The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
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Nigel Scott retweeted
The greatest intelligence failure in American history may not have been a foreign operation. It may have been America's inability to protect itself from its own president.
For years, the evidence of Trump's extraordinary loyalty to Moscow has been mounting. His admiration for Putin, his attacks on NATO, his possession of highly classified American defence secrets, and his repeated willingness to advance Russian interests.
Yet the most extraordinary part of this entire scandal is the American state itself. The FBI, the intelligence community, Congress and the entire national security apparatus have proved incapable of protecting the country from a president whose conduct has repeatedly raised profound questions about his loyalty.
Russia spent decades trying to defeat the United States from the outside. Now Putin can watch an American president dismantle the Western order from within.
And the institutions built to defend America have been unable to stop him.
What an extraordinary national humiliation.
Donald Trump has abandoned the Western order, turning America into a Russian ally, @RadioFreeTom argues: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
Nigel Scott retweeted
.@LonTravelWatch wants to see a halt to floating bus stops;
Most of the London Assembly want floating bus stops halting;
The Government’s disabled transport advisory committee wants to see them halted;
The Tory Party want them halted
The RNIB want them halted;
Guide Dogs want them halted;
Pocklington Trust want them halted;
The National Federation for the Blind UK and 290 other groups want them halted.
@Heidi_Labour installed some of these schemes and wants to solve the problem ‘in the round’ but has failed to do so.
The @MayorofLondon says it’s important to consult and it’s the cyclist fault, not the design.
This is a balanced statement from the always thoughtful @LonTravelWatch on the need to rethink floating bus stops in London.
I support their calls and I hope TfL and boroughs will take heed.
londontravelwatch.org.uk/new…
Nigel Scott retweeted
I’ll stipulate that Trump is an agent of Putin.
Go down the checklist.
1. Destroyed the Western alliance? Putin wanted that.
2. Threatened a NATO ally over Greenland? Putin wanted that.
3. Pulled out of the intermediate nuclear pact? Putin wanted that.
4. Withdrawing 25-40,000 troops from Western Europe while Russian bellicosity is rising? Putin wanted that.
5. Russian satellites giving coordinates to Iranians killing our soldiers, and his response is “they kill us, we kill them”? What American president says that?
I think he’s been compromised.
The election of Donald Trump may be the greatest foreign policy success in post-Czarist Russian history.
Nigel Scott retweeted
⚠️ An 82 year old Grandma from Leeds has declared WAR on corporate greed by setting up a stall outside her local Morrisons selling her collection of second hand carrier bags, after being enraged at the supermarket charging an extortionate 60p per bag! 😲
"I've been hoarding these bloody things for 30 years!" she explained. "I've got hundreds under the kitchen sink, cupboards full of them and thousands piled up in the garden shed!"
The pensioner pocketed a whopping £13.40 on her first day and insists she'll be back tomorrow, claiming she's got enough bags at home to keep her in business until 2029.
Nigel Scott retweeted
Brearey didn't go to the police earlier because he knew he had no evidence that Lucy Letby harmed any baby on the unit. He tried to use the hospital managers to do his dirty work for him and use them as his puppets but they were having none of that. Brearey went to the police only after he had lost a grievance process to Lucy and was most likely going to face a GMC hearing for bullying and victimisation of a young nurse.
#LucyLetby
Nigel Scott retweeted
I thought interviewing on Today could not get worse than the aggressive interview of Kemi Badenoch, but Today you allowed Dr Stephen Brearey to talk completely unchallenged about #Thirlwall Recommendations and not one question about whether Letby might be innocent
@BBCr4today
Nigel Scott retweeted
🌍 THE AGE OF THE MIDDLE POWERS
Janan Ganesh makes a crucial point in the Financial Times: size alone no longer guarantees power.
Ukraine 🇺🇦 has frustrated Russia 🇷🇺 Australia 🇦🇺 resisted Chinese 🇨🇳 economic coercion. Denmark 🇩🇰 prevented Trump from dictating terms over Greenland 🇬🇱
Even heavily armed Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 has struggled to contain the Houthis.
Smaller countries can resist superpowers when they possess strategic assets, specialist knowledge, control of vital supply routes, or strong alliances.
This is precisely why Brexit’s promise of sovereignty was so fundamentally dishonest.
Britain 🇬🇧 was told that leaving Europe would restore control. In reality, it removed us from the world’s most sophisticated alliance of middle powers and left us standing alone between the United States and China.
@andyburnham is right: control can come through collaboration.
