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Matthew J. Martin
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Matthew J. Martin
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“It ain’t what people know that causes trouble; it’s what they know that ain’t so.” Follows or likes are not endorsements.
London Katılım Haziran 2021
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@ken_frost @hector_drummond @PolitlcsUK Gail’s bakery is a cafe that sells bread, not a butcher’s slaughterhouse.
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@hector_drummond @PolitlcsUK they are trying to deflect from the Gail's bakery shambles
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🚨 WATCH: The Guardian has published a Nigel Farage Cameo compilation featuring him using "extremist slogans"
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Islamic terrorist attacks are just blowback from America’s GWOT, which was just blowback from 9/11, which was just blowback from America supporting Israel, which was just blowback from the Ottomans fighting against America and Britain in WW1, which was just blowback from Britain seizing Egypt and supporting Greek freedom from the Ottomans, which was just blowback from the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople and hundreds of years of oppression, which was just blowback from the Crusades, which were just blowback from the Seljuk conquest of Anatolia, which was just blowback from the Byzantine Empire’s expansion into Syria under the Macedonian dynasty, which was just blowback from the Arab conquest of Byzantine Syria and Egypt and North Africa and repeated siege attempts against Constantinople, which was just blowback from the Byzantines no longer paying Arab tribes to defend the frontier against Persia, which was just blowback from an extended Persian invasion of the Byzantine Empire, which was just blowback from 700 years of warfare between Rome and Persia, which was just blowback from Alexander the Great’s conquest of Persia, which was just blowback from Darius and Xerxes’ invasions of Greece, which was just blowback from Athens supporting the Ionian revolts against the Persian Empire, which was just blowback from Cyrus the Great conquering the Ionian Greeks of Anatolia, but before that everybody in history probably got along.
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Rape Gang Inquiry update.
As our hearings progressed, we had a distressing number of women come forward with similar horrific experiences who wanted to tell their story.
Once the hearings concluded, we reopened the submission process. Many have come forward, and are now being supported by our team.
We will help them tell the world their story in a safe and secure way.
Our wider report is being worked on, and I’m hopeful that we will have a final version ready for publication soon. Our inquiry legal team is identifying further targets for private prosecutions - more news to come on that soon.
More evidence is being released from our hearings, and we will continue to shine a light on this festering rot.
We are a small team, working on a relatively small budget compared to the national inquiry ‘effort’.
Labour's dithering behaviour has been utterly shameful.
I want to thank everybody involved - from the staff, to our donors. But particularly the brave individuals who have come forward. It really does matter.
Progress has been made, but there is so much more to do.
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🚨The most disturbing physics demonstration in existence involves nothing more than two pendulums and a pin.
Here's why:
There's no electricity, or quantum effects or exotic materials or laboratory conditions. Just two rods, a joint connecting them, and gravity. Every force acting on this system is completely understood. The equations describing its motion were written centuries ago. Nothing about it is mysterious at the level of physics.
And yet predicting its motion beyond a few seconds is physically impossible.
A difference of 0.000001 degrees in the starting angle doesn't produce a small deviation downstream. It produces a completely unrelated trajectory. The system doesn't drift gradually from the prediction. It departs so violently that within moments the prediction becomes pure fiction.
Most people misunderstand chaos theory because the word chaos implies randomness. The double pendulum contains zero randomness. Every swing is fully governed by deterministic laws. A being with perfect knowledge of every starting condition could calculate every future position exactly. The problem is that perfect knowledge cannot exist in physical reality. Every measurement humans make carries some tolerance, however microscopic. That margin gets amplified exponentially each second until the gap between prediction and reality swallows everything whole.
The universe runs on math that outruns our ability to feed it accurate inputs.
What should genuinely disturb you is that the double pendulum is not a special case. The same sensitivity lives inside weather systems, economies, neural firing patterns, and ecosystems. Every complex system you depend on operates under identical conditions. Tiny upstream differences explode into massive downstream divergence with no warning and no recovery.
Philosophers spent centuries arguing about whether the future is predetermined. That was always the wrong argument. The double pendulum settled the only question that actually matters in daily life.
Determined and predictable are not the same thing. They never were.
Interesting things@awkwardgoogle
The unpredictability of the double pendulum.
