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The Saviour
The Saviour@TheSaviour·
What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you see this flag?
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John Jones
John Jones@JJones490·
@charlotteukcity @TheRealJamieKay If you're bored of it Charlotte, it's because you're stupid. If you trust Starmer you must be an idiot. Starmer's judgement is clearly crap, otherwise he would not have given the the twice sacked Mandelson the ambassador job. Starmer also lies all the time.
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@TheRealJamieKay I think I’m bored of it. He’s admitted he made and error of judgement. He’s apologised. Most people couldn’t care less about Mandelson, it’s just a useful stick to beat him with before elections. I do trust him and I do think Keir is a good man. ❤️
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Jamie Kay
Jamie Kay@TheRealJamieKay·
This Keir Starmer / Mandelson story is absolutely explosive. And most people still haven’t clocked how serious it actually is. Let’s break it down 👇
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Heather Jeeves 🇪🇺
Heather Jeeves 🇪🇺@HeatherJeeves·
There is absolutely no one else I would rather have as PM than Kier Starmer at the present time. Not a single opinionated journalist will convince me otherwise.
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John Jones
John Jones@JJones490·
@RolandsDelectus @BBCNews Yeah. Who cares? Government lying, pissing on any pretence of democracy, financial scams, espionage, corruption. Not important. UK public can go and fuck themselves. Talking about how we're being taken for a ride is so tedious. Wanker!
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Martin Knight
Martin Knight@MartinKnight_·
Who was the last British PM to leave the country a better place than it was on the day they took office?
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Prof Thom Brooks
Prof Thom Brooks@thom_brooks·
I’m proud to have supported the Prime Minister since day one. Not halfway through Parliament and much work to do. Full support.
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John Jones
John Jones@JJones490·
@DovForman I'm so sorry to hear about your problems with living as a Jew in Britain; it sounds very much worse than having your home and neighbourhood destroyed, and your family blown apart.
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Dov Forman
Dov Forman@DovForman·
Being a Jewish student in Britain today means living a kind of double life. I go to lectures. I take exams. I navigate seminar rooms and library queues like any other student. But unlike most of my peers, I do all of this while calculating: am I in danger because my Star of David or Kippah is visible? Will speaking up in this discussion make me a target? Is today a day there'll be a demonstration outside? Going to university is supposed to be a student’s main job. Right now, for many British Jewish students, it feels like a side gig - squeezed in around the exhausting, full-time business of simply being Jewish on campus. My great-grandmother was Lily Ebert. She arrived at Auschwitz at just 20 years old. In a single day, her mother, her younger sister, her youngest brother, and over 100 members of her extended family were murdered - gassed and cremated, their ashes scattered with no grave, no place to mourn. That was July 1944. She survived. She came to Britain to rebuild her life, and she did more than survive; she thrived. She built a large and loving family: ten grandchildren, 38 great-grandchildren and even a great-great-grandchild in her final year. She believed Britain would be a safe haven. A place where her family could live openly, proudly, as Jews. A country that had learned the lessons of history. For decades, she travelled across the UK speaking in schools, and in her later years she used social media to warn young people that the Holocaust did not begin with violence. It began with words. With small actions. With a shifting atmosphere. In her final months before she passed away in October 2024, my great-grandmother was horrified. Horrified to see the country she had trusted - after the greatest crime in history beginning to fail its most basic duty. She was right to be horrified. And this week, her warnings feel more urgent than ever. British counter terror police are today investigating a wave of arson attacks on Jewish sites across London - four in as many days - probing whether Iranian proxies are responsible. Two synagogues and a Jewish charity torched. And an Iran-linked group threatening to fly drones carrying hazardous substances at the Israeli embassy. This all coming only a few weeks after Jewish ambulances were set alight in Golders Green – one of the most Jewish areas in the UK. Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has warned that "a sustained campaign of violence and intimidation against the Jewish community of the UK is gathering momentum." Prime Minister Keir Starmer has expressed surprise and called the attacks "abhorrent." But how can he possibly claim surprise? If you tolerate chants of "Globalise the Intifada," don't be surprised when the Intifada is globalised. And throwing money at the problem simply is not a solution. You cannot pay your way out of an Intifada. And we cannot continue to besiege ourselves with security – living behind ever thicker doors and higher fences with barbed wire. This violence doesn't begin with arson. It begins with ideology - and until Britain starts tackling the ideology, no amount of policing or security will stop the flames. That means banning the IRGC, who may well be behind this very campaign of attacks. And it means confronting the Muslim Brotherhood, who are radicalising young people across this country - on campuses, in mosques, in community centres - and may well be recruiting the people lighting these fires. And it starts closer to home too, on campuses like mine, where week after week, masked demonstrators flood university spaces, chanting slogans that go far beyond political protest into something far darker. Jewish students are singled out in lectures, booed, shouted down, accused of being "baby killers" simply for being Jewish. Many now tuck away their Star of David necklaces and think twice before speaking up in seminars. A Jewish professor had his lecture stormed by masked protesters who screamed abuse, branded him a "war criminal," and - according to witnesses - threatened to behead him. His only crime was being Jewish and refusing to be intimidated. And it is not just coming from the students. Too often, academics themselves are part of the problem. On my own campus, the medieval blood libel - the conspiracy that Jews use non-Jewish blood in their rituals - was repeated to students as fact, at one of supposedly the best universities in the UK. Beyond campus: an NHS doctor posts "gas the Jews" online and faces no meaningful consequence. Jewish artists are quietly dropped from programmes. Jewish events are cancelled without explanation. Protests where chants cross into open hatred are allowed to continue unchecked by police. Individually, each moment can be explained away. Together, they reveal a slow and steady normalisation of dangerous jew-hatred. In the past year alone, the UK recorded the highest number of violent antisemitic assaults per capita anywhere in the diaspora - roughly one for every 2,500 Jews. Jewish schools have warned students not to wear visible symbols on their commute. Jewish teenagers have been assaulted on public transport. Every Jewish institution now sits behind security barriers, guards, and locked doors. We are a community under siege. My great-grandmother spent her life warning that these things begin not with violence, but with silence. With the small capitulations. With institutions that hedge, qualify, and reach for the language of "context" and "balance" - as if balance is possible when a minority is being targeted. Britain has a choice. It can honour the lessons it claims to have learned. Or it can allow that silence to continue - and discover, too late, where silence leads. My great-grandmother, Lily Ebert, survived Auschwitz. It is shameful that she lived to see Britain begin to echo the very hatred she had survived - and thought she had left behind in Eastern Europe.
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Shabana Mahmood MP
Shabana Mahmood MP@ShabanaMahmood·
An honour to meet the Chief Rabbi today. I know this is a time of deep concern for our Jewish community, following a series of vile antisemitic attacks. We stand in solidarity. We have stepped up security for the Jewish community across the UK. But as well as treating the symptoms, we must address the causes - by tackling the roots of antisemitism.
Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis@chiefrabbi

This afternoon I met with Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, and shared with her the depth of concern and anxiety felt across the Jewish community in the wake of the campaign of violent attacks against Jewish sites. I was reassured by her personal commitment to the safety of the Jewish community and to strengthening the law to that end, as well as her recognition of the need to address the root causes of anti-Jewish hatred.

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Rachel Reeves
Rachel Reeves@RachelReevesMP·
This is not our war, but it is now pushing up bills for families and businesses. That’s why keeping costs down is my number one priority – and our economic plan has put us in a stronger position to face this crisis.
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Carole chapman
Carole chapman@Carolechapman17·
@ianrich15813274 You are quite right we don’t care about it, we are immune after 14vyrs of tory wrongdoing and get outs. Let this government get on with its job, that is far more important.
