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[Marcus Agrippa @AgrippaSPQR]

The decision not to vet the National Security Advisor, Jonathan Powell, was a deliberate one.

The reason behind that decision could only be that the person who took it did not believe he would pass it and did not care.

Which means that Jonathan Powell was deliberately put in post by someone at the very highest level to deliver something that could not or would not be delivered by someone else who was properly vetted.

Keir Starmer personally appointed Jonathan Powell as the UK’s National Security Adviser on 8 November 2024.

Keir Starmer, it should be remembered, also appointed Peter Mandelson to the post of UK ambassador to the United States before vetting was even completed, and then confirmed him in post, ignoring the vetting agency's recommendation.

Both Powell and Mandelson are/were advocates of an ever deeper relationship between the UK and China. Powell being a significant advocate for the surrender of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a development that could only strengthen China’s position in a contested region of the world.

I’ve said for a long time that I believe Starmer has been compromised and this revelation that Starmer personally appointed Powell to such a critical post without vetting shows that Starmer ��s actions were at the very least highly irregular, extremely questionable and certainly undermining of UK national security.

Consider every action of Starmer as PM and the conclusion becomes self evident.

[Alex Phillips @ThatAlexWoman]

Arrest montages now a new favourite alongside Monster Rugby Tackles, F1 Carnage, Drogue Shoots and Mach Loop montages

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Wow. This compilation.

The German police do not mess around.

They know what a Nazi uprising looks like. They won’t let it happen again.

They know that “Free Palestine” is the new Heil Hitler.

[Alex Gandler @AlexGandler]

I categorically deny this allegation. No such directive exists.

[Talk @TalkTV]

“At what point did we value the safety of little furry creatures more than our WOMEN and CHILDREN?”

Alex Phillips reacts to campaigners suing the Home Office over claims it failed to consider the impact of a proposed Oxfordshire asylum camp on wildlife.

@ThatAlexWoman

[Talk @TalkTV]

“THE SIGNS ARE NOT GOOD FOR MACRON”

Alex Phillips and Spectator author Gavin Mortimer discuss France preparing for a day of protests, a week after nationwide riots.

@ThatAlexWoman @PhoneyMajor

[Alex Phillips @ThatAlexWoman]

Did someone order some #CotswoldsCool to @TalkTV ?

See you at 10am - with @PCBarnes123

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

NEW UFO DROP 🛸👀

https://t.co/oUYLzcjTIY

[Alex Phillips @ThatAlexWoman]

Imagine the fawning if this was Michelle Obama

Expect none of it.

But those who know, know that Melania is chef's kiss excellent

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

The White House has announced temporary and localized ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia in Oleshky.

The office of U.S. First Lady Melania Trump announced that, through her mediation, Russia and Ukraine have agreed on a temporary ceasefire starting October 29th to allow humanitarian aid deliveries and civilian evacuations through safe corridors.

Oleshky sits on the left bank of the Dnipro river in the Russian-occupied part of the Kherson region and has been cut off from the outside world. Starvation has been reported from the town.

20 000 people lived in Oleshky when Russia launched its full-scale invasion on Ukraine in 2022.

15 000 still lived there on June 6th 2023 when the Russian Army blew up the Kakhovka Dam, causing catastrophic flooding downstream.

More than 200 people in Oleshky drowned in the masses of water and thousands more fled the town.

Today, between 1700 and 2000 people are estimated to live in the frontline town.

[Talk @TalkTV]

🚨"I think a proper inquiry would be a terminal event for the Labour party."

David Shipley and Alex discuss how devastating a rape gang inquiry could be for the Labour party.

@ThatAlexWoman | @ShipleyWrites

[Talk @TalkTV]

“If Meghan did know, we probably will never get to the bottom of this.”

Alex Phillips and Rupert Bell react as Meghan Markle says she is “deeply distressed” by “sickening” allegations involving child sexual abuse images concerning her father.

@ThatAlexWoman @Rupertbell

[Talk @TalkTV]

“If Burnham thinks going on Gogglebox and discussing Bacon Fries and Quavers is a good look…”

Alex Phillips SLAMS the Prime Minister’s Channel 4 appearance as he defends advice urging households to prepare for emergencies amid increasingly common “unexpected events”.

