Gary Barnett

@ukilaw I can help you Khalid! It's against international law to attack another country unless in self defence. So it's an illegal war. It's a war crime to indiscriminately attack civilians, so promising to "bomb them back into the stone age" would be a war crime.

The riddle I’ll never be able to solve: How did the UK, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Canada and Australia collectively decide that confronting the world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism, soon-to-be nuclear Ayatollah, sitting astride the global energy chokepoint, is simply “not their war”? How did the memory, experience, philosophy and logic of a millennium of Western civilisation simply vanish? Is TDS really that deadly a mental disease? Can anyone help decipher this puzzle?

@VerhofstadtQ I wonder if they're two quite different things?

I've spoken to quite a few people recently who still hate Margaret Thatcher for what she supposedly did to the coal mining industry 40 years ago, but they fully support Mad Red Ed Milliband destroying the UK oil and gas industry. Strange people.

@slingcamp @Robertc85060481 @sophielouisecc They come here and pay taxes, grow our economy, increase our productivity, and take less out of the system than they put in. Baatards!

@Robertc85060481 @sophielouisecc Bullshit. They stagnate wages for the uk working class. Simple supply and demand. Minimum wage has all but doubled since we stopped FoM. But I suspect you hate paying Brits fair wages for tough, essential work. What the f is diversity? They come here and send money home.

The last thing that young people need is rejoining the EU We have record high youth unemployment and no housing, poor services etc. There are too many people here in Britain as it is. We do not need freedom of movement.

@Mr_Husky1 Nice story. Needs more dragons

My husby and I went out to dinner last night, and the bill came out to $200. I left a $50 tip on the table, thinking that was pretty reasonable. But the waiter looked at it and flat-out refused to take it. ​He told us that if we weren’t willing to leave at least $85, we shouldn’t be eating out in the first place. ​I was honestly caught off guard. I felt embarrassed sitting there, like we’d done something wrong. We weren’t trying to be cheap or disrespectful — I genuinely thought $50 was a fair tip for that bill. Now I keep replaying the whole thing in my head, wondering if I misjudged it and questioning whether $50 really wasn’t enough.😱 By Angela mcnutt

@fitalass @sciencegirl Sweet mother of baby jesus .. that is a masterpiece

@sciencegirl Baked beans, tattie scone, tomatoes, black pudding and haggis slice are missing, also square/lorne sausage is very popular in a Scottish full breakfast. Those sausages look anemic and there is no place ever in any universe for waffles being included in a cooked breakfast.

What’s missing

@eddo75 @fesshole V good . <Tips hat>

@fesshole Alright Rosa Parka

Lad got off the bus & forgot his coat. I ran after him to give him it & not even a thank you. AND the bus almost drove away as I got back. Two weeks later, he forgot his coat again, this time I didn't run after him and left his coat on the seat. Should've thanked me first time.

@jasonlk If none of your hires have worked out, it may be time to embrace the possibility that the hiring process is broken, or that you provide a really shitty place to work.

My biggest hiring mistake I've made past 5 years that I never made before: I hired folks who didn't really, really, really want the job So far, none have worked out So now, instead, I find an AI Agent to do their job. At least they will do it, 24x7x365. Without complaint.

@GamefiCrusher @AGPamBondi Just so we're clear. .. you don't think that presidential immunity should be a thing? (Asking for a friend)

@AGPamBondi Historic operation. Maduro indicted for flooding America with cocaine while hiding behind presidential immunity. Trump administration delivered what previous admins couldn't - actual accountability

Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been indicted in the Southern District of New York. Nicolas Maduro has been charged with Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machineguns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess Machineguns and Destructive Devices against the United States. They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts. On behalf of the entire U.S. DOJ, I would like to thank President Trump for having the courage to demand accountability on behalf of the American People, and a huge thank you to our brave military who conducted the incredible and highly successful mission to capture these two alleged international narco traffickers.

@destinationXIX Since you're all about facts. Could you publish the casualty figures?

