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@naomi_long The vehiclev requires insurance in public. Therefore a power to allow them to be seized

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@StephenNolan @PaulDoherty___ @BBCSounds They already have "No Insurance"

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@calmaxy21 @StephenNolan @deborah_cheryl If you need to ask.

[Lloyd @LGB_1962]

Trump moves heaven and earth to rescue one downed American pilot.

Starmer moves heaven and earth to prosecute British veterans.

That is all you need to know about our Prime Minister.

[Norman Brennan @NormanBrennan]

BREAKING NEWS; @Keir_Starmer has today Ordered that the Cutty Sark be taken out of dry dock in Greenwich Road driven to Portsmouth loaded with cannon balls & to Immediately set sail to Cyprus to protect our troops; he said “It should never have been decommissioned in 1895”👇🤷‍���️🤦‍♂️

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@LucyTCWife @Femi_FPolitics Much as I support you on the first case. On the second a couple of things. There is no right to privacy in public. To film anyone in public is not a crime even if thy do not like it. If he made threats etc them go for him.

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

Had another complaint. Someone emailed us saying that this billboard upset them because they themselves didn’t like dogs. We emailed back “well you know what to do then” 😂

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@gilescoren @KarlaHilton1 As long as you do not call the cops for help.

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@BettyBoochichi2 Domestic always go sidewards.

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@Barnabybear70 He has a IHP so what?

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@RupertLowe10 As another American president said "Its not the critic who counts but the men and woman who are in the arena." Somewhere President Trump never was or will be.

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@SeanBra33633981 @VoWalesWren The problem is Dennis did not fire any shots at him. Another soldier did. So please get your facts right.

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@jk_rowling I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it, Is true speech.

[Blair Paddy Mayne @blair_mayne]

111 years ago OTD 11th Jan 1915 Robert Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne was born in Newtownards Co. Down, 6th of 7 children & would go on to become one of most decorated solders in @BritishArmy history, command 1SAS, rising to rank of Lt. Col.
Happy Birthday to the great man 🥂

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

What happened last November in Birmingham was not a policing error. It was a moral failure – followed by a bureaucratic cover-up.

West Midlands Police knew Jewish football fans were facing a credible threat of Islamist violence. They had the intelligence months in advance. They warned internally that Jews would be targeted. And when the moment came, instead of enforcing the law against those planning violence, they banned Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters from entering Villa Park. Jews were excluded "for their own safety" – the oldest lie in the book. The phrase every coward reaches for when he wants to dress discrimination up as compassion.

When asked to justify the decision, senior officers did not defend it honestly. They rewrote it. Craig Guildford stood before Parliament and insisted the ban rested on sound intelligence. It did not. The force leaned on dubious claims about previous matches in Amsterdam – claims later disputed by Dutch police – and even admitted that one key assertion was backed by a single Google search. That is not intelligence. It is fabrication dressed up as due diligence.

Mike O'Hara went further. He told MPs that Maccabi fans themselves posed a risk to "the local community". Read that again. Jews facing organised threats of violence were reframed as the danger. Meanwhile, the assessed risk to Jewish fans was quietly downgraded, while the risk to "the community" was upgraded – after the decision to exclude them was already taking shape.

The Home Affairs Select Committee saw through it. Dame Karen Bradley accused the force of "scraping for justification". She was being polite. What the committee uncovered was a decision made first, then laundered through paperwork to make it look inevitable.

And why was it deemed inevitable? Because the police chose not to confront Islamist threats on British streets. They knew local extremists were talking openly about violence. They knew some had armed themselves. They knew Jews would be hunted. Their response was not arrests, dispersal orders, surveillance, or force. It was surrender relabelled as safety.

Kemi Badenoch was right to call this capitulation. When police treat threats as vetoes, they stop being a force of law and become managers of sectarian pressure. They cease to serve the public and start negotiating with mobs.

The implications go far beyond football. If a hostile crowd can threaten violence and force the removal of Jews from public life, then citizenship is no longer equal. It becomes conditional – granted only to those whose presence does not anger the loudest faction in the street.

The Board of Deputies of British Jews understands this perfectly. Their demand for the Chief Constable to step aside is not about vengeance. It's about trust. Policing depends on confidence, and confidence cannot survive when the police blame the threatened instead of the threat.

The defenders of this decision keep repeating the same word: "community". But they never mean the whole community. They mean the most aggressive, the most volatile, the most willing to intimidate. That is not community safety. It is community veto.

We have seen this pattern before. In Rotherham, where police chose "community cohesion" over protecting girls; in Cologne, where mass assaults were downplayed to preserve calm; and again after 7 October, when Jewish communities across the West were told to hide themselves while authorities managed the threat instead of confronting it.

A threat emerges. The state decides enforcement is too risky. Responsibility is shifted. Language is softened. Files are adjusted. Parliament is misled. And the victims are told this is all being done for their own good. This is how surrender is repackaged as governance.

Birmingham shows where Britain now stands. Not neutral. Not confused. But bending – and then lying about the bend.

Chief Constable Craig Guildford and Dame Karen Bradley

[Israel in the UK 🇮🇱🤝🇬🇧 @IsraelinUK]

Following yesterday's revelations regarding the conduct of West Midlands Police surrounding events involving Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters, we are deeply concerned by the emerging evidence.

The newly disclosed assessments indicate that the primary threat to public safety and to the Israeli and Jewish communities did not originate from the fans themselves, but from organised radical Islamist groups who were actively preparing and arming themselves with the intention of harming Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters.

The portrayal of Israeli fans as violent was a gross mischaracterisation that served the needs of those actively inciting against an Israeli team.

This framing diverted attention away from credible intelligence warnings regarding extremist elements preparing to target Israeli and Jewish Maccabi supporters, and instead placed blame on the very community that was facing the threat.

The decision to obscure these assessments, and to allow a misleading narrative to take hold, raises serious questions. These acts by law enforcement institutions undermine real security risks, and even encourages a climate in which hostility towards Israeli and Jewish communities can be normalised under the rule of law.

These matters require full accountability.

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@bennybigbear1 @koshercockney They are IDF not Hamas.

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@Mairead27463558 @koshercockney So are USA cops, look how many of them it takes to speak to one person?

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@MF99 @koshercockney No just get out of here or I whip your ass. Funny in the USA it takes at least 10 cops to speak to anyone?

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@blair_mayne @ToeCorrea @DownOrangeMan @SrBez_ It's the BBC would they ever show a founder of the SAS in a good light.