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Sharon Davis MBE and JK Rowling are two women who have done so much for women’s rights and keeping women safe They both are wonderful women ❤️❤️ Do you agree? @sharrond62 @jk_rowling

🇬🇧 The story we got told is that kings made British history. That parliaments did. That armies did. That isn't what the record shows. 📜 1215. The barons dragged King John into a field at Runnymede and made him sign. Two years later ordinary people came back, and the Charter of the Forest gave common people written rights for the first time in history. British people stood together, and they won. ⚔️ 1381. A hundred thousand peasants, labourers and craftsmen marched on London with farm tools and the longbows the Crown had trained them to use. A fourteen-year-old king rode out to meet them and negotiated face to face with a peasant at Smithfield. Serfdom never recovered. British people stood together, and they won. 🕯️ 1791. Three hundred thousand British households stopped buying sugar. No leader. No orders. Women led it, putting notices in their windows that said this household does not use slave-grown sugar. Sales collapsed. It started the momentum that ended the slave trade. The Royal Navy spent the next fifty years intercepting slave ships. British taxpayers paid the loan until 2015. British people stood together, and they won. 🌳 1834. Six Dorset farm labourers asked for a living wage. The government made it illegal overnight and shipped them to Australia in irons. Eight hundred thousand people signed a petition. Tens of thousands marched through London. The Tolpuddle Martyrs came home, and the global trade union movement had its moment. British people stood together, and they won. 🏭 1862. The American Civil War cut off the cotton. Half a million Lancashire mill workers were starving. Slave-grown Confederate cotton was on the docks, and would have ended the famine overnight. They voted, in meeting after meeting, not to touch it. They chose hunger over slavery. Abraham Lincoln wrote them a letter calling it an example to the world. British people stood together, and they won. No empire did any of this. No king ordered it. No parliament voted for it. A field in Runnymede. A road to London. A kitchen window. A tree in Dorset. A meeting hall in Manchester. Every time it mattered most, British people stood together. And every time they did, they changed what it meant to be human. This is who we are. This is what we're capable of. Now it's our turn. Find each other. Stand together. The next chapter is ours to write. Your support pays for the research, the production, and the hours it takes to get it right. Stories like these don't find themselves. Be part of us. 👉 proudofus.co.uk/support 👈 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

@BobBlackman It's time. Today a boy, Sasan, was hanged in Iran. Expel all of the Murder Regime's UK agents .

Counter-terror police believe the IRGC is directing attacks using disposable young criminals. This is why arresting the foot soldiers will not be enough. The Iranian embassy must be closed and every agent of this murderous regime on British soil expelled. #ProscribeIRGC

I don't want a smart meter, I don't want a heat pump, I don't want an expensive, inferior EV, I don't want to see fields full of solar panels & wind turbines (that stand still, when it's blowing a gale & destroy our birdlife) & they can leave our tumble driers/log burners alone!

Just a reminder that when @SuellaBraverman called for the hate marches to be banned, Keir Starmer accused her of “whipping up division,” “sowing the seeds of hatred and distrust,” & “demeaning her office”. She was right & it has taken 5-6 terror attacks for Starmer to catch up.

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The IPCC is collapsing ! 46 Members of the IPCC (intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) have resigned “Dr Robert Balling: The IPCC notes that “No significant acceleration in the rate of sea level rise during the 20th century has been detected.” This did not appear in the IPCC Summary for Policymakers in 1993 !! IT WAS ALWAYS A LIE .. @thedragonsbreath/note/p-194186565?r=8t7fd&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@thedragonsbre…

Premier Inn isn’t “restructuring”. It’s sacking 3,800 people to pay Rachel Reeves’ tax raids. Average hotel business rates up 115% over three years – an extra £205,200 on the bill thanks to her shake‑up. Employer National Insurance whacked up on top. Whitbread’s five‑year plan? Strip out 197 branded restaurants, flog off 110 sites, take a scythe to staff and slash £250m of costs just to stay investable. This is what “stability” looks like under Reeves: balance the books on hotel cleaners, receptionists and kitchen staff so the Chancellor’s spreadsheet looks pretty.

A Labour-led council has scrapped plans for a fleet of electric bin lorries after a trial found too many “faults” with the electric models. Wakefield council said that electric bin lorries “were not practical for heavy-duty, stop-start urban routes” and that the borough had “insufficient” charging infrastructure for a battery-powered fleet. After the trial, the council has decided to replace its ageing diesel-powered fleet with new diesel lorries, rather than zero-emission models. #CostOfNetZero

Right question Lizzie but you won't like the answer. Suleiman is a British national. He was born in Somalia but holds British citizenship. You cannot deport a British citizen. That is the legal reality and this government has no intention of changing it. But the broader point stands and it applies to the thousands who aren't British citizens. The ECHR, the Human Rights Act and a legal framework built around the right to family life and the prohibition on returning individuals to countries where they might face harm has been used systematically to block the deportation of foreign nationals with serious criminal records. The Rwanda scheme, whatever its perceived flaws, was an attempt to break that logjam. It was abolished by this government on its first day in office. The elephant in the room you're identifying isn't just the deportation framework. It's the political class that built it, maintains it and then expresses horror when its consequences arrive at a bus stop in Golders Green. A man who stabbed a police officer in the head, face and leg, served his sentence, was referred to Prevent and had his case closed, attacked another man in Southwark on the morning of the attack and was still able to walk eight miles across London to stab Jewish men outside their synagogue. The system didn't fail by accident. It was designed by people who prioritised certain values over public safety and are now too invested in those values to acknowledge what they have produced.

