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@mattwridley @Husker_Ju As Douglas Murray has stated, perhaps Sir Tony would only allow Israel to attack butcher mutilate rape burn terrorise shoot and kidnap the exact same number of babies children girls women parents and grandparents as the people of Gaza did when they invaded sovereign territory.

Has there ever been such an illogical, idiotic, inhuman, ill-informed letter in the newspaper as this one from a "former ambassador"?

@JackieMayes5 @SoniaPoulton No. Know countless couples who have done same checking rota system with their kids while on holiday. Feel free to quibble at money spent but £14 million in a £2 trillion economy is in government terms peanuts.

@SoniaPoulton Neglectful parents abandon children for a night out. If they were working class social services would have taken their other children off them. One child missing is sad but does not justify £14 million when there are other missing children that get ignored.

MADELEINE MCCANN ANNIVERSARY Madeleine McCann was reported missing 19 years ago today. She was three years old, almost four. The original Portuguese Police investigation believed she died in the holiday apartment and an abduction was staged. Kate and Gerry McCann were made 'suspects' but when the case was shelved so was their 'arguido' status. Neither they - or their holidaying friends - have ever been officially cleared of any involvement in Madeleine's disappearance. There have been recent police investigations in Portugal, Germany and the UK. Each force - with the complicity of a willing media - has tried to frame a German man who was an easy target because of how gross he is. British taxpayers have now spent in the region of £14million for a crime that did not happen in this country, and which cannot be justified given the unprecedented attention and funds for one child and one family. Elderly people and children gave money to a private fund to 'Find Madeleine' and that has been overseen by Kate and Gerry McCann - who infamously used some of it for their mortgage and for PR - and has £1million banked. I have followed this case from the beginning (been to the scene of crime twice, made two documentaries, doorstepped some of the names involved) and it is evident to me this is a cover up that includes Prime Ministers, the Home Office and the police. Yes, it's a serious accusation and I stand by it. Happy to be challenged in a court of law and will show 19 years of evidence. And, just to add, I have recently been harassed by police and CPS over this and I have reason to believe - and am pursuing - that my rights have been breached. As a journalist, I have refused to give up on this story because it is about so much more than a missing child, as sad as that event is. I'll be talking about Madeleine, 'Smith Man' and more on my 'Wake Up' livestream in the morning. Pics show: 1. Madeleine McCann 2. Kate & Gerry McCann, 12 May 2007, Madeleine's 4th birthday - 8 days after Madeleine was reported missing and the world was told she was taken by a predator.

@DaveOCKOP Jesus we spaffed a fucking fortune on a crock.

Arne Slot full comments on Alexander Isak injury ⤵️ daveockop.com/latest-news/ar…

@caitoz Try living in the real world, Caitlin. That’s my advice. The gdp per head in Israel now exceeds that of us here in UK. Some failure, that. Israel also has the firepower to take out the whole Middle East in a week. Not that they desire to.

Basically every Israel-Palestine debate goes like this: "Israel did X." "Yeah, because the Palestinians did Y." "Yeah, because Israel did Z." "Yeah but only because the Arabs did A." But if you bring the debate back far enough in time, eventually you get to the part where the western world forcibly dropped a brand new ethnostate on top of a pre-existing civilization without the permission of — and to the extreme detriment of — the people who were already living there. Sure you can go further back and say "Oh yeah well the Jews lived there thousands of years ago," but that's just silly. There's no valid reason to believe some Jewish guy in New York City even has any meaningful lineage connecting him to that land more strongly than any random Muslim in Turkey or wherever, and even if there was, it would still be absurd to cite ancient history as the basis for a territorial claim. I'm only a few generations removed from my ancestry in Ireland and Scotland, but it would be ridiculous for me to show up demanding the home of someone who lives there. So the original source for the grievance is clearly the artificial creation of an ethnonationalist state in the mid-20th century, and the push by Zionists and western imperialists to make it happen. And how has that decision worked out? You see the results before you. Generations of nonstop violence and abuse, culminating in the slaughter and chaos throughout the middle east today. This means that creating Israel was a mistake. A mistake that needs to be corrected. Zionists will collapse into a shrieking pile of vitriol and hyperbole when you say this, claiming you're calling for the extermination of Jews, but this is false. Certainly ending a national order premised on putting the interests of Jews before Palestinians and righting the wrongs of the past would inconvenience a lot of the Jewish people who've been living there, but there's no basis for the claim that it would entail their deaths. Apartheid South Africa was dismantled without the extermination of millions of white people, and there's no reason to believe the dismantling of apartheid Israel would entail the extermination of Jews. The Israel experiment has been tried, and it has failed. It is time to try something else.

