Isn’t it strange how many govt facts change over time. Views are my own & subject to change on a whim or decent factual evidence
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🚨NEW: A UK bank chief executive, reacting to John Healey's decision to raise the bank's profit surcharge said:
"Taxing the engines of growth to reduce VAT on gherkins is end-of-Rome level of stupidity"
[@FT]
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Alongside @afneil nobody explains economics better than the brilliant @LiamHalligan
He’s a busy man, newly appointed to run the Centre for Policy Studies, so very chuffed to see him embarking on a collaboration with Outpost. Here are his thoughts ahead of tomorrow’s Budget.
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The Courts and Tribunals Bill goes before peers in the House of Lords today, and the Prime Minister is expected to face a rebellion from Labour peers.
Good.
This Government, like Sir Keir Starmer’s, is pressing ahead with plans to curtail our right to a jury trial.
It is a sinister, authoritarian assault on our criminal justice system and English liberty — particularly on free speech.
FSU research has shown that people charged with speech offences are almost twice as likely to be found not guilty in a Crown Court with a jury than in a magistrates’ court without one. Put simply, more people could be banged up for exercising their right to free speech.
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Mississippi enacted a single low flat tax in 2022 and is now phasing out its income tax altogether — the first state to legislate abolition since Alaska in 1980.
Britain shows where the high-tax trajectory ends; Mississippi shows the way back.
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This says it all. Parliament has cancelled the debate planned for this evening on AI - because the debate beforehand on the Post Office is (like the post itself) taking too long. On the day Anthropic files for its IPO Britain is debating Victorian communications infrastructure
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I spent last night watching my honeypot server get hit 14,000 times in six hours.
And almost none of the traffic was human.
I've been in security for over a decade, and I can tell you with full honesty that what's happening right now doesn't resemble anything I've worked through before.
The shape of the threat has changed.
When I started, we tracked attackers like weather systems like individual storms with a direction, a motive, and a human operator you could eventually name.
These days I'm watching autonomous agents swarm login pages with the patience and discipline of machines, because that's what they are.
The numbers coming out of October are the ones keeping me up.
Cloudflare just absorbed a 4.2 terabit per second DDoS attack, the largest in recorded history.
Ransomware incidents jumped 41% in a single month.
In September, OpenAI-powered agents got caught attacking RubyGems, a package registry that quietly underpins a huge chunk of software I use every day.
In July, roughly 700 AI agents coordinated an attack on Hugging Face's infrastructure as part of a single automated task.
A Chinese threat actor was publicly caught running full attack chains through DeepSeek with no human at the keyboard.
I keep rereading these reports because each one by itself would've been the biggest story of the year five years ago. Together, in one month, they're the new baseline.
What I want people outside the industry to understand is why this specific moment feels like a hinge.
For thirty years, the thing protecting most of us was simple economics. Attackers had to choose who to target because their time was finite. That ceiling is gone.
An agent I can rent for pennies will try every leaked password you've ever used against every service you've ever signed up for, in parallel, overnight, and never get tired.
The same math that made ChatGPT useful made opportunistic hacking infinite. The old assumption that you were "too boring to be a target" relied on scarcity that no longer exists.
I'm not writing this to spiral anyone out.
Most of this fight genuinely isn't yours to win.
But the small things still matter more than people think.
Tonight I'd switch your most important accounts like email, bank, primary cloud, etc. to passkeys or a hardware key.
I'd kill SMS 2FA wherever an authenticator app is offered.
I'd turn on breach alerts in whatever password manager you use.
If you're in the US, I'd freeze my credit at all three bureaus, which is free and takes about ten minutes.
None of that stops the swarm.
It makes you a slightly worse target than the person next to you. In a month like this one, that's the whole game I'm playing too.
@mattshumer_ has summed it beautifully.
Drop everything and go give it a read. Nothing is more important than this article right now.
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Happy Trafalgar Day.
Nelson, in his dying moments, could say with confidence 'Thank God I have done my duty'.
Let us hope we can all say the same in our last minutes.
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Four more by-elections this Thursday.
Let's not hand another one over.
Who to back
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unitetherightuk.com/by-elect…
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My thoughts are with Charlie Latchford. This is awful but now part of a pattern - every underhanded media ploy to paint the party as evil makes these dangers worse.
Unsurprisingly the mainstream media doesn’t seem to want to cover this vile incident.
🚨 BREAKING: Birmingham Reform UK councillor was sent suspected asbestos package in the post.