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[Talk @TalkTV]

“THERE IS SOMETHING THAT DOESN’T ADD UP HERE”

Alex Phillips SLAMS the government’s campaign urging households to stockpile three days’ worth of emergency supplies in preparation for a potential crisis.

@ThatAlexWoman

[Talk @TalkTV]

BREAKING NEWS: One ‌person has died and at ​least four ​others have been injured ⁠in a drive-by ​shooting in the Yvelines district ​west of Paris, a police source said on ​Friday. A suspect ​has been arrested.

@ThatAlexWoman

[Talk @TalkTV]

“My God, Harry, what kind of a family have you married the Royal Family into?”

Alex Phillips and Kevin O’Sullivan react to reports that Meghan Markle’s father is being investigated by police over the alleged possession of child abuse images.

@ThatAlexWoman @TVKev

[Talk @TalkTV]

“Why would they want to go to university when they’ve got some GREEN-HAIRED NUTTER festooned in rainbow flags telling them they’re evil?”

Alex Phillips and Philip Kiszely react to reports that white working-class children are most likely to become NEET

@ThatAlexWoman @KiszelyPhilip

[Alex Phillips @ThatAlexWoman]

I have been saying for ages the sudden 'Crusader Porn' on Social Media, largely circling around Restore Britain, is heavily botted.

And for a reason

Read my latest Substack to understand more

https://t.co/l7z7I6lGxT

[Financial Times @FT]

According to security officials, pro-Russian and far-right social media accounts linked to previous disinformation campaigns have spread violent videos in an attempt to sow more chaos https://t.co/do9goC9A2l

[Alex Phillips @ThatAlexWoman]

IMPORTANT READ:

Free to all

https://t.co/l7z7I6lGxT

[GeoInsider @InsiderGeo]

NEW: Italy’s Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said the recent riots in Milan and other parts of Italy were the result of what he called a hybrid war being waged against Western countries through unconventional tools such as TikTok, social media and YouTube.

Crosetto said that three in ten young people had participated in the demonstrations and six in ten supported them, arguing that young people had been subjected to a counter-education outside their families and schools that shaped their values, ambitions and worldview in ways that conflict with democratic rules.

[Asra Nomani @AsraNomani]

HOT OFF THE PRESSES. CHAOS INC. is growing. Who is behind the protests in France and Europe?

I was just on @FoxBusiness to talk to the amazing @dagenmcdowell about the findings of my new reporting at @FoxNews Digital:

🔴🟢 101 organizations in the "red-green" alliance across 9 counties are fomenting and amplifying the protests in France and Europe (up from 54 orgs yesterday)
🔴🟢 Only 1 in 3 student or youth; the rest are adults
🔴🟢 They plan “Acte II” on Saturday OCTOBER 24 with protests across France
🔴🟢 The protests are being amplified by the network in the US funded by Neville Roy Singham, the American communist tycoon living in Shanghai supporting the Chinese Communist Party.

READ HERE:
https://t.co/xImw7HiaiO

For this reporting, I name names so that the myth of "student protests" can be pierced. Let me know of any organizations that I missed. Of course, I will reveal any ties, if any, of these organizations to governments from Russia to the Islamic Republic of Iran and China -- wherever the reporting takes us.

WHO'S WHO IN THE EXPANDING GLOBAL 'CHAOS INC.' NETWORK (101)

ACTE II, OCT. 24 – NEW (14)
🔴 Coordination régionale Bloquons tout Île-de-France — Île-de-France Regional "Block Everything" Coordination – PROTEST COORDINATION: Regional "Block Everything" organization behind the platform promoting "Acte II."
🔴 Peuple RÉVOLTÉ – People in Revolt — PROTEST COLLECTIVE: Organization helping operate the "Acte II" platform.
🔴 Maintenant! – Now! — PROTEST MOVEMENT: Civic movement participating in the "Acte II" platform.
🔴 Indignons-nous, Bloquons tout – Let’s Get Indignant, Block Everything — DIRECT ACTION: Protest collective promoting "Acte II."
🔴 Coordination nationale lycéenne – National High School Students’ Coordination — STUDENT/YOUTH: New national high-school coordination calling students into the streets Oct. 24 for "Acte II."