There's a lot to say, of course, about how much this sort of thing -- safe, comfortable Westerners appointing themselves arbiters of which nations are allowed to exist -- has taken over the politics of the Western left. Or about what Israelis see that they don't -- for example, why Israeli Jews who hail from the Arab world are more right-wing and hawkish than the ones thrust upon the land artificially by European empires (or whatever). Or about how no other Jews in any meaningful numbers actually managed to survive the 20th century outside the Anglophone world -- and when most Jews were actually fleeing to Israel, the Anglophone world was closed to them. The great exception, of course, is Soviet Jews, who were trapped in place and had their culture violently and brutally erased from them, and then fled almost entirely when the Iron Curtain fell. Or, come to think of it, about how the Jewish claim to the land isn't about some dusty old lineage, but to a great extent from every generation's own contemporary story; from nearly every chapter of the Jewish Bible and prayerbook read and studied in every synagogue on Earth for two millennia; from how every synagogue for two millennia prayed toward Jerusalem; from the medieval rabbis who at the end of their lives boarded a boat to the land of Israel so they can be buried there; from how no Muslim or Christian ever doubted that Jewish attachment until they needed to pretend to forget it in order to fight Jewish immigration. There's even a lot to say about the fundamental fakery of Western romantic discourse on indigeneity -- about how Jews were told to "go to Palestine" by Polish and Iraqi nationalists who rejected them for not being indigenous enough to Poland or Iraq, and to "go to Poland" by Palestinian activists because they're not indigenous enough to be in the land of Israel. (No one told them to go back to Iraq, of course, though they were a quarter of Baghdad's population in 1930. The brownness of half of Israeli Jews upsets the comfortable assumptions of the Western indigeneity industry, so it's ignored.) It turns out it's possible, according to the self-appointed indigeneity auditors of the Western left, for there to exist a people that's not indigenous anywhere, and so undeserving, even in the midst of the brutal genocide of millions, of any other place to escape to. (Does Caitlin know that the Jews who fled to Israel had literally nowhere else to go? If not, her crime is ignorance. If yes, her crime is a denial of history so that history can be repeated. I hope it's ignorance.) There's a lot to say about her final point, that it wouldn't actually be dangerous for the Jews to become a Middle Eastern minority once more; about how minorities generally have fared in the Middle East over the past century, and whether it really is crazy for Israelis, especially those hailing from the Arab world, to suspect that a future as a Middle Eastern minority would be a dark and bloody one; and about how it is the likes of Hamas, not some right-wing Israeli rabble-rouser, that keeps telling Israelis this is the case. But what would be the point? What would be the point of saying all that to someone who has adopted the demolition of another nation as the engine of her moral world. Such a person isn't going to sit with any of the actual history or dilemmas of this land and ask herself whether there might be some gargantuan lacunae in her understanding. Instead, let me offer a small and practical response in place of the great and grandiose dives into the depths of the Israeli soul. I think, dear Caitlin, that for all the reasons above and a few more besides, we Israelis will keep our self-determination, this safety we have found in a world that for all its endless self-righteousness never actually saves anyone. And I think, too, that those activists, like you, who condition Palestinian self-determination on us losing our own only pushes off the day of that blessed and necessary independence.

What the hell is going on with snooker crowds nowadays? Who let the crazies in?

