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Keir Starmer is the best Spreme Leader we could have, in our wildest dreams. Me? I’m always dubious and so far right…

I live rent free in your head Katılım Şubat 2020
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The Mind Boggles
The Mind Boggles@the_boggles·
“When men chose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing. They then become capable of believing in anything.” -Emile Cammaerts, The Laughing Prophet: The Seven Virtues and G.K. Chesterton
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David Atherton
David Atherton@daveatherton·
🚨Please Repost🚨 One of my follower's friend's daughter is missing. Victoria Hain, 20, from Rayleigh, was first reported missing on March 28. She has links to the Basildon and Southend areas, and was last seen wearing skinny jeans, olive green boots and a black raincoat-type jacket. She's 4ft 10/11in in height with mousy brown shoulder-length hair which is partially dyed blue. If you have any information, dial 101 quoting incident 1452 of 28 March."
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Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧
KEIR STARMER IS LYING HERE, THERE WAS A MEETING ABOUT THE PHONES CONTENT BEFORE IT WAS STOLEN… HE KNOWS THAT. THIS ABSOLUTELY STINKS
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The Telegraph
The Telegraph@Telegraph·
🔴 Six years later, the true scale of the vaccines’ side effects is emerging. Yet those coping with life-changing conditions remain ignored Read how Nikola was left disabled after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine below 🔗 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/2…
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Queen Bee
Queen Bee@KingBobIIV·
Cornwall: Missing girl, Camborne. Her family are frantic looking for her Please share x
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Donna-Louise 🦁 The Cage & the Voice 🇬🇧
I’m a former CID detective. I spent 21 years inside the British criminal justice system. And I’m done staying quiet. A thread. 🧵
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Miss Jo
Miss Jo@therealmissjo·
Question for men I have a friend who went on a date with a guy. It went really well but he has not called her, 5 days later She has a million excuses why not including “three day rules” or “work” or “not being too eager”. But would you leave it so long if you really liked her?
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The Mind Boggles
The Mind Boggles@the_boggles·
@johnredwood Surely it just incentivises more to come here if they’re going to get £10k+
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John Redwood
John Redwood@johnredwood·
The government should not give large sums to illegal migrants. They should revive the Rwanda plan or similar and send illegal arrivals away to a safe country or back home.
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Eileen
Eileen@bree_aignagh·
@AllisonPearson Infuriating - the gaslighting is off the scale - and the arrogance of the man to believe we’re grateful to be thrown this titbit. He treats us like idiots 😡
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Grifty
Grifty@TheGriftReport·
🚨MISSING BOY PLEASE SHARE🚨 URGENT HUNT FOR MISSING 16-YEAR-OLD LUKE PARTRIDGE FROM WALTON Merseyside Police are urgently searching for 16-year-old Luke Partridge who vanished from his home in Walton on Saturday February 21 around 1.15pm. The slim 5ft 8in teenager with short brown hair was last seen wearing a grey tracksuit and grey puffer jacket. He is known to frequent the Chester, Wrexham and Flintshire areas. Anyone who sees him should contact police on 101 immediately.
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The Mind Boggles
The Mind Boggles@the_boggles·
@FUDdaily A good post. It is depressing to see the same sequence of events with Restore now joining the queue to pepper us with scattergun policies. If they have anyone working on any of the boring but necessary detail, I’ve not seen mention. I wish someone would employ you @FUDdaily
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Pete North
Pete North@FUDdaily·
"The plot to topple Britain’s next Right-wing government has already begun" says Allister Heath in the Telegraph. It's often hard to critique Heath's article without reproducing the entire article because virtually every sentence is relevant to the case I make. I strongly suggest you simply read it in full. archive.ph/mFIVy He concludes with: "Naive Right-wingers must stop underestimating the viciousness and power of the status quo forces arranged against them. Winning the election will be tough but merely an early battle in a lengthy war to seize control of a hostile, blue-pilled British state, supported by a radicalised establishment. Without the right plan, it will all be for nothing". Just about anyone with half a brain (which would seem to exclude most of the online right) now recognises this. So much could come unstuck and any government will have to choose its priorities accordingly and make compromises on what it wants to achieve. It must calibrate in order to win an election then government with the intent of getting re-elected. That, for starters, rules out a lot of radical policies. As Heath also notes that much opposition will come from the public themselves. Any government will have limited political capital. "French populists have been defeated repeatedly because the middle classes feared for their money under a Marine Le Pen presidency or a euro Frexit: the British Right must never lose the support of prosperous Middle England. It must always protect their wealth". As I've previously observed, Theresa May should have comfortably beaten Jeremy Corbyn, but was almost brought down by her "dementia tax". Where I part from Heath's thesis is that it will not be the skill of the the left wing insurrection that brings down a future right wing government. It will be the incompetence of the right as a whole - picking fights they can't win, and implementing policy without having wargamed the possible outcomes. Heath says Leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and United Nations conventions, vital policies, will be met by a campaign to render the UK an international pariah. Abrogating the Equalities Act will infuriate the Left, while slashing welfare and ending gold-plated public sector pensions will lead to a 21st-century version of the miners’ strikes by the nation’s bureaucrats. There will be endless judicial activism and a constitutional crisis will surely be engineered. As it happens, I don't think the left will need to engineer a constitutional crisis because constitutional restorationist policies will do that all by themselves. While Heath calls for a plan, it has to be a seriously good one, but I struggle to think of anyone on the right capable of producing one given the propensity to gloss over the complexities, as much to deceive their own supporters (and themselves). This is the basic reason Brexit ended up down a cul-de-sac, and it's why ECHR exit will hit the rocks too. I can also see a bungled deportations programme ending up on the scrapheap. As such, it's hard to get excited about the prospect of a right wing victory in 2029 - whoever that may be. Time and again the right demonstrates that they'll walk headlong into every ambush.
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The Mind Boggles@the_boggles·
Honestly, if @Keir_Starmer had come to power, and done literally nothing for the last 18 months, I am pretty sure we would be better off, happier, and he would be more popular. Literally everything they touch, turns to💩
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The Mind Boggles
The Mind Boggles@the_boggles·
@elonmusk I think it’s probably easier to adopt the common approach, call someone a racist, Nazi or bigot and hope they shut up…
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
Think in probabilities
Math Files@Math_files

