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'Can you choose to call yourself black?'
'If I wanted to, I could'
Political commentator @MaajidNawaz and political adviser Stuart Thomson clash over English ethnicity
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🚨BREAKING: It has been revealed that the Home Office have basically ignored over 20,000 deportation orders for foreign criminals
That's right, these people are criminals and yet the Home Office didn't bother deporting them on purpose
We all know why
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🚨TWO TIERED POLICING
This is Emily Geer. She captured her own assault on camera and handed it to Greater Manchester Police, only to be told officers dropped the case because the suspect simply ignored their letters and knocks at his door.
Emily Geer, 33, was walking along Oxford Road on her way to study at the University of Manchester when she noticed a man following her and another woman.
When the man kept stopping and looking back at her, the Master's student started filming on her phone and asked him why he was staring.
The video footage captured the man appearing to lash out and strike her.
Emily handed the video over to Greater Manchester Police immediately, gave a full statement from her home, and received a crime reference number.
Officers initially told her they were pleased with the footage and spoke positively about the evidence.
Yet seven months later, Emily received a text message from the investigating officer confirming the entire case had been closed with no further action taken.
The force explained that they had tried to set up a voluntary interview without arrest, but the suspect refused to engage with letters, phone calls, or visits to his house.
Officers then requested his arrest, but told Emily that "ongoing operational demand and resource pressures" meant those attempts were limited and unsuccessful.
The six-month statutory time limit to prosecute the offence then ran out, forcing police to shut down the file entirely.
Emily says the decision has left her terrified because the man knows she tried to have him arrested and still frequents the area.
"It just seems as though they have just given up," she said.
Greater Manchester Police admitted the case fell short of acceptable standards, stating: "We acknowledge that in this case, the investigation fell short of the standards our communities should expect. Learnings will be taken from it to ensure that investigations are progressed quickly to ensure the best possible outcome for victims."
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No joke: Tomorrow at 10 am, the U.N. plans to elect the Islamic regime of Iran to its main subsidiary organ shaping priorities on women's rights, counter-terrorism and peacekeeping. We urge all states who nominated Tehran — 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇸🇳🇱🇳🇴🇫🇮🇨🇭🇦🇹🇦🇺🇨🇭— to reverse course and vote No.
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And another one
REVEALED: An illegal Albanian drugs criminal has won the right to stay in Britain, six years after the Home Office ordered his deportation.
He spent a year in Belgium without claiming asylum, came to Britain in a lorry, and was jailed for growing cannabis within a year.
He didn’t claim asylum here until 2025. It was refused. The judge rejected all of his claims, including that he was trafficked and that his family was caught up in a blood feud in Albania.
But the Home Office failed to provide any evidence that his drugs offence caused harm, and quoted a 2007 Gordon Brown speech instead.
The judge said a “standard few paragraphs” from a police officer would have been “more than sufficient” to deport him. stevenedginton.com/p/illegal…
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Remember that huge lie about how a @uklabour govt "would tread more lightly on everyone's lives?"
Now they want you to produce ID to get on... Spotify
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When I posted yesterday about Andy Burnham’s political machine secretly intercepting public emails to protect his Abu Dhabi property deals, my inbox was flooded by people thanking me for finally calling out what goes on in Manchester.
Well, I woke up this morning and looked at the latest financial disclosures coming out of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, and the rabbit hole just got so much darker.
Burnham's authority has been caught funnelling nearly £1,000,000 of taxpayer money to completely anonymous beneficiaries in a series of secret payments.
They paid out £83,000 in rent to a hidden landlord. They handed out thousands in anonymous "consultancy fees." Worst of all, they gave a £210,000 capital grant to a property developer and completely redacted the name from the public ledger.
When journalists finally confronted them, the authority claimed hiding the £210,000 developer payout was just a "human error" and blamed the rest of the secrecy on data protection laws.
Look at the terrifying double standard at play here.
If a working citizen misfiles a tax return by fifty pounds or makes a mistake on a local form, the state will investigate their entire life, apply ruthless penalty fines, and threaten them with court.
But when Burnham's regional authority hands a fifth of a million pounds of public cash to an anonymous property developer, they simply shrug and call it a clerical typo.