@andrewhesselden @vivamjm I get it but my memory is turnout for that referendum exceeded any previous GE or referendum. So it was as democratic as democracy gets. If the 17.4 had been Remain would you be making the same argument? I think not!

17.4 million people should never have been allowed to dictate government policy over EU membership back in 2016.

@havivrettiggur Hard Left version of Candace Owens. Brings to mind the truism, ‘the further to the Left you go the more right-wing you become.’

I'm starting to think this Owen Jones fellow isn't a serious person.

@SuperSizeArt If ever a video carried a song to the top of the charts…

On this day in 1986, Robert Palmer went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Addicted To Love', it made No.5 in the UK. Terence Donovan directed the iconic accompanying video.

@_ConnieShaw @JoosyJew Even ratface git Mehdi Hasan admits Muslims hate Jews. It’s their “dirty little racist secret.” He said so in the Guardian.

“Unless we have a root and branch rejection of Muslim anti-Semitism, calls for commiserations with British Jews are futile” Fiyaz Mughal saying what the government and large swathes of the media will not.

@GypsumFantastic @BenedictSpence @AEHALL1983 Liew brings to mind the Rutles’ lyric: “How sweet to be an idiot”

@BenedictSpence @AEHALL1983 How that man has the brass neck to say that other people have been radicalised is beyond me independent.co.uk/sport/general/…

“Everything I disagree with is far right” latest:

Farke has respectable shout for manager of the year. Inspired formation change > turnaround in fortunes. Leeds now above Newcastle!

@RepKeithSelf @MaxNordau @pedrobrodrigue7 @DailySignal It starts with cousin marriages then wrote you know it grooming gangs are rife. It’s the Islamic way. It’s the UK experience. They despise us all. Many of us have had enough. Stop it while you can because they breed like rabbits.

Cousin marriage—which is permitted under Sharia—is fundamentally incompatible with American culture and values. It should not be allowed anywhere in our country. I’ve introduced the bill to ban it nationwide. @pedrobrodrigue7 @DailySignal dailysignal.com/2026/04/30/cou…

@DERVIEMOO @marcrileydj Exactly! They stay away from my garden and I stay away from theirs.

@leekern13 Re wayward youth Five series of Top Boy beg to differ! And I’m not so confident the ill-informed hysterical underdog fetish hard left won’t turn to terror. I’m old and thus pessimistic about any political party addressing the problem of Islam.

White British kids aren’t killing Jews Hindus aren’t killing Jews Sikhs aren’t killing Jews Black Christians aren’t killing Jews Rastafarians aren’t killing Jews Chinese and Japanese people aren’t killing Jews Romanian and Polish immigrants aren’t killing Jews It is muslims Muslims are killing Jews Britain doesnt have an “antisemitism” problem It doesn’t have a wayward youth problem It doesn’t have a knife problem with regard to attacks on Jews It has a muslim problem Britain has an emergency with lethal, racist, backwards, violent muslims

@Carra23 I’m probably not the first to point out that GW1 Liverpool played like PSG and Bayern did Tuesday night home to Bournemouth. 4-2. Could have been more either end. And yes you rightly questioned the wisdom of this approach with Slot!

Getting the now questionable achievements by Mo Farah in exchange for a heap of grief and £ burden from Somalis looks like a bum deal for Great Britain. Not the only one either.

Great game last night of its crazy kind but I still hold Man City 2 Liverpool 1 Pep vs Klopp in 2019 was superior game with proper defending to go with brilliant attacking skills.

@kevinhatchard 5-2 was point where the shop should have been shut. And I bet they pay for that next week.

0-0 draw: where are all the mavericks and risk-takers? 5-4 win: What happened to the art of defending? Football will always have its moaners, rage-baiters and fun police. Resist them at all costs. This sport is a wonderful, joyous thing with so much complexity to revel in.

@DougieCritchley Though the two best players in the world were not on the pitch.

If you’ve ever wondered what a game with 10 players with a legitimate claim to being the best in the world in their position looks like… You don’t need to wonder anymore.