That land is a cauldron of all the perversities
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Anton Starch retweeted
Left wing English woman praises Muslims for their inclusivity, because they allowed her to go on their Muslim hike, in England
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I just got a note from a Jewish mother in Leeds who took her kids to the Vue cinema at The Light for a birthday on Remembrance Sunday.
The staff member checking tickets was wearing a Palestinian badge, and she told him she didn't think staff should wear political badges that can make customers feel uncomfortable.
She says two managers were called, her family was refused entry, and one manager told her she wouldn't get a refund if she kept complaining.
@vuecinemas, can you confirm your version? Are your staff allowed to wear political badges on shift, and what happens to a customer who comes in with her children and says a badge makes her feel intimidated?
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In the early 2000’s I was working nights, West End Central.
Got a 3AM call of a man harassing women drunk on Regent St, outside Hamleys.
I walked down, full uniform.
This guy was wasted.
Swaying too and fro. I stood in the doorway of Hamleys and watched him.
He had no idea I was there.
His drunken ass would try and accost women walking past, most also the worse for wear from drink, but none as bad as him.
I can only describe what I witnessed as predatory. Entitled, if that makes sense. Expecting someone to recognise him, and go home with him.
I waited for him to go hands on which looked more and more likely, as he became slightly more aggressive with each refusal.
Then I too would go hands on.
Then as one woman passed, he slurred “hello” and reached out to her, but he saw me.
He knew.
As drunk as he was he still corrected his behaviour immediately.
He smiled weakly and stumbled to the edge of the kerb, holding out his arm.
A black cab stopped.
He fell as he tried to get in the back.
The cabbie saw me watching him, and the window came down.
“Are you taking him or me?” he asked.
“He’s your problem now.”
That was best, as he was certainly not a problem I wanted to leave the custody Sergeant with.
That man was David Walliams.
I dealt with lots of famous people in the three years I was at West End Central and many of them presented a level of egotism bordering on the narcissistic.
I’m not saying that fame create entitlement. But it will amplify traits and behaviours that were already present.
What I’m trying to say is when people only hear the word “yes” all the time, they stop recognising “no” as a legitimate answer.
#RussellBrand #london #england
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When you’re pushing a dangerously lunatic idea, the first step is to label all opposition to it a ‘panic’. This is a smart move bc the opponents do look like they’re panicking. In fact they *are* panicking, bc they think loads of people have gone insane
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Wow what a community note
Inside the French drug gangs recruiting children to kill bbc.in/4zFyVHc
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The post is misleading. The gangs are Algerian and operating in France, not French. bbc.com/news/articles/…
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I am going to describe some painful and personal things in relation to Russell Brand because I have been put in a position now where I feel that I have no choice other than to do so, given the misleading reports and speculation around the facts of a harassment injunction that was taken out to protect me and my family.
Firstly, and most importantly, I am and have always been strongly and unequivocally on the side of all of Brand’s victims. I am in awe of the courageous women who came forward at Brand’s trial, told their stories, testified and ensured justice was done. I have had my own personal experience of his violence, coercive control and abuse. I had to call the police to have him removed from my house in 2014 during a violent incident. I chose not to press charges at the time and not to go public with this, as I was worried about the impact of the press attention on my then teenage children. I have neither seen nor spoken to Brand since that period in 2014. Whilst my pain in relation to this, pales in comparison to what the women have testified in court have suffered, this was a difficult period in my life which has had a lasting impact.
Over several years, I assisted the journalists who finally exposed him; Ros Urwin, Louisa Compton and Dorothy Byrne. I also undertook to testify in court to his abusiveness, if the newspaper that published the victims’ accounts were ever to be sued.
I have spent much of my professional career trying to support unfairly demonised and silenced women, such as Monica Lewinsky and defending free speech.
In 2014, a harassment injunction was taken out against a woman called Szilvia Berki which was made final in 2015.
