Dostoevsky sure did nail humanity, not least certain people on X (~150 years later). ____ “Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete beastiality, and it all comes from lying continually to others and himself. A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offence. it sometimes feels very good to take offence, doesn't it? And surely he knows that no one has offended him, and that he himself has invented the offence and told lies just for the beauty of it, that he has exaggerated for the sake of effect, that he has picked up on a word and made a mountain out of a pea - he knows all of that, and still he is the first to take offence, he likes feeling offended, it gives him great pleasure, and thus he reaches the point of real hostility…” The Brothers Karamazov (serialised 1879-1880; 1st edition 1880)

I think it's a good time to look at this again!

🇬🇧 Let's talk about how much tax payers money has been LOST on cancelled and abandoned government projects over the last 2 years. It's mind blowing. ▪️TRANSPORT ▪A303 Stonehenge/Amesbury £224.7 MILLION loss ▪ A1 Morpeth–Ellingham dualling £67.8 MILLION loss ▪A358 Taunton–Southfields £67.2MILLION loss ▪ A27 Arundel Bypass £66.7 MILLION loss ▪A5036 Princess Way £17.3 MILLION loss ▪M27 Southampton Junction 8 £13.9 MILLION loss ▪A47 Great Yarmouth junction £11.7 MILLION loss ▪A27 Worthing & Lancing £2.6 MILLION loss ▪A12 Chelmsford A120 & A47 Wansford–Sutton £252 MILLION combined loss ▪National Highways 'business management system' £360,000 written off. project was cancelled. oh. ▪️DEFENCE 2025/26 ACCOUNTS ▪Shadow Mk2 - £253.580 MILLION cancelled ▪Project Morpheus - £235.655 MILLION cancelled ▪Project Guardian UKV2 -£9.4 MILLION cancelled ▪Thermal Imaging & Laser - £8.3 MILLION cancelled ▪ Project Janus - £6.020 MILLION cancelled ▪Photovoltaic Farms project -£5.76 MILLION cancelled ▪Software Module project £4.739 MILLIO cancelled ▪Shelf Life Programme - £3.354 MILLION cancelled ▪Commercial Audit Tool - £2.147 MILLION gave up ▪Secondary Facilities Project -£1.500 MILLION terminated ▪ Through Barrier Imaging Systems contract £647k terminated ▪Operational Advantage Centre - £620k cancelled ▪Physical Training Sports Facility at Lossiemouth -£480k cancelled ▪Project at Staxton Wold £463k cancelled ▪Heavy Equipment Transporters project £421k cancelled ▪Test facility project -£397k cancelled ▪Reserve Estate Optimised Programme projects - £385k Didn't bother. ▪Marne Barracks Building Energy Management System £348k cancelled ▪Hurricane & Spitfire building air-conditioning project -£319k cancelled ▪ Project SERAPH cancellation - £1.354 MILLION fruitless payment Those alone are approximately £536 MILLION. And then there are the MOD write offs (seriously) ▪ Training equipment they dont need £1.871 MILLION ▪ Cyber Resilience Programme £1.349 MILLION ▪Skyrora V1 launchers surplus - £1.070 MILLION ▪Land Rover fleet reduction - £473k ▪️HOME OFFICE ▪Rwanda partnership payments - £290 MILLION ▪RAF Scampton asylum site - £48.5 MILLION decided not to use it for migrants after the money was spent ▪ Illegal Migration Act IT capabilities that could not be repurposed after the policy changed - £7.2 MILLION ▪Cancelled return flights - £2.1 MILLION ▪Software licences deemed unsuitable and non-cancellable - £1.3 MILLION ▪️JUSTICE ▪Prison capacity build cancelled - £23.996 MILLION ▪ Illegal Migration Act digital development cancelled after government policy changed - £3.526 MILLION ▪HMCTS video-hearing project unresolved technical problems - £3.633 MILLION ▪️ENERGY SECURITY & NET ZERO ▪ UK Atomic Energy Authority test rig - £26.2MILLION ▪ Berkeley Blower House closure £8.968 MILLION ▪ Nuclear Decommissioning Authority equipment purchase which failed during commissioning because of a design failure - £784,470 (moronic) ▪️HOMES ENGLAND ▪Loans-system development - £4.843 MILLION (not in use and there were no plans to complete it). ▪ Document-management-system development - £1.109 MILLION (chose a different solution). ▪ Land disposal system -£360k new system was crap ▪️CABINET OFFICE ▪ Civil Service Jobs Applicant Tracking - £7.767 MILLION ▪️COMPANIES HOUSE ▪Certified Certificates/Certified Copies digital project £620,589 cancelled for being crap ▪ Internal business-system re-platforming project £612,750 cancelled ▪ Register of Overseas Entities digital journey £543,525 cancelled, no longer needed ▪️NATIONAL ARCHIVES ▪Omega digital project -£610k written off So just these examples of cancelled, written off governments projects in just a few departments has cost taxpayers roughly .... £1.69 BILLION and counting! No private company could ever work like this, I have no idea if anyone lost their jobs but I bet they got their bonuses!

