Sam Remfry

Not a word of protest from the Greens or, bizarrely, from the wider ecologist movement. It seems that even the maintenance of the world’s finest marine reservation must give way to decolonise posturing. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/2…

@daveainsworth63 @HarrisonChase6 I now have a strange desire to buy one.

@SamRemfry @HarrisonChase6 Thank you Sam. My secret's out now!

Rising petrol prices! My motor has been in the garage since the Oil Crisis of 1973.

@daveainsworth63 @HarrisonChase6 MG Maestro

@HarrisonChase6 Not saying. 😂

@Lucy_Worsley Is it Behemoth from The master and the Margarita?

Followers! Do you know whose funny little feet those are?

In which @Mather_Keir pretends floating bus stops are accessible for everyone when responding to MPs in the Access Denied debate. The whole of the UK sight loss community knows this to be untrue.

@afneil I am imagining that, when the wind stops blowing and the sun stops shining, the country winds down as the mechanical doll 'Olympia' does in The Tales of Hoffmann.

My first reaction was to groan at such performative nonsense. My second was to think — good practice for the power cuts the pursuit of net zero will inevitably deliver.

Downing Street Wiped the Phone Before Anyone Could Find It Scotland Yard has reopened its investigation into the reported theft of Morgan McSweeney's phone, the device that almost certainly contained the most direct evidence of how Lord Mandelson came to be appointed as Britain's ambassador to Washington. Detectives are examining CCTV footage from the Westminster street where McSweeney claims he was robbed on the evening of October 20 last year. They fear the footage will already have been deleted. It is usually stored for only three months. The investigation, in other words, has been reopened into evidence that may no longer exist. On the evening of October 20, McSweeney called 999 from Pimlico. He gave the wrong address. He did not correct the handler when the wrong address was read back to him. He did not identify himself as the Prime Minister's chief of staff. He did not mention that the device contained sensitive government material. The following day, a police officer called to ask whether McSweeney had tracked the phone using its built-in tracker. He did not respond. At some point between the reported theft and that unanswered call, Downing Street remotely wiped the device. This destroyed the tracker. The phone could no longer be located. The messages it contained could no longer be recovered. Now consider what did not happen. The Metropolitan Police were not informed that the missing device belonged to the Prime Minister's chief of staff. MI5 was not informed. GCHQ was not informed. The Information Commissioner's Office, which must by law be notified within 72 hours of any serious data breach involving personal information, was not informed. It told The Telegraph this week that it had received no notification at any stage. Set this against what was happening inside Downing Street at the same moment. Officials had been holding meetings to discuss what they would do if the Conservatives used parliamentary process to force the disclosure of McSweeney's messages with Lord Mandelson. The phrase used in those meetings, according to reports, was coming for Morgan's messages. Days after those meetings concluded, the phone containing Morgan's messages was reported stolen. Days after that, it was wiped. A prosecutorial mind, presented with this sequence, asks one question above all others. At the point when Downing Street chose to wipe the device, did anyone consider that doing so would destroy the tracker and make recovery impossible? The answer is yes. That is what remote wiping does. It is not a passive consequence. It is the purpose. There are innocent explanations available for most of what surrounds this affair. Wrong addresses happen. Unanswered calls happen. Notification failures happen. But the decision to wipe a missing government device, knowing that doing so would render it untraceable and its contents unrecoverable, at the precise moment when those contents were the subject of active parliamentary and legal scrutiny, is not a clerical error. It is a choice. And choices have authors. Keir Starmer has said he beats himself up over the Mandelson appointment. He has not said who authorised the wipe. He has not explained why the ICO was not notified. He has not said whether anyone in Downing Street attempted to track the device before wiping it. He has not explained why MI5 and GCHQ, the agencies whose job it is to manage exactly this kind of security risk, were kept in the dark. These are not difficult questions. They have simple, factual answers. A government with nothing to hide would have provided them already. The country is still waiting. "Keir Starmer has said he beats himself up over the Mandelson appointment. [...]. He has not explained why MI5 and GCHQ, the agencies whose job it is to manage exactly this kind of security risk, were kept in the dark."

