Nicolas

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.

Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.

It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.

[Department of State @StateDept]

Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline. They must be rejected across the West.

The United States sends our condolences to the family of Henry Nowak and the people of the United Kingdom at this troubling time.

[Nigel Farage MP @Nigel_Farage]

The fear of being called racist was greater than dealing with Henry Nowak’s murder.

We should respond to this with pure cold rage.

Britain’s historic way of life is being thrown away.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

The murder of Henry Nowak is everything BLM wanted George Floyd’s death to be.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Today, we remember a legend.

On this day in history, Harambe would have celebrated another birthday. An icon that became part of internet history, American culture, and an entire generation’s timeline.

Tomorrow marks 10 years since we lost him. Ten years since the moment the world stopped scrolling and collectively mourned something bigger than a meme.

He became a symbol of loyalty, strength, chaos, unity, and the strange beauty of the internet bringing millions of people together for one cause: never forgetting Harambe.

Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. And somehow, a decade later, his legacy still lives on.

Gone, but never forgotten.
Rest easy to a true patriot. 🕊️🇺🇸

May 27, 1999 — May 28, 2016
Forever in our hearts.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

“I can’t breathe” were the last words of Henry Nowak as he was handcuffed by British police while heavily bleeding. 🇬🇧💔

[Nicolas @NicolasVarley]

@peterrhague But I read in The Guardian that I’d need to plant 500 trees to offset the child’s carbon footprint and inbetween smoking weed and watching Twitch streamers, I just don’t think I have the time to do that.

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Five years ago today, a teacher from Batley Grammar showed a class a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed.

Within days, a hundred Islamists were protesting outside the school gates.

Outrageously, the teacher was suspended. The headteacher, Gary Kibble, apologised ‘unequivocally’. It was an astonishing act of appeasement and cowardice.

The teacher was then subjected to a campaign of abuse and intimidation, including incitement to violence against him and his family. His kids had to miss school for months. They slept on mattresses in temporary accommodation.

An independent probe later cleared him of any wrongdoing whatsoever. Another report likewise found that the school, council and police all ‘totally and utterly failed’ him.

Too late - his life was changed forever.

Have lessons been learnt from this shameful episode?

I fear exactly the same thing would happen today.

In fact ‘advice’ has recently been reissued by Labour councils including the one covering Batley, that children’s drawings in art lessons may be seen as ‘idolatrous’ under sharia law.

Teachers are even warned that dance lessons could cause parental concerns over ‘physical contact between males and females’.

Extremism is being mainstreamed. A climate of threatening and intimidatory harassment is poisoning our institutions. It's antithetical to our democratic way of life.

Most of our governing class are simply too spineless to take on Islamists.

Look at when I highlighted the chronic failure of integration in parts of Birmingham. I was denounced. And then proven right by West Midlands Police’s admission that violent Islamists living couldn’t be prevented from attacking Jewish football fans. The Police lied and blamed the visiting supporters in an effort to pretend they still had authority in the city.

And now look at the reaction of the Prime Minister and much of the media to criticisms of a segregated Iftar in Trafalgar Square. They branded critics racist too. This was despite the Prime Minister himself pulling out of an Iftar in 2021 organised by the very same man, Omar Salha, who arranged this one, apparently because of his Islamist links.

We’ve been led by weak hypocrites, who cover up, rather than confront what’s happening. The country is sliding down a dark path as a result.

But innocent men and women like the Batley teacher are the greatest victims of extremism, and too many seem intent to forget them.

We must defend them and stand up for all those who speak out.

[בר שם-אור Bar Shem-Ur @Bar_ShemUr]

So here is what’s about to happen. Hezbollah decided it is on a suicide mission and decided to start firing missiles at Israel and join the war with Iran. Israel responded and gave evacuation notices to anyone living near Hezbollah bases and neighborhoods. It is not enough that Hezbollah is trying to tuen the lives of ordinary Israelis into a nightmare, they also decided to do the same to the Lebanese people. Today, they fired a barrage of one hundred missiles toward northern Israel. Only a few hit a Muslim village in northern Israel.

Now, Israel can’t stand this. No nation can stand this. So, the IDF is going to respond with full force. But although Israel didn’t start this round with Hezbollah, the woke politicians from the Democratic Party and Europe (and maybe Tucker Carlson) are going to blame Israel for what will happen in Lebanon. You see, this is the entire story of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Arabs vow to annihilate the State of Israel, they start firing at civilians, and then they cry to the world that Israel is the aggressor. Then come useful idiots like Bernie Sanders who also blame Israel while acting as a mouthpiece for terror organizations. Afterwards, outlets like CNN and the BBC cover the ‘enormous’ tragedy the IDF is causing without mentioning once that Israel didn’t start the fight. It happened on October 7th, it is happening now with Iran - which orchestrated thousands of terror attacks against Israel - and it happened with the Palestinians in 1947. This is the cycle of the anti-Israel narrative: Israel needs to apologize for existing while her enemies act to destroy it.

[Natasha Hausdorff @HausdorffMedia]

God help us. A Prime Minister who can't work out the difference between offensive and defensive strikes.
A Deputy Prime Minister who thinks Cyprus is in NATO. And a Defence Secretary who thinks Iran's attacks in June were only on military targets.
Tell that to the families of the 28 Israeli civilians killed by the Iranian regime in their indiscriminate attacks.
The UK's spiral into oblivion is surely inevitable with these utterly pathetic characters at the helm.