Bayes’ theorem is probably the single most important thing any rational person can learn. So many of our debates and disagreements that we shout about are because we don’t understand Bayes’ theorem or how human rationality often works. Bayes’ theorem is named after the 18th-century Thomas Bayes, and essentially it’s a formula that asks: when you are presented with all of the evidence for something, how much should you believe it? Bayes’ theorem teaches us that our beliefs are not fixed; they are probabilities. Our beliefs change as we weigh new evidence against our assumptions, or our priors. In other words, we all carry certain ideas about how the world works, and new evidence can challenge them. For example, somebody might believe that smoking is safe, that stress causes mouth ulcers, or that human activity is unrelated to climate change. These are their priors, their starting points. They can be formed by our culture, our biases, or even incomplete information. Now imagine a new study comes along that challenges one of your priors. A single study might not carry enough weight to overturn your existing beliefs. But as studies accumulate, eventually the scales may tip. At some point, your prior will become less and less plausible. Bayes’ theorem argues that being rational is not about black and white. It’s not even about true or false. It’s about what is most reasonable based on the best available evidence. But for this to work, we need to be presented with as much high-quality data as possible. Without evidence—without belief-forming data—we are left only with our priors and biases. And those aren’t all that rational.

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Proudofus.uk@ProudofusUK·
2,300 years ago, a Greek astronomer sailed to the edge of the known world 🇬🇧 His name was Pytheas. He sailed from Marseille through the Strait of Gibraltar and turned north. He was looking for the source of something the entire ancient world depended on. Tin. Without tin, you can't make bronze. Without bronze, there's no Bronze Age. No weapons. No tools. No armour. And the richest source of tin in the ancient world? Cornwall. For over a thousand years before Pytheas arrived, Cornish tin had been reaching Egypt, Turkey, and Greece. Tin ingots chemically matched to Cornish earth have been found in ancient tombs across the Mediterranean. Britain was connected to the ancient world 1,000 years before Rome set foot here. Pytheas visited the mines. He described a tidal island where tin was loaded onto ships at low tide. Most historians believe that island is St Michael's Mount. Still there. Still beautiful. But here's what matters most. Pytheas didn't find savages. He found a civilisation. Hospitable people. Grain farmers. Beer brewers. Kings with trade networks spanning the known world. He wrote the first ever description of Britain and its people. His book "On the Ocean" has been lost for 2,000 years, but fragments quoted by later writers tell us something extraordinary. Britain wasn't at the edge of the world. It was at the centre of it. Every bronze sword in Greece. Every bronze shield in Egypt. Cornish tin inside every one. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏳️🏴 They taught you Greece was the cradle of civilisation. They didn't mention who supplied the metal. You can walk that causeway today. The same path they carried tin across two thousand years ago. And nobody's teaching it. We are 👇 👉 proudofus.co.uk/support Be proud of us. Be proud of us. 🇬🇧
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Alex Wickham
Alex Wickham@alexwickham·
Keir Starmer said: “It’s been an honour working with Morgan McSweeney for many years. He turned our party around after one of its worst ever defeats and played a central role running our election campaign. It is largely thanks to his dedication, loyalty and leadership that we won a landslide majority and have the chance to change the country. “Having worked closely with Morgan in opposition and in government, I have seen every day his commitment to the Labour Party and to our country. Our party and I owe him a debt of gratitude, and I thank him for his service.”
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