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@Aliya562219 We can’t say because we don’t know how old he was when his child was born (bearing in mind that it could easily have been before he got married, and could have been with a different woman).

Solve if you're genius 0.1% will be succeed

@Artemisfornow I’ve been “waiting to see the evidence” about God for nearly 70 years. There is none. But there’s plenty of proof of Lammy’s ineptitude. There’s something irrational about invoking imaginary friends that should preclude people from high office.

This is so crass. God wants me to scrap jury trials. Lammy is shifts the frame from power & accountability to personal virtue, in a “question my policy and you’re questioning my faith” type of way. A religious deflection tactic designed to shut down criticism It won’t 🤡

@SaulStaniforth It won’t make a blind bit of difference. They are a so-called democratic organisation but the leadership simply ignores what it doesn’t like

At #Lab25 2 motions on Gaza were debated. Motion 1, backed by the leadership & which downplayed the UN report on genocide, & Motion 2, opposed by the leadership, which didn't downplay the report & called for sanctions & an arms embargo Motion 1 was defeated & Motion 2 passed

@JakeBenRichards You’re proposing something that requires the majority law abiding population to prove themselves & will create (hackable) 1984-style surveillance (probably by a private company). It won’t address any of the real problems we face. I won’t comply with this authoritarian overreach

Digital ID is a hugely important step for our country - to take advantage of the technological revolution, improve public service efficiency and performance, and keep our country safer. Many have been advocating for this for some time. Delighted by this announcement! 🌹

Digital ID for every adult is not progress. It is the end of a free society dressed up as convenience. I am a cyber security specialist. This is my take. They are selling it as a fix for illegal migration. That is bollocks. We spend hundreds of billions a year on cyber security and yet the volume of breaches is breaking records. The threat is growing faster than the spend. Digital ID will not stop boats. It will not stop trafficking gangs. It will not fix a broken border. 
Criminals will work around it. Honest citizens will pay the price. It builds giant data banks that track where you go, what you buy, what you read and who you speak to. 
It links your identity to every checkpoint in daily life. 
One breach and your life is exposed. Look at Jaguar Land Rover and the airports in recent weeks. Now imagine that at national scale on an ID system tied to everything you need to live your daily life. Here is the risk that ministers will not admit. 
Ransomware seeded through a supplier or an insider: 
It lies quiet for months.
It rolls through the backups.
On trigger day the register and the recovery sets are both encrypted. 
Payments fail. Health and benefits stall. Borders slow. Citizens are frozen out until a ransom is paid or the state rebuilds from scratch. 
Centralise identity and you centralise failure. Do not fall for the pitch. Function creep is certain.
It starts as login. 
It becomes access to money, travel, speech and public services. 
It turns rights into permissions controlled by the state and its contractors. 
It creates a single point of failure for criminals, insiders and hostile states to target. 
It will punish the elderly, the poor and anyone who is not always online. 
It will centralise risk and outsource blame. 
It will not stop fraud. 
It will not stop illegal migration. 
It will build the machinery for a social credit system by stealth. If ministers cared about the border, they would enforce current laws, resource patrols and processing, close loopholes and remove those with no right to stay. 
You do not need a national ID to do any of that. We scrapped ID cards in 2010 for a reason. 
Britain does not need a central register to prove age or status. 
Yes to privacy first proofs. No to a database state.

@PolitlcsUK @thetimes If you recognise it then you must take action to defend it against a rogue, genocidal state.

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer will formally recognise Palestinian statehood this weekend [@thetimes]

@wendy_cooksey Are we really bothered? Isn’t the Labour Party such a dead duck that it doesn’t matter who its deputy leader is?

Struggling to understand how Lucy Powell represents change. Are there any policy differences between her and Bridget Phillipson? The truth seems to be that the latter is closer to the PM. That’s it! #labour #starmer

@TheBarmyArmy If we are talking best ever, then it has to be John Arlott. I’m only surprised he isn’t getting more mentions on here. Anyway, Benaud is in at number two for me.

Tell us who your favourite cricket commentator is 👇

@JakeBenRichards Jake, you’re better than this: attacking a platform that mirrors the Labour 2017 manifesto, just in an effort to bolster support for your party, which has severely lost its way under its worst leader ever.

