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William Keith

@SingleSpeedWill

bicyclist, bicycle shop owner, follower of world happenings and occasional commentator.

South Africa Katılım Nisan 2011
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Team South Africa
Team South Africa@OfficialTeamRSA·
🚀 HISTORY MADE IN GQEBERHA! 🇿🇦 18-year-old Jessica Thompson broke records at the 2026 SA National Youth Championships. Competing at Newton Park, she set new South African and African records in the women’s 50m backstroke. Jessica finished the final in 27.67 seconds, now holding the African record for both Long Course and Short Course in this event. She has also entered the global top 10 seasonal rankings. 🌟 #TeamSA #ForMyCountry
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Thank you so much for this. Very pleased The Church has remembered and risen to the task of reminding the Monarch of his duty, his moral obligation as Keeper of The Faith.
Bishop Ceirion H. Dewar FSHC@BishopDewar

As a Bishop, I cannot stay silent. I have today drafted and sent an open letter to His Majesty King Charles III, the text of which reads as follows: To: His Majesty, Charles III, King of the United Kingdom and the Realms, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Bearer of the ancient title Defender of the Faith. Your Majesty, I write to you neither as a politician nor as a commentator, but as one of your loyal subjects who, as a bishop of Christ’s Church, cannot remain silent while the Christian foundations of this kingdom are steadily dismantled. Sir, there are moments in the life of a nation when silence becomes a form of betrayal. If I refused to speak to Your Majesty now, this would be such a moment. For more than a thousand years the Crown of this realm has stood in solemn covenant with the Christian faith. The laws of this land were shaped by it. The liberties of our people were nurtured by it. The conscience of our civilisation was formed by it. From the abbeys of medieval England to the parish churches of our villages, from the preaching of the Reformers to the missionary zeal that carried the Gospel to the ends of the earth, the Christian faith has not merely influenced Britain — it has defined her. Yet today that inheritance is being quietly but deliberately eroded. Across the institutions of this nation there is a growing hostility toward the faith that built them. Christian belief is mocked in the public square. Christian morality is dismissed as intolerance. Christian institutions are pressured to surrender doctrine in order to conform to the ideology of the age. Within the very Church that bears the name of England, voices have arisen that appear more eager to mirror the spirit of the age than to proclaim the eternal truth of the Gospel. Meanwhile, beyond the walls of our churches, powerful political movements openly speak of removing Christianity from its historic place within the life of this nation. What would once have been whispered is now proclaimed openly: that Britain must become a post-Christian state. It is in this context that I write to you, Your Majesty. For the British Crown does not stand apart from this crisis. The Sovereign of this realm bears a title that is not merely historic but sacred in its origin and meaning: Defender of the Faith. Those words are not decorative. They are a charge. They speak of a monarch whose duty is not merely to preside over the ceremonies of the Church, but to stand as a guardian of the Christian inheritance of the nation. Yet many among your subjects now ask, with increasing anxiety: “Who will defend that inheritance today?” They see a nation drifting from its foundations. And they ask whether the Crown will remain silent while that inheritance is dismantled. Your Majesty, may I be so bold as to observe that your coronation oath was not a poetic formality. It was a solemn vow made before Almighty God to maintain and preserve the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law. Those words bind the conscience of the sovereign. They remind the Crown that its authority is not merely constitutional but moral. The monarch is not merely a symbol of national continuity, but a custodian of the spiritual inheritance that shaped this realm. History records moments when kings and emperors were confronted by the Church and reminded that their authority was accountable before God. In the fourth century Ambrose of Milan stood before the Emperor Theodosius I and reminded him that even the ruler of an empire must bow before the moral law of Christ. That tradition of prophetic witness has never disappeared. Nor should it. For when rulers forget the foundations upon which their authority rests, the Church must speak — not with hostility, but with holy clarity. And so, I write to say this, Your Majesty: The Christian character of this nation is under profound and accelerating assault. If the Crown does not stand visibly and courageously in defence of that inheritance, history will record that the guardians of Britain’s institutions watched in silence as the foundations were removed. The issue before us is not nostalgia. It is civilisation. Remove Christianity