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Simplified Law:
1. Do not initiate force against others.
2. Do not take or damage what belongs to others.
3. Do not defraud or deceive in ways that cause material harm.
4. Honor voluntary agreements.
5. Enforce through open processes - no exemptions.
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Does the BBC have a pervert problem? 🤔
Is it worthy of a TV licence?
The BBC Hall of Shame:
Jimmy Savile
Stuart Hall
Rolf Harris
Huw Edwards
Chris Denning
Dave Lee Travis
Mark Page
John Mylrea Caine
Tony Wadsworth
Julie Wadsworth
Duncan Bartlett
Benjamin Wilkins
Dylan Dawes
Jonathan King
Chris Langham
Stephen Brookes
Michael Rowell
David Walliams
Russell Brand
The question is not just ‘Did the BBC institutionally cover up these offences over decades, enabling the abuse of youngsters?’
It’s also ‘Who else are we unaware of and still may be a danger to the public?’
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Adam Bostock retweeted
Andy Burnham would have you believe that he has watered down David Lammy’s jury trial reforms and restored our ancient right to trial by jury.
He has not.
David Lammy’s plan to restrict our right to a jury trial remains alive, with the Courts and Tribunals Bill still making its way through Parliament.
Burnham’s Government, like Starmer’s, argues that limiting the right to a jury trial is the most effective way to reduce the Crown Court backlog, despite there being no credible evidence to support that claim.
This week, Lord Young of Acton, General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, proposed an amendment to the Bill guaranteeing defendants the right to elect for a jury trial in speech-related cases.
Free Speech Union research has shown that defendants charged with speech-related offences are almost twice as likely to be found not guilty in a Crown Court jury trial as in a magistrates’ court. Put simply, if these plans become law, more people could be imprisoned for exercising their right to free speech.
A few weeks ago, the Free Speech Union team delivered to Downing Street our petition calling on the Prime Minister to save jury trials. It had received 50,000 signatures.
We must do everything we can to save the right to trial by jury and stop this assault on English liberty and free speech.
Watch Lord Young below 👇
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My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph
Buy a print of my cartoons at telegraph.co.uk/mattprints
Original artwork from chrisbeetles.com
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The Mayor of Britain has outsourced his 10 year plan to a profit driven US consultancy firm. 🤦🤦🤦
The man told us he was going to end outsourcing and end 40 years of neoliberalism.
Now Boston Consulting Group are in No10 writing his big plan for the country.
Government says "it's only one consultant".
We pay taxes for a government not a consultancy !
It's the same gravy train with a different tie on.
It stinks. Rudderless and inept, just .
25,000 people in Makerfield gave us this, thanks a bunch!
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Dario has been fairly bang on with predictions (actually a little on the pessimistic side).
He predicted millennium problems would be solved by AI in 2027. In reality the first were solved over the summer of 2026.
People aren’t ready for what is coming. You don’t have the right to laugh at these claims unless you have been more right than wrong yourself about AI progress to date.
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Yep! "Super Intelligence" (SI): AI is already smarter than the average person. Its ability will continue to improve, probably at a rapid pace.
With your politics hat on, ask what will be the point of parliament? 100% democracy + AI could be better.
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To be honest I couldn’t care less about these celebrities because a lot of them are sleaze balls anyway who abuse their status.
What I really care about is these grooming gangs that appear to have been given a free pass because the very people who should of kept these vulnerable young children safe didn’t do their jobs properly & are trying to cover it up.
These poor young girls deserve to get justice & closure.
That’s what I care about.
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DISGUSTING: The U.N. has just elected the Islamic Republic of Iran to its committee responsible for shaping the agenda on human rights, women’s rights, and counterterrorism.
144 countries voted in favor.
The United Nations has become a complete joke.
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Home Office officers and Lincolnshire Police stopped more than 30 DPD drivers leaving a Lincoln depot on Monday morning. Two Indian men in DPD uniforms, driving DPD vans, were asylum seekers with no right to work. Both had come in on student visas. Both were arrested and then bailed. A third man had overstayed his visa.
The chief immigration officer at the raid says her team is seeing a rise in immigration offences inside parcel delivery firms.
Being arrested and bailed is not the same as being removed. Until people caught working illegally are actually put on a plane, raids like this just move the problem along. #RemigrationNow
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AI that makes its own observations (and experiments) will be smarter and more objective than those AI systems that currently rely on human derived information and hypothesis.
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🚨 Why did the energy department fail its audit?
Despite the promises to cut energy bills there are some serious questions to answer.
I expose what auditors uncovered in my latest article.
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Iran threatens Western military bases, sponsors terrorism and persecutes its own people. Yet 144 UN members vote to give it a seat on a committee overseeing key UN programmes. Britain failed to object to its nomination. What a disgraceful display of diplomatic cowardice.
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Great data analysis here.
Per capita, people ‘born on 1st January’ are significantly more aggressive and sexually criminal than those born on 2nd January.
Why? Turns out for lots of illegal migrants - when the state can’t determine their precise birthday - the default becomes 01/01.
An interesting way to decipher migrant crime statistics even though the government refuses to publish migrant crime statistics.
Many thousands of girls raped & tortured, and the Labour government's response is: we do not have to do anything about it.
DISGUSTING! The New "Labour" party is a monster!
Day 2 of our groundbreaking Judicial Review today.
Still consumed in legal arguments as the govt says they don’t HAVE to do anything. Public enquiries have no legal obligation to implement any recommendations! And by NOT bringing in the recommendations of IICSA they argue there in “NO DETRIMENT” to anyone!!!! Just unbelievable, disgusting, offensive and totally contemptuous….
They don’t have to act on recommendations, that’s of course true. But what arrogance! How insensitive and dismissive of all survivors and victims who believed the promises made to them - that retraumatising themselves to bring change were just empty words! Empty promises!!
And of course it begs the question, why are we going into yet ANOTHER public enquiry …. That’s the real question here …. And why spend billions of public money on public enquiries….. it seems as though it’s just another way to avoid action and accountability and kick the ball down the road!!! 😡😡😡
But we @TMOFCharity are fighting this to the death and doing our best to expose the hypocrisy and lies of successive governments!
We and our incredible legal team Howe and Co can but try….
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🚨 Right, let’s get back to this! … tomorrow at COP31 the UN is launching Natural Capital.
For millions of years on planet Earth forests, plants, grass and the oceans have absorbed carbon, the soils store it and rivers have carried water. No one owns this output! its life force is free for all living creatures on the planet. A God given gift.
But the UN and its massive network want to give those natural processes financial values, convert them into credits and trade them on international markets.
A company can already buy credits linked to a forest’s carbon absorption to offset its own emissions. Banks, investors, brokers and project developers can make money from arranging and trading those credits.
This addition to the system is called NATURAL CAPITAL … It puts a financial value on biodiversity, forests, wetlands and the services nature and God provides for free.
It creates opportunities for enormous private wealth from natural processes that none of these institutions created. And not one citizen has voted on this, nor will they be able to.
No one has the moral authority to turn what belongs to all on the Earth into profit for the UN and financial institutions. But they are doing it anyway. 🚨
I’m not joking! … Yesterday the UK Government started the process, exactly as I warned you it would.
Straight from the UN and into U.K. legislation, to turn nature into a financial asset class that makes huge returns for investors.
Forests, rivers, soil, biodiversity,… will all be measured, certified, packaged and sold as investment products.. to banks corporations and institutional investors.
And the Government will force regulation and make taxpayers create the demand.
The UN calls it “natural capital”. I call it theft of earths produce
