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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 👇
Adam Bostock retweeted
My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph
Buy a print of my cartoons at telegraph.co.uk/mattprints
Original artwork from chrisbeetles.com
Adam Bostock retweeted
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!
Adam Bostock retweeted
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.
Adam Bostock retweeted
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.
Adam Bostock retweeted
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.
Adam Bostock retweeted
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.
Adam Bostock retweeted
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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Adam Bostock retweeted
🚨 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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Adam Bostock retweeted
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.
Adam Bostock retweeted
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.
Adam Bostock retweeted
🚨 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
Adam Bostock retweeted
British universities are advertising “interest-free” sharia student loans to Muslim students that will be used to finance other Muslim students. This is two-tier. It creates parallel societies in Britain and establishes Islamic finance in UK higher education.
Adam Bostock retweeted
I have tabled a parliamentary motion officially calling on the Government to recognise and protect English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish ethnicities as distinct historic identities.
We should never be ashamed to defend who we are.
All MPs have been invited to support.
Adam Bostock retweeted
How do we enforce democracy?
Having a vote every five years is not democracy - when the elected government does what the hell it likes!
Remind parliament:
Democracy means that parliament must obey the will of the UK's citizens. Government is not ancient royalty, it is not free to do whatever it wants! @UKParliament
Adam Bostock retweeted
The British railway networks explained brilliantly 😂
Video credit: British Brainrot on YouTube
Adam Bostock retweeted
A social media ban for under-16s is not about protecting children from online harms.
The Government’s plans, due to come into effect in March 2027, are part of a broader effort to gain greater control over what we see online — and, ultimately, what we think.
The same Government plans to ban a 15-year-old from Spotify, YouTube Kids and Lego Play, yet expects them to make an informed decision at the ballot box the day they turn 16, under the Representation of the People Bill.
It is insane.