This is exactly how the modern British political cartel operates. They use the language of bureaucracy and data protection as a legal shield to funnel public wealth to private, hidden corporate interests.
I am sorry, but they are not governing a city. They are running a shadow ledger with your money, and they are terrified of the public finding out who is actually cashing the checks.
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Er … whilst the MSM keeps you distracted with celebrity sex scandals … this is happening. (You know, the thing they want to hide.)
Today the European Central Bank told the European Parliament it wants the legislation for the Digital Euro agreed by the end of this year.
From January 2027, the ECB will begin experiments involving:
▪️Conditional payments - transactions automatically triggered when predefined conditions are met, by Ai.
▪️Digital payments integrated with public services, transport, utilities and SMART CITIES.
▪️The first digital euros could be issued in 2029.
The ECB insists this will NOT be programmable money that restricts what people can buy. (You know it will be)
The infrastructure will connect digital money, automated conditions, AI and public services. And nothing prevents future governments from expanding its use.
These are the foundations of a completely new monetary infrastructure being built.
Shhhh … watch the news.
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You can’t “have sex” with a twelve-year-old girl.
It’s called RAPING a child.
Hamoud Al-Soaimi was found guilty of 3 counts of sexual assault, including sex with a 12-year-old girl.
He received 180 hours of community service. No jail.
In Newcastle, two vulnerable girls were groomed, passed around, and repeatedly raped.
Hamoud Al-Soaimi was convicted of three counts of sexual assault and one count of assault by penetration. But when he stood up to be sentenced on 1 March 2024, he did not go to prison.
He was given two years, suspended for two years, and 180 hours of unpaid work. He walked out of court a free man.
The media barely reported his sentence. The BBC, who had once made a sympathetic documentary about the Badreddin family as Syrian refugees, went quiet.
The politicians who scream about protecting children said nothing. No outrage from Labour. No outrage from the Home Office. No emergency debate in Parliament.
When people tried to get the sentence increased as unduly lenient, the bid failed. The system closed ranks and decided that 180 hours of sweeping streets was justice for a child rape gang victim.
A white British veteran, Adam Smith-Connor, prayed silently outside an abortion clinic and got a conviction, a criminal record, and thousands in costs.
A white British man posted an angry Facebook post after Southport and got 2 to 3 years in immediate custody.
Hamoud Al-Soaimi sexually assaulted children in a grooming gang and got a suspended sentence and 180 hours.
That is not justice. That is a two-tier system. That is politicians and judges protecting the narrative of multiculturalism instead of protecting British girls.
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England has existed for 1,099 years, but our leaders claim it is not an ethnicity. Pakistan has only existed for 79 years, yet it is an ethnicity.
England is conventionally dated as a unified kingdom from 927 AD under Æthelstan, the first king of all the English. Pakistan gained independence on 14 August 1947. In the UK census and official usage, “Pakistani” is routinely listed as an ethnic category, while Englishness is frequently treated as a civic or cultural identity open to anyone rather than a historic ethnicity tied to the long-settled people of England.
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🚨 “Des Moines man” shoots two McDonald’s workers over a wrong order. That’s the soft version. Reality: Hassan Ali Mohamed is a Somali citizen from Kenya. Entered the U.S. in 2014. Biden handed him citizenship in 2021.
Alleged response to bad service was opening fire through the window. This is what happens when you import people who treat life as cheap. Prison first. Then denaturalize and deport.
No more of this.
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In the House of Lords this afternoon, our General Secretary, Lord Young of Acton, proposed an amendment to the Courts and Tribunals Bill that would mean the right to choose a trial by jury is retained for people accused of speech offences.
These cases often hinge on the interpretation of words like like "insulting", "threatening", "abusive", "harassment", "alarm", "distress", "grossly offensive" and whether something has a tendency to "deprave and corrupt", and the meaning of those words is properly a matter for a jury — of 12 ordinary people — not an 'expert' in the law.
In addition, Lord Young drew their Lordships attention to some FSU research which showed that juries are twice as likely to find defendants accused of speech crimes not guilty as magistrates.