Britain 🇬🇧 cannot match America 🇺🇸 or China 🇨🇳 through population, industrial scale or market size. But combine our defence, intelligence, finance, universities and diplomatic reach with Europe’s market, manufacturing base and regulatory strength, and we become considerably more powerful.
That is what the EU provides: 27 individually constrained nations pooling their leverage so they can negotiate with Washington and Beijing rather than merely accepting decisions made by them.
Mark Carney now talks about constructing a new alliance of middle powers. The irony is that Britain already belonged to the most advanced version of that alliance and voluntarily left it.
Brexit did not make Britain more sovereign. It made our sovereignty less usable.
In this fragmented and dangerous world, independence does not mean isolation. It means having dependable allies, resilient supply chains and sufficient collective strength to defend your interests.
Rejoining Europe would give Britain 🇬🇧 back the power to exercise it.
Nigel Scott retweeted
Did @itvpeston ever cover any of the multiple meetings between Farage’s funders & the Russian embassy back in 2018? I can’t recall but maybe I’m mistaken. Was Farage ever asked why he voted in the pro-Kremlin bloc in the EU parliament? Or why Arron Banks thought Crimea is to Russia what the Isle of Wight is to Britain? Or why LeaveEU denied Russian involvement in Skripal?
Nigel Scott retweeted
This exactly.
This picture should become iconic.
It should go down in the history books.
It should be re-posted a million times.
It should be made into billboards.
Because when it takes children to model appropriate social and moral behaviour to adults, then we know that something profoundly wrong has happened in society.
To quote WB Yeats:
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world"
@GovBobFerguson
@washdems
Look upon your work.
And weep.
Governor Bob Ferguson and @washdems, this is on you. COWARDS. Absolute COWARDS. We will never forget how you abandoned women and girls at the altar of your radical ideologies. And we will NEVER forgive.
Nigel Scott retweeted
The BBC has announced a two-part documentary about J.K. Rowling. And already, its choice of language raises questions.
The BBC’s press release says the series will explore Rowling’s “dramatic rise, cultural influence and contested legacy”, describing how the Harry Potter author became “one of Britain’s most polarising public figures”.
According to the programme makers, her “unflinching personal beliefs have sparked a fraught and divisive dialogue that continues to this day”.
But whose framing is this?
Rowling has become one of the UK’s most prominent defenders of women’s sex-based rights, using her considerable influence and wealth to challenge policies she believes undermine those rights.
Yet the BBC’s announcement appears to frame her beliefs as the source of division, rather than asking why defending those rights has become so contentious.
Women’s rights do get a brief mention - but only in the context of how her supporters see her, contrasted with critics who describe her as an opponent of “trans equality”.
Words matter in journalism. So do the editorial assumptions behind them.
Of course, we haven’t seen the documentary yet. So we’ll reserve judgment until the show is aired.
But when a broadcaster describes a woman’s defence of sex-based rights in terms of her “contested legacy” and “divisive” beliefs, it’s reasonable to ask what assumptions are already shaping the story.
We’ll be watching with interest.
Nigel Scott retweeted
This video is extraordinary to watch again now.
In 2019, @JMPSimor explained to @mrjamesob the constitutional paradox at the heart of Brexit: the referendum was advisory, so the courts would not quash the result, even though the legal challenge argued it had been tainted by proven unlawful campaigning. She told @LBC that, had the referendum been legally binding, the result could have been set aside.
So Britain was left with this absurd position:
The referendum was not legally binding enough to be invalidated but it was treated politically as binding enough to take us out of the European Union.
And that was not the only unresolved constitutional issue.
My own 2018 judicial review, Webster v Secretary of State for Exiting the EU, challenged the missing Article 50(1) decision, the lawful decision to withdraw that had to precede notification. Parliament expressly authorised notification under Article 50(2), but never expressly enacted that antecedent decision.
The courts refused permission in both cases.
Now we are being told by the Prime Minister @andyburnham that Russia interfered in the 2016 referendum. This changes the context again.
It does not automatically undo Brexit. But it makes one thing impossible to avoid:
Britain needs a statutory public inquiry into the referendum, the intelligence, and the Article 50 decision-making process.
We need documents. Witnesses under oath. The Cabinet record. The intelligence assessments. The legal trail.
Because ten years on, the question is no longer simply whether Brexit was right or wrong. It is whether the British public and Parliament were ever told the full truth about how it happened.
Nigel Scott retweeted
In the 1990s, Canadian ecologist Suzanne Simard made a groundbreaking discovery that challenged everything we thought we knew about how forests work. While studying managed forests in British Columbia, she noticed something puzzling: when birch trees were removed to promote the growth of valuable Douglas firs, the firs did not flourish as expected, they actually struggled and grew more slowly.
