John Laxton #FBPE🇪🇺🇺🇦

@BBCNews It’s strange that everything Trump does seems to benefit Russia. I wonder why…..

The global winners and losers of the war in Iran bbc.in/4smDMtb

@paul_e_jones @BBCNews Yes the main UK ISPs block piracy sites.

@john_laxton7 @BBCNews Pretty much. Works for China. I think Australia also blocks sites with porn. I have no idea if 4chan is blocked there or not. Does the UK also block things that are covered by international treaties like piracy sites?

US messageboard 4Chan mocks £520,000 fine for UK online safety breaches bbc.in/4lyLyNK

@paul_e_jones @BBCNews So all we can do is block it.

@john_laxton7 @BBCNews But they don't operate there. This is the crux of the issue. The US doesn't view a company in the US as operating in a foreign country as "doing business" in that foreign country when there are no offices, staff, or payment processor there.

@BeatSyncer98 @paul_e_jones @BBCNews We should block 4Chan and there would be no backfire as it has pretty limited usage.

@john_laxton7 @paul_e_jones @BBCNews thats not how that works.4chan does not have a UK office. theres nothing they can do except block 4chan... which would backfire so hard and cause a streisand effect. It would also show that the labour government wants no criticism of their deplorable running of the UK.

@THATCH_ARISES @paul_e_jones @BBCNews Most countries don’t accept the US version of unlimited free speech - and if you look at the state of US society you can see why.

@john_laxton7 @paul_e_jones @BBCNews People have a right to speak no matter where they live. If you have laws against it then that just makes your government illegitimate.

@paul_e_jones @BBCNews The problem is they do operate here and then boast about refusing to comply with our rules. My view would be if they can’t/won’t comply we should block them.

@john_laxton7 @BBCNews This website is a relatively small one, not some large "multi-national" company by any means. Generally people people use that term they are talking about companies like Nestle or Coca-Cola. Given they are a small business located in the US, what do you expect?

@dodo_sec @paul_e_jones @BBCNews Probably true - we should ban it.

@john_laxton7 @paul_e_jones @BBCNews No, 4chan is an US company that foreigners can choose to do international business with. If the UK wants to ban it (and show its citizens what "protect the children" laws are actually about), they are free to do so. Trying to fine it is unenforceable and self embarrassment

@paul_e_jones @BBCNews You’re obviously in favour of US multi-nationals not having to pay tax or obey any rules outside of the US. It’s why the rest of us are wondering why we should let these companies operate in our countries as parasites.

@john_laxton7 @BBCNews Perhaps in the UK's opinion, but another way to look at it is people in the UK might are sending money overseas. Perhaps in addition to the Chinese-style firewall, the UK needs Chinese-style monetary controls.

@We_are_Double_T @BBCNews Most people don’t use VPNs so blocking impacts revenue. Clown.

@john_laxton7 @BBCNews VPN, you think 4Chan doesn’t know we know how to bypass it? Clown.

@paul_e_jones @BBCNews If they gather revenue here via subsciptions or advertising then they operate here.

@john_laxton7 @BBCNews They do not operate in the UK.

@paul_e_jones @BBCNews If foreign tech corporations operate in the UK they should obey our laws - if they won’t do that they should be blocked. I think you’ll find the US expects British businesses operating in the US to obey their laws.

@john_laxton7 @BBCNews MAGA has absolutely nothing to do with this. That said, I think you're saying "not to offend Americans who appreciate their first amendment." And, yes, rather than try to regulate foreign entities, they should just block stuff like China does. It is the communist way.

@FebrileSociety @BBCNews Imagine my shock to find you are a fan of Rupert Lowe, support Putin and think Covid was a conspiracy - an all purpose idiot in other words. And I’m very much not pro-Brexit….

@john_laxton7 @BBCNews Imagine my shock that you're a pro brexit, pro Ukraine moron. Probably still getting covid jabs too.

@BBCBreaking It’s increasingly clear the Israeli tail is wagging the US dog. Trump isn’t in control and hasn’t a clue what he is doing or why.

UK gas prices soar more than 20% after strikes hit Qatar's main gas facility bbc.in/4sVs9cp

Absolutely this - Labour needs to stop pandering to people who will never vote Labour.

In all the tragedy happening in the world, there are moments that make me genuinely happy. An Irish PM defending the British PM from attacks by the US President, and then turning to show solidarity with Ukraine. This is European solidarity at its finest. Honor to the Irish 🇮🇪.

What we have learned today. 1: there was no imminent threat (Head of the US Counter Terrorism Center) and 2: there was a viable offer from Tehran to accept tight controls on their nuclear programme (Jonathan Powell). Both from that much maligned species known as genuine experts.

@BishopDewar @SREVELAINARCAD1 Spoke at Tommy Robinson’s rally which I think makes him more far right than Christian! Still I suppose he’s following a path trodden by Mussolini and Franco…

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

You want the NATO allies to join you in a war you started without ever consulting these allies about the war or explaining your war aims. We’re meant just to meekly fall in line. You recently supported a US invasion of a NATO ally (Denmark/Greenland) but now you want these same allies to join your war. Your president disparaged and misrepresented the role of NATO allies in Afghanistan. But now you want them to join with you again in a war of your making. You went to war with Iran without a thought of how to keep the Strait of Hormuz open and without involving your allies in the matter. But now you want the NATO allies to bail you out, even though there’s still no plan for Hormuz. You want the NATO allies to join you in a war in which you still cannot articulate the endgame. Or what victory would look like. You went to war thinking the Iranian regime would quickly topple, that Tehran would not attack the Gulf States or close Hormuz. Why would we align with such Epic Stupidity? You and other know-nothing blowhards started this war all on your own. You can finish it on your own. If you’re able to …

@MeltingFire68 @SREVELAINARCAD1 @kingkapoor72 @JohnCleese Of course there is a far left (Corbyn etc) but they don’t get the same level of backing from the billionaire class as the far right so are currently less of a problem.

@kingkapoor72 @JohnCleese I’m curious is there a far Left? There only seems to be a far Right.

I had friends who went to the restaurant last night, only to find that it was closed, and guarded by police who could not explain why. They claimed to have no idea what was going on