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@ZackPolanski Bow down now then 'mate' - cause it aint you.

Horrified by the attack on the mosque in San Diego. We live in times of deep political tension. Islamophobic hatred and violence are a reminder of the responsibility on all of us. We need leadership that brings people together, and stands firmly against hatred in all its forms.

@thetimes What's it got to do with him? Is he a woman? No. Therefore, his opinion counts for NOTHING.

Andy Burnham: Trans women should be able to use female toilets #Echobox=1779272698" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

@havingagiraf What the hell is going on? 😡😡

Still no verdict, in its 9th day of deliberations in what is a clear open and shut case. Did he punch a policewoman in the face , breaking her nose ? Yes he did. Any evidence of that ? Yes, a very clear video clip of him doing exactly that. The fact a jury are pretending or refusing to acknowledge that is alarming. Why are they not finding them guilty ??? How would you fix it ???

@JuliaHB1 Where do these men get off telling women what they should have to put up with? NO mans opinion on this counts tbh.

Andy Burnham says men who identify as women should be able to use women's toilets. Why would any woman - or any man who cares about the women + girls in his life - vote for ANY candidate who doesn't respect women's rights and safety? It's a deal breaker. dailymail.com/news/article-1…

@jomickane Why? Who made this decision? How do we find out??

An Afghan asylum seeker who raped a teenage girl in a Moray park has had his jail sentence reduced. Rapualla Ahmadze - who claimed he was an escaped prisoner of the Taliban - attacked the 17-year-old in Cooper Park in Elgin in August 2024. Ahmadze, 22, had denied rape, claiming that sex was consensual, but was found guilty. He was originally jailed for nine years in December, but that has now been reduced to eight years. WHY 🤬. It should have been increased with a deportation order on release

@spikedonline People should be horrified that in 2026 this is still being forced upon women. We should never be in a position when complete misogyny, in the name of any 'cult', is not only accepted, but cannot be questioned (or mocked) .

Should it be a crime to mock the burqa? buff.ly/GOZy4ix

@therealmissjo Revolting. Get it out.

Another sexual predator is roaming around the UK and not deported after a serious crime. Aron Hadsh came to the UK illegally on a small boat in 2021. Three years later, despite having been given asylum, Hadsh was still being put up at the taxpayers’ expense, at the Holiday Inn near Heathrow. In the summer of 2024, Hadsh followed a 19 year old girl who had been sent by her mother to a food bank in Fulham. The girl was “extremely childlike” and suffered from learning disabilities. As the girl cut through the park, Hadsh took advantage of her, pinning her on his lap while he groped her breasts and crotch for several minutes. When she eventually managed to escape he was laughing at her. About 5 weeks later, she identified him when out shopping with her mother and he was arrested and charged In July 2025 he was given a sentence of 14 months in prison and a 5 year restraining order. Yet, because he had been on remand waiting for the trial since the previous summer he was set free almost immediately. He showed no remorse or even acceptance that what he did was a crime. The Judge said that he posted “a high risk of serious harm to the public” and a “high risk of sexual reoffending” and yet he has not been deported.

@SamaHoole There was no choice but to drink it - hated it but teachers were in charge then and you didn't want to get in trouble! I was not even at school yet in 1971 though and still remember having milk when I was 9/10 years of age...

Every British primary school child between 1946 and 1968 had a small ritual at morning break. Eleven o'clock. The crate had been sitting on the back step since seven, where the headmaster had been told to leave it by the council, on the grounds that the milk was supposed to come up to drinking temperature before the bell. Whether this was a kindness to the children or a kindness to the cleaners has never been satisfactorily explained. By July the milk was warm. By September it was on the turn. A whole generation of British adults can still describe, with uncomfortable precision, the taste of a glass bottle of full-cream milk that has been standing in the sun for four hours next to a brick wall. You drank it anyway. You put a paper straw through the foil, stood by the radiator, and got it down in two minutes flat because the milk monitor was watching and the bell was about to go. The cream stuck to the inside of the foil cap and ended up on your nose if you were impatient. The empties went back in the crate. You ran outside. The 1946 School Milk Act, pushed through by Ellen Wilkinson, the first female Minister of Education, gave every child under 18 a third of a pint a day. Infant mortality fell by close to 90% over the post-war decades. Rickets, a routine paediatric diagnosis in industrial towns in the 1930s, more or less disappeared from British wards within a generation. The milk was not the only reason. The milk was a substantial part of the reason. The programme was withdrawn in two stages. In 1968, Harold Wilson's Labour government cut free milk for secondary schools. The headline never quite stuck because Wilson, Wilson, Milk Snatcher does not scan. In 1971, Margaret Thatcher, as Education Secretary under Edward Heath, cut it for primary schoolchildren over seven. The headline stuck to her for the rest of her career. The under-sevens kept their third of a pint. Everyone else lost it. A piece of national nutritional infrastructure built brick by brick between 1906 and 1946, that had survived two world wars, was dismantled in two parliamentary acts inside three years on grounds of cost. The kids who got the warm September milk are in their seventies now. They will still tell you, given half a chance, that it was disgusting. They will also tell you, in the same breath, that nothing tastes quite the way it used to, that they walked four miles to school in the snow, and that they are not on any tablets. The cream is still rising. Just not in any school in the country.

@StephenMorganMP GP appointments have also likely gone down... I wonder if there is a link and what the subsequent death data might tell us....

Under the Tories, waiting lists went up and up and were left at record highs. That is not acceptable, which is why Labour has been giving the NHS what it needs to get back on its feet, including major investment. Waiting lists are now down by over 300,000 since the election, and down by over 6,000 in Portsmouth, despite record numbers of people coming forward for treatment👇🏻

@RightSide_Uk This is so wrong. For any country, this would be wrong. If you live there and purport to serve the people there, then as a bare minimum, you should speak the language - and most definitely in all official capacities. We are a mug country.