Watch Lord Young below 👇
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Remembrance Day, 2012
Captain Walter Barrie, aged 41 from Penicuik, of 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, was shot and killed in an insider attack, as he played football with Afghan National Army members in Nad 'Ali, Helmand Province
Lest we Forget this brave man🏴🇬🇧
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"Millions of Britons vote to end mass migration and get ignored, yet when 150,000 foreign nationals flood a consultation it's treated as public opinion. Who exactly is the Government listening to?"
@migrationCtrl on the Sceptic.
Full episode👇
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Reform UK’s Joe Martin has been censored and silenced in the Welsh Senedd.
His crime was to comment against the narrative on demographic change and mass migration.
An elected representative, chosen by the public, will not be allowed to speak in the chamber until he apologises. But why should he?
You don’t have to agree with him to see what happening… we don’t have free speech, we have permitted speech!
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The Roman walls of Lugo (Muralla Romana de Lugo) are the finest surviving example of late Roman military fortifications in Western Europe, completely encircling the historic center of Lugo, Spain (ancient Lucus Augusti)... 🇪🇸
The walls of Lugo were built in the later part of the 3rd Century AD, to defend the Roman town of Lucus. The entire circuit survives intact and is the finest example of late Roman fortifications in western Europe. After the fall of Rome, the walled town was occupied or breached over the centuries by Suevi (5th Century), Visigoths, Moors, Christians (under King Alfonso I and Alfonso III of Asturias/Leon), and Normans. Medieval pilgrims also used its historic gates (such as Porta Mina) on their journey.
Declared a Spanish National Monument (Bien de Interés Cultural) in 1921 (saved from demolition threats in the late 19th and early 20th centuries). Awarded the Europa Nostra Diploma for Conservation and Adaptive Reuse in 1980. Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000.
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Roman Walls of Lugo, a city in the Autonomous Region of Galicia in north-western Spain, are an exceptional architectural, archaeological and constructive legacy of Roman engineering, dating from the 3rd-4th Centuries AD. The Walls are built of internal and external stone facings of slate with some granite, with a core filling of a conglomerate of slate slabs and worked stone pieces from Roman buildings, interlocked with lime mortar.
Their total length of 2117m in the shape of an oblong rectangle occupies an area of 1.68 ha. Their height varies between 8-10m, with a width of 4.2m, reaching 7m in some specific points. The walls still contain 85 external towers, 10 gates (five of which are original and five that were opened in modern times), four staircases and two ramps providing access to the walkway along the top of the walls, one of which is internal and the other external. Each tower contained access stairs leading from the intervallum to the wall walk of town wall, of which a total of 21 have been discovered to date.
The defences of Lugo are the most complete and best preserved example of Roman military architecture in the Western Roman Empire.
Despite the renovation work carried out, the walls conserve their original layout and the construction features associated with their defensive purpose, with walls, battlements, towers, fortifications, both modern and original gates and stairways, and a moat.
Since they were built, the walls have defined the layout and growth of the city, which was declared a Historical-Artistic Ensemble in 1973, forming a part of it and becoming an emblematic structure that can be freely accessed to walk along. The local inhabitants and visitors alike have used them as an area for enjoyment and as a part of urban life for centuries.
Roman Walls of Lugo visibly conserve their original layout and more than half of their original towers and defensive structures, gates, stairways and other elements, together with a large number of archaeological remains from the period, which help to situate the structure within its historical context, and bear witness to its creation and evolution. The property boundaries include the whole fortifications, while the intramural and extramural areas are included in a buffer zone.
#archaeohistories
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Today is the day. David vs Goliath. Today we go to the High Court for our landmark judicial review against the Government. We have been shocked at the arguments being advanced by the Home Secretary in defence of its failure to implement key recommendations made by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA). These arguments include, that The Maggie Oliver Foundation does not have standing to bring this challenge on behalf of children, that the Government is under no obligation to implement child protection measures, and that the public at large cannot rely upon promises made by the Prime Minister and Ministers that are made in Parliament.
The Government's legal defence raises fundamental questions about public trust, accountability and whether promises made to survivors following public inquiries mean anything at all.
