Caroline Miller 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦

Oh. Dear. The noble savage myth applied to England. That peasant was a subsistence farmer and, for most of them, obliged to work without pay for the Lord of the Manor on whose land the peasant lived and farmed. Enclosure liberated these farmers from that world.

I wonder why that happened? Yes, yes Cuban peasant, your kid’s dialysis might have cut out mid-cleanse, but didn’t you enjoy hearing Kneecap’s rendition of ‘Drug Dealin Pagans’

What kind of hateful bigot gets up in the middle of a war when ballistic missiles are flying and says ‘I have an idea! Let’s go burn homes and cars of Palestinians’ WTF? These people are disgusting, this is terrorism, and I hope they rot in prison.

The Islamic Regime wanted to use physically disabled orphans as human shields. When the director of the orphanage refused, he was arrested by the Regime. No word from @UNICEF, Ms. Rachel, or any other “children’s rights activists” groups.

Until my dying day, I don't think I will ever feel such an intense hatred for a political movement than I do towards the Irish "Free" Palestine loonies that refer to themselves as "Paddystinians". I'm very happy to lose followers over it. They are the most painfully stupid and dangerous people stealing oxygen right now.

The 5-star Cuba hotel where socialist MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Richard Burgon are staying is the ONLY building in Havana with power right now. The hypocrisy and self-serving virtue-signalling from these two clowns is off the charts. Expel them from Parliament.

Robert Mueller died last night. He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving. He had integrity. And tonight the President of the United States said good! I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good. I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word. Good. This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather. That is what is happening. That is what has happened. The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming. America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner. And the church said nothing. Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary. Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him. Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart. JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn. These men are something more painful than monsters. They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again. Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing. Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less. That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him. And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it. When Trump is gone, they will still be here. Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous. That morning is coming. Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say. He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true. He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad. The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it. That is all it needed to be. A man died. His family is broken open with grief. That is all it needed to be. Instead the President said good. And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸 Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

This is so embarrassing. They came to Cuba in their hundreds, carrying less food then they would end up eating there, only to tour around in little buses and party at private concerts while Cubans continue to suffer repression, poverty, shortages and power cuts. How much electricity did this little concert cost btw?

BBC News sent a reporter to the University of Kent to interview students queueing up for a meningitis jab. As is the rule for all BBC reports like this, at least one of the interviewees must be a cross-dressing man wearing a Palestine badge

Can a person write a column about The Lindy West Discourse that also touches on The Gail’s Discourse? Let’s find out, in this week’s @thetimes column! Love is never having to say you’re polyamorous thetimes.com/article/7b88ec…

Well, George, you would say that. You have spent the better part of four decades saying it, in one form or another, about every regime and terror organisation that set itself against the West and against Israel. You saluted Saddam Hussein's courage and indefatigability. You glorified Hezbollah and its leader Hassan Nasrallah at the Al Quds rally in London, saying it out loud and on the record. You personally handed cash and vehicles to Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza in 2009, telling the assembled press conference: this is not charity, this is politics. You carried a Palestinian passport issued by Hamas. You described the October 7th massacres as a concentration camp breakout and called the terrorists who carried them out fighters. You have been photographed with Hamas leaders on multiple occasions. You built your entire political career on the Islamist-Left alliance, founding Respect with the Socialist Workers Party in what Nick Cohen accurately described as a coalition between the Trotskyist far left and the Islamic far right. Your electoral success in Rochdale was hailed as a huge victory by Nick Griffin of the BNP, which tells you everything you need to know about the political territory you now occupy. Iran's right to defend itself. Let us examine what that defence looks like. Iran built and funded Hezbollah, which has spent thirty years embedding itself in Lebanon and firing rockets into Israel. Iran built and funded Hamas, which carried out the worst massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust. Iran built and funded the Houthis, who have been attacking international shipping for over a year. Iran supplied the drones and ballistic missiles Russia has been using to kill Ukrainian civilians. Iran plotted twenty assassinations on British soil in two years. Iran hit RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. Iran has massacred over thirty thousand of its own citizens who dared protest against the regime. It has hanged dissidents in public, executed gay people and imprisoned women for removing their hijabs. This morning Iran fired ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a joint US-UK base in the Indian Ocean, revealing a missile range far exceeding what it had publicly declared, putting virtually every capital in Europe within reach. That is the regime whose right to defend itself you are asserting. You are not a defender of the oppressed, George. You are a consistent and lifelong defender of whoever happens to be pointing a weapon at the West and at Jews. The record is too long, too detailed and too thoroughly documented to be dressed up as principle. Christopher Hitchens, who knew you well, said you were one hundred per cent consistent in your support for thugs and criminals. He was right. You have not changed. The thugs and criminals have simply run out of road. "You described the October 7th massacres as a concentration camp breakout and called the terrorists who carried them out fighters. You have been photographed with Hamas leaders on multiple occasions."