Determined to understand why, Simard traced the movement of nutrients using radioactive carbon isotopes. What she found was astonishing. Trees were actively sharing resources through vast underground fungal networks known as mycorrhizae. These delicate, thread-like fungi connect the roots of different trees across the forest floor, forming a complex web that allows the exchange of carbon, water, nutrients, and even chemical signals, sometimes between entirely different species.
She discovered that older, larger trees often serve as central "hubs" or "mother trees," supporting younger saplings by redistributing vital resources and helping the entire ecosystem remain resilient. When these key trees are removed, the underground network weakens, and the health of the remaining forest declines.
Simard’s research overturned the traditional Darwinian view of forests as battlegrounds of ruthless competition. Instead, she revealed a far more sophisticated reality: forests operate as highly cooperative systems where trees communicate, support one another, and even warn neighboring trees about threats like drought, disease, or insect attacks.
What appears to the human eye as a silent, still forest is, in truth, a vibrant, interconnected living network, built not on isolation and rivalry, but on deep connection and mutual aid.
Nigel Scott retweeted
Criminologists: would be interested to know how often the literature identifies a sudden spate of violent crimes committed over an extended period by an offender with:
—No motive
—Minimal social connection to victims
—No criminal record/history of aberrant behaviour
—No diagnosed mental illness
—Apparently normal socialisation & stable financial position
I imagine this is rare to the point of non-existence?
Nigel Scott retweeted
The trans activist argument to get men who claim to be women into women’s spaces is that, basically, bad men will be bad men no matter what so there is no need to have any safeguards for women & girls.
*ahem*
First of all, so then why do men who claim to be women so desperately want access to women’s spaces for *their* supposed safety? If there is nothing to be done to keep the bad men out, how TF are you safer in women’s spaces?
Your own stupid argument undermines your other stupid argument.
Next, laws against allowing men into women’s spaces work in a number of ways, including allowing women to get him removed or him being stopped from entering in the first place.
Take an example like PlanetFitness, where a man just waltzed on in to a woman’s change room and [allegedly 🙄] sexually assaulted a woman in there. Now imagine that anyone watching him go in could have said, “against the rules, buddy” & stopped it. Reception, management, fellow gym goers, a passer by. But they couldn’t, because transgender based laws have removed that safeguard as they have said that *any* man can simply claim to be a woman & thus go into a woman only space, and guidelines have been changed to accommodate that. The end result of that is any man can go into a woman’s space & at the very least it can be assumed that he thinks of himself as a woman by the act of going in. That’s enough. Damage done.
It’s all pretty unworkable, isn’t it? It’s your fault, boys.
Finally, every man who goes into a woman only space goes in as a man. Because he is a man. If they were women, no laws or guidelines would have had to be changed to accommodate them, they would have been included under the preexisting laws for women, but they weren’t because they’re not. And it wouldn’t have opened the door to bad men following them in, because there would be no confusion about which men are women & which ones are men. They’re all men.
Good men abide by the long standing social contract to not go into women only spaces, and don’t require laws to reinforce their position. It’s only bad men who go into women only spaces, and that includes men who claim to be women who demand access to them. They’re not women. They’re bad men.
Nigel Scott retweeted
“Words can be like tiny doses of arsenic: they are swallowed unnoticed…”
Victor Klemperer
Look at all the words the gender identity movement has mangled:
“Unsafe” = being in the same room as someone with a different opinion;
“Hate” = using the correctly sexed pronouns for someone;
“Inclusive” = rejecting anyone who states the importance of biological facts;
“Progressive” = treating men who “identify” as women as a supremely vulnerable group;
“Healthcare” = giving kids and young people access to drugs and surgeries that cause numerous mental and physical harms and eventually infertility;
“Gender affirming” = denial of sex;
“Genocide” = making it clear that no one can change sex and no one should use facilities intended for the opposite sex;
“Bigoted” = refusing to adhere to the beliefs of gender identity activists.
“Fascist” = someone who stands up for the rights of women and LGB people and for child safeguarding.
I could go on but it’s too depressing.
Feel free to add to this dismal list.
And resist the corruption of our language!
Nigel Scott retweeted
The free bottle of milk on every British school desk was put there by a 4ft 10 redhead from a Manchester slum, who was dead within 6 months of doing it.
Ellen Wilkinson grew up in Ardwick in the 1890s, in a house with no bath, and caught every illness going. She got out on scholarships. By 1935 she was MP for Jarrow, a shipbuilding town where the yard had shut and 7 men in 10 had no work.