At the centre of the judicial review are 20 key recommendations issued by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) proposed to better protect children across the UK from sexual abuse. These include properly collecting data relating to child abusers and victims of abuse and exploitation, ending the use of pain-inducing restraint techniques on children in custody and regulation of staff in children’s homes.
We are concerned that more effort and public money appears to be going into defending a challenge designed to ensure these critical improvements in child protection are made than into implementing them.
The simplest example of this is this – if the Government had implemented the first recommendation of the IICSA, there would have been no need for a further three-year, £65 million public Inquiry (The Statutory Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs).
WHO IS ALLOWED TO ASK THE QUESTION?
The Secretary of State is a challenging whether The Maggie Oliver Foundation and our founder and Chair, @MaggieOliverUK , have standing to bring the case at all.
This raises a deeply troubling question.
If organisations representing survivors and working every day with the consequences of child sexual abuse are not entitled to ask why promised child protection measures have not been implemented, who is?
The Government is trying to exclude from the debate the very people closest to the consequences of these failures.
For years survivors have been told to come forward. Speak up. Tell the truth. Many have done so at enormous personal cost, but now the Government says they, and those who represent them, cannot object to failures to protect children. Their voices must be silenced.
This challenge was never about politics. Governments of all stripes have let down children. It is astonishing that the Government's first argument in this judicial review is that victims can have no voice.
If organisations representing survivors, and survivors themselves, cannot ask why promised child protection measures have not been implemented, who can?
IF GOVERNMENT DOESN'T HAVE TO ACT, WHAT IS THE POINT?
A central plank to the Government's defence is that ministers are under no legal obligation to implement recommendations made by public inquiries.
If that is right, why spend hundreds of millions of pounds on public inquiries if Government is just going to ignore what they find? We genuinely struggle to understand how anyone can think that is acceptable.
Millions are spent, years of hearings are had, victims pour out their hearts, findings and recommendations are made, promises are made by Government and then broke – but when someone has the temerity to ask why those promises haven't been kept, the Government's response is we never had to keep our promises.
If that is right, the Government must be open about it, and explain to the public why they hold expensive public inquiries at all.
IICSA took seven years, heard from more than 7,000 survivors, cost more than £200 million and made twenty recommendations intended to protect children. But the Government now says, we have no obligation to fulfil its promises to implement recommendations to protect children.
CAN POLITICIANS DENY THEIR PROMISES MATTER?
We are also challenging the Government's position regarding promises made by the Prime Minister and ministers following publication of IICSA's recommendations.
Repeated assurances that action would be taken have been made by senior politicians across successive governments.
The Government's defence includes arguments relating to parliamentary privilege. In effect the Government say that The Foundation cannot rely upon ministerial promises made in Parliament, and that such promises cannot give rise to expectations about future action.
If the public cannot rely on promises made in Parliament, what can they rely on?
Survivors and the public hear ministers make promises.
They hear repeated assurances that lessons have been learned and change will follow.
They build their expectations around those promises.
Many survivors have spent years believing ministers when they said action was coming.
To now be told that those promises cannot be relied upon is not just a legal argument, it is a fundamental betrayal of the trust survivors (and children across the UK) were asked to place in the process.
Trust works both ways.
Survivors are asked to trust public inquiries with the most painful experiences of their lives.
Governments should not then be able to argue that survivors cannot rely on the promises they receive in return.
WHILE GOVERNMENT ARGUES, CHILDREN ARE STILL BEING ABUSED
Government figures show that approximately 2 million children have been sexually abused since IICSA published its recommendations in October 2022.
That astonishing number must not be lost amidst legal arguments and the Government’s technical defences. This case is about the protection of all British children.
What shocks us most is how much ingenuity and effort has gone into finding reasons not to act.
Imagine if half of the same energy had been invested in implementing child protection measures.
Imagine if the resources currently being spent defending this case had instead been spent protecting children.
How many children might already be safer?
While well paid Government lawyers argue, children are still being sexually abused.
That is the reality we cannot lose sight of.
This case was never about clever legal arguments.
It is about whether promises made to children and survivors mean anything at all.
The Maggie Oliver Foundation will not be silent on that question.
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We are a rotten Socialist country now.
Now.
We must fix Britain.
