Lockdown Lazarus

@NoTricksZone @JamesDelingpole While the virus will merge into the range of infections we live with every day, the idiocies that we have invented to ‘protect’ ourselves will just stay as new cultural norms. That is why it is so important to fight all the externalities, from masks to anti-social distancing

@AngelaRayner Utter cobblers. It’s negligence pure and simple and I doubt they wouldn’t have charged a penalty. Certainly you will have paid interest and the whole “I’m innocent” BS won’t wash with anyone.

I welcome HMRC’s conclusion, which has cleared me of any wrongdoing. I have been exonerated by HMRC of the accusation that I deliberately sought to avoid tax. When purchasing a home of my own with a mortgage, I did not own any other property and had no personal financial interest in the court-instructed trust set up to manage my son’s financial award. I was advised by experts that I should pay stamp duty at the standard rate. I set out to pay the correct amount of tax. I took reasonable care and acted in good faith, based on the expert advice I received, and HMRC has accepted this. I have always sought to act with integrity, and I believe politicians should be held to high standards - that is why I resigned from government and cooperated fully with HMRC.  I wanted to ensure that I paid every penny that I owed, and have done so. I am relieved that my family can now move on - and that I can get on with my job.

@CrookLockwood Thank you and happy Easter to you and yours as well

@LockdownLazarus Happy Easter to you and your family

Amen

The most unpopular PM in history. Keir Starmer is not for the British.

I live 10 mins up the road from Saturday’s atrocity in Derby - brings it home when you are local. And still we wait to be told what we already know, as apologists wring their hands over inflaming ‘community’ tensions, while making people angrier all the time.

Apparently there is no legislation to ban the Al Quds antisemitic gathering so long as it remains stationary. But woe betide you if you pray silently without moving outside an abortion clinic.

The pointless one in one out deal has delivered 367 migrants in and removed 305. It is the 1 in, 0.83 out deal. Meanwhile Starmer has broken the record with 65922 illegal crossings. Who says this moron achieves nothing?

I would favour a modern democratic approach to Andy Burnham. Agree he can stand - then cancel the election

Hahahahahahahhah… ahhahahaha. Starmer pulls Chagos bill after Trump backlash telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

@afneil Indeed. But why continue to support the fantasy of these maniacs at its core? Why pretend that CO2 is such a problem? Why not go one small step further beyond the obvious economic betrayal and call out the whole climate swindle?

Oh dear. The two floating wind farm licences have gone to companies with majority foreign stakes. Tell me again about the jobs and IP staying here?

@catturd2 Yes, briefly about 10 mins ago, but seems to be restored. As I’m in the UK I thought the communist govt had restricted my access. But there is only one thing they really excel at - cowardice

Testing - my Twitter has been down Anyone else having problems.

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The Western liberal media is ignoring the Iranian uprising because explaining it would force an admission it is desperate to avoid: the Iranian people are rebelling against Islam itself, and that fact shatters the moral framework through which these institutions understand the world. Ideally, to cover an uprising is not just to show crowds and slogans. It requires answering a basic question: why are people risking death? In Iran, the answer is simple and unavoidable. The people are rising up because the Islamic Republic of Iran has spent decades suffocating every aspect of life—speech, work, family, art, women, and economic survival—under a clerical system that treats liberty as a crime. There is no way to tell that story without confronting the nature of the regime. Western media refuses to do so because it has fundamentally misunderstood Islam. Or worse, it has chosen not to understand it. Islam, in Western progressive discourse, has been racialized. It is treated not as a belief system or a political ideology, but as a stand-in for race or ethnicity. Criticizing Islam is framed as an attack on “brown people,” Arabs, or “the Middle East,” as if Islam were a skin color rather than a doctrine. This confusion is rooted in historical illiteracy. Western liberal media routinely collapses entire civilizations into a single stereotype: “all Middle Easterners are Arabs,” “all Arabs are Muslim,” and “all Muslims are a monolithic, oppressed identity group by white European colonizers.” Iranians disappear entirely in this framework. Their language, history, and culture—Persian, not Arab; ancient, not colonial; distinct, not interchangeable—are erased. By treating Islam as a racial identity rather than an ideology, Western media strips millions of people of their ability to reject it. Iranian protesters become unintelligible. Their rebellion cannot be processed without breaking the rule that Islam must not be criticized. So instead of listening to Iranians, the media speaks over them—or ignores them entirely. There is another reason the Iranian uprising is so threatening to Western media is economic issues. As you know, Iran is not only a religious dictatorship. It is a centrally controlled, state-dominated economy where markets are strangled, private enterprise is criminalized or co-opted, and economic survival depends on proximity to political power. Decades of price controls, subsidies, nationalization, and bureaucratic micromanagement have obliterated the middle class and entrenched corruption as the only functional system. The result is not equality or justice. It is poverty, stagnation, and dependence on government’s dark void of empty promises. Covering Iran honestly would require acknowledging that these policies are harmful. They have been tried. They have failed. Catastrophically. This is deeply inconvenient for Western media institutions that routinely promote expansive state control, centralized economic planning, and technocratic governance as morally enlightened alternatives to liberal capitalism. Iran demonstrates where such systems lead when insulated from accountability and enforced by ideology. It shows that when the state controls livelihoods, non-conformity becomes existentially dangerous. That lesson cannot be acknowledged without undermining the moral authority of those who advocate similar ideas in softer language. Western liberal media prefers not to hear this. Acknowledging it would require abandoning the lazy moral categories that dominate modern discourse: oppressor and oppressed, colonizer and colonized, white and non-white. Iranian protesters do not fit. They show that authoritarianism is not a Western invention imposed from outside, but something many societies are actively trying to escape. That is what terrifies Western liberal media. And that is why the Iranian people are being ignored. So the silence continues.

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@AllisonPearson @__A1fie__ A rare moment of honesty from our leader. Of course he was not involved in an operation this successful to capture a corrupt criminal

Starmer says the UK was “not involved in the capture of Maduro”. Starmer can’t capture a single Eritrean on a beach in Kent. Imagine our country having an actual leader. mol.im/a/15431079

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This should be a resigning matter for everyone involved. Inexcusable given the man's public statements embracing the killing of 'zionists' and others.

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Tell me the number that is greater then this 99.9% will fail

Just in case you are thinking of dropping your resolve and wearing a mask after all...