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It is only Tuesday, and this Government has already announced an official definition of Islamophobia, an Islamophobia tsar, and plans to push ahead today with restricting our ancient right to trial by jury — all of which will stifle free speech in this country.
This is not governing in the national interest. What we are seeing is an attempt to reintroduce Britain’s blasphemy laws, 18 years after they were abolished by Parliament, and the biggest assault on English liberty — particularly free speech — in over 800 years.
This Government is becoming increasingly authoritarian and more bullish in its open disdain for free speech.
The fight for free speech has never been more important than it is today.
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This is truly the most beautiful video I’ve seen lately
So tender and heart-warming, yet it makes you stop and reflect, with a subtle touch of sadness
We may have gained so much, but perhaps we’ve lost even more✨
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🚨GROK ROASTS SHABANA MAHMOOD
Did not hold back 😳
Woah.
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@BasilTheGreat Basil I've consulted @Grok and there is no record of this reply. Similarly for the Keir Starmer roast.
Please remove @elonmusk
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The Government is reportedly just days away from publishing its official definition of Islamophobia — repackaged as “anti-Muslim hatred”.
This will not address genuine anti-Muslim hate. In fact, it could achieve the opposite by inflaming community tensions and stifling free speech.
The UK has a proud tradition of religious tolerance. As the Free Speech Union and the Equality and Human Rights Commission have repeatedly pointed out, we already have laws that protect all religions from discrimination and hatred. If the government were serious about tackling the problem, why not enforce the existing laws?
This definition risks reviving Britain’s blasphemy laws — only for Islam — 18 years after Parliament abolished them.
In a free society, no religion should be shielded from legitimate criticism.
What this definition will do is silence important conversations on issues such as the grooming gangs scandal and Islamist extremism.
We must not allow the government to reintroduce blasphemy laws via the back door.
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My monologue from today’s The Times at One with ANDREW NEIL @TimesRadio
Britain’s response, so far, to the outbreak of hostilities in the Gulf has been characterised by a mixture of irrelevance and embarrassment. We’ve even managed to fall out with our most important ally. Our other allies don’t seem to think much of us either.
More important, the US-Israeli onslaught on Iran has revealed for all to see just how hollowed out our armed forces have become under successive governments.
It is nothing short of a national scandal and the whole political class is complicit — Labour, Conservative and even the Lib Dems, given they were part of that 2010-15 coalition with the Tories when defence spending was slashed 22% in real terms.
We now see the price of such short-sighted folly
War has broken out in the Middle East but we don’t have a single warship in the Mediterranean, the Gulf or the Red Sea to protect our interests or keep open sea lanes vital to our commercial well-being.
Nor did our military planners think to move assets in advance of hostilities, even though the US-Israeli action was well-telegraphed. Their political masters are too ignorant of military matters to ask why not. Now there’s a scramble to catch up, only to discover the cupboard is bare.
We remain the 4th or 5th biggest military spenders on the globe. The MoD has an annual budget of over £60 billion. Yet we have precious little to show for it. A pathetically small army. A navy with far too few warships — and most of them laid up. An airforce without sufficient fighter jets.
Naturally the MoD is not short of civil servants. Over 55,000 of them, whose hallmark has been to preside over expensive procurement programmes that invariably run way over budget, deliver years late and, in many cases, produce stuff that doesn’t work. Just look at the shambles of the Ajax armoured personnel carrier.
Nor is there any shortage of top brass. We have more admirals than warships, more generals than brigades, more air commodores than squadrons. We may be seriously short of soldiers, sailors and pilots. But the officers’ mess is still packed.
The scandal has been long in the making. We’re struggling to send one Type-45 destroyer to defend our bases in Cyprus. We only have six. There were supposed to be 12 but the Blair-Brown government put the kybosh on that.
Of the six we do have, only two are currently operational. And only just.
What about our new and expensive aircraft carriers, meant to be symbols of Britain’s ability to project global power. Yes, you’ve guessed it — they’re in dock for various reasons too and can’t be deployed.
The Keystone Cops could do a better job of running our military than the MoD.
Our nuclear-powered Astute submarines are in an even worse shape. We have only five — with two more on the way. Four are currently out of commission. The one still working is in Australia. None of the geniuses at the MoD thought to recall it even as the drums of war beat louder in the Gulf.