@AllisonPearson The sounds coming out of his mouth mean nothing as he has done nothing in his time as PM to protect our Jewish community. Whatever he says now is far too late / we all know where his loyalty lies

No, Prime Minister. You could have banned hate matches. You could have banned pro-Iranian regime groups. You could have deported disgustingly antisemitic imams. You could have cracked down on mosques spewing Jew hatred. Instead you introduced an “anti-Muslim hate” definition.

🚨Yesterday, Starmer removed all hereditary peers from the House of Lords It was the end of the 700-year-old tradition. The office of the Lord Great Chamberlain dates back to 1138, but this has also been eradicated. Labour loves doing away with tradition!

@beltone0101 The country knows what it's missing. The harder question is whether enough people will pay slightly more, walk slightly further, and rebuild the relationships the supermarket can't supply.

What the British corner shop, before the supermarket, was actually doing for the parish: - Sold individual eggs, by the half-dozen, by the dozen, from the local farm. - Sold loose tea by the ounce, weighed out on brass scales by a grocer who knew which blend you preferred. - Sold biscuits by weight from a glass jar with a metal scoop. Custard creams, gingernuts, broken digestives at half price. - Sold cheese by the wedge, cut to order from a wheel on a wooden board with a wire. - Sold bacon by the rasher, sliced to your specification on the slicer behind the counter. - Sold flour, sugar, dried peas, dried beans, oats, lentils, all by the pound, weighed into brown paper bags. No plastic anywhere on the premises. - Sold fresh bread, baked that morning by the baker at the end of the lane. - Sold fresh milk in glass bottles, returned for the deposit. •-Sold the local newspaper, the parish magazine, the sweets the children spent their pocket money on, the cigarettes for the men, the matches, the candles, the stamps. - Knew when Mrs. Atkinson was struggling with the rent and quietly extended her credit until Friday. - Held the spare key for the elderly lady at number twelve. - Kept a noticeboard in the window with adverts for the village fete, the lost cat, the lawnmower for sale. - Took messages for the customers who didn't have a telephone. - Was open from 7am until 8pm, six days a week, run by the same family for three or four generations. The corner shop was the parish's distribution layer for food, news, gossip, credit, and small acts of community kindness. Britain in 1950: approximately 220,000 independent corner shops. Britain in 2026: roughly 38,000, most owned by chains, almost none family-run, almost all stocking the same brands as the supermarket up the road. The corner shop, having lost the price war to Tesco and Sainsbury's, took its functions with it. The functions did not transfer to the supermarket. The supermarket does not extend credit. The supermarket does not hold the key. The supermarket does not know your name. The transactions that built community got replaced with transactions that did not. The community, accordingly, got thinner. Nobody put a number on it at the time, because the corner shop was not on a balance sheet. The country has noticed it is missing. It is missing from every parish in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. It is missing from every conversation people no longer have on their way home. It is missing from the windowsill where the noticeboard used to be. The country is quieter now. The supermarket is full of food and empty of people who know each other.

@NJ_Timothy @KemiBadenoch Hermer is a traitor and needs to be exiled.

Lord Hermer went after our soldiers despite warnings murder allegations were false. I referred him to the Bar Standards Board. They've confirmed they're assessing the case, and Lord Hermer could face formal disciplinary proceedings. He should be fired. x.com/NJ_Timothy/sta…

@Keir_Starmer "You belong here." That is what you told the Jewish community today. Here is what belonging looks like in Keir Starmer's Britain. Two Jewish worshippers murdered outside a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur. Four Hatzola ambulances firebombed in Golders Green by an Iranian proxy group operating through IRGC infrastructure. A memorial wall set alight. Two Jewish men stabbed outside their synagogue by a man known to Prevent, referred and closed, who was being hunted by your police for a separate knife attack that same morning. Five attacks in six weeks on one community in one square mile. Three thousand seven hundred antisemitic incidents recorded in 2025, more than double the figure three years earlier. You have increased funding for police patrols. Sir Mark Rowley has already told you he cannot sustain the current level of enhanced patrols. You are fast-tracking legislation to deal with malign state actors. The IRGC, the malign state actor whose proxy network claimed responsibility for both the ambulance firebombing and yesterday's stabbings, remains unproscribed. You demanded Nick Timothy's sacking for identifying the coalition driving this violence. You have watched the marches, the chants, the parliamentary declarations that Zionism is one of the greatest threats to humanity, and called it a difficult balance. Essa Suleiman was known to Prevent. His case was closed. He stabbed a police officer nine years ago and served his sentence. On the morning of yesterday's attack he knifed a man in Southwark. Your police arrived within six minutes. He was gone. Two hours and fifty minutes later he was in Golders Green. You said your government is taking immediate action. The Jewish community has been waiting for immediate action for two and a half years. What they have received is funding reviews, legislative consultations, expressions of solidarity and the assurance that they belong here. They know they belong here. They have belonged here for centuries. What they need is a Prime Minister who will proscribe the IRGC, stop the marches, name the permission structure that produced yesterday's attack and hold to account those whose words and decisions built it. Belonging is not a message. It is a condition the state either guarantees or it does not. On the evidence of the past two and a half years it has not.

Taxes are up. Cost of living is up. Infrastructures and public services are crumbling. Everyone is feeling the pinch across Britain. And here’s Ed Miliband banning traditional tumble dryers because of net zero. We are governed by idiots.