David Gilman #StandwithUkraine

The Englishman thrillers: Master of War series: The Knife Maker of Venice: Night Flight to Paris: The Last Horseman: Danger Zone: A Touch of Frost.

[giannino @smelfnew]

Cioè, mettetevi nei panni della delegazione belga alla riunione NATO. Come faranno a rimanere seri?

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

A plea to teachers and parents taking school parties on the tube network. When you see obviously frail elderly or disabled people who can't find a seat because they're all taken by your pupils, I think it's your job to sort it out

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

While the world's cameras are fixed on the five-day state funeral of Khamenei, the Islamic Republic is silently killing this 23-year-old girl with a slow death.

Raheleh Moeini, a biomedical engineering graduate of Amirkabir University, had traveled back to Iran from Italy to visit her family. On January 18th, in Saadatabad, Tehran, she was shot by security forces and at that very moment, bleeding and wounded, she was abducted and transferred to Qarchak Prison. Her family spent weeks not knowing where she was. Whether she was alive or dead.

Now Branch Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, has issued its verdict. One year for being on the street where they shot her. One and a half years for having a Twitter account. Two years banned from leaving the country. This regime first put a bullet in her, then put her on trial.

Be the voice of Raheleh Moeini.

#FreeRahelehMoeini

[Azat @AzatAlsalim]

Spanish member of Parliament, Virginia Martenez:

“In Spain, we women are free and we are not going to submit to Islamism that wants us submissive. We are not going to cover our bodies, nor our hair, nor our faces.”

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

The police must stop engaging in "woke" culture wars, says a major government-backed report.

This is a truly damning indictment of the state of British policing and vindicates many of the arguments the Free Speech Union has been making over the past six years.

The report was co-chaired by the former Labour Home Secretary, Lord Blunkett, who said there was "no room for culture wars or woke" causes in policing. Asked whether there was a problem with "two-tier" policing in Britain, Lord Blunkett said: "We make it clear in the report that there's no room for culture wars or woke ... In fact, I have quite a record on this myself. I wrote back in June six years ago, just at the beginning of Covid, when people were talking about the controversy of taking the knee, that it isn't the job of the police in our country to take sides of any sort.

It's the job of the police to deliver."

Sir Stephen Watson, one of Britain's most senior police officers, issued similar warnings, saying policing had "adopted the language of activism" and that official guidance had "over-corrected" in an effort to combat accusations of racism.

The heinous murder of Henry Nowak, and the appalling treatment he received from police officers who handcuffed him following a false accusation of racism, has reignited the debate about two-tier policing in the UK and its tragic consequences.

Britain's policing culture has allowed a false accusation of racism to become one of the most powerful cards a guilty person can play. That is the consequence of policies that have developed over the past 30 years.

Since the 1999 Macpherson Report, identity-based groups claiming to represent different minorities have acquired disproportionate influence over policing. That ideological capture of the College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs' Council accelerated in the wake of Black Lives Matter.

In an attempt to avoid appearing institutionally racist, policing has, in some cases, over-corrected. The report argues that the service must return to impartiality and focus on its core mission: enforcing the law fairly and maintaining public confidence.

Correcting this over-correction is now a matter of critical national importance. Unless it is addressed, public confidence in the police will continue to erode, threatening the principle of policing by consent.

Read more below, and take a look at the Free Speech Union's report 👇

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

I guess there’s nothing like a few military flypasts, a fireworks show, and a red card controversy to distract people from the fact you just lost a war with Iran.

Trump’s greatest skill is being evil with such regularity, that with each new shitshow, you forget the last one.

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

🇺🇸Reporter: "Putin, shortly after speaking to you, bombed Kyiv and killed innocent civilians."

🇺🇸Trump: "I think he does feel pressure. He wants to end it."

🇺🇸Reporter: "Why isn't he feeling any pressure after speaking with you?"🔥

🇺🇸Trump: Next question please

That Brave journalist indirectly revealed that Putin is Trump’s boss 🤣👏

[Katie Amess @KatieAmess]

Will any of our @EnglandFootball football team speak up about the killing of 3 million street dogs for the 2030 World Cup in Morocco? @FIFAcom @FIFAcom @England or do they not care as long as their wages are paid? https://t.co/PYVj6E2dlW

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

A county council has imposed a ban on the placement of flags on lampposts, claiming they cause "fear and division". When will our political elites understand that growing nationalist sentiment is rooted in alienation and loss, not xenophobia? My latest. ⬇️ https://t.co/vaODtEABva

[David Gilman #StandwithUkraine @davidgilmanuk]

Asleep at the wheel and heading for a brick wall.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

On 2nd June I raised concerns about the security of our electricity grid. I was told by Ed Miliband that I was scaremongering.

Since then I have been contacted by a whistleblower within our grid operator, the NESO.

They allege that operators are being instructed to hide information that shows the grid is not being operated securely.

