It's a declining mature basin.

@NatashaC @GlobalGotting @LBC How is he going to do that? We have almost no Navy, Trump thinks he is a traitor, the EU will play their own game, how will he achieve it? He won’t proscribe the IRGC, he is tied by the far left to Hamas and Hezbollah and he is scared of his own shadow. How?

Sir Keir Starmer tells @GlobalGotting @LBC "Our focus has been on getting the Strait open, because all the time it is not open for free navigation, that's impacting our economy and energy bills. we are working with a number of countries, 30 across the world. "The government at the last budget took the decision to reduce energy bills by an average of £100 a household, that's now in place and will hold until the end of June, whatever happens in Iran. The fuel duty cut will hold until September, obviously as a government we need to keep these things under review."

@DanielJHannan Trump has become similar to those artists who shock in order to distract from a lack of talent. He knows people will talk about this more than his poor policy decisions. I do wonder what @JDVance, a committed Christian, must think about this.

As Wes Streeting is claiming the Chagos deal is not dead, and the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office is continuing to implement the treaty as if it has been ratified, it's time to repost the following. 1982,🏝️Project Chagos begins when Mauritius sets up a select committee to look into the potential vast mineral wealth in the Chagos Archipelago's seabed. 2003, leading international lawyer Sir Ian Brownlie is officially appointed advisor by Mauritius for Chagos. 2009, Brownlie leads a Mauritius delegation in bilateral talks at the Foreign Office in London. 2010, Philippe Sands QC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos after Brownlie dies in a motor accident in Egypt. 2O13, Sands' good friend, Keir Starmer QC, visits Mauritius and discusses the future of the Chagos islands with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. 2015, Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year, Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. 2019, Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only, and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. Sands uses the ICJ ruling as leverage in the following years in his efforts to persuade the Conservative government to give Chagos to Mauritius. 2020, Starmer becomes Labour Party leader. 2021, Sands receives Mauritius' top honour, The Most Distinguished Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean. 2022, Sands makes an unauthorized entry into the Chagos Archipelago for a flag-raising ceremony. Sands tweets at the time, “It’s morning on Chagos, where the flag of Mauritius flies." 2023, Sands becomes Mauritius citizen, but retains his British and French citizenships. 🟥In November 2023 David Cameron takes over as Foreign Secretary from James Cleverly, and bins a deal saying, it's not in the national interest, as reported in Hansard. 2024, Starmer becomes UK Prime Minister in July, and overlooks his shadow Attorney General, Emily Thornberry, to appoint his old friend and fellow human-rights lawyer Richard Hermer. But he has to break with tradition by giving Hermer a peerage, so he can sit in the House Of Lords, and be part of the government. In the early months of his premiership, Starmer makes the controversial former Downing Street Chief Of Staff for Tony Blair, Jonathan Powel, his special envoy for Chagos. In early October 2024, just ten weeks after becoming PM, Keir Starmer agrees a deal with Mauritius, despite there having been no mention of Chagos during the election campaign, and the pledge in Labour's manifesto to protect the BOT. Also in October 2024, Powell tells Times Radio in an interview, “These are very tiny islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean where no one actually goes. So I don’t think we should be too worried about losing that bit of territory. We’re probably losing more to tidal erosion in the East Coast than that.” Powell fails to mention the territorial waters and marine protection zone of 64,000 square miles, and Mauritius getting full ownership of all the mineral rights for an area about the size of France In November 2024, Starmer appoints Powell as his National Security Advisor. In December 2024, Starmer makes yet another extremely controversial appointment in Peter "friend of Epstein" Mandelson as his US Ambassador. Powell and Mandelson brief the White House over Chagos, and claim the UK has to give the archipelago to Mauritius because of international law. However, they assure the Americans that their military base on Diego Garcia is unaffected, as the UK has arranged a 99-year lease on the island. Those assurances have now been proven to be worthless. 2025, In January Lord Hermer recuses himself from signing off on the Chagos deal. The AG's office refuse to give details of why. In late February 2025, Mauritius’ former Prime Minister, Pravind Jugnauth, who was in office when Starmer became PM, and was heavily involved in discussions about the Chagos deal before being replaced by Navin Ramgoolam in November, was arrested on money laundering charges after Mauritius' anti-corruption agency said it had seized suitcases of cash and luxury watches in raids on 10 locations, including Jugnauth’s home. In August 2025, Starmer is referred to the statistics' watchdog for misleading claims over the cost of the Chagos deal. Many other claims are made during the year that Starmer had repeatedly "lied" about the true costs of the deal. There are even accusations that Starmer ordered his officials to announce misleadingly low figures.

@BBCSport Played great. Would have been one of the oldest players to win.

It's still not coming up Roses ❌ The Englishman let slip a final-round lead and fell short of the Green Jacket once again. More quotes below ⏬

@DPJHodges Starmer is looking east to China. Consider all the controversial things he is doing, it’s all to placate China. His special relationship lies to the east not the west.

People need to understand the true danger implicit in Starmer's now non-existent foreign policy. He won't align significantly with the EU because of migration. Trump has turned the Special Relationship into a bin-fire. NATO is fracturing. We are completely isolated.

@timespolitics @ajhholloway There’s something rotten in the state of Starmer’s Labour.

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@GBNEWS Speaking to people who have been in Whitehall from ‘the real world’ they tend to be astonished and disgusted by the attitudes they find in there.

'The idea is to get a fresh influx of talent into Whitehall.' Chief Executive of the Centre for Government Reform explains his organisation's plan to 'transform the British state', by training several hundred new senior leaders.

@startaicompany An App that suggests ‘neutral’, fair and ethical solutions for injustices, think consumer complaints, workplace issues, neighbour conflicts or even online scams. Suggests resolutions and redress from similar cases or using ethical frameworks.

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@BBCMOTD @BBCSport That’s what happens when your club has to sell almost all its players and can’t sign any more. You have to love the @EFL

An unwanted record for Sheffield Wednesday 😳 The Football League has been around since 1888, and no team has ever gone longer without a win 📉

@GBNEWS Should be done anyway, and the IRGC should be proscribed. We need to show which side we are on, and it’s not the extremists.

Banning the Muslim Brotherhood won't kill the multi-headed hydra of Islamism ensnaring Britain - Fiyaz Mughal gbnews.com/opinion/muslim…

@BBCNews We daren’t even proscribe the IRGC.

UK to urge full reopening of Strait of Hormuz bbc.in/4c9fnlf

@DPJHodges Can only hope that somehow the Iranians, with help from somewhere, can find a way to overcome the IRGC.

The process of Trump literally making up a peace process is now underway. Hegseth just claimed the Straits are open. The Straits are not open.