Philip Farr

@RupertLowe10 Quite right Rupert. Let’s cancel all coverage of the arts, unless of course it’s something you sanction…. 😬

I have written to Tim Davie, Director-General of the BBC, calling on the broadcaster to withdraw future BBC coverage of Glastonbury.

@ClarkesLatin @BarristerSecret I think where you’ve gone wrong here, Ed, is believing that something printed in the Daily Mail can accurately be described as “reporting” of a case….

Every time a report appears of some judgement so egregious, so utterly inadequate as to horrify any ordinary person, you respond by explaining that everything is perfectly fine, because all the necessary guidelines have been followed - the system has done its work. I’m interested to know just how monstrous such an example would have to be before you were willing to accept that maybe, just maybe, such guidelines are wrong, that they need to change, that this is not ok, and people have a right to be disgusted.

Will even @BarristerSecret have met his match on this one? Genuinely interested to know what possible guidelines or rationale could lead to suspended sentences for three violent rapists of an underage girl. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

@michaelgove Then tell us who should have been “allowed” to take these cases, Michael

Nonsense. The cab rank rule is as honoured in the breach as the observance. Just observe the decision Philippe Sands (a vg advocate btw) made re: Pinochet. Robert Jenrick at no point and in no way argued for denying *anyone* legal representation - disagree yes but don’t distort

@RealDonKeith @bryan1973 @HawksmoorTweets There’s a fairly obvious distinction you’re missing - Robinson is a racist bellend

@bryan1973 @HawksmoorTweets In Jim Crowe era America establishments were legally allowed to refuse service to blacks. The presence of legality doesn’t equate to an absence of discrimination.

If you live in the UK or anywhere near an @HawksmoorTweets steakhouse don't eat there anymore. They just discriminated against these British gentlemen because of their political ideology and kicked them out of their establishment. As a matter of fact you should probably all stand outside of it with boycott signs.

@IsabelOakeshott More hard-hitting journalism there Isabel, casually stoking up a bit of conspiracy theory for clicks… 🙄

There’s something really odd about Meghan’s bump. Baby bumps are round and extremely smooth, not all bulky and baggy like that. CURIOUS.

@IsabelOakeshott @RobertJenrick @KemiBadenoch I thought that would be your response. Lock em up and throw away the key, eh? Never mind any notion of due process…

@philfarr100 @RobertJenrick @KemiBadenoch Nobody?

This is a MUST watch. Every week @RobertJenrick holds this useless government to account. Where’s @KemiBadenoch ? I have no idea what the Tories are waiting for…

@AllisonPearson No it isn’t. It’s about deterrent sentencing in the context of widespread serious public disorder. Just as happened in 2012. Why don’t you post a link to the carefully reasoned Court of Appeal judgment?

Lucy Connolly’s case is about far more than a mother jailed for a mad amount of time for a nasty tweet. This is the state creating a witch in order to terrorise people & deflect attention from failed multiculturalism telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/2…

@IsabelOakeshott “If she had been better represented”? The legal advice she was given was beyond reproach. I’ll just leave a copy the judgment here for anyone who wants to read it, rather than your grifting. judiciary.uk/judgments/lucy…

FAILED asylum seekers and foreign criminals keep escaping justice due to their “human rights.” What about Lucy Connolly’s rights -don’t they count?? digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/2072/read…

@Bugbeargrowling @IsabelOakeshott If you knew the first thing about the law you would know that the Sentencing Guidelines Council is an independent body. Try actually reading the guideline rather than latching on to a sound bite written by someone intent on fomenting anger

@IsabelOakeshott Was this in the Labour manifesto? Were we consulted on this at all? It's the first time I've heard about this. Has it been debated on parliament? OUR laws have been fought for over a thousand or more years - They cannot simply change them with the stroke of a pen!

