Standin_In_My_Light

“...the sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark without the need for an official ban” George Orwell Preface to Animal Farm As true today as in 1945

The art technique of Grandma Mei Ling, age 82 Wait for it

Findings and Conclusions of the Inquiry into the Conduct of an IDF Soldier Who Damaged a Christian Symbol in Southern Lebanon The inquiry found that during IDF activity in the area of the Christian village of Debel in southern Lebanon, an IDF soldier damaged a Christian

I am still shaking from a soul-crushing Uber ride today in Dublin. It started with "Where are you from?" I said Iran, and the driver's face lit up as he thought he'd found a partner in his hate. He looked at me and said, "It must be crushing what the f***ing Israelis are doing to

@campbellclaret That's because I wasn't interested in being used to boost the viewing figures of a pair of exceptionally arrogant men whose understanding of this issue drips with classism and misogyny, @campbellclaret. If you're genuinely interested in a debate I'm at a loss to understand why

🔴DON’T LOOK AWAY The Islamic regime is going to hang Diana Taherabadi because she participated in the January protests. She’s only 16. This is pure barbarism. Share this before they kill her.

2005: Israel GAVE Gaza away. Not “ended an occupation.” GAVE. IT. AWAY. — Every soldier: gone. — Every settler: gone. 8,000 Israelis dragged out of their homes by their own army, some kicking and screaming. Entire communities destroyed. — Jewish graves: exhumed, because Israel

RT @FredSargeant: Show the world that you're a 21st century teenager who knows zip about the gay liberation movement history of the 50s, 60…

@SwipeWright @NeurolawNerd @jk_rowling F-

This new academic paper claims that @jk_rowling has essentially become Voldemort via her “celebrified transphobia,” which is apparently the authors’ term for Rowling publicly acknowledging basic biology. It argues that the “Wizarding World should be considered a cultural field” whose defining principle is “trans/queer inclusivity,” and says Rowling’s views have “significantly depleted her once-elite status.” It says Harry Potter has been read as “resisting binary gendering” and presenting gender as “varied, easily shifting, exploratory, and ‘slippery,’” with the Wizarding World offering trans and queer fans “identification and community” and “a ‘place of belonging.’” So Rowling became the moral equivalent of her own villain because some readers projected gender ideology onto the books, then felt shocked when the author turned out to believe sex is real. And in case the paper was not absurd enough already, its conclusion declares: “You’re a muggle, Joanne.”

Firefighters are deeply revered because they willingly put their lives at risk to protect others, often running into dangerous situations - like burning buildings - that most people are fleeing. In the Islamic Republic they are killed for carrying out their duties. Watch ⬇️

Inspired and in honour of today's @AllianceLGB conference I wrote a special joke about breaking away from the TQIAetc+. (Performed at @UnleashedComedy)

@benryanwriter @owenjonesjourno No, he blocks people ...seemingly unless they have a substantial following.

@owenjonesjourno Good grief, do you always behave this way when rightfully challenged intellectually?

Owen Jones is upset that I observed that when enumerating the harms of the USSR collapse, he only focused on Russia and did not observe the benefits to other nations, such as the Baltics and Poland. So he claimed I didn’t read what he wrote (I did) and called me a bad journalist.

Hezbollah official on Russian state TV: “We are currently investing in protests and demonstrations in Western countries, especially among college students…”

Senior MPs and peers have condemned the “disproportionate” punishment of a Royal Holloway student who called a Palestinian activist’s keffiyeh a “tea towel”. A cross-party group of MPs and peers, including former Cabinet ministers, have written to the university expressing

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DAY OF INFAMY: New video shows the moment when Canada, Australia, UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Austria and Switzerland joined the consensus decision to nominate Iran—and when they were repeatedly invited to object. They chose silence.

@antisemitism @OurFightUk Great result, but what a terrible situation. I doubt it is that ecxeptional. The system will change IF... Those who sat on the evidence are disciplined AND the accused are compensated for stress to them and their families, trauma, loss of work, problems with visas, etc.

The CPS has just been ordered to pay CAA’s legal costs after falsely prosecuting Mark Birbeck for “assaulting emergency workers” when he held a sign saying “Hamas is Terrorist”. In September 2024, Mark, who is the founder of @OurFightUk, was accused of assaulting two emergency workers at a protest at which he had been holding the sign alongside Niyak Ghorbani. CAA stepped in and has provided Mark with free legal representation, as we have many times before (for Niyak too). Two days before Mark’s trial in October 2025, the CPS revealed that it had been sitting on video footage that exonerated Mark, and discontinued its prosecution. Last week, a Judge ruled that this was one of those “very rare” and “exceptional cases” where the prosecution had made such “clear and stark” errors that the CPS was ordered to pay defence costs related to their “improper” mistakes. The CPS instructed King’s Counsel to oppose the defence costs application, but the Judge found the CPS’s approach to disclosure to have been “shambolic”. In particular, the Judge castigated the CPS for failing to serve the crucial police videographer’s footage, which vindicated Mr Birbeck, until just before the trial. CAA is proud to have assisted Mark, a staunch ally of the Jewish community in the fight against antisemitism, by providing and paying for legal representation. Mark and Niyak have been repeatedly arrested and on occasion charged, only to have bail conditions lifted by courts and cases collapse, with our support. It is obscene that the police and prosecution are wasting time hounding people who are simply pointing out that Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK, rather than focusing on the terror sympathisers in the regular hate marches that have transformed our cities and made antisemitic hate crime a daily feature of Jewish life in modern Britain. If it risks public disorder to point out that Hamas are terrorists, that’s because there are too many people on our streets who think they aren’t. That trend is the real menace.

Breaking: Iran’s Regime Moves to Execute a Female Protester Bita Hemmati, a young Iranian woman, is reportedly at imminent risk of execution by hanging alongside her husband. She was arrested after taking part in the nationwide anti-regime protests in January, part of a wave of

The violinist Nigel Kennedy has said he has not been invited to perform on the BBC for the last 13 years because he gently mocked a singer who dedicated her performance to "transgender people" telegraph.co.uk/music/intervie…

Flashback: Palestinian Muslims tormenting a helpless child with special needs to cast out what they believed is a Jinn (demon) possessing him.