Cal De Burgh
@DeBurghCal
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PIL, IHL, IHRL, Russian area studies PhD Liverpool Hope New Book: Russia and Human Rights: The USSR, Russian Federation and Change Amazon: https://t.co/170nGKy4US
Liverpool, England.
Joined February 2024
'It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.’ - Peter Abelard (c. 1079 – 1142)
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For far too long, ideologues in Europe have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose. The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate these egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship. Today, @StateDept will take steps to
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Digital ID so they can track you. No juries so they can convict you. No appeals so they can contain you. No elections so they can reign over you. Conscription so they can control you. Assisted suicide so they can kill you.
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'The language Labour uses is revealing. Elections are framed as an inconvenience. Voters are framed as an administrative burden.'
There's a line in a democracy that, once crossed, changes everything: when elections cease to be an obligation and become a variable. That line has now been crossed in Britain, and it's the state's own elections watchdog saying so. The Electoral Commission has been explicit:
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Vijay Rangarajan, Chief Executive of the Electoral Commission, said: "We note the Government statement in Parliament on 18 December inviting Councils to raise capacity concerns and seek to postpone elections in May 2026. "We are disappointed by both the timing and substance of
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The history of the DTaP vaccine. "In 2014, unmarked mass graves belonging to Irish orphans were discovered." "These graves belonged to a group of 2051 children on which an early and dangerous diphtheria vaccine was covertly tested on in the 1930s."
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☝️ British society faces many challenges. These include areas of taxation, healthcare, migration, international trade, energy security, etc. Does stoking a Russian threat help resolve them? Clearly not. But it does an excellent job of diverting attention from awkward questions.
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@tnewtondunn @ChiefMI6 The fact that a journalist does not ask the basic question of why the head of a secret intelligence service is speaking publicly about matters central to the issue of information warfare, but rather parrots and amplifies her points, begs the question of whether or not said
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Jess Phillips, Minister for Safeguarding Girls is stupid if she thinks we will fall for her lies. These are the facts: - She established a Survivors Panel to inform the selection of chair for the grooming gang inquiry. This panel was excluded from the appointment of Labour
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Thanks, but I don't take advice from... what are you, an aspiring DJ? Or is that your name? Ghastly in either case.
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NATO is a Cold War relic. The United States should withdraw from NATO and use that money to defend our country, not socialist countries. Today, I introduced HR 6508 to end our NATO membership.
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The European Union is not DEMOcracy – rule of the people – but rather BUREAUcracy – rule of the unelected bureaucrat!
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Your government is taking money out of your pocket to house people who would rape your children. This might be a blunt way to put it, but it's simply the truth. Shut the system down. Send them all home. Destroy the boats. Prosecute those who allowed it.
Chilling footage shows two Afghans, who had only arrived in the UK via a donghy months earlier, frog marching a 15yr old girl into a park in Leamington Spa and forcing her to perform sex acts on them! Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal, both 17, admitted the sickening attack on the
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EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY Florida is designating the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations. Florida agencies are hereby directed to undertake all lawful measures to prevent unlawful activities by these
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BREAKING: Teacher Enoch Burke has been arrested, forced into a Garda car and taken to Mountjoy Prison after he refused to endorse transgender ideology. Enoch Burke refused to comply with Principal Niamh McShane’s demand that he use the “they” pronoun for a male student, a demand
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Tulip Siddiq MP convicted of corruption and facing a prison sentence in Bangladesh, claims that she didn’t get a ‘fair trial’ because she was tried in front of a single judge who was politically motivated.OH THE IRONY.
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BREAKING: We’re investing £1.6bn to give our transport network its biggest ever upgrade. Plans include: 🚉New rail stations ⏩Rapid transit network 💳Smart ticketing 🚲More walking and cycling routes All connecting communities and boosting growth across our region Watch the
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