@Bashprofitsug @SenTedCruz Those men aren't slaves of the British. Slavery was outlawed in the British empire in 1833. The first camera wasn't sold until 1839.
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Cai Howells
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Great to meet with King Charles III today during his first state visit to the United States.
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@timhilluk @James7Holland What a coincidence that the huge Brexit dip coincides with everyone else having a dip. Was there anything else going on at the time?
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Can anyone help?
I’m desperately looking for the cliff edge the UK went off when it voted for independence from the EU?
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@NiohBerg Reagan didn't help the UK in 82 either (nor did the rest of NATO). There's a much better chance of Starmer giving away the Falklands than the Argentinians being able to take them by force.
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Britain could lose the Falklands because of weak leadership.
It's not the 80s anymore, there's no Thatcher in charge and the UK is a depressing shell of its former self.
If Argentina simply walks in and takes over, possibly soon with Trump's approval, what exactly will Keir Starmer do? Send an angry worded letter? Would he even care at all?
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@FraserNelson Serious question - what have Trump and MAGA actually achieved? Other than a shitty ballroom?
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“America’s experiment with MAGA is over. JD Vance will not win in 2028, nor will Rubio. Something is shifting in the American psyche”
Matthew Syed on the fallout from the Iran debacle - and America’s potential for renewal
thetimes.com/article/67289b…
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@FraserNelson Too late. The American century is well and truly over and the world is moving on from dependence on an unstable power.
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@afneil If they're able to stop traffic now, without a navy, then they obviously did 'control' the straits prior to the war.
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You missed out:
The Iranian regime is still in power, more extreme, more oppressive than ever.
It now controls the Strait of Hormuz, a power it didn’t have before Feb 28 and which it didn’t have even during the prolonged Iran-Iraq War.
It still feels strong enough not to agree peace on US-Israeli terms.
And still has enough missiles/drones to attack its neighbours, who are wondering what will become of them if Iran continues to grip the Strait.
There. I think that gives a more compete picture.
Inside_Israel_Intel@inside_IL_intel
You’ve heard it for weeks now: “No clear objective.” “Mission creep.” “U.S. and Israel are in over their heads.” “Iran is holding strong.” Watch the footage again. Then ask yourself if any of that matches reality. What you are looking at is not a stalemate. It is not a drawn-out exchange. It is not two equal sides trading blows. It is the systematic dismantling of a nation-state’s military architecture. Air defenses collapsed. Command and control degraded. Missile infrastructure targeted and reduced. Strategic sites hit repeatedly, at will. This is what dominance looks like. The narrative that the U.S. and Israel “failed to define victory” only works if you ignore what actually happened on the ground. Because in operational terms, the objectives are clear: • Iran’s ability to defend its own airspace was broken • Its capacity to project missile force was severely degraded • Critical military and nuclear infrastructure was set back in a measurable, lasting way That is not ambiguity. That is outcome. There is a difference between political messaging and battlefield reality. Politically, you can spin this however you want. You can say it wasn’t enough. You can argue about what comes next. But you cannot look at the scale, the tempo, and the results of what you see here and honestly claim that Iran “held its ground.” It didn’t. It was penetrated, dismantled, and set back in ways that will take years to rebuild, if it can rebuild at all. This video doesn’t just show strikes. It shows the gap between the story being told and the reality on the ground. And that gap is getting harder to hide.
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@Gazmcstew @BriannaWu Funny thing about you, is that you're retarded
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@BriannaWu Funny thing about 9/11, is that it wasn't done by Muslim extremists, but was actually a false flag attack done by Israel, so yeah. Maybe check your facts before you post.
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What Mehdi Hasan and other Jew haters can’t understand is no one has to pay me to support Israel and American Jews.
I grew up in Mississippi and don’t like bigots.
And I remember 9/11 and understand radical Islam wants to kill us.
That’s it. That’s my entire motivation.
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@bbeeeeeepp @InFearOfKeir @OliverKamm Yeah, the 1880s are so analogous to today's education and welfare state, aren't they? 🙄
For what it's worth, AI says that at its peak, the no. of Yiddish-speaking children was 20k. Today, the number is roughly 2 million. Please continue to beclown yourself.
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@CJHowls @InFearOfKeir @OliverKamm 100,000+ Yiddish speaking migrants settled in London at a time when the population of the city and England overall were both much lower. you lot genuinely have no idea how ignorant you are yiddishbookcenter.org/language-liter…
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There he goes again. This is disgracefully dishonest and he’s had the issue explained to him. He’s referring to children who speak >1 language - typically a language of the home (eg Urdu, Pahari) plus English at school & in public. Bilingualism is a good thing, not a threat.