from the story of Britain and you do not create a neutral society — you create a moral vacuum. And history teaches us that moral vacuums are never left empty for long. Your Majesty now stands at a crossroads that few monarchs in modern history have faced. For the erosion of Britain’s Christian inheritance will not ultimately be judged by speeches made in Parliament or debates in the press. It will be judged by whether those entrusted with the guardianship of our ancient institutions chose to defend them — or merely preside over their quiet surrender. You may preside over the quiet dissolution of Britain’s Christian identity. Or you may rise to the ancient responsibility entrusted to the Crown and speak with clarity about the faith that built this kingdom. The first path requires little courage. The second will require a great deal. But it is the path that history honours. Your Majesty’s subjects are not asking for religious coercion. They are asking for leadership. They are asking that the sovereign who bears the title Defender of the Faith remember what that title means. They are asking that the Crown hear the growing cry of anguish from Christians across this land who feel that the spiritual inheritance of their nation is being surrendered without resistance. And they are asking whether the Crown will stand with them. For the faith that shaped Britain is not merely a cultural ornament. It is the wellspring from which our laws, our liberties, and our moral imagination have flowed. If it is cast aside, the nation will discover — too late — that it has severed itself from the very roots that sustained it. Your Majesty, to many the Crown is a symbol of authority. But before God it is also a symbol of stewardship. And stewardship carries with it the duty to defend what has been entrusted. May Almighty God grant Your Majesty the wisdom to discern this hour, and the courage to fulfil the sacred duty entrusted to the Crown. Yours faithfully, Bishop Ceirion H. Dewar FSHC Missionary Bishop Diocese of Providence Confessing Anglican Church @PhilHs10 @RevBrettMurphy @revwickland @BishopRobert1 @GBNews @TalkTV @danwootton @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @LozzaFox @BackBrexitBen @RupertLowe10 @KemiBadenoch @JohnCleese

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Front Row Rugby@FrontRowRugbyXV·
The one on the left or the one on the right?
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Front Row Rugby@FrontRowRugbyXV·
Happy St Patrick's Day! Here are the highlights from Ireland's latest defeat to the Springboks.
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Rakesh Krishnan Simha@ByRakeshSimha·
Tommy Robinson on how rape gangs operate in Britain: "A young Pakistani, who might be your daughter's age, 14 at school, he will befriend her, become friends with her. It's a process. And then he will have older brothers and cousins and uncles. So he'll get her in, she'll be friends with him, which is normal, boys the same age. Then he'll introduce them to the olders. "Now the olders will buy them trainers, phones, cigarettes. And they'll start taking them out in nice sports cars and treating them very well. So the girl's being treated well, she's feeling like she's with a large group of men and they're all treating her like an adult. "And then they'll slowly talk to the girl - your mum and dad think you're a little girl. They're treating you like a child. You're not a child, you're growing up. And they turn the child against the mum and dad. "And then they take the girl and slowly they'll start with alcohol, they'll start with cigarettes, they'll start with a bit of cannabis. "And it's a process. And then they'll get the girl, sometimes when the girl falls in love. And this is the same MO across the country, across the world. "Sometimes with Sikh girls, they used to get a camera and the man would fall in love with her, get the girl to fall in love with him. And then they'd video her. And if she's Sikh, they then say, were going to put this online. "Sikhs are an Indian religion. Because of the pride in the family, no one will ever marry her and her family are disowned. So they'd use this weapon, the video, to make her have sex with who they want and then they'll prostitute her and then they've got her. "But with British girls, they make her fall in love and then the Muslims sometimes would say, I'm in debt, they're all going to kill me. I've got these gangs and they want to kll me. And I dont know what to do and and the only way I can repay them is if you have sex with them, yeah? "So then the girl would start falling in love, thinking she's saving him. And then she'll start being prostituted and sometimes they'll just drive her somewhere and six of them will rpe her. And that's the start. "But that wont happen overnight. That might happen after 6 months. Before those 6 months, they've already isolated her. So when they get her, they'll isolate her from her friends, stop her hanging around with her friends, change her friendship group, slowly isolate her from the family. And the worst thing a parent can do is is fall out with the kid. Because then they've got the kid. Then they've got her."
