The second the mob heard she was Jewish, they tried to rape her to death.
Lara Logan on 60 Minutes describing her brutal mob assault in Tahrir Square, 2011.
She was reporting on the celebrations of Hosni Mubarak’s resignation when the crowd turned on her. They tore her clothes off and sexually assaulted and violently violated her for 20 to 30 minutes with their hands, over and over.
The frenzy exploded the moment someone screamed she was Jewish and Israeli. Then all they wanted was to rape her, beat her, and rip her apart.
This is what that hatred looks like in action. October 7 was not a surprise.
Watch her full account.
He claimed asylum in Ireland as a gay man fleeing persecution. He has a wife and two kids back home. Irish taxpayers are funding it. The government sees nothing wrong.
@suzanne_moore It is a good plan. I know it is a good plan. I have not seen the plan but I know it to be good. The people who have resigned on seeing the plan do not know how good it is. It is a good plan, which I have not seen. But it is good.
Horrific. A 30-year-old man has been arrested after attempting to stab a 17-year-old girl in neck in Burnley. Completely unprovoked.
Are we really going to accept that this is the new weekly norm in Britain?
This is not what a civilised, first world country looks like at all.
Just so you know who this man is, @ZackPolanski believes that someone smashing a sledgehammer into a police woman's back is legitimate and justifiable "direct action".
When people tell you who they are, believe them.
This excerpt from the excellent post by @JChimirie66677 shows how the flawed evidence that Brexit has cost the UK 8% in lost GBP has been derived.
When anyone quotes the “consensus” that all economists agree about the cost of Brexit, dig this out & wave it under their noses.
My colleagues were murdered by you at the Harrod's bombing.
I had a phone call on my weekend off, bussed to Hyde park after you murdered British soldiers, i remember when the sun came up looking at the flesh and blood hanging from the trees not knowing if it were horse or man
No jail for brown man; two years for white man. Robinson has a clean record, not even a parking ticket.
Two 21-year-olds, two riots, two-tier justice ⚖️
On Bail.
Man accused of raping a child was granted bail and used the opportunity to rape another child.
Remember Lucy Connolly, a bereaved mother, was denied bail for a nasty, hastily deleted tweet.
But Lucy was white and her name wasn’t Khan.
Imagining bailing a rapist.
Labour have appointed a new adviser at the Ministry of Justice.
And she has extreme views.
She called Henry Nowak's murder “useful” to the Right, and the public reaction to two-tier justice “dangerous”.
This is someone who should be nowhere near our justice system. 🧵
The judgement was just.
https://t.co/Vy8XDVEVAE
If you think people fracturing police officers spines by wielding a sledgehammer lawful action, then vote for the Greens & hang your head in shame.
Calling violent criminality “direct action” is a perversion of the truth & justice!
Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel.
Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it.
A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.
Je vais partir du principe que tu es de bonne foi, parce que ton raisonnement est intuitif et que 90% des gens le partagent. Mais il repose sur trois erreurs factuelles, et ça vaut le coup de les regarder calmement.
Erreur 1 : la fortune d'Elon n'est pas un tas d'argent. C'est de la propriété d'usines, de fusées et de satellites. "Prendre la moitié de sa tune", concrètement, ça veut dire forcer la vente de la moitié de SpaceX et Tesla. L'argent ne sort pas d'un coffre, il sort des entreprises elles-mêmes, qui passent sous contrôle de fonds étrangers ou d'États. Tu ne redistribues pas du cash, tu démantèles un outil de production. C'est la différence entre récolter des pommes et découper le pommier.
Erreur 2 : "ça résout énormément de problèmes dans le monde". Cette expérience a déjà été tentée, en vrai. En 2021, le directeur du Programme Alimentaire Mondial de l'ONU a affirmé que 6 milliards de Musk pouvaient "résoudre la faim dans le monde". Réponse d'Elon : décrivez-moi exactement comment, comptabilité publique à l'appui, et je vends mes actions Tesla immédiatement. Le PAM a publié son plan. Verdict : ce n'était pas "résoudre la faim", c'était nourrir 42 millions de personnes pendant un an. Un an. Puis il faut re-payer, pour toujours. Le PAM avait d'ailleurs levé 8,4 milliards l'année précédente, et la faim était toujours là. Les ONG traitent les symptômes en boucle, jamais les causes, parce que leur financement dépend de l'existence du problème.
