George Grant 🇺🇦 🇭🇰

Up North

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Reform are just not a serious political party. There are a billion reasons this wouldn’t work. Are we going to withdraw from UNCLOS? Are our sailors expected to open fire on unarmed civilians if the dinghies don’t stop? Good luck with that.

Joke outfit.

[Fr Mark Elliott Smith @MarkElliottSmi1]

It is rare that I feel this level of rage, but the sheer nastiness of the Mayor of Hackney choosing October 7th of all days to demand a response from the Mayor of Haifa about the twinning arrangement is top level horrible.

They clearly have no shame.

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

I did say these things about Ukraine and Zelensky and I am not deleting my posts because I’ve realized, I was wrong.

I was living in a media echo chamber and I was propagandized by Russian media on social media to believe those things.

So I came to Ukraine to see the country for myself. I am going to try to find evidence for the propaganda I’ve been fed, and if I don’t find it, I will let everyone know so they too can come to see the light.

On day one, I’ve already seen photos of dead priests in Bucha murdered by Russia and I saw the mass grave where the bodies of murdered Christians were placed after Russia sent forces from Chechnya to massacre innocent people.

I spoke with officials who rescue POWs and they showed me photos of Ukrainian POWs who had swastikas engraved into their forehead by Russians.

Who are the Nazis? 🤔 I was lied to for years.

I realized Ukraine and @ZelenskyyUa aren’t the jihadi apologists… but Russia and Putin are!

I was wrong! I have a responsibility to correct the record.

Russia is very good at information warfare.

[Harvey Proctor @KHarveyProctor]

I suggest @PeterTatchell reads my @thetimes article.

I denounced Operation Midland as a “homosexual witch-hunt”. Ann Widdecombe stood by me. Not one LGBT charity even dared. Tatchell was remarkably silent. Ann stuck her head above the parapet to offer support - privately, publicly & practically.

I was accused of being a child murdering paedophile & was forced to declare “I am a homosexual. I am not a murderer. I am not a paedophile.”

Ann was always at the end of a telephone or an email whenever I needed her. She gave me private, public & practical support when it came at a personal & political cost.

That speaks for itself.

https://t.co/KXDM2lIRhO

[Gerry @guinnessaddick]

I like how Colombia v Switzerland tonight has been dubbed Charlie vs the Chocolate Factory.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I am officially nominating Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) for the Nobel Peace Prize.

No President in History has ended the same war so many times.

Our Dear Leader has ended the war with Iran at least 38 times by CNN’s count.

No President has ever done this before.

And he is nowhere near finished ending it.

It’s a record worthy of the Nobel committee’s recognition. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

[Steve Smith @SteveSmith98]

Is it just me wondering why @AlistairCarns isn't in the @Conservatives?

[Tom Peck @tompeck]

Little bit of history made as Harry Kane, John Stones and Jordan Henderson look set to become the first England internationals to go through a change of prime minister during a major international tournament for a record breaking third time.

[Zoom Afrika @zoomafrika1]

Do not say anything, just like and repost. 💛🩵🖤

[Maliq @MasterMaliq]

As a Muslim, there's something that genuinely bothers me.

Millions of Muslims live in Christian majority countries, build mosques, preach Islam publicly, distribute Qur'ans, open halal businesses, and demand religious freedom,and rightly so.

Some even call for aspects of Shariah to be accommodated in the societies they've moved to.

Yet in some Muslim majority countries, Christians cannot openly preach the Gospel, build churches freely, or practice their faith without restrictions.

Why?

If we demand religious freedom for ourselves, we should be willing to grant it to others.

Truth does not need censorship.

If Islam is the truth, it has nothing to fear from a church, a Bible, or a Christian preacher.

You can't demand tolerance and freedom for Muslims abroad while denying the same freedoms to others at home.

The double standard needs to be called out.

[Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminlee]

Korean man tunes into a Zoom meeting while on a roller coaster. There's no way they didn't know 😂

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

These thugs fractured the spine of Sgt Kate Evans, who spoke in court of the medical and emotional trauma she still lives with.
Prison is where they belong.
Unlike Zack Polanski, I want serious consequences for anyone who attacks police officers risking their lives to protect us.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In Brazil, it is tradition that the first piece of cake goes to the most important person in your life.

And then his little brother's reaction.

[Arlo White @arlowhite]

I suspect either a tray table was down, or one of the window blinds was still half open.

[Henrik Dahl @SociologenHD]

One of the causes of political instability across Europe is rarely discussed: Class.

Take my own country, Denmark.

The entire left wing is prepared to fight tooth and nail to preserve the state grant given to university students. It is one of the most generous schemes in the world: roughly €1,000 per month, with no repayment obligation.

A student who completes a five-year degree receives around €60,000 from the state.

The interesting part is that many economic studies have found that this benefit has a regressive social profile.

In plain English: relatively poor taxpayers subsidise the education of people who are very likely to end up with above-average lifetime incomes. Money flows from the poorer part of society to the future upper-middle class.

This points to a broader problem.

Across much of Europe, the traditional workers' parties have gradually been captured by the academic middle class. As a result, they increasingly prioritise issues that matter to university graduates: climate activism, identity politics, and expansive immigration policies.

The working class often has different priorities.

When workers abandon these parties, their former leaders rarely ask whether they themselves have changed. Instead, they look elsewhere for explanations.

When one of Europe's old workers' parties loses its next election, the excuses will be familiar.

- Misinformation.

- Manipulation.

- Ignorance.

- "The algorithms".

Anything but the possibility that the party no longer represents the people it was created to represent.

Perhaps the real mystery is not why the working class is leaving.

Perhaps the real mystery is why anyone is still surprised.

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

The contrast between Reagan’s speech at Point-Du-Hoc and Pete Hegseth today are like two different galaxies. Listen to how much reverence he gives to the same allies that Hegseth attacks.

[George Grant 🇺🇦 🇭🇰 @GeorgePBGrant]

Slowly, but surely, my faith in the Conservative Party is being restored.

https://t.co/5wQiVVAqk4

[Dr. Hans Jakob Schindler @CEPschindler]

I am not using my account here to comment on things often, but this news story needs a comment:
How is it possible that a professional European politician in 2026 does not see the very obvious historical parallels of supporting the idea of creating lists of Jews?

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

UK tax has gone up significantly over the last 25 years

But the tax paid by the average UK worker has not

This apparent miracle was achieved by taxing “other people”: higher earners, capital, property, banks, etc

The strategy has run out of road

A 🧵 on what happens next.

[Nicholas Drummond @nicholadrummond]

This is the best summary of the current geopolitical situation I have seen. Sir Alex Younger was head of MI6 between 2014 and 2020. Really worth watching.