Tim Cooke 🇮🇱 🇬🇧

I Stand With Israel

Seems to me there'll come a day when it becomes clear the sky isn't falling in, that science isn't destroying the planet and that human ingenuity is a good thing. The end of a terrible Age of Doom that began with Silent Spring in 1962, got rockets from the likes of Paul Ehrlich, was catastrophised by Al Gore and created the appalling anti-humanity green movement that's currently making us poorer and weaker for no good reason. To mix my fairy stories the Chicken Lickens of environmentalism need someone to point out they have no clothes on.

@JamesMelville Who caused this James? WHO DAMN WELL CAUSED IT?

Gaza. Completely flattened and destroyed. ▪️Over 70,000 dead. ▪️Over 20,000 children dead. ▪️90% of residential buildings destroyed or damaged. There is no justification for this. None whatsoever.

Five years ago today, a teacher from Batley Grammar showed a class a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed. Within days, a hundred Islamists were protesting outside the school gates. Outrageously, the teacher was suspended. The headteacher, Gary Kibble, apologised ‘unequivocally’. It was an astonishing act of appeasement and cowardice. The teacher was then subjected to a campaign of abuse and intimidation, including incitement to violence against him and his family. His kids had to miss school for months. They slept on mattresses in temporary accommodation. An independent probe later cleared him of any wrongdoing whatsoever. Another report likewise found that the school, council and police all ‘totally and utterly failed’ him. Too late - his life was changed forever. Have lessons been learnt from this shameful episode? I fear exactly the same thing would happen today. In fact ‘advice’ has recently been reissued by Labour councils including the one covering Batley, that children’s drawings in art lessons may be seen as ‘idolatrous’ under sharia law. Teachers are even warned that dance lessons could cause parental concerns over ‘physical contact between males and females’. Extremism is being mainstreamed. A climate of threatening and intimidatory harassment is poisoning our institutions. It's antithetical to our democratic way of life. Most of our governing class are simply too spineless to take on Islamists. Look at when I highlighted the chronic failure of integration in parts of Birmingham. I was denounced. And then proven right by West Midlands Police’s admission that violent Islamists living couldn’t be prevented from attacking Jewish football fans. The Police lied and blamed the visiting supporters in an effort to pretend they still had authority in the city. And now look at the reaction of the Prime Minister and much of the media to criticisms of a segregated Iftar in Trafalgar Square. They branded critics racist too. This was despite the Prime Minister himself pulling out of an Iftar in 2021 organised by the very same man, Omar Salha, who arranged this one, apparently because of his Islamist links. We’ve been led by weak hypocrites, who cover up, rather than confront what’s happening. The country is sliding down a dark path as a result. But innocent men and women like the Batley teacher are the greatest victims of extremism, and too many seem intent to forget them. We must defend them and stand up for all those who speak out.

This is on a par with thinking Palestinians firing rockets at Israel is fine because 95% are intercepted and Israelis are safe in their shelters. That Iran HAS fired missiles at Sovereign UK territory is an act of war. Whether they can hit a specific UK target is irrelevant.

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No electricity, no freedom, grinding poverty, oppressed by a dictatorship, little hope, but at least they can admire a mural painted by some privileged American white folk who will likely go home to a comfortable home in a gated community in Fort Lauderdale.

The immediate question that comes to mind is, did Morgan McSweeney report the theft of his phone at the time? The answer will of course be no, because it was never in fact stolen, that is just a useful fiction.

@Microinteracti1 @Edwina_Currie What utter twaddle. Trump didn't post a "hostile video about the United Kingdom" he posted a video mocking our pathetic excuse for a Prime Minister. Starmer deserves to be ridiculed. That it is the president of the United States doing the ridiculing should be to his dying shame!