I fully understand the good intentions of those now advocating on her behalf online and agree with their demand for this harassment injunction to be varied, as my lawyer made clear to Berki’s lawyer in December last year.
However, the commentary and media reporting this week has presented an untrue narrative, which has opened me up to vile hatred and abuse online.
For this reason, and to correct the record, I am providing the factual background to that injunction to explain why The High Court found the campaign of harassment by Berki against me to be, "oppressive and unacceptable” and made the order permanent.
The background to this is that Ms Berki came to my house for roughly 30 minutes in June 2014, after I booked her to give a massage to Brand. By the time she arrived he had decided he didn’t want a massage and asked her to leave. She was clearly offended. I was present the whole time he was with her, and I did not see anything untoward, despite the fact that he was later found guilty of sexually assaulting other women and he later physically assaulted me. If I saw any man abuse any woman under any circumstances, I would do my utmost to stop them, without hesitation.
Ms Berki later reported to the police that Brand had pushed her in the back whilst she was leaving the house and that she also said she was “attacked” by my dog, which she described in her police statement as my dog licking her face. The police rightly investigated Ms Berki’s complaint. I cooperated fully with the investigation, provided a truthful statement about what I saw and also provided CCTV footage, which showed my overly exuberant but totally unaggressive dog jumping up.
Following an investigation into Ms Berki’s allegations, police concluded that there was no case to answer and that no criminal offence had been committed.
According to the police, at no time did Ms Berki ever state to them that she had been assaulted, threatened or falsely imprisoned.
There was also a subsequent review of the investigation by the IPCC and Thames Valley Police Professional Standards which found that the original police investigation had been correct in its findings.
In the meantime, several untrue stories appeared in the tabloid papers. Ms Berki forwarded an email to me confirming a payment for one such story she had received from The Sun newspaper. Articles were also published in The Telegraph, The Mail and The Mirror at Ms Berki’s instigation which contained her account of the alleged incident.
Then having at first said in a story published by the Daily Mail that she had found me to be “really very nice, very, very nice,” she later embarked on a campaign of vicious antisemitic and threatening abuse online and in emails.
Below is just a sample of some of those tweets and messages sent over many months (which were submitted to the judge who granted the harassment injunction)-
(Jemima is a) “deeply rotted JEWISH Bitch”
“Did you know that if your life is in danger you can LAWFULLY kill your attacker as defence?! … by now I could have lawfully kill at least 5-6 people who were hurting me”
“Also happy birthday (Jemima). I hope you have more. In other words I hope you don’t die this year.”
EMAIL- “If you make me very upset…you can expect the worts from me – I think you know this – without that I need to remind you”
“What is going on in Britain is a dictatory of J evils. English Jewish Evil dictatory”
“Would like to see justice, and I do not think that I should do it myself but what can I do when every organisation is scared of Jevils! ;)”
“They say … Do not hate all Jews because you know a few Jewish evils. They are on top always decadent and evils”
“Fortunately there are many mansions outside of the UK where Jewish money aristocrats are still not welcomed
#Germany #Austria #Italy #Hungary”
"Judge on High Court: I ordered her to shut up Jew. Do I have a case or not? soon we will kill her then".
“A pity that I was in the UK. BB In Hungary if you would report the Police they would for sure find it without an investigation already that the Jews are guilty. Sad”
“Every organisation is scared of JEVILS”
“When my great grandparents see what Jews did to me they do something in heaven to solve this. I will not make my hand dirty with Jews.”
“J evils … Rob, lie, crime”
“I am so happy I am free from the English Jewish Evil dictator and outside of England the High Court cannot rule”
“Probably I wait a bit more and than go public. What is going on in Britain is a dictatory of J evils.”
She sent an enormous volume of similarly disturbing emails and tweets to or about me, to my family, to my workplace, to journalists from the national media to members of my family, to UNICEF UK where I had been a goodwill Ambassador for decades, and to organisations my ex-husband was associated with, and to MPs.
