Antoine Vanner

In the past week: 32 Christians were massacred in Nigeria by Islamists. Over 100 Christians were massacred in Ethiopia by Islamists. A Christian convert is being tortured and faces execution in Egypt.

Three men protesting against the rape of a young white British girl have been jailed for doing so for speaking out to protect her and other girls in Epping , however the illegal foreigner who raped the girl got less time and also he’s here illegally? Make this make sense???

When a Vanguard-class SSBN slips past the Gare Loch into the Clyde, the Ministry of Defence PR apparatus frames it as the relentless triumph of the Continuous At Sea Deterrent (CASD). The operational reality is far darker. This is a scene of institutional brinkmanship, played out in four distinct acts across the British state. 1. Within forty-eight hours, that 16,000-ton boat will vanish below the acoustic layer. Somewhere in the North Atlantic, another Vanguard is waiting. That returning crew has likely been submerged for upwards of 150 to 180 days—double the 90-day patrol limit the submarine was originally designed for. The handover is entirely cryptographic. Once Northwood Headquarters confirms the outbound boat has the watch, the exhausted inbound crew will turn her bow toward Scotland. They will be back in Faslane within a week. But the crew that just left? They are now entombed until late spring 2027. 2. Who actually makes the decision to lock 140 men and women in a steel tube for six months? The operational order comes from Commander Operations (COMOPS) deep inside the permanent joint headquarters at Northwood, specifically the node designated as CTF 345. But the admirals at CTF 345 are not making a strategic choice; they are playing a rigged hand dealt by Westminster. The doctrine of CASD dictates that one boat must always be on patrol. You need four submarines to maintain this mathematically: one on patrol, one training/working up, one in routine maintenance, and one in deep refit. But the math has collapsed. COMOPS is forced to order 200-day patrols because he simply doesn't have the hulls available in the rotation cycle. 3. Why doesn't the government intervene? Because successive governments are the exact architects of the crisis. To understand why that boat is being run into the ground, you have to look at the Treasury and the civil service managerial cartel. In the 2010s, chancellors like George Osborne and Philip Hammond engaged in "fiscal smoothing"—delaying the Dreadnought-class replacement submarines to save in-year accounting costs. Simultaneously, Whitehall utterly failed to manage the sovereign refit infrastructure at Devonport (Babcock’s Dock 9). They outsourced the deep maintenance (the Long Overhaul Period and Refueling, or LOP(R)) and let the dry docks decay. So, instead of a refit taking two years, it takes four to five. You cannot rotate four boats if two are functionally trapped in a crumbling dockyard in Plymouth. The politicians did not intervene because intervention requires capital expenditure; they preferred to quietly force the Royal Navy to absorb the risk on the balance sheet. 4. Can it be proven that the Royal Navy is at a drastically elevated risk entirely due to government decisions? Unequivocally. First, there is metallurgical and mechanical reality. The Vanguard class was commissioned in the 1990s with a 25-year lifespan. They are now being pushed past 30 years. Running ancient pressure hulls, aging reactor cooling systems, and legacy life-support scrubbers on 200-day continuous cycles creates exponential mechanical fatigue. Second, there is the human capital destruction. You cannot repeatedly subject highly specialized, nuclear-qualified engineers to six-month underwater incarcerations without destroying their family lives. The retention death-spiral in the submarine service is not a mystery; it is the direct, predictable outcome of Treasury penny-pinching. The politicians delayed the replacements. The civil service botched the dockyards. And as a direct result, the Vanguard crews are now operating at the absolute outer edge of physiological and mechanical safety just to keep the Whitehall illusion of seamless deterrence alive.

🇲🇦🇪🇸 70% of illegal Moroccan migrants who invaded Ceuta now claim they are gay Right after the mass border breach of the Spanish enclave in July, the migrants said they were fleeing poverty and unemployment. A few weeks later, the rhetoric shifted sharply. About 70% of applicants began claiming they face criminal prosecution in their home country because of homosexuality. Under Morocco’s Criminal Code, same-sex relations are punishable by 6 months to 3 years in prison. The migrants are using this legal fact as a strong basis for seeking international protection in Spain.

“The headmaster folded like a badly made deckchair and threw him under the bus.” A teacher from Batley has been in hiding for five years after showing his religious studies class a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad during a lesson about the Charlie Hebdo massacre. On this week’s episode of the FSU Podcast, FSU Director of Policy and Research @DavidRoseUK speaks to the teacher’s friend, local activist Paul Halloran. Paul describes how the school’s leadership responded when protesters gathered at the gates: no public statement, no defence of a lesson the school itself had approved, and a suspension for the teacher who delivered it. Watch the full episode on the FSU YouTube channel 👇

An Islamist militant pelted my proudly non-halal restaurant, Singh's Dining in Hammersmith Londonistan, with eggs; cleaning is underway. Oh yes, it's Islamophobia Awareness Month 😂😂

“Hi babe, I don’t know why I’m writing this, because I really hope that this letter doesn’t get to you. Because if it does, that means I am dead.” Gunnar Lee Thornton wrote this before he died serving in Iraq. This is the saddest, most moving thing I have heard all day.

