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Replying to @Smithey21026
I was in the queue behind you Emma.Both I and my fellow customers were so moved by this we couldn't help but burst into a rendition of the National Anthem!
Tears of pride are welling up just thinking about this.
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But I have worked in disaster response for my entire life and experienced 72 hour schemes all around the world. We are one of last high GDP countries to get this message out. I have waited for it for two decades. It’s just basic citizen readiness messaging
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Definitely not true.
It’s because the Blackshorts were out protesting, you can see their flags in the background, and the manager of this Spoons didn’t want protesters inside whilst wearing their colours.
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I was there, and I think the outraged and slighted conflated the poppy conveniently with the fact they walked in with flags in the first place. The talk of a *boycott* of Wetherspoons from the protesters following this was unintentionally hilarious. Hampshire Police did a great job all in all.
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🌹 | Highest Labour vote share with ANY pollster since October 2024.
Westminster Voting Intention:
LAB: 32% (+5)
CON: 24% (+3)
RFM: 20% (-3)
LDM: 9% (+1)
GRN: 8% (-5)
SNP: 3% (-1)
RES: 3% (=)
Via @Ipsos_in_the_UK, 15-22 Oct.
Changes w/ 10-15 Sep.
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Nobody used the word stockpiling @LBC
'She's got a clue, she hasn't got the money!'
Caller Emma says she can't afford to stockpile for emergencies, caller Susie insists Emma's just bad with money.
@BenKentish
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A very special night. Four and a half years on from our first event and such a lot has happened and changed. It felt very reflective!
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Brilliant and often very funny event with Professor @LucyGoBag in Harrogate on recovery and resilience in the face of disaster. Timely stuff in the light of the government’s Be Ready campaign.
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Elon Musk claims that Ukraine allegedly violated Starlink's terms of use and used the system on combat drones.
As someone who was inside the process at the Ministry of Defense, I can say with certainty that this is not true.
In February of this year, whitelists were introduced. Stationary terminals could be registered by both military personnel and civilians.
But for any satellite terminal to work while on the move, it had to be added to a special list and connected to the military Starshield system. Otherwise, no satellite communication terminals in Ukraine would work.
In other words, using civilian Starlink for drone missions was technically impossible. All drone missions that required satellite communication could only be carried out using Starshield.
We are very grateful to the United States and SpaceX for access to critically important satellite communications. Ukraine did not violate the terms of use.
The most important thing today is that Starlink and Starshield operations have been restored to the speeds we had before the restrictions. The speeds are now where they need to be. The restoration began overnight, and by this morning, speeds were already sufficient. This matters: for our frontline logistics, for defending Ukraine against jet-powered “shaheds.”
I thank all Americans and all our partners who took this seriously and truly helped – members of Congress, senators, all the media, the State Department, and the President. Protecting lives matters.
You're right, @elonmusk. Someone has grown very rich off money flowing from Ukraine. I work in Starlink supply to Ukraine, so I see these numbers firsthand.
Ukrainians bought 117,000 terminals in September alone (~$42M), plus monthly subscriptions for each one. And that's just official commercial imports. Not counting government contracts, donor-funded deliveries, direct orders from your website or grey imports.
No laundry machines needed. It goes straight to SpaceX.
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I never saw anyone fight so hard for his country as Zelenskyy, and I never saw anyone betray his country so openly as trump.
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I've been in those trenches every month or two for the last four years.
People are tired, they miss their families, they have their frustrations.
But they are there, still holding the line, with full clarity that if they let go, Russia and its tyranny will come to their homes.
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Growing up in South Manchester it's stark how much less violence there is day to day. Gang related violence in particular was just the norm especially in the Moss Side/Hulme area. I feel safe walking around Moss Side at 1AM in a way I simply would not have felt safe 20 years ago
So one of the main accounts on X, who has for years fought to provide accurate information about the Andrew & Tristan Tate case, has been suspended.
@CrayonMurders has also been facing legal action from the Tates, alleging his factual content was "defamation", along with trying to force X through the courts to identify him.
Really hope @Safety & @support work quickly to reinstate this account, which is the very epitome of a free speech battle.
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NEW: Trump called Musk and asked him to lift restrictions on a military-grade version of Starlink in Ukraine that the SpaceX chief had throttled, U.S. officials said.
The system was working more normally Thursday, shortly after their conversation, per Us and Ukrainian officials
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The Trump administration fully throwing Elon Musk under the bus now, laying responsibility for the sabotage of Ukraine’s Starshield satellite communications firmly at the feet of the SpaceX CEO.
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Ferret’s guide to poppy etiquette:
• Wear a poppy if you want to
• Wear any poppy or none
• Don’t poppy shame anyone for their choice
• Don’t virtue signal, it’s not about you
• Don’t start wearing your poppy before the official launch, we’ll know it’s last year’s.
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Some chatter on social media would have you believe that crime is out of control.
The facts tell a different story.
As @frasernelson has shown in his Substack today:
Violence is at its lowest level since the crime survey began in 1981.
Robbery is at a record low.
Crime, excluding fraud, is 78% down on its peak in 1995.
And the stats show this Government is delivering on its promises too:
Knife crime is down 11%.
Knife murders are at their lowest level in 35 years.
Thefts including phone snatching have fallen by 20% in the last year alone.
But I know there is more that we must do, and we will:
We’ve put more than 3,800 extra neighbourhood officers into roles, with named, contactable officers for every neighbourhood.
We’re introducing the most significant reforms to policing in a generation.
We are tackling rising rates of violence against women and girls through our landmark strategy.
And we are tackling crimes like fraud, more prevalent in our increasingly online world, with £250 million directed to this challenge in our Fraud Strategy published this year.
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The new crime survey is out - the "Lawless Britain" picture in full
- Violence at lowest since records began in 1981
- Corroborated by hospital figures for knife wounds
- Robbery: record low
- Overall crime 78% below 1995 peak.
- Shoplifting up
More:-
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