"Farage lawyers demand urgent apology from BBC over Newsnight row when host accused of 'defaming' Farage, repeatedly misquoting his response to murder of Henry Nowak & called on Britons to demonstrate 'white cold rage'. He actually said 'pure, cold rage' " https://t.co/5vK71oKHb1
Responding to Nowak murder, Farage criticised for using term "cold-rage". Rage is "intense anger to a perceived painful injury or injustice". Starmer, terrified to articulate an emotion, resorts to "being sick" - sugar coating to avoid using "outrage" felt by vast majority of us
Hezbollah is waging a murderous war against Israel from Lebanon. Yet every time Israel responds, it is met with gasps and pleas of restraint from the West. Israel can’t afford this luxury, says Jake Wallis Simons
https://t.co/8C9Rcn66mg
"Trump rebukes Netanyahu over Lebanon escalation, says it threatens Iran talks". And so Trump begins to treat Israel as he has treated Ukraine. This won't go well for him with the Jewish voters in forthcoming mid-term elections in US https://t.co/YsnVAxP8dY
Andrew Neil tears into Starmer as the “Mandy files” revelations deepen.
“Those who think Starmer is simply ill-equipped to be prime minister, well, they’ll have their view confirmed.”
@afneil
The footage of Henry Nowak’s arrest is one of the most horrifying things I have ever watched. To see a terrified, wounded boy being disbelieved, dragged, arrested and cuffed — it is unbearable. This is the savagery of state wokeness, says Brendan O’Neill
https://t.co/QmkcunSicH
The electorate has had enough of 'the media'? No, Gordon, they've had enough of an incompetent government which, to quote Pat McFadden, taxes them to pay benefits; of an economically illiterate Chancellor destroying businesses and increasing unemployment; of a police force that thinks racism is a worse crime than murder; of judges who refuse to jail teenage rapists who filmed themselves degrading their victims. They've had enough of so-called progressives telling them women can have penises and had it up to here with Islamists and other useful idiots mourning murderous mullahs on our streets. They've had enough of being branded "far right" by actual antisemites. But most of all - they've had enough of denialists like you pretending that none of this is happening.
Peter Murrell's shopping spree has lifted Britain's spirits. It would take a heart of stone to read Nicola Sturgeon's husband's list of purchases without laughing out loud. How can the SNP survive these levels of ridicule?, asks Simon Evans
https://t.co/W1ktpFDAve
Latest thoughts on Sturgeon-Murrell from @TimesRadio — The Times at One with Andrew Neil:
The Nicola Sturgeon—Peter Murrell SNP financial scandal is the gift that keeps on giving.
We now know that Murrell bought 108 loo rolls just 24 hours before his wife told the people of Scotland not to stockpile during the pandemic.
Maybe that’s why Sturgeon couldn’t see the now notorious camper van parked on her mother-in-law’s driveway — her husband had shielded it with the loo rolls.
She did admit to seeing the expensive new e-Jag her husband also bought with embezzled cash — how could she not, there’s a picture of her walking past it on their driveway? — but never thought to mention it. Well, we’re all used to flash new cars suddenly appearing on our driveways.
We’re also assured by Sturgeon that she never really clocked the expensive coffee machines in her kitchen — apparently there were several — because she was rarely in the kitchen. Then we were reminded that on Desert Island Discs her choice of a luxury item was — you guessed it — a fancy coffee machine.
We also learned that when Sturgeon said she had fully co-operated with the police when they brought her in for questioning, what she meant was she’d said ‘no comment’ to every question the police asked. Can’t wait for that bit in a future docu-drama.
She was then allowed to provide written answers but, strangely, never brought back to be interrogated about them by the police. Let’s hope we can all expect that consideration at the hands of Police Scotland.
Rather more serious questions remain unanswered about the SNP’s finances.
What exactly happened to the £600,000 or so the SNP had raised to fight a second referendum that never happened? After the May 2021 Holyrood elections the SNP’s coffers were bare. So did it all go on that?
It was in June 2021 that Murrell loaned the SNP £107,000 to help with cash flow. Half was never paid back. Only in SNP-land could you embezzle your party, then give it an interest-free loan.
Then there’s the £6m the SNP received from taxpayers. Murrell signed off on that. Was any of it used to boost Amazon’s profits?
The embezzling lasted for over a decade. Was it allowed to fester in plain sight because anybody who raised the slightest criticism of the party’s finances was bullied and threatened into silence?
One senior apparatchik resigned because he was refused sight of the party’s accounts. Well, why should he? He was only the party treasurer.
Current First Minister John Swinney asks: ‘what more do we need to look into?’ Rather a lot is the obvious answer.
This morning Peter Murrell, who pleaded guilty to embezzlement, appeared in handcuffs at the High Court in Edinburgh.
It was a short session in which the prosecution gave the details of his £400,000 spending spree with embezzled SNP money using a party charge card linked to its bank account.
Most of this is already public. Murrell said nothing. He will have his chance when he’s sentenced on June 23rd before which he can make a plea of mitigation.
I wonder what he’ll say! Sturgeon has thrown him under the bus. Will he return the favour?
Rudakubana. Calocane. Digwa.
How many warnings get ignored before we admit the truth?
When public services fear accusations of racism more than they fear threats to public safety, innocent people pay the price.