Angoulême, France
🔴 NPA Charente – New Anticapitalist Party–Charente (NPA 16) — REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST: Local NPA chapter mobilizing for Acte II.
🔴 Action Antifasciste 16 — ANTIFASCIST: Collaborator on the Angoulême Acte II announcement.
🔴 Maison des Peuples et de la Paix – House of Peoples and Peace — ACTIVIST: Angoulême organization collaborating on the Acte II call.
🔴 Fanfare en lutte d'Angoulême – Angoulême Marching Band in Struggle — ACTIVIST: Local activist collective collaborating on Acte II.
🔴 Révolution Permanente Angoulême — Permanent Revolution–Angoulême – REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST: Local chapter of Révolution Permanente, collaborating on the Oct. 24 mobilization.
🔴 Organisation de Solidarité Trans (OST) Angoulême — Trans Solidarity Organization–Angoulême – ACTIVIST / SOLIDARITY: Local organization listed as an Acte II collaborator.

Caen, France
🔴 Caen Antifa Squad — ANTIFASCIST: Collaborator on an "ACTE II — 24 OCTOBRE" announcement.
🔴 Caen en Lutte — Caen in Struggle – PROTEST COLLECTIVE: Local organization collaborating on Acte II.
🔴 Solidarité Étudiante 14 — Student Solidarity 14 – STUDENT: Calvados student organization collaborating on the Oct. 24 mobilization.

NOV. 20 INTERNATIONAL NETWORK
Belgium (3)
🔴 Comac — MARXIST/SOCIALIST YOUTH: Belgian youth organization associated with the Workers' Party.
🔴 RedFox — SOCIALIST YOUTH: Belgian socialist youth organization.
🔴 Vrede — ANTI-WAR: Belgian organization publishing and promoting the International Youth Strike manifesto.

France (1)
🔴 Mouvement National Lycéen — STUDENT/YOUTH: French high-school organization identified in the European Nov. 20 coalition.

Germany (6)
🔴 Schulstreik gegen Wehrpflicht — STUDENT/"ANTI-CONSCRIPTION": German school-strike network mobilizing for Nov. 20.
🔴 Die Falken — SOCIALIST YOUTH: German socialist youth organization involved in the international organizing process.
🔴 Linksjugend ['solid] — SOCIALIST YOUTH: Youth organization associated with Die Linke.
🔴 DIE LINKE.SDS — SOCIALIST STUDENT: German socialist university organization.
🔴 Socialist German Workers Youth, (SDAJ) — COMMUNIST YOUTH: Socialist German Workers Youth.
Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität — SOCIALIST: German socialist organization mobilizing around Nov. 20.

Ireland (1)
🔴 Militant Left — SOCIALIST: Irish socialist organization promoting the international mobilization.

Italy (4)
🔴 Rete della Conoscenza — LEFT-WING STUDENT: Italian student network helping build the international strike.
🔴 Unione degli Studenti — STUDENT: Italian high-school student organization promoting Nov. 20.
🔴 Coordinamento Universitario — STUDENT: Italian university network promoting the strike.
🔴 CGIL — LABOR: Italian labor confederation whose Nov. 20 general strike converges with the student mobilization.

Spain (1)
🔴 Sindicato de Estudiantes — SOCIALIST STUDENT: Spanish student organization identified in the international network.