• Dr Charlie Latchford, the Reform UK councillor for Longbridge and West Heath, reported receiving a package containing suspected asbestos on Thursday.
• He said the material was deliberately packaged in a way that would cause maximum exposure to whoever opened it.
• Police and fire crews attended the scene, after which Latchford was stripped, isolated outside and his road was quarantined.
• The councillor stated that the package will be traced and that no political or personal disagreement justifies putting someone’s health or life at risk.
• West Midlands Police treated the incident under Operation Ford and an ambulance was arranged.
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The biggest problem for UK car manufacturers is not competition from China, but
- the UK’s EV mandate,
- the UK’s fines for car manufacturers for selling ‘too many’ petrol and diesel vehicles,
- the UK’s emissions trading scheme and other carbon taxes,
- the UK’s world-beating ‘industrial electricity prices', and,
- soon, the UK’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) that will add a carbon tariff onto the steel and aluminium UK manufacturers need to import to make their cars.
I thoughts on the Trade Minister's decision below.
globalbritain.co.uk/blog/two…
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The Empire suppressed the self-immolation of widows and female infanticide in India and female genital mutilation in Africa. It moderated the disruptive impact of the inevitable arrival of Western modernity upon very unmodern societies in North America and especially Australia. It created regional peace by imposing an overarching imperial authority on multiple, warring peoples—unifying, for example, much of the Indian subcontinent. It promoted a worldwide free market, protected by the Royal Navy, that gave native producers and entrepreneurs in India and West Africa new economic opportunities. It made foreign investment attractive by reducing risk through establishing political stability and the rule of law. Consequently, Australia’s gross domestic product per capita became the highest in the world by 1890, and by 1914 India was the world’s fourth largest textile-producer. The Empire built canals in India, bringing five times as much land under irrigation as the Mughals had in the 18th century. By 1900 it had figured out how to prevent food shortage escalating into famine there and went on to fight disease in tropical Africa. It provided a civil service and judiciary that was generally and extraordinarily incorrupt. It introduced liberal ideas and liberal institutions of a free press and representative government to places that had never known them. New Zealand was the first country in the world to grant the vote to men and women on equal terms, in 1893, and by 1935 electoral democracy had been established in Indian provinces. From May 1940, when France fell, to June 1941, when Germany invaded the Soviet Union, The British Empire offered Nazi Germany the only military resistance—with the sole exception of Greece. Inspired by the ideal of the Commonwealth, it helped to plan and realise the League of Nations after the First World War and the United Nations after 1945. And it brought up three of the most prosperous and liberal states in the world—Canada, Australia and New Zealand—and gave birth to one more, the United States. Significantly, there is evidence that all of these former members of the British Empire are among the least racist countries on earth.
Read our latest here: nigelbiggar.co.uk/p/empire-a…
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Sorry, enough of this “far right” rubbish.
The Islamist threat remains the biggest danger BY FAR to the British people.
Over 40,000 jihadists on the Terror watchlist and not enough resources to keep tabs on them all.
BREAKING: The head of MI5 has warned Britain’s migrant crisis is fuelling an increased terrorism threat.
Sir Ken McCallum, in stark terms, explained how the failure to control the borders is becoming a national security issue.
He has told reporters: "For the first time in almost five years, JTAC recently returned the UK terrorism threat level to SEVERE, meaning an attack is highly likely.
“While the threat level change reflects the whole of the terrorist threat, the recent increase was driven in significant part by Extreme Right-Wing Terrorism.
“This is a complex landscape, with many subcultures.
"Over the last year, the most marked trend has been an increase in cases where extremists of anti-immigration and anti-Muslim grievance are tipping into terrorist intent; we’ve dealt, for example, with would-be terrorists aspiring to attack mosques and venues connected to immigration and asylum."
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The biggest interferences in the Brexit referendum were:
1. Project Fear, led by a Canadian Governor of the Bank of England and enthusiastic globalist, who'd prefer nations didn't exist.
2. A Remain campaign lavishly funded by the EU and several global donors.
3. A President of the US, Obama, who stated Britain wouldn't get a trade deal with the US if it left the EU.
4. A mainstream media overwhelmingly pro-Remain, including the BBC, ITV, C4 and Sky.
All worked in favour of the Remain vote.
Shall we *now* talk about Russian interference?
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Nigel Farage is 100% correct here. A further investigation into how the police messed up so badly needs to happen.
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“Have we reached the ultimate state of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?”
— Thomas Sowell
