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[Jenn Pellegrino 🇺🇸 @JennPellegrino]

I can't believe this is real.

The Chancellor of UC San Francisco testified under oath that a "vast majority of pregnancies are in women." Implying some pregnancies occur in men.

When asked directly whether a non-biological woman has ever had a baby, he refused to answer. This is the head of one of the top medical schools in the country.

[Skint Eastwood @Skint_Eastwood1]

🚨 LBC Caller’s Blistering Rant Says What Millions In The UK Are Feeling Right Now 🔥

“I’m genuinely concerned about the direction of travel under the progressive left in this country who no longer tolerate or listen to any points other than their own.”

He continued: “I’m tired of being called a fascist and a racist… I’m tired of people saying that nationalism is a dirty and unacceptable word. I’m proud of my country. We want people coming to this country contributing, respecting and upholding our culture, our values and our laws.”

Well said 👏🏻

This isn’t fringe, it’s how a huge chunk of the country feels. Yet those in power refuse to listen, fuelling more anger and frustration.

[John Redwood @johnredwood]

Why does MrBurnham refuse to come to Parliament next week to set out the changes he wants to make and to answer sone questions about his plans? Is he ashamed of his plans, or does he not know how to remedy the many government disasters?

[Susan Hall AM @Councillorsuzie]

Kemi will make a first class Prime Minister - no question about it!

[Jason Miyares @JasonMiyaresVA]

Reminder: the year Fidel Castro took power, Cuba had the same GDP as Greece. The year he died, Cuba had the same GDP as Sudan. In other words: Socialism. Fails. Every. Time.

[Fr. Yüce @yucekabakci]

I am Middle Eastern Christian who worked both as a missionary and as a volunteer in refugee centres in the region. What the CofE considers as a legitimate document is an utter antisemitic propaganda.

I feel ashamed to be a priest in this church today.

[spiked @spikedonline]

It turns out the pro-Gaza movement isn’t so harmless. It pretends to be a voice for the conscience of the masses – in fact, it's organised by a murky network of well-funded groups with dodgy allegiances. This deserves scrutiny, says Limor Simhony Philpott
https://t.co/JZBcvunhTb

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Andy Burnham won’t take questions from:

Parliament ❌
Journalists ❌

He will from:

Heavily moderated & censored Reddit ✅
Gary Lineker ✅

An unserious man for a serious time.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

It’s a football rivalry, for heaven’s sake. If, at the height of the Falklands War, CA River Plate had somehow found itself playing Tottenham Hotspur, I know one or two Arsenal fans who’d have been cheering the Porteños. That doesn’t mean they wouldn’t have backed our troops.

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

Cardiff pro-Pals did a ‘die-in’ yesterday but one didn’t want to get too uncomfortable so she brought her yoga mat to ‘die’ on. Ridiculous people.

[Tracy Edwards @TracyEdwardsMBE]

Every. Single. Word. This! 👇👇👇

[Adrian Hilton @Adrian_Hilton]

It may be a first for a charity, but by defaming @beirasplace, a rights-based support service for women, @AmnestyUK have truly done a Ratner and trashed their own rights-based reputation. They are a shadow of the organisation which championed forgotten prisoners of conscience.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

15 July 1910 | A Polish woman, Anna Barbara Orłacz, was born in Sosnowiec.

In #Auschwitz from 20 November 1942.
No. 25522
She perished in the camp on 16 March 1943.

[habibi @habibi_uk]

Abtisam Mohamed MP's Sheffield just saw a hideous rally for racist vandals and terrorists. Does she, or indeed anyone in Labour, have anything to say about that? No, of course not. "Look away, say nothing." That's the Labour golden rule as the antisemitism firestorm surges.

[Stephen Pollard @stephenpollard]

Here's my @Telegraph column on Labour MPs' hypocrisy at PMQs, 'Shame on Labour MPs for applauding a leader they’ve just knifed in the back. It was a sight to behold: Starmer being given a standing ovation by the very same people who forced him out':

There’s a well-known (though perhaps apocryphal) quote of Winston Churchill’s about the House of Commons: “The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you.”

That certainly applies to Keir Starmer, whose time as prime minister has been cut short by his fellow Labour MPs. Understandably so, given that many realised almost as soon as their party was elected in 2024 that they were heading towards electoral oblivion under their useless leader.

