Dara Martin

USAID funding was central to the creation of COVID-19

The door has just been opened for children *likely as young as 11* who are often autistic, same-sex attracted, trauma experienced, unhappy with their own bodies and/or rejecting of ‘social norms’…To become medical guinea pigs, with risk of real harm. Shame on this government. In fact - Shame on all of you who have confused these kids to within an inch of their lives. …The schools who festoon PRIMARY school classrooms with Progressive Pride merch. …The libraries who bombard kids with Gender Ideology literature. …The activists who try to warp the minds of the young, for their own gain. …The adults who try to indoctrinate kids to validate their own ideals. …The media who pedal the myth that boys can become girls. …The spineless folk who shrug and say ‘what’s the harm’🤷‍♀️ Shame on all of you (and lots more).

End surrogacy now

Well said! boundaries are for me not for thee….

Simple decency in the face of a cult.

Institutional Capture. Two Words. The Entire Explanation for Why Britain Cannot Do What Denmark Did. Denmark slashed asylum claims to a forty-year low. It made refugee status temporary by default. It cut benefits for new arrivals below standard welfare levels. It tightened family reunification. It demanded language, work and civic integration as conditions of settlement, not aspirations. It took twenty years and required political consensus across left and right that the goal was worth pursuing regardless of who was in power. Today a Lords committee told Shabana Mahmood that her plan to double the ILR (Indefinite Leave to Remain) waiting period from five years to ten is manifestly unfair and potentially unlawful. The committee includes Lord Dubs, a veteran refugee rights campaigner. Lord Hogan-Howe, the former Met Commissioner whom Mahmood herself appointed to lead a police review. Lord Anderson, Labour's own former independent terror watchdog. These are not opponents of this government. They are its institutional allies. And they have just told the Home Secretary that her flagship immigration policy cannot proceed as designed. But one committee report does not tell this story. The story is about why Britain cannot do what Denmark did, and the answer has nothing to do with geography or the complexity of the problem. It has everything to do with the institutional architecture Britain has spent thirty years building, and the ideology embedded within it. The same progressive capture that has reshaped the police, the judiciary, the BBC, the universities, the NHS and every HR department in the country has also reshaped the bodies that scrutinise immigration policy. They do not block reform because the law requires it. They block reform because the people inside them were formed by the same ideological consensus that produced the policy failure in the first place. Denmark never allowed that consensus to take hold. Britain institutionalised it. Denmark has no equivalent of a House of Lords using human rights framing to block retrospective immigration changes. No immigration tribunal system staffed in part by judges with documented open-borders backgrounds. No governing party in which the former deputy leader, Angela Rayner, describes the Home Secretary's flagship policy as un-British while a hundred MPs prepare to vote against it. The Home Office's own defence of the retrospective ILR change is that 1.2 million Boriswave migrants are about to qualify for permanent settlement at enormous cost to the public purse. The Lords committee has just told it the action it needs to take cannot be taken retrospectively. The institution designed to scrutinise the government is blocking the government from addressing the problem the government has publicly admitted is real. Andy Burnham expressed concern about the ILR changes in November. He has not said where he stands now, five days after becoming the presumptive next Prime Minister. A politician who will not say what he believes before he has power will not suddenly say it once he has it. Mahmood has shown more political courage on immigration than anyone in her party. The institutions won't let her use it. Denmark succeeded because its political class decided what it wanted and built the system around that decision. Britain has the opposite problem. Mahmood can announce crackdowns. She cannot override the architecture. Until Britain is willing to dismantle that architecture, the Lords committee will keep producing reports like today's, the tribunal system will keep generating appeals, and the gap between what is announced and what is delivered will keep widening. Denmark did it. Britain cannot. The reason is not the policy. It is everything surrounding the policy, and changing it will require a political reckoning that no government so far has been willing to face. The Home Secretary is blocked by her own institutions. The next Prime Minister has nothing to say about it.

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We just forced a vote in Parliament to stop the Puberty Blocker trial. The Government voted it down. These children are perfectly healthy. They need our care and support - not to be experimented on with life-changing drugs. Expertly argued by my colleague @drcarolinej

"Surrogacy King" Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, one of Britain's first prominent gay surrogate fathers, and his husband Scott Hutchinson, have been charged with additional serious sexual offences, including sexual activity with a child, paying for sexual services of a child, rape, and sexual assault. In May 2026 both men were charged with rape, sexual assault, and modern slavery (trafficking for sexual exploitation). They pleaded not guilty, denying allegations that they targeted, befriended, groomed, and raped four young men. Barrie Drewitt-Barlow has 8 children via surrogacy contracts in total. He has an estimated net worth exceeding $200 million, with a portion of his assets coming from the international surrogacy sector.

Reproductive rights = Killing little girls and boys.

@Capardheron @griptmedia Liam is a dangerous embarrassment to Ireland. Ireland is not to be mounted by Islam. Cult like behaviour is the only way to describe the Paddystinians groupthink but then the Muslim Brotherhood are very adept at brainwashing weaker minds.

@griptmedia LIAM CUNNINGHAM SAYES ANYONE WHO DOES NOT SUPPORT PALESTINE IS NOT IRISH

Much to Ben and Jason's surprise (not), the Dáil backed a Sinn Féin bill last week to get rid of the three-day abortion waiting period. They discuss the "betrayal" of voters who were reassured by that promise, as well as poor weeks press-wise for the Taoiseach and Tánaiste. PODCAST: gript.ie/podcasts/the-u…

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When home ownership plummets - so does the birth rate. The Irish birth rate is well below replacement level. The Irish race won't survive unless this changes.