@mayd

I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Through the Looking-Glass.
Joined January 2009
A used book I ordered online arrived today (Boxing Day). I noticed this written inside it.
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Russian diesel exports collapsed in 2026 as Ukrainian drone strikes crippled 30% of Russia’s refining capacity. It still exports small amounts to Central Asia client states exempted from the Russian diesel export ban with no easy alternative.
Replying to @afneil
"Russia has no diesel to export" Reuters,21/9/26:"Russia boosted diesel exports to central asia in August,traders say." Russia doubled diesel exports to central asia to 370,000t despite a ban on supplies to most foreign markets."
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POV the shipping container opens, and you remember the post you made complaining about the price of diesel.
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New phenomenon where if you type bad English into Google, “is we getting”, it assumes you’re asking about free money from the state. If you use correct English, it isn’t quite so presumptive. This is obviously machine learning behaviour from many many interactions over time.
Hahaha it’s actually real
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1. Vanished. An Unnatural History of Extinction. 2. The Library of Ancient Wisdom. 3. Liverpool. A Story of Britain. 4. The Summer of Fire and Blood. 5. Silence of the Gods. 6. The Boundless Deep. I am particularly interested in 4 and 5.
The six books shortlisted for the 2026 @WolfsonHistory Prize, the UK's most prestigious history book award. #Unboxing #Historybooks #Fivebooks #WolfsonPrize
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If you add 6 million third world immigrants to the U.K. are you surprised they are claiming huge benefits. Are you surprised you can’t get a doctors appointment, social housing, sub standard schools and the infrastructure is falling to pieces.
Reform’s @ZiaYusufUK was on Radio 4’s Today programme this morning. He appeared to link the death of a 73-year-old woman, who waited more than 23 hours for an ambulance in Wales, to illegal immigration. The coroner found that the ambulance delay contributed to lost opportunities for treatment. She made no finding that immigration was responsible. A family’s tragedy deserves better than political point-scoring. Of course, I may have misunderstood him. If so, perhaps he could explain precisely what connection he was making.
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Replying to @93vintagejones
And of course, the UK complains about foreign interference, whilst allowing millions of foreign nationals the ability to vote.
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It took Rhodesians roughly 90 years of concentrated engineering, fiscal discipline, and institutional planning to build the industrial, agricultural, and logistical powerhouse that was handed over at Independence from Britain in 1980. They built a highly sophisticated, self-sustaining economy that could withstand global isolation, comprehensive international sanctions, and a protracted civil war. They laid the railway tracks, engineered the electrical grids, constructed the water infrastructure, and turned the country into the undisputed breadbasket of Southern Africa. And ZANU-PF managed to completely dismantle and gut that entire legacy in less than their first 20 years of rule. By the time the year 2000 arrived, the foundational pillars of the state were already structurally hollowed out. Think about the sheer velocity of that decay. You went from a globally competitive currency and top-tier industrial output to the total evaporation of property rights, the weaponization of the central bank, and the absolute destruction of the agricultural supply chain. It takes generations of meritocracy, rule of law, and rigorous economic planning to construct world-class infrastructure. But it only takes a single generation of economic illiteracy, unbridled corruption, and predatory political patronage to turn it all into a cautionary tale. The tragedy isn't just that they didn't know how to build; it's that they didn't even know how to maintain what was already built.
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99 out of 100 asylum claims are bogus, a Home Office whistleblower has revealed. Some of the stories are beyond belief. 'Hundreds' of Iraqi Kurds claimed they had to flee because they'd been in a relationship with the local prime minister's daughter. Apparently, it became a ‘running joke’ in the department. 'Hundreds' of Pakistanis claimed to fear for their lives over a gay relationship, all with the very same man who conveniently provided letters supporting each of their claims. Large numbers of Bangladeshis claimed to be political dissidents associated with a party they knew almost nothing about. Yet the approval rate under the Tories was 77%. The Tories and Labour have built this system. Even after those same men raped and murdered British people. This farce has gone on long enough. We will deport illegal migrants by the hundreds of thousands. We will strip asylum from EVERYONE who broke into our country illegally. We will leave the ECHR and the Refugee Convention and put the British people first. WE WILL RESTORE OUR BORDERS 🇬🇧
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Everyone in Australia is sick of the performative religious ritual that leftists call “Welcome to Country”
Nah the booing was a disgrace.
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We cannot share a country with people like this.
EXPOSED: British imams "advocating" domestic violence and marital rape inside mosques. Link for full story: mol.im/a/16199187
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Last week I revealed to you how Kemi’s shadow cabinet consists of 92% of the very same people who worked in previous, failed Tory governments. Yet, she claims her party is “changed.” So this week I’ve been looking into the party’s board. That’s the governance group that really runs things, by the way, no matter who the next puppet leader is. This is how the Tories work. These are “the men in grey suits” Thatcher warned us about. And every single one of them has the same pedigree as most of her cabinet: they all come from failed Tory governments. Take a long look at this list, and for how long many of them have been around. A changed party? Please. Kemi is just the latest ventriloquist’s dummy in an entity that has no intention of changing course.
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🇩🇪 German police are advising women to stick their fingers down their throats and vomit to deter sexual attackers. The tactic was reportedly taught at workplace safety as a way to “disrupt an assault.” Follow: @europa
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Before Channel 7 starts frightening Australians about reducing immigration and the supposed collapse of our healthcare system, perhaps they could investigate why Australia deliberately restricts its own medical training capacity. The Australian Government controls the number of Commonwealth-supported medical school places. Specialist training is also constrained by funded positions, accreditation and supervision capacity. These aren’t conspiracy theories, they’re documented features of Australia’s medical training system. We have many capable young Australians competing for limited medical school places, while our healthcare system has become heavily dependent on importing doctors trained overseas. And now we’re told reducing immigration threatens the entire system? Perhaps we should be asking why successive governments haven’t invested sufficiently in training Australians in the first place. Of course we need skilled overseas doctors to fill immediate shortages, particularly in regional communities but importing qualified professionals should complement a strong domestic training system, not become a permanent substitute for building one. Train Australians, expand medical school places, fund specialist training and let’s build a sustainable healthcare workforce.