🛑OUTRAGEOUS: "Ethnic minority" offenders are to be given special treatment by the courts. This is OFFICIAL. What has happened to our country? How can this be right? Why are the rest of us now second and third class citizens??‼️

@JaneMoxon381219 @AWumman @danwootton @Howlark1 I think it may be you who is failing to see the bigger picture…

@AWumman @danwootton @Howlark1 You really are that stupid, not to see the whole picture? . 🙈😡

There is now an EMERGENCY situation regarding the UK’s political prisoner Tommy Robinson. Jordan Peterson & Ezra Levant are so concerned about his state torture they are now on death watch. But, to their eternal shame, the British MSM & political establishment still looks away.

@EdKrassen This was a reminder to Farage not to fawn over Putin, not a direct rebuke to Trump. Twisting words to suit either a left or right wing narrative is both unhelpful and dangerous.

BREAKING: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer just issued a stern warning to Trump, and even Nigel Farage, typically an opponent of Starmer, agrees! “The mineral deal is not enough on its own. But can I just remind [Trump]; Russia is the aggressor, Zelensky is a war leader whose country has been invaded and we should all be supporting him and not fawning over Putin!”

@GoodwinMJ Can you define the “elite consensus” and “urban elite” that you keep banging on about, because I haven’t got a clue what you’re talking about and it sounds rather like dog whistling?

It’s not hard to figure out why Reform is now surging in the polls. Millions of hardworking, tax-paying, law-abiding people in this country are utterly frustrated & fed-up with the elite consensus that has been imposed on them from above for the last 30 years. An elite consensus that’s defined by a deliberate and extreme policy of mass, uncontrolled immigration which is making us poorer not richer, is driving crime and ushering in millions of people from culturally inferior and incompatible nations. An elite consensus that’s given us broken borders which make a mockery of our claim to be a self-governing, sovereign nation, are allowing an assortment of murderers, rapists and criminals onto our streets, and which our so-called “leaders” refuse to fix because they’re more interested in helping strangers than protecting their own citizens and children. An elite consensus that’s ripped open our economy to a rampant and relentless globalisation that benefits an alliance of urban elites, global corporations and immigrant workers but which is smashing the working class apart and hollowing out our national economy. And an elite consensus that would rather see Britain waste billions of £££ overseas each year on foreign aid and trying to maintain our failing asylum system than redirect all this money from British taxpayers into fixing Britain and helping British families before reaching out to the wider world. For much of the last thirty years this broken consensus has been imposed on the Forgotten Majority in this country by both Left and Right, by both Labour and the Tories —by the Uniparty. They are the architects of the disaster that you see around you today, of the managed decline of a once great and proud nation that you used to know and love but today no longer recognise. And so just as you’d never invite back an architect who took the home that had been loved for generations and destroyed it the people out there are now starting to reject the architects of what they see around them today —endless, unavoidable, embarrassing, never-ending national decline. They might not think Nigel Farage has all the answers. They might not think Reform is the perfect vessel. But what unites them is a feeling that is far more powerful than any one leader or party can convey. “We want our country back”. This is why we are now starting to see wholesale and historic change in the national polls and, soon, the country. Because what I think we might be about to witness in British politics is not just a revolt against an out-of-touch elite minority but a full scale revolution against the Uniparty and all that it stands for. -MG

@RichardJMurphy He essentially said that the NHS is full of data, and that using AI to harness that data was an obvious way to improve efficiency. To transpose that for “he does not see the reason for much of what junior doctors do” is disingenuous, in my view

