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Simon James Shephard

@shephardsimon

Almost Retired Soldier sometime Scholar. Co-authoring ‘The Steps to Glory’ a history of commissioning into the British Army from 1660-2025. All views my own

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Annunziata Rees-Mogg (@zatzi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If great oratory, great arguments and great principles are, in Catherine West’s view, “pompous” then we need more pomposity in Parliament. And fewer nodding-dog script readers, who can’t even do that well.

James Freeman (@james_freeman__) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How can it be that an 800 year old right central to our constitution can be taken away by a government that has no mandate for doing so? The justification of clearing a backlog is ridiculous given the law has been in place for 800 years! Labour are traitors to the UK!

How can it be that an 800 year old right central to our constitution can be taken away by a government that has no mandate for doing so?

The justification of clearing a backlog is ridiculous given the law has been in place for 800 years!

Labour are traitors to the UK!
Diane Abbott (@hackneyabbott) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I congratulate the 10 Labour MPs who put principle before pressure, and voted against the government's rotten Bill limiting access to trial by jury. For the avoidance of doubt, I also voted against. But I am still suspended from the Labour whip. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

John Cleese (@johncleese) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Dear Imran, Do you think that the mistrust of Islam that some of us experience could be caused by the Muslim clerics who regularly announce that Muslims intend to kill all infidels I have a feeling the two are connected

Patriots Of Britain🟣 (@hoodedclaw1974) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Toby Young and The Free Speech Union are to launch a legal challenge against the new Islamophobia definition.👇👇 I think we all wish them luck.💯

Robert Courts KC (@robertcourts) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is, frankly, just how you do it. A stellar speech that cast the rest of the chamber into shadow. Watch it and understand why juries matter - and how there is still real genuine quality in the Commons - as exemplified by Geoffrey Cox KC MP

Henry Bolton OBE 🇬🇧 (@_henrybolton) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“What we are seeing is an attempt to reintroduce Britain’s blasphemy laws, 18 years after they were abolished by Parliament, and the biggest assault on English liberty - particularly free speech - in over 800 years.” And I say that we must not accept it.

Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovi2) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The unthinking authoritarianism of Labour’s jury-trial reforms Keir Starmer is spearheading one of the most shocking attacks on civil liberties in modern times. spiked-online.com/2026/03/11/the…

Bear (@bearjfk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This was the typical quality speaker in the commons up until only a generation or two ago. No notes, either. A verbal essay. Note Lammy et al just laughing. That’s how far we’ve fallen. They don’t care for any of it.

Muriel Gray (@artybagger) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This was magnificent. And whether you agree or not ,it begs the question, should those rude colleagues, ignoring the speech by scrolling phones even been allowed in the chamber? What has happened to debate?

Claudia Webbe (@claudiawebbe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

David Lammy’s own Lammy Review found racial bias across the justice system. It also found no racial bias in jury verdicts. Yet his government now wants fewer jury trials. In Parliament, Geoffrey Cox confronted him: If juries guard against racism, why weaken them?

Claire Coutinho (@clairecoutinho) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A hijab used to hide the abuse of 10-year-old Sara Sharif at the hands of her father. Women forced into cousin marriages while the NHS praised its ‘benefits’. Children groomed by gangs while police and social workers looked the other way. In each of these cases public services

Madeline Grant (@madz_grant) 's Twitter Profile Photo

An extremely grim sight to watch Labour MPs vote to remove trial by jury because the whips told them to, after a debate in which expertise& learning were laughed at. This form of governance, the ill-intentioned leading the ill-informed, is sadly our future spectator.com/article/david-…

Lisa (@aquitainexox) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is the quality and calibre of speeches & intellect that is now so sadly lacking in Westminster. I could happily listen to the deep timbers of Geoffrey Cox KC MP voice all day. It’s positively Shakespearean & I’ve no doubt Winston Churchill would be smiling down at this 🇬🇧♥️🇬🇧

Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 (@robert_lyman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So, ‘well-placed sources’ says the Chief of Defence Staff has "lost the confidence of No. 10." The Spectator This might or might not be true. But what is absolutely true is that this ‘well-placed source’ (me, for the avoidance of doubt) says that he has lost confidence in the Prime

So, ‘well-placed sources’ says the Chief of Defence Staff has "lost the confidence of No. 10." <a href="/spectator/">The Spectator</a>

This might or might not be true. But what is absolutely true is that this ‘well-placed source’ (me, for the avoidance of doubt) says that he has lost confidence in the Prime
Laura Trott MP (@lauratrottmp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Education Secretary must demand councils withdraw any guidance which prohibits children from depicting Christ in case of offence. It is censorship of children & the imposition of one religion’s doctrine onto every child’s education, regardless of their own faith. It is wrong.

The Education Secretary must demand councils withdraw any guidance which prohibits children from depicting Christ in case of offence. It is censorship of children &amp; the imposition of one religion’s doctrine onto every child’s education, regardless of their own faith. It is wrong.