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Men of the 2nd Bn, Gordon Highlanders move up through woods after crossing the river Elbe, 29 April 1945. The lead man has a 2" mortar on his shoulders, the second carries a case of bombs; the third has a larger case, probably for PIAT rounds. IWM (BU 4899), Sgt Laing, AFPU

@KemiBadenoch They served in Northern Ireland. They served in Iraq. Some survived war, but not the years that followed. Yet their private graves are not protected and can be reused. Same service. Same sacrifice. They deserve the same protection. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7648…

@Matt_VickersMP @SueMcMurray7 They served in Northern Ireland. They served in Iraq. Some survived war, but not the years that followed. Yet their private graves are not protected and can be reused. Same service. Same sacrifice. They deserve the same protection. 👉 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7648…

🚨 Across the world, Australia, Europe and the UK people have decried censorship yet, it’s still coming. Let’s make this a global tweet. We will NOT comply. Just tap 🔁. Let’s see how far this can go.

@nickareay @thequentinletts @BBCRadio3 Aye, and bring back Test Match Special on Radio 3.

@thequentinletts @BBCRadio3 Seems to be every tv/ radio station - they speak like kindergarten teachers. They’ll be cooing at us next, as if we were babies. Soon they’ll be forcing us to wear nappies. (Actually they are judging by the adverts). We now know what a matriarchy looks like - we are infantilised

Just had to switch off @BBCRadio3 . The music was good but the script was too matey for me. Kept on about 'putting a smile on yer face' and tracks being 'stunning' and tales of listeners' Pilates classes and babies. Intellectually not much different from Ed Stewpot in the 1970s.