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Opposition parties need to realise Burnham is fighting in a different league to Starmer. He’s in the street and will go lower. Game has fundamentally changed.
Masterful dead cat to distract from the Man City flames lapping at his feet
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Visa bans alone are just not enough - when Restore Britain first proposed this one year ago, it was part of a wider attack package on countries that refuse to accept their deported migrants, particularly considering many of those countries will be placed on our red list regardless and have all civilian immigration halted entirely. It needs more, it needs harmonised visa sanctions across like-minded Western nations, a co-ordinated suspension of visa issuance, reviewing any investment relationships, complete foreign aid cancellation, brutal diplomatic pressure, targeted trade measures and tariffs, harsh sanctions on individuals. Do it as one, together. A deportation NATO. Most importantly? Hit them where it hurts. Further controls and targeted taxation on remittances and dividend payments, in addition to what will be implemented on foreign payments regardless. We will make them pay. Pakistan will be the first country to feel the full force of our measures. It will be a good day.
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So tiresome. I have several clients in the energy sector. I provide forecasts of extreme weather events (temperature, hurricanes, convective weather) that are used by utility and energy trading companies. So give it a rest, I am not a lobbyist for fossil fuel companies
Curry herself has acknowledged receiving cash from Fossil Fuel companies. Please do a simple search and disabuse yourself of the idea that she is a scientist with no paid agenda and listen to actual scientists instead. As I say. A shill. To be ignored - and is.
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No evidence will ever be presented for this
Andy Burnham becomes first PM to confirm Russian interference in Brexit referendum @campbellclaret and @RoryStewartUK's exclusive interview with @andyburnham on tomorrow's episode of Leading is out in full at midnight.
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🚨Important new Reform policy: As Home Secretary I will immediately shut down the asylum system. Britain is full. No more asylum. No more free hotels. I will clear the asylum backlog by deporting everyone in it. Enough is enough. British people first. 🇬🇧
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A female Oxford professor, 33, who recently split from her much-older ex-UK Cabinet minister boyfriend Michael Gove, has been charged with possessing indecent images of children. noticer.news/oxford-professo…
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I do not believe that the NHS should exist to serve millions of migrants from the third world. Walk into any waiting room, any emergency department, any specialist clinic, any maternity unity - you’ll see exactly what I mean. British men and women forced to wait months, even years, for an appointment or procedure, whilst the system gets clogged up by migrants who should not be in our country. I’ll get the usual screeching in response to this about how the NHS would collapse without immigration. Wrong. We can welcome the French oncologist or South Korean surgeon without also welcoming millions of zero-skilled migrants who use and abuse our generosity. We don’t have to do both, clearly. There is a better way. Here is Restore Britain’s six point plan to fix the NHS. Demand. - Most importantly, reverse mass immigration. - A financial penalty for missed appointments without an evidenced reason. Supply. - Remove caps on medical-school places so that more talented British young men and women have the opportunity to become doctors/professionals - apprenticeships, training schemes and more. - With the same effort for dentistry, which is equally important. - Work to retain experienced NHS staff, bringing them back into the service with incentives. - Maintain a selective route for genuinely exceptional overseas medical professionals. - Demand rigorous and consistent professional standards. - Ensure no qualified and capable British medical professional is out of work. - Introduce grants to attract emigrated qualified Brits back home. Access. - Work with the private sector on a massive scale to reduce waiting lists to manageable levels, alongside a 24/7 service in appropriate units. - Use AI to bypass the GP bottleneck, clearing the way for rapid diagnostic tests, with appropriate clinical safeguards. - Invest in community support to hasten discharges so that hospital beds aren't occupied by patients who no longer need the care. - End the 8am GP appointment scramble. Establish more accessible online booking systems, with urgent appointments appropriately prioritised and telephone access retained for those who need it. - A national infrastructure reinvestment scheme for technology, diagnostics, equipment and facilities. Patient experience. - Make hospital parking free for patients, visitors and staff, introducing sensible controls to protect availability. - Remove ALL foreign-language translation services across the health service. - Ensure all staff speak fluent English - OBVIOUSLY. - Improve complaint/whistleblowing processes so that patients and staff have a proper voice. - Invest in proper hospital food - British sourced, nutritious, and as natural as possible. - Respect continuity of care, making it easier for patients with complex or long-term conditions to see the same GP or clinical team. - Patients will receive clear, timely and understandable explanations of delays, cancelled operations, test results and changes to treatment plans. NHS culture - End every last DEI programmes and the politicisation of the health service - staff will leave their rainbow lanyards at home. - Require NHS staff to prioritise patient care, professional standards and political impartiality. - Sack the staff who breach these professional obligations. - Introduce salary-linked league tables for senior executives across the trusts. Again, remove those who are not performing. Efficiency - Radically reduce NHS bureaucracy. - Eliminate duplicated administrative roles, wasteful expenditure and unnecessary management layers. - Overhaul procurement - put qualified men and women with genuine private sector experience in charge of a total root and branch review of how our money is being spent. - Conduct an NHS-wide technology audit - drag it into 2026. A full Restore Britain policy is being worked on, but these are the principles on which it is based. In the medium to long term, we need a more fundamental conversation about how healthcare is delivered in Britain. But this is the basis of Restore Britain’s plan to ensure the health service provides timely and robust care to the people who need it. The British people.
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