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Ian L Richardson
Ian L Richardson@ianrich15813274·
I'm not a big fan of Starmer, but he has just wiped the floor with Badenoch at PMQ's. She can't let go of the Mandelson issue, most people don't understand it, or care about it.
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The Intellectualist
The Intellectualist@highbrow_nobrow·
J.D. Vance: I empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents. @Acyn (2025)
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Kevin Edger
Kevin Edger@KEdge23·
How would you describe Labour MPs in one word?
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John Jones
John Jones@JJones490·
@mjdaly57 @pritipatel Priti is completely incompetent and a certifiable idiot. Too stupid to appreciate her own stupidity.
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MikeD
MikeD@mjdaly57·
Israeli agent @pritipatel now stridently holding forth at the Despatch Box saying that Iran is the foremost terrorist state in the world, stating that its murdered tens of thousands of its own citizens. No evidence to back it up. Netanyahu and Israel’s terrorist actions and slaughter conveniently not mentioned.
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Reina Guerrera 🐸
Reina Guerrera 🐸@ReinaGuerr30072·
@TheSaviour So all the video evidence, including the ones made by the IDF, is propaganda🤔 So we’re now supposed to believe that Palestinians have been killing, sniping, bombing & murdering themselves🤔 That they bombed their own homes because they WANT to live in tents🤔 Netanyahu ⬇️
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The Saviour
The Saviour@TheSaviour·
🚨🇮🇱 Israeli PM Netanyahu: “We have NEVER killed children in Gaza… This is antisemitic PROPAGANDA!”
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Barak Ravid
Barak Ravid@BarakRavid·
צה"ל ממשיך להרוס מבנים בכפרים בדרום לבנון בזמן הפסקת האש. מפקדים בצבא העידו בשיחה עם @yanivkub כי מתבצע הרס שיטתי של מבנים אזרחיים בכפרים שבהם פועלים הכוחות, בין היתר ליד הגבול עם ישראל. לדברי המפקדים, קבלנים אזרחים מקבלים שכר יומי או מתוגמלים לפי מספר המבנים שנהרסו, כמו ברמועת עזה. הפעילות מתאפיינת בהריסה נרחבת של בתים, מבני ציבור ואף מוסדות חינוך. בצה"ל מכנים את המדיניות הזו בשם "מחרשת הכסף" haaretz.co.il/news/politics/…
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Marian Houk
Marian Houk@Marianhouk·
Barak Ravid: The IDF continues to destroy buildings in villages in southern Lebanon during the ceasefire. Commanders in the army testified in a conversation with @yanivkub [Haaretz journalist] that systematic destruction of civilian buildings is being carried out in villages where the forces operate, including near the border with Israel. ->> *According to the commanders, civilian contractors receive daily pay or are compensated based on the number of buildings destroyed, similar to what happened in the Gaza Strip. The activity is characterized by the widespread demolition of homes, public buildings, and even educational institutions. In the IDF, this policy is referred to as the money plow*. <<--
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צה"ל ממשיך להרוס מבנים בכפרים בדרום לבנון בזמן הפסקת האש. מפקדים בצבא העידו בשיחה עם @yanivkub כי מתבצע הרס שיטתי של מבנים אזרחיים בכפרים שבהם פועלים הכוחות, בין היתר ליד הגבול עם ישראל. לדברי המפקדים, קבלנים אזרחים מקבלים שכר יומי או מתוגמלים לפי מספר המבנים שנהרסו, כמו ברמועת עזה. הפעילות מתאפיינת בהריסה נרחבת של בתים, מבני ציבור ואף מוסדות חינוך. בצה"ל מכנים את המדיניות הזו בשם "מחרשת הכסף" haaretz.co.il/news/politics/…

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Philip Proudfoot
Philip Proudfoot@PhilipProudfoot·
The hardest thing to relate to is *why* Starmer wants to remain in office. He has no ideological vision, no commitment to bettering the lives of others, doesn’t appear comfortable happy in his skin. Does he really want to stay just to be blamed for the local election wipeout?
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