The Pope’s first act on arriving in Algeria at the start of his African tour was to lay a wreath at the Martyrs’ Memorial to those Algerians who died in Algeria’s struggle for independence from France. How is this act to be understood? Was it not the case that that particular war, nasty as all wars are, had cruelties exhibited by and casualties suffered on both sides, native Algerians, obviously, but also members of the French armed forces and European settlers, the so-called pieds-noirs, most of whom would have been Catholic? In laying this wreath, was the Pope taking sides (retrospectively) in this conflict? Also, while he was in Algeria, the Pope visited the Great Mosque of Algiers, a visit that some Catholics might regard with disapprobation as exhibiting a kind of incipient religious indifferentism inconsistent with the Pope’s headship of the Catholic Church. When it comes to evaluating the actions and speech of those in positions of power, I suggest that a Principle of Hermeneutical Charity (PHC) should be employed, so that if a consistent and uncontroversial interpretation of their actions is at all possible, then such an interpretation should be presumptively applied. That being so, the Pope’s wreath-laying and Mosque-visiting in Algeria might well be a charitable beneficiary of PHC, though there will, of course, be different views on this matter. However, the application of the Principle of Hermeneutical Charity is merely presumptive and is capable of being displaced, so that not everything somebody might do or say will fall under its scope. I believe this to be the case with the Pope’s views on the ultimate possibility of peaceful co-existence between Christians and Muslims, between Islam and Christianity. While he was in Algeria, the Pope met with Muslim leaders and spoke of building bridges to promote mutual respect between the adherent of different faiths, specifically Christians and Muslims. These sentiments echoed remarks he made on returning from his trip to Lebanon at the end of 2025 when he said: “I would say that we all need to work together—one of the values of this trip is precisely to raise the world’s attention to the possibility that dialogue and friendship between Muslims and Christians is possible.….we should be a little less fearful and look for ways of promoting authentic dialogue and respect.” If the Pope had wanted an example of peaceful co-existence, he could hardly have chosen a worse example than Lebanon. Dr Gavin Ashenden writes, “When the Pope presents Lebanon as a shining example of Christian-Muslim harmony, and suggests that the two faiths can easily become friends, he is speaking from an idealism that simply does not match reality—neither the reality on the ground in Lebanon, nor the clear teaching of the Qu’ran itself.” That last phrase—“the clear teaching of the Qu’ran itself”—indicates that the problem of co-existence exemplified in the Lebanon is not merely a limited local problem peculiar to that country but rather something that is intrinsic to the very nature of Islam and Christianity and their respective politico-legal cultures. In Islam, the three core elements of human life—the religious, the politico-legal, and the individual—are fused and compacted in an inextricable and undifferentiated mass. In the Christian West, by contrast, the gradual separation of the spiritual/religious realm and the secular/political realm has been the outcome of a long, complicated and controversial process. This separation created the existential space that allowed for the recognition in the West of the importance of the individual. [see Larry Siedentop, Inventing the Individual] In sharp contrast in Islam, “Authority is exercised in spiritual, political, and existential spheres, but each of the spheres is effectively fused with the others by the finality of Allah’s sovereignty. In Western terms, this means that there is no sphere of temporal-political authority that runs separately from spiritual authority; nor a zone of individual autonomy….Any assertion of authority in Islam outside the orthodox codification of Islamic law is an assertion of apostasy and therefore illegitimate…’ [James Greenaway, The Differentiation of Authority] Islam, then, is not and cannot be just a religion in the way that Christianity is. Islam addresses itself to a world that it is committed to convert to Islam in all its aspects: religiously, obviously, but also politico-legally and socially. Because of its compact and fused nature, Islam cannot take its place in a secular world merely as one religion among others but must seek ultimately to dominate and eventually to displace all others, which, obviously, has not only religious implications for those who are not Muslims, but also, because of Islam’s compact and fused nature, life-altering political and social implications—for everyone. Western civilisation, even if it is post-Christian in part, has been formed by and is ultimately reliant on Christian norms, especially the painfully worked out separation of the spiritual/religious and the secular/political. Islam, which has neither made nor can make that separation, is radically incompatible with Western civilisation. The two systems of thought may co-exist in the same space in a kind of temporary ideological and unstable neutrality, but, in the end, only one of them can triumph In saying this, am I giving expression to a crude form of sectarianism? I don’t think so, for what I say about the incompatibility of Islam with Western culture doesn’t apply to other religions, such as Buddhism, Sikhism, or Confucianism, for example. Hinduism, to be sure, has at times found strong political expression but this is not covertly imperialistic but is confined in large part to the sub-continent of India and its environs. And while Judaism, at least historically, exhibited a fusion of the religious, the politico-legal and the social, here too, as with Hinduism, the politico-legal element was largely confined to a particular region of the world. On his visit to Algeria, the Pope stated that “Communion between Christians and Muslims takes shape under the mantle of Our Lady of Africa.” What kind of communion would that be? You cannot rationally believe yourself to be in communion with a politico-religious ideology that has sought, and still seeks, the replacement of your religion and the culture based upon it. To believe otherwise flies in the face of 1,400 years of (largely one-sided initiated) conflict, current geo-political realities, and the not insignificant fact of the persecution and killing of Christians by partisans of that ideology with which you are supposedly in communion. If what the Pope said were only sentimental, meaningless diplomatic fluff, one might perhaps pass it over with a sigh, but unfortunately it appears to demonstrate an historical ignorance or indifference, allied to a geopolitical naivety, that is simultaneously baffling and, in my opinion, inexcusable. The Pope appears to be unaware of or indifferent to 1,400 years of inter-religious, inter-cultural struggle that has taken place between Islam and Christianity/Christendom. [see Raymond Ibrahim, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West] Direct military confrontation between Islam and Christianity and their respective cultures is, for the most part, no longer the norm, but it would be a grave mistake to think that the basic ideological struggle is now over. The form it currently takes is of an internal colonisation of the West that, if left unchecked, will bring about the destruction of its Christian character as surely as if a war had been fought and lost. The new strategy for the eventual imposition of Sharia in the West is politico-cultural infiltration, a Fabian-style march through Western culture and its institutions. This is being done, of course, not with the active collaboration of every individual Muslim, some, or even perhaps most, of whom may be passive in the process, but by groups of activists who are giving effect to what is required by the essential character of Islam. There is nothing hidden or conspiratorial about this strategy. Those who are actively engaging in it are telling us exactly what they are doing! [for an example of this, just one of many, see youtube.com/watch?v=lMdNq-…] Will we believe them?

