Please✍️ to your MSP today asking them to vote 'NO' on Tuesday 17 March. ⏱️🏴🏴🆘🆘
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NEW - German Chancellor Merz: "German federal governments had previously decided to phase out nuclear energy. The decision is irreversible. I regret that, but that's how it is."
Labour MPs reprimanded by the Speaker for trying to stop other MPs voting.
If you have to block democracy to get your way, you’ve already lost the argument.
Labour is untenable.
The Conversation Parliament Doesn't Want You To Hear.
Assisted Dying Bill
With Tanni Grey Thompson & William Philip
https://youtu.be/YZI-sGzTPjA?si=-KTvHFswPAu1221x via @YouTube
🚨LAURA TROTT OUTRAGED BY JESUS BAN IN SCHOOLS
Laura Trott, a Tory MP, has written to Education Secretary Brigette Phillipson DEMANDING she retract the advice given to schools claiming children should not draw Jesus for fear of offending Muslims
Dr Aseem Malhotra is fighting for his medical licence after blowing the whistle on the Covid vaccines as he stands accused of undermining trust in the medical profession by questioning vaccination. https://dailysceptic.org/2026/03/12/dr-aseem-malhotra-im-fighting-for-my-medical-licence-after-blowing-the-whistle-on-covid-vaccines/
Shocking!
British Foreign Office staff attended a party at the Iranian embassy to celebrate the Islamic revolution just weeks after the regime massacred thousands of its own people...
WTF?!?!
@tweetsbyames
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/12/civil-servants-celebrate-islamic-revolution-iranian-embassy/
Banking apps can now see which apps you have installed and where they came from. Let that sink in.
Install something they don’t approve of? Suddenly it’s “sorry, you can’t access your money until you fix your wrongthinking.” No court order. No warning. Just a locked screen and zero options.
This isn’t about security anymore, it’s about control, compliance, and surveillance baked into everyday tech. Convenience was the bait. Dependence is the trap.
We’re not entering a golden age of technology.
We’re sliding into the digital dark ages.
The Education Secretary must demand councils withdraw any guidance which prohibits children from depicting Christ in case of offence. It is censorship of children & the imposition of one religion’s doctrine onto every child’s education, regardless of their own faith. It is wrong.
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People are rightly worried about the Government’s official definition of Islamophobia — repackaged as “anti-Muslim hostility”.
In effect, it risks introducing a Muslim blasphemy law via the back door — 18 years after Parliament voted to abolish blasphemy laws.
In our latest podcast episode, FSU General Secretary Lord Young of Acton speaks with the FSU’s new Director of Research and Policy, @DavidRoseUK, whose investigative briefing exposed that all five members of the Working Group drafting the definition have links to Islamist organisations.
Watch the full episode on our YouTube channel 👇
R to @ClareCraigPath: votes.parliament.uk/votes/co…
Her verdict was farcial because it was decided by a judge not a jury...
yet...
she just voted to scrap jury trials.
Especially when when of our own Lisa Shaw died - AstraZeneca https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/aug/26/bbc-presenter-lisa-shaw-died-of-astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-complications-coroner-finds
A Lib Dem Baroness just said in the Lords that anyone saying the anti-Muslim hostility definition is a Muslim blasphemy law by the back door is spreading dangerous disinformation. Since that's a criminal offence under the Online Safety Act, is she saying anyone who claims the AMH definition poses a threat free speech should be prosecuted? 🤔
SCOOP: A senior NHS official privately urged colleagues to add more patient data into a Palantir-built platform at the same time as he was being paid to advise the US technology company. https://as.ft.com/r/ab744740-54ef-4d18-9803-d8ffa7708218
The unpredictability of the double pendulum.
Whistleblowers get destroyed by the NHS.
This is bad for everyone.
The House of Lords has voted to scrap non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) in a move that puts pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to end their use. https://dailysceptic.org/2026/03/12/house-of-lords-votes-to-scrap-non-crime-hate-incidents-piling-pressure-on-starmer/
I would've thought bishops in the House of Lords would know what to do when ministers are proposing legalising abortion for babies who could survive outside the womb - even up to term!
