David Purcell

@InspGadgetBlogs It’s a cycle that started decades ago. The state became the father and is also delinquent.

Thought for the day. Anyone bemoaning the lack of fathers present in the lives of the Clapham feral kids has not met the fathers of these kinds of kids. In my experience, many are worse than the kids themselves.

There are very real conflicts between Islam and western culture. Think more carefully before you dump the thought terminating ‘racist’ cliché over anyone attempting to talk about such issues: 1. Muslims are not a race (anyone can join) 2. Your attempt to call them a race is implicitly based on the same racist view of who can be a Muslim that those you criticise hold. Yes some people out there are indeed racist. Guess which side people who are not racist but do want to address real cultural issues are eventually driven to by the mindless habit of labelling any criticism racist…

@SpeechUnion Well he is right. Much of the right wing hate on social media wants rid of all the muslims in the country or the " Remigration" issue which is not re naturalisation its going back 40 years and getting rid of all immigrants. Cant you see that?

Rory Stewart’s opinion on Islamophobia is delusional drivel. As ever, the former Conservative Cabinet Minister turned podcaster has got it wrong. Writing in The Telegraph, Michael Deacon summarised Stewart’s recent remarks as “People who criticise Islam are racist bigots”. In an interview with The New Statesman, @RoryStewartUK said: “I think we’ve got to be very clear that this is basically racism… All those people on social media who are talking about ‘Judeo-Christian values’, and saying, ‘I’ve got nothing against people of colour, I just don’t like Islam’, are basically racist.” One of the central problems with the Government’s new official definition of Islamophobia — repackaged as “anti-Muslim hostility” — is that Islam is not a race; it is a religion. In a free society, no religion should be shielded from legitimate challenge and debate. We have not had blasphemy laws in England and Wales since Parliament abolished them in 2008 — yet this Government appears to be reviving them by the back door. As predicted, the definition is already being weaponised to silence criticism of Islam, its practices, and its history — most notably in the case of Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Timothy, who was branded racist after criticising a mass Muslim prayer event in Trafalgar Square. Read more below 👇

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@lauriewired Honestly? We had processors that were slow enough that it was immediately obvious if our code was too slow. A few print statements here and there was typically enough to find out where.

Recently, I’ve been working a project making heavy use of CPU Time Stamp Counters (RDTSC on x86). It’s such a convenient tool for measuring performance as long as you're careful. Got me thinking…what did people do *before* Time-Stamp Counters?

@elonmusk Yeah we get to gamble the same amount of money to pay for the crippled version in the vague hope maybe one day it’ll work…

Europe will love Tesla self-driving! Due to the extreme regulatory burden of the EU, which in general stifles innovation in Europe, Tesla owners there have been stuck with basic lane-following.

Artix + OpenRC is the way to go. You have access to AUR with excellent OpenRC support. Devuan is outdated as hell and running SystemD native packages requires a lot more work to convert to OpenRC. Don't run a sketchy SystemD fork, or you'll get smoked. Ditching SystemD entirely is The Way.

Labour’s official definition of Islamophobia — now repackaged as “anti-Muslim hostility” — is less than three weeks old and has already been used in an attempt to silence a democratically elected politician. The Shadow Justice Secretary, Nick Timothy, was reported by a Labour MP to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, branded “Islamophobic”, and even faced calls to resign from the Prime Minister — all for criticising a public mass Muslim prayer in Trafalgar Square. In a free society, no religion should be shielded from legitimate criticism, challenge, or debate. Watch @NJ_Timothy on @DailyTPodcast 👇

@iainoverton @SecScottBessent @FT Their reputation is based on factual reporting. They will not survive politically motivated journalism (pro any side) if they let it continue.

@SecScottBessent @FT The Financial Times, a 136-year-old colossus of global financial journalism, has withstood the furious tantrums of far more consequential figures than a Treasury Secretary wielding a thesaurus. Its salmon-pink pages have survived worse. They will survive this.

By publishing this explicitly false story, the @FT has officially become tabloid trash for market participants. Despite my direct, on-the-record denial of ever having advocated, explored, or espoused the idea that Chancellor-Bank of England statute serving as a prototype for a Treasury-Federal Reserve relationship, FT journalists manufactured a story with the headline, “Scott Bessent praised Bank of England as model for tighter oversight of the Federal Reserve.” These pathetic journalists have clearly fabricated a story to give the impression that both I and the Trump Administration are setting “about restructuring the relationship… at a time when President Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented assault on the world’s most important central bank.” Their mendacious assertion is based on vague statements from unnamed “financial industry executives familiar with the matter.” In short, FT has literally manufactured an entirely fake policy position for me and the Administration. Other than furthering a maliciously false narrative of dysfunction and divisiveness, it baffles the mind as to why they would shred their already diminished journalistic credibility. Over the past 10 years, I have written more than 20,000 words opining on the Federal Reserve decisions, personnel, structure, and modifications. Nowhere have I ever mentioned this ridiculous notion. The Governor’s letters to the Chancellor have proven to be a useless and perfunctory device. There is much to be said about the storied Bank of England, but any recreation of its operating framework on this side of the Atlantic has never been contemplated. The shameful journalists and editors at the FT are shocking in their meretriciousness, lack of standards, and general intellectual libertinism. It is the worst tradition of Fleet Street to manufacture news rather than report on it. They have brought irredeemable shame to their parent organization, Nikkei Inc., with whom I had previously held excellent relations. In 2025, I laid out a comprehensive 6,000+ word review of each and every policy reform that I believe should be adopted by the Federal Reserve. Read my actual, real thoughts on and proposals for Federal Reserve reform at the International Economy: international-economy.com/TIE_Sp25_Besse…

