Just a few idiocies that the British state tries to convince us of: 1) That a man can be women and women can be men 2) People from foreign lands that come here illegally are just as British as you and I 3) The differential treatment of people because the colour of their skin is not racism 4) The burning of wood in your home fire is terrible for the environment 5) That vast tracts of woodland and grassland cleared for solar/wind arrays is 'green'. 6) Foreign influencers criticising the state's policies is unwanted, but that the state's interference in other countries is progress 7) The removal of the 800 year old constitutional mechanism of trial by jury gives ''victims'' justice without a case being heard 8) If we'd all just live a smaller more localised & surveilled life, the happier we'll be 9) Submitting to a 'papers please' society, under a digital ID, who cannot move without being tracked and controlled, is ''more convenient'' for all 10) That speculation, critique and dialogue against all this is verboten and ''far right'' I don't know about you all, but I reject utterly these anti-human policies, and I will continue to push back against them until I'm dead and buried.

A headline no doubt sanctioned by mad Ed Milliband and RICU Newsflash: wearing a jumper makes you warmer Thanks for telling us what we already knew! 🤦🏻‍♂️

If you want to watch a decent film on this squally Autumn day, then I can recommend Tenzing on AppleTV. This charts the story of Sherpa Tenzing Norgay who assisted Edmund Hillary to be the first humans to summit Mount Everest. It's a very good movie 👍🏻

From the @metpoliceuk own website for safe gun handling rules. There is not an argument to be made to support her poor weapon handling. met.police.uk/advice/advice-…

The Scottish Green Party should never get into Hollyrood.

The ruins of Ville de Limoges in France, having been burned out. Two men have been arrested in connection with the fire. Prosecutors say they have links to "radical-left networks" Limoges' conservative mayor claims he has the support from US VP JD Vance, but not Emmanual Macron, his own, outgoing president. "What happened here will have an influence on the upcoming presidential election. This country is not doing well at all," he says.

Slow Horses series 6 just concluded, and it was a let down. Series 1-5 used sarcastic comedy between all of Jackson Lamb's agents, but the (new) writer of this series turned many of them into wooden, humourless extras who loved to engage in inane and irrelevant chatting. An unbelievable plot and a wooden, under-utilised cast was only saved by a cliffhanging ending. Series 7 needs to improve!

The Prime Minister is to appear on Gogglebox. And now Prince William appears on Graham Norton's sofa. We used to have serious people at the top of the British establishment.

Mark Rowley is being hugely disingenuous here. While he regales us of stories of online 'attacks' on the policewoman, he's conveniently airbrushed the reason for the public criticism out of his speech. Fiona, the policewoman said to be an operational parliamentary and diplomatic protection officer, should have had it drilled into her that her handling of her firearm is enormously bad and unsafe practice. As a public servant paid for by taxpayers and thrust into the public view as a ''pioneer'' award winner, she has invited legitimate public opinion. Rowley should defend his staff, but he should also recognise this legitimate criticism. Here's how she handled her firearm, with her finger on the trigger, and an example of how she should have handled it; with her finger off the trigger. This is a level of safety standard that the public demand be upheld, and anyone saying ''oh well, the safety catch was on'', I ask them this: would you allow yourself to be placed in the crosshairs by an armed Fiona with only the safety catch between her firearm and you. If the answer is ''yes'', then either you're lying or an idiot.

Whoever trained the policewoman in the quoted tweet to handle a firearm like that should be sacked. To put her on show doing it is an own-goal. There is a very good reason why those using firearms use a straight index finger when holding a firearm, and that's because the finger is never on the trigger until needed. You must never rely on safety devices as they can fail.

Just had another alert by Andy Burnham’s government. Says the clocks go back on Sunday to the 1970s.

Have a great Friday evening, everyone! Remember: equity isn't equality - it's code for inequality.

While I disagree with much of @CarolineLucas politics, she was, at least, a considered leader of the Green Party. A party that was proudly environmentalist at heart. While it was unlikely to garner the numbers to become the governing party, it was once respected as being committed and convicted. The Green Party, as is, under Zack Polanski is all but a gaggle of hardcore socialist activist agitators and the party, and environmentalism, is all the poorer for it.

Pouring with rain here in leafy Buckinghamshire, yet the opportunistic conker chompers are still raiding the bird feeders!

Nothing has changed in 7 years since the convid debacle. The same uniparty is in charge. Loo rolls and pasta will be the same materials fought over by competing communities. Why don’t we just boot the uniparty and be done with this nonsense?

This is so sad. Poor Judi Dench 😩 At 91 her AMD (age-related macular degeneration) means that she cannot see well enough so she sometimes approaches the wrong people "and give them an almost hug" before realising her mistake. #AgeSucks

You used to be able to have a face-to-face with Wendy the friendly local customer service agent who likes cats Then it was a faceless voice call with Rupal at the Mumbai call centre Now it’s a faceless, soulless line of code with no empathy @Barclays is there for you…