If this isn't the ministry of Information what is? Locked replies is a great start. Hopefully it'll be better than BBC Verify..

One moment to leave my box then I'll get back in it. If you're uneducated enough to have an issue with the British government rightly making this statement, lemme put it very simply: -49,000 slave owners, approx 0.19% of the population at the time, were given money to buy them out of owning slaves. British taxpayers paid to free the slaves. -For decades during the 19th century, Britain dedicated 1/6th of it's entire Navy specifically to seek and capture other nations' slave ships to free the slaves on board. The economic cost was bore by the taxpayer. 2,000 British sailors lost their lives. -During the US Civil War, Pres Lincoln blockaded Cotton exports from the USA. This put more than half a million working Britons out of already very poorly paid work. After months, the mill owners worked a deal with the US govt to reopen trading. More than half a million working class Britons voted AGAINST the deal citing that they didn't ever want to work with goods produced from slavery again. About half as many (24,000 ish) Brits died from malnourishment, disease etc in the affected cotton factory communities as a direct result of that action as ever owned slaves. -Britain paid £400,000 to Spain to convince it to stop its slave trade. It also placed diplomatic pressure on France to stop them too. Of every empire that ever took part in slavery, Britain is the ONLY ONE that grew a conscience, stopped its own, and then set out to stop everybody else without any outside encouragement. And it is also the only one that has maintained a successful and genuinely beneficial diplomatic network to lift up and empower its former territories- the Commonwealth- which has helped ex-colonies outperform their peer nations in almost every way ever since. Not to mention endless and unwavering humanitarian relief when a hurricane rips through their islands every season, or when an earthquake buries their brothers and sisters under their own houses. The British taxpayer has bore the cost of all of that. Britons voted in favour of that responsibility in the 19th century, decades before anybody else grew a conscience of their own- even African Kingdoms such as the Asanti Empire who only stopped slaving when Britain took over Ghana and made it illegal. You reparationsit types don't harass modern-day Turks over the 6-8 million slaves that passed through the Ottoman Slave trade, or modern-day Ghanaians for the millions that the Ghana and Asanti empires captured, abused, and traded in the Trans-Sharan and Transatlantic trades. You don't even get on at the Arab and African countries who still enable slavery today. Why? There is no other demographic/nation/country for which people feel so empowered to blame the crimes of the most miniscule proportion of its ancestry, which were undone and atoned for by exponentially more of its ancestry, on an entire diaspora that has lived for generations with no direct culpability in said crimes. Every population in the world has been a victim to another population at a given time. The following paragraph should be the one that sticks from this whole rant: The working class, poor, destitute British man and woman who rotted in workhouses for centuries had more in common with their African slave counterparts than they ever did their compatriot masters. That's exactly why they bloody well did something about it. British people en masse stood WITH the slaves. Not with their feet on their necks. Reparationism towards the British nation is just politics of division, meant to absolve commonwealth governments of their own failures towards their people at the expense of a population who have never committed the crime they are demanding reparations for, and whose ancestors paid the human and economic price for for the last 2 centuries. This is the last post I'll make on the matter.

Dear SpaceX PRESS THE BUTTON WHILE ITS INTACT

Just to remind these same folk: You’ve not lifted 1/2m kids out of poverty. You’ve just moved them over a bureaucratic line on a Whitehall spreadsheet. Your ‘workers rights’ are destroying entry-level jobs, hitting young people disproportionately, where unemployment is now over 16%. You have not transformed the NHS. It’s still the same old wheezing leviathan, just with a lot more dosh and still dismal productivity. And you’ve nationalised steel and rail before. It was not the prelude to an economic or industrial miracle. Plus you will now have to include their demands for capital/subsidies among all the other priorities already crowding in on the public purse. Other than that your reminder was useful. Thank you.

Internet access restriction under the guise of child safety. This is from the same school of thought that stopped selling paracetamol in bottles of 200 to prevent suicide. It won't stop it, just makes it a bit harder for the determined whilst removing convenience for everyone.

Got blocked by John O'Connell (@jdpoc) today for pointing out that national debt has risen by £186 billion or £6510 per household since Labour took office. He called me a silly silly boy and that what I said was all lies. 'Curated feed' my arse. Source: share.google/gwxTYGoEc8EHeXn…

The exact time today that members of the Labour Govt posted that it’s OK for the PM to appoint the friend of a nonce in a government role,despite being aware of his friendship with said nonce. Party before country,job before party, & fuck the public appears to be the message..

Whilst supporting your colleague in a time of difficulty is a good thing this just smacks of hypocrisy. Barely a peep out of this lot until the briefing note drops and then they come out with similar statements. Nobody wanted to stick their neck out beforehand though..

The spike in wholesale gas prices after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine certainly increased our energy bills big time. Since then wholesale gas prices have fallen 55%. But energy bills are still rising. I wonder why. Gas prices down, offshore wind generation up. Could that explain it? Of course. And offshore wind contracts are index-linked not fixed. Here’s how it works. In April 2025 the average wholesale cost of gas (including carbon penalties) — which broadly sets the market price for electricity — was around £75/MWh.  Offshore wind is entitled to that PLUS whatever subsidies are required to hit the strike price the wind farm agreed with the government (a process known as Contracts for Difference). In April 2025, the average strike price for offshore wind CfDs was around £158/MWh (weighted by generation), so CfD funded offshore wind farms got the extra £83/MWh as subsidy on top of the market price of £75/MWh to take them to the agreed £158 strike price.  This is recouped from consumer energy bills on to which is also heaped the billions needed to upgrade the National Grid to handle intermittent and remote renewables. It adds another £32/MWh. Taking the total cost of wind to £190/MWh. Tell me again about cheap renewables …

The most male-typical and female-typical reasons for hospital admissions in England (NHS data 2022–25) reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful…

If any further evidence was needed as to the huge variations in generation that renewables bring we've gone from 3 hours of free power over the weekend from my supplier to an hour tonight of 'please don't use any energy'. All whilst paying the highest costs in the World.

Green is wind from UK grid over the last week. It's not reliable generation so has to be backed up which makes renewables more expensive or the lights go off. EU wide generation doesn't reflect interconnector limits either. @dorfman_p thanks for block instead of engagement

If Indians set foot in England and become English. Then the English who set foot in India became Indian. Therefore the English did not rule India. There is no such thing as ‘colonization.’ QED

Anyone celebrating the death of someone who has the opposite opinions to you needs to take a really good look in the mirror.

We choose not to go to the Moon... We choose not to go to the Moon in this decade or do the other things, not because they are hard, but because we need the money for motability

A KC friend sends me this for my amusement. That it has become a recognisable joke speaks volumes. Only a short while ago, we would all have responded, "I don't get it. What's the joke?" Now, we get it. That presents a big problem for the government.

Facial Scar Discrimination Experiment