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🚨 Pendragon (@plumbingjedi) makes a vital point here. According to the Telegraph, at least one-third to one-half of a UK Special Forces unit is currently under investigation — with human-rights lawyers acting for the enemy. No wonder SAS soldiers are resigning in significant numbers. These lawyers should face serious scrutiny, potentially even charges of treason under the Treason Act 1351 for giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Barristers are bound by the cab-rank rule and cannot refuse a client on principle. But the instructing solicitors who choose to take on the Taliban, ISIS and their associates have no such obligation — they actively choose to do so. That decision reveals a profound lack of moral judgement and leaves them accountable in a way barristers are not. Proving the damage is straightforward: look at the wave of resignations from our elite units. Ask former operators — the evidence is there. The government should then pursue compensation from these firms for the loss of highly trained personnel, operational capability, and the £1 million+ training cost per Special Forces soldier. The operational impact is huge. Losing these men could mean missing critical missions — such as the recent capture of a Russian oil tanker carrying $120–160 million in cargo that could help offset our support for Ukraine. At minimum, their indemnity insurers should be forced to exclude claims involving enemy combatants, protecting taxpayers from enormous future liabilities. This must stop. Our special forces are being hollowed out from within. How can any veteran — especially those still serving or recently serving like Al Carns, Calvin Bailey and others in similar positions — align themselves with the Labour Party while this continues under their watch? How do you square that circle? The men and women currently serving in UKSF deserve better than political parties that allow (or enable) their persecution by enemy-aligned lawyers. @Telegraph @AllisonPearson @afneil @JohnnyMercer @RobertJenrick @SuellaBraverman @Nigel_Farage @MartinDaubney @haynesdeborah @RupertLowe10 @DouglasKMurray @TomCotterillX @AlistairCarns @CalvinBailey

"This is a grievous breach of national security." Olly Robbins calls for "prosecutions" as says he is "deeply concerned" about the leaks from the UKSV process, pointing the finger at Downing Street. The system "does not work" if it leaks, he says. "That trust, once gone, cannot be got back." "I am struck and saddened that within days... of the Cabinet Office for their own reasons deciding to open that up, to share what they thought they had found and their perceptions of it internally with Number 10... I hope that prosecutions will result."

The Modernistic Renovation of London Liverpool Street Station 🏙 The time is finally upon us that the Liverpool Street station I've loved for so long is about to see changes that myself and others see as incredibly controversial. A great effort has been made by various people to try and stop this from happening. Though my fears are that the renovations will still go ahead, if people did manage to stop it, I would not feel that I've wasted my time in making this video because it's only by alerting the public that we can help to prevent, or simply raise awareness on such issues. Just imagine all the plans we don't hear about until it's already too late. If you would like others to know about this, or feel the same regret as I do, please share this post in order to make others aware. Thank you all for your support, and for loving the places that mean the world to me. 🤝

BREAKING: The Islamic Republic is preparing to hang eight women. Not a word from the international community or so-called human rights organizations.

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🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 SAS soldiers are resigning in significant numbers over fears they will be subjected to “witch hunts” by human-rights lawyers. Multiple sources have claimed that personnel from across 22 SAS, the Army’s most elite fighting force, have applied for premature voluntary release. The Telegraph is withholding the exact figure for security reasons. However, several SAS sources have described the recent losses as “significant” and a “threat to national security”. At least two squadrons, D and G, are believed to have been affected, with insiders saying outrage over recent war crime probes into Afghanistan and Syria, which have been branded “witch hunts”, are believed to be the main driving forces. Among those understood to have resigned include several senior warrant officers, who are the backbone of the special forces and among the most experienced troops in the regiment. A number are understood to have applied for release “on principle” just before Christmas. “Morale is s--t at the moment,” one insider with knowledge of the recent losses told me, while another said there was “considerable disquiet” in the regiment as a result. The SAS resignations are a major blow to the famed special forces unit, which is the tip of the spear in any military operation and is deployed globally. Full story: telegraph.co.uk/gift/ee5ad8ccb…

In the grounds of Chillingham Castle in Northumberland, behind a wall built in 1270, there is a herd of wild cattle. They have been there, in that specific park, for approximately 700 years. They are white. Small. Horned. They look vaguely like the cattle on a medieval tapestry, which is roughly what they are. The Chillingham herd is the last surviving population of genuinely wild cattle in Britain, and genetically the closest living relative of the aurochs, the wild ancestor of every domestic cow on earth. When the estate was enclosed in the 13th century, a group of cattle was trapped inside the wall. Nobody moved them. Nobody bred them with outside stock. Nobody managed them. The wall went up, the cattle kept being cattle, and the door, essentially, was never opened again. Seven centuries later, they are still there. No selective breeding. No herd improvement programme. No artificial insemination. No supplementary feed beyond what the park produces. They eat the grass. They calve unassisted. The bull fights for dominance. The old are taken by winter. The young grow up in a social structure nobody taught them. They have the lowest genetic diversity of any mammal on earth that isn't officially endangered. By every textbook in conservation genetics, they should have collapsed a dozen times over from inbreeding depression. They have not. They are, by veterinary standards, extraordinarily healthy. Disease resistance better than modern breeds. Fertility steady. Calving success high. They carry on regardless. What can be learned from Chillingham. The first is that a cattle population, left alone on land suited to them, finds its own equilibrium. No committee is required. No spreadsheet. No grass-measuring device. The cattle work it out. They have worked it out for 700 years. The second is that the park itself is a functioning ecosystem, maintained by those cattle. The wildflowers, the ancient oaks, the soil structure, the bird populations, are all shaped by continuous low-intensity grazing by a small wild herd. It is one of the most biodiverse small landscapes in England. The third, and most inconvenient to the modern argument, is that cattle and wild land are not in conflict. The Chillingham herd is wild cattle, on wild land, in steady state, for longer than most European countries have existed in their current form. They are a living contradiction to almost every modern claim made about bovines and ecosystems. They are not on anybody's emissions chart. They have never been invited to a conference. They are behind their wall, in Northumberland, quietly doing what cattle have been doing since before the Norman Conquest. They will probably still be doing it when the current debate has been forgotten.

Fishing remains one of the world’s most challenging careers. This year, families are grieving fishermen who did not come home. National Fishing Remembrance Day is Sunday 10 May. Communities across the country will remember those lost. #NationalFishingRemembranceDay

Comedy legend Dudley Moore was born #OTD in 1935. Here he is with Peter Cook in the famous “Bloody Greta Garbo” sketch.

Influencer RIELLEUK Arrested on suspicion of Attempted Murder This crazy bi**h smashed her car into three pedestrians including her fellow influencer Black People have KILLED London She should get life for this!

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Another fantastic photo of when HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH stood in for the Gosport Ferry when it was broke