However, they might not all know when the vote is, so please write:
https://righttolife.org.uk/byjd
BREAKING: The Word “Glitch” Is Doing the Heaviest Lifting in British Banking Today
This morning, customers of Lloyds, Halifax, and Bank of Scotland opened their banking apps and found themselves staring at the complete financial lives of total strangers. Transaction histories. Account numbers. Sort codes. National Insurance numbers. DWP benefit payments. English wages appearing in Scottish accounts. Pub tabs in Newcastle showing up in Wales. One Bank of Scotland customer cycled through six different people’s full account details in twenty minutes, each refresh serving a new stranger’s financial identity like a slot machine of personal data.
The banks called it a “technical glitch” and told customers not to worry. Halifax’s official response on X was to suggest logging out and back in. Lloyds asked users to “bear with them.” Bank of Scotland said they were “investigating.”
Let me translate this from institutional euphemism into plain language. A banking group serving over 26 million customers had a backend failure that served authenticated financial data, including government-issued identity numbers, to random sessions. In any jurisdiction with functioning data protection enforcement, this is not a glitch. This is a reportable data exposure event under UK GDPR. The Information Commissioner’s Office requires notification within 72 hours of any breach involving personal data that poses a risk to individuals’ rights. National Insurance numbers are the skeleton key to identity fraud in Britain. They unlock tax records, benefit claims, credit applications, and pension access. Every single NI number that appeared on a stranger’s screen this morning is now a compromised credential, regardless of whether the display bug has been “quickly resolved.”
The precedent is instructive. In April 2018, TSB suffered a similar failure during an IT migration from the same parent infrastructure. Lloyds Banking Group’s systems. Customers could see other people’s accounts, access funds that were not theirs, and were locked out for months. The FCA and PRA fined TSB £48.65 million. Over 225,000 complaints were filed. £32.7 million in redress was paid. The CEO was forced out. And that failure originated in a planned migration with known risk parameters.
This morning’s incident at Lloyds Banking Group was not a planned migration. It was a spontaneous failure in production systems that randomly distributed live financial identities to authenticated but unrelated sessions. The fact that it was brief does not reduce the severity. It increases it. A planned migration that goes wrong reveals poor execution. A production system that spontaneously begins serving random customer data to random sessions reveals something about the underlying architecture that no amount of “quickly resolved” can address.
Every customer who saw a stranger’s NI number this morning received proof that the verification promise underpinning digital banking, the promise that authentication equals isolation, failed silently and completely. The banks say your account is safe. What they mean is the display error has been corrected. These are not the same statement. The question is not whether it was fixed. The question is whether anyone took screenshots during those twenty minutes. And whether the ICO and FCA will treat this as what it is.
If your measure of poverty is relative, not absolute, you will only eliminate poverty when everyone has exactly the same amount of money.
I'm sure there's a name for that kind of society, if only I could think of it.
Bristol AFAF is holding its inaugural event next week!
Lynne @nightsong53, remember the recent thread we took part in re Spanish Flu? The illness is discussed here, about 2/3 the way through.
The rest is a good listen of course 👍
It was quite a day in court yesterday. Grateful to Channel 4 News for covering the case.
It’s all there:
Avoidable deaths.
90,000 emails deleted.
An entire NHS email account erased.
A key board meeting note denied to exist.
Thanks to all our supporters. It was a great turn out as always.
If you're accused of 'hate speech', you're nearly twice as likely to be found innocent by a jury than if your case is just heard by a judge.
The British people know right from wrong.
It's a disgrace that this Government wants to cut them out of the justice system.
The first investigation in to the death of Victoria Agoglia was called Operation Augusta.
It was closed down suddenly.
No one knows who closed it or why and records have disappeared.
8 suspects went on to commit more sex crimes.
5 suspects applied for jobs requiring DBS checks.
When was Batley moved to the Middle East ?
Thank God that this sort of theocratic dictatorship could ever happen in England
Oh no !!!!
Wait a moment !
I could got to jail for this, couldn't I ?
Be careful !