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Almost everything this PM says now requires a community note.
The electricity price cap is not coming down because the government has managed to produce electricity more cheaply. It’s still the most expensive in the world — and forecast to become even more expensive.
The cap is reduced because the government has taken £117-worth of largely green subsidies from fuel your bills and put them on to general taxation. You’re still paying for them — just in a different way.
And as your taxes go up to meet these green levies the cap is still £73 higher than when Labour came to power. So your energy bills are not coming down — though Labour promised they would — and the overall tax burden is at a record high.
There PM. Sorted it for you.
UK Prime Minister@10DowningStreet
Today the energy price cap has dropped by £117. We said we’d bring energy bills down - we meant it.
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@GriftReport @TheGriftReport There is a subset of transfixed, borderline demonic individuals who believe that “content is king” to the exclusion of all moral or societal considerations; am end in itself.
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Mizzy encourages a bunch of school kids to do the "62" on the streets and in shops and a pissed off local has a go at them saying "f*ck your content"
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The UK government flagged these books (among others) as potential signs of far-right extremism.
List includes Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Hobbes' Leviathan, Milton's Paradise Lost. You may be an extremist if you've read these.
What else would you add to the list?
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RAISE THE COLOURS GAME 🎮
Someone has made a flag raising game and it’s free to play on Steam.
“Work together (or trip each other up) while dodging pesky council workers who’ll do anything to shut down your fun.”
I’ll put a link in the comments.
Bloody brilliant 🇬🇧🏴
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What happens when you base your view of reality on watching Adolescence.
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The penny drops for @RossKemp when @CostelloWilliam makes him realise incels are not what he's been led to believe...
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@RestoreBritain_ I have almost zero quibble with this.
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Let’s take a look at just some Restore Britain policies, and you tell me if these make us nazi monsters…
- The largest deportation programme ever seen in Britain to remove those migrants living in our country illegally. The entire asylum system will be abolished. The boats will stop.
- Net negative immigration. Far more must leave than arrive.
- If a foreign national can’t speak English, lives in social housing, claims benefits, doesn’t work, hates our way of life - they go too. If millions go, millions go.
- Close entire visa routes from countries proven to supply us with illegals, criminals and sex pests. The immigration ‘Red List’. We will discriminate.
- Fairer spouse visas - so that British men and women can bring their spouses to Britain without the endless bureaucracy and cost currently inflicted on them.
- An overhaul of British agriculture that puts growing and farming at the heart of any policy for rural Britain. Food security is national security. Slash red tape, simplify payments, ease planning laws, encourage farm diversification and more. Crucially, help youngsters into agriculture. We will ensure a level playing field for British farmers.
- Restore Britain will force the British public sector will buy British - it will support British farmers, producers and small businesses.
- We will encourage and fund youngsters to take up apprenticeships and learn a proper skill instead of some bullshit university degree. Teach children at school the life skills they will actually need in modern Britain.
- An education system that teaches, respects and celebrates British history and the triumphant contribution our little island has made to the world.
- Businesses freed from crushing regulation, red tape and tax. Reward hard work. Let entrepreneurs enjoy their success.
- Lowest corporation tax in Europe. IR35 scrapped. VAT threshold doubled. HMRC brutally slashed back. Dividend thresholds raised.
- High streets restored. Safe, secure and welcoming. Business rates for small businesses abolished. Turkish barbers, vape shops and other suspicious businesses investigated. Graffiti cleaned, litter picked. Pavements fixed. We will make Britain clean again, and we will take pride in our communities again.
- We will implement free parking in select areas to drive back footfall from the retail parks and back into our town centres. Councils will be forced to accept common sense.
- Fly-tippers will be crushed under the law. It will not be tolerated. Foreigners indulging in the destruction of our countryside will be deported.
- Personal tax slashed. Trust families to spend their money, not the bureaucrats.
- Put pro-family policy at the heart of everything we do. If British families want to have more children, let’s use the power of the state to enable that. Make childcare more accessible and more affordable.
- Reform family courts - so that good, decent fathers, and mothers, are not kept away from their children for malicious reasons. This is important.
