Ben Wisson

Local LegEnd, Friend of The Blues , Cricket lover and FECCer! If you don't like my views, go somewhere else.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

Very proud to be part of this documentary about the absolute madness of transgender ideology in Australia. So many harrowing stories told by brave people who simply refused to go along with an obvious lie. Everyone needs to know what is really going on:

[Young Bob @YoungBobRB]

I’m just tired. This is the third time I’ve been arrested in the space of two months. Two weeks ago, the police showed up at my house, intimidating my family.

The process itself is the punishment, and it wears you down. My partner was just on the phone with me, upset because she genuinely believes there’s a chance she could see me go to prison.

However, this is what you sign yourself up for, and I intend to see it through to the end.

[Howard Travis @howardtravis]

Further appeal for information following rape and attempted rape - Milton Keynes | Thames Valley Police https://t.co/eajxF7aYVh

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

Alex Norris - Labour's anonymous Justice Secretary - lied to you.

He promised every criminal released early would be tagged. He said it would be the toughest regime ever.

Now the police are so overwhelmed they're scaling back enforcement of tag breaches.

[Jonathan Sacerdoti @jonsac]

The BBC has agreed to pay £400,000 to an award-winning Jewish documentary-maker who alleged she was subjected to antisemitism and pushed out of the corporation after October 7.

Lucie Kon, 57, spent 22 years at the BBC and worked on programmes including Panorama, Today, BBC Breakfast and Storyville. Films she commissioned or helped produce won an Oscar, Emmy and Bafta.

Kon says her treatment changed dramatically after the Hamas attacks. She alleges colleagues described Zionists like her as “evil”, argued that Israel should be called terrorist if Hamas was, and told her to consider what had driven Hamas to carry out the massacre.

When she proposed a documentary about October 7, Kon says she was told she was “too partial” to oversee it because she was Jewish.

She subsequently filed a formal grievance, but a BBC investigation rejected her complaint. Kon says she was then kept away from work for months. During a restructuring, her position was made redundant and she failed to secure the similar role replacing it.

She launched unfair-dismissal proceedings.

The BBC has now agreed substantial compensation, reported as £400,000, without admitting liability or accepting that Kon suffered antisemitism.

Kon says Jewish employees still at the corporation continue to face hostility and feel unable to identify openly as Jewish or Zionist.

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

I don’t have £2 million in assets, and I don’t earn £200k a year. I’m quite short on both counts. So the HMRC wealth audit doesn’t impact me. Yet.

But it signals a clear intention. A lack of respect for the individual. What is yours is only yours until the government decides they want it to fund further welfare expansion.

Property rights only exist in this country as long as your holdings are meagre enough to escape the fiscal Eye of Sauron. They will come for it all.

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

Labour said they had no choice but to let thousands of dangerous prisoners out.

My questions expose the truth.

Many cells are out of use because of vandalism, wasteful projects, and even bedbugs.

But some repairs won’t happen until 2031.

This is Labour’s prisons crisis.

[Ben 🇮🇱 @journo_ben]

So, it turns out CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin went to Tehran to meet with individuals linked to the Iranian Quds Force

Little by little, we’re finding out who’s really behind all these anti-Israel “peace” movements

[Jean Hatchet @JeanHatchet]

Thugs and fascists have broken into the Colosseum in Rome. Protesting “things” AND OF COURSE “the war in Gaza”.

This has nothing to do with cost of fucking living. Wake up.

The pro-Pals have become a threat to national security globally. Our govt allowed them to grow and fester. It’s taken root.

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

Interesting row developing between GB News and Ofcom.

GB News is accusing the media regulator of suppressing its own research showing that the channel's viewers rate it more highly for trustworthiness than BBC viewers rate the BBC.

Ofcom says the omission was due to methodological changes, while delayed publication of the underlying data was an administrative error.

But here's the interesting bit.

The Government is considering proposals to give prominence to supposedly 'trusted' news providers on social media.

If Ofcom is going to help shape that debate, surely transparency and consistency in how it presents its own research are essential.

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[Rohoza (Дев'ятий) Mykhailo 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇨🇦 @Oct7NeverForget]

🇺🇸 Pete Hegseth just got absolutely humiliated by Senator Tammy Duckworth!

Senator Tammy Duckworth, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who lost both legs while serving in Iraq, challenged Hegseth:

"I'm glad you brought that up. Can you name a single country that belongs to ASEAN and explain what agreement we have with it? And, by the way, how many countries are in ASEAN? Frankly, I'm not sure you even know who our allies are."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth:

"Well, I can't give you the exact number, but I certainly know our allies in South Korea, Japan, and Australia..."

Senator Duckworth:

"None of the countries you just mentioned are members of ASEAN. I suggest you do your homework before engaging in these discussions."

And this is the kind of clueless bullshit running the Pentagon. Absolutely unbelievable.

[Rare | ♻️🇬🇧 @RareRestore]

We are not a serious country.

The Landlord of the property that received the knives and machetes is one Kamber Ramadani.

The same Kamber Ramadani who was JAILED IN 2020 for selling weapons to schoolchildren.