[Nicolas @NicolasVarley]

@BernieSanders Blow through all the money, then demand more.

[Nicolas @NicolasVarley]

@IamSean90 Just look at how confidently stupid and evil people are willing to be in the pursuit of hating Jews.

[Nicolas @NicolasVarley]

@compliantvc I hear he’s also promised to manufacture Shahed drones using recyclable materials.

[Nicolas @NicolasVarley]

@peterrhague I’m all for scrapping rote memorisation as long as students are expected to demonstrate an understanding of the material they are being tested on. I’m guessing this won’t be the case, however.

[Conjecture Institute @ConjectureInst]

"People wring their hands and say that there must be "better ways of finding solutions" than warfare. Of course there are. We have already found them. The nations and people of the West use them all the time. They are openness, tolerance, reason, respect for human rights — the fundamental institutions of our civilisation. But no way of finding solutions is so effective that it can work when it isn't being used. And when a violent group defines itself by its comprehensive rejection of all the values on which problem-solving and the peaceful resolution of disputes depend, and embarks instead on a campaign of unlimited murder and destruction, it is morally wrong as well as factually inaccurate to represent this as a case of our needing "better ways of finding solutions". That is why we have to insist, by force if necessary, that everyone else in the world also respect, and enforce, the minimum standards of civilisation and human rights. Western standards."

~Conjecture Institute Advisor @DavidDeutschOxf (2001)

[David Frum @davidfrum]

According to the self-proclaimed experts who get quoted at times like this, the corpus of international law can be reduced to one simple rule: "Terrorists and communists are always allowed to strike democracies, but democracies are never allowed to strike back."

[Nicolas @NicolasVarley]

@IballsInah @MarkZlochin And what about the claim that the Iranian regime murdered over 30,000 protesters?

[David Wolfson @DXW_KC]

I disagree with Lord Hermer KC, the Attorney General. I don���t accept that international law requires our Prime Minister to deliver a pusillanimous statement setting out the UK’s position whose first point is “We did not participate”.

I’ve set out the gist of my approach below. ⬇️

The Prime Minister has refused publicly to support the US and Israel strikes, and also refuses to allow the US to use UK bases, because of international law advice he has reportedly received from Lord Hermer.

International law ought to provide a mechanism to restrain and, if necessary, end despotic and tyrannical regimes such as that in Iran. If the doctrines of international law prove unable to restrain Iranian terrorism and mass murder, and tie the hands of democracies while forcing them to stand and watch Iranian atrocities, international law will have failed. It will have become a fundamentally immoral system of law, and one which is worse than worthless in the modern world.

To be clear: I don’t believe that it is. I think international law is important, and both can and should provide a just legal order. I do, however, have serious questions as to the moral attitudes of some of its expositors; too many international lawyers serenely promote an analysis which ultimately protects tyrants.

Seven points, and some questions:

1 The inherent right to use force in the face of an imminent attack from a hostile nation which is responsible for a pattern of hostile actions exists for good reason: a country cannot be expected to remain idle and just wait for the next attack.

2 Iran has repeatedly threatened to attack the UK’s bases and personnel. Those threats come in the context of persistent Iranian attempts to launch attacks on UK soil, too; the Director General of MI5 has stated, and the PM confirmed last night, that the UK has responded to tens of Iranian-backed plots, presenting potentially lethal threats to British citizens and UK residents. There is also a constant barrage of cyberattacks; while not all cyberattacks are armed attacks in sense of Article 51 of the UN Charter, some may be, and all confirm not just hostile intent but action pursuant to such intent.

3 The UK’s long-standing allies, the US and Israel, were right to consider that they faced further attacks prior to their recent military action, given that (i) Iran has previously attacked both states directly and also through its many proxies; (ii) Iran has repeatedly stated its intent to destroy Israel; (iii) Iran was assessed to be on the brink of acquiring a nuclear capability with uranium enrichment at 60% (which can only be for military use); and (iv) Iran already possessed – as demonstrated by its recent attacks – a sophisticated and effective long-range delivery capability which Israel cannot fully neutralise with defensive weapons.

4 The acquisition of a nuclear capability by Iran represents a genocidal risk for Israel and its people. Iran’s repeatedly stated aim is to wipe the State of Israel, and its inhabitants, off the face of the earth. The slogan of the proxies through which Iran has often attacked Israel is: “God is greater, death to America, death to Israel, curse to the Jews, victory to Islam”. In these circumstances, whether they are characterised as part of an ongoing armed conflict with Iran or as a new use of force based on self-defence, Israel’s actions are justifiable.

5 The UK (and also the US) is permitted under international law to use force to aid another state which is acting in self-defence. Moreover, the UK is under an obligation in international law is to prevent genocide, not just to stop it: stopping an on-going genocide is required, but it necessarily means that action was taken too late.

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[David Collier @mishtal]

Ayatollah Khamenei is dead.

Tomorrow the BBC will hold an official day of mourning.

Trauma counsellors will be on site at BBC HQ tomorrow, and all @bbcnews anchors are expected to dress in black.

Our thoughts are with all the BBC staff at this difficult time.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

President Donald J. Trump on the United States military combat operations in Iran: