🚨NEWS: Keir Starmer is expected to ban VPN’s in an announcement next month says a Government spokesperson
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🚨NEWS: Keir Starmer is expected to ban VPN’s in an announcement next month says a Government spokesperson
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I've long dismissed the claims but I could actually believe at this point that Charles is a convert.
As documented in So Far and No Further!: Rhodesia's Bid For Independence During the Retreat From Empire 1959-1965, Elizabeth the Worst was integral in pushing Rhodesia's destruction
— Will Tanner (@Will_Tanner_1) August 16, 2025
She encouraged it in every way she could, did her best to snub and isolate Ian Smith, and in 1980… https://t.co/dOaIBpqADs
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On June 26, 2026, a consultation few Europeans have heard of will quietly close in Brussels. The European Commission is finalising its guidelines on "trusted flaggers" under Article 22 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) privileged notifiers whose reports of allegedly illegal content platforms must handle first. It is the last bolt in a machine assembled patiently for years. Once it is tightened, the EU will possess a complete, legally armoured system for managing what Europeans may say, read and share online. Before that happens, it is worth naming precisely what is wrong with this construction because its defects are not accidents of drafting. They are congenital.
Censorship by terms and conditions
The first defect is the privatisation of censorship. The DSA censors no one directly; that is its genius and its alibi. Instead, it tells platforms that once they have "actual knowledge" of illegal content they lose their liability shield, and it arms the Commission with fines on the largest platforms of up to six per cent of worldwide annual turnover. No rational company litigates the nuances of lawful speech under such a threat. It deletes on doubt. The state's hands remain clean while the dirty work is done by terms and conditions and over blocking of perfectly legal speech becomes not a bug but the business model of compliance. No one disputes that genuinely illegal content terrorist propaganda, child sexual abuse material must come down, and fast. The question is what else comes down with it.
The second defect is the rule of vagueness. Articles 34 and 35 of the DSA oblige the largest platforms to assess and mitigate "systemic risks", including "negative effects on civic discourse and electoral processes". No statute defines these phrases. No court has delimited them. The same European Commission that interprets them also enforces them prosecutor, judge and legislator in one office. In any Member State, a speech regime built on such clauses would be struck down as unconstitutional; in Brussels it is called good governance.
These Rape Gang inquiry findings dwarf those of the Jeffery Epstein scandal.
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) June 18, 2026
If 250,000 rape victims is even close to accurate, then there are thousands of Epsteins preying on children throughout Britain.
All in broad daylight. Many with the unofficial sanction, if not the…
No one can save you when they become the police https://t.co/AqnHGaxCCI
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 18, 2026
nortex97 said:
The UK? I want the US cast out of Nato. I do not share EU values at all, and they are governed by enemies.
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All of that sounds great, as does the fact that Sellner and Vlaardingerbroek claim to have gathered well over 200,000 "signatures" so far. Unfortunately, reality tends generally to be less great. To begin with, Sellner and Vlaardingerbroek have yet to register the Save Europe Act with the European Commission at all. The signatures they are collecting really, just email addresses are part of an internet publicity campaign and have no wider significance. According to me, chances that the Commission agrees to register the Save Europe Act as a formal ECI are quite low, for the Commission may reject any proposal that "is … manifestly contrary to the values of the Union." If Sellner and Vlarrdingerbroek do manage to squeeze their initiative through registration and the Save Europe Act becomes more than a buggy website, then they'll still need to collect a million signatures not from random internet people, but from verified citizens of EU member states. And if they meet that hurdle, they'll compel a response from the Commission and a hearing in the European Parliament. Even in this best case scenario, there is no chance that the Save Europe Acts becomes law, inspires any laws or changes anything at the EU level at all.
Defenders of the Save Europe Act who have bothered to read the fine print accept that they are not on the path to making Remigration official EU policy. They argue instead that publicity surrounding the Save Europe Act will "move the Overton Window" and normalise remigration as a concept. These arguments neglect the fact that remigration has already been normalised; as I wrote above, since 2024 it has become almost a household word in Germany, if one denoting a very bad and fascistic concept approximately on par with outright genocidal fascism. Otherwise I have learned to be wary of intangible, immeasurable ends in the world of political activism. Western politics abounds with activists who are changing perceptions, challenging conventions, deconstructing myths, complicating assumptions, correcting prejudices, deepening understandings and now moving Overton Windows, and the only thing these projects and their goals have in common is that nobody can work out what any of them mean in concrete terms.