She began disseminating on social media wild and untrue allegations about me, ranging from kidnap to cyberhacking, to having someone bump into her and laugh at her in the tube station, having her followed by two men, bribing the police, paying off a judge, and other false and alarming conspiracy theories based on my Jewishness.
The number, tone and content of these messages was extremely frightening. It was distressing for my then teenage children and my family. I was concerned that Ms Berki was potentially a real danger to my family and me. I have had stalkers before and this behaviour felt similarly threatening.
Although I was at this point no longer in contact with Brand, I agreed to the suggestion by his lawyer of a harassment order. My sole reason was to stop Ms Berki targeting me and my family. The harassment injunction was upheld by the High Court and Court of Appeal on several occasions.
I engaged a lawyer of my own when I was made aware that Berki was applying to the court to vary the terms of the injunction. And I instructed my lawyer in December last year to approach Ms Berki’s barrister to say that I agreed to vary the injunction so that she could speak to the police again if she wanted to. I also instructed my lawyer to engage on her other requests.
I did this despite my real fears that the harassment would re-commence and that her threatening antisemitism, if again unleashed, might exacerbate the danger to my children and me that we continue to face because of our Jewish heritage and their father’s political career and incarceration in Pakistan.
Her barrister has not responded to my lawyer since May of this year despite trying to engage him. I was informed by her lawyer that any change to the injunction must also be agreed by Brand. I have no ability to compel Brand in this matter, as I have not seen or spoken to him in over a decade.
I hope this information will help clarify speculation about my involvement in the anti-harassment order.
I am glad and relieved that Russell Brand has finally faced justice.
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> seize control by violence
> oppress and radicalise
> rake in billions in aid
> rape, mutilate and slaughter 1200 of your far more heavily armed neighbours
> abduct 251 of them
> hide amongst civilians
> get your ass kicked
> whine that neighbour isn’t doing more for your people
Anton Starch retweeted
You only need to look at Swinney's hysterical bluster and weasel words to see @HarrietCross_MP has him bang to rights.
You can celebrate a Sikh festival and Remembrance Sunday on the same day. But shouting "Bandi Chhor Divas!" during the 2 minute silence is cringe and disrespectful.
An SNP government so desperate to look inclusive, instead exposed its extraordinary cultural ignorance. Thousands of Sikh soldiers fought and died alongside British servicemen in two World Wars. Their sacrifice is part of our shared national history. Remembrance Sunday belongs to them too.
As people of every colour, faith and background fell silent to remember those who died for our freedom. The SNP govt's official account wanted to make it extremely clear to everyone that it had a different message to send.
What they posted at 11am was so naff, it might as well have said "Remembrance Sunday is for everyone else. You minorities can have your own little celebrations." to match the levels of extreme crassness and condescension.
Ethnic minorities don't need the SNP's performative gestures or patronising crumbs.
This is the poisonous consequence of politicians who see people as separate groups to be managed and patronised, rather than fellow citizens united by a common country and shared traditions.
The SNP talks endlessly about inclusion while displaying a remarkable inability to understand what actually unites us.
John Swinney laid a wreath on Sunday. Good. Now he should explain how the Government he leads managed to get this so spectacularly wrong.
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A daily reminder that Palestinianism is a genocidal movement whose ultimate goal is the destruction of Israel.
Everything else is just a distraction.
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Over Shabbat dinner last Friday in Las Vegas, a sweet lady turned to me and said: "So Rawan, your mother tongue is Farsi, right?"
I looked at her, speechless. Finally I said, "Why would it be? I'm half Syrian, half Lebanese. Arabic is my mother tongue."
"Okay, so these are two different languages," she said.
I would have thought that since 9/11, Americans knew Arabic is a language: the language of the Quran and of the Arab world.
I didn't like my reaction. Jet-lagged or not, I told myself, I should find the patience to respond gracefully. Then another American Jew asked me to explain the difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims. I told him to ask the internet.