- Trust parents to make the best decisions for their families. A limited number of days for a term-time holiday for well-developed children. This is just common sense.
- Restore Britain will make Britain safe again. No-nonsense policing that does what it needs to do. Widespread stop and search back - accusations of racism will stop nothing. Brutal sentences for carrying a knife. Foreign criminals deported, third world sex pests removed before their feet can touch the ground.
- Welfare radically slashed back. Those who can work, will work. Litter picking, graffiti cleaning, whatever else. Don’t like it? No benefits. That simple.
- Support those Brits who genuinely need the help, particularly children, but under a Restore Britain Government the piss-take will end.
- A foreign policy that puts the British interest above all else - proudly and unapologetically. We won’t participate in never-ending foreign wars. We will act when, and only when, the British interest is served.
- Rebuild and rearm Britain. We will have a big stick, and we will wave it when we want.
- A comprehensive support system for British veterans - including fast tracked recruitment into immigration enforcement field roles.
- Arbitrary foreign aid targets that serve no British interests, gone.
- Restore Britain will reverse the creeping islamification of Britain - no burqas, sharia courts, halal slaughter and so on. Cousin marriage will be banned. If you want to sleep with your family, this is not the country for you. This is Britain, we do things our way.
- Anti-white racism, eradicated. No more DEI. The woke bullshit will end.
- Self-defence rights restored. If an intruder tries to kill you in your home, and they end up dead? So be it. That’s their problem. Pepper spray legalised.
- End the war on motorists. Cut fuel duty, no more 20mph zones. Sort out our decaying road network.
- Biological reality respected. Men are men. Women are women. No amount of surgery will ever change that.
- Inheritance tax abolished - for farms, for small businesses, for everyone. The scam will end. Death will no longer be taxed under a Restore Britain Government.
- An infrastructure first housing policy. Developers forced to fund proper infrastructure before a shovel goes in the ground. British homes for British families.
- A Government that prioritises building roads, bridges and projects HERE in Britain. Can you even imagine it?!
- We will purse a British first energy strategy. Net zero will be scrapped. Domestic energy production will be ruthlessly prioritised.
- End the lockdown legacy. Inquiry into COVID vaccine harms, lockdown convictions quashed, a truly independent look at how that was all allowed to happen.
- No Digital ID, ever. Repeal the Online Safety Act. Protect free speech.
- Defund the rotten BBC. Make it a subscription service and let it wither on the vine.
- A binding referendum on the reintroduction of the death penalty for the most evil criminals. One of my favourites.
- A national strategy, working from the findings of the rape gang inquiry, to ruthlessly tackle and decapitate the national crime network of primarily Pakistani muslim sexual slavery, torture and murder.
- Restore Britain will end political Islam. Abolish postal voting except for those in genuine need. Remove voting rights for foreign nationals.
- Foreign language translation ended, in the NHS and beyond. You live in England, you speak English.
- The NHS will be restored as the NATIONAL health service. Serving British people as its first and only priority. It will accept ultra-high skilled migrants to work, it will not support millions of low-skilled migrants who contribute nothing, yet take so much.
- Free car parking for NHS staff, patients and visitors on tight permits. We all pay for the NHS, we shouldn’t be ripped off for the sodding parking too. Especially medical staff.
- Medical school caps will be demolished. We will allow talented young British men and women to train in medicine - the NHS will then be forced to employ them over foreign staff. We will prioritise our own people.
- Reclaim our fisheries - take back our seas and take back our fish. We will take back control. Finally.
- The quangocracy will end. Power will be returned to the people through their MPs. Parliament will be empowered.
- Restore Britain will crush the parasitic state. It will all be hacked back in the most spectacular fashion. Unlike anything Britain has seen before.
I cannot wait.
A Restore Britain Government will protect our people, protect our interests, protect our borders.
We will leave you alone to build a business, work hard, raise a family and enjoy your success in a safe and secure Britain.
Finally, a political party that will put the British people first.
Restore Britain.
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Why on earth are the FA allowing a pause in a match to allow those observing Ramadan to drink water when the sun sets mid-match?
That bollocks should not happen.
The laws of some person’s religion should not trump the rules of football.
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British people watching America liberate Iran from radical Islam
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