@SamaHoole @sharonxmartin A wonderful dish. Took three days to mature to its best. My Yorkshire Pa's family knew it as "Danby Broth".

There is a Welsh dish you have almost certainly never heard of, and it fed a hill nation for six hundred years. It is called cawl. Pronounced, approximately, "cowl." Chunks of mutton, leek, swede, parsnip, potato, and carrot simmered for hours in a single pot until the meat falls off the bone and the broth turns the colour of amber. That is the whole dish. That is also one of the most nutritionally complete meals in the British peasant tradition. It is eaten as two courses from one pot. The broth first, ladled into a bowl and drunk almost like a tea, tasting of the marrow and the leeks and the slow kindness of long cooking. The meat and vegetables second, fished out with a slotted spoon, piled onto a plate, and eaten with a hunk of bread and a wedge of Caerphilly cheese on the side. A Welsh hill farmer in 1880 ate cawl three or four times a week. The mutton came from the family's own sheep, culled at five or six years old, the fat yellow with Welsh grass. The leeks and the root vegetables came from the garden behind the farmhouse. The bread was baked that morning in the kitchen range. The cheese was made from the household cow two valleys over. One bowl delivered, in a single sitting, substantial complete protein, collagen dissolved from the bones, fat-soluble vitamins rendered out of the marrow, and the minerals leached from the meat and vegetables over four hours of slow heat. All from a single cut of mutton shank that fed the family for three days. A 2024 survey of Welsh adults found that approximately 40% had never eaten cawl. A further 30% had eaten it only at a tourist restaurant, served as a heritage novelty in a ceramic bowl with a sprig of thyme on top. Every peasant cuisine on earth independently arrived at this formula. Scotch broth in the Highlands. Mutton broth in the Borders. Pot-au-feu across the Channel. Bollito misto in Piedmont. Cocido in Castile. The same idea, solved by every hungry population in Europe, independently: take the toughest cut of the cheapest animal, simmer it for half a day with whatever roots are in the cellar, serve it twice from the same pot, feed everyone. This is traditional wisdom. It is what your great-grandmothers knew without having to be taught. The formula is not a recipe so much as a principle: tough cut, long time, root vegetables, two courses from one pot. It works in every kitchen on earth because it was developed by every kitchen on earth, in parallel, by people who had to feed families on what the land gave them. The knowledge is not difficult. The ingredients are still sitting on the butcher's slab and the greengrocer's shelf. The pot is, probably, already in the cupboard. The only part that has gone missing is the grandmother who used to tell you how to start it.

@CatholicHerald There IS a crisis in the Church, and The Sons are exemplary Christians.

The Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer say they are working to convene an “Imperfect General Council” in response to “a crisis in the Church”. 🔗 ow.ly/Ecwi50YKWHE

@WeiZhangAtmos, More problems, and the details matter. First, the quantities. Human CO₂ emissions between 1850 and 1900 were negligible by any serious accounting — on the order of 0.5 to 2 gigatons of carbon per year by the end of that period, against a natural carbon cycle turning over roughly 200 Gt/year through ocean-atmosphere and biosphere-atmosphere exchange alone. The signal you're attributing to human emissions was totally invisible against that background noise. Second, the ice core timing destroys the narrative entirely. The rise in atmospheric CO₂ visible in ice core records — most clearly in the Law Dome (Antarctica) and EPICA records — begins around 1750, or arguably earlier. That is a century or more before human emissions were large enough to matter by any calculation. The Little Ice Age ran from roughly 1300 to 1850. As the LIA ended and oceans warmed, they outgassed CO₂ by Henry's Law — exactly as physics predicts. You are attributing to human industry a signal that began before the industrial revolution existed. Third, and most decisively, Koutsoyiannis (2024) provides the direct isotopic evidence that forecloses the attribution argument. The δ¹³C isotopic signature of the CO₂ input to the atmosphere — meaning the source signature, not the bulk atmospheric value — has remained essentially constant at approximately -13.2 per mille for at least 500 years, running continuously through the entire period of industrialization. Fossil fuels carry a δ¹³C signature of around -28 per mille. If fossil fuel burning were dominating the atmospheric CO₂ budget, that input signature would have shifted measurably and systematically toward more negative values. It has not. That alone falsifies your beloved dream of a fossil fuel causing CO2 rise. Correlation from 1850 to the present, built on a rise that began in 1750, against an isotopic input signature that hasn't budged in 500 years, is not causation. It's a story someone decided to tell after selecting where to start the graph.