Six months ago, King Charles III received Donald Trump at Windsor Castle. Horse-drawn carriages. A 41-gun salute. A state banquet in St George’s Hall with 160 guests. Trump stood next to the King, visibly moved, and called it “one of the highest honours of my life.” Britain smiled, nodded, and filed that away. Today Trump posted a hostile video about the United Kingdom. Downing Street issued a three-sentence response and got on with its day. Because here is the thing about Britain that Americans never quite grasp: this country has been burying empires since before the United States existed. It has outlasted Napoleon, Hitler, and the Soviet Union. It will outlast this. Trump wanted a reaction. He wanted the phone calls, the grovelling, the desperate reassurances. He got a shrug from a country that invented the stiff upper lip and has been practising it for a thousand years. While Washington careens between threats and tantrums, Britain is quietly doing what Britain does. Building alliances. Signing defence agreements. Hosting the leaders that actually matter at Chequers and Downing Street. The adults are in the room. They just stopped expecting Trump to be one of them. The special relationship was always a polite fiction. Britain knew that. It kept the fiction alive because it was useful. Now that it isn’t, Britain is doing what any self-respecting island nation does. It moves on. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@ThomasEvansAdur @labourpress @KemiBadenoch @JamesCleverly @NJ_Timothy Desperate stuff

@labourpress Yesterday Labour posted a 6 second segment of something @KemiBadenoch said out of context. Today you are posting a 10 second segment of something @JamesCleverly said out of context. You lied about the child abuse enquiry to stop it and you have lied about @NJ_Timothy as well.

Less than 24 hours ago Kemi Badenoch said she agreed with Nick Timothy that Muslims praying in Trafalgar Square was an "act of domination". This morning her Shadow Communities Secretary disagreed. He knows she's wrong:

Fun fact. Palestinians weren’t called Palestinians until 1968. Bonus fun fact. Before that, Palestinians meant Jews.

They're all completely nuts aren't they? Miami Cubans have all the benefits of an American lifestyle, jobs, education, cars, houses and every opportunity. Cuban Cubans have very very little. But, according to this privileged idiot, they somehow live morally better lives. 🤡

The code pink Cuba thing... Rich people (mainly white wealthy middle class Americans) telling poor people (99% of Cubans) that other rich people (the Trump administration, Western capitalists etc.) are the reason they're poor.

Keir Starmer told the House of Commons on 10 September "full due process was followed during this [the Mandelson] appointment". If the communication between McSweeney and Mandelson has not been officially recorded centrally then that is a direct abuse of due process.

Sewell is absolutely right. White working-class boys remain the worst performing group in schools. Political parties have acted pathetically about this. Real social mobility will only be achieved if we face this head on. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

Iran has proven again in the last 48 hours that it is the enemy of civilization and a danger to the free world: targeting children, families, and the elderly with terror missiles, threatening Jerusalem’s holy sites, launching long-range missiles, and trying to blackmail the world through the Strait of Hormuz. I ask the leaders of the free world: what are you waiting for? Israel is fighting not only for itself, but for all of you

I got criticised for writing this last week. But Keir Starmer's statement to the House that due process was followed in the Mandelson appointment was a straightforward lie. People may not care. People may think Starmer is excused because Boris also used to lie. But it was a lie.

It's worth noting that European cities have almost no protection against ballistic missiles fired from the middle east. There are some SM-3 batteries based in Poland and possibly one THAAD system courtesy of the US all strategically placed to defend against Russia.

Benjamin Netanyahu: “If anyone needed an explanation of why Iran is the enemy of civilization, and the enemy and the danger to the entire world. You got it in the last 48 hours" They fired a terror weapon on civilians. There's a children's nursery here"

This is an old trick. Most Hamas fighters pretended to be paramedics, UNRWA staff, journalists, or medical personnel. At the very least, armed Hamas members moved around in civilian clothes to blend into the population. See footage of Sinwar’s final moments.

Cadbury does refer to them as Easter Eggs on their website and includes references to Easter on the packaging. However, Easter is hardly front and centre as it very much should be and Easter is very much absent from much of POS branding. Perhaps @CadburyUK should reflect on that!