Roland Deschain

@ATRightMovies The Thing

What's a favourite movie from your childhood that still holds up today?

@drklausner @MaryanneDemasi That sounds like an attempt to justify your own reprehensible behaviour to yourself.

What @MaryanneDemasi and many others do not understand is that vaccination IS DIFFERENT than “normal ethical standards” of medical care between a doctor and a patient. Vaccination is an intervention to protect Public Health, to protect the community and at the same time it protects the individual. The ethical basis for vaccination is called utilitarianism, which is different than the ethical basis for medical care. Utilitarianism means do the most good for the most people. That’s different than individualism, and the Hippocratic oath, to do everything possible for the patient in front of you. Those differences are not trivial, and the lack of knowledge of those differences forms the foundation for the current debate in vaccination policy and practice. @SherylNYT @bylenasun @doritmi

@georgegalloway @yvonneridley That strikes me as more of an argument against who is currently in charge of the British state than against the British state per se. Who is in charge in Britain is only ever a temporary state. Independence would be far more permanent.

To the People of Scotland Many have legitimately asked why having opposed Scottish Independence all my life I have decided to back #ReferendumNow and have given my personal pledge to campaign for Independence alongside @yvonneridley I won’t pretend that my being held by armed agents of the British state under the TERRORISM Act was not a personal Rubicon for me. It was very definitely a turning point. But as I said at the time, repeatedly, several earlier episodes had holed my allegiance to the British state as it turned out fatally. The role of the British state in assisting in the murder of Gaza and the subsequent anathematising of the millions of our people who rose up against it. The twisting and destruction of ancient liberties in defence of the most hated foreign power in the world has been more damaging than our rulers have yet realised. The endless provocation of Russia by Europe has been mainly driven by the British state. Yet by raising my voice against it I lived in fear of being criminalised and my words extinguished by censorship and even imprisonment. I grew up in a time in which in Britain I could speak freely even before being elected seven times to the British Parliament and certainly within it. That Britain no longer exists. Having striven with 17.4 million others to remove our country from the tyranny of the European Union I discovered that our own tyranny could be quite as grim and moreover without a vote being cast for it we were on our way back in! So Britain is dead to me now. Not the people of course, they are my people and I theirs, and always will be so. I love still the contours of our land and the cadences of our language every last dialect of it. But it’s goodbye to the British state from me. And forward to a Republic in an independent Scotland. And a hope that one day all the peoples of our island will be together again. In mutual respect and harmony. Which I continue to call socialism. George Galloway In exile.

@kezia_noble @FUDdaily There are an awful lot of them now, mostly on electric bicycles and frequently wearing masks or dark helmets over their face. Perhaps many are delivering supermarket orders rather than takeaways?

The amount of food delivery drivers I’ve seen out today whilst canvassing is mind blowing 👀 As someone who never orders online food delivery. Can anyone explain to me why making an omelette or a sandwich at home isn’t better than forking out £15-£20 for a take-away? 🤔

@RcanFly @wolajustowska @jmkettle I hope you are allowed to revise your review down, citing petty attitude.

I took a photo of the meal (that was even attached to the review) and showed them the screenshot of the picture in my gallery with the date and an explanation that I was there. They reinstated it. But it took like 2 emails. So you can imagine how many people even care to do that.

Giving a restaurant a three star review is illegal in Germany.

@DPJHodges I doubt he has any intention of doing that. It’s probably illegal to openly allocate on the basis of how an area voted. I think he’s just trolling to expose hypocrisy.

This is a perfect illustration of the problem facing Reform. No serious practical solutions. Just political posturing. Which works fine when you’re trying to make a breakthrough. But won’t cut it when you need to move to being a serious alternative government.

@YesterdaysBrit1 I don’t recall that one. But I do recall this.

Another childhood game from bygone days. And another one made by a British company, from a time when we used to manufacture so many things.

@LozzaFox @elonmusk I think Mr Musk has lost interest in this app.

Dear @elonmusk This man is an elected official. Why does X allow politicians to turn off replies to their posts? He is abusing his position - supported by this app - by refusing a right to reply. Please change the settings so that a grey tick means replies on.

@Glinner Oh, we knows!

This is the way. Get them to be specific and they fall apart.

@StewartMac73395 @juneslater17 Reform might have done but I doubt most of their supporters have.

@DsRoland @juneslater17 No, No they don't. Read the damn Restore manifesto. Reform have watered down or abandoned most of their ideas.

I can catagoricaly state I have never taken any money from any political organisation or media outlet. I have never taken fees for appearances . My efforts are my own. I've never paid for followers or reach on any platforms .

@MrMucklowe @NoWayWoke youtu.be/XEe0qqPAC6E

@NoWayWoke Example of being fucking old but owning the song .....youtube.com/watch?v=IYqcFC…

And the award for least-enthusiastic has-beens goes to ……..

@cabinetofficeuk No. End of conversation.

One week to go! We're listening! Join the nationwide conversation to help shape a digital ID that works for you. Hit the link and have your say: …rn-digital-government.campaign.gov.uk/digital-id-con…

@OlooneyJohn It is, but I never could understand the ending.

The Man in the High Castle 2015 Well worth a watch

@kittysull1 MPs really have no self-awareness.

@L_S_M_69 @TheCinesthetic

@TheCinesthetic I have never found Monty Python funny. Ever.

MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL was released 51 years ago today. Led Zeppelin invested £31,500 for the filming, Pink Floyd put in £21,000, & Ian Anderson contributed £6,300, because no studio would fund a comedy about King Arthur and the Holy Grail.

@Fernan1393 @fandompulse John Lithgow was cast as Churchill in Netflix’s The Crown and did a surprisingly good job of it.

@fandompulse Not only did they cast an American as Dumbledore but he's almost a decade older than Richard Harris was when he DIED. What the hell is Hollywood's obsession with casting people as OLD as possible lately?? Hollywood is so old, it looks like the US Senate.

John Lithgow, cast as Dumbledore in HBO's Harry Potter, on whether he considered quitting over JK Rowling: After a close friend told him about an open letter urging him to resign, Lithgow called it "the canary in the coal mine," then was asked directly if he would leave the role. His answer: "Oh, heavens no." Why does the cast feel the need to comment on this?

@ZiaYusufUK Will Reform back this pledge up by adopting the Freedom of Speech Bill? adamsmith.org/research/the-f…

The Tories have successfully badgered Labour into agreeing to end the era of anonymous internet access in Britain. Just think about that. Kemi is more Orwellian than Starmer. A dark day for our country. Soon you’ll be unable to access social media without uploading photo ID. Good luck saying things Starmer dislikes. And who was the dark lord behind all of this? Lord Nash. The same Lord Nash behind the recently launched ‘Centre for Government Reform’ - which they briefed to press would be a training school for Reform MPs and staff. As I said then, this is a nefarious organisation set up by fossilised, deeply malevolent Tories to infiltrate Reform and sink Nigel’s first term. Avoid like the plague. Reform will repeal ALL laws that give rise to Digital ID.

@volcaholic1 Clearly the secret to a long life is jetting round the world several hundred times.

Sir David Attenborough turns 100 next week. "Please make no mistake. Climate change is the biggest threat to security that modern humans have ever faced."

@Iwontcalmdown @LauraTrottMP Ah. She made the mistake of updating to IOS 26.4. Mine nags every other day about it which is bloody annoying but less annoying than updating.

@LauraTrottMP My wife's iPhone was asking her for photo ID today, 'in accordance with British law'. All you idiots do is lie.

1. You don’t need digital ID for this policy 2. Your personal attacks on people are really grim 3. Lord Nash is an incredible public servant, not content with setting up brilliant schools he is now fighting to keep children safe outside of them. If you don’t want people like this in your party more fool you 4. Good to know that you are against a social media ban for children, this isn’t what others in Reform have said, but at least parents know not to vote for Reform now