🛑About the EU: If your elected government is cowed by another government, you don't have an elected government. No DMs if I don't know you please.
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Given enough time and self-investigation EVERYONE will eventually come to realise that everything you hear on MSM is the opposite to the truth.
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Irish police forced to HITCHHIKE three miles to emergency after electric patrol car runs out of charge 😄😄thesun.ie/news/17745768/gard…
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Utterly embarrassing (and totally deserved) for @andyburnham @Ed_Miliband and @UKLabour ,
We have become a laughing stock banana republic in just two years and there are three to go. This national destruction must be deliberate. God help us.
Israel has closed the British consulate in Jerusalem in protest against Ed Miliband’s sanctions on West Bank settlements
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This is snooping at a level beyond what the Stasi or KGB used to do. Be in no doubt, the UK is a police state. Child safety my arse.
🚨 X, META & TIKTOK TAKE OFCOM TO COURT OVER SWEEPING ONLINE SAFETY DATA DEMANDS
A major legal battle over the future of online regulation in Britain has just concluded its first High Court hearing.
X, Meta and TikTok are challenging Ofcom over the scale of information the regulator is demanding under the Online Safety Act.
X has described the request as:
“the most burdensome information request X has received from any regulator in any jurisdiction.”
The platforms say Ofcom is demanding extremely detailed information about content moderation, including material removed or restricted and how many users saw content before action was taken.
Meta argues the demands are too broad and lack a sufficiently clear regulatory purpose, while TikTok says Ofcom bypassed a more structured monitoring framework.
Ofcom says the information is necessary to determine whether the Online Safety Act is actually working and says it has already narrowed what it originally requested.
The High Court hearing ran from 5–7 October.
There is no public ruling yet.
But the implications are significant.
Because this is not simply about illegal content.
It is about how much information a state regulator can compel major platforms to hand over about moderation decisions, user exposure and platform behaviour.
And that raises some fundamental questions:
How much data should a regulator be entitled to demand?
Could these powers eventually influence what platforms remove, restrict or suppress?
What protections exist for lawful political speech?
And where does legitimate safety regulation end and excessive regulatory control begin?
At the same time, Ofcom has opened a separate formal investigation into Meta over Instagram’s Instants feature, examining whether Meta properly assessed illegal-content and child-safety risks before launching it.
Ofcom stresses that opening the investigation does not mean it has concluded Meta broke the law.
Under the Online Safety Act, serious breaches can lead to fines of up to £18 million or 10% of qualifying worldwide revenue, whichever is greater.
This case deserves close attention.
Because whichever way the court eventually rules, it could help define how far Ofcom’s powers over X and other major platforms actually extend.
I’ll be watching for the judgment.
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"Labour could oversee worst parliament on record for living standards, study warns" The Guardian.
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Oil flows are now at 90% of the pre-war levels through the strait.
We are being dry bummed in the UK.
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If the UK government upholds the ICC as such an important and trusted arbiter of justice, why hasn't Tulip Saddiq been sent to face justice for her alleged crimes? Bangladesh are a full member BTW.
@UKLabour
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Crude oil is currently $96/barrel and falling and we are being charged over £2.00/l for diesel.
In 2022 crude was $177 and fuel was £1.35/l. We are being robbed blind.
But then again, migrants need to be funded somehow.
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