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I worked for a criminal law firm in the early 2000s. At that time, networks (Vodafone, Orange, O2, etc.) routinely stored: full SMS message bodies timestamps sender/recipient numbers And they could disclose them under: a court order, or a law enforcement request, or (in some jurisdictions) a defence advocate’s request supported by judicial authority We were able to obtain complete transcripts, even if the messages had been deleted from the devices. Data retention reforms changed everything, and not for the better in my opinion.

@BasilTheGreat Buy a new fucking phone, sign in to WhatsApp and all the messages will be there.

🚨MORGAN MCSWEENEY TEXTS TO PETER MANDELSON LOST FOREVER AFTER 'PHONE STOLEN' I don't know about you but this sounds like the biggest load of BS There's no way that phone just happened to be stolen Labour are covering their tracks They don't want the truth getting out

Britain produces <1% of global CO₂. China: 30%. US: 14%. India: rising fast. We’ve already cut emissions 50%+ since 1990. Now we’re paying more for energy, shutting our own gas, and relying on wind/solar which are unreliable. Even if Britain hit net zero tomorrow, global emissions barely move. Build nuclear. Use our oil & gas. Lower costs.

The moment the West decided evidence no longer mattered — if it got in the way of utopia. Melanie Phillips (former Guardian journalist): “Objective evidence was cast aside because it was too inconvenient. The very idea of reason and rationality was dismissed. All these ideologies — multiculturalism, lifestyle choice, deep green environmentalism, moral relativism — were utopian. They promised perfection. Anyone who brought facts against them wasn’t just wrong… they were evil.” Result? - Evidence became “right-wing” - Dissenters were bullied, ostracized, fired, threatened - The Guardian itself became the heart of this ideological machine… until she fell foul of it. When ideology is sacrosanct and the world must be perfected, facts become the enemy — and truth-tellers become heretics. Have you watched this shift in real time — where inconvenient evidence gets labeled “hate” or “misinformation”? Which sacred ideology do you think has done the most damage to open debate? Your honest take 👇

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.