I’ve been asked to share my statement from our evidence at the Inquiry yesterday. So here it is. Thank you to all who listened, and continue to listen. 🫶 #nottinghaminquiry 💚💛

@Con_Tomlinson The same people will claim they support women who are genuinely abused. When in reality they get a kick out of abusing power. They are sick.

Just had the police show up at my door, investigating an "anonymous" domestic abuse and "coercive control" allegation made against me. Two officers spoke to my wife, and concluded it was malicious and politically motivated. The police were professional and apologetic. I won't share their identities when they were just doing their job. They shouldn't have their time wasted like that. But this is a new low. Disagree with me about anything you like, but leave my family out of it.

@Keir_Starmer @Iromg It is neither shocking nor even surprising. You stop at nothing to pander to the scum that think this is the right thing to do. Everyone knows you gave antisemitism a place in society in return for votes that decent people could not give to you.

This is a deeply shocking antisemitic arson attack.  My thoughts are with the Jewish community who are waking up this morning to this horrific news.  Antisemitism has no place in our society.  Anyone with any information must come forward to the police.

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 👇

As a Bishop, I cannot stay silent. I have today drafted and sent an open letter to His Majesty King Charles III, the text of which reads as follows: To: His Majesty, Charles III, King of the United Kingdom and the Realms, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Bearer of the ancient title Defender of the Faith. Your Majesty, I write to you neither as a politician nor as a commentator, but as one of your loyal subjects who, as a bishop of Christ’s Church, cannot remain silent while the Christian foundations of this kingdom are steadily dismantled. Sir, there are moments in the life of a nation when silence becomes a form of betrayal. If I refused to speak to Your Majesty now, this would be such a moment. For more than a thousand years the Crown of this realm has stood in solemn covenant with the Christian faith. The laws of this land were shaped by it. The liberties of our people were nurtured by it. The conscience of our civilisation was formed by it. From the abbeys of medieval England to the parish churches of our villages, from the preaching of the Reformers to the missionary zeal that carried the Gospel to the ends of the earth, the Christian faith has not merely influenced Britain — it has defined her. Yet today that inheritance is being quietly but deliberately eroded. Across the institutions of this nation there is a growing hostility toward the faith that built them. Christian belief is mocked in the public square. Christian morality is dismissed as intolerance. Christian institutions are pressured to surrender doctrine in order to conform to the ideology of the age. Within the very Church that bears the name of England, voices have arisen that appear more eager to mirror the spirit of the age than to proclaim the eternal truth of the Gospel. Meanwhile, beyond the walls of our churches, powerful political movements openly speak of removing Christianity from its historic place within the life of this nation. What would once have been whispered is now proclaimed openly: that Britain must become a post-Christian state. It is in this context that I write to you, Your Majesty. For the British Crown does not stand apart from this crisis. The Sovereign of this realm bears a title that is not merely historic but sacred in its origin and meaning: Defender of the Faith. Those words are not decorative. They are a charge. They speak of a monarch whose duty is not merely to preside over the ceremonies of the Church, but to stand as a guardian of the Christian inheritance of the nation. Yet many among your subjects now ask, with increasing anxiety: “Who will defend that inheritance today?” They see a nation drifting from its foundations. And they ask whether the Crown will remain silent while that inheritance is dismantled. Your Majesty, may I be so bold as to observe that your coronation oath was not a poetic formality. It was a solemn vow made before Almighty God to maintain and preserve the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law. Those words bind the conscience of the sovereign. They remind the Crown that its authority is not merely constitutional but moral. The monarch is not merely a symbol of national continuity, but a custodian of the spiritual inheritance that shaped this realm. History records moments when kings and emperors were confronted by the Church and reminded that their authority was accountable before God. In the fourth century Ambrose of Milan stood before the Emperor Theodosius I and reminded him that even the ruler of an empire must bow before the moral law of Christ. That tradition of prophetic witness has never disappeared. Nor should it. For when rulers forget the foundations upon which their authority rests, the Church must speak — not with hostility, but with holy clarity. And so, I write to say this, Your Majesty: The Christian character of this nation is under profound and accelerating assault. If the Crown does not stand visibly and courageously in defence of that inheritance, history will record that the guardians of Britain’s institutions watched in silence as the foundations were removed. The issue before us is not nostalgia. It is civilisation. Remove Christianity from the story of Britain and you do not create a neutral society — you create a moral vacuum. And history teaches us that moral vacuums are never left empty for long. Your Majesty now stands at a crossroads that few monarchs in modern history have faced. For the erosion of Britain’s Christian inheritance will not ultimately be judged by speeches made in Parliament or debates in the press. It will be judged by whether those entrusted with the guardianship of our ancient institutions chose to defend them — or merely preside over their quiet surrender. You may preside over the quiet dissolution of Britain’s Christian identity. Or you may rise to the ancient responsibility entrusted to the Crown and speak with clarity about the faith that built this kingdom. The first path requires little courage. The second will require a great deal. But it is the path that history honours. Your Majesty’s subjects are not asking for religious coercion. They are asking for leadership. They are asking that the sovereign who bears the title Defender of the Faith remember what that title means. They are asking that the Crown hear the growing cry of anguish from Christians across this land who feel that the spiritual inheritance of their nation is being surrendered without resistance. And they are asking whether the Crown will stand with them. For the faith that shaped Britain is not merely a cultural ornament. It is the wellspring from which our laws, our liberties, and our moral imagination have flowed. If it is cast aside, the nation will discover — too late — that it has severed itself from the very roots that sustained it. Your Majesty, to many the Crown is a symbol of authority. But before God it is also a symbol of stewardship. And stewardship carries with it the duty to defend what has been entrusted. May Almighty God grant Your Majesty the wisdom to discern this hour, and the courage to fulfil the sacred duty entrusted to the Crown. Yours faithfully, Bishop Ceirion H. Dewar FSHC Missionary Bishop Diocese of Providence Confessing Anglican Church @PhilHs10 @RevBrettMurphy @revwickland @BishopRobert1 @GBNews @TalkTV @danwootton @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @LozzaFox @BackBrexitBen @RupertLowe10 @KemiBadenoch @JohnCleese