She had seen what that did to the children. They were small, bow-legged and grey. In 1936 she walked with 200 of their fathers from Jarrow to London, nearly 300 miles, to hand in a petition. The Prime Minister would not see them.
In 1945 she was made Minister of Education. She had one thing she wanted above the rest. The Treasury told her the country was bankrupt and it could not be afforded.
In August 1946 a third of a pint of full cream milk became free for every schoolchild in Britain, every day, whatever their parents earned.
That winter was the worst of the century. Her ministry had no coal. She worked in her overcoat with bronchitis, and on 6 February 1947 she was found dead in her flat, aged 55.
She never saw a single class of those children grow up. They turned out the tallest and straightest generation the country had ever produced.
If you drank it, warm, through a paper straw, you were her life's work.
Nigel Scott retweeted
Men who claim to be women are a category of men, on the basis that they are men. Creating a category of men who are exempt from or above the law has been tried many times & always failed in exactly the ways you’d expect.
Making it a criminal offense for a woman (@doramoutot) to point this out gives the worst men in society a legal loophole to have power over & punish women. Only the bad men win.
Nigel Scott retweeted
The #LucyLetby case is emblematic of how unfit for purpose the entire system is: incompetent judges, bullying counsel, lack of expert evidence protocols, lack of duty on defence lawyers to investigate, corrupt police and prosecutors, disclosure failures. It just goes on and on
A new transcript has been uploaded to:
lucyletbyinnocence.com/trans…
This transcript is the final day of Lucy Letby's cross-examination, followed by Ben Myer KC's re-examination. However, it begins with the lawyerly equivalent of a raging argument between Ben Myers and Nick Johnson, under the banner of "Submissions".
The cross-examination on this day was particularly cruel and heartless, including the arrest/pyjamas questions.
Also on this day Nick Johnson ambushed the defence with a document to be put in evidence at the last minute. This consisted of details and images of Letby's social life taken from her diary, mobile phone & facebook page, which was to be used in cross-examination.
Ben Myers objected but Judge Goss allowed it.
The cross-examination ends with this:
JOHNSON: You were having a good time, weren't you?
LETBY: Yes, there were times in those years that I did have good times, yes.
JOHNSON: Drinking fizz, going to the races?
LETBY: Yes.
JOHNSON: Yes. You felt like this because you knew that you had killed and grievously injured these children?
LETBY: No.
JOHNSON: And that is the truth, isn't it?
LETBY: No, it's not the truth.
JOHNSON: You are a murderer.
LETBY: No, I am not.
JOHNSON: You have murdered many children.
LETBY: I've never murdered a child or harmed any of them.
MR JOHNSON: I have nothing further. Thank you.
Nigel Scott retweeted
He was affirmed as a girl from the age of twelve, dropped out of school a few years later, sank deeply into drugs, mental illness, obsession with guns and violence and then murdered eight people at a middle school in cold blood. The BBC takes care to affirm his trans identity as his mother did starting at the age of 12 until he murdered her just before murdering five students and a teacher. To the BBC it is imperative that he be honored as a woman and remembered as a woman. To the BBC he was a woman.
Omg the Tumbler Ridge school shooter is being referred to as a woman on @BBCRadio4 The World Tonight. No mention of a trans identity, or indeed his male sex
Nigel Scott retweeted
A summary of Janet Cox statement to the Thirlwall Inquiry:
Mrs Cox a Band 4 nursery nurse who had worked at the hospital from 1986 to 2022 stated that she did not have a clear memory of the relationships between clinicians and managers and medical professionals. She also stated that she did not wish to comment "as [her] view the Trust and various so-called medical 'professionals' is prejudiced by the horrendous way they treated Lucy, (Ms Letby)".
Janet Cox had no concerns or suspicions about Letby's conduct. In her view, Letby was "An exemplary nurse who is completely innocent of all the alleged crimes." Ms Cox could not recall the precise dates when she became aware of the suspicions or concerns of others about Letby but she does recall "gradually becoming aware that certain Consultants, in particular Brearey, appeared to be trying to make Lucy a scapegoat for the increased number of deaths/collapses".
Janet Cox: "Obviously any death is a worry, but I did not think this at the time, nor do I think now, that there was anything sinister about the increase in the number of deaths/collapses. I do not see how you can set a figure on how many deaths are acceptable in one particular time frame. The very reason these babies required admission to an NNU was because they had a high chance of dying or collapsing."
Janet Cox considers that if there had been CCTV monitoring, it would have proved Letby's innocence.
thirlwall.public-inquiry.uk/…
