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[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you claim to support human rights yet can’t bring yourself to show solidarity with those fighting for their liberty in Iran, you’ve revealed yourself. You don’t give a damn about people being oppressed and brutalised so long as it’s being done by the enemies of your enemies.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Writing in the Telegraph, Kate Hoey is right to warn that Labour is about to unleash lawfare on Britain's veterans. What she exposes is not a technical dispute over legacy legislation, but a deeper collapse of state responsibility. In revisiting the past, the government is repudiating its own authority and offering up those who served it as payment.

Under Keir Starmer, Britain has chosen to subordinate its judgement to an external legal order and call the result justice. The gutting of the Legacy Act was not forced upon this country. It was a political decision, taken willingly, to abandon a domestic settlement designed to end endless legal pursuit and replace it with permanent uncertainty for those who wore the uniform.

The most revealing point in Hoey's article is the one ministers prefer to skate past. International law does not override domestic law. Parliament could have stood its ground. The appeal against the Northern Ireland ruling could have been pursued. Instead, on the advice of Richard Hermer, the government folded at the first legal challenge and recast surrender as moral seriousness.

This is where the rot sets in. The state is no longer defending its own framework for resolving conflict. It is deferring to the ECHR while insisting its hands are tied. They are not tied. They are withdrawn.

The asymmetry that follows is brutal. Terrorists destroyed evidence, stayed silent, or were rewarded with letters assuring them they would not be pursued. Soldiers kept records, gave statements, and remained traceable. Decades later, only one group remains available for scrutiny. Not because they are more culpable, but because they are still reachable.

This is why the process itself becomes punishment. Endless inquests, reopened cases, civil claims, reputational ruin, all without realistic prospect of conviction. The system knows this. It is not seeking outcomes. It is sustaining motion. Law as industry rather than justice.

Hoey is right to point out the scale of the cost. Billions spent, more to come, with no serious assessment of value or truth produced. What remains undisclosed is how much of this money ends up in legal fees and settlements, and how little reaches victims.

The government's language about truth rings hollow. The IRA kept no archives. Witnesses are dead. Evidence is gone. What remains is narrative, shaped by lawyers and politics. Truth becomes something asserted rather than discovered. Veterans are expected to defend split-second decisions made under fire half a century ago, while those who waged terror face no such reckoning.

The most damning detail of all concerns Gerry Adams. A judge ruled that denying him compensation breached his rights. That finding was removed from the remedial order to avoid public backlash, while ministers know full well he can now take the case to Strasbourg and likely win. Terrorist leaders are insulated quietly. Veterans are exposed publicly.

That contrast tells you everything about priorities. The law bends upward and strikes downward. The state protects itself by sacrificing those with the least power to resist.

What is dressed up as reconciliation is, in reality, bureaucratic self-preservation. Officials shield past decisions by keeping their own failures opaque and redirecting scrutiny onto ageing soldiers who acted under orders in a war the state itself fought.

A serious country does not behave this way. It confronts institutional mistakes at the level they were made. It does not outsource blame to those who carried rifles while others drafted policy.

Kate Hoey has done the country a service by stating plainly what this policy means. Britain is choosing lawfare over loyalty, process over responsibility, and foreign judgement over its own. A state that will not defend those who acted in its name is not correcting history. It is surrendering to it.

"The most damning detail of all concerns Gerry Adams. A judge ruled that denying him compensation breached his rights."

[British Intel @TheBritishIntel]

🚨🇬🇧 X IS THE UK’S NUMBER ONE NEWS APP – AND THAT’S THE REAL PROBLEM

X is now the most used news app in the UK.

That is exactly why Keir Starmer wants it banned. People are bypassing the BBC, ignoring government spin, and seeing the truth in real time.

🔴 Information no longer controlled
🔴 Narratives challenged instantly
🔴 Government authority weakened

This is about power. When the public cannot be managed, censorship becomes the tool of choice.

