Tom Tugendhat

This is the cost of control: 1. Higher taxes control your spending 2. More regulation controls your actions We can be better. We can let people choose their own future. And when we do, we can watch them, and all of, us succeed. It’s a choice, but first the gov must let go.

Building partnerships is the key to securing our future. We have no better partners than Canada, Australia and New Zealand. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

Great to see the White Helmets being recognised and Jo Cox being remembered. Thank you @DavidTaylor85

Meet Sahba Rashtian. She was 23. A women’s football player in Iran’s premier league and a referee’s assistant on the field. She was also an artist, a nature lover, and someone who lived life with the energy that athletes bring to everything they do. On January 19, in the city of Isfahan, she was shot by the Islamic Republic’s security forces. A direct bullet to her side ended the life of a young woman who had spent 23 years growing, dreaming, creating. At her funeral, her mother held her photo and said something that should break anyone’s heart: “I raised this angel for twenty-three years. Now I have to stare at her inside a grave?” Say her name: Sahba Rashtian. #IranMassacre‌

Conservative Revival: A New Radicalism Our new paper sets out an ambitious Conservative agenda; changing the Party and country. Ending seven deadly sins, and embracing three core tenets 🧵 static1.squarespace.com/static/62dc469…

"When it comes to CANZUK – Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand – there’s no one we can trust more than each other." - @TomTugendhat 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🇬🇧 theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

@timothy_stanley Nurse! The screens!!

Dreamt last night that in a bid to prove he has principles, Keir Starmer memorised & recited the Communist Manifesto in Hyde Park. Afterwards he collapsed in a heap and said to me: “happy now?”

“One. The RAF is not a flying circus…” “Two, strict R.T. Procedure will be observed at all times…. And is never, repeat never to be used… for private Polish Chit-Chat” “Finally… the Polish Heritage Flight are fundraising to fly the Hawker Hurricane to Poland this August… Head over to their site where you can leave a donation on the Duxford to Dęblin Just Giving page and your message or dedication will be written into the Pilots Log Book, flown on board the Hurricane to Poland, and presented to the Polish Air Force. A symbol of our Gratitude & Remembrance. 🇬🇧🇵🇱” justgiving.com/campaign/duxfo…

Happy St Patrick’s Day from Shaun and the flock! ☘️ #HappyStPatricksDay #LuckOfTheIrish #StPatricksDay

The Assisted Dying debate has been called Parliament at its best; it’s the opposite. It’s for parliament to make good law. It’s not about broad principles; it’s about detail. With most amendments to improve the bill rejected it remains flawed and unable to protect the vulnerable.

Our Chief Executive Tara Singh has written in the Telegraph today setting out why it’s time to take energy out of the culture wars, and how the UK will be stronger, safer and less exposed if it produces more home-grown energy of every kind ✍ In the article, she sets out how renewables are now the fastest, cheapest and most effective way to reduce Britain’s exposure to volatile fossil-fuel markets, and why any serious energy policy will continue to accelerate their deployment⚡ The message is clear: 📢 Prioritise renewables, because they now offer the best route to lasting energy security. Britain does not need the ongoing ideological argument about energy. It needs a practical one. We should back what works. And what works is more home-grown energy, with clean power leading the way 💪 📰 telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…

Just so people understand what happened here: These women claimed asylum because they were likely to be tortured and killed for a gesture standing up to the regime. The regime then started kidnapping their families instead to force them to come home and face likely execution.

The Canterbury massacre (1264) Anti-Jewish violence happened in many English towns in the 12th–13th centuries. In April 1264, during the Second Barons' War, a violent attack on Jews took place in Canterbury. Several Jews were killed, their houses looted & burned down.

A professor in Sweden claims the violent intimidation of Iranian women's families is a sign of unity rather than what it is: a sign of the depth to which the Islamic Republic will descend to coerce silence and compliance from women, even beyond their borders. Extraordinary.

Found a book I’d bought in a charity shop a couple of years ago on my dad’s bookshelf. Some references to the Kingdom of Kent but more focus on Kentish royal line marrying into different kingdoms and the influence of the church in Kent as the foundation of religion in England.

"No woman or maiden shall be forced to marry a man whom she dislikes." That's not a modern law. That was written in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 over a thousand years ago. Anglo-Saxon women had more legal rights than your great-grandmother. On the same island. A thousand years earlier. 🔑 She could own land. In her own name. Buy it. Sell it. Leave it to whoever she chose. No permission needed. Not from her husband. Not from her father. Not from anyone. She could run a business. She could stand in an open-air court, raise her hand in oath, and the law would hear her the same as any man. ⚖️ On the morning after her wedding, her husband owed her a gift. Land. Money. Property. It was called the Morgengifu, the morning gift. It wasn't symbolic. It was legally binding. And it was hers. Not jointly owned. Not held in trust. Hers. Through everything. 💍 A woman called Wynflaed owned seven estates across four counties, her will still survives. Cynethryth, wife of King Offa, struck coins bearing her own name and face. The only Anglo-Saxon queen known to have done it. The coins are still in museum collections. 🪙 Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, built ten fortified towns and led armies in battle. In the tenth century. ⚔️ While most of Europe treated women as property, this island wrote their rights into law. 🇬🇧 Then the Normans came. 1066. And they took all of it away. Every. Single. Right. 🚫 A married woman's property became her husband's. She couldn't own land. Couldn't sign a contract. Couldn't keep her own wages. Under the doctrine of coverture, her legal identity was absorbed into his. Bracton wrote it plainly: "husband and wife are one person, being one flesh and one blood." In the eyes of the law, she didn't exist. For over eight hundred years. Let that satisfy. Eight. Hundred. Years. In 1882, the Married Women's Property Act gave a married woman the right to own property, keep her earnings, and exist as a separate legal person. 📜 But Britain didn't invent those rights in 1882. It restored them. Rights that Anglo-Saxon women had exercised a thousand years before. On the same island, under the same sky, in a language that became the one you're reading now. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 This island forgot once. We won't let it forget again. Happy Mother's Day ❤️ Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

In 2011, Japanese telecom company Docomo created one of the most beautiful adverts we've ever seen. A giant xylophone in Kyushu playing Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" with a wooden ball rolling down its keys.

He wants to deploy UK forces we don’t have to keep oil and gas flowing 3,000 miles away but forbids any new investment in our sector of the North Sea. Bonkers.

Oh look - Iranian and Russian Shahed drones are being mass produced in China. This isn’t surprising but it’s a reminder that Beijing is the enabler of Moscow’s campaign murdering Ukrainian children.

This article by @jonathanliew in yesterday's Guardian about the proximity of a branch of Gail's (founded by a Jew) to a Palestinian cafe in North London is full of antisemitic tropes about Jewish money, power and elitism. It's deeply offensive. @KathViner theguardian.com/commentisfree/…