Erreur 3, la plus importante : tu cherches ce qui sort vraiment les gens de la pauvreté. Bonne nouvelle, on a la réponse, et elle est massive. En 1990, 36% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Plus d'un milliard de personnes sorties de la misère en 30 ans. Par quoi ? Pas par la charité ni par l'aide internationale (plus de 1 000 milliards versés à l'Afrique en 60 ans pour un résultat à peu près nul). Par l'ouverture des marchés, l'industrialisation, le commerce. La Chine seule a sorti 800 millions de personnes de la pauvreté en abandonnant le collectivisme, pas en taxant ses entrepreneurs.
Donc fais le calcul complet. Option A : tu confisques 500 milliards, tu finances quelques années de programmes, l'argent est consommé, et tu as détruit la machine qui produisait les fusées, les voitures électriques et l'internet des zones rurales. Option B : tu laisses le meilleur allocateur de capital de sa génération réinvestir 100% de sa fortune dans des industries qui baissent les coûts pour tout le monde et emploient des centaines de milliers de personnes. L'option A soulage ta morale pendant 18 mois. L'option B sort des populations entières de la pauvreté pour toujours.
La pauvreté ne se redistribue pas. Elle se résout par la création. C'est contre-intuitif, c'est frustrant, mais c'est ce que disent 200 ans de données.
'Everyone thought she was a working class girl, she must be lying'
Iain Macwhirter reacts after Bulgarian siblings were found guilty over the Dundee schoolgirl attack.
Diplomatic immunity of outgoing UNRWA commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini ends on June 31st. On July 1st, we will be demanding his indictment for complicity in terrorism, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Lazzarini cannot claim he didn't know. We have all the receipts.
It pains me to respond to the attention seeking @MatthewStadlen ....
But he's tried to orchestrate yet another pile-on and truth matters.
The exchange with him was at 1am on Monday night. At that time we were relying on sparse footage and interpreting media descriptions.
The official figures were eventually released, based on accurate assessments, after dawn the next day.
I was ACUTELY aware that this disorder would be used (just as Southport was) by the government to introduce more powers of control.
I could see Stadlen priming viewers at home to accept incoming restrictions.
Language matters. Too many people in news media reach for hyperbole to manipulate you - never more so than when an authoritarian government is waiting to pounce.
Facts that emerged the next day:
15 police officers injured.
4 residential properties damaged by fire.
3 residents evacuated from burning homes.
Several vehicles burned.
All unacceptable hooliganism, stupidity and chaos. Life-changing for some involved.
But when I think of 'riots' I call to mind Brixton in 1981 in which 100s of police and civilians were hospitalised.
Toxteth, 1981, in which one person died, more than £10million of property was damaged and 100s were injured.
The Poll Tax riots in 1990 saw 200,000 people in Trafalgar square; 100s of people injured and arrested.
Tottenham, 2011, The 'Mark Duggan' riots - FIVE people died, 1000s were arrested and damage reached roughly £200 million.
2024: Southport, 1000s of arrests and some high-profile jail-sentences including Lucy Connolly for commenting online.
Those are riots.
In 2026, a hot day is an "emergency," feeling a bit down is "depression;" rain is a "flood risk" and being tired is "burnt out."
In my view, the British people should be calmly withdrawing their labour and taking to the streets in their millions right now to force political change, but too many are unwilling to get off the sofa.
It was obvious that this disorder would be used by the government to introduce more powers of control over free speech so on Monday,'s show, I was torn between relaying the unrest and attempting to moderate the hysteria. But I did let Stadlen wind me up and that was unusual on my part.
On the issue of greater social media restrictions I was proven right within 24 hours.
Now let's look at who Matthew Stadlen really is....
Have you ever wondered why a grown man would spend so much time doing unpaid media work, even going to the time and effort of clipping and promoting my counter-narrative views on social media at every opportunity?
I have zero evidence that he is anything other than a trust-fund boy who lives in a big London house and likes being on TV.
He may just be the product of his rarified upbringing.
But if you were to require a malleable asset to nudge the Establishment dial, his type would certainly fit the bill:
St Paul's and Trinity College educated with a father, Sir Nicholas Stadlen who was a High Court Judge. His uncle Godfrey Stadlen was a very senior Home Office civil servant involved in the administrative machinery of UK immigration policy.
His paternal Grandparents were Central European émigré intellectuals who brought Marxist, anti-fascist and Continental philosophical traditions to Britain. His grandmother's work and participation in intellectual circles, especially contributed to debates on Marxism and political theory.
Frankly, The Stadlen family sits in the upper institutional ecosystem of Britain through law and elite education, not to mention Matthew's hard-to-define media career...
So when he is dead-set on making you think a certain way, take a breath, think harder and be extremely wary.