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J Stewart
J Stewart@triffic_stuff_·
🚨RICKY GERVAIS LAUNCHES BLISTERING ATTACK ON KEIR STARMER & THE ENTIRE CORRUPT POLITICAL ELITE 🔥🤬 Ricky Gervais Tears Into Every Lying, Greedy Politician As Shitty Corrupt Tw*ts In Savage Tirade 👊💥 Ricky Gervais has unleashed a ferocious, profanity-laced blistering attack that spares absolutely no one in Westminster—Keir Starmer, Labour, the Tories, the lot of them get shredded with zero mercy. The comedian's resurfaced rant is unrelenting fury as he eviscerates the lot: “They’re all f*cking, lying, sh!tty little, f*cking corrupt tw*ts!” Any naive hope of decent people in power? Obliterated. Gervais delivers the cold truth: “I think I thought there was good guys and bad guys, but now I just think they’re all little f*cking sh*ts.” He then goes straight for the jugular on the entitled, silver-spoon brigade still lording it over everyone: “Greedy little f*cking posh tw*ts.” Gervais isn't offering polite critique; he's voicing the raw frustration boiling over across the country after endless broken promises and sleaze. Well said @rickygervais 👏👏
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David Atherton
David Atherton@DaveAtherton20·
I am increasingly disillusioned with my reach on X, so I am writing about stuff I like: English idioms. From 1188 to 1902 the Old Bailey Crown Court was attached to Newgate Prison. The condemned men were taken by horse and cart to Tyburn, modern day Marble Arch, to be hung. They were allowed a pint of beer on the way. Stopping off in the Holborn area they had "one for the road". The driver of the horse and cart was not allowed to drink, as he was "on the wagon". Once hung at Tyburn to be put the person out of their misery they would yank their leg to break their neck. I am not "pulling your leg". Often famous or notorious people were hung and people wanted to buy the noose. After all it was "money for old rope".
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William Keith@SingleSpeedWill·
@BarneySimon No. Wealth has fresh DuraCell batteries. They were more expensive than regular batteries 😂
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@ScaryEurope It’s common sense but then common sense has been sorely lacking from any politics for decades. The British government must return to basics, what is good & proper for welfare, safety & prosperity of British born.
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Make Europe Great Again - M.E.G.A
Emergency Disqualification has hit Parliament! A single statement from MP Rupert Lowe — “This is LOYALTY!” It has set off a crisis no one saw coming, targeting every single dual national serving in high office. This isn’t just political rhetoric; it’s being framed as an immediate push for a new parliamentary rule that could force MPs with dual citizenship to step down or face removal. The drama intensified when Nigel Farage unveiled his own proposal, which insiders whisper is even more aggressive. The core message is chilling: “YOU CAN’T SERVE TWO COUNTRIES.” The political fallout could reshape Westminster overnight, sparking outrage, panic, and a civil war inside British politics. HUGE , IF ITS TRUE What's your opinion👇👇
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⭕️Faerie ❤️
⭕️Faerie ❤️@LiquidFaerie·
Stefania Podgórska was only seventeen when the world she knew crumbled. She had left her family’s farm near Przemyśl and started working in a grocery store run by the Diamant family. They took her in like a daughter, especially after her own father died. They fed her, made her laugh, gave her a place to belong. Then the Nazis arrived in 1939. The Diamants were pushed into the ghetto. Stefania’s mother & brother were hauled off for forced labour in Germany. Her little sister Helena, just a young child of about eight, came to live with her. Suddenly this teenager was looking after a girl and trying to survive. Most people would have kept their heads down. But Stefania could not. She started smuggling food through the ghetto fence. She traded the Diamants’ jewellery for bread. When the deportations to Belżec death camp began in 1942, things got even darker. One night Max Diamant, son of her old employers, turned up at her door. He had jumped from a train bound for the camp, bleeding and desperate. She knew the penalty for hiding Jews. Poles caught doing it were hanged in the town square. Yet, she bravely opened the door. Max was meant to stay one night. He stayed two and a half years. Soon his brother and others joined. A doctor and his daughter. A dentist and his son. A widow with two