Henry Campbell-Ricketts

A basic historical fact: The land now called Israel was known in antiquity as Canaan, then Israel and Judah/Judea — long before it was ever officially called “Palestine.” #Israel

Conservatives up 2 to 19%, now level with the Greens and ahead of Labour. A small move, but a telling one. Badenoch’s Thatcherite long game, serious policy, calm discipline, real credibility, is starting to cut through. This is how Conservative victories begin.

The government’s big answer to sky-high fuel prices 🚀 An app that shows one local garage selling petrol at £1.55 a litre… and the other at £1.56 🤦🏼‍♂️ Truly world-class leadership. What a useless bunch of idiots 🎪

If Keir Starmer wanted to, he could. He could pass legislation to unlock North Sea oil and gas, and we’d support it. It’s time to Get Britain Drilling.

Great interview from @ClaireCoutinho. The reason Ed Miliband won’t lift the ban on new drilling licenses is because he needs to save face. He does not want to admit he got it wrong and doesn’t care if the whole country suffers. 👉youtu.be/5anXrBUKcqU?si…

.@KemiBadenoch will unlock the power of the North Sea and cut your energy bills 🇬🇧

Lift the Ban on new Oil and Gas licences. Scrap the Windfall Tax. Get Britain Drilling. That's our plan to get Britain's energy sector moving again.

The mythical ‘far right’ is not the problem - the anti-British, pro murderous Mullah, anti women, anti gay, Jew hating woke extremists from the left most definitely are….

Britain is being taken for a ride by Rachel Reeves and it’s families paying the price at the pump. While Spain, India and Norway cut fuel duty to back their people, Labour continue to squeeze our motorists dry. Reeves must axe the fuel tax hike, ditch the net zero dogma and drill in the north sea to bring prices down. I spoke to @TheSun 👇🏻

The Green Party Knows Exactly What It Is. And It's Hiding It. While his party's activists were describing Jews as an abomination to this planet and claiming the Golders Green firebombing was staged by Jewish people, Zack Polanski was in Trafalgar Square protesting against the far right. He was not at his conference. He was not addressing the antisemitism crisis engulfing his party. He was standing in the same public space where the Adhan rang out two weeks ago, positioning himself as a defender of British values against hatred. The irony would be funny if the underlying reality were not so serious. The WhatsApp messages leaked to The Telegraph this week are not ambiguous. Green Party activists described Jewish people as an abomination to this planet. They said Jews murder, bomb and starve children. They claimed the firebombing of four Hatzola Northwest ambulances in Golders Green, an attack claimed by an Iranian proxy group that published a trilingual statement of responsibility within hours, was a false flag staged by Jewish people. A Green council candidate standing in Havering in the May local elections shared those claims publicly. When two men were arrested in connection with the attack she predicted with almost absolute certainty they would be white, probably even Jewish. They were British nationals. She has not withdrawn the claim. The Campaign Against Antisemitism said the views expressed were straight out of Nazi Germany. They are right. But the most revealing document in this story is not the WhatsApp messages. It is the briefing paper Greens for Palestine circulated to its members before the leaks emerged. It told activists not to take the bait, not to post antisemitic comments publicly, to ask themselves what it would look like on the front page of a newspaper. It did not tell members to stop being antisemitic. It told them to hide it. The private chat reveals what they actually think. The briefing document reveals they knew exactly how it would look and chose concealment over correction. That is not ignorance. It is strategy. When the group was asked for a comment, its leaders announced they were deleting the chat because it had been infiltrated. Members then began searching for a more covert platform. They immediately began speculating that Signal, the encrypted messaging app, was Israel owned because its co-founder has a Jewish surname. Others suggested that the American non-profit publicly listed as Signal's owner could be a cover for Israeli control. A third noted they were all on WhatsApp which was founded by Zuckerberg, prompting laughter emojis. This is not the fringe of the Green Party. This is a grassroots faction that has been inside the party for eighteen months, has forced a motion onto the conference agenda and is standing candidates in the May local elections. Polanski is Jewish. He has refused to say definitively whether he would back the motion. When pressed he said that if Zionism means what the Israeli government is perpetrating in Gaza then yes, absolutely, it is racist. His deputy Mothim Ali has more decisively thrown his weight behind it. Jewish members of the party have warned that if the motion passes it would give the party the ability to expel them simply for engaging with their own religious community. The party declined to say whether it had launched any investigation or removed any members over the abomination comments. Greens for Palestine told its members their cause was a righteous one. We are the good guys, it said. Jewish ambulances had just been firebombed in north London. Jewish students are being chased home on university campuses. Jewish families are changing their names and making plans to leave the country. And the good guys are in a WhatsApp group calling Jews an abomination, claiming the firebombing was a false flag, and looking for a more covert messaging platform so it does not happen again. Zak Polanski and Mothin Ali

The hard left calls this “anti-fascism”. But when you march alongside people who spend their time excusing Islamist authoritarianism and regimes like Iran’s, it stops being principle. It becomes hypocrisy with a slogan. #Iran #AntiFascism #LondonProtest youtube.com/watch?v=NalCNf…

The modern hard left will march against “fascism” in London while sharing platforms with people who excuse or relativise regimes like Iran’s. Call it what it is: not principle, but ideological fraud. #Iran #AntiFascism #LondonProtest

If your anti-fascist march has people holding the image of the Ayatollah who slaughtered thousands of peaceful protesters then you’re on a fascist march.

Owen Jones, Wikipedia's expert on Israel, spread this lie.

There is so much ignorance about Israel and Israelis. They are so many lies told by anti-Israel haters. I like the personal touch so I thought I would take you on a bit of a tour to meet some: THREAD ⬇️⬇️⬇️

I will speak more plainly than most Those Brits who peacock as left wing opponents of the far right are among the most disgusting people in humanity The fact that you march alongside the Islamic fundamentalist supporters of the ayatollahs - those who stabbed Salman Rushdie in the eye, who hang gays and butcher women, who fire rockets upon Israeli civilians and funded Hamas, who massacred thousands on the streets of Tehran - makes you champions of the most reactionary forces on earth The fact that our media is captured by idiots like you and thus you are never held to account does not change this You - the most pompous, the most self-aggrandising, the most preachy and hectoring - are the scum of Britain

Jeremy Clarkson is 💯 right. It’s time for the government to prioritise British farming.

Starmer Has the Intelligence. He's Chosen to Ignore It. Why? Isaac Herzog did not mince his words. The Israeli president looked at Britain's record on Iran and asked, simply: "What is this?" Ten, twenty terror events linked to Iran on British soil in a single year. Jewish ambulances firebombed. Four men arrested surveilling Jewish targets on Tehran's behalf. Ballistic missiles fired at Diego Garcia, a base where British personnel serve. And a Prime Minister who has still not proscribed the organisation responsible for all of it. Herzog's question deserves a straight answer. Britain is the only major western ally that has not designated the IRGC as a terrorist organisation. The United States has. The European Union has — and the EU spent years resisting precisely because it feared straining relations with Tehran, before being shamed into acting by the IRGC's massacre of its own protesters. Britain has not moved. The question worth asking is not whether Starmer has the information. He does. The question is what he intends to do with it. This matters because the case against Starmer is not one of ignorance. MI5 disclosed 20 disrupted Iran-backed plots against British citizens since 2022. The Walney report documented more than 30 Iran-linked institutions operating inside Britain, eight of them already under Charity Commission investigation. The intelligence picture is not ambiguous. The threat is established, documented, and growing. What is missing is the political will to act on it. The government's stated justification for not proscribing the IRGC is a legal one: the organisation is technically part of the Iranian state and therefore cannot be treated in the same category as Hamas or Hezbollah. This argument, understood to have the fingerprints of Attorney General Lord Hermer on it, would be more persuasive if the IRGC were behaving like a state institution rather than a terror army. It directed assassination plots on British streets. It is suspected of orchestrating the firebombing of a Jewish charity. It fired missiles at British sovereign territory. The legal distinction Hermer is drawing has become a shield for inaction, not a principled limit on it. Former heads of Britain's counter-terrorism operations in the Middle East have now taken the unusual step of writing publicly to say that Starmer's refusal to proscribe the IRGC is leaving Britain strategically exposed. This is not backbench noise. These are people who spent careers inside the threat picture. When they break cover to criticise a sitting prime minister's security posture, the assessment should be taken seriously. Starmer's handling of the broader Iran conflict follows the same pattern. He initially refused to allow American strikes from British bases. He authorised their use only later, for what Downing Street carefully described as defensive operations. HMS Dragon arrived in the Mediterranean four weeks into the conflict. The sequencing is always the same: delay, recalibrate, reposition once the political cost of inaction becomes impossible to absorb. It is not caution. Caution implies a settled judgement. This is drift. The Hatzola firebombing brought 3,700 recorded antisemitic incidents in Britain last year into sharper focus. Herzog spoke to the charity's leadership from the Israeli border and told them the fate of Jews everywhere is bound together. He is right. And it falls to the British government to ensure that Iranian terror networks cannot operate on British streets with the quiet assurance that the state will not move against them. A prime minister who waits for the evidence to be overwhelming before acting has already failed. The evidence is now overwhelming. The assassins are already on our streets. "This matters because the case against Starmer is not one of ignorance. MI5 disclosed 20 disrupted Iran-backed plots against British citizens since 2022."

Starmer and Reeves promised not to put up tax. They've broken that promise again and again to pay for welfare. This time it's fuel duty. Under their plan, families will pay nearly £40,000 over their lives. As usual, the hardworking get punished; the non-working get rewarded.