@AldredKeith @mnogogotin @ClarkeMicah Bad infrastructure Keith, you know very well that they are an absolute menace when introduced in to pedestrian spaces, whether they have electric assistance or not.

@SamRemfry @mnogogotin @ClarkeMicah They are illegal motorbikes and you want cycles lanes rendered unusable instead of pressing the police to clamp down on them

Machines such as this can now be used freely on cycle lanes designed and built for pushbikes. This is a huge backward step, after decades of campaigns for segregation of muscle-powered bikes from engine-powered vehicles.

@dannybster More to the point, why isn't it true. x.com/mtpennycook/st…

Why is this obvious?

@LondonLabour Done! x.com/mtpennycook/st…

As you tweet endlessly, Labour is getting on with ending the feudal leasehold system. ✅ Ground rents capped at £250 ✅ New leasehold flats banned ✅ Forfeiture scrapped ✅ Easier move to commonhold The difference between power and protest.

Conspiratorial, sexist misinformation. Honestly, those who are seemingly sympathetic to the Assisted Dying Bill have done their side no favours making up such nonsense. A serious issue for many of us but defended as though it's some sort of shallow political game. Telling.

@JimFergusonUK Thirteen, the number is 13, six destroyers and 7 frigates, as any CCP or Kremlin military attaché would be able to tell you.

🚨 BREAKING: DEFENCE SECRETARY MELTDOWN: HEALEY SHOULD RESIGN NOW This wasn’t an interview… it was a collapse in real time. Stumbling. Repeating himself. Unable to answer basic questions about the fleet he’s supposed to command. “How many ships do we have?” A simple question. And the man responsible for Britain’s defence… couldn’t even answer it cleanly. 17 vessels on paper — but where are they? One deployed. The rest? “Some being repaired.” That’s not reassurance. That’s admission of failure. At a time of rising global tensions, threats in the Middle East, and pressure on NATO… This is the man in charge? Britain is not being led. It is being exposed. This wasn’t just embarrassing — it was dangerous. For the safety of the country, John Healey should resign immediately. Watch the interview and judge for yourself

@SaltyMcSaltson3 @ClarkeMicah So..

@SamRemfry @ClarkeMicah Every bike featured in the video is legally a moped and without a moped license and license plate, they are illegal…

The Charity Commission Is Iran's Best Friend in Britain A 109 page report by Lord Walney, submitted to the House of Lords this week, lifts the curtain on how Iran has systematically built a soft power infrastructure inside Britain through the charitable sector. It names ten organisations, among them the Islamic Centre of England, the Islamic Human Rights Commission Trust, the Irshad Trust trading as The Islamic College, and Labaik Ya Zahra. It traces their personnel links to the IRGC and Iranian state institutions. It documents the spread of Khomeinist ideology, the fostering of antisemitism, and the transnational repression of Iranian dissidents on British soil. And then it reveals the detail that should stop every taxpayer cold: four of the named charities are recognised for HMRC Gift Aid. Britain is not just failing to stop Iran's network. It is subsidising it, by twenty five pence in every pound donated. Walney's report documents how Iran has systematically built a soft power infrastructure inside Britain through the charitable sector. The ten named charities spread Khomeinist ideology, foster antisemitism, conduct transnational repression of Iranian dissidents, and maintain direct personnel links to the IRGC and Iranian state institutions. Eight of the ten are under Charity Commission investigation. All ten continue to operate. The most revealing detail is not what these charities do. It is what happens when the regulator finds out. When the Islamic Centre of England was found to have a constitution legally requiring one trustee to be a direct appointee of the Iranian supreme leader, the Commission's solution was to have the trustee step down and the constitution amended. The same figures, with the same ideological connections, simply rotated back into power under different titles. The Commission filed the case and moved on. The network kept operating. This is the compliance trap. The regulator investigates governance, not ideology. It fixes trustees rather than closes organisations. It treats hostile state influence as trustee misconduct and marks the case resolved. As Walney puts it, the Commission has been inadvertently helping extremist linked charities obscure their true nature. Inadvertently. That word is doing enormous work. Sir William Shawcross, former head of the Charity Commission, named the real reason directly. There is, he said, a real nervousness about talking about suspicions of Muslim organisations, a widespread fear of being accused of racism. That fear has a cost paid not by the regulators who flinch but by Iranian dissidents living under transnational repression conducted through institutions the British state is actively subsidising. The human cost is not abstract. Members of the Iranian diaspora report being apprehensive about travelling to parts of Brent where several of these charities are based. Brent East and Brent West are represented by Dawn Butler and Barry Gardiner respectively, both Labour MPs, both silent on the matter. At the Islamic Centre of England, children were filmed saluting and pledging to follow the path of Soleimani. On British soil. In a registered charity. Under Charity Commission investigation. A former government adviser put it with devastating clarity: "This is not a grassroots Shia manifestation. It's basically been imported in. And it's been imported because the Iranian government has picked a few people to come and run British religious institutions." The Charity Commission says its hands are tied by statute. Without IRGC proscription it can only act where there is clear evidence of a breach of charity law. The system is designed to fail. And the political will to redesign it has been absent under every government for years. "Members of the Iranian diaspora report being apprehensive about travelling to parts of Brent where several of these charities are based. Brent East and Brent West are represented by Dawn Butler and Barry Gardiner"

