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These are the people whom Starmer, Rayner, Sarwar, Sturgeon, Swinney, Yousaf and other virtue signallers want to reward by recognising their murderous kind of terrorist state.
I have to wonder how many of the drains in Largs look like this. I see this all
Over Scotland now.
âSomething has to be doneâ
Sky @TomSkyNews speaks to Toni Dawson. the owner of an ice cream shop who voiced her frustration at the lack of preparedness from authorities from Storm Boelo, as Largs sees seawater flood shops and ruin shelf stocks
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The BBC has agreed to pay ÂŁ400,000 to an award-winning Jewish documentary-maker who alleged she was subjected to antisemitism and pushed out of the corporation after October 7.
Lucie Kon, 57, spent 22 years at the BBC and worked on programmes including Panorama, Today, BBC Breakfast and Storyville. Films she commissioned or helped produce won an Oscar, Emmy and Bafta.
Kon says her treatment changed dramatically after the Hamas attacks. She alleges colleagues described Zionists like her as âevilâ, argued that Israel should be called terrorist if Hamas was, and told her to consider what had driven Hamas to carry out the massacre.
When she proposed a documentary about October 7, Kon says she was told she was âtoo partialâ to oversee it because she was Jewish.
She subsequently filed a formal grievance, but a BBC investigation rejected her complaint. Kon says she was then kept away from work for months. During a restructuring, her position was made redundant and she failed to secure the similar role replacing it.
She launched unfair-dismissal proceedings.
The BBC has now agreed substantial compensation, reported as ÂŁ400,000, without admitting liability or accepting that Kon suffered antisemitism.
Kon says Jewish employees still at the corporation continue to face hostility and feel unable to identify openly as Jewish or Zionist.
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BREAKING: BBC forced to take down its education website used by millions after it was found to contain all sorts of devices and articles promoting the Labour Party, leftist politics, as well as âextreme views on migration and Net Zeroâ (via @DailyMail) dailymail.com/news/article-1âŠ
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Burnham and Healey are gambling that they will get another chance to do a big budget. But they may look back on this as the best opportunity they had.
There are, to my mind, three possible explanations for their approach.
One is that they would rather not level with their MPs and the country now. The argument goes that they will be in a better place to confront the trade-offs next autumn. But political capital is a depreciating asset.
The second is that they are doing a Mr Micawber, hoping something will turn up to improve the public finances. That could be faster-than-expected growth or a big reduction in government borrowing costs. Either is always possible, but look around the world and you will see the opposite is expected.
The other possibility is that they are planning an early election. That would push the reckoning beyond polling day, giving them more flexibility. As I know all too well, elections are never risk-free.
The problem is that Wednesdayâs budget, and the IMFâs praise for Britain, are founded on fantasy - the idea that the Labour Party will accept the tight spending limits that are meant to kick in as the next election approaches.
My preference would be for a budget that cut spending, reduced business taxes and enacted growth-enhancing supply-side reform. Yet with his party in no mood for cuts, you can see why Healey is likely to avoid doing anything too bold on Wednesday.
They will never have more room for manoeuvre than now. I know, having done both jobs, that you regret the decisions you donât take far more than the ones you do.
More on the budget in my @thetimes column today đ
thetimes.com/comment/columniâŠ
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"The Scottish government may not [yet] have recreated East Germany, but it has stumbled upon one of its defining absurdities: a system in which the right to be paid survives long after the need for the job has disappeared."
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This is one of the most illiberal, invasive and appalling pieces of legislation ever to come before Parliament.
The Conversion Practices Bill isnât about preventing gay children from being abusively coerced into being straight. That is already rightly illegal.
It will criminalise well-intentioned conversations between parents and gender-confused children, discussions with therapists, and religious leaders sharing their faithâs teachings with their congregations.
A parent could face up to five years in prison simply for trying to dissuade their child from embarking on irreversible, dangerous and life-changing medical pathways before the age of 18.
In his letter to the pre-legislative scrutiny committee, the Minister for Equalities attempts to reassure us that the bill respects âfreedom of religion and parental rightsâ.
It does no such thing.
So much for the Labour Governmentâs promise to tread more lightly on our lives. It is not the stateâs role to dictate what conversations parents can have with their young children around the dinner table.
Parents know best â not ministers.
Read the letter below đ
I told you. All from the insane SNP playbook
UK Treasury confirms extra ÂŁ20bn over five years for the so-called National Wealth Fund (ÂŁ15bn) and the state-owned British Business Bank (ÂŁ5bn), which lends to business.
Treasury claims this will support around 100,000 jobs by 2035 in AI, defence and green energy â a figure it has pretty much plucked out of thin air and will never really be tested because by 2035 everyone will have forgotten such a modest announcement.
Two takeaways:
Yet more government borrowing. Itâs an addiction.
Illustrates government philosophy: growth will come from a bigger, more activist state. Ho hum.