There’s a point where “disagreement” stops being an honest clash of views and becomes something darker: a refusal to see reality even when it’s placed directly in front of your eyes. That’s where we are now. The latest data coming out of Gaza - showing obesity rates significantly higher than in Israel across every age group - should have forced even the most ideological observer to pause. If you claim a population is starving and then discover the clinical profile of a welfare state rather than a famine zone, the rational response is reassessment. But brainwashing doesn’t allow reassessment. It demands loyalty. The same pattern appears everywhere. Hamas itself released a video this week showing injured children and describing them - proudly - as its “protective armor”. Not Israel. Not the IDF. Hamas. The people Western activists call “resistance fighters” literally boast on camera that children are their human shields. And yet, the very people who scream “stop killing children” can’t bring themselves to direct that sentence at the men who openly use children as tactical assets. It’s the same pathology that allowed October 7th - the rapes, torture, mutilation, the gleeful filming of it - to be dismissed or inverted. The killers wore GoPros. They narrated their crimes. They called their parents to brag. They said, explicitly, “We will do this again and again”. They uploaded their own atrocities as propaganda. And still, Westerners chant that Israel is committing genocide. They don’t even bother to argue the facts; for a cult, facts are irrelevant when the narrative gives meaning. This isn’t a case of “both sides say different things.” It’s a case where both sides say the same things - Hamas says it, Israel says it, the footage shows it, the data confirms it - and yet the West’s useful idiots insist on repeating antisemitic blood libels that have been disproven a thousand times. When reality and ideology collide, a normal person updates. A brainwashed person doubles down. That’s the diagnostic sign. Demoralization operations work exactly this way. They don’t need to persuade you of a specific lie. They only need to break your relationship to the truth. Media, universities, NGOs - the entire progressive ecosystem - use the same conditioning sequence: generate a powerful emotional response, corrode your trust in facts, invert victim and aggressor, then create social pressure so intense that dissent feels like exile. Once you’ve internalized the emotional script, evidence becomes an inconvenience. The message matters more than the material world. That’s why pro-Palestinian activism looks, sounds, and behaves like a cult. Every hallmark is there. A sacred narrative that must not be questioned. A demonized out-group used to explain all suffering. A sense of holy mission. A new vocabulary designed to sever you from previous moral frameworks. Public shaming rituals for anyone who deviates. Purity tests. Promise of identity and purpose. And above all: the insistence that if facts contradict the doctrine, the facts are wrong. When you see college students chanting slogans they can’t define, sobbing on camera because someone questioned their worldview, parroting talking points that collapse the moment a basic question is asked - that’s not political activism. That’s cult behavior. You break someone out of this cult by reconnecting them to reality, and letting the truth speak for itself. And the truth is now flooding in: Gaza’s own health data, Hamas admissions, and even footage of Hamas executing Palestinians who refuse to comply. Reality is piling up faster than propaganda can bury it. The tragedy is that so many in the West have been trained not to see what’s right in front of them - but fix the media, force these facts back into public view, and once people finally see the truth, they won’t be able to unsee it. x.com/destinationXIX…

@sophielouisecc @jdpoc That's not an email from Iceland, it's from Tangerine Comms. You should probably apologise for your defamatory tweets.

@JeckelnSS @SirJBritain Or maybe, and this might need you to wobble your head a bit .. maybe they're just not racist twats?

@SirJBritain I can't decide if it really is apathy or if people are still genuinely terrified of being labeled a "racist"

One of the most frustrating things I’ve experienced is the apathy of the native British public (especially noticeable within gen X, which I am a part of). People either are completely unaware of the issues, or notice it & simply choose to do nothing/non react/hope for the best.

@ladyC1900 @captain_kremen @sophielouisecc And all nine have made the request

@captain_kremen @sophielouisecc The UK govt has the legal authority to postpone or effectively "cancel" (delay) local council elections in England .Local councils themselves request such postponements, citing capacity issues or costs, but the final decision and implementation rest with ministers.

My local elections were cancelled last year Now they are set to be cancelled again Keir Starmer, stop being a coward and give us back our vote. Stop abusing democracy in a pathetic attempt to save your job My latest express.co.uk/news/politics/…

@Ranger_Smiff @fesshole Excellent

@fesshole Sounds like both a sweet and sour memory

When I was 8 I picked up the Chinese since it was round the corner. One time bossman handed me an extra chicken ball and I ate it from his hand like a deer. Everyone behind the counter erupted with laughter soon as I left. I'm 24 and it still haunts me.

@DeesDlov3 @JoeyMannarino No... You don't get it

@JoeyMannarino Why is he talking so fast ? I can't understand a word he's saying. I get it though. No Christmas decorations. It's already happening across the U.S.

