Sam Remfry

Remember those videos 2 days ago of Iraqi militias crossing the border and entering Iran with their toyota trucks? Well they have arrived in Tehran with machine guns ready to slaughter protestors if they leave their homes. Iran is under a brutal Islamic occupation.

@MorganE07969703 China will collect and give good money for any creature if it's on the endangered list

People collect ants bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

This guy is deluded by his own lack of competence in urban design, these bus stops are not #accessible the DoT guidance does not help urban designers, it tells them to ignore the safety guidance in #BS8300-1 and make it impossible for #blind people to use the bus despite being warned of this before guidance was published.

New questions over Jonathan Powell’s role in the #Chagos deal: £1m+ in taxpayer funding to his organisation, ongoing China links, and concerns raised in Parliament and by US officials. Questions need to be answered... conservativepost.co.uk/the-jonathan-p…

“Naive” - Incredible Simons has deployed the Mandelson excuse strategy. We now know in addition to commissioning an agency that investigated journalists & reported smears against them, it also collected information on MPs. We need an independent inquiry. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@iamtomskinner @trojan_sc

We’ve just came back from our weekly walk and was greeted by this lovely sight of beautiful scooters driving through Brentwood this morning! How lovely! Hope your all having a great day. Bosh❤️

@clarescastle @DPJHodges I wonder what's going on inside.

@DPJHodges And 46 days since the shredder lorry parked up on Downing Street👇🏼

Downing Street told me yesterday they are currently only "in the process" of asking individuals relevant to the Mandelson scandal to provide personal phone data. That's 51 days after the Humble Address motion was passed by the House.

@VincentStops @DaveHill @EllyBakerAM @SebDance I am not convinced floating bus stops were introduced with good intentions or good faith, they have and are still being pursued at great pace despite many warning from charities and organisations up and down the country.

In praise of floating bus stops from the government despatch box: “These bus stops were often introduced with good intentions”

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