children. In the end thirteen people were hidden in the attic of a small cottage the sisters rented at Tatarska 3. Max built a false wall from old planks so it would not look suspicious. The space was tiny, airless in summer and freezing in winter. Their toilet was a bucket that Helena carried downstairs each day. Their bath was a basin of water she hauled up. No fresh air, no walks, just absolute silence and fear. Stefania got a job at a German factory. Every penny bought food. She shopped at different markets at different times so no one would notice the extra loaves. Helena, still a child, became her quiet partner. She washed clothes, carried water, stood guard & never complained. An SS officer moved in next door. The hidden group took turns listening for danger. Then in early 1944 a German officer knocked. The area was becoming a military hospital. They had two hours to leave. The Jews begged the sisters to save themselves. Stefania knelt and prayed & decided to stay. Hours later another knock. Plans had changed. She could keep the house, but two German nurses moved into the room directly below the attic. For eight months those nurses lived there with their SS boyfriends, throwing parties while thirteen people held their breath in hiding upstairs. One night the nurses heard noises and sent a soldier up. He climbed the ladder, looked around, and came down saying the attic was empty. Somehow they had managed to go unoticed. On 27 July 1944 Soviet troops arrived. The thirteen stepped down from their tiny airless hiding place & into daylight for the first time in years. Of the roughly 20,000 Jews in the Przemyśl area before the war, only about 300 survived. Thirteen of them owed everything to two sisters who refused to look away. Max, who later took the name Józef Burzminski, married Stefania after the war. They moved to America in 1961, had two children and he became a dentist. Helena stayed in Poland and trained as a doctor. Both sisters were named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1979. Stefania never called herself a hero. She simply said she did what had to be done. Stefania passed away in 1993. The little house on Tatarska Street still stands, its attic a quiet reminder of Stefania’s incredible courage. 1/2⬇️
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Bloody Aardvark
Bloody Aardvark@AardvarkBloody·
"Offensive" is cancelling the security on the Cape's central railway line, leading to total destruction, and then appointing a crony who outsourced the rebuilding to one of the province's most notorious gang bosses. "Offensive" is getting an overseas holiday from a government supplier, claiming it was a loan and then "repaying" it with money from one of your old Kebble buddies. "Offensive" is crying snot and tears on hearing you are a Gupta appointment - and accepting the position anyway. Sorry, that's not offensive, just pathetic. "Offensive" is that no one has been prosecuted for 144 Life Esidimeni deaths after 10 years and four independent recommendations. Again, apologies. That was, in fact, a crime against humanity. "Offensive" is twiddling your thumbs while taxi terrorists attack Intercape passengers and telling the bus company "to engage" with the criminals. "Offensive" are your outfits and sermons on human rights and social justice while presiding over 42% unemployment. "Offensive" is what the public see at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry: a top ANC Northwest leader getting R300 million from municipalities and being instrumental in organised crime. "Offensive" is that we live in a country so bereft of sanity that you are regarded as a presidential candidate. Weep, for your rot and disgrace.
ANC SECRETARY GENERAL | Fikile Mbalula@MbalulaFikile

The apparent rejection of renaming of Graaff-Reinet after Professor Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe must be condemned. It is unfortunate that 32 years after our democracy built on reconciliation and tolerance of our diverse cultures we still have some groups who are opposed to nation building and cultural reconstruction. Standardization of geographical names is central to cultural diversity , spiritual healing and decolonisation of African heritage . Places which have offensive names remind those who were oppressed the brutal oppression and cultural subjugation. Those who came to settle in our land did everything in their powers to wipe out the heritage and cultures of the indigenous people. It is now time for all peace loving South African to embrace total transformation of our society and accept that some geographical place names must be standardized.

