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Obviously we can't be ready for them to do their jobs
The government has published - without fanfare - new advice for all households on how to be ready for emergencies, which includes stockpiling enough food and water for three days.
Defence and security editor @haynesdeborah gives her analysis on the campaign's launch ⬇️
news.sky.com/story/be-ready-…
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Fireworks to celebrate the 10th anniversary of GDPR legislation being introduced!
Love to see young regulators and innovators celebrating our strong compliance culture
Burnham's Britain
🚨 A 15-year-old boy was woken by four West Midlands Police officers banging on his door.
Fraser, a schoolboy and Reform UK activist, was arrested in front of his neighbours, bundled into a police car and held overnight in a cell. His mugshot and DNA were taken; even his shoes were confiscated. While he was in the cell, officers searched his bedroom at home.
His “crime”? Criticising a Conservative councillor for wearing shorts and a T-shirt to a council meeting, then joking on social media that the councillor “was not looking like a rent boy” when he wore a suit.
Fraser also posted an altered photograph of the councillor wearing bunny ears.
In what self-respecting democracy should a child be arrested for criticising an elected politician?
The Free Speech Union is supporting Fraser and has taken on his case. His lawyers received an email from West Midlands Police stating that “it is alleged that your client’s comments could be considered a hate crime offence”. Months later, Fraser is still waiting to learn whether he will be charged.
Speaking to the New York Post, FSU Director of Legislative Affairs Sam Armstrong said: “Broadly speaking, several thousand people a year are being arrested for… ‘offensive speech’ in the UK.”
Since 2020, the FSU has handled more than 7,000 cases involving people whose free speech has been infringed and who have been punished for exercising it. More than 60,000 people have also been arrested for communications offences in the UK.
The First Amendment protects US citizens’ right to free speech. As Sam told the New York Post, it is the “global gold standard”.
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Why don't they just invest in public utilities instead and shore up the grid?
This preparedness crap is disaster neoliberalism - the government offloading its responsibilities onto citizens
I welcome the launch of the Government’s household preparedness campaign, which is long overdue. As Shadow Minister for Defence, Security and Resilience, I have worked extensively on what an effective campaign should look like, seeking to take a collaborative, cross-party approach.
In June, I led a debate on national resilience and the need for a national conversation about preparedness. I have visited our allies to learn from their approaches, including visiting Denmark to discuss its national preparedness campaign.
However, the Government’s approach falls short.
Today’s launch was announced haphazardly, with no parliamentary statement and no coherent campaign around it. It is not the way to start a campaign that needs to reach every household in Britain.
Ministers must be honest with the public about the threats we face and explain how the advice they are giving relates to those threats. Advice alone, without that context, is unlikely to prompt people to prepare.
Ultimately, the campaign largely repackages the existing online Prepare campaign, which has failed to reach and engage enough people. We need clear, practical advice, grounded in an honest explanation of the risks and delivered in a way that reaches every household.
I have produced a booklet drawing on those distributed in European countries such as Denmark and the Netherlands.
These booklets explain the threats, why household preparedness matters and what people can do in clear and accessible language.
The Government must go further. An effective campaign needs to explain both what people should do and why they should do it.
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Growing up in Oldham, in sixth form we would go to the pub during free periods as they wouldn’t really care about our age and we could have a pint or two.
There would always be a Pakistani couples sheepishly sat in the corner drinking cokes and kissing or cuddling. I asked why once and was told that it’s because all of the taxi drivers in the town are Pakistani, they all talk to eachother, they all know eachother, they all see eachother every day at the mosques. If a girl was seen walking around or holding hands with ‘so and so’s cousin’ it could cause an outrage or some clan conflict and so they would go to the places in town they knew they wouldn’t be caught/seen.
It isn’t surprising at all that these taxi networks are being used to facilitate abuse, this is well known. But it needs to be acknowledged that if a few of them know, all of them know. Every driver, every family.
In April 2016, Manchester Crown Court sentenced nine men for abusing eight girls and young women around Rochdale between 2005 - 2013.
One 15 yr old was sold for sex by David Law to Afraz Ahmed for a few bags of heroin. A bus driver, Afraz Ahmed, propositioned two 13 yr old schoolgirls on his route. Gang members utilised the local taxi network to identify and capture vulnerable young girls. Another man, Mohammed Furuz Miah, kept alcohol, cigarettes and hair straighteners in his boot, which the judge called a kit to get vulnerable girls into his car.
transcripts.openjusticeuk.or…
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BREAKING 🚨
Irish government withdraws 'hugging ad' after concerns that Gaza wasn't mentioned
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One thing I've been thinking about is how the philosophy of the 1980s to 2000s - the phil mind wars about consciousness and intentionality, Parfit and Singer, decision theory debates - seems completely topical and urgent now, and the woke turn of the 2010s seems shallow and weird
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A city wrecked with poverty. Here are the people who keep the likes of Imran Hussein elected.
Incredible
The state abandoning its core functions
🔴 EN DIRECT
La préfecture de police de Paris invite les commerçants à recourir à des agents privés avant les prochaines manifestations
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Such entitlement: he couldn’t bear to be spoken to by a woman in charge, couldn’t be kept waiting for his free healthcare, and only stopped arguing and sat down when loomed over by a male security guard. He thought making a noise would get him seen before those patiently waiting. He’s never in his life been told what to do by a woman, and the side-eye he gave her suggested he’s used to disciplining women, not obeying them.
89% of NHS nurses are female, and 70% of all staff. Worklife is going to get more and more risky for them at the hands of these unassimilated men from countries who enslave their women, and beat them when they displease men.
Someone sent this: “There’s another one when we was in the royal he pissed off for a hour and was fuming when he came back because he lost his space In the queue they was still going to fit him in and he still wasn’t happy with waiting a little longer and kicked off until the point where he got kicked out in the end”
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Context:
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 Economist has advocated, consistently, for a nihilistic and mammonesque Centrism & only now realises that even libertarians & liberals - however many tattoos or crack addictions or STIs they have - also go into the tumbril, come the revolution
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The enormous Georgian-shaped hole in school history in Britain means that people trying to showcase Black British History end up leading with debunked factoids about Cheddar Man and Reasonable Blackman while ignoring that London was 1-3% black for most of the 18th century
Yes poor connectivity is the first thing I think of when I think of Bradford
Will Israel take the Iranian refugees from collapsing their state?
Breaking news: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday night that the Iranian regime must be overthrown once and for all.
So long as the Iranian regime remains standing, Netanyahu said, Israel faces an “existential threat.” wapo.st/4z3cN9h
It's because it's where London's working classes were chased to.
Their backs are against the sea now.
much of England’s anti-migrant unrest comes from East Anglia, Essex & the Fens. Basically this area here.
It’s quite a right wing area full of displaced former cockneys but I honestly don’t think it’s a coincidence that this has historically been one the most restive part of England.
Watt Tyler’s peasants’ revolt came from Essex. The same area was a puritan and parliamentarian stronghold during the Civil War. And men from this area were hugely overrepresented in the founding stock of the parts of British America with strong Partriot leanings.
What’s going on here? Is it the swamps?
