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Oh what's that sorry - the EU reset deal will make imported fruit and veg from outside the EU more expensive? Another slow clap for those still cheerleading for the EU. inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

Just when we needed a truly great leader with vision and grit, we got Keir Starmer... a robotic, Godless Fabian, with Islamo-Marxist tendencies. Lord help us. #Starmergeddon

As I sit here this morning drinking coffee in my slippers I am thinking I really should buy some mugs.

How it started How it’s 2024. going

Ed Miliband has a cult-like conviction in his own climate ideology. He is incapable of admitting that he is wrong – even with mountains of evidence stacking up against him. As the world gets more dangerous, his anti-North Sea fanaticism is making Britain weaker and poorer. Unfortunately, as more and more people sound the alarm, Miliband only becomes more convinced by his own righteousness. Today, the Conservatives will force a vote in Parliament calling for the emergency approval of the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields in the North Sea – two fields that could be up and running by the end of the year. Turning our backs on domestic gas that could heat millions of homes would be madness in normal times, but it is sheer lunacy in the midst of a gas supply crisis. In government, I legislated to protect North Sea oil and gas licences and I approved Rosebank, even though I was told it would have put my own personal security at risk from climate extremists. It was controversial at the time, but to say times have changed would be an understatement. From the wind lobbyists at RenewableUK to the chair of Great British Energy - Miliband’s “clean energy” propaganda outfit - the head honchos of the green lobby say we should drill. The great and good of the Labour Left, from the Tony Blair Institute to the unions and Ed Balls, say so, too. The relative geopolitical stability we have had for most of my adult life is not something we can bank on in the years ahead. We need to pass on a country to the next generation that is strong and prosperous. That means making economic decisions based on rationality, not ideology. The North Sea is a blessing for our economy. When gilt markets are charging you a premium because they think we’re borrowing too much and earning too little, it is incumbent on the Exchequer to make the most of all growth opportunities we have. It is a blessing for our energy security, with the gas making up half of our domestic supply. But it is also a blessing for our environment, as the North Sea is much cleaner than importing LNG from abroad. However, for Miliband to admit this would expose the intellectual fraud at the heart of our net zero climate policy. Miliband’s agenda rests on the absurdity that carbon emissions only matter if they happen domestically. It incentivises the replacement of British industry with dirtier imports from abroad. The fact that North Sea gas displaces dirtier LNG doesn’t matter to our climate bean counters because foreign LNG imports aren’t counted in our domestic emissions targets. This is Net Zero irrationality in a nutshell. Fewer jobs in Britain for more carbon in the atmosphere – and yet to the religiously fervent, they will argue that this is Britain’s example of climate success. This is fantasy thinking we cannot afford. We must fast-track Rosebank and Jackdaw and lift the onerous bans and taxes on the North Sea to back Britain’s energy security. Kemi Badenoch knows it and Keir Starmer knows it. Unfortunately, so far, only one of them has had the courage to say so.

That's literally what it was. Labour looked at the Tory budget, said "hey, what about all this other spending we want to do, how do we pay for that?" and hey presto, 'black hole'.

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@SeeDeeMcLeod Dave, you're shouting at the alphabet.

If you're British you have absolutely no business saying 'Gen Zee'. We had generation X, generation Y, and now we have generation Z. Zed.

In June 2003, Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman quietly posted a series of groundbreaking papers to the arXiv preprint server, outlining a proof of the Poincaré Conjecture—one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics, proposed by Henri Poincaré in 1904. This topological puzzle asked whether every simply connected, closed 3-manifold is homeomorphic to the 3-sphere. Perelman's approach used Ricci flow with surgery, building on Richard Hamilton's earlier ideas, and ultimately resolved not just the Poincaré Conjecture but the broader Thurston geometrization conjecture.The mathematical community scrutinized and verified his work over the following years, confirming its correctness. In recognition, Perelman was awarded the Fields Medal in 2006—the highest honor in mathematics, often called the "Nobel of math"—and later became eligible for the $1 million Millennium Prize from the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2010, one of seven such prizes for solving Millennium Problems.Yet Perelman stunned the world by rejecting both. He declined the Fields Medal, stating he was "not interested in money or fame" and did not want "to be on display like an animal in a zoo." In 2010, he turned down the million-dollar prize, explaining that he felt the Clay Institute's decision process was unfair—he believed Richard Hamilton's foundational contributions to Ricci flow deserved equal credit, and he had no interest in the recognition or financial reward.metode.org heidelberg-laureate-forum.org youtube.com Perelman's rejections stemmed from deep dissatisfaction with what he saw as ethical lapses in the academic mathematics community, including issues of credit attribution and competitiveness. After resigning from the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in 2005, he withdrew almost entirely from public and professional life. As of 2026, he continues to live a reclusive existence in Saint Petersburg, Russia, shunning interviews (none since around 2006), avoiding the spotlight, and reportedly caring for his elderly mother while occasionally visiting family in Sweden. There are no confirmed reports of new mathematical publications or activities from him in recent decades.In an era obsessed with acclaim, funding, and visibility, Grigori Perelman's story stands as a powerful, almost ascetic reminder: for some, the pure pursuit of mathematical truth—solving a problem for its own sake—can outweigh every external reward the world offers.Source: Based on accounts from Wikipedia, Britannica (updated 2026), and historical reports from the International Mathematical Union, Clay Mathematics Institute, and related publications (last major public details from ~2010–2014, with no significant updates since).

Fight on my hands 🥊 10 year old Frankie from Newark gave it to me at @suggysgym on Saturday. Boxing teaches kids discipline, respect and gets them off social media 👍

Who should be in there first?

@DanielCreminGB Yep, that’s me 👍

In favour of freedom, low taxes and lean government that intruders less in our lives? Also a Reformer? Then repost or reply and I will add you to the list of members for this list. Great way for Thatcherites in Reform to find like minded people and see their content in a custom timeline. x.com/i/lists/202988…

Du Zhu Piao is an ancient Chinese tradition where people balance and move on a single floating bamboo pole, originally used for river travel and fishing.

@afneil @canadiancarol1 We the electorate of the United Kingdom whichever party we be affiliated to or usually vote for .Should stop and seriously consider how we ended up with this bunch incompetents deciding our futures ?

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Government is a mafia masquerading around as a human rights organization

Babies diagnosed with Down syndrome are aborted at extremely high rates around the world: Iceland: ~100%
Denmark: ~98%
France: ~77%
United Kingdom: ~90%
United States: 67–85% The discrimination against children with an extra chromosome must end.