Ryan Doherty

I have been sickened all day by the news of three boys who lured two schoolgirls, raped them, and filmed it on their phones while they laughed and egged each other on. When they finally stood before a judge this week, they were handed “rehabilitation orders” and walked out without serving a single day behind bars. Not in prison, not in custody or a young offender institution. The judge said, “None of you need to go to prison”. What message does that send to rapists? The crime could hardly be graver, yet the punishment was no punishment at all. It’s the collapse of consequences and the rot runs right through the justice system. And this is only going to get worse because Labour are choosing to go soft on criminals: ❌ They have abolished short prison sentences. ❌ They have let tens of thousands of criminals out early. ❌ And now they want to raise the age of criminal responsibility, so that even MORE young offenders escape any consequence at all. My position is common sense👇 PRISON WORKS. ✅It punishes those who do wrong, it keeps dangerous people off our streets and away from our children. ✅It tells every victim that the law is on their side. A country that forgets this is a country where schoolgirls are raped and filmed for sport, and the boys who did it get to go home. Conservatives stand against it and our policies on sentencing and prison are the ones that will deliver a stronger country.

Something is deeply wrong

As a Soviet historian who has spent years writing about the extreme, repressive control Soviet Communism exercised over its unfortunate citizens, I find it really hard to bring a similar accusation against the Labour government and Keir Starmer. But I’m finding it increasingly difficult to avoid that conclusion. We have no Gulag or death penalty, admittedly, but what Labour and the old Soviet regime do have in common is the arrogant belief that they alone hold the moral high ground and that this entitles them to the total control over all those who do not share their worldview. And like the Soviets of old their tools of control are the same… - legislation and co-opted courts and civil service to apply it - the policing of dissent, by hate crime orders, arrests (@glinner), the long term seizure of electronic appliances (@CF_Farrow) to intimidate even those against whom no charges are finally brought. - controlling free speech (12,000 arrests annually for social media posts in 2025). George Orwell’s ‘thought crime’ persecution has become a reality under Labour. - framing dissent (the Unite the Kingdom participants) as racism and far right fascism (Stalin started that in the days when Labour was his captive party, the 1930s, and ‘fascist’ has remained their favoured mantra ever since) - attacking and weakening the family (because the family is so often a place where small ‘c’ conservative values are transmitted down the generations), including the promotion of trans ideology to confuse children in their understanding of the roles of men and women, mothers and fathers. In their eyes women can have penises and ‘heteronormativity’ must be ‘smashed’. - education, wrested as Marx decreed, from the middle class (private schools and VAT), and used as a vehicle for the state propagandising of children and youth at their most vulnerable age. … and much more. In short, I can reach no other conclusion. Under Labour, Britain is becoming a repressive state which is, incredibly, echoing the very characteristics of repression that any former resident of the Soviet Union or its satellite states would recognise today (and they do and tell us so) And with every opportunity Keir Starmer has to rein that in, he instead doubles down. Month by month things get worse. This is 2026. I can’t believe what I am seeing. Or what I’m saying. But, yes, it is going on. And only a majority government of either Tories or Reform (and I do have reservations about both) of a coalition of two can reverse this. … or we are sunk

Here’s your daily reminder that your tax dollars are going to men like this to run “daycares” who can’t even answer a basic question about the $2,250,000 they receive from our tax dollars “F*cking million dollars, don’t worry about it!” ARREST ALL THE FRAUDSTERS

@KonstantinKisin The left sees center as far right now.

Calling everyone you disagree with “far right” has destroyed the meaning of the term. I’m sick of seeing serious labels abused to smear ordinary people with legitimate concerns. In 2015, before Brexit, over 50% of the country was concerned about immigration. Does that make half the country “far right”? Throwing these labels around is reckless, dishonest, and damaging to public debate.

Basically every political instinct I had when I was a lib in 2015 ended up being completely wrong. Even in 2020, even after 4 years of being disabused of all sorts of bad ideas, all my remaining lib assumptions also ended up being totally, completely wrong. At some point you have to accept that you were the mark, that you were wrong about everything, laugh it off, and refuse to let sunk costs keep driving you off the same cliffs.

Backed rejoining the EU. Now he’s not. Backed Corbyn, then he didn’t. Back Starmer, now he wants his job. Is it really much to ask for people to stand by their values? This is the same lack of conviction that’s led to the downfall of Starmer. Just more of the same.

I didn't think it would happen this soon.. But the white-collar AI bloodbath is here. This month alone: • Ken Griffin, Citadel CEO (May 5): "extraordinarily high-skilled jobs being automated by agentic AI," - said he went home "fairly depressed." Was an AI skeptic in January. • Brian Armstrong, Coinbase CEO (May 5): cut 14% of staff (~700). "engineers use AI to ship in days what used to take a team weeks." • PayPal (May 5): planning to cut ~4,760 jobs (20%). CFO cited AI + automation on the earnings call. • Mark Zuckerberg (one week earlier): told 8,000 staff their layoffs were a "direct consequence" of the $145B AI infrastructure bill. • Cloudflare (May 7): cut 1,100 jobs (20%) - first mass layoff in 16 yrs - despite revenue +34% YoY. Internal AI usage up "more than 600% in the last three months alone." • BILL (May 7): up to 30% workforce cut. • Upwork (May 7): ~25% workforce cut. • Cisco (May 13): cut 4,000 jobs. Stock popped 15% on surging AI orders. • LinkedIn (May 13): cut 875 staff (5%). The platform that tracks the job market is laying off its own. First the farm. Then the factory. Now the office?

The UK police still haven’t announced any arrests of the far-left group for inciting violence, while people are frequently imprisoned for social media posts. This is not merely a “two-tier justice system” — this is borderline state-sponsored terrorism.

Huge mistake. The Prime Minister should be taken on for calling our allies like @D_Tarczynski "far right" and banning them from the country.

"Millions of low-skilled migrants that I brought here will be allowed to stay!"

Why did you make so few arrests at the Nakba hate march, @metpoliceuk? Shouldn't every single person chanting for Tommy Robinson to be shot dead have been arrested on the spot for incitement to violence?

Dorset Police pushing fake news. This vile rapist is not ‘from Middlesex’. He is a Syrian asylum seeker who arrived in Britain in 2023. Why are our police forces lying to us?

Yesterday's march was peaceful, patriotic and filled with decent Brits who are concerned about the direction of our country. Starmer should apologise for how he smeared many, many thousands of ordinary patriots. Incredibly, I think less of that man every single day.

The number everyone's throwing around about UK's speech arrests per year - 12,000 - is just for the Communications Act 2003. UK police recorded at least 600,000 offences under statutes that would be unconstitutional in the United States.

🇩🇰 Filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel is asked why his new movie "The Promised Land" lacks the diversity that the Oscars stipulate and has only Nordic cast members Arcel: "Well first of all, the film takes place in Denmark in the 1750s."

Enough is enough. Today, @D_Tarczynski, @RealDonKeith, @AdaLluch, @JoeyMannarino and I have formally instructed our lawyer, @Fr_Gargallo, to issue a Letter of Claim to @Keir_Starmer. The letter demands that he immediately retract his defamatory statements in which he labelled us “far-right agitators” who wish to incite violence. Should he fail to comply, we reserve all our legal rights to pursue further action against him.

The UK is number 1 in the world for arresting people for social media comments Absolutely insane

We've been voting for the lesser of the available evils for longer than I can remember, and everything got dramatically worse. It's time to vote for what we actually want for a change.