I just listened to Tony Blair being interviewed on Radio 4. I can recall the days when Tony Blair, who had apparently never turned on a PC, believed that IT was the solution for every problem in government . Now it seems that he thinks that AI is the answer to every question. Amongst the problems that he seems to think it might solve will be the junior doctors’ dispute in the NHS, because he spoke about AI when asked what the solution was. The implication of his comments was that he does not see the reason for much of what junior doctors do. It would seem that he thinks that the decisions that they make can be made by AI, and lower qualified staff can deliver the services as a consequence. This then solves the pay dispute, by removing the pay grade. He was not as blunt as this, but that is, I think, where he was going, by inference of what he said, and the context of his other comments. There have been many occasions when Tony Blair has got things terribly wrong. That is because there have always been a very obvious limits to his understanding. This is now the case with regards to junior doctors. Firstly, junior doctors are not junior. Many of them will have been in the job for well over a decade. They are the backbone of the entire hospital system. Secondly, AI works on the basis of algorithms, and they need data. In contrast, the whole point about medicine is that it takes seriously incomplete information, the vast majority of it being communicated nonverbally, and interprets that based on the intuitive experience of the practitioner. The weightings provided are those that at the moment when the decision has to be taken (3am at the bedside of an unconscious elderly person with multiple co-morbidities) seem best to the doctor using a combination of all the heuristics that years of experience has provided to them, many of the inputs for which they will never have time to record. It is, in other words, an exercise in the management of risk in the face of extraordinary uncertainty, including very often not knowing what the patient actually has wrong with them. Good luck in finding any AI system that can process that in a few seconds, including all input time, right now or at any moment in the foreseeable future. It is not going to happen. So, Blair is wrong, again. I am not saying AI has no uses. It is contextually autocorrecting my typing as I write this, often, but by no means always, getting things right. That’s useful. But when a politician possessed of little wit and even less knowledge, let alone understanding, think AI can undertake tasks like those a junior doctor is asked to undertake two things will follow. The first would be massive medical errors. The second would be senior doctors without the experience that comes from years of appraising the human condition. The loss to society would be immeasurable. But, no doubt, somebody funding the Tony Blair Institute would have profited considerably in the meantime, and Tony Blair would define that as a success. Please pardon my cynicism, but incomprehension in the face of reality on this scale is very hard to accept when hinted at as if it is a truth by the likes of Tony Blair.

@LozzaFox @SadiqKhan I wouldn’t bank too much on the “working” here if I were you. For some reason your services aren’t as much in demand as they used to be…

I am pleased I made the decision earlier this year to leave this sh1thole in anticipation of a @SadiqKhan victory. He has turned this once great city into a violent ghetto. I look forward to spending my days in what remains of this green and pleasant land from July. I will not miss the terrorist marches. Or the Stasi policing, or the 20mph zones. No more motorist hating car fines. No more LTN’s. No more surveillance state. No more machetes. No more dead kids. I will still work here, but I will not sleep here anymore. London is unrecognisable as a British city, let alone our capital city, and I’d rather spend the rest of my days with people I have something in common with. Who care about England and her needs more than conflicts thousands of miles away. I can’t wait to walk the dogs and take a phone call without looking over my shoulder for some thug who wants to mug me. Or having to leave my watch at home for fear of it being snatched at knifepoint. So, whilst I’m sad for our city, and for most of my life, my home. I can’t wait to leave and am counting down the days to sitting in a quiet pub shooting the breeze with real people. And there is isn’t a Palestinian flag in sight. Heaven. 🙏

@CJCHowarth @afjmcloughlin What were the practical, legal and constitutional differences with the Law Lords, other than they are no longer members of the legislature, and moved to a building across the street?

@afneil That’s my point. The Tory party didn’t set out to produce those outcomes - they result from a fundamental misreading of what creates capitalist dynamism and a good society. Instead of reflecting on why policy produced the opposite of what it intended, you double down on failure.

For anyone newly following me from the US , this is how we stand for elected office in the UK ….

@danwootton Whose money are you launching it with?

I have left GB News to launch my own independent platform Dan Wootton Outspoken which will feature a brand new daily news and opinion show from later this year that will NOT be regulated by the Ofcommunist censors. Free speech in Britain is in peril! danwoottonoutspoken.com

Strangely enough, the New York Times is not owned by Murdoch.