[Ben Habib @benhabib6]

At what point do we come to terms with the reality that the BBC, like so many institutions, is a political activist?

It long ago ceased to be a voice for Britain.

Now it stands against Britain.

An apology is not good enough. https://t.co/SAsNJmD8gH

[Bari Weiss @bariweiss]

"Britain now stands shamed before the world. The public’s suppressed wrath is bubbling to the surface in petitions, calls for a public inquiry, and demands for accountability.

The scandal is already reshaping British politics. It’s not just about the heinous nature of the crimes. It’s that every level of the British system is implicated in the cover-up.

Social workers were intimidated into silence. Local police ignored, excused, and even abetted pedophile rapists across dozens of cities. Senior police and Home Office officials deliberately avoided action in the name of maintaining what they called “community relations.” Local councilors and Members of Parliament rejected pleas for help from the parents of raped children. Charities, NGOs, and Labour MPs accused those who discussed the scandal of racism and Islamophobia. The media mostly ignored or downplayed the biggest story of their lifetimes. Zealous in their incuriosity, much of Britain’s media elite remained barnacled to the bubble of Westminster politics and its self-serving priorities.

They did this to defend a failed model of multiculturalism, and to avoid asking hard questions about failures of immigration policy and assimilation. They did this because they were afraid of being called racist or Islamophobic. They did this because Britain’s traditional class snobbery had fused with the new snobbery of political correctness.

All of which is why no one knows precisely how many thousands of young girls were raped in how many towns across Britain since the 1970s."

[Jamie Jenkins @statsjamie]

🚨 | Margaret Thatcher - ‘The state has no source of money other than the money that people earn themselves.

There is no such thing as public money there is only taxpayers money’

💥 1st female Prime Minister understood public finances, the 1st female Chancellor does not.

💷 Rachel Reeves is robbing the public blind through taxation.

💡 Remember there is no public sector without the tax from the private sector.

🧨 The Labour Party are doing their best to ruin the private sector.

[Sequencer @RealSeq16]

The government thinks people are stupid & can’t research for themselves. Well this woman 👇did! She went to the Federal Register and checked out Executive Orders that Presidents have signed, as well as those they revoked.

She was under the impression that many of the EOs by Biden were HIS, and wasn’t aware that a lot of the EOs Trump signed while in office that really benefitted our country, minorities, women, protection of children in our border, etc., were not only signed into law by Trump, but were revoked by Biden immediately after he took office.

When you look at Biden’s EOs, he takes something similar, renames it, but it’s basically the same as Trump’s and then claims he’s the one who signed it into law!

Example: Biden is always talking about how he is the one who lowered prescription costs & the cap on insulin, but that’s false, Trump did it first! 👇👇

[Laila Mickelwait @LailaMickelwait]

In a heroic move, Gisele Pelicot fought to make public the videos of her unconscious rapes at the hands of over 50 men and won. She wanted the public “to look rape straight in the eyes.” Shame, she said, must change sides —from the victims to the perpetrators.

Police found more than 20,000 videos and photographs of Gisele drugged and being raped by various men on her husband’s devices in a folder titled “Abuse.”

On Friday, the judge complied with Gisele’s demand and showed the evidence “necessary for the manifestation of the truth.”

12 rape videos and 10 photos were shown over the courtroom’s three flat screens and projected into the overflow room for members of the public while the perpetrators in the videos sat in shame watching their own despicable criminal acts being exposed.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Child, in a decade's time you're going to be deeply embarrassed that you supported this misogynistic, lesbophobic shit, and you'll be really glad I hid your name when I told you so. To future you: you're welcome. We were all young and dumb once.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

“People in Britain today are angry: not just disappointed, not just disillusioned, but angry. They are angry at the state of Britain; angry at the total absence of leadership; angry at the absence of vision; angry at the hypocrisy and double standards; and they are angry at the incessant incompetence of a Government they no longer respect and increasingly despise.”

~ John Smith (then Labour Party Leader). 1993.