It was quite a day in court yesterday. Grateful to Channel 4 News for covering the case. It’s all there: Avoidable deaths. 90,000 emails deleted. An entire NHS email account erased. A key board meeting note denied to exist. Thanks to all our supporters. It was a great turn out as always.

They were outnumbered six to one. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇫🇷 Starving. Sick. Exhausted. The French looked across the field and laughed. They weren't even soldiers. They were farmers. But those farmers had something nobody else in the world had. The Welsh longbow. A weapon so powerful nobody else knew how to make it. So demanding it took a lifetime to learn. So devastating that what happened next changed Europe forever. The French had the greatest army on the continent. The finest nobility in France. They were so confident they argued over who would capture the English king. Then the arrows fell. Twelve per minute. Per archer. Thousands of arrows. The sky went dark. The French charged. Into mud. Arrows punched through plate armour. Horses screamed. Knights fell face-down in the mire and couldn't stand up. The archers dropped their bows. Drew swords and mallets. And went to work. Three dukes. Dead. Ninety counts. Dead. Over 1,500 knights. Dead. English dead? A few hundred. The greatest army in Europe. Destroyed by farmers with bows. 25th October 1415. That's not just a battle. Our history. Plenty more available at proudofus.co.uk Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

@decoded_dev @HoTPOfficial I like it. If it gets big enough, the MP’s will find out just how far adrift they are from the general population. Nothing like putting your name down one way and then finding out that 80% of regular people think you’re an asshole.

respectfully, how is this "voting" having our say when it has zero impact on parliament or how mps vote? you're trying to create a marketplace when there's zero chance this will ever influence the uk government, regardless of how big you may get. being able to see the data is great though, just the voting is pointless.

1,000 followers in a matter of hours. We're building something that's never existed: a platform where you read every bill in Parliament, see how MPs voted, and cast your own vote. Parliament votes on your behalf. Now you can have your say too. App coming to the App Store this month.

I’ve written to every Member of Parliament today. Proposals before Parliament would remove jury trials from offences carrying up to three years in prison. Freedoms rarely vanish overnight. They are chipped away in the name of efficiency. Juries did not cause the crisis in our courts. Removing them will not fix it. When the state seeks to take someone’s liberty for serious offences, the judgment of ordinary citizens should never be optional. This is close to becoming law. Please read the letter. Contact your MP now.

@lauriewired Compatibility

Some standard subset of the CISC instruction set that they tell us will be guaranteed to have a hardware implementation, let’s call it x86_RISC and that we can then get the compiler to stick to that subset. Then the CISC bagage eventually gets moved to a comparability software layer. They can never compete with arm / risc-v in the end giving up die space to this nonsense.

Most programmers are taught that L1 is the “top level” cache on x86. It’s not quite true anymore! Intel calls it the Decoded Stream Buffer (DSB), AMD the OpCache. Only enough room for ~4,000 micro-ops, but there are interesting ways to take advantage of it.

These things take time because as we all know you are an embarrassing bunch of incompetent communists waiting for your orders rather than thinking. The fact that you are an embarrassment to the country is certainly beyond your ability to comprehend as much as the borders of your jurisdiction are.

We've set out the next steps in our investigation – and the limitations of the Online Safety Act in relation to AI chatbots. It's important to note that enforcement investigations like this take time. We'll provide updates during this process. ⬇️

🧵 We're progressing our investigation into X as a matter of urgency, using our powers to gather and analyse evidence to determine whether it has broken the law. ➡️ Read our update in full: ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/…