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Important meetings and talks coming up in Madrid. Our top priority is strengthening Ukraine’s air defenses, protecting our people, and expanding defense cooperation and production. We are grateful to Spain for the assistance provided. Further support steps are being prepared.
Contacts with the American side are also on the agenda these days. We are coordinating with our partners to achieve concrete results on security issues and the next steps toward peace.
We need protection from Russian strikes and the restoration of peace. I thank everyone who is helping Ukraine.
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Hell needs to be real and there needs to be a special level in hell dedicated to white western privileged women who cosplay in my oppression and feel “cute” about it. The visceral rage I feel when I see these videos, the audacity, the absolute ignorance, the idiotic glee with which they broadcast choosing to be half-human for the rest of their lives, abandoning the rights and dignity and freedoms and equality women like me have had to fight for decades and still be deprived of doesn’t fit in my chest. Women in Iran are still getting lashed for refusing to wear hijab while this semi-sentient see weed is twirling around in her black tool of dehumanization and subjugation of women by the way.
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At what point do we stop focusing on who needs to pay more tax and start asking where all of our tax money is going.
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🚨BREAKING🚨
A 42 year old man has been detained for decapitating the statue of Jesus on the Warrington war memorial and covering the names of the fallen in Arabic grafitee.
No name as yet and of course he has been detained under the Mental Health Act.
warringtonguardian.co.uk/new…
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"Labour’s war on parenting must end
The Conversion Practices Bill should be scrapped before it causes real damage
Primary school children could be criminalised for questioning a classmate’s desire to change gender"
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Brilliantly written! And very interesting too.
A goat on Mount Etna knows the mountain is about to erupt fourteen hours before the seismographs do, and the best explanation science has come up with so far is that she doesn't like the smell.
She goes up every morning of her life, through the beech wood to the high scrub where the gorse is, with the herd behind her. On the morning the volcano is going to blow, she stops at the treeline, chews, and looks at the summit. The herd stops. The goatherd sits on a rock. Nobody has ever asked her how she does it, because the shepherds have been acting on it since the Bronze Age and it has never let them down.
A German asked.
Martin Wikelski of the Max Planck Institute put collars on the goats and a receiver on the International Space Station to listen to them from orbit, which is the most expensive way anyone has yet devised of finding out where a goat is. On 4 January 2012 the collars reported that the whole herd had turned round and stopped. In Catania, several million euros of seismographs and gas monitors reported a quiet Wednesday. Six hours later Etna went up. It has happened before eight eruptions since, and in the biggest the goats clocked off fourteen hours before anything with a plug in it.
The scientists then did what scientists do, which is try to explain the goat. The leading theory is sulphur dioxide seeping up through the rock ahead of the magma, at a concentration no instrument on the mountain can find. There are papers. There are conferences. The institute says it needs more eruptions, more goats and more species before it can call it a warning system.
The goat's account of her method, as far as anyone can make out, is: smell bad, not going.
Wikelski took the collars to a farm in the Marche and found the cows, sheep and dogs there turned restless up to twenty hours before the 2016 earthquakes, and earlier the closer they stood to the fault. The animals were asked for comment and ate.
We bred this creature for milk and cheese for ten thousand years and used the rest of it as an insult. A man who behaves like a goat eats anything and understands nothing. The animal has meanwhile been running the only volcano forecast in Europe that has never needed a software update, on a diet of gorse, and the people reading it had no grant.
The sun is up. The goat has not moved. Somewhere in Germany a doctoral student is modelling her decision in a spreadsheet.
She is just very good at being a goat.
The spreadsheet is catching up.
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The reaction of a recent migrant arrival after being photographed upon reaching our shores (illegally). Honestly, if you were genuinely fleeing war or persecution, wouldn't you show just the tiniest gratitude when landing up in a country you were hoping would give you sanctuary?
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Shabana has made a serious mistake surrendering to Labour MPs. So I’m putting people on notice - when we get into government we will scrap this weak policy.
Immigration is too high. Labour are making a bad situation much, much worse.
The Conservative Party is under new management. I accept this problem started under a previous Conservative govt. Many of those in that Cabinet have gone to Reform where they belong.
And I’ve got a proper plan to fix it👇
I can’t help it. whenever I see American John Bolton on TV, I am reminded of our Mr Pastry! (That goes, of course, as soon as he speaks.) Anyone else?
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First he gives 40m to the Caribbean, then he changes the arrangements re the EU. All without the agreement of we poor suckers. Can someone tell him, since we are broke, how has he the right to give away OUR money? Wouldn’t 40m help OUR roads? @KemiBadenoch @pritipate
First he gives 40m to the Caribbean, then he changes the arrangements re the EU. All without the agreement of we poor suckers. Can someone tell him, since we are broke, how has he the right to give away OUR money? Wouldn’t 40m help OUR roads? @KemiBadenoch @pritipate
Am I REALLY reading correctly? Our Prime Minister handed out money as an apology for the Slave Trade? I cannot tell you how angry I am. Anyone else??