Men cannot be mothers. These tiny babies were intentionally separated by surrogacy from the only mum they ever knew, and will never have a mum again.👇

The scale here is appalling. About 8,500 sexual offences against children 13 and under were logged at or near schools in England and Wales between 2021 and 2025, including roughly 2,000 rapes and attempted rapes. So that's about one a day. Read that again. That's one rape a DAY in an environment meant to protect children. Where sex was recorded, girls were the clear majority of victims. I've banged on about this so many times but the proliferation of porn is not a fringe issue here. The Children's Commissioner has already said children are viewing violent porn, it's changing behaviour and that peer led abuse has become widespread and normalised. By watching material such as this, our boys are getting a sex education from this material built around domination, coercion and women being just holes to be used and then as a consequence, are taking that mindset into schools. So is it any wonder? I notice what the coverage avoids is the sex of the perpetrators. We're told the victims are mostly girls and that it's "child on child". We're not told, in simple terms, that the pattern is overwhelmingly boys harming girls. That matters because if you can't name who's doing it then you can't say what has to change or even begin to address the root cause and so the cycle perpetuates. It also helps to begin to explain something adults in these settings keep treating as a mystery, the glaring rise in teen girls calling themselves nonbinary or trans. Once a girl develops, she becomes an object in the eyes of lots of boys whose idea of normal sex has now been warped by this harmful online material. Opting out of being a girl can look, to her, like the only way not to be targeted and so in their eyes it's a perfectly rational response to a truly frightening environment. Police 'receive reports of child rape at school every single day' dailymail.com/news/article-1…

Can we add "never attended mosques that teach men to beat their wives" to the list as well please?

Anyone else find it weird that “Zionism is racism” was a National Front talking point in the 80s and is now official Green Party policy?

Not everything is about Gaza You’re being genocided too Do a fertility test

A thought on the Gosport lockdown. HMGovt considers this acceptable collateral when prioritising the trouble-free inward transfer and dispersal of illegal invaders. @10DowningStreet @ShabanaMahmood

I don't know who this man is, but he spoke up when many men would of remained silent. Well done Sir.

Dont put your hand in my face 😂😂😂

We now have a Home Secretary who admits the men pouring into our country from third world shitholes are rapists. How many times have we said women and girls are being offered up as cannon fodder for the sake of diversity? Why don't we matter? Why are we ignored? This woman is the most dangerous woman in the UK ⬇️

One of the police officers just said to me ‘I think this is absolutely disgusting but I have a job to do and a family to provide for’ That’s the direct quote of an officer who’s working on the front line of the Migrant Boat arrival into Portsmouth Harbour, Gosport this evening

Look at that footage. No organisation, no funding, no PR firm. Just people who live there, standing in the dark because nobody else will stand there for them. That's not a mob. That's a town remembering what a town is. For years they were told it was hateful to notice, bigoted to worry, extreme to ask questions. And still they didn't ask for a barricade…they asked for a border. They asked for their daughters to walk home unafraid. They asked for their mothers not to lock the door at 6pm. They asked to be allowed to keep the country their grandparents bled for. Nobody answered. So they answered each other. 82,600 people put under dispersal powers this weekend. Protest moved into a car park. Faces ordered uncovered. And still the lights in Gosport are on, and the people are out. You can pass a Section, but you cannot legislate away a spine. This is what a nation looks like when it finally remembers it is one. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

🚨 82,000 PEOPLE. THE WHOLE TOWN OF GOSPORT UNDER A DISPERSAL ORDER UNTIL TUESDAY. Hampshire Police have placed the whole town of Gosport under a Section 34 dispersal order. So that unchecked undocumented men can be brought into the country facilitated by the government. The order remains in place until 7am on Tuesday 6 October. 82,000 people. An entire town under extraordinary police powers. And this is becoming normal in Britain. Absolutely outrageous. #Gosport #SmallBoats #IllegalMigration #Britain

I’d suggest various prerequisites to be considered truly English: typical ‘local’ ethnicity with several generations of English/British ancestry is a great start, but I’d say that for any nation (local ethnicity plus heritage). But also: Apologising way too much for no good reason; having the ability to stand in an orderly queue without all hell breaking loose; seeking ways to fix emergency medical issues at home rather than doing fudge all except be frustrated and in pain in an uncomfortable and unpleasant A&E waiting room; exhibiting formidable tolerance in the face of adversity; using the word ‘bangers’ only in reference to sausages; saying ‘macaroni cheese’ (or ‘mac cheese’, no ‘and’, nor any other language, nor *not* having macaroni cheese in your family repertoire); passing daily small talk about the weather; responding, “alright, you alright?”, to any questions on wellbeing; enjoying sunbathing between 12-2pm; being happy with beans on (or by) toast for dinner…. 🤷‍♀️ I know I’ve missed some. What have I missed?

Revolution is when women have their faces burnt off with flamethrowers.

This is one of the reasons why trans people decide they don’t want to be here anymore. This is cruel and we should NOT be performing these surgeries. Humans are not experiments. Everything has a consequence. I feel sad for this person and angry at all that encouraged it.

@iamjohnoliver mocking women and girls boundaries What a vile little man he is

I've seen multiple women today talk about being relentlessly pressured into sex they did not want with the replies being full of men hurling abuse at them for considering it rape. men refuse to accept that coercion is rape because if they admit it is then they are rapists.

x.com/thefempire50/status/19… Men’s reactions to this word, or rejection in general, can put many women in a very vulnerable situation. This is why there is an unfair power dynamic between men and women in many situations.