Christine Smith

I think most people would call you a freeloading arrogant bastard.

@ajcdeane @HistoryHrPod @YouTube The Polish people are made of strong morals. She was extremely proud of her husband and his amazing war record. P.S. I am going to have a large vodka and tonic to celebrate the wonderful news of the new addition to your family.

@ajcdeane @HistoryHrPod @YouTube Although I am on another X break, I just had to pop back on to comment on your #HiddenHistoryHappyHour which came through on my email. It’s been about 20 years since I heard about the Cichociemni. A dear Polish friend told endless stories about her husband who fought in WW11. 👌🏻

Latest episode of the Hidden History Happy Hour is now out! Hope you enjoy it! @HistoryHrPod 81. Our Funny Valentine youtu.be/BICNJwM7shM?si… via @YouTube

It’s been 36 weeks since my husband died and I have decided to take another break from X. #Depressed

HIS DAUGHTER DIED IN HIS ARMS, THEN HE WAS KIDNAPPED TO GAZA On October 7th, the Idan family of the Nahal Oz Kibbutz lost their daughter Maayan, 18. Then, Hamas kidnapped her father Tsachi to Gaza and killed him too. 🕯️Mr. Tsachi Idan, 49 This is the last image of Tsachi, seen with his head down, holding his son, wife and daughter. Moments before, his 18-year-old daughter, Maayan was shot by terrorists who invaded their safe room, and she died in his arms. The Palestinians then took his wife Gali’s phone and livestreamed the horrors from her Facebook page to all her friends, warning neighbors what would soon await them. In the footage, the family was huddled on the kitchen floor. They are covered in Maayan's blood. Meanwhile, Tschai's younger kids are heard asking "are they killing us? are they killing us" in Hebrew. Tschai's hands were then cuffed behind his back, in one of the most well-documented abductions in his kibbutz, Times of Israel and JP reported. The children were overheard begging the Hamas not to take their dad, not to kill him. "I love you, don't be a hero, be smart. Take care of yourself, and come back to me in one piece.” Gali screamed as the drag Tsachi away. Tsachi was later murdered in captivity. Pure evil is bred and cultivated in Gaza by design, and we must figure out what needs to be done so we can live in peace. This cannot happen again.

Starmer does some more gaslighting! we must be ready to fight to defend our own people, our values and our way of life. Really? which values and way of life he’s talking about fighting for? when people mention that in Britain he smears them as ‘far right extremists’

Met the Glasgow Friends of Israel last night. Great bunch of people. Here they are today at their stall on Buchanan St they set up every Saturday.

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni: "From now on, if you enter Italy illegally, you will be immediately deported" x.com/ClownWorld_/st…

The director and founder of @GBPolitcs has just come out in support of Rupert Lowe This is a bad day for Reform UK

Morgan McSweeney used Labour Together to take over the party, concealing donations of £739,492 along the way. Labour Together bankrolled 123 parliamentary candidates. But their “rising star”, Shabana Mahmood, received the most: £137,168.

Jews don’t eat bacon, but we don’t lobby to stop others from eating bacon. Mormons don’t drink coffee, but they don’t try to ban coffee for others. The Amish don’t use electricity, but they don’t try to shut down power plants. Islamism—as distinct from Islam—is a political agenda to force everyone to conform to sharia law. We must resist the Islamists.

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You can’t even keep our own borders safe yet you talk about staying safe with Europe. “The Brexit years” also never started. Everyone was betrayed.

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In years to come Britons will sometimes find themselves in a part of their country which looks more like a foreign land. For work, maybe visiting relations; whatever the reason. Before this week the phenomenon that produces this looming sense of alienation might have remained nameless. But Keir Starmer, by so emphatically proscribing the word ‘colonisation’ to describe the changing face of Britain, has achieved the exact opposite of what he intended. ‘Colonisation’ is now precisely the word that will come to the minds of millions when they find themselves in the growing number of urban locations where there is an ethnic majority. And more than that. They will also wonder why our most senior politicians cannot tolerate language which seems to do what words should: namely, state the obvious. By expressing outrage at Jim Ratcliffe’s use of the word ‘Colonisation’, Starmer has made it the go-to word that defines a transformation for which democratic assent was neither sought nor given.