Vote Green. Get Farage. The new leader of the Greens wants to decriminalise shop lifting and nationalise Sainsbury’s. They are not remotely serious. And a Green vote simply helps Reform. 👇

@JakeBenRichards Vote Labour. Get a slightly kinder version of Farage. One that’s still obsessed with small boats and big flags, and won’t address the real problems we face (that stem mostly from corporate greed and a failure to tax the obscenely wealthy).

@JohnHealey_MP What you seem to mean is: We should welcome the idea of the world being a more dangerous place, because it’s an opportunity to create jobs. What a sad, warmongering position to adopt!

We’re making Europe safer and Britain stronger. Our deal with Norway will put more world-class ships in the North Atlantic, protecting infrastructure and securing both nations. Supporting 4,000 British jobs for years to come, this deal shows defence is an engine for growth.

@JakeBenRichards Good news for who? Not for the vast law abiding majority who should not be obliged to prove themselves as legitimate. And who, in doing so, expose all do they to this and other authoritarian governments. You’ll soon be telling us that 2+2=5.

This is very good news.

@10DowningStreet The number arrested for this is almost certainly smaller than for those taken into custody for the apparent “terrorism” of peacefully opposing genocide. It’s obvious from the comments that you are pissing off the fascists and now you’ve lost the left too. What a pathetic mess!!

NEWS: Hundreds of arrests have been made across the UK following a week-long crackdown on delivery riders working illegally. This comes as we announce a £5m boost for our immigration enforcement teams – to fund additional resourcing, hours and raids.

@Keir_Starmer You stopped the author of your review from even considering renationalising the industry. Having vulture capitalists running water companies is the root cause of the problem, with billions being siphoned off abroad; prices and CEO pay rising. Just get us our water back!

This is the biggest overhaul of the water sector in a generation.    My government will abolish Ofwat and establish a single powerful regulator to prevent water pollution and protect families from bill hikes.      Ending the chaos of the past.     Delivering for working people.

@JakeBenRichards I’m not. People don’t like this government so they won’t trust you with their data. As you proscribe organisations that are not terrorists (a view held even by the UN and The Times) we don’t want what smacks of more Orwellian authoritarianism.

Pleased Digital ID getting renewed focus in aftermath of important deal with 🇫🇷. Many MPs have been pushing this for many months/years. Time for comprehensive action! progressivebritain.org/digital-id-emp…

@statsjamie If I go in a shop and they charge me for something they can’t provide (because they’ve failed to secure its supply or to stop it falling off the back of their delivery vans) I’d be justifiably pissed off. So why should I respect (US-owned) Yorkshire Water’s hosepipe ban?

🚱 Yorkshire hit with a hosepipe ban from Friday — fines up to £1,000 for watering the garden or washing car. 💧 But no new reservoirs in over 30 years. 💥 Despite rising population & leaking pipes… water firms didn’t prepare. Now the public are paying itv.com/news/calendar/…

If I go in a shop and they still charge me for something they can’t provide (because they’ve failed to secure its supply or to stop it falling off the back of their delivery vans) I’d be justifiably pissed off. So why should I respect (US-owned) Yorkshire Water’s hosepipe ban?

@JakeBenRichards @NewStatesman Oh, and (finally) get our government to put the interests of its electorate first rather than those of Israel.

There have been many achievements, but the lesson from the first year of government is that only radical, bold and fundamental reform of the state will do. Or we face political disaster. My piece for @NewStatesman 👇 newstatesman.com/politics/2025/…

@JakeBenRichards @NewStatesman It’s possible - but unlikely - that you say this in your article, but it’s behind a paywall so I can’t access it. Anyway, unless we take our infrastructure (NHS, PO etc) back from rapacious capitalism, then the disaster will be more than simply “political”.

@JakeBenRichards @NewStatesman The obvious & popular thing to do (which I am loathe to call “radical”) is to get “the state” back from all the private, wealthy (often offshore) entities to which it has been given. When we don’t (eg) even own our own water supply we leak power and influence away from the state