As a schoolboy in the 1980s, I decided to work my way through every ice-cream on their menu. There were something like 40 combinations, and it took me three years, my visits being occasional, but I got there in the end.
Polly Tearooms in Marlborough closes after 114 years. For the same reasons that all businesses are struggling: NI rise, minimum wage, taxes, regulations.
Our rulers can’t begin to imagine what it’s like to run a small enterprise within tight profit margins.
@DrChrisParry I blocked him a while back. I live in a village in Kent ten miles from the sea, yet 2,000 years ago we were on the coast. The Roman fleet had a base at nearby Smallhythe. Climate Change always demands money, the greatest fraud in human history.
Kaboom. That’s the starting point. In a maritime century, security starts with a realisation that the sea enables economies and societies to remain open and stable.
That’s why it’s the space one cannot concede. Powerful and to the point.
This took place under the Tories who, Johnny Mercer aside, seem to care as little about veterans as the parliamentary sludge of Labour, Lib Dems and other unmentionables. The establishment has turned on our best people, the service chiefs are silent, what a country.
It is now about ten years since I stood beside Dennis Hutchings ourside Downing Street protesting his treatment. Dennis was later charged & dragged before a terrorism court in Belfast despite being terminally ill. He died a few days into the trial, hounded to his grave...🧵
I was an Army Intel analyst for Special Forces and military police sergeant and I have spent over 40 collective months in Afghanistan over my 23 years of service. My background taught me how this actually works. I LIVED in their country. I SAW how they move and operate when they already hold power, and I STUDIED how they take a country when they don't.
I saw girls beaten with fists and sticks. Kicked. I saw girls faces disfigured from acid attacks because they DARED to want to learn and have an education. I saw little boys as young as 9 years old treated as sexual entertainment through the accepted practice of bacha bazi (Chai Boys). I saw many a 'Man Love Thursday'. TOO MANY. I saw a culture where a woman accusing a powerful man of sexual abuse WOULD face shame, punishment and very likely DEATH because a man's word carried more weight than hers. Little girls are married off, bought and sold like livestock. These girls do not get a choice. It's either do it or DIE. They are controlled and hidden away underneath a burka. Inside a compound. No rights. No voice. They are OWNED by men.
Five years after the Taliban returned to power, this isn't ancient history. Girls are still barred from school. Women are still hidden, abused and powerless. The Taliban has issued more than 100 decrees restricting women and girls and made child marriage and forced marriage even harder to escape.
This is what I saw with my own eyes time and time again all over that country. This is what I KNOW.
And this is what I see right now IN MY OWN COUNTRY, unfolding before our very eyes......and its f*cking terrifying.
When Muslims are not the majority, they play a VERY different game. They label you an Islamaphobe. They demand tolerance. They demand their own rules. They build mosques and preach a 'Death to America' message from INSIDE our own country and make us pay them for it with our own tax dollars. They shame you for noticing. Then the second they see a path to power, they get bold.
They see that path in America right now. An IMAM in TEXAS just said it out loud......he said on camera, now that the state 'turned blue', it's their chance to TAKE OVER. That's why they're getting more brazen by the day.
Next, they'll build more mosques with Americans' tax dollars. They'll keep infiltrating our government so they can fight us from the inside. And once that foothold is strong enough, they WILL start implementing Sharia law.
I've already seen that ending. We HAVE to REJECT this and KICK THEM THE F*CK OUT!!! We owe it to our daughters and our sons not to let that shit live here. 🇺🇸🪖 Spread this message like our kids' lives depend on it because they 100% DO!!!!
Below is one of the many schools we built that the Taliban seized after we left country. I'm the one in the middle. 5'2 but locked and loaded. And thanking GOD every day that I took a breath in that country that-
1. I had guns and bullets
2. That I was an American
3. That I had the full force of the United States military on my side
Seeing this very same religion and culture that's destroyed so many other countries come to MY America is even scarier than seeing it there. This is OUR home. But it will be unrecognizable if we don't stand up and FIGHT against this with everything we have!
In 2007, Channel 4 secretly filmed hate preachers in British mosques.
So what did West Midlands Police do?
They went after the JOURNALISTS
They accused Channel 4 of "misleading editing" and reported them to Ofcom.
Ofcom threw it out and called it "a legitimate investigation" in the public interest.
The police and CPS then had to apologise in the High Court and pay six-figure libel damages.
A year later Channel 4 went back. At Regent's Park Mosque, one of Britain's biggest, a preacher was filmed telling women that gay people and those who leave Islam should be killed.
Nearly 20 years on… has ANYTHING changed? 👇