Worse, they allege that Corporate Affairs interefered with operational decisions to stabilise the grid - risking blackouts to protect NESO's reputation.

Despite this coming from within the operator, the Minister doubled down on calling this ‘scaremongering’ rather than wanting to know the truth.

This Government is asleep at the wheel.

They must urgently investigate these allegations.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

No justification for this cruel barbarity in the modern world

Permission has been sought for a traditional hunt of young seabirds to take place on an uninhabited Hebridean island later this summer.

For centuries, gannets have been killed for their meat during an annual hunt on Sula Sgeir, a small rocky island 40 miles (64km) north of Ness on Lewis in the Western Isles.

Public body NatureScot issues licences for the hunts and is assessing the latest application.

The organisation's board will be asked to note that this process is under way at a meeting later. It will make a decision on the licence at a future date.

The practice, called a guga hunt and dating back to the 15th Century, usually takes place in August.

[David Gilman #StandwithUkraine @davidgilmanuk]

Thank God for Poland.

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

This is HUGE 🔥

🇵🇱 Poland under PM Tusk secretly sent Patriot missiles to Ukraine, defying a US order.

Days earlier Tusk warned: "NATO’s splitting. Russia gets a pass. Europe’s energy is wrecked. Ukraine aid cut. US troops gone. Looks like Putin wrote this. Trump’s looking like Moscow’s asset." 🔥

The man was visionary and literally exposed Trump. 🔥👏

[David Gilman #StandwithUkraine @davidgilmanuk]

Rip off Britain still going strong.

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

We went to the Monaco GP this year and frankly expected to be charged a fortune for everything (and we were) but to see fans being ripped off like this by @SilverstoneUK is simply disgusting. This is not what motorsport in the UK should be.

[David Gilman #StandwithUkraine @davidgilmanuk]

But politics is rough old game and when the going gets tough... you should stay and fight your corner. What good is a 'leader' who buckles so easily?

[Nick Robinson @bbcnickrobinson]

“Am I angry? I’ve never been angrier in my life” @Nigel_Farage presents himself & his party as the victim of an establishment plot claiming that it is “like living in a Communist country”. “Enough is enough” he says declaring that he will resign as an MP and trigger a by-election

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Amazing how the World Cup was doing a legitimately good job of bringing the world together and rehabilitating the USA’s reputation, now all anybody will remember is Trump’s political interference. The world is indeed united, but now it’s against the American cheats. Such a shame.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Lucy Powell, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party — and potentially our next Deputy Prime Minister — is calling for greater restrictions on social media, particularly during election campaigns.

It is becoming abundantly clear that this Government does not like being scrutinised by either the public or Parliament. We saw that with the Courts and Tribunals Bill, which ministers tried to force through Parliament at breakneck speed and which would have severely curtailed our ancient right to trial by jury.

The Government is not content with just banning under-16s from accessing social media. Lucy Powell wants to go much further and has identified the Representation of the People Bill as the legislative vehicle for doing so.

The Free Speech Union had already earmarked the Representation of the People Bill as legislation of significant concern. While Keir Starmer may be leaving Number 10, it is becoming increasingly clear that an Andy Burnham government would be every bit as hostile to free speech — if not more so.

[David Gilman #StandwithUkraine @davidgilmanuk]

So much love.

[The Spectator @spectator]

Someone shouting "Fuck you, Jews". Another telling the Jews they're baby-killers. A man suggesting the Jews should "go back" to their homeland.

A bloke telling Jews they're "the most hated people in the world". Where did this verbal mauling of Jews occur? At a neo-Nazi parade, perhaps? Actually it was at Pride in London.

Yes, the Pride parade on Saturday was scarred by what the Metropolitan Police are calling "anti-Semitic verbal abuse". The rainbow-coloured shindig that claims to be all about "tolerance" was shockingly intolerant of Jews.

Pride London will show that "love always triumphs over hate", said London mayor Sadiq Khan. Tell that to the gay Jews who were subjected to gross outbursts of hateful invective.

✍️ Brendan O’Neill

Article | https://t.co/lCLRBfsDrC | @spikedonline

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

Last night Ukraine could not intercept a single Russian ballistic missile. The USA deliberately starving Ukraine of Patriot missiles is now clearly understood by the Russians as American support for their terror bombing. The USA is helping Putin kill Ukrainians.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

President Erdogan of Turkey is using the NATO summit in Ankara today to force City Mayors to round up street dogs to put in kill shelters. No international summit should cost the lives of thousands of dogs #Turkey

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

Well, it was inevitable, and it happened.

Time and again, Russia brings down another Ukrainian apartment building with a missile in the middle of the night, burying entire families beneath the rubble.

Ukraine strikes one of Russia’s largest and most strategically important oil refineries, around 3,000 kilometres from its own borders.

One side deliberately targets civilians. The other targets the infrastructure that fuels the war.

If anyone still struggles to see the difference, they’re choosing not to.