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This is unacceptable. Our Churches are a unique part of our heritage. Please restore this tax relief. @andyburnham @KemiBadenoch @afneil
Earlier this year the UK government removed tax relief for historic churches to carry out maintenance and repairs, while announcing £40 million in funding to provide security for Mosques. The latest scheme is to allow charities to sponsor 'refugees', assisting their move to Britain. That means any mosque which is also a charity can facilitate importing even more Muslim 'refugees'. The outrageous betrayal of the British people continues at speed!
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Outstanding leadership.
And absolutely correct.
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
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A man came on Tuesday to take soil cores out of Gerald's field for a carbon survey, and he had planned to be an hour, and he was there until dark, because the bull would not stop following him.
He had a steel auger, a bag of tubes with lids, a tablet, and a grid of forty points on it that he had to hit in order. He had done the lane field in the morning. The lane field was easy, because the lane field is bare and there is nothing in it, and he came through the gate into Gerald's forty acres at one o'clock with the confidence of a man who has read that beef cattle are docile.
They are. That is the problem. A bull who has never been frightened of anything has no reason to leave, and a Hereford has no reason to stand still either when something interesting is going on, and a stranger kneeling in the grass turning a steel rod into the ground is the most interesting thing that has happened in that field since the hot air balloon.
Gerald came over from the south corner at the pace he goes everywhere and stood four yards off and watched the first core come up.
The man stood up. Gerald did not move. The man walked to point two. Gerald walked to point two. The man knelt. Gerald stood over him, nine hundred kilos of mild interest, and breathed on the back of his neck, and the man said afterwards he had taken that core faster than any core in his career.
Forty points. Gerald attended all of them. He did not touch the man, the auger, the bag or the tablet. He stood four yards off, then three, and when the man moved, he moved, and when the man stopped, he stopped, and the robin rode the whole survey between his ears and sang at the man from there, which the man had not been trained for either.
The cores were the thing. The lane field's came up pale, a few inches of brown and then yellow clay, the way a field looks when it has been turned over every autumn for forty years and everything that was ever alive in it has been let out into the air. Gerald's came up black. Black to the bottom of the tube, every one, forty of them, and the man held the two side by side at the gate for the farmer and did not say anything, because he did not need to.
Then the man said he had never been followed before. The farmer said Gerald does not follow. He supervises.
The results are coming in a report in the new year. The farmer does not need the report. He has had the report in his field for four years, lying down in the south corner at noon on it, putting his dinner back into it, and he could have told the man which tube would come up black before the man had got the lid off.
The man asked, packing the van, whether the bull was always like that.
The farmer said he had never seen him take that much interest in anybody, and that he thought Gerald had wanted to make sure the man got it right.
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Working-class Britons had it harder than slaves on the average American plantation.
Children as young as nine were forced to work twelve or thirteen hours a day, sometimes longer, with barely enough time to eat. Those who slowed through exhaustion were beaten with straps or struck with machinery rollers. Many were physically broken before reaching adulthood, while mill owners simply threw them aside and replaced them with another desperate child.
A plantation owner had paid money for his labourers and therefore had a financial interest in keeping them fed, housed, alive and capable of working. A British industrialist did not own his workers and had invested nothing in them. He could work a man, woman or child into sickness, injury or an early grave, dismiss them and replace them the following morning.
Plantation labour was often carried out in the open air and natural light. British workers spent twelve-hour shifts trapped underground or inside mills, foundries and potteries, breathing coal smoke, cotton dust, silica, soot, metal particles and poisonous fumes. Miners crawled through cramped tunnels beneath the earth; potters slowly destroyed their lungs with clay and lead dust; steelworkers faced furnaces hot enough to scorch the flesh; dockers broke their bodies carrying crushing loads in all weather.
There was no fresh air, no safety equipment, no compensation and often no escape from the machinery until the shift ended. Men were burned, crushed, blinded, poisoned or buried alive. Children lost fingers and limbs in exposed gears and belts. Those who survived were commonly worn out before middle age.
The plantation slave was valuable property. The British labourer was disposable.
Industrial Britain was built on the backs of working-class men, women and children whose lives were consumed for profit and then largely forgotten.
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I’ve uncovered more than £1 million of your money going from the Ministry of Justice straight to pro-immigration charities.
Charities that campaign against border controls and help illegal immigrants stay in Britain.
This must stop. The Ministry of Justice exists to serve the British people, not to act as a cash machine for left-wing lawyers.