I could be nicer, but I don't want to be. I am running low on patience.
Political Islam destroyed the Middle East we escaped, and it intends to take over the West where we settled. Every once in a while, a horrific attack makes the news. We watch the culture transform. We watch our backs, and we watch what our children are taught.
October 7 was a declaration of war on Western civilization. Yet most people still struggle to understand why the US attacked Iran. They can't connect the dots, not even between Hamas and the IRGC, or between Qatar and progressive students' support for the Palestinian cause. The masses are enchanted, and they are opening the doors to the enemy voluntarily. Across from the Bundestag, a German throws his flag on the ground and raises the Palestinian flag in its place. Across Europe, feminists side with the misogynistic regime in Iran.
And in our bastion of freedom, the United States, Mamdani is mayor of New York and El-Sayed has just been elected the first Muslim senator in American history. Many Michigan Jews refused to vote for him. But nearly six in ten of those who voted early still did. Atheists are siding with jihadists.
Since October 7, I have spent endless nights in dusty hotels around the world instead of in my comfortable home with my child. We are at war, and I owe him a fight for his future, and for the future of his children and their children. I am doing all I can to share my insights, raise awareness and say out loud what many won't. Including hundreds of hours on planes, in trains, on hair and make up. Trivialities, logistics, emails and comments.
So help me, will you? Since we are at war, at least take the time to learn the basics, so you can understand what is happening around us, to us, and ultimately to future generations.
Learn about political Islam and its history. Learn about the feud between Sunnis and Shia. Learn what happened in Iran in 1979. Learn about the Jews: their relationship with the Prophet Muhammad, their Temple, their Jerusalem. Learn about Al-Aqsa and why Islamists are obsessed with that mosque.
If I couldn't be bothered to learn, I would have supported the Palestinian cause. It's simple, easy, convenient and popular. It's also dangerous, because in the name of the Palestinian cause we will be stripped of basic freedoms you take for granted. Sooner or later, you too will lose the luxury of ignorance. By then, lamenting won't help us much.
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Owen Jones says he was ‘willing to overlook’ Russell Brand’s misogyny in order to push a left-wing agenda. This is so gross. From the Brand scandal to the rape gangs to the trans lunacy, the brocialist left constantly betrays women, says Brendan O’Neill
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I'm so tired of this bullshit.
Americans used to do all these jobs, hell I used to date a woman who cleaned hotel rooms. my father's friend used to work construction. Hell I worked a couple of summers laying bricks. I'm 40 years old this isn't exactly ancient history.
Americans used to do all these jobs, but then they flooded these field with cheap foreign labor, pushed out the Americans, and now after you push them out you go "What they just do the jobs Americans don't want to do."
And it doesn't end there.
Look whats going on in the trucking industry right now. Trucking was a great way to step up into the middle class, and now that rung of the ladder is being destroyed.
Soon we will be told that trucking is one of those jobs Americans just don't want to do.
And it's not just this sort of blue collar work, look whats happening in the tech industry. We tell an entire generation to go to college, get into tech, learn to code you'll have a great future, and then we pull the rug on them, and replace them with H1Bs.
Coding will eventually become one those jobs that we are told Americans don't want to do at this rate.
It's all bullshit.
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I’m going to chime in on the conversation about ugliness and degeneracy in art. The relentless nihilism and puerile fascinations in contemporary art keep sending the same message: give up, there’s no beauty, nothing to live for. I find it deeply depressing.
We seem to be elevating artists who lack the talent to achieve transcendence. Unable to produce or understand it, their work becomes a resentful rejection: “If I can’t have it, then nobody can.”
I’m tired of these mediocre deviants sucking up all the oxygen in our culture. It’s everywhere and utterly mundane. It lacks the excitement of breaking taboos because it doesn’t; it plays to permissible, even approved ideas. None of it is new, and it certainly isn’t dangerous anymore. It pays to be unoriginal and unable to access the talent that comes with ability to focus, critical thinking and sensitivity to beauty.
