John Stroughair

MAGA: WOW, TRUMP GOT CHINA TO AGREE IRAN SHOULDN'T HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON! Reality: China was part of the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) under Obama. All MAGAs are idiots.

DON’T LOOK AWAY! Be her voice before it’s too late. Najmeh Amini, 22 She was arrested on January 31, 2026, by the Islamic regime security forces, severely beaten, tortured & faces serious charges including “moharebeh” which could lead to execution. She is a Mashhad University accounting student. @POTUS @marklevinshow @DavidVance @FoxNews #KingRezaPahlavi‌ForIran

Not sure he gets the accent quite right, but he’s doing wonders for Japan’s image in the UK. I’ve watched loads of ambassadors over the years, many of them (though fortunately not all) bores or time-servers. Hiroshi Suzuki is the complete opposite — a real star!

من محبوبه شعبانی و محکوم به محاربه هستم. جانم در خطرست. صدایم باشید!

🚨The Islamic regime arrested Erfan Nabian, a 26-year-old from Isfahan, and sentenced him to death just for protesting. They have not let his family see him or talk to him. They did not allow him to have a lawyer. Now they want to hang him. Share his name before they kill him. #ErfanNabian

Why is it ok for foreigners to stand for elections and campaign on issues related to Gaza & palestine... But when the British want to campaign and fight for Britain & British people its classed as far right, fascist & racist?

Remember the sequence. The Telegraph reveals Rayner removed herself from the deeds of the family house, designates a luxury seaside flat as her “main residence” and saves £40,000 in stamp duty while sitting in Cabinet demanding higher taxes on everyone else. Only once she’s caught does she “self‑refer” to HMRC and the ethics adviser, having already banked the benefit of the dodge. Now, months later, we’re told a quiet settlement of the missing tax, no fine and a conveniently timed green light just happens to arrive on the morning a leadership challenge is expected – and we’re meant to shout “vindicated” not “very cosy indeed”.

AR YA REET BOR!!😁

Anyone else find this morning's news just a bit too convenient?

There is a scene in @HBO's Chernobyl that most viewers miss. A scientist presents evidence of the disaster to a Belarusian party official. The official dismisses her expertise, then boasts that he used to run a shoe factory. It is not central to the plot, but it explains everything. The Soviet Union was governed by a snowball of incompetence - decades of nepotism where ministries were handed to people with no relevant knowledge, provided they had the right party connections. Pedigree was political, not professional. I grew up there. My parents were subject matter experts who spent their careers battling apparatchiks enforcing decisions they did not understand. That is why I flinch when I hear the same logic here in Britain. @UKLabour politicians celebrate the "right background" - the poorer, the more deprived, the better. Council house to government, presented as triumph. Progress and resilience deserve recognition. But in these jubilations, merit vanishes. And celebrating ascent without competence is not progress. It is the embryo of disaster. Look at the Labour Party's front bench. Britain's central challenge is wealth creation - economic growth. Yet these are former charity workers, public sector lifers, people who have always been on the receiving end of funds rather than generating them. They have never had to create value others willingly pay for. So they look to regulators for growth ideas. It is farcical. It is only possible in a culture where navigating party structures replaces proven ability. A friend told me recently his wife had to close her coffee shop - high traffic, real revenue, still unprofitable due to taxes and business rates. In his frustration he said something raw: he no longer cares if folks running the government are toolmakers' sons or landed gentry. He wants competence. He found himself saying he would rather be ruled by Old Etonians. Not because Eton College guarantees talent. It does not. But sheer competence - knowing your subject - has become so scarce in British governance that the impulse is understandable. We are not the Soviet Union. We are nowhere near collapse. But on the left of our politics, the distance is shrinking faster than we admit.

It was a Kh-101 missile that struck a residential building in Kyiv, according to preliminary data. The missile was manufactured in the second quarter of this year. This means Russia is still importing the components, resources, and equipment necessary for missile production in circumvention of global sanctions. Stopping Russia’s sanctions evasion schemes must be a genuine priority for all our partners.

100 times worse than George Floyd but will barely make the news

Friends, it pains me to tell you that the last donation for the Unmanned Aerial Systems Battalion was received on April 21. This fundraiser is an extraordinary case — an exception to the rule. So you understand, these fighters are carrying out missions near Pokrovsk. They are in Hell, and there is nothing more to add. I honestly don’t know where the situation could be worse, on which part of the front. It’s deeply upsetting. There’s a lump in my throat.

Friends, we are already 11,000 strong! If everyone acts decisively, it will bring results!

Well who’d have guessed? 🤨

Yesterday, Russia launched one of its largest drone and missile attacks on Ukraine in four years. Canada unequivocally condemns these indiscriminate attacks. I express my deepest condolences to those injured and everyone mourning their loved ones. Canada stands with Ukraine as it defends itself against this unconscionable aggression and we will work with allies to sustain pressure on Russia to bring this conflict to an end.

🇬🇧 CHOC À SOUTHAMPTON : Henry Nowak, 18 ans, étudiant brillant, se fait P0IGNARDER dans la rue par Vickrum Digwa armé d’un énorme couteau de 21 cm Au lieu d’aider la victime qui se vide de son sang, l’agresseur l’accuse immédiatement de racisme. La police arrive… et menotte Henry, le blessé, pour « sécuriser la scène ». Il s’effondre, SE NOIE dans son propre S@NG et MEURT sous leurs yeux. Priorité aux accusations de racisme plutôt qu’à sauver une vie britannique. 🗣️ Commentez « Justice pour Henry » et partagez massivement pour que cette honte s’arrête et que justice soit faite ! 😡 🔥

#NAFO, who’s ready? The last donation before today was almost a month ago! Fighters are dying near Pokrovsk!

The best of Britain: a woman born in the UK and raised in Nigeria rises to lead the British Conservative Party, carrying the moral clarity and resolve of Thatcher and Churchill. She recognizes the Islamist threat long ignored by a British elite that has too often appeased Islamists and the radical left while the country spirals downward.

How on earth has Angela Rayner been "cleared" by HMRC? She didn't pay the extra £40,000 stamp duty that was due. She didn't take the specialist tax advice on her flat purchase that she was advised to take. She failed to pay the extra stamp duty that she, as Housing Secretary, had brought in for second home purchasers. For HMRC not to issue a fine means they judged her decision as "reasonable care" having been taken, or it was possibly "careless", but not a "deliberate" underpayment. She clearly did not take "reasonable care" to ensure her tax was correct. And if it was "careless", it was *deliberate* carelessness. Do you seriously think that if YOU underpaid your taxes by £40,000 as the then Deputy Prime Minister did, that you would get away without a fine? Sorry, but this stinks.