Baz

Imaginative observer

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Well, well, well.

There’s always a tweet.

[Thomas King @TomK_Brit1993]

Nigel Farage is not the one stoking division.

Keir Starmer is.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

HE KNEW THE DOSSIER WAS FAKE. WEEKS LATER HE WAS DEAD IN A FIELD

Dr David Kelly was Britain's foremost weapons inspector. He spent years inspecting Iraqi facilities, earned a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, and knew more about Saddam's arsenal than almost anyone in government.

In 2002, Tony Blair's government published a dossier claiming Iraq could deploy chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes. Britain went to war on the back of it. No weapons were ever found.

Kelly knew the dossier was rubbish. He said so, quietly, to a @BBC journalist. That conversation ended his career, his privacy, and ultimately his life.

The MOD carefully allowed his name to leak to the press as the BBC's source. He was then hauled before parliamentary committees, stripped apart by his own employer, and thrown to a media frenzy he never asked for.

Two days after giving evidence to MPs, the 59-year-old was found dead in woodland near his Oxfordshire home.

Instead of a proper inquest, Tony Blair asked Lord Hutton to run a private inquiry. Hutton concluded suicide. The inquest was opened, then suspended, and never resumed.

Eight senior legal and medical figures, including a coroner, later wrote to @thetimes saying the verdict was unsafe. They argued the wound found on Kelly's wrist, a severed ulnar artery, would not have caused sufficient blood loss to kill a healthy person.

There were no fingerprints on the knife found beside his body, even though he was not wearing gloves.

In 2011, Attorney General Dominic Grieve rejected all calls for a new inquest. He said the Hutton Inquiry was "tantamount to an inquest" and that further investigation would be dismissed by judges with irritation.

A man challenged the government's justification for a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people. He was publicly destroyed, died in mysterious circumstances, never got a proper inquest, and the people who sent him into that media storm faced no consequences whatsoever.

Tony Blair became a Middle East Peace Envoy the following year. You genuinely could not make it up.

Sources: @BBCNews, openDemocracy, Hansard, @thetimes | Hutton Report

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

Ricky Gervais Rips Into The Political Class: “They’re All SH*T!”🔥

Gervais delivered a brutal takedown of politicians:

“I don’t get political but they’re all sh*t.”

He didn’t hold back on the posh, privileged people in charge:

“The worst thing is, the f*cking c*nts in charge do what they want.”

And the clearest example of their hypocrisy is COVID. While everyone else was locked down, suffering, losing livelihoods and being forced to follow strict rules:

“The people in charge, the posh privileged people in charge, were acting like f*cking Charlie Sheen!”

They partied without consequences while lecturing the public on sacrifice. Rules for thee but not for me. That is the defining hypocrisy that exposed how detached and self-serving they really are.

This is why so many have lost all faith in them.

[N Ecc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Neccccy]

Do you agree with me?

[Violet Marianne🇬🇧 @BlightyUK]

Never!

[N Ecc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Neccccy]

Agree?

[N Ecc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Neccccy]

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[Cory B @CoryBOnChain]

Mr Beast saw the arm they were going to give him and threw it away and gave him an even better and upgraded one. So dope

[Baz @BazRubber]

@grey4626 I suffered for many years with migraines but found a treatment called "Maxalt - Melt" it is similar to the thin mints that used to be sold to dissolve under your tongue. Relief within minutes. I hope your GP can find it for you.

[Skint Eastwood @Skint_Eastwood1]

Ricky Gervais on 60 Minutes Makes a Crystal-Clear Case for Free Speech

He put it perfectly: the great thing about freedom of speech is that I can say what I want, and you can say you're offended, and I get to decide whether I care or not.

Because let's be honest, there's nothing you can say that someone, somewhere won't find offensive.

That's why blasphemy laws are so absurd, they're basically trying to protect an all-powerful deity from having its feelings hurt.

At the end of the day, we should be free to criticise any idea.

Just because you're offended doesn't automatically mean you're right.

Spot on, Ricky. Free speech isn't about never upsetting anyone, it's about the right to speak anyway.

[LHGrey™️ @grey4626]

Not. A. Fucking. Word.

The barbarians of the Khamenei regime didn’t just kill a boy yesterday...they publicly hanged a 19-year-old prodigy, Saleh Mohammadi, bronze medalist on Iran’s national wrestling team, a rising star who bled for glory on the mat and dared to bleed for freedom in the streets of January’s protests.

They dragged him to Qom Central Prison, strapped the noose around that young neck, and dropped the floor while the world watched.

“Enmity against God,” they called it...torture-extracted confessions from show trials that would shame the Inquisition.

This wasn’t execution; this was ritual slaughter, medieval psychopathy dressed in clerical robes, the regime’s pathology laid bare:

terrified of its own vitality, it devours its strongest sons to instill fear in the herd.

And the Western Left?

Those pathological frauds, those soulless architects of selective outrage?

Not. A. Fucking. Word.

Where are the campus screamers who torch cities over “genocide” when a Hamas butcher stubs his toe?

Where are the blue-check “human rights” clerics who flood timelines with keffiyeh cosplay and crocodile tears for every narrative that flatters their ideological masturbation?

Crickets.

Deafening, gut-wrenching silence.

Because this atrocity doesn’t fit their Freudian script:

the oppressor isn’t the white West or Israel...it’s their beloved “resistance” incarnate, a theocratic death cult that aligns perfectly with their inverted morality.

Nietzsche warned us:

Resentment poisons the soul until evil becomes virtue and strength becomes sin.

The Left didn’t just look away; they enabled it with their philosophical cowardice, their postmodern relativism that excuses barbarism as “cultural,” their Marxist pathology that sees only power dynamics when it serves the tribe.