Bolton Mayor Mohammed Iqbal delivers a full public speech — not one word in English. English is no longer required in British towns. The native English are being replaced in their own country.

@MattCas04807118 Six years? How many will he be out in ? It's just simply not good enough and is an insult to the victim, who has to live with this for the rest of her life... @DavidLammy we need to come down heavy on this kind of crap.

These monsters are of no use to anyone, they never were and never will be. 🤬🤬 The female victim escaped out of window ffs.🤬🤬 Two masked thugs broke into a woman's home and subjected her to a horrific attack whilst filming it on their mobile phone. The victim was just about to leave for work as a night cleaner on Feb 6 this year, when Isaiah Foster and Abdul El-Kamh, both 21, repeatedly banged on the front door demanding drugs and money. They then moved to the back of the house where they smashed the kitchen window and climbed inside whilst armed with a claw hammer. Inside the house in Moston, they began damaging various items before moving upstairs. The woman had shut herself into her bedroom before they kicked down the door, Manchester Crown Court heard. Her daughter and her niece had been locked in the bathroom by the woman moments before and were helpless as they heard the woman 'screaming' and 'in pain'. Her daughter said: "We were shouting 'Mama', we were both panicked and did not know what was going on." In video footage recorded by Foster and shown to the court, they could both be heard to say: "Where is it? What have you got? Go get it now. Hurry up, hurry up." The woman was seen to stagger backwards and fall to the floor before El-Kamh repeatedly rained punches down onto her. Jailing them, Recorder Andrew Long said: "This was nothing short of a home invasion. This was a very grave offence with lasting impact on her. Anyone capable of beating up a lone, defenceless woman can expect a lengthy custodial sentence." El-Kamh, of Devon Road, Tyldesley, was jailed for 6 years. Foster, of Salisbury Street, Moss Side, was jailed for eight years with an extended licence of two years. Both previously pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary and possession of an offensive weapon. #Echobox=1778522213" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-m…

@DavidLammy Hmmm how about proper deterrents? How about bringing back respect and discipline in schools? You like the rest of our MP's are clueless, you just don't live in the real world...

Labour is overhauling the youth justice system to stop young people being drawn into crime, create safer streets and tackle knife crime. After decades of Tory cuts to youth services, our reforms mean earlier intervention and faster responses to break the cycle of reoffending.

@mhdksafa What a ridiculous 'argument'. It makes no sense and you know it.

You are driving a German car to an Italian coffeeshop to drink Brazilian coffee and then going home buying Chinese takeaway to sit on a Swedish sofa in front of a Korean TV to watch U.S. shows and all the while being complain your neighbor is an immigrant. Pull yourself together.

@ragefighthouse Yes you work, therefore you contribute. You speak English. Presumably, you don't object to our traditions/culture? People are concerned not about where immigrants come from, but about who they are, their belief systems/morals and what they contribute.

I’m an immigrant who’s lived and worked in the UK for 16 years. I have a North American accent and I’m white. I’ve never once been told to ‘go back’ to my ‘shithole country’ or to ‘stop stealing jobs from British people’. You’re not concerned about immigration. You’re racist.

@SandyofSuffolk Reduce stamp duty - by a quarter. Or better still, scrap it - other countries don't have it!

More dreadful news regarding the housing market. It's now officially the hardest time to sell a property. The average time it takes to sell a property is at its longest since 2011. The number of properties on the market is at an 11 year high, according to Rightmove. The number of buyers enquiring is at its lowest in a year. More than a third of one bed flats are on the market at a lower price than was originally paid for them. Causes: rising borrowing costs, too many new builds causing an over-supply, landlords selling up because of new rental reforms, ongoing political uncertainty, Labour increasing stamp duty, second home owners selling up because of new higher taxation. It all makes for unhappy reading. Estate Agents, conveyancers and removal firms will all suffer. As I've been warning for over a year.

@jeremycorbyn Peace? What about the UK? Why are none of you interesting in the absolute mess of things here?

Proud to join hundreds of thousands of people to mark 78 years of the ongoing Nakba against the Palestinian people. We are a mass movement for peace — and we are never, ever going away.

@Malcolm_Pal9 Another embarrassment of an MP. No wonder the country is going down the pan...

Wow, what a brave lady. Such a powerful gesture. New Scottish Green Party MP Maggie Chapman took her parliamentary oath while wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh, in a show of solidarity with the Palestinian people.

@doctor_rahmeh Serious question though - is it a choice? I cannot fathom why any woman would choose to dress in such a restrictive manner? Not condoning the photo-taking btw.

Taking a picture of a woman and posting it online for the way she chooses to dress is dishonourable behaviour that should be rejected by any society that wants to maintain a shred of integrity or moral standards. May God protect this sister and keep her steadfast.

@Alonso_GD But why does it put them at risk? Because men then 'can't control themselves'? So the men have serious mental health issues but pretend that controlling women and how they dress is all about protecting women?

Islamophobia is socially accepted in the West. This sells the idea that if you remove a Muslim woman’s clothes, you’re “liberating” her. No. You’re harassing her. It puts Muslim women at risk, but it doesn’t matter, *bc they are Muslim*. Horrid, vile racism at this march

@TheRealJamieKay Hardly. I don't often go to church but was brought up as a Christian with those values, on which most of our laws are based. Hence 'we are a Christian country'. That's not racist. Nor is not wanting a country where women are not treated as 2nd class citizens

“Britain is a Christian country” usually translates to: “I haven’t been to church in 15 years but I need a reason to hate immigrants.”