Number of people asking me to comment on the Henry Nowak case. His father said "We do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension". If you can't respect his wishes, you're scum. That's what I think.
A 13% rise in the energy price cap is simply unaffordable.
The UK Government must do all it can to protect households.
I am reiterating my call on the PM to convene a four nations summit to agree action to bring down the energy price cap before further pressures in the autumn.
The number of such cases is fewer than 10 households according to DWP data because post-1988 immigration rules made it very difficult to bring additional spouses to the UK via family visas. These are legacy cases, often pension-age claimants
Most of these cases came into the UK between 1979–1997 under the Conservative governments of Thatcher & Major
Conservatives were also in government between 2010 and 2024 and didn't close this loophole
But sure, get angry about a policy you could have stopped when you were in government but chose not to
When the finance & audit committee &the treasurer & Jo Cherry resigned because they had no access to the books & no answers on missing funds
And Peter was flush with cash
& spending extravagantly
Sturgeon had no suspicion
Today came as a complete shock?
This massacre of medics would be branded terrorism if in Israel by Hezbollah so what is it by Israel in Lebanon?
The mass killing of emergency workers in Lebanon and, before that, Gaza is surely another war crime.
https://t.co/OxkJwflmbk
Made it my life’s mission to become the Taliban’s worst nightmare:
A highly educated Afghan woman.
First, Columbia University at the top of my class, and now Oxford University.
Give Afghan girls one chance and see what they can achieve.
“Locker-room banter” is a pathetic excuse for blatant misogyny from a grown man.
Reform could have called out the overt sexism and condemned it. Instead, they framed it as an “establishment hit job”.
Tells you everything you need to know about them. 🦖
Nigel Farage is complaining about foreign millionaires donating huge sums of money to far right populists who then use it online to spread hatred and division in our politics to affect the outcome of elections.
Paging alanis morissette ..
A male bee mates for less than 5 seconds in midair. The ejaculation is so explosive you can hear it pop from a few feet away. His body rips in half. He falls dead before hitting the ground. And he is one of the lucky males in the hive.
When a male bee, called a drone, chases down a queen mid-flight at speeds of 22 miles per hour, his entire reproductive organ turns inside out. The pressure required for this comes from nearly all the blood in his body, which rushes downward to force the organ outward like a spring. The semen fires into the queen with so much force it makes the audible pop. The organ then snaps off and stays lodged inside her like a cork. As he flips backward off her body, his abdomen rips open. The next drone waiting his turn has to physically yank out the dead male's cork before he can mate. The same thing then happens to him.
The queen does this 12 to 20 times in a single afternoon. She flies up to a spot in the sky that beekeepers call a drone congregation area. Picture an invisible meeting point about 50 to 130 feet above the ground where up to 11,000 male bees from as many as 240 different hives are hovering, waiting for her. These spots stay in the exact same locations year after year, sometimes for over a decade. No one fully understands how brand new drones, born only weeks earlier, find them.
By the end of her mating run, the queen has collected around 100 million sperm cells. She keeps only 5 to 6 million in a tiny internal storage organ that keeps them alive for years. From that supply, she uses just two sperm cells per egg for the rest of her life, laying up to 2,000 eggs a day for 2 to 7 years. After that one afternoon in the sky, she will never mate again.
A 2019 study from UC Riverside, the University of Copenhagen, and the University of Western Australia found that bee semen contains toxic proteins that temporarily blind the queen by interfering with how vision genes function in her brain. If she can't see well, she can't fly out again to mate with more males. Their semen also carries a separate protein that attacks and kills sperm cells from rival drones still inside her. The males keep competing long after every one of them is dead.
The 99.9% of drones who never get to mate have it worse. As autumn arrives, the female worker bees in the hive stop feeding their brothers, then drag them out of the entrance after biting off their wings. The drones can't fly back in. They starve or freeze in the grass within days. The colony raises a fresh batch of disposable males the next spring, and the whole cycle starts over.
There is something amiss at the top of Reform
- Bull sacked out of the blue and not tweeted since
- Anderson appointed
- no recognition of Bull's work or Anderson's appointment by Yusuf
- Yusuf was planning time off (he said) but then said he was going to work on the byelection instead - hardly a tweet and no comment on immigration data in 2 days
- Farage hardly tweeted and not been seen for nearly 2 weeks
- Zahawi sent out on the airwaves........
- Rumours about Kruger
It cannot be right that teenage boys can commit brutal crimes of rape like this & avoid prison entirely. I have appealed these sentences to the AG. The excuses of ADHD for a crime like this are an offence to justice.
>Gypsy travellers commit premeditated gang rape of a child.
>It lasts 90 minutes.
>They film the attacks, laugh at the child they're raping, encourage their friends to rape her, mock the child asking “why do you look sad?”
>They know they won't be punished so they rape an even younger child at knifepoint, cut her clothes off with knives.
>The child victims are left petrified and wanting to die.
>Judge praises the gang rapists' behaviour in court.
>Judge lets them walk free saying “I should avoid criminalising [the rapists] unnecessarily”.
>Gives them "youth rehabilitation orders".
>Other gang rapists now know that activist judges have effectively decriminalised the violent gang rape of British children.
>None of this is accidental.
This is sickening! These kids have just been taught that there are no consequences to their behaviour! I don't know what this judge was thinking but they need to give their heads a wobble.
@ShabanaMahmood if ever a sentence was too lenient, this is it!!
Teenage gang who lured schoolgirl, 15, to underpass and laughed as they filmed themselves raping her handed youth rehabilitation orders https://t.co/rjymPLCwB6
To remind everyone what really happened that night:
• They cut off testicles and shoved them into the victims's mouths.
• They stabbed pregnant women in the womb and raped them.
• They beheaded people.
• They gouged people's eyes out.
French authorities worked overtime to keep these details away from the public.
And apparently, the mastermind behind this atrocity will soon walk, because European leaders are cowards and traitors who will never do the right thing.