Matt Goodwin@GoodwinMJ
In more than 2,000 schools in England today a majority of children no longer speak English as their main language. My critics might not think that tells us something important about what is happening to our country. But I do. And I will not change my view shorturl.at/f5iAJ
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@bbeeeeeepp @InFearOfKeir @OliverKamm At the peak of their immigration into the UK, how many kids do you think spoke those as a first language? You're talking a few thousand Vs hundreds of thousands.
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@InFearOfKeir @OliverKamm this is so transparently illogical. migrant kids speaking French, Yiddish, Italian, all were fine, but when the kids are dark enough in skin colour suddenly that all goes out the window and they'll NeVeR iNtEgRaTe. pure idiocy
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@simon_schama I wish we could have had intellectual heavyweights like Eddie Izzard or Jo Brand back instead.
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obviously super-qualified to speak about the Iran war
RS Archer@archer_rs
That curious high pitched sound you heard when you read this was the sound of a BBC producer scraping a barrel.
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Another misery caused by Brexit voters
Geneva airport: EU citizens queue for passport control empty. Brits queue for over an hour
Brexit voters should have to pay a £5,000 tax surcharge for the misery they have inflicted on the rest of us: Higher prices, job & trade losses
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@bambibristol It's a shame that a vital and heroic organisation has inadvertently become the biggest people-trafficker in British history.
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@Domhnallbain @_Kodos_ @MadelaineLucyH Who are the mainstream left wing politicians or commentators who don't or haven't supported mass immigration from the third world?
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@_Kodos_ @MadelaineLucyH That still is the Left-wing. If you’re not hearing that message it’s because you’re not being exposed to left-wing voices.
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Remember when right wing meant “oh I don’t like high taxes” and not “until Britain is 100% genetically Saxon we are a failed state”
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the left-right split in paris isn't new. but this map of the mayoral election is one of the cleanest illustrations of it you'll ever see.
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@MaxSterlingJr @blaiklockBP They already have their own court system
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@blaiklockBP Should we allow Muslims to set up and operate parallel services to the British state? If the answer is no then these should also not be allowed.
People will talk about Muslim integration and then say they don’t have a problem with this.
It’s the same thing.
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Can Christian’s in Britain set up their own police and patrol certain neighbourhoods?
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@SpeechUnion Is there any legal argument on the grounds that a keffiyeh does look exactly like a tea towel?
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Royal Holloway student Brodie Mitchell is embroiled in a legal battle with the university following a row at Freshers’ Fair last year.
Brodie likened the president of Friends of Palestine, Huda El-Jamal’s keffiyeh, to a tea towel after she called him a “wannabe Jew”.
A day later, he was handed a nine-week suspension while Royal Holloway carried out an investigation into “alleged conduct that could be considered hate speech”. He was locked off campus and out of his accommodation, while Ms El-Jamal was allowed to continue her studies.
The Free Speech Union is supporting Brodie and has lodged a complaint with the Office for Students (OfS).
Thanks to our intervention, Brodie is now back on campus, but under onerous restrictions. He has also been warned he could face expulsion for any further breach of university rules.
He is set to tell a three-day trial in June that his studies will now take longer to complete after he was barred from campus.
Read more below 👇
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He begins this string of fictions by saying a generation is 74 years long. It goes downhill from there as he starts plucking numbers & stats out of his arse. You can see his brain making it up as he goes along. "1 in 3 of us will be shouting Allah Akbar by ...umm ...2032...probably"
Matt Goodwin@GoodwinMJ
I joined the New Culture Forum to discuss Suicide of a Nation Full video is out tomorrow I discussed the state of Britain with Peter Whittle many times & will be doing so at NCF events shortly
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@Skybuster187 @ConceptualJames @PhillyEagles300 Literally the only reason anyone considered invading them is that they kept attacking people and were developing nukes and ICBMs.
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@ProfAliceS If he'd had any sense of humour he would have changed it from Mark Hellen to Helen Mark.
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1/ Dr Natacha Kennedy, a lecturer at Goldsmiths, has been celebrating the death of Jenni Murray, the highly-respected former presenter of BBC Woman's Hour.
Kennedy wishes for Jenni Murray's grave to be treated as a 'gender-neutral bathroom'.
Kennedy is an important figure in academic trans activism in the UK.
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@MadelaineLucyH If it were white American men moving into the country and raping thousands of Asian girls, you'd be out for blood.
Is there a list of countries we're morally bound to accept people from and what is their combined population?
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What you say: We need immigration policies that heavily focus on integration and racial equity
What they hear: I want millions of people to move here illegally because I'm an insane woke loser
What you say: Failing to acknowledge the fact that abusers come from all ethnicities endangers little girls
What they hear: I'm denying that grooming gangs or predatory immigrants exist because I'm evil
What you say: We have a duty to offer refuge to those who are fleeing certain death under their own regimes with no alternative statehood
What they hear: Everyone should be let in, especially those who just want to do crime and kill kids
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