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In a rare intervention, the country’s most senior judge has raised serious concerns with ministers about the Government’s plan to curb our right to jury trials. The Lady Chief Justice, Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill, has warned that introducing judge-only trials for a significant number of criminal cases could put judges at risk of physical abuse. David Lammy is trying to take away our right to jury trials and put judges in harm’s way. We cannot let that happen. Read more below 👇

Socialism is the price democracies pay for a majority of voters being bad at economics.

I've just contacted HMRC.. I've told them I won't be able to pay the tax they say I owe them. My phone was stolen and all my records are on there. True story. Honest.

What Kemi Badenoch said👇🏼

@MbarkCherguia They failed English grammar: The first sentence should read: A couple who have 5 sons.

This is supposed to be one of the hardest problems ever to solve. Is it? Or isn’t it?

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Brain test 98% failed

@VisionaryVoid @CSG1973 Everything is poisonous if taken to excess.

Excessive Carrot Juice Consumption Proves Fatal In 1974, Basil Brown, a 48-year-old from Croydon, England, died from an overdose of carrot juice. A health food enthusiast, Brown consumed approximately ten gallons (38 liters) of carrot juice over ten days, coupled with significant vitamin A supplements. Brown's belief in extreme vitamin A intake for optimal health led to this unusual demise. The sheer volume of beta-carotene turned his skin a distinct yellow hue. His liver became overwhelmed, unable to process the substantial influx of toxins. This resulted in severe liver cirrhosis and eventual failure. His death is one of the few medically documented cases of fatal hypervitaminosis A directly attributed to vegetable juice consumption.

@AdrianFaiers @KemiBadenoch Yes but repentance and atonement must come from within the person, not be imposed otherwise it’s just performative.

@likeuson @KemiBadenoch I can see the merit in what you've been arguing, but I think an additional risk is creating a system with different rules for different folk. As an aside, I think the person you quote in your bio would also have believed in repentance and atonement.

What Labour is doing is reminiscent of the terrible energy policies I saw growing up in Nigeria. ❌Stupid taxes 🧾Endless bureaucracy and government interference 🏭❌ No refining capability ⛽⚠️...and now Labour are warning about rationing and fuel shortages. The UK can do better than Labour's energy insanity. The @Conservatives Cheap Power Plan explains how we can do this. It’s time to drill in the North Sea and scrap green taxes that are killing investment and driving up bills.

@RupertLowe10 Congratulations

A very special first introduction today - my second grandchild. It is all of our responsibility to leave a better Britain to our children and grandchildren than the one left to us. We certainly have an awfully long way to go, but I still believe we can do it.

@AdrianFaiers @KemiBadenoch The only sanction should be removal from position IF they have been found to have acted recklessly or negligently.

@likeuson @KemiBadenoch And as soon as you take away accountability and reparation there's the risk that people will behave badly and/or continue to behave badly with impunity, even repeating actions where the investigations you advocate might have revealed how and why those actions caused harm.

@AdrianFaiers @KemiBadenoch As soon as you add accountability and reparation people will clam up and you won’t get the whole story. Any investigation should focus on what happened and why it happened then the why can be corrected and it shouldn’t happen again

@likeuson @KemiBadenoch How widely would you extend that? I'm assuming not to those who've broken the law, but how far? 'Attribution, accountability and even reparation' and 'finding out what went wrong and then how not to repeat it' aren't mutually exclusive. They can and should complement each other.

@steveth75737857 7 seconds ❤️

can you?

@DavidMcGregorBN Or perhaps they're proposing a solution?

You have to admire the brass neck of the Tories complaining about stamp duty. They made it almost impossible for young people to own a home, sold off our council houses for nothing and created the housing crisis. Now they want to sound outraged that buying a home is expensive.

@zoomafrika1 Tell them about Gerardus Mercator.

How do I explain it to my kids?

Just add 8% to current UK GDP to make up the Brexit ‘shortfall’, then compare our GDP growth to other major European and G7 economies — and it quickly becomes apparent it’s anything but credible!!

@AdrianFaiers @KemiBadenoch Nope. What's needed is to find out what went wrong and then how not to repeat it in the future. Who got it wrong isn't important. That makes any enquiry personal rather than objective and those involved will be defensive.

@likeuson @KemiBadenoch We at least need attribution. Without it, there's a danger of avoiding accountability and failing to learn lessons.

Global attention is focused on the Persian Gulf. But we have news too. March 2026 became the first month when, in terms of deep strikes, Ukraine reached parity with Russia. The average number of long-range kamikaze drones launched by Ukraine has significantly increased, while the average number of Russian strike drones launched against Ukraine has currently dropped to 90–110 per day. Experts offer various possible reasons for this decrease: ▪️ drone production in Russia was not fully localized and partially depended on Iran; ▪️ logistics routes have become longer, and Iran itself now needs drones; ▪️ Ukraine is partially hitting production sites and factories; ▪️ possibly, Russia is stockpiling drones, perhaps for hybrid provocations in other regions; ▪️ it is also likely that Russia has started supplying drones to Iran. By spring, Ukraine has significantly increased strikes on Russia using long-range kamikaze drones. For example: on the night of March 18, Russia officially claimed to have "shot down" 238 drones; however, some of them struck a chemical plant in Stavropol Krai and an electronics facility in Sevastopol. Ukraine has also expanded its operational range: over 1,500 km. Russians have openly expressed concern about the security of military infrastructure in the Urals. Ukraine has increased and continues to increase both the production and variety of drones. Moscow has been declared a target: from March 14 to 17, Russia reported about 250 drones in the Moscow air defense zone. 📹: Ukrainian Defenders destroying Russian air defense systems in Bryansk region of Russia

I am very wary of reports that the UK is now within range of Iranian ballistic missiles. But if the reports are true, let’s be in no doubt: the UK has no defences against such missiles. No dedicated national ballistic missile defence (BMD) system for intercepting intermediate- or intercontinental-range threats aimed at the homeland. No ground-based interceptors (like US THAAD or Patriot systems in Europe) deployed in Britain for this purpose. In theory our T-45 warships could provide some cover. But most are currently undeployable or not in UK waters. Leaving us defenceless from ballistic missile attack. Another massive military failure of the political class of all recent governments.

@Daedalus6 @jonburkeUK Thanks

@likeuson @jonburkeUK Thanks although please note the typo in UK population

Why we buy gas from Norway: 1/ Thatcher privatised North Sea gas extraction in 1982. 2/ Private companies plundered our reserves while Norway’s 100% publicly owned Statoil managed theirs strategically. 3/ North Sea oil & gas peaked in 1999 and U.K reserves are now 90% gone.

@AdrianFaiers @KemiBadenoch Not just Badenoch. It seems all politicians (and many here) find it easier to blame rather than look for solutions. Blaming others is easy, fixing things far more difficult.

@likeuson @KemiBadenoch If you're criticising Badenoch for looking for blame, I agree. The complete change in direction we really need is perhaps too great a hope: x.com/AdrianFaiers/s…