Dave Lowry

@SDPhq Sounds amazing! I bet the scenery watching would be stunning. I'm in favour. However, with current planning rules it would cost a £200b and after 30 years there'd be nothing to show for it having spaffed all that money on consultants and impact assessments etc.

It’s time Wales was united. Getting a train from Swansea to Anglesey should not have to involve going via England. That is why the SDP supports building new railways connecting the south and the north. 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@TerraOrBust A great story! Get well soon Roger!

🚨 BREXIT BENEFIT KLAXON 🚨 This is Roger Jackson from Bedford, and is the first man in Europe to receive a groundbreaking cancer treatment called histotripsy. He is just the first of many Brits receiving this lifesaving cancer treatment, approved thanks to Brexit divergence.

@GBPolitcs @Telegraph Are you sure?

🚨NEW: The YouGov research company has conceded to Nigel Farage and agreed to follow British Polling Council rules [@Telegraph]

@UKLabour Digital ID is an attack on privacy and a distraction from Mandelson, Epstein, etc. Another reason I will never vote Labour again.

Yet another public service brought to you by a Labour government.

@SpeechUnion I have just donated the recommended amount (£25) . but this does mean I'll have to hold off purchasing monthly membership for a little bit.

📣🚨The Free Speech Union is mounting a legal challenge against the Government over its official definition of Islamophobia — now repackaged as 'anti-Muslim hatred' — and its appointment of a new 'tsar' to punish people who fall foul of it. This amounts to a Muslim blasphemy law via the back door. The definition is vague and subjective, and will be weaponised to silence legitimate criticism and debate about Islam, Muslims, and Islamic practices and history. The FSU’s General Secretary, Lord Young of Acton, said: “This is the most serious threat to free speech the Government has come up with so far — the only area in which it’s achieving any success. “If we don’t win this fight, tens of thousands of people a year could lose their jobs at the say-so of a Labour-appointed ‘tsar’. It’s dystopian.” Public bodies will adopt this definition — despite it being non-statutory — with the same zeal the police have shown in investigating and recording non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs). It is predicted by one of the drafters of the definition that it could lead to around 20,000 reports of 'anti-Muslim hostility' a year. At present, the number of recorded anti-Muslim hate crimes is around 4,000. In a free society, no religion should be shielded from legitimate criticism. This proposal places one faith above the rest. The Free Speech Union is bringing a legal challenge on two grounds. First, the definition relies on nebulous, legally undefined terms such as “negative and prejudicial stereotyping of Muslims”, making it incoherent and irrational — and ripe for weaponisation. Second, adopting such a definition cuts across legislation already enacted by Parliament and therefore breaches the public law principle known as “occupying the field”. Under this established public law doctrine, new regulations, put in place by ministers, must not replace existing legislation. It is constitutionally unlawful. In this case, the body responsible for protecting Muslims from discrimination is the Equality and Human Rights Commission, not an anti-Muslim hostility 'tsar'. Parliament voted to abolish blasphemy laws 18 years ago. We can't let this Government resurrect them via the back door. This is one of the biggest battles the Free Speech Union has ever taken on in its six years — and we need your help. Judicial reviews are expensive, but this is a fight we felt we had to take on. Donate to our crowdfunder below👇

@darrenpjones Dear Mr Jones, No. Stop making insidious government.

☕ Can you get your admin done faster than you can make a cup of tea? I want to make government by app a reality. That’s what we could do with digital ID. Have your say by searching ‘digital ID consultation’.

UK trade data for 2025 published yesterday. We now have 10 years of data since the EU ref & 5 since we left the customs union. Remember the OBR forecast Brexit would reduce UK trade by 15% (hence their forecast of a 4% hit to productivity). Let’s see how that is working out …

@MartinSLewis My fix has just ended -- should I fix again?

Lots of people messaging me saying octopus has added early exit fees to their fixes. Yes that seems to be a policy change. It's fixes were never that competitive compared to open market, but that (as well as service) was its big sell. It is of course only for new not existing fixes. The market is in turmoil there are very few cheap fixes left so ultimately this may be a defensive move to keep it's fix relatively (definitely not absolutely) lower. To be fair all companies are playing with their now, mostly paltry, offerings. The market is all over the place.