Not that you’d have known it from Wednesday’s PMQs – Starmer’s last before Andy Burnham replaces him.

As Labour MP Carolyn Harris rose to ask the final question of the session, she had to fight back the tears. “I can do this!” she steeled herself. The House hushed as Starmer gave his final answer at the despatch box, before departing with “Goodbye”.

As he walked out of the House of Commons chamber, up they stood – every man and woman on the Labour benches – to cheer and applaud him.

Oh, please. Harris, a family friend and one of Starmer’s few loyalists, might have had genuine cause to be upset. But, as for the rest of them, what a bunch of hypocrites.

It’s not even been a month since they forced him out because they didn’t want to be one-term MPs.

Labour MPs repeatedly moaned to anyone who would listen that Starmer had no ideas, no purpose, and no personality.

He was incapable of taking decisions, he didn’t know what to do with his job, he angered voters and he was barely in charge of a government that wasn’t up to the job.

They didn’t just kick him out; they utterly humiliated him by forcing him to resign before he’d even managed two years in the job. They didn’t do that because they respected him.

They did it because they held him in contempt as the man who wasted a landslide.

Now here they were, standing, cheering and applauding as he left with a whimper. Do they take the rest of us for idiots?

Let’s not forget too that applauding in the Commons is itself a clear departure from parliamentary procedure. The “tradition” only began in 2007, when Tony Blair delivered his final PMQs.

Who can forget the sight of David Cameron aggressively gesturing at his own MPs to join the Labour side in standing up to clap Blair out of the chamber?

But Blair had been a towering political figure who dominated British life for a decade. Starmer is a political pygmy who couldn’t even dominate his own Cabinet.

Worse, he was a man who liked to be thought of as somehow morally superior to his opponents but whose inability to be straight over even basic questions further diminished respect for politics itself.

Nothing better illustrates the culture of mediocrity that has taken root in so many parts of our national life than the plastic praise that was showered on a man so utterly lacking in talent or basic competence.

“I’m proud to leave this country in a better shape than I found it,” Starmer told MPs before leaving the Commons. That statement alone is proof that Starmer is delusional and incompetent.

In almost every area for which Starmer was responsible, we are now worse off.

(You can read the rest here: https://t.co/gEsylcZ9OJ)

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

It's a shameful day for the Church of England, says Julian Mann, as its General Synod passes an anti-Israel motion pledging to "engage with" what the Chief Rabbi calls a "shocking" document containing "so much falsehood". https://t.co/fAcUENWzub

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Nope. But if it’s so ‘wildly successful’ why not get those who listen to it to pay for it. Rather than charge those who don’t. And remember — when it was really ‘wildly successful’ there was only BBC radio.

[Simon Danczuk @SimonDanczuk]

I've known Andy Burnham 20 years and this is totally predictable. He can't make a decision about who should be Chancellor, for the simple reason he is the most indecisive politician I have ever met. Most Labour MPs just don't know him. This premiership is going to be a disaster.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Last night, in the Houses of Parliament, FSU General Secretary Lord Young of Acton and FSU Director of Research and Policy David Rose attended a roundtable hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Freedom of Speech.

The discussion focused on policing and free speech in the wake of Henry Nowak’s murder.

The panel included Shadow Home Secretary @CPhilpOfficial, Chair of the APPG and Shadow Transport Secretary @RicHolden former Chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation @mpfchairman, and @GBNEWS News reporter @CDP1882.

There were also contributions from Baroness @jfoster2019, Baroness @Fox_Claire and Lord Jackson @BrexitStewart.

In an attempt to avoid appearing “institutionally racist”, the police have swung so far in the opposite direction that they now discriminate against white people, particularly white working-class men.

Correcting this over-correction is now a matter of critical national importance. Unless it is addressed, the British public will lose confidence in the police, and policing by consent will begin to break down. This is a national emergency.

The ideological capture of the College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) must be undone. We must end two-tier policing by treating people equally before the law, rather than differently on the basis of EDI directives enshrined in the NPCC Race Action Plan.

Read the Free Speech Union’s recent briefing, With Fear and Favour, below 👇

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

Afghans are over TWENTY times more likely to commit sex crimes than Brits.

I asked David Lammy to publish all sex offences data by nationality and immigration status.

After two months of stalling, he said no.

What does he not want the public to know?