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This year alone, more Christians have been killed by Muslims in Nigeria than Gazans in three years of war.
Not a single Muslim or pro-Palestinian activist has protested like they do for Gaza. Weird.
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That's what genocide looks like
This 260-year demographic timeline of Poland’s Jewish population reveals the devastating scale of the Holocaust. Source: buff.ly/MEHJWla
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“Mao and Stalin and Hitler didn’t come to power promoting tyranny. They came to power promising equality.”
— Rand Paul
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Just remember this.
When Labour say "free movement" we're not talking about hardworking Polish plumbers anymore.
We're talking about the 1 million illegals who Spain's Pedro Sánchez just put on a fast-track to citizenship.
They will head straight to the UK.
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To think that the Prime Minister used to be so strongly against free movement of people in the EU as it was bad for his constituents. Is Leigh that far from Makerfield? (No, part of Leigh went into Makerfield in the last boundary changes).
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2⃣ Presumably Rayner meant to refer only to exports of goods, ignoring services (even though these are more important for the UK economy).
Exports of goods to the EU have fallen slightly in volume terms since 2019, but they were never strong in the first place.
As the chart below shows, there has been hardly any growth in exports of goods to the EU for decades, even when the UK was a full member of both the Single Market and Customs Union.
Moreover, as the chart also shows, exports of goods to the rest of the world have also been relatively weak since 2019, which shows this is not just about Brexit.
Oher important factors include the UK's relatively high industrial energy costs and the general weakness of world trade.
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The other cavalry charge at the Battle of Balaclava.
The Heavy Brigade.
The Scots Greys, Enniskillens, 1st Royal Dragoons, and 4th and 5th Dragoon Guards, led by General the Hon. James Scarlett.
Scarlett sustained five wounds during the engagement, while his aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Elliot, suffered fourteen sabre cuts. Despite these injuries, he survived and was officially returned as having been only “slightly wounded”!
One Scots Grey recalled feeling no fear whatsoever, declaring that he felt “more like a devil than a man.”
Sir Colin Campbell praised the regiment, exclaiming, “Greys! Gallant Greys!” and adding that, at sixty-one, he would gladly have joined their ranks had he been young again.
A French general, witnessing the action, declared that the Heavy Brigade’s victory was the finest spectacle he had ever seen.
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#BalaclavaDay #CrimeanWar #BritishArmy #MilitaryHistory #ScottishHistory #LestWeForget
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25 October 2004. John Peel (John Robert Parker Ravenscroft) died from a heart attack (aged 65) while on holiday in Peru. He was a champion of new rock talent outside the commercial mainstream. He was the longest serving original BBC Radio 1 DJ broadcasting from 1967 to 2004.
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25 OCTOBER - BALACLAVA DAY: THE THIN RED LINE 🇬🇧🏴
On this day in 1854, the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders stood firm against advancing Russian cavalry at Balaclava, Crimea. Outnumbered and exposed, these Scottish soldiers held their nerve in one of the most celebrated acts of courage in British military history.
Their commander, Sir Colin Campbell, gave the immortal order:
⚔️ “There is no retreat from here, men. You must die where you stand!”
Sir Colin's aide John Scott is said to have replied, "Aye, Sir Colin. If needs be, we'll do that."
Their disciplined volleys broke the Russian advance, protecting the British base at Balaclava.
War correspondent William Howard Russell described the sight as a “thin red streak tipped with a line of steel” - giving birth to the legendary name, The Thin Red Line.
Today, we honour the courage, discipline, and sacrifice of those soldiers whose actions became part of our shared British military heritage.
Remember the 93rd. Remember Balaclava. Remember the Thin Red Line.
Scotland’s courage. Britain’s history.
Never forgotten.
🇬🇧 Alba gu bràth 🏴
#BalaclavaDay #ThinRedLine #ScottishHistory #BritishArmy #CrimeanWar #MilitaryHistory #LestWeForget
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🇬🇧🏴 Alexander Robb of Dundee, 42nd Black Watch Regiment, recalled his experiences of the Battle of Balaclava:
“A Russian gunner was holding his head together. It had been struck with a cavalry sword. He was alive and was walking to the front, when my comrade called out, ‘Don’t take him to the front, take him to the rear; our doctors may make something of him.’ He was sent to the rear holding his head together. It was often spoken of years afterwards in our regiment.”
Robb also said:
“I saw one of the Greys, holding his arm that was nearly cut through. He also was able to walk. As he was passing us he said, ‘They say the Russians are not good at the sword, but I never gave a point but I got a parry,’ and he made his way, laughing, to the surgeons.”
Portrait of Piper David Muir, George Glen, Donald McKenzie and Colour Sergeant William Gardner, 42nd Royal Highlanders, posed grouped round a table with drinks at Aldershot.
Image source: IWM (Q 71646)
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#BalaclavaDay #BlackWatch #ScottishHistory #BritishArmy #CrimeanWar #MilitaryHistory #LestWeForget
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And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember’d;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
#StCrispin #StCrispinian
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‘We band of brothers, for he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother...’
Happy St Crispin's Day 🏴🏴
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Probably my favourite version. It's much less bombastic than Olivier's or Branagh's.
#StCrispinsDay
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But not the government-owned @FRANCE24 which ran reports about Africa rather than carry Le Pen’s speech.
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And total UK exports are up even more as we have taken advantage of the Brexit freedom to develop easier trade with non-EU countries.
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The reality is UK total (goods & services) exports to EU in 2025 were:
· ⬆️ 18.9% on 2015 (pre-referendum)
· ⬆️ 3.8% on 2019 (before leaving EU)
· ⬆️3.2% on last year.
All in real terms (source: ONS trade statistics)
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When Aden was under imperial influence, it looked like a place everyone wants to live in.
Then nationalism and independence kicked in, and Aden became the pit of misery
كانت عدن تتقدم على عواصم كبرى برقيها ومدنيتها وثقافتها وصناعاتها المحلية، وتمتلك مطارات وموانئ وشعبا راقيا يمتلك وعيا حضاريا مميزا. عاشت عدن أزهى عصورها، حتى ابتلانا الله بأقوام لا يدركون معنى الدولة ولا يفهمون قيمة النظام والمدنية والتطور.
#السعوديه_سبب_الدمار
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This is the reality.
This is the actual data on UK trade post-Brexit.
David is not some random guy on X (like me). David is the Professor of Industrial Economics at Nottingham University.
This is the data. The actual data. Not some garbage forecast about a fictional earth.