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🚨🇬🇧 UK: RUPERT LOWE INTRODUCES GROUNDBREAKING BILL TO REDEFINE ELIGIBILITY FOR NATIONAL LEADERSHIP Rupert Lowe has just officially introduced a groundbreaking bill that would redefine who is eligible to lead Britain. His proposal would limit the office of Prime Minister and seats in Parliament to those born on British soil — a bold move to ensure leaders are firmly British and committed to the nation’s founding ideals... HUGE IF IT'S TRUE What's your opinion👇
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ANC SECRETARY GENERAL | Fikile Mbalula
The apparent rejection of renaming of Graaff-Reinet after Professor Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe must be condemned. It is unfortunate that 32 years after our democracy built on reconciliation and tolerance of our diverse cultures we still have some groups who are opposed to nation building and cultural reconstruction. Standardization of geographical names is central to cultural diversity , spiritual healing and decolonisation of African heritage . Places which have offensive names remind those who were oppressed the brutal oppression and cultural subjugation. Those who came to settle in our land did everything in their powers to wipe out the heritage and cultures of the indigenous people. It is now time for all peace loving South African to embrace total transformation of our society and accept that some geographical place names must be standardized.
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Mambo Italiano@mamboitaliano__·
The Italian 🇮🇹 rugby team goes absolutely wild after beating England for the first time ever! In the locker room, they belt out “Nessun Dorma” better than any opera stars 😅
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@SamaHoole Keep ‘em coming. My morning entertainment over coffee. Knocks the socks of reading about political turmoil. Thank you.
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Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
Keith's ancestors were wild. Not metaphorically. Literally. The domestic goat descends from the Bezoar Ibex, a wild goat native to the Zagros Mountains of Iran and the adjacent highlands of Turkey and Pakistan. The Bezoar Ibex lives at elevations of up to 4,000 metres. It navigates vertical cliff faces. It has been photographed on surfaces that would require technical climbing equipment for any human to access. It survives on vegetation: scrub, thorny plants, coarse mountain grasses, that would be inedible to almost anything else at altitude. It was domesticated approximately ten thousand years ago. The domestication process was not, by the standards of most livestock species, particularly thorough. Cattle were selected heavily for docility and reduced flight response over thousands of years. Sheep were selected for reduced aggression and increased herding instinct. Goats were selected primarily for milk and fibre production and the ability to survive on marginal land, and not much else was considered, which is why goats retained a degree of independence and problem-solving ability that most domesticated livestock had bred out by the Bronze Age. Keith is the ten-thousand-year result of this process. Keith climbs barn roofs because his ancestor climbed the Zagros Mountains. Keith opens gates because his ancestor navigated terrain without pathways. Keith eats thistle, bramble, dock, Japanese knotweed, Steve's bindweed, and the moss off corrugated iron because his ancestor extracted nutrition from the thorned scrub of Iranian highland at 3,000 metres in January. The fence, from Keith's ancestral perspective, is a minor inconvenience. The gate is a gentle slope. The barn roof is a modest incline. Steve's new fence is not yet solved, but Steve's new fence is not the Zagros Mountains. Keith has not been to the Zagros Mountains. Keith does not need to go to the Zagros Mountains. Keith has Devon. Devon is enough. Keith is on the roof. Keith is thinking.
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Samuel Leeds
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“No point buying a closing down Church - nobody wants to go to them anyway….” 🤡 Yes, many churches are closing down, but often not because people don't want to go. It's because they can't afford to keep them open. I’ve had hundreds of messages from Churches in this position. So, what I will do is rent my Church out for free to a Church. I’ll also allow homeless outreach projects to operate there so they can have a greater impact on the community. Plus, statistics show a revival is beginning among the younger generation here in the UK. I just believe there's so much good that churches do. Seeing them get closed down and replaced with developments doesn't feel right - a beautiful church building deserves better.
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