Rob Instrell

So @tvlicensing you help me out! I get a letter at my old and now vacant address accusing us of ignoring your comms and an inspection is on the way with threats of fines. Absolutely zero comms received. Is this your preferred manner of conduct? Do explain.

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As HMS Dragon sets sail, John Healey says the navy has completed six weeks of work in just six days. But last Tuesday @thetimes was told the ship was at three days readiness to move. It is four days late

@BenObeseJecty There are some insane reasons why rejections occur and the process needs complete review.

Since Labour took office, the armed forces have rejected a staggering 60,000 applicants on medical grounds. This is a far cry from when John Healey announced at the 2024 Labour Party Conference that over 100 medical restrictions would be removed. Labour cannot grip defence.

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I’ve written to every Member of Parliament today. Proposals before Parliament would remove jury trials from offences carrying up to three years in prison. Freedoms rarely vanish overnight. They are chipped away in the name of efficiency. Juries did not cause the crisis in our courts. Removing them will not fix it. When the state seeks to take someone’s liberty for serious offences, the judgment of ordinary citizens should never be optional. This is close to becoming law. Please read the letter. Contact your MP now.

@sarahsackman Do you really believe that abolishing juries for thousands of people accused of serious criminal offences is a “modest change”? At least have the decency to admit that these are seismic reforms to our constitution. If we can’t debate honestly, what’s the point?

@Ed_Miliband x.com/clairecoutinho…

In 1943, Paris - a woman sits in a Gestapo interrogation room, her feet bleeding, her body broken. The officers across from her know she's holding secrets. Names of British agents. Locations of resistance safe houses. Intelligence that could dismantle entire networks across France. They've already started the torture. Her toenails are being removed, one at a time. Soon they'll use heated irons on her back. They'll lock her in darkness for weeks. They'll promise her life in exchange for just one name. She's a 30-year-old mother of three. Not a soldier. Not a spy by training. Just a French-born housewife who was living quietly in England until Hitler's armies swallowed her homeland. That's when Odette Sansom made a choice that most of us will never have to make. She left her three daughters behind and volunteered for Britain's Special Operations Executive, the shadow organization built to sabotage Nazi operations from within. The SOE didn't want career military. They wanted people who could disappear into occupied territory. People who spoke native French. People willing to accept that capture likely meant torture and execution. Odette knew the odds. She volunteered anyway. By 1942, she was operating in occupied France under the codename "Lise," coordinating resistance cells, organizing sabotage, funneling intelligence back to London. She worked alongside Captain Peter Churchill, building networks that struck at German supply lines and communications. For months, they were ghosts. Then a collaborator sold them out. Now she's in this room. In this chair. Facing men who have perfected the art of breaking human beings. And here's what they don't understand: Odette Sansom has already decided she won't break. Not for pain. Not for promises. Not even to save her own life. Because she knows that every name she gives means another agent tortured. Another resistance fighter executed. Another family destroyed. So she gives them nothing. Through months of interrogation. Through agony most of us can't fathom. Through solitary confinement and death threats. Nothing. The Gestapo eventually realizes they can't break her. They send her to Ravensbrück concentration camp, condemned under "Night and Fog" protocol, prisoners meant to vanish without trace. She survives more than a year there by convincing the commandant she's related to Winston Churchill. It's a complete lie, but it keeps her alive. When Allied forces arrive in 1945, that same commandant tries using her as a bargaining chip. The moment they reach American lines, Odette identifies him as a war criminal. He's arrested on the spot. Britain awarded her the George Cross, the highest civilian honor for courage. The citation was clear: for refusing to betray her comrades despite torture that would break nearly anyone. Then in 1951, someone stole the medal from her home. Months later, it arrived in the mail with an anonymous note. The thief had researched what it represented and couldn't live with keeping it. Even criminals recognized what that medal meant. Odette Sansom Hallowes lived to 82, spending decades honoring fallen comrades and embodying quiet strength. She always insisted she'd simply done what anyone should do. But that's not true. What she did was extraordinary. She proved that the most powerful resistance to tyranny isn't violence. It's the absolute refusal to break, no matter the cost. 📷© Imperial War Museums (Restored & Colorized) © Daughters of Time #drthehistories

I am so outraged about this. The attack on jury trials is a dagger in the heart of democracy and justice. Shameful from Starmer. Again.

@jhallwood Funny the greens wasted all that heat!

Genuinely makes me proud to be British. These little actions can be very telling.

@Keir_Starmer Are you going to call this out as Islamic terrorism Prime Minster? Give it its real name?

Good. This is a horrifying case. I want to thank law enforcement for bringing these vile cowards to justice and reassure our Jewish community that we will never relent in our fight against antisemitism and terror. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@KemiBadenoch In 1991 on a military course, a senior figure said ‘mark my words…. The next major global threat will be Islamic terrorism. We dismissed it at the time. How wrong we were.

Keir Starmer has no backbone. He can’t bring himself to say the words islamist terrorists.

@Keir_Starmer That will be resigning then… and taking your useless government with you

I will always fight for what’s best for my country, for the British people, and for our way of life.

@zarahsultana Oh and in your new wave of confidence we look forward to seeing you all out protesting against the slaughter of civilian innocents in Iraq by its own government. You know …. Muslim on Muslim. Will relish that expression of integrity

The High Court has confirmed what we all knew: proscribing Palestine Action was unlawful. The state must stop using “counter-terror” powers to criminalise solidarity and intimidate working-class people out of protest. The Labour government must lift the proscription now and drop every case NOW. We will not stop until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea 🇵🇸✊🏽

@zarahsultana What working class people?

@TheNorfolkLion It’s not smart. It’s gopping

Look what this high school has done. They’ve got rid of the traditional uniform and now dress the students pretty much like supermarket workers! Anything to change and erase our culture.

@LordAshcroft @AngelaRayner Hmmmm beats me

@Phil_Jones01 @Keir_Starmer @UKLabour @10DowningStreet Yours wins hands down as the funniest tweet of the day

I greatly admire @Keir_Starmer He is the best prime minister this country has had since Blair and Brown and for me personally Keir is up there with the great John Smith for honesty, integrity and judgement. Labour must stand by @Keir_Starmer @UKLabour @10DowningStreet

When will the government issue guidance on gender questioning children?There is currently a muddle about everything from pronoun use to single-sex spaces. Why is it being left up to parents and activist groups like @ProtectTeach to take on gender-identity ideology and social transitioning being peddled in schools? Oh, and on teaching British Values like democracy/freedom to pupils, perhaps government ministers should be sent for lessons too…