Oh NOW people is surprised they put a MOSLEM in charge as mayor and he don’t give two shits about Christmas and he’s actively trying to sabotage the festivity’s?? Y’all called us RACIST for warning this exact shit would happen. London is straight-up DONE, cooked, FINISHED. Just like NYC about to be. Next year the only lights going up gonna be for Ramadan while they tell you the Christmas tree is “offensive.”

@catkinson80 Catherine... Just fund the legal system properly.

Something has to change. Without action, the court backlog will grow. Victims will remain without justice. Trust in the system will continue to be eroded. My article here: politicshome.com/opinion/articl…

@itshowyousaidit @fesshole There is no need to turn into a barbarian just because you're in a rush.

@fesshole What if the first one was trying to get back to work faster & didn't have time for the jug to boil?

I gave a promotion to the second top employee on my team, instead of the first. Because I caught the first one making himself a cup of tea in the office microwave. Inexcusable barbaric behaviour.

@LeeroyFuzz7 @fesshole Bravo<tips hat>

@fesshole I would like to know what's going through their head. A penne for his thoughts

Half a pint of supermarket bolognese sauce is a delicious mid morning pick-me-up.

@battleforeurope @compactmag Hmm. Have you heard of this thing called "history"? Google it; it'll blow your socks off.

In my latest piece for @compactmag, I argue that the United States’ and NATO’s persistence in the strategy of containing, marginalising and weakening Moscow, even after the grand ideological antagonism of the Cold War had vanished, wasn’t just rooted in geopolitics, but also had a powerful cultural-ideological dimension—namely, the desire of Western, and especially American, elites to punish Russia for having challenged Anglo-American global capitalism for almost a century. The Russian Revolution was, of course, a profound psychological and ideological trauma for Western elites. Yet, to grasp its enduring legacy, we must also consider its geopolitical implications for the West—and especially for the Anglo-American establishment—long before the Cold War formally began. If the Bolsheviks hadn’t taken power in 1917, it is very likely that the fragmentation of the already crumbling Tsarist empire would have gone much further. The likely outcome would have resembled that of Austria-Hungary: a constellation of weak nation-states ripe for Western domination. Instead, the Bolsheviks created a new, unified state—the Soviet Union—animated by an ideology that directly challenged Western expansionism. This altered history. As the German political scientist Hauke Ritz argues, the revolution delayed, perhaps by a century, the formation of a unified Western imperial order under Anglo-American leadership. By turning Russia into the center of an alternative world-system—and, after 1949, a nuclear-armed one—it imposed serious limits on Western power. Despite its internal contradictions, the USSR’s existence constrained Western imperialism in multiple ways. Its anti-colonial stance inspired independence movements across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Moreover, its mere presence forced Western elites to moderate capitalism at home as well, giving rise to the welfare state and social democracy. Never had capitalism been so humane as during the decades when socialism stood as a rival system. The Soviet Union’s collapse offered the West an extraordinary opportunity to erase the legacy of 1917—to restore the global hierarchy the revolution had disrupted. But as Ritz suggests, Western, and particularly American, elites harbored a deep historical resentment towards Russia for having postponed US geopolitical supremacy by several decades. From this perspective, Russia could not simply be “forgiven” or allowed to re-enter the Western system as if nothing had happened. Even after the Soviet Union was gone, it needed to be punished for its defiance. Thus, when the chance finally came to dismantle Russia’s power in the 1990s, the impulse was not reconciliation but vengeance. Read the full article here: compactmag.com/article/the-co…

@UK_Needs_Reform No. Because I believe that everyone has basic human rights. Even ignorant racists.

I do, only way forward....

@SteveONotABot @RobPearce @GoldingBF On item 2, the "wellington exception" allows the artwork featuring Nelson to be replaced by one featuring the Duke of Wellington, provided he is depicted sitting on a horse.

@RobPearce @GoldingBF As an American, my understanding is that an Englishman must meet the following criteria: (1) have attended at least one Gilbert & Sullivan opera; (2) own a piece of art featuring Admiral Nelson; (3) dress primarily in wool; and (4) drink tea that could strip the paint off a ship

Leaked photo of alleged Huntingdon attacker. Doesn’t look British to me.