As a former Hackney Councillor for 12 years I'm disgusted by the performative and spiteful gesture politics of the Greens proposing that Hackney ends its twinning arrangement with Haifa in Israel, which has existed since 1968. The twinning happened because Hackney's large Jewish community had family and personal links there. Haifa is a famously left-wing city (ironically the Israeli Greens are quite strong there) that is a model for coexistence between Jews and Arabs. The twinning arrangement includes medical exchanges between the Homerton and Rambam hospitals. If you want peace between Israel and the Palestinians you should support initiatives that bring people together and create understanding, not cancel or boycott them.
NOW UNESCO CARES ABOUT BEAUFORT CASTLE❓️
Hezbollah turned a 900-year-old Lebanese fortress near Israel’s border into a military asset. UNESCO said little.
But the moment Israel acted against the threat, the UN cultural body suddenly found its voice.
This is the double standard Israel faces again and again: terror groups exploit protected sites, civilians, and international law itself—then Israel is condemned for responding.
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A 36 year old man named Shaun Mckenna who violently raped a 13-year-old girl at a Highlands campsite, has been spared jail due to his life-limiting medical condition. He was diagnosed with the degenerative condition Huntington's Disease in 2022. The 13-year-old child was on holiday with her family in 2020. She was alone when he came in and pinned her down, lay on top of her, and raped her. The girl tried to fight him off, but he told her, "to stop crying and screaming as well as to shut up.” He said if she told anyone, “he would do it worse."
McKenna also committed sex crimes against two other children before that. The judge said each offence on its own was a reason to go to jail, but did not feel prison would meet McKenna's specialised needs. He will instead be supervised at his care home in Kinross, where he is not allowed to leave on his own.
This is beyond fucked up. Every man who rapes a child deserves to spend his life in prison
Democrats in Congress have also pointed towhat they call an innate conflict of interest: the purchase of a 49 percent stake in World Liberty Financial, the Trump-linked crypto venture, by a firm backed by G42’s chair, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, for $500 million days before Trump’s 2025 inauguration.
Tahnoon is also the brother of the UAE’s president and serves as the country’s national security adviser
We have to try not to be scared about the words they use against us.
Yes, we are discriminating.
Yes, we are excluding.
Yes, we are policing.
This was the first time I presented where I didn’t even blink.
You'd think that, after the brutal murder of Ann Widdecombe with a hammer, a group called "Bash Back" might have the sense to keep a low profile. Instead, they're back, engaging in stochastic terrorism against a bunch of MPs.
This is trans terrorism.
DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE TRUMP/EPSTEIN PEDOFILES.
DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE TRUMP/EPSTEIN PEDOFILES. DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE TRUMP/EPSTEIN PEDOFILES.
DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE TRUMP/EPSTEIN PEDOFILES.
That depends. Are you infertile because your small gametes don’t work or your large gametes?
If the former, you are and always will be male. If the latter, you are and always will be female.
Sex is not determined by fertility. It is determined by what your body was set up to do. Genetic abnormalities of course exist but do not disprove the binary; they are defined by reference to it.
A grown man dressed up like a little girl, creeping around the kids’ candy aisle filming himself going “Wanna get some candy?”
This is the trans movement in real time.
Mental illness, fetish, and straight-up predator behavior all rolled into one.
Apparently the BBC is now asking the judge to unseal the Jack Smith grand jury testimony as part of their defense against Trumps 10 billion lawsuit. The BBC argues that Trump was denied executive privilege 5 times in court and should not be able to hide behind it now. I think the BBC wants to prove that Trump did in fact incite the J6 riots, thus proving Trumps defamation claim as false. I do hope the judge agrees, as that grand jury testimony will be a good read.
Ayatollah Khomeini was an open paedophile.
Within one year of overthrowing the Iranian Monarchy, he reduced the age of marriage from 18 to 9 for girls. It was very important for him to legalise child abuse, as opposed to the Shah who worked tirelessly to protect children.
Paedophilia is a core value of the rotten islamic republic.
It is heavily promoted and practiced by islamic regime supporters.
If you care about fighting the Epstein Class, the IR is an Epstein State. And you are obligated to oppose it.
Thought I’d have a look at who is following Bash Back on Instagram
At least two Green Party councillors and the Brighton branch of Unite the Union
Obviously a follow does not necessarily equate to an endorsement but given these are trans activists, I think it can be inferred
Disgraced former officer, Lynsay Watson, has been trying desperately to overturn his sacking from @leicspolice
The courts have seen right through him. Request for appeal denied. Watson remains sacked.
Politico: The Trump administration ignored warnings from career Commerce Department officials when it gave the United Arab Emirates broad access to advanced U.S. semiconductors and other sensitive technology, according to multiple former officials and others familiar with the matter.
The move, announced on July 10, loosened export restrictions despite internal recommendations against it, surprising staff at the agency responsible for protecting sensitive U.S. technology.
Internal reports warned that expanding the UAE’s access to advanced U.S. AI chips and technology could allow it to fall into the hands of adversaries, particularly China.