George Orwell

@Saul_Sadka Press release Rough sleeping to be decriminalised after 200 years  The Government has confirmed it will repeal the outdated Vagrancy Act 1824 by Spring next year, to ensure rough sleeping is no longer a criminal offence. 10 June 2025

@Saul_Sadka I guess this is caused by: gov.uk/government/new…

You can actually tell that this is central London and not San Francisco because the cars drive on the left. Well done to Sadiq Khan, the Metropolitan Police, and all the other geniuses who made this dream a reality.

A load of nonsense. There’s nothing riding on Keir Starmer’s awayday to the Gulf. Who’s going to tell him Iran is keeping control of the Strait of Hormuz? And there’s nothing he can do about it. Especially since he doesn’t have a Navy.

@campbellclaret Imagine being an adult and writing this on social media.

It’s hard to imagine anything worse than Trump running the US but Ozemprick gets close

@NASA Fibanaci golden ratio

Time to wake up! ...if you're going to the Moon. Our Artemis II crew started their second flight day with the sounds of John Legend's "Green Light" (feat. Andre 3000). "Sleepyhead" by Young and Sick roused the crew earlier today.

@NotFarLeftAtAll More beige

What's missing from this banging full English breakfast?

Unbelievable

This Labour Government is the most working-class government in the history of the UK.

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."

Have you watched The Manosphere with Louis Theroux on Netflix? As the Dad of a 17 year old son, I think @jimmycarr is spot on. What do you think?

@HouseofCommons please be consistent @afneil @

So hang on a minute. If he was using a Government device. It's not his personal device as previously stated. Therefore there will be a centralised policy for oversight of key messaging applications. For example backup. @afneil @Steven_Swinford

There should not have been anything on McSweeney’s phone about the appointment of Mandelson that wasn’t forwarded to the Civil Service. Where are the messages?

@ArchRose90 Comedy sketch material

I don’t need to watch #PMQs to know how it will go today: Kemi: Does the PM expect the British public to believe that McSweeney's phone had gone missing? Starmer: Is this the same public who had to pay higher mortgages due to Liz Truss’ budget which SHE supported!?

CCTV anyone?

CCTV ANYONE?

@Steven_Swinford CCTV anyone?

Exclusive: Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year The theft of the work device means that McSweeney’s WhatsApp messages and texts to Lord Mandelson, the former ambassador to the US, cannot be retrieved. It has led critics to question whether the phone was stolen The State of It, the political podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times, can disclose that McSweeney told police the phone was taken by a man wearing a balaclava on an electric bike. The man grabbed it out of his hand as McSweeney was responding to text messages and cycled off. McSweeney gave chase but was unable to keep up Scotland Yard has a record of the incident but did not carry out any formal investigation. Officers did not speak to McSweeney directly because they were too busy. He was given a crime reference number and the case was closed McSweeney reported the theft of his phone to No 10 and the device was shut off remotely. He was given a new device with the same number the next day. The theft of the phone was first reported by The Sun on Sunday thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

@John2Win As a voter, I want the PM to have some self awareness and step down. Our country is fast becoming the laughing stock of the west. Scandal after scandal. As @BethRigby put it, "you are the chaos, aren't you"

📣 I’ve been selected to ask Keir Starmer a question at PMQs tomorrow! What should I ask him?

Rule 1: Stand up straight with your shoulders back. @jordanbpeterson

The official definition of Islamophobia — now repackaged as “anti-Muslim hostility” — will be used to suppress legitimate criticism of Islam and its practices. We are already seeing this play out. Less than a week after the Communities Secretary, Steve Reed, published the definition — assuring the public it would not stifle legitimate criticism of Islam — Nick Timothy is facing calls to resign after criticising mass ritual prayer by Muslims in Trafalgar Square. He has been accused of “anti-Muslim hostility” by a Labour MP and reported to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards. This is a Muslim blasphemy law by the back door. Today, the Free Speech Union has sent a pre-action letter to Steve Reed, threatening judicial review if the definition and guidance are not withdrawn immediately. This is one of the biggest fights we’ve taken on in our six-year history. Help us stop the Government’s de facto Muslim blasphemy law 👇