@pirateboy75 @ClaireCoutinho @LoftusSteve You win the internet today :)

@ClaireCoutinho @LoftusSteve Remember in 2010 Nick Clegg said nuclear wasn't viable because it wouldn't yield any benefits until at least 2021. Time goes quicker than you think.

This is an argument to never build anything, ever. Are you saying we shouldn’t build any houses? No reservoirs? No bridges? We will need gas in 2031 and in 2050. It is common sense to make the most of British production. This is supposedly one of Labour’s best economists. 😳

The democratic case against the EU, here made half a century ago by Labour politician Michael Foot. EU’s relentless suffocation of democratic accountability in Europe once concerned the left. But rewarded with power and perks, few critics remain today.

International law - particularly post-9/11 - supports action against terror regimes like Iran's IRGC under Article 51 self-defence when they continue to sponsor terror groups and attacks (including those in the UK, which I'm sure you know - or are supposed to know) and carry out massacres of Persians in Iran. The mass killings of innocent people was the last straw - so this is more than justified. From MI5: "Since January 2022, with police partners, we have responded to twenty Iran-backed plots presenting potentially lethal threats to British citizens and UK residents."

If you're disapplying electoral law based on "cultural sensitivity", then you're simultaneously: - Admitting we are operating a two-tier legal system - Admitting that certain cultures are incapable of following UK laws

Those religious people and lobbyists in full:

@oaxacaborn @markgadala Thanks Gina! May your musical playlist today be all your favourites :)

@markgadala Here’s the link for those of you who, like me, searched for it in the comments. popsci.com/technology/rob…

This story is actually insane: • dude drops $2000 on a DJI robot vacuum like a lunatic • refuses to use the normal app like a peasant • Sammy Azdoufal fires up Claude to crack the API so he can drive it with an xbox controller • Claude delivers the goods • pulls an auth token from their servers, connects successfully • except the system thinks he controls 7000 vacuums • checks again • yep, seven thousand • DJI built authentication with zero device ownership verification • any valid token works for any unit on the planet • Sammy now has eyes inside homes across 24 countries • live vacuum camera feeds everywhere • full floor plans from the mapping data • some guy in germany eating cereal at 3am, unaware his roomba is snitching • one API call away from being the most informed burglar in history • all he wanted was to steer his vacuum with a joystick • does the right thing and reports it • DJI fixes it in two days • back to normal life with his stupidly expensive floor cleaner • IoT companies stay undefeated at shipping garbage security

@TerraOrBust Wow, what a quote! Is this published online anywhere? I'd love a link if you have one!

In case you missed this. The Senior Economics Writer at The Economist has admitted that he and "a lot of his colleagues" were "super anti-Brexit" (his words) and suffered from confirmation bias, wanting to see the UK economy go down the toilet as punishment for leaving.

@ollie18821 @RestIsPolitics Alistair recently said it was hard to argue against people saying this Labour government is as bad as the last lot. I think that's as close as we'll get to neutrality. The last gov set the bar **so low** and Labour still cocked it up...

@RestIsPolitics As one of Britain’s leading podcasts, you have failed in your duty to hold the Labour government to account, as you did effectively with the previous Tory government. Where is the discussion on U-turns? Chagos? You are being hypocritical and part of the problem.

Reform just keeps getting away with it, here's why.

@TheHarrisSultan @grok - do you know the identity of the female police officer and which constabulary she's from?

Hero officer stands her ground to Muslims in a "Muslim area". If they sack her or send her for another "how to appease Muslims" training program, I'll do a fund raiser for her. She is our hero!

@MrGreenTeaTime @visegrad24 Holding a defensive position at the door is smart. What if there's ten more out there?

@visegrad24 Let me understand it.. There's a man in the home and he does nothing?!

English woman wakes up at 2:30 in the morning from an illegal migrants staring into her home through a window and banging on her door 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The EU asked Canada for a €10 million participation fee. It asked Britain for €6 billion. Eurocrats really do detest us.

@Heccles94 "It's not immigrants that are the problem. It's billionaires." I love this line! I'd follow it up with: "We need more of them!"

The anmount of Tax avoided by Jim Ratcliffe's move to Monaco could pay for an extra 120,000 NHS nurses. It's not immigrants that are the problem. It's billionaires.