This is so poor. They make various directly political points and then hide behind "but we're just musicians" when asked to comment on human rights abuses perpetrated by the Cuban state: channel4.com/news/kneecap-i…

Nicola Sturgeon’s advice to her younger self: Do as I say, not as I did #Echobox=1774119638" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…

Manchester United are six points clear of Liverpool with 7 Premier League games to go. At the same time last season, Manchester United were 35 points behind Liverpool. A 41 point turnaround in 12 months.

Bob Mueller was one of the finest directors in the history of the FBI, transforming the bureau after 9/11 and saving countless lives. But it was his relentless commitment to the rule of law and his unwavering belief in our bedrock values that made him one of the most respected public servants of our time. Michelle and I send our condolences to Bob’s family, and everyone who knew and admired him.

Once again, the University of Toronto is hosting its deeply antisemitic 'Israel Apartheid Week'. Arab Israelis make up: 22% of Israel's population 30% of Israel's doctors 20% of Israel's university students 50% of Israel's pharmacists They also serve as judges all the way up to the supreme Court. So how does an institution whose main directive is education allow hateful misinformation to be propagated on its campuses for over 2 decades? @UofT

@krassenstein @emilysavesusa Hypocrites too on top of delusional cult members who praise the word of…..Trump

Karoline Leavitt: “President Trump is only focused on one thing: defeating Iran.” Note: Trump is playing golf all weekend at Mar-a-Lago for the 15th straight weekend.

Anti-war demonstration in London today Comment: Today’s protests saw Arab doctors within the National Health Service taking part in medical uniforms, using the moment of Israel’s involvement in the war against Iran to voice criticism of Israel and express support for Palestinians. The scene is likely to intensify ongoing concerns among some Britons and Jewish communities about impartiality and professional conduct within the NHS.

Here's a list of decisions this season alone that should be included as evidence in any complaint: - Nathan Collins pulled back Bryan Mbeumo in the box, DOGSO incident. Only a yellow card + penalty instead of a red. VAR (Andy Madley) did not intervene. Unanimous KMI Panel error, should have been a red. Howard Webb admitted it. - Amad brought down in the box by a back-leg challenge from Maxim De Cuyper. Anthony Taylor waved play on, VAR upheld "no penalty." Clear foul in many people's view, no review despite contact. - Emmanuel Agbadou handball in the box. VAR (Stuart Attwell) did not send Michael Salisbury to the monitor. Clear penalty per rules, inconsistent with a similar situation later in game (& was given). Official KMI error. - Lisandro Martínez's goal disallowed for minimal contact/foul on Kyle Walker vs Burnley. Stuart Attwell was referee, Craig Pawson was VAR. KMI Panel ruled it a clear error (no foul), PGMOL reportedly apologised. - Patrick Dorgu was on the ground near the touchline, Walker deliberately stamped on the back of Dorgu's leg, with no attempt to play the ball. Attwell gave nothing & VAR did not intervene. Ex-PGMOL chief said Walker should be charged & suspended. - On Opening Day Matheus Cunha was denied a penalty after a foul by William Saliba by Simon Hooper. Fans & media argued it was a stonewall penalty, no VAR intervention by Paul Tierney. - Aaron Wan-Bissaka's bad tackle not given a second yellow that should have been a straight forward decision & red card. Andrew Kitchen did nothing. - A pile of evidence from Stuart Attwell's pathetically inept display vs Bournemouth.The no penalty for Amad & everything it caused in its aftermath. Manchester United should speak out & stand up for themselves more, because nobody else will. Whenever a controversial decision is made, the other side of it is always discussed by either the media or rivals.