And tragically, his words of wisdom (aimed against the Tory government) could equally apply to Keir Starmer’s government of today.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

UK street singer singing hilarious song about the issues in the UK with putting people in jail for social media, open borders and more.

Possibly the most fact based song ever written, well done 👍

🔊 … sound on

[Shabnam Nasimi @NasimiShabnam]

Women in Afghanistan are being obliterated—no voice, no face, no existence. The Taliban’s latest decrees are nothing short of barbaric: women banned from singing, reciting poetry, or even speaking aloud in public. Their faces and bodies must hidden from the world.

This isn’t just an Afghanistan tragedy; it is a stain on the global conscience, brought about by our failure to act.

[Alex Jones @RealAlexJones]

POWERFUL! Full RFK JR. Trump Endorsement Speech

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

The targeted violence against Hindus in Bangladesh is wrong, it's concerning, and it's a cautionary tale for victimhood-laced quota systems. Here's what happened: Bangladesh fought a bloody war for its independence in 1971. Hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi civilians were raped and murdered. It was a tragedy, and it was rightly mourned. But in its aftermath, Bangladesh implemented a quota system for jobs in their civil service: 80% of the jobs were allocated to specific social groups (war veterans, rape victims, underrepresented residents, etc.), and only 20% were allocated based on merit.

The quota system proved to be a disaster. In 2018, protests led Bangladesh to scrap most of the quotas, but the victim-patrons fought back…and the quota system was reinstated this year. That triggered more protests which toppled the government, and the prime minister fled. Once chaos begins, it can't easily be reined in. Radicals are now targeting Hindu minorities. A quota conflict created to rectify the wrongs of rape and violence in 1971 is now leading to more rape and violence in 2024. Bloodshed is the endpoint of grievance and victimhood. It's hard not to look at Bangladesh and wonder what lessons we would do well to learn right here at home.

[The Tennis Letter @TheTennisLetter]

John McEnroe defends Novak Djokovic after his statement to the crowd at Wimbledon, ‘There’s 2 of the greatest class acts we’ve seen in tennis, Roger Federer & Rafa Nadal… who can compare to them in terms of the way people love them? Nobody… This is what he’s been dealing with for 20 years… He doesn’t deserve this’

“He’s been battling this for his whole career. Yes he feeds off negative energy. And yes I did feed off that at times. But I hated it in a way. Do you want people yelling against you hoping you’ll lose? Just because you’re so good they start pulling for the other guy for no reason other than you’re so good. That’s the reason people go against him in my opinion. He’s like the Darth Vader compared to… look, there’s two of the greatest class acts we’ve ever seen play tennis. Rafa Nadal & Roger Federer. Who can compare to them in terms of what they brought to the table and the way people love them? Nobody. And then this guy Djokovic has the nerve to come in and break into the party….”

Clare Balding: “And win more Grand Slams than them.”

“Exactly. So then it’s like ‘How about respecting me after all this?’ Think about this… here’s a guy who had surgery a month ago. The odds are were 10 or 20% that he’d even play this tournament. He’s thinking ‘I’m helping this tournament.’ Which he is. ‘Why don’t I get some love when I’m playing a guy who’s 15 in the world?’ Who hasn’t done a damn thing compared to him. Yes there were maybe a handful of Danish people going ‘Rune’ and I get that people want to see a good match. We all wanna see a good match. But you have to respect the greatness that you see. It’s easy to be the backseat driver and let it go. But this is what he’s been dealing with for 10, 15, 20 years that people have been doing this. I admire the guts that he had to say it there. That takes something. That’s in a way gonna put more people against him. He doesn’t deserve that at this stage. We need him and he’s been too great for our game in my opinion.”

(via @BBC)

[mazastar @Mazastar]

No

[Just saying @kangaroos991]

YES or no?

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Seems clear this man cannot be trusted . The verbal gymnastics are of Olympic levels, if that were a category one could compete in…