@tomcopley @MayorofLondon What number Deputy Mayor are you? Answer between 1 and 9 please..

I’m delighted to announce that City Hall has agreed a £50m loan to Peabody to support delivery of 500 affordable homes. This comes on the day we launch the funding guidance for the initial £324m of @MayorofLondon’s new City Hall Developer Investment Fund. housingtoday.co.uk/news/khan-appr…

@BartGonnissen Sadly he makes a salient point .

Brutal

Este es el fin último de las organizaciones de “derechos humanos”. Vean todo el caso, desde el inicio hasta el final que pretenden; cada uno de los pasos es parte de la “tutela de derechos humanos” conseguida con sus “luchas y conquistas”. Jamás los escucharemos, no importa cuánto nos ataquen. No tienen nada que venir a decirnos; más bien, nosotros deberíamos estar denunciándolos a ustedes por lo que le hacen a mujeres como Noelia. El mundo necesita urgentemente liberarse de estas organizaciones, que no son más que los bufetes de abogados de los delincuentes, que prefieren LITERALMENTE matar a las víctimas en lugar de protegerlas.

@ClimateWarrior7 @HfcmoreiraHugo

@HfcmoreiraHugo Now hang on there a minute. UK has left the EU.

My friends it is clear the future of Europe is only one to become a Federation! A European Federation I defend this with all the countries on this map! This should be our future together, strong a superpower!

🚨STATEMENT: Government officials are considering a tightening of the Freedom of Information regime in a move that could significantly narrow access to the internal records needed to hold universities to account. According to reports, the proposal is to reduce the statutory cost ceiling for processing a request, lowering the point at which a public authority can refuse to comply on the grounds that the request would take too much time and resource to answer. This would make it harder to pursue the kinds of investigations most likely to shed light on how important decisions are actually made. In practice, it would tend to filter out more complex requests requiring broader searches, longer email chains, multiple custodians, or retrieval across different parts of an institution. The issue is particularly acute in universities, where senior administrators will often either treat contentious decisions as effectively closed processes, or present them externally in abstract, procedural legal language. In the absence of disclosure in legal proceedings — which is case-specific and no substitute for general public access to documents — FOI is one of the few ways to track how universities operationalise policies on matters such as EDI and de facto speech codes that may be restricting lawful speech. CAF will be monitoring developments closely and, if proposals of this kind are taken forward, will engage with the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee and the Justice Committee to outline our concerns. Full story: afcomm.org.uk/2026/03/26/foi…

@flickhwilliams @MarshadeCordova Thank you so much @MarshadeCordova this greatly appreciated. @BSI_UK sets out what is clearly needed and has done since 2018 as explained below.