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Birding/visible migration enthusiast. Professor of breast cancer Pathology. wildlife, gardening, history, reading , science, antiques, most music.
UK Beigetreten Nisan 2013
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@EnglishmanAdam Labels are a curse, they can end up pigeon holing folk and denying individual thought. Left v right become like football teams to be loyal to in a mindless manner.
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It wasn't the Warplanes themselves that prevented the Iranian delegation from being shot down by Israel. It was the fact that the warplanes belonged to Pakistan.
What does Pakistan have? Nuclear weapons.
True Promise - الوعد الصادق ✪🇮🇷@IRTruePromise
The Iranian delegation escorted by 9 Jets of Pakistan AirForce has reached Iran safely.
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Ah! We've gone from a "technicality" (Tice) to an "accountant mistake"/"some kind of mistake" (Kruger).
As discussed, it is neither - the law was broken and the liability remains.
Moreover, the reason the relevant law is complex is because Tice *elected* to turn his firm, highly unusually in context, into a tax-efficient REIT.
Times Radio@TimesRadio
“I understand that everything has been satisfactorily resolved here.” Richard Tice’s unpaid tax row is “completely incomparable” to Angela Rayner failing to pay stamp duty, so he “absolutely” should not resign, says Reform MP @Danny__Kruger. @Lara_Spirit | #TimesRadio
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In the early hours of 9 August 1971, armoured Saracens rolled through the streets of Belfast. Soldiers hammered down doors and dragged half naked men from their beds, pulled from the arms of wives and screaming kids, and bundled them into vehicles without charge, explanation or any pretence of legal process.
By the end of the initial sweep, 342 people were in custody. The British state had decided that the way to end the violence in Northern Ireland was to lock people up indefinitely and ask questions later. This was Operation Demetrius, and it was one of the most catastrophically misjudged security decisions of the twentieth century.
The bright idea came from Brian Faulkner, the Unionist Prime Minister of Stormont, who had taken office in March 1971 following his predecessor's resignation under the pressure of escalating violence. Faulkner wanted to "smash the IRA" through mass internment under the Special Powers Act. British Prime Minister Edward Heath signed off on it at a meeting on 5 August 1971.
The British cabinet had actually recommended a more balanced approach, including the arrest of loyalist militants, the confiscation of weapons held by unionist rifle clubs, and a ban on parades. Faulkner’s sectarianism brushed all of this aside. There was no such thing as "loyalist terrorism". Despite the very active campaign of loyalist paramilitary murders.
The intelligence underpinning the operation was, to put it generously, inaccurate. The RUC files on which the arrest lists were based dated largely from the 1950s. When soldiers went out to round up the IRA's dangerous men, they found themselves detaining retired activists, civil rights organisers, and individuals with no paramilitary connection whatsoever.
Over a hundred of the original 342 were released within 48 hours. The IRA's actual leadership, meanwhile, had been tipped off. A mole in the Northern Ireland civil service had reportedly warned the Provisionals that internment was coming.
Senior figures had been instructed in late July not to sleep at home. By the most generous estimate, around 2,000 IRA activists remained at large in the weeks after the operation launched. What Demetrius succeeded in doing, with some efficiency, was arresting the wrong people. We'll visit the resultant Ballymurphy Massacre another day, but lets see what happened to the lads black-bagged from their homes.
For those arrested, the ordeal had just begun. A small group, later known as the Hooded Men, were subjected to what the British authorities called "deep interrogation." Fourteen men in total experienced the "Five Techniques". This was enforced wall-standing in stress positions for hours, permanent hooding except during questioning, continuous exposure to a high-pitched white noise, sleep deprivation, and deprivation of food and drink.
Some were taken up in helicopters and thrown out, believing they were hundreds of feet in the air. They were actually close to the ground, but they did not know that. This sickening example of Mock Execution on innocent people is beyond disgusting.
The Parker Report, published in March 1972 following a government inquiry, found the techniques to be illegal under domestic law. The European Court of Human Rights ruled in 1978 that they constituted inhuman and degrading treatment, arguing that they met the legal threshold for torture. British justice once again delivered the primary result of inducing hatred via cruelty and hypocrisy. Radicalising even the most peaceful people through systematic injustice.
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They tried so hard to suppress this video today.
But because of YOU, it is now TRENDING.
Please RETWEET and QUOTE TWEET this important video reminding us all WHO WE WERE BEFORE TRUMP
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Do You Remember America Before Trump? NEW VIDEO! WATCH! TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK. Let's get this to 1 million views fast. Please retweet and quote tweet.
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❗️“The EU must learn from Viktor Orbán’s behaviour and switch to qualified majority voting,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
“I consider the transition to qualified majority voting in foreign policy to be an important way to prevent the kind of systematic blocking we have witnessed in the past. We should seize this momentum now and push this issue forward.”
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DRAX POCKETED £6 BILLION IN GREEN SUBSIDIES. THEN FIRED THE WOMAN WHO NOTICED.
Rowaa Ahmar joined @DraxGroup in August 2022 as Head of Public Affairs.
Former Treasury, Cabinet Office, Ofgem. She knew how this world worked.
Weeks into the job, BBC Panorama @BBCPanorama aired The Green Energy Scandal.
Drax had been telling the government it only burned sustainable waste wood. The subsidies depended on that claim. Panorama said they were actually chopping down old-growth forests in Canada.
The day after broadcast, Drax's own compliance director emailed internally admitting they couldn't prove the wood was sustainable.
KPMG investigated and confirmed the company had misreported data to the regulator @Ofgem.
Ahmar's manager told her not to pass KPMG's findings to senior management.
She went to the CEO anyway.
Drax's response: NDA, take the money, go quietly. She refused. They fired her.
Ofgem later fined Drax £25 million for exactly what she raised 18 months earlier. The government then extended Drax's subsidies to 2031.
She was right. She got fired. They got more money.
Case backed by @WhistleUK. Settled before full tribunal concluded.
Source: @WhistleUK

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@Channel4News I didn’t say that. Please add a correction.
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