“What the hell have Reform been doing? They’ve been a sideshow in this…..It is Kemi Badenoch six, Nigel Farage nil at the moment.” Michael Gove here highlighting what has been repeatedly pointed out. Reform have no interest in holding this Government to account. Nigel Farage hasn’t spoken in Parliament once this year (the narrative that he “doesn’t get called” is nonsense), in fact, he hasn’t spoken for over two months. He’s had nothing to say in Parliament on Peter Mandelson, or Matthew Doyle. When the opportunity to hold Keir Starmer to account has been there Nigel has been conspicuous by his absence.

Keir Starmer went to Munich to speak about war, deterrence and NATO, yet used the stage to argue that Britain must move closer to the EU single market. That choice was not incidental; it reveals the strategy. What was presented as a defence speech was in fact a political manoeuvre, using the language of security to justify economic realignment with Brussels. Starmer is fusing two separate questions – defence cooperation and economic sovereignty – into a single moral frame. In a "dangerous world," he says, the status quo is no longer enough and Britain must move closer to the EU economically. By linking regulatory alignment to the war in Ukraine, he turns a trade debate into a test of security seriousness. If Europe must be stronger to face Russia, then Britain must align; if unity is vital, divergence becomes recklessness. That is the logic he is building. The problem is that it does not withstand scrutiny. Britain already works with Europe on security every day through NATO and bilateral agreements. It works with the United States every day on intelligence and defence. None of that requires re-entering the regulatory orbit of the single market or handing Brussels renewed leverage over British law. By implying that closer economic alignment is a security necessity, Starmer is stretching the argument well beyond the facts. The most revealing line was his insistence that "we are already aligned with the single market in some areas." That is the bridge. Once alignment is normalised as existing reality, the next step is to ask why it should not extend further. Sector by sector, regulation by regulation, the country is invited to edge back towards convergence until the practical difference between membership and non-membership narrows. This is incremental re-entry without ever using the word. There is a calculated moral framing at work. Critics such as Nigel Farage are branded soft on Russia or weak on NATO, while deeper integration is presented as the mark of responsible leadership. In that framing, disagreement is no longer about trade; it becomes a question of national security. The effect is to shrink legitimate debate by implying that economic sovereignty itself is a danger in unstable times. When Starmer says that "we are not the Britain of the Brexit years," he is not merely describing a change of mood. He is signalling closure. Brexit is recast as a phase of turbulence that mature leadership must now move beyond. In that telling, sovereignty is a relic of a chaotic era, and convergence with Brussels becomes the sensible course for a country that has "grown up" in the face of global threats. War creates urgency, and urgency weakens scrutiny. In a crisis, trade-offs feel inevitable and settled questions can be reopened without being openly challenged. By placing economic alignment in the shadow of Ukraine, Starmer makes resistance look irresponsible. Yet Brexit was not a mood to outgrow; it was a democratic decision, and decisions of that scale do not dissolve because the world becomes more dangerous. If the Government believes Britain should move back towards the single market, it should argue the case openly and seek a fresh mandate. What is unfolding instead is a gradual reframing: alignment described as common sense, divergence described as risk, and deeper integration presented as the natural response to insecurity. The destination may be incremental, but the direction is clear. Starmer's Munich speech was less about defence than about permission – permission to reopen Brexit under the cover of geopolitics and to present regulatory convergence as prudence rather than reversal. If security becomes the blanket justification for economic integration, sovereignty will always give way. The single market was not named outright, but it was cast as the answer to instability. The real question is whether the public is being prepared, step by step, for a realignment it was explicitly promised would never happen.

Two megalomaniacs

STARMER: VOTE REFORM OR GREEN & RISK WAR Of all the absurd things I've ever heard in politics, this surely has to be the most desperate of them all "Vote for me or there will be WWIII" From a PM who can't even stop his own internal civil war? Who was hours away from being ousted on Monday? Absurd! thetimes.com/uk/defence/art…

@RupertLowe10 and @elonmusk ….two mavericks!

Palestine Action was proscribed for a reason. They’ve broken into sensitive military sites. During one raid a police officer’s spine was broken. Now the ECHR, via the Human Rights Act, is being used to undermine that ban. Put national security first. We must leave the ECHR.