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[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Not sure what your point is. Yes I write columns for the Daily Mail. Read and learn. I also host a show on Times Radio. And in my career I have been an editor of The Economist, the editor of The Sunday Times, Publisher of The Scotsman Group of Newspapers, Chairman of Sky News, broadcaster for network BBC TV and Radio, Chairman of The Spectator. Oh — and cricket corr. for the Paisley Daily Express!!!
But I see you have an MA from something called the ‘Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism’. So I guess that puts me in my place 😜

[nigel biggar @NigelBiggar]

My complaint against the BBC over David Olusoga’s Empire has now reached its final internal stage.

After months of evasions, unargued assertions, and failures to engage with the substance of my case, I have drawn the obvious conclusion: the BBC complaints team does not seem to see itself as a fair judge of standards, but as a defender of the BBC, come what may.

Read my latest at The Biggar Picture: https://t.co/n4YZ01Sh0S

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Thoughts?

[Ncole ✡︎ @ncole_r]

The Islamic slave trade enslaved over 17 million Black Africans for 1,400 years:

They brutally castrated men, r@ped women, and yet, no one is talking about it.

[Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦 @ConCaracal]

The Solidarity Movement's private Afrikaans university Akademia has acquired 105 hectares of land in Paarl, Western Cape, to develop another new campus.
https://t.co/7XUI4vyzhW

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Benjamin Netanyahu: "Iran and Hezbollah thought they could fire at Israel and we wouldn't respond. That would never happen under my watch. It will never happen. We have the right to defend ourselves against our enemies."

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

Just checking what your policy would be if Iran fired missiles at Britain? Should we show restraint too? @YvetteCooperMP

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

Two days after Henry died Hampshire Police secretly recorded Digwa in a police van speaking Punjabi to his brother. Digwa admitted stabbing Henry. Discussed claiming self defence. Made zero mention of racial abuse. Not one word.

Hampshire Police had that tape.

They knew Digwa was lying about the racist attack. They had the evidence. They had his own words and then tried to smear Henry as the aggressor anyway.

Three days after his death their statement read “it was reported two men had been assaulted by an unknown man.” Henry was the unknown man. The boy bleeding out on the street. They flipped it.

Family complained. Statement changed. Then police told the family their NEXT update would again infer Henry was the initial aggressor. His family had to fight them a second time. While grieving their murdered son.

Then during the trial Hampshire tried to issue a statement telling the public to stop talking about it online. Calling it disinformation. The CPS had to step in. Told them they were about to collapse their own murder case.

This is the force that handcuffed a dying boy. Missed the murder weapon twice. Had a secret tape proving the killer lied. And still tried to bury Henry's name.

That's not incompetence. That's a machine protecting itself. At the expense of a dead boy's reputation and three officers are still on active duty. Not suspended. Treated as witnesses. To their own actions.

Hampshire Police didn't just fail Henry on that street. They kept failing him for six months after he died.

- @Banksycat

[HJB News @HJB_News__]

Never forget that in 2003 Keir Starmer won the case that gave illegal migrants access to UK benefits. Twenty three years later, we're living in the chaos he created.

[Everest @novieverest]

Iran used the ceasefire to buy defense systems from China. Israel used 3 hours to destroy the defense systems.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Be angry, but use that anger. Direct it for change. Radical change, through the ballot box. The only way.

Vote. Volunteer. Participate.

Make a difference.

Restore Britain.

[David J Harris Jr @DavidJHarrisJr]

Rupert Lowe: “What about the human rights of the British people not to be raped, stabbed or killed by foreigners who should never have been in our country to begin with.”

Thoughts?

[Benonwine @benonwine]

Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy says racial equality “doesn’t mean treating everyone the same.”

The quiet part has finally been said out loud.

Most of us grew up believing equality meant equal treatment, equal standards and equal opportunities for everyone.

If politicians now mean something different, they should at least have the honesty to admit it.

No wonder public trust is collapsing.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Sadly there is nothing that can be done about real stupidity

[simon fuller @Physkosyd]

.. thing is we never ever see him at trouble spots!!!! weird eh???

[Brett Ben Raphael @Brettbenraphael]

Cyril Ramaphosa condemns “xenophobic behaviour” while his government has neglected border control for years. You can’t flood the country with unchecked migration and then shame citizens for noticing. Secure the borders first, Mr President, stop evading the issues. 🇿🇦

[Adam Moczar @AdamMoczar]

⚡🇬🇧🇺🇸 JD Vance: “Defending your culture isn’t radical. It’s reasonable.”

“To everybody in the UK who rejects that idea, I’d encourage them to just keep on going

It’s okay to want to defend your culture. It’s okay to want to live in a safe neighborhood. It isn’t radical.”

[City of Cape Town @CityofCT]

📚 Meet Lungelwa Ciliba, Senior Librarian at Dunoon Library.

Every day, she helps connect residents with knowledge, opportunity and a brighter future.

A true Beacon Of Hope, Lungelwa lives the City's values of caring, accountability and service excellence.

[Mieke Lieke @miekelieke]

Ik ben niet rechtser geworden.

Ik sta precies waar fatsoenlijk Nederland altijd stond: dat je van je land mag houden. Dat grenzen normaal zijn. Dat nationale trots geen misdaad is. Dat er twee geslachten zijn. Dat wie hier woont, onze wetten en vrijheden respecteert.

Dat dit nu “rechts” heet, komt niet doordat ik ben opgeschoven. Het komt doordat links is weggelopen bij het gewone leven, en alles wat het achterliet uit gemak maar “extreem” is gaan noemen.

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[WSM @TheJaundicedEye]

Ramaphosa is terrified of facing the impeachment committee. His account of what happened at Phala Phala is tissue-thin, implausible, and riddled with contradictions. He has never had to defend it against a raised eyebrow, never mind hostile questioning. WSM's column on @Politicsweb
https://t.co/eTX8YsSQ1A

[Rita Panahi @RitaPanahi]

The toxic white masculinity that saved us from fascism...