They know they can put Solar panels on rooftops, motorways & roadsides but they choose to put them on farmland in order to stop farmers growing crops. This is a well organised scam. Stop the farming & starve the people 2030 Agenda in full swing

The Defence of the Realm vs The Defence of the Majority George Robertson has been a Labour man for sixty years. He served as Tony Blair's Defence Secretary. He ran NATO. When Keir Starmer needed someone to write his Strategic Defence Review, he turned to Robertson. That is the context in which Robertson's words this week must be understood. Britain's national security, he said, is "in peril." The Treasury is committing "vandalism." The government is gripped by "corrosive complacency." His co-author, General Sir Richard Barrons, was equally precise: the British Army can currently "seize a small market town on a good day." That verdict comes from the men Starmer himself commissioned. But Robertson said something else, something quieter, that explains everything. The reason Starmer will not act, he told the Guardian, is that everybody is "worried about votes." Left and right. Reactions. The political situation. He said it almost as an aside. It should have been the headline. The Defence Investment Plan was due last October. It has still not appeared. The military faces a funding gap of £28 billion over four years. Defence chiefs are meeting this week to discuss cuts of £3.5 billion. The Treasury, it is widely reported in Whitehall, is simply refusing to release money. Meanwhile the welfare budget runs at five times what Britain spends on defence. Robertson's remedy is direct: the welfare budget must be reduced to fund the armed forces. Within hours, Diane Abbott was on cue. Cutting welfare to spend on armaments, she said, was "appalling." Labour would lose votes to the Greens. That was the authentic voice of the constraint Robertson was describing. Starmer cannot cut welfare. A backbench rebellion of over a hundred Labour MPs killed his welfare reform bill last year. He cannot borrow more without alarming markets. He cannot raise taxes without another political crisis. So the system deadlocks. The review sits on a shelf. The investment plan drifts toward June, then perhaps beyond. And the men who wrote the review go public. Those who follow my work will know I have written at length about Starmer's paralysis on Iran. The inability to act decisively in the Gulf, the refusal to name what is actually driving his hesitation. The answer, in both cases, is the same. Starmer leads a coalition held together by Muslim communities whose votes he cannot afford to lose and whose instincts run directly against any muscular projection of British power abroad. That constraint does not stop at the water's edge. The same electoral arithmetic is now preventing him funding the armed forces. It is not a coincidence. It is a governing philosophy. When survival of the parliamentary party conflicts with the national interest, the parliamentary party wins. Every time. The government's response to Robertson was to say Britain's armed forces are "among the best in the world" and that Starmer is "determined" the investment plan will be fit for purpose. Determined. Not funded. Not scheduled. Determined. General Barrons put the timeline plainly. At the current pace, Britain needs ten years to reach genuine war readiness. British intelligence, alongside allied assessments, gives Russia three to five years before it tests European resolve directly. That is the gap. That is what "corrosive complacency" means in operational terms. Lord Hutton, another former Labour Defence Secretary, has called this the defining moment of Starmer's premiership. He is right, though not in the way he intends. The defining moment has already passed. Starmer has chosen. Faced with a direct conflict between what the defence of this country requires and what his backbenchers will tolerate, he has chosen the backbenchers. Robertson said he believes his country is in danger. He said he had to speak out even though it would be uncomfortable. A sixty-year Labour loyalist broke with his own government because he concluded the alternative was worse. And he was right.