Minneapolis turned a 48,000-square-foot warehouse into an indoor neighborhood of 100 lockable tiny homes for people without housing. Avivo Village, which opened in December 2020, is a low-barrier, trauma-informed shelter that gives each resident a private heated room with electricity and allows pets. That design differs from congregate shelters that offer mats on a shared floor, and it is meant for people who often stay away from those settings because they do not feel safe. The site also works as a care hub under a harm-reduction approach. Residents can reach mental health therapy, treatment for substance use, and case managers on the same floor. Operators report that more than 870 people have stayed there, that nearly 340 have moved into permanent housing, and that staff have reversed more than 260 overdoses on site. The project treats an empty warehouse as a starting point rather than a warehouse still waiting for another use. Other cities facing housing shortages have looked at the same conversion as a model that can be copied at different scales.

One of the most beautiful stories I've ever read was when a scientist discovered a new butterfly species and named it after Iryna Zarutska. The butterfly is called "Iryna's Azure." "Her name will be forever immortalized as a butterfly," he said. She will never be forgotten ❤️

I wonder whether one day these people will realise the damage they are creating—not only for themselves, but for their children and generations to come. La Restinga, Canary Islands, Spain, yesterday: French Red Cross volunteers cheerfully welcoming illegal migrants arriving from Senegal.

A lamb with a gut full of worms will walk past the good grass to eat a bitter plant that kills them, and the only place it ever learned which plant was at its mother's side. Researchers at Utah State University spent years watching this, because nobody believed it. They took lambs carrying a heavy load of stomach worms and offered them two feeds. Plain alfalfa, which a lamb loves. And alfalfa laced with tannins, the bitter, mouth-drying compound that makes stewed tea undrinkable and that happens to be hard on gut parasites. Healthy lambs barely touched the bitter one. Why would they. The wormy lambs started eating it. Then preferring it. They ate more of the medicine the sicker they were, and their worm counts fell. Then the researchers dosed them with a proper wormer, the parasites went, and the lambs went straight back to the plain feed. They took the medicine while they were ill and stopped when they were cured, which is more than can be said for most of the people in a pharmacy queue. The second part is the one that should keep a dietitian up at night. They put lambs on a heavy, bitter diet and offered them a compound that neutralises the bitterness. Lambs that fed alongside their mothers learned to take it. Lambs taken away from their mothers never touched it. Not once. The knowledge of what to eat when something is wrong was being handed down at the trough, ewe to lamb, by example, and a lamb without its mother simply never got the lesson. Shepherds have known a version of this for as long as there have been shepherds. The sick ewe that goes off on her own to the hedge bottom and eats something she ignores the rest of the year. The flock that heads for the rough corner of the field in a wet spring. Nobody wrote it down because it was obvious. In 1928 a doctor in Chicago let babies choose their own food from a tray, and the one with rickets drank cod liver oil until his bones healed and then stopped. It is the same experiment, with wool on. Meanwhile the human version of the lamb is handed a plate diagram, a list of recommended portions and a leaflet on overriding cravings, and told the instinct is the thing that needs managing. The lamb was never given a diagram. It had its mother, a hedge, and enough sense to stop taking the tablets when it was better.

Acid in a 16-year-old's face. Out after two years. Gilson Martins, 24, threw acid in a boy's face in Stockport in March 2024 when he refused to hand over his jacket. The boy spent weeks in hospital with burns. Martins got eight years and two months. The boy's family have been told Martins will be out after two years, under Labour's early release scheme. Another 650 prisoners go free on Tuesday, the Manchester Evening News reports. A justice system that can't keep an acid attacker locked up is broken.

AD946 Edmund I was killed. Was it a political assassination? I explored this in my story for Betrayal: books2read.com/BetrayalAntho… FREE to download I also examine the incident in book, Murder in Anglo-Saxon England, in paperback now: Justice, Wergild, Revenge: mybook.to/MIASE

Polly Tearooms in Marlborough closes after 114 years. For the same reasons that all businesses are struggling: NI rise, minimum wage, taxes, regulations. Our rulers can’t begin to imagine what it’s like to run a small enterprise within tight profit margins.

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.

When Christians are slaughtered, the global outrage machine suddenly goes offline. No hashtags, no celebrities, no marching crowds. Just deafening silence