Any resistance to these plans for world domination
may be classified as Islamophobia
Hey. At least we ended up catching all the bad guys and they're all in jail now so it will never ever happen again. Oh wait... that's right. Nobody anywhere on the planet has been held accountable for any of what happened during that time.
The hereditaries were human shield protecting the cronies from scrutiny and criticism.
Now they are (about to be) gone, the illegitimacy of the Lords and the corruption implied by a system of appointment will become much more of an issue.
Whether fair or not.
This paragraph by C.S. Lewis, written in 1948, still hits hard:
“If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”
What happened to separation of church and state?
Oh, that’s right. I forgot. That only applies to Christianity.
Have chosen my job for today: to remind you about what prison of nations, so-called USSR, did to mothers and children:
There were three of us mothers. We were given a small room in a barrack. Bedbugs fell here from the ceiling and the walls like sand. All night long we picked them off the children. And during the day we went to work, leaving the babies with some certified old woman who would eat the food that had been left for the children.
Nevertheless, Volovich writes, for a whole year I stood by my child’s bed at night, picking off the bedbugs and praying. I prayed that God would prolong my suffering for a hundred years if necessary, but would not separate me from my daughter. That He would release me from imprisonment together with her — even if I were to leave as a beggar, even as a cripple. That I might raise and bring her up, even if it meant crawling at people’s feet and begging for alms.
But God did not answer my prayers. Just as the child had begun to walk, just as I heard from her the first words — so tender to the ear, so wonderful — “mama,” “mamusia,” we were, in the winter frost, dressed in rags, put into a freight wagon and taken to a “mothers’ camp,” where my angel-like little chubby girl with golden curls soon turned into a pale shadow with blue circles under her eyes and cracked, dried lips.
Volovich first worked at logging sites, and later at a sawmill. In the evenings she would bring a bundle of firewood back to the camp and give it to the nannies, who in return would let her see her daughter outside the regular visiting hours.
She saw how at seven in the morning the nannies woke the babies. With pokes and kicks they dragged them out of their unheated beds. <…> Pushing the children in the back with their fists and showering them with coarse abuse, they changed their little shirts and washed them with icy water. The babies did not even dare to cry. They only groaned like old people — and cooed. This terrible cooing came from the cribs all day long. Children who should already have been sitting or crawling lay on their backs with their legs drawn up to their stomachs and made these strange sounds, like the muffled moan of a pigeon.
There was one nanny for seventeen children. She had to feed them, wash them, dress them, and keep the ward clean. She tried to make the task easier for herself: from the kitchen she brought steaming hot porridge. Having divided it into bowls, she grabbed the first child she could from a crib, twisted the child’s arms behind its back, tied them to the body with a towel, and began stuffing the hot porridge into the child like a turkey, spoon after spoon, not giving it time to swallow.
Eleonora began to waste away.
During visits I would find bruises on her little body. I will never forget how, clinging to my neck, she pointed with her thin little hand at the door and moaned: “Mamysia, home!” She had not forgotten the bug-infested shack where she had been born and where she had always been with her mother. Little Eleonora, who was one year and three months old, soon realized that her pleas to go “home” were useless. She stopped reaching out to me during visits and silently turned away. Only on the last day of her life, when I took her into my arms (I had been allowed to breastfeed her), she looked somewhere to the side with wide eyes and began weakly hitting my face with her little fists, pinching and biting my breast. Then she pointed her hand toward the crib.
In the evening, when I came to the ward with an armful of firewood, her crib was already empty. I found her in the morgue, naked, among the bodies of adult prisoners. In this world she had lived only one year and four months and died on March 3, 1944. <…> That is the whole story of how I committed the gravest crime — the only time in my life I became a mother.
Hava Volovich, Jewish Ukrainian.
What on earth is "genetically predicted linoleic acid"?
It comes 100% from diet, with main source in the US being salad dressing and therefore highly correlated with salad intake, which is in turn correlated with other behaviors.
An excellent result especially as Lib Dem’s changed their minds and did not support
I don't think people understand the scale of the constitutional crisis that Starmer and his mates have put the King in
Tell me.
Tell me!
When a King gave away his subjects' lands to a foreign power?
And against their will?
He is the King of Chagos, his duty is to defend it.