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@Sachinettiyil @michaeljknowles Uh oh! Better get Stella Creasy on the case!
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@Telegraph Have they thought about bulldozing their own homes and returning them to nature or farming?
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🗣️ "It’s absolutely heartbreaking"
Blindsided by Labour’s land grab, Adlington residents are fighting to save their historic farming village
Find out more ⬇️
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Exclusive:
Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year
The theft of the work device means that McSweeney’s WhatsApp messages and texts to Lord Mandelson, the former ambassador to the US, cannot be retrieved. It has led critics to question whether the phone was stolen
The State of It, the political podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times, can disclose that McSweeney told police the phone was taken by a man wearing a balaclava on an electric bike.
The man grabbed it out of his hand as McSweeney was responding to text messages and cycled off. McSweeney gave chase but was unable to keep up
Scotland Yard has a record of the incident but did not carry out any formal investigation. Officers did not speak to McSweeney directly because they were too busy. He was given a crime reference number and the case was closed
McSweeney reported the theft of his phone to No 10 and the device was shut off remotely. He was given a new device with the same number the next day.
The theft of the phone was first reported by The Sun on Sunday
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Bahamas to Australia via the Sun? That's gonna take longer than three weeks.
Pop Tingz@PopTingz
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are reportedly planning a three-week honeymoon in the Bahamas, Italy, France, Croatia, Greece, Singapore, and Australia later this year. (Via The Sun)
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@peterrhague True, but vets charge an insane markup for generic stuff you can buy on Amazon. It’s a genuine racket.
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I always used “NHS for cats” as a joke. Apparently they use it as a serious policy
Sky News@SkyNews
BREAKING: A price cap will be placed on pet prescriptions, the Competition and Markets Authority has announced Pet owners will pay a maximum of £21 for their first prescription and £12.50 for any other medicines 🔗 Read more trib.al/ooH4b0E
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@RobertJenrick I don’t think the headmaster can be blamed here. He knew what would happen to him and he was right. And the state wouldn’t support him or the school even slightly.
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Five years ago today, a teacher from Batley Grammar showed a class a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed.
Within days, a hundred Islamists were protesting outside the school gates.
Outrageously, the teacher was suspended. The headteacher, Gary Kibble, apologised ‘unequivocally’. It was an astonishing act of appeasement and cowardice.
The teacher was then subjected to a campaign of abuse and intimidation, including incitement to violence against him and his family. His kids had to miss school for months. They slept on mattresses in temporary accommodation.
An independent probe later cleared him of any wrongdoing whatsoever. Another report likewise found that the school, council and police all ‘totally and utterly failed’ him.
Too late - his life was changed forever.
Have lessons been learnt from this shameful episode?
I fear exactly the same thing would happen today.
In fact ‘advice’ has recently been reissued by Labour councils including the one covering Batley, that children’s drawings in art lessons may be seen as ‘idolatrous’ under sharia law.
Teachers are even warned that dance lessons could cause parental concerns over ‘physical contact between males and females’.
Extremism is being mainstreamed. A climate of threatening and intimidatory harassment is poisoning our institutions. It's antithetical to our democratic way of life.
Most of our governing class are simply too spineless to take on Islamists.
Look at when I highlighted the chronic failure of integration in parts of Birmingham. I was denounced. And then proven right by West Midlands Police’s admission that violent Islamists living couldn’t be prevented from attacking Jewish football fans. The Police lied and blamed the visiting supporters in an effort to pretend they still had authority in the city.
And now look at the reaction of the Prime Minister and much of the media to criticisms of a segregated Iftar in Trafalgar Square. They branded critics racist too. This was despite the Prime Minister himself pulling out of an Iftar in 2021 organised by the very same man, Omar Salha, who arranged this one, apparently because of his Islamist links.
We’ve been led by weak hypocrites, who cover up, rather than confront what’s happening. The country is sliding down a dark path as a result.
But innocent men and women like the Batley teacher are the greatest victims of extremism, and too many seem intent to forget them.
We must defend them and stand up for all those who speak out.
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Which ones are the assailants? Wouldn’t want there to be any confusion.
End Wokeness@EndWokeness
3 assailants. 125 prior arrests.
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Buffer zones don't ban prayer. They uphold the privacy of women having an abortion.
If prayer was banned in public then no one could do it. Those getting upset about iftars in public seem to want to agree there's a 'time and place' for everything.
Hyperbole and hypocrisy do not for reasoned debate make.
Victoria Freeman@v_j_freeman
I mean, she did. Whatever her reasons she did do that. Creasy can’t then argue others having an issue with public prayer are more suspect than her. But some religions are more readily attacked by MPs than others & for some inexplicable reason that includes our state religion.
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@AjaTheEmpress @DailyMail Outrage yes, but no particular surprise.
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Outrage as trans activist mocks Dame Jenni Murray hours after broadcaster's death was announced trib.al/J4aAFSO
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