United Kingdom (9)
🔴 Counterfire — REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST / ANTI-WAR: Promoting the Nov. 20 international strike.
🔴 Left Unity — SOCIALIST: Promoting the wider European mobilization.
🔴 International Youth Strike — INTERNATIONAL YOUTH / ANTI-CAPITALIST COALITION: The coordinating coalition behind the Nov. 20 strike says student and youth organizations across Europe are organizing demonstrations, walkouts, assemblies, blockades and occupations. Its manifesto says exploitation, climate breakdown and war are the "essence of capitalism," calls NATO an instrument of "imperial interests" that "should be dissolved," and demands "radical system change."
🔴 North West Pensioners Association — ACTIVIST: Organizational supporter of the Nov. 20 actions.
🔴 Socialist Party — TROTSKYIST: Socialist party promoting the international strike.
🔴 Socialist Students — SOCIALIST STUDENT: British organizer advocating a "socialist future."
🔴 Stop the War Coalition — ANTI-WAR: Promoting Nov. 20 student mobilization.
🔴 Universities and Colleges Union @ucunion — The largest trade union and professional association for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers & academic-related staff in UK "Further Education" and "Higher Education."
🔴 Young Greens — YOUTH / GREEN: British youth organization identified among supporters.

Amplifiers (8)
🔴 CODEPINK — U.S. ANTI-WAR / ACTIVIST ORGANIZATION: The U.S. organization has explicitly connected the French protests to its own planned Washington mobilization. "From France to the United States, the message is clear," CODEPINK said, before promoting its Nov. 10-12 "Taxpayer Uprising" demanding that federal spending go toward education, healthcare and housing rather than the military.
🔴 Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) — TROTSKYIST / SOCIALIST: An international socialist organization whose national affiliates include Britain's Socialist Party and Ireland's Militant Left. Its international website is promoting the Nov. 20 youth walkout under the campaign slogan "Fight for our future not their wars."
🔴 International Socialist Alternative (ISA) — REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST: The international socialist organization says "Capitalism means war" and that it "wholeheartedly" supports the Nov. 20 strike. ISA says its members have helped organize Germany's anti-conscription school strikes and describes imperialism as the "highest stage of capitalism."
🔴 Party for Socialism and Liberation–Houston — MARXIST-LENINIST / U.S. CHAPTER: The Houston chapter of the U.S. Party for Socialism and Liberation is amplifying the French protest movement.
🔴 Progressive International — TRANSNATIONAL LEFT NETWORK: The international organization explicitly grouped the current protests in France, Spain, India and Albania in an Oct. 16 briefing and asked how the "new rebellions" could acquire organized political power. Most significantly, it said: "These are the forces that the Progressive International is working to support and connect."
🔴 Stop ReArm Europe — ANTI-WAR / ANTI-MILITARIZATION COALITION: A European coalition calling for demonstrations and actions around Nov. 20 under the slogan "Welfare, not Warfare." It says it supports students "refusing" militarization and calls on social movements, unions, civil-society groups, political organizations and parliamentarians to mobilize around the student strike.
🔴 teleSUR English — INTERNATIONAL MEDIA AMPLIFIER: The international media outlet amplified the French demonstrations with Oct. 17 coverage of clashes, fires and arrests in Paris, Lyon and other cities. This is evidence of international amplification.
🔴 World BEYOND War — INTERNATIONAL ANTI-WAR: A global organization that describes itself as a movement to "end war" and says it is part of the Stop ReArm Europe campaign. It is explicitly promoting the Nov. 20 International Youth Strike and urging supporters to "join this resistance."

FRANCE — ORIGINAL NETWORK (54)
🔴 Organisation communiste révolutionnaire — REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST: Communist organization involved in protests.
🔴 Parti communiste français — COMMUNIST: French Communist Party whose leaders and activists joined the demonstrations.
🔴 Parti des Indigènes de la République — DECOLONIAL: Political organization that defends the student revolt.
🔴 Parti de l'égalité socialiste — TROTSKYIST: Socialist organization advocating workers' action committees.
🔴 Revolutionary Communist Group — COMMUNIST: British organization that connects the French protests to capitalism, imperialism and Palestine.
🔴 Révolution Permanente — TROTSKYIST: Revolutionary socialist organization promoting student-worker mobilization.
🔴 World Socialist Web Site — TROTSKYIST MEDIA: Socialist outlet framing the French protests around capitalism, austerity and militarization.
Palestine-solidarity organizations
🔴 Union juive française pour la paix — PALESTINE SOLIDARITY: French Jewish organization that publicizes support for the protesting students.
🔴 Urgence Palestine — PALESTINE SOLIDARITY: French Palestine organization that amplified protest-related material.