HOW ONE PRIEST SINGLEHANDEDLY RESCUED THE WORLD'S LARGEST COLLECTION OF ARAMAIC MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE ISLAMIC STATE. In 2007, threatening letters arrived at the Dominican monastery in Mosul. Each envelope contained a broken cross & a bullet. Father Najeeb Michaeel's name was on a hit list. Instead of leaving, his work began. Every morning before dawn, he dressed in civilian clothes and drove his old car to Mosul, moving the monastery's manuscripts 30km away. Alone, box by box, a multi-month operation. The collection dated back to the 9th century. When ISIS ways days away from taking Mosul in August 2014, he did it again. By an act of God, within weeks of ISIS' descent on Mosul, he moved the ancient documents. Two cars full of manuscripts & 16th-century books. Aramaic manuscripts from the 9th century: Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Yezidi. A millennium of civilization in the Nineveh Plain. They drove east through the night. At a checkpoint, a young girl pointed at the horizon. When they cleared the last checkpoint, Najeeb said: "I think the Virgin Mary had a hand to protect us." When he returned to Mosul after liberation, the monastery had been used as a weapons warehouse. The library was destroyed. The clock tower, donated by the Empress of France in 1876, the first clock in Iraq, was stripped and stolen. A gallows stood where the altar once was. In 2019, the Church made him Archbishop of Mosul. He now oversees 8,000+ digitized manuscripts from 105 collections across Iraq, Turkey, and Iran. He saved our history. Remember his name & pray for his continued work.

@MarkTezak @CatholicPebble Sometimes the family genes have to stop somewhere.

@CatholicPebble This is selfishness itself. A marriage without the desire for children is a sham with Eternal Consequences

Many jump in to say that life without kids is horrible. As a Catholic, to say that a childless existence is meaningless would be a slap in the face to all the wonderful Catholic couples who carry the cross of infertility, those who have lost children as well as to all priests and nuns. It is important to know what exactly is wrong here and what we are criticizing. Stop giving quick comebacks that aren't well thought through and end up being false. What indeed is meaningless is not life without kids per se but life spent in pursuit of empty hedonistic pleasures, mind-numbing distractions and worship of self. Choosing to not have children is the natural consequence of a mindset that shudders at the idea of sacrifice or suffering. However, once you decide to avoid any suffering at all cost, you end up emptying yourself of any purpose. Distraction itself becomes the purpose until you die.

Could everyone please repost and share this tweet. I don’t normally ask, but this corner of Norfolk is going to be covered by solar panels and infrastructure the equivalent of 43,200 tennis courts. This insanity must be stopped. Thank you blockeastpyesolar.co.uk @AllisonPearson @TiceRichard @KayMasonBillig

@JanetEl48897018 Hi Janet, Have you thought of getting copies of Dr Malcolm Kendrick's books on statins, and casually leaving them out on your coffee table? He's a whizz with statidtics and hard evidence.

@markkaplan20 Statins are killing my 73 year old husband but he won’t listen to me. He was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s last year. I’m sure it’s from the statins. He is a retired general surgeon and trusts his doctors.

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@TiggerVizsla You may not feel it, because you've been through a lot in life, but the objective truth is that you did your absolute utmost for them.

I’d already bought collars for them both & toys etc in just 2 days. Why do I feel as though I let them down & wasn’t good enough for them? 😭💔

If I could ask you lovely people to take 30 seconds to just sign and repost please. Of course it won’t change anything in parliament, they’ll discuss it and and defend it and all the climate change bullshit but at least it will then be on public record and it allows us to know who is who, as one day, I promise they’ll be held accountable!!! Petition: Ban atmospheric geoengineering in UK petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7580…

@DWFPressSamoa Great news. Well Done, Fr Anthony!

@MRGR1964 @DrJustinBennett That's the big question, isn't it. It keeps me awake at night, every night. @OTSOTA

@DrJustinBennett Is Jesus present in The Tabernacle in the Novus Ordo churches?

The New Mass is the smoke of Satan. The New Mass is something intrinsically evil. The New Mass in itself is something that goes against the will of Christ. It goes against Divine Law. It goes, therefore, against Eternal Law. –Fr Gregory Hesse (1953-2006)

There is no way of knowing how often Parliament votes against what the public actually wants. Until now. houseofthepeople.com tracks every bill going through Parliament. You vote. We compare it to how your MP voted. The gap speaks for itself.