I know this because I lived with Simon Henwood, an artist who doggedly pursued transcendence. Early success with his giant gouache-on-paper pictures of teenagers wasn’t enough, so he taught himself to paint with oils. The painstaking process of building layer upon layer of translucent colour creates pictures of multi-dimensional space and form that simply can’t be reproduced in print, much less with AI. You need to stand in front of the painting; you may not understand why it affects you, but it will. He found such work difficult to push into the art scene because he didn’t have a story, a why, or a cynical bone in his body. He ended up as creative director for Kanye West, then Rihanna and Alicia Keys. He should have been at home in the attic working on his paintings, but he was thrown into a world of bullshit he simply could not handle, and the stress killed him.
He was an oddball, and his favourite thing as a kid was his Golliwogs. He collected all the Robertson’s Jam gollies and had a cuddly toy which was his favourite. I still have these objects. I also have a giant and very affectionate portrait of a golly that I have to hang in a shady upstairs landing, lest it be seen by visitors. A glimpse of this oil painting on one of my Instagram reels is regularly brought up as evidence of my “fascist leanings” or whatever. Even if I didn’t like the painting (I do), what am I supposed to do with it? Destroy it? The man is dead and won’t be painting anymore.
Of course a naked white woman on her knees with bruises, blood and excrement around her arse is institutionally approved and breaks no boundaries, but Simon’s happy golly with its hand hovering over its crotch is totally taboo. Taboo still exists. It’s taboo to be Christian, to be conservative; contemporary art won’t touch a great many things for fear of cancellation. So no, I don’t buy that this is brave or interesting. I know exactly what’s unacceptable in the arts. I’ve paid my own price for believing in biological reality, another huge taboo. I’m now very much an outsider myself.
I think it’s perfectly descriptive to call these people regime artists, and the regime wants degeneracy and hopelessness. Why is another question entirely, but I doubt it has to do with art.
Anton Starch retweeted
A few people have mentioned this, so I'll just quote you on this one:
Firstly, Rupert Lowe has already pledged the most important thing, which is to fully proscribe the IRGC and go after every single islamic regime agent in the country.
Secondly, I have never looked to Britain to be a country who helps Iranian people. Britain has never in our history been friendly towards Iran, whether it was the British Empire, overthrowing Reza Shah in WW2, or aiding Khomeini.
I don't hold history against them like a third worlder, but I don't have any expectations either in that regard. Israel and America are the main players in the war, not anyone in Europe and least of all Britain.
The most we can demand from the UK is that they prosecute and kick out regime agents, which Restore Britain is ready to do, unlike every other so called "right wing government".
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Women march against male violence. They decide to not include men in the march against male violence, so men get violent.
Last night, our members made history. We stood together in #Nottingham for the first female-only #ReclaimTheNight march the city has seen in well over a decade. In fact, this was likely the only explicitly female-only #ReclaimTheNight march in the entire country this year. 1/11
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I’m not against dark and offensive humor, but the “jokes” about Charlie Kirk’s murder aren’t even jokes.
They’re just Leftists saying they’re glad he’s dead and laughing hysterically for five minutes.
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This is @ABarrosCurtis. He investigated Rosie Duffield for months because she liked a tweet in which I criticised Eddie Izzard for his use of womanface. The fact that he is on a supposedly neutral panel set up to consider the Conversion Practices Bill suggests the fix is already in. Don't let them away with this.
A joint committee made up of members of the House of Lords and House of Commons has been set up to consider the government’s Draft Conversion Practices Bill.
The committee seeks views on how the draft bill could be improved. Get involved by 16 November ⬇️ committees.parliament.uk/com…
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Only two ideologies normalise dressing little boys as girls for the satisfaction of adults.
One is Islam and (bacha bazi).
The other is Transgenderism and (drag kids).
Both treat children as props for adult desires.