A serious government would have deported him on the spot.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

The Long March Through France's Institutions Has Reached the Streets

France's burning town halls and barricaded schools did not emerge from nowhere. Grievances over teacher shortages, neglected buildings and public spending were real. So was the willingness of revolutionary activists to exploit them. Behind the disorder lies a question European governments have avoided for decades: what happens when institutions become battlegrounds for competing ideologies while foreign powers exploit the divisions?

In the late 1960s, the revolutionary Left embraced the long march through the institutions. Universities, education, journalism and public administration offered opportunities to reshape society over generations. France already possessed a formidable communist tradition, but 1968 gave institutional radicalism new momentum. Fifty years later, the language remains familiar. Capitalism is oppression, Western power is imperialism, and established authority exists to be challenged.

Alongside this developed another movement with different ambitions. The Muslim Brotherhood pursued influence through religious associations, education, charities and community representation. France's Interior Ministry warned in 2025 about its institutional strategy. Its report identified Étudiants musulmans de France as associated with Brotherhood-linked organisations. In February's student welfare elections, EMF-backed lists gained eleven representatives. On 15 October, EMF publicly supported the school demonstrations.

The revolutionary Left and political Islam envisage profoundly different societies. One draws upon Marxism, the other religious authority. Yet Gaza has demonstrated how readily their campaigns converge. Communist student organisations, Islamist-associated networks and pro-Palestinian movements can advance the same immediate cause despite disagreements about what follows. The Iranian Revolution offers a warning. Secular leftists helped overthrow the Shah alongside Islamists, only to discover that Khomeini's victorious movement had little tolerance for former allies.

Then there is the money. Investigative reporting has documented Qatar's historical financing of religious and cultural institutions in Europe. A French judicial investigation has examined alleged Qatari payments to political and media intermediaries. Le Monde reported evidence pointing towards Qatari entities in an influence operation involving French contacts. None establishes Qatari involvement in the riots, but the findings raise questions about foreign money purchasing influence inside democratic societies.

China, Russia and Iran present further concerns. Reporting has linked a Shanghai-based financier accused of promoting Beijing's interests to international activist media networks. French intelligence has documented Russian disinformation operations. Iran maintains intelligence and proxy networks across Europe. On 13 October, France's foreign minister warned that foreign actors were exploiting divisions over immigration, secularism and Israel-Palestine. Their role in the violence remains unproven, but their interest in exploiting it is clear.

The danger lies in examining everything separately. University radicalism becomes education policy. Islamist influence falls to religious regulators. Foreign financing goes to investigators. Disinformation becomes an intelligence matter. Meanwhile, the political consequences accumulate across institutions entrusted with preserving a common civic culture.

France must establish who organised the violence, who financed the surrounding networks and whether foreign interests played any operational role. But the deeper questions will remain when the streets are cleared. Decades of ideological influence cannot be undone by arresting rioters.

A republic cannot preserve its authority indefinitely while refusing to examine who shapes the loyalties, assumptions and ambitions of the generations it educates.

[Queen Bee @KingBobIIV]

You couldn't make it up.

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

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[AWAKEN PATRIOTS NEWS @AWAKENPATRuu]

20 months in prison for a social media post.

6 months for killing a teen with a machete.

The UK has gone mad.

[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

BREAKING!! Huge news!! Apparently the woman’s soccer game was being held on public property and the US Dept of Justice is looking into the issue on first amendment grounds. Keep talking. They are hearing us!!!!!!!!

Say it louder!!! Women’s sports matter! Women matter!!!

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

This is how a nation dies: not through war or conquest, but through a thousand tiny cuts. Its history is rewritten, its heritage diminished, and its symbols detached from the sacrifices they represent until what once carried shared meaning becomes unrecognisable.

[Kallum Pickering @KallumPickering]

With warnings that Britain may face power shortages and even blackouts, I thought it might be worth resharing this thread from last year showing my analysis linking high energy prices, stagnating living standards and productivity weakness to a twenty year decline in electricity supply caused by the destruction of existing capacity.

Critics of my research repeatedly argue that the UK does not, in fact, have a structural supply shortage - I truly hope the lights don’t have to go out for them to have a light-bulb moment. @MerrynSW @John_Stepek

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Andy Burnham faces a rebellion in the House of Lords over his plans to cut thousands of jury trials.

The controversial reforms are expected to reduce the annual number of jury trials by a third, to 10,000, in an attempt to tackle the record backlog of cases that is delaying justice for victims.

The Prime Minister has moved an inch on David Lammy’s sinister plans by ditching judge-only trials, but the core of Lammy’s reforms remains very much alive and kicking.

The Government now faces a rebellion from Labour peers when the Bill goes before the House of Lords on Tuesday.

One senior Labour peer told The Telegraph: “I am still very much concerned about [the loss of the right to elect]. It’s a restriction on the right to a jury trial which, call me old-fashioned, I think is so important.”

The Free Speech Union is deeply concerned that these reforms will undermine public trust in the criminal justice system and see more people banged up for exercising their right to free speech.

FSU research has shown that those charged with speech-related offences are almost twice as likely to be acquitted in a Crown Court with a jury than in a magistrates’ court without one.

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