Simon Maughan

@toadmeister The guidance says asking someone about their sex may be lawful where it is a “proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim”. It also says discrimination or harassment could occur if questioning is rude, public, combative or offensive. Thanks for clearing that up.

Transgender 'women' should not be asked what sex they are when using toilets in public, according to new rules from Britain's equalities watchdog, and doing so could be "discrimination or harassment". dailysceptic.org/2026/05/22/tra…

If you want to know why youth unemployment is so high look no further than SEND in schools, says Mary Gilleece. A more perfect pipeline from enforced helplessness to idleness could scarcely have been devised. dailysceptic.org/2026/05/21/sen…

@toadmeister I had worried that teaching kids to hate civilisation was behind high youth unemployment. This is far worse. We are brainwashing them into believing they are useless.

@FraserNelson If you borrow money and lenders have a choice of who to lend to, you are always in hock to them. Wishing it wasn't so is not a strategy.

Andy Burnham says Britain must break free of the bond markets. But without a credible plan for growth, investment and spending restraint, the UK will end up even more in hock to those markets. Excellent from Juliet Samuel:- comment.press/bondsburnham

@toadmeister The point is the protest. The cause is just convenience.

"Not only does the educated elite have an inexhaustible appetite for secular millenarianism, but they particularly like doom-mongers who identify profit-chasing capitalists as the greatest threat to humanity. For the environmentalists, the font of all evil was Big Oil; for the ApocalyptAI, it’s Big Tech. Palantir is the new Union Carbide; ‘tech bros’ like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are the new Koch brothers." My latest for the @Spectator is about the emergence of a new cast of Jeremiahs – the ApocalyptAI – just as the bottom has fallen out of the market for climate alarmism. spectator.com/article/ai-arm…

@FraserNelson Let's be honest about what people want to know: 1) Who is coming in? 2) Are they coming to work? 3) Are they undercutting wages? Net migration numbers are a political talking point but not the issue people care about.

@FraserNelson Non-Europeans are replacing Europeans. That will still happen if net migration falls to zero.

@chatswithem @FraserNelson No, that number is down 4%. But it's still many more than the number of Brits returning, which has fallen much further.

@FraserNelson Isn't that just because the amount of Brits fleeing has risen substantially!?

@JuliaHB1 Perhaps HMRC wants someone in No. 10 who will increase the tax take.

How on earth has Angela Rayner been "cleared" by HMRC? She didn't pay the extra £40,000 stamp duty that was due. She didn't take the specialist tax advice on her flat purchase that she was advised to take. She failed to pay the extra stamp duty that she, as Housing Secretary, had brought in for second home purchasers. For HMRC not to issue a fine means they judged her decision as "reasonable care" having been taken, or it was possibly "careless", but not a "deliberate" underpayment. She clearly did not take "reasonable care" to ensure her tax was correct. And if it was "careless", it was *deliberate* carelessness. Do you seriously think that if YOU underpaid your taxes by £40,000 as the then Deputy Prime Minister did, that you would get away without a fine? Sorry, but this stinks.

Just been to vote. The polling officers say it's been quiet. If you don't vote people, then the nutters will get in. I'll let you decide who that means.

Local elections in England today people. Remember, if you want more police and fewer potholes, the purple-haired warrior insisting on globalising the intifada is not an expert in either.

@SamaHoole You've just given the government a list of 8 things to ban. After a three-year inquiry into each, a report recommending a new regulator, the job of regulator given to the report's author, and several billion of taxpayers funds for good measure.

Your government will let you: - Drink alcohol until your liver gives out - Smoke until your lungs do - Eat processed food until you're diabetic at 34 - Take pharmaceuticals with 35 listed side effects - Get a tattoo from a bloke named Spider in his garage - Jump out of a plane - Climb a mountain in winter - Swim with sharks for fun But they'll protect you from: - Raw milk. From a healthy cow. On a clean farm. Down the road. Funny, that. Raw milk doesn't need processing plants, pasteurisation lines, distribution networks, or corporate intermediaries taking a cut at every stage. The farmer sells it. You buy it. The transaction is finished. No middleman. No margin. No quarterly report. Call it a safety concern if you like. The supply chain knows what it really is: a threat to the business model. The regulations exist to protect the revenue, not the people drinking from it. Know the difference.

@iealondon This is why claims you can fund UBI from a wealth tax - at a cost of £360 billion a year - is green nonsense.

🇬🇧 Britain has no wealth tax. Yet it raises more tax from wealth than every country that does - Spain, Switzerland and Norway - and every other OECD nation. We shouldn't be looking for more ways to tax wealth. We should be looking at more ways to create it.👇️

The IEA just published a report highlighting how Britain already taxes wealth more than any other major country. Capital gains, inheritance tax, stamp duty and property taxes are all forms of wealth tax. One consequence of this is that the top 1% in the UK have a lower share of wealth than the EU average and much less than the US. Another consequence is that we have limited funds for investment and slow economic growth. The right policy response is to create more wealth for everyone, rather than take more from the few that have it. The largest sources of wealth are owning a home and a private pension. If the state provides your housing and pension then you will never be wealthy. That’s what a number of political parties want, so that you keep voting for them thinking things will change. But they won’t until we build more houses to let people own them and reform pensions so we’re not just buying government bonds. Without this, claiming you can fund UBI with a wealth tax is pie in the sky.

@capleri4 @visegrad24 What was the cause before Israel existed?

@visegrad24 This is what happens when a country claiming to represent you commits a genocide. Your county of origin makes you less safe everywhere.

"You're killing kids in Palestine. I'll break your fu*king jaw, you dirty motherfu*king Jew" In London, a migrant man sees a Jewish man working and gets off his bicycle to assault him 🇬🇧

@sarmientoj24 @KonstantinKisin Late-stage capitalism is a term invented to describe the things you don't like.

@SimonMaughan @KonstantinKisin calling what capitalism? it is late stage capitalism. in capitalism, the only motive is PROFIT. and what's the best way to do it? enact laws and policies to expand profits. and whats the best means to do that? Control the government lol.

The anti-capitalist brainrot is so powerful. It's actually virtually *impossible* to become a billionaire without creating an immense amount of wealth for other people. Billionaires usually employ hundreds to tens of thousands of other people, to say nothing of creating products, goods and services that are so valuable people are prepared to voluntarily part with their hard-earned money in exchange. People want to hate on big tech oligarchs and there's a lot to dislike, but the one thing you definitely can't argue is they haven't created wealth for other people. How many millionaires are there just because Google, YouTube and other platforms exist? How many people have a good job because of them? In communist societies and dictatorships, the best way to create wealth is using power to control "state" resources. That's why most Russian billionaires are very close friends and allies of Vladimir Putin. In a capitalist society, the best way to create wealth is to solve other people's problems for money at scale.