Mass migration has been an absolute curse. People want the migrants to stop coming and they want the ones who are already here to go back home. They feel impotent to change the situation and it's natural that they should support social media campaigns promising at the very least to give them a voice. That's fine and most of this is probably harmless, but the truth is that we're not going to petition the migrants away. I've read so many appeals to the Overton Window at this point that the concept has become quite threadbare for me, but if anything has shifted mass media discourse these past years, it is not activist campaigns but the manifold and quite serious problems caused by mass migration itself. As in so many other areas from Covid to climatism, ******ed elite policies are failing and unwinding themselves, but we're not yet winning.
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Britons sweltering through a week of near-record temperatures have been told to remove air conditioning units from their homes as councils ramp up enforcement of Net Zero-inspired planning rules.
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The extraordinary crackdown has sparked fury after residents were ordered to dismantle cooling systems despite temperatures threatening to reach 40C in parts of the country.
Planning officials have argued that air conditioning should only be used as a "last resort", insisting homeowners must first rely on measures such as opening windows, drawing curtains and using fans.
The row comes as millions struggle through another intense heatwave, with forecasters warning that some areas could challenge temperature records set during Britain's historic summer of 2022.
In one case, a London homeowner was ordered to "permanently remove" two air conditioning units after planners ruled there was "no justification" for them.
Absolutely mental.
— 🇬🇧💥𝕾𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕱𝖔𝖗 𝕭𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖆𝖎𝖓💥🇦🇺 (@Maxwellpainn) June 24, 2026
UK Police show up at a man's house to 'investigate' him for his old Xbox gamertag... 'ChingChongChinaman'.
He created it as a 13-year-old kid joking with mates. He's Chinese.Cops took it seriously enough to knock on his door over a 15-20 year old username,… pic.twitter.com/mRR0ik3cnU
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Any nationwide ban is expected to face legal challenges from Islamic organizations.
Denmark's constitution protects public worship, though the country already imposes limits on anti-democratic preaching and support for banned organizations.
Other European countries, including Britain and Germany, also place restrictions on outdoor calls to prayer, including limits on volume and timing.
Around 270,000 Muslims live in Denmark, which has a total population of roughly six million. The country has about 100 mosques.
The Grand Mosque of Copenhagen does not broadcast the call to prayer outdoors under an agreement with local authorities.
Seems like a pretty big achievement.
— L A R R Y (@LarryOConnor) June 27, 2026
Wonder why it's not getting much attention... https://t.co/JtjpTWbqlB
deadelephant98 said:
I think what broke them is that they are really looking to import ranch dressing.
nortex97 said:
Anyway, Europe is screwed, yet again by their ruling class of aristocrats:BREAKING:
— Crypto Tice (@CryptoTice_) June 14, 2026
The Netherlands just told its citizens to go to hell.
36% tax on unrealized gains. Approved.
You didn't sell anything.
You didn't make a single euro in cash.
Your portfolio went up on paper.
The government sends you a bill anyway.
61,000 citizens petitioned against… pic.twitter.com/oAVMNWoSN7
Hope it's not too late.aggiehawg said:
Big vote in brussels from a few days ago.
Muslims on their way out of the EU. Change in deportation laws.
richardag said:aggiehawg said:
Big vote in brussels from a few days ago.
Muslims on their way out of the EU. Change in deportation laws.
Hope it's not too late.
I thought quotas and safety regulations were the main obstacles to US imports and not tariff rates.nortex97 said:
Europe bends the knee, as expected: zero headlines about this, of course
Rumbles Fish Bar in Brackley has put out an advert for staff, they only want to hire 16-17 year old girls.
— Hazel Appleyard (@HazelAppleyard) June 28, 2026
The owner of this business is called… wait for it…
Mr Sahin Bas. pic.twitter.com/IvIOURmBqW
Meanwhile the UK government pic.twitter.com/vTIMEBpNrZ
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 28, 2026
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At the time of this reporting, there have been no indications about the potential motive for the attack or about the background of the suspect arrested on Monday.
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UPDATE 1945: According to the local Hamburger Morgenpost newspaper, the suspected shooter is a 45-year-old "German man of Turkish descent".