Labor and professional organizations
🔴 CGT Éduc'action — LABOR: CGT's education-sector organization.
🔴 CFDT Éducation Formation Recherche Publiques — LABOR: Education and research union supporting the student movement.
🔴 CGT — LABOR: Major French labor confederation involved in the October mobilizations.
🔴 CNT — ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST: Revolutionary-syndicalist union that declared students were "right to revolt."
🔴 Confédération paysanne — FARMERS' UNION: Called agricultural workers into the Oct. 17 mobilization.
🔴 FSU — LABOR: Education and public-sector union federation.
🔴 FNEC FP-FO — LABOR: Force Ouvrière's education federation.
🔴 Force Ouvrière — LABOR: National labor confederation.
🔴 SUD éducation — LABOR: Left-wing education union.
🔴 SNES-FSU — LABOR: Secondary-school personnel union.
🔴 Union syndicale Solidaires — LABOR: Left-wing labor federation.
🔴 UNSA — LABOR: National autonomous trade-union federation.

Advocacy, environmental and protest organizations
🔴 Amnesty International France — HUMAN RIGHTS: Reported on police treatment of minors during the demonstrations.
🔴 ATTAC France — ECONOMIC JUSTICE: Connected the mobilization to austerity and economic policy.
Coordination nationale du mouvement du 26 septembre — PROTEST NETWORK: Mobilization network that encouraged participation in Oct. 17.
🔴 Extinction Rebellion — ENVIRONMENTAL: Environmental direct-action movement appearing in the protest ecosystem.
🔴 FCPE — PARENTS: National parents' federation that called members to demonstrate.
🔴 Gilets jaunes — Yellow Vests: Decentralized protest movement whose Oct. 17 mobilization converged with the students.
🔴 Intersyndicale nationale VTC — PROFESSIONAL / LABOR: Private-hire drivers' coalition promoting participation.
🔴 Les Soulèvements de la Terre — RADICAL ENVIRONMENTAL: Movement that celebrated the student revolt and called for antifascist mobilization.
🔴 Ligue des droits de l'Homme — HUMAN RIGHTS: Supported students and criticized police repression.
🔴 Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Between Peoples (MRAP) — ANTIRACIST: Antiracism organization involved in the wider coalition.
🔴 SOS Racisme — ANTIRACIST: Antiracism organization involved in supporting the movement.

International amplifiers
🔴 BreakThrough News — SINGHAM NETWORK / MEDIA: New York-based nonprofit amplifying the French protests internationally.
🔴 Indian Alliance Paris — INTERNATIONAL / DIASPORA: France-based organization connecting French and Indian protest messaging. Partnered with the People's Forum in Manhattan.

[Alex Phillips @ThatAlexWoman]

The entire shtick of the ITV anti-Reform piece is brazenly convoluted. The doom music, the grey filter, the slo-mo fluttering union flags on dilapidated buildings.

It is dystopian in its regime-esque demonisation of 'political opposition'

But ITV is not a political party. It is a part publicly funded broadcaster.

Someone else could have edited a year of footage with positive exchanges showing camradery, wins, hard work and hope and dressed it up in Hovid advert aesthetics for a completely different 'documentary'. That would be equally contrived.

Journalism should be about recording events as they really are. Not constructing a propagandising pastiche.

I started my journalism career with ITV and loved it. The newsrooms were discernibly freer and less snobby and groupthinky than the BBC ones I worked in. It makes me so incredibly sad to see ITV forsake its standards and its place as the real person's channel to become part of the Woke Mob's march through the institutions and self appointed morality police.

It's also increasingly agonising to see a profession I studied for and I have worked in for 20 years be ransacked by repeated examples of flagrant bias, become so distrusted and therefore displaced by people who are not real journalists. The sacred bond between newscasting and the public is a tragic joke today.

And that is one of many symptoms of a sick society in the process of breaking down.