This is the necrotic core of progressive hypocrisy exposed:

they don’t mourn the hanged athlete because mourning him would require admitting their “allies” are the real monsters.

They don’t rage because rage would shatter the fragile edifice of their self-deception.

They are not compassionate...they are complicit cowards, psychological vampires who feed on manufactured victims while real ones swing from ropes.

Saleh Mohammadi’s blood is on their hands too, every silent one of them.

The regime’s rope is physical; the Left’s silence is the noose they tighten around truth itself.

Fuck their performative piety.

Fuck their selective tears.

History will record this not just as Iranian savagery, but as the West’s moral suicide...willingly, gleefully, one hanged wrestler at a time.

🗡️💀🗡️

[Danny Kruger @danny__kruger]

Nick Timothy and Nigel Farage are right, and Sadiq Khan and Keir Starmer are wrong.

Small groups of people, of whatever religion, praying in public places is fine. And as a Christian country we should allow a special privilege for churches to lead services in our national spaces, like the Palm Sunday celebration that happens in Trafalgar Square.

What we don't want is mass ritual observances intended to claim the civic realm for another religion, or assert the domination of another culture over our own Christian traditions.

What happens in our national spaces is not neutral. People use Trafalgar Square, for celebrations and demonstrations, to make a point about the kind of country they want us to be. The Palm Sunday pageant reminds us of who we are - not as individuals (many or most of us don't identify as Christians at all) but as a national community, with the roots of our institutions in the ground of the Bible and our most solemn communal moments, from coronations to funerals, mediated through the liturgies of the Church.

A mass Adhan held there, or in any town square, is making a different point: that Britain is not a Christian country, and that - inshallah - one day it shall be Muslim. This is unacceptable to the British public and indeed incompatible with our constitution.

As ever with these debates, the issue is partly one of kind and partly one of degree. There is an issue with Islam itself as a religion which in most interpretations does not admit of pluralism or freedom of conscience, and therefore is inherently aggrandising, including over territory. But with a bit of confidence and a bit of toleration we could handle that - if it were not for the issue of degree.

It is the scale of Islam in Britain, and the ambition of its leaders for greater scale, that makes the problem. The numbers of people who assembled for the adhan in Trafalgar Square, clearly and openly claiming the territory for a faith with no connection (indeed, with strong doctrinal disagreement) with the model of Western liberal democracy that Britain has developed and exported to the world - that is the problem. The numbers, whether everyone there understood it this way or not (and I suspect many did), convey an explicit threat to the foundations of our country.

Being relaxed about other people's religion is a good thing, a very British thing. I don't mind modern druids dancing around Stonehenge in my constituency (arguably, though the historicity is tenuous, they have a claim to the place). I don't mind small groups of Hindus or Buddhists or Muslims demonstrating the reality of Britain's religious toleration by worshiping in Trafalgar Square.

But let's not kid ourselves about this adhan, or pretend that we're just seeing another harmless expression of Britain's religious diversity. We are seeing an abuse of liberalism, led by people who are not themselves liberal; or - let us imagine they are acting in good faith - who are themselves deceived about what they are doing.

It should not happen again. And it would be good to hear the Church of England say so.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

We had a good thing, Britain.

A really good thing.

You taught us this game. Mahan studied you. We just wrote bigger checks.

The deal was simple. We spend the trillions. Fight the hard wars. We even let you sit out Vietnam. And you? You hold the chokepoints you already own. You run Lloyd’s. Ships in the narrows, insurance on the hulls.

That’s all you had to do and we would back your interests with the strongest military and financial markets in the world.

That was the deal.

Now look at you.

You gave up Aden. Fine. You kept Diego Garcia so we could reach it with bombers. Now you’re giving that away too. To a Chinese client state.

You built Israel to guard Suez. Now your Foreign Secretary threatens to arrest their PM.

You built a base nearby to back it up. Iran hit your base in Cyprus. You didn’t have one warship in the Mediterranean. Spain got there first. Spain.

You gave up Hong Kong but backed Taiwan. Now you’re letting China build the largest embassy in Europe on top of London’s fiber-optic cables. We gave you Five Eyes. You gave Beijing a SIGINT platform in the heart of the City.

Gibraltar. Three hundred years. Actual sieges. Now the Spanish run your border checks.

You lost South Africa but kept the Falklands so we can overfly the Magellan Strait. Argentina could probably take that with rowboats today.

Your king kept ownership of the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand navies to fill the gaps. Those navies are now a laughing stock.

Your warships and bombers patrolled the GIUK gap. Now you don’t have enough but you also don’t want us buying Greenland. Fine. You do it. With what?

We gave London the @IMOHQ to regulate shipping, you backed the EU agenda to carbon tax every ship to build woke UN slush fund.

Iran closed Hormuz. In the ‘80s, 540 ships got hit. Lloyd’s never blinked. Because your navy was there. Now Lloyd’s cancels. Because it isn’t.

You scrapped your only amphibious ships. Sold them. To Brazil. You have more admirals than warships.

You built two light carriers but they keep springing leaks and you don’t have enough escort ships to support them.

The English Channel. Stopped Napoleon. Stopped Hitler. Now you can’t stop rubber dinghies.

You had one job.

Have the warships, diplomatic backbone and insurance to support shipping through the straits.

That’s it. That’s all we asked.

And you blew it. Chokepoint by chokepoint. Called it progress.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Now hundreds of ships are stuck in the Persian Gulf and the world is blaming us.

But that’s ok. All those solar panels you bought from China will keep you warm in that dreary weather I guess.

[Baz @BazRubber]

@Bununmachuckle @kingkapoor72 @khamenei_ir

[N Ecc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Neccccy]

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[Baz @BazRubber]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

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@radiantlyrooted @woofknight Prince of darkness