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The Government is borrowing to create a "Wealth Fund". The self-delusion is off the scale.
UK Treasury confirms extra ÂŁ20bn over five years for the so-called National Wealth Fund (ÂŁ15bn) and the state-owned British Business Bank (ÂŁ5bn), which lends to business.
Treasury claims this will support around 100,000 jobs by 2035 in AI, defence and green energy â a figure it has pretty much plucked out of thin air and will never really be tested because by 2035 everyone will have forgotten such a modest announcement.
Two takeaways:
Yet more government borrowing. Itâs an addiction.
Illustrates government philosophy: growth will come from a bigger, more activist state. Ho hum.
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I canât believe it. @BBCNews has once AGAIN said these French far-left riots were âmostly peacefulâ.
Thatâs despite almost every French outlet detailing the scale of arrests, damage and attacks on police.
Loathsome.
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A French Member of Parliament from the far-left LFI party taking pictures with masked rioters with Palestinian flags
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Allan Brunon, the man in a suit, is indeed a member of the far-left political party LFI but he is a municipal concillor in the city of Grenoble. He's not a member of the parliement.
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Arrogant SNP are laughing at Scotland's taxpayersđ
800 civil servants whose jobs 'NO LONGER EXIST' are on the state payroll ...
Because of the SNP 'no compulsory redundancy' rule.
Major investigation from The Sunday Times - the Scottish state is paying a minimum of ÂŁ27m a year to around 800 public sector workers, in the NHS, councils, police etc who do not have a job, but they cannot be made redundant owing to SNP policy
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Ed Milliband and the wrong foreign secretary. #WallaceAndGromit
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Itâs the Palestinian flag and the keffiyeh at the centre of violence again in Paris. Is anyone getting it yet?
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This is a massive slap in the face for the Chancellor and Burnham.
The wheels are completely coming off Labourâs economic plan before the Budget has even been delivered đ€
When your top business voice walks out on you, itâs a vote of no confidence.
And the Treasuryâs own entrepreneurship adviser, Alex Depledge MBE, didnât go quietly either.
She delivered a blistering critique, warning that Labour treats innovation as nothing more than a âsideshow.â
Instead of backing the wealth creators who actually drive growth, she claims the Treasury is obsessed with propping up dying industries.
Itâs clear that Healey is preparing a raid on business incentives, likely gutting crucial reliefs like Business Asset Disposal Relief.
We all know you canât tax a country into growth, no matter how hard this Treasury tries to prove otherwise.
This is Burnham dragging us straight back to the 1970s.
Utterly clueless.
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Macron has lost the plot. Sadly, itâs anything but the first time.
« Ce qui sâest passĂ© aujourdâhui câest un tournant. Câest la premiĂšre fois quâil y a un acte terroriste planifiĂ© pour tuer nos compatriotes, nos enfants, a raison de leur couleur de peau ou de la religion quâon leur donne » « Ne baissez pas la tĂȘte »
Emmanuel Macron Ă Trappes.
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La déclaration citée d'Emmanuel Macron n'est pas exacte. Des attentats terroristes planifiés ont déjà tué des enfants en France en raison de leur religion, comme celui de Mohammed Merah en 2012 à l'école juive Ozar Hatorah de Toulouse.
lefigaro.fr/faits-divers/tâŠ
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How will the mayor deal with this looming crisis ?
Labour are in a right mess.
If they cut public spending, they risk losing voters.
If they increase spending, they risk triggering a financial crisis.
Former Bank of England Chief Economist Andy Haldane is warning of a âTruss style crisisâ.
Labour face some very tough choices.
And they can't keep avoiding them.
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I was shopping in Brighton and antizionists tried to stop me buying Israeli goods from Waitrose. They said Iâd be âracistâ to buy them. I asked if it was xenophobic to boycott a whole nation. They had no answers. So I bought LOADS of Israeli products and they were NOT happy.
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Watching people trying to debunk or justify the report into antisemitism in schools shows how accurate it is.
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Basic infrastructure in our country is literally crumbling.
And yet the charity that's supposed to maintain London's bridges is funnelling millions to climate activists and groups with alleged ties to Hamas.
We are truly through the looking glass now.
London bridges charity gave ÂŁ1.1million to Muslim group whose trustee 'has ties to Hamas' while capital's river crossings crumble trib.al/NGHLdTY
If this were true why would you just sit back for 8 years and not follow up on his possible guilt and his conviction. The fact nothing was done should surely prompt her to investigate in case he was innocent of such hideous charges ? Why just do nothing for 8 years ?
Update: @itvnews has seen a copy of the 2018 letter which was passed to Meghan by the Metropolitan Police, outlining allegations about her father, Thomas Markle.
It was this letter - written by someone close to the Markle family - which caused Meghan to cease all contact with her father. As she wrote today, it was to "protect" her children, Archie and Lilibet.