I am Iranian, and it gives me no pleasure to say this. I say it because I have already lived through what you still treat as unthinkable.
But Paul is right. 250,000 armed men can take a huge number of lives in 48 hours. Ten months ago, on 8 and 9 January, it happened in Iran. A relatively small number of regime IRGC gunmen killed at least 72,000 people. That is the latest figure President Trump has said was documented. I believe the real number is higher.
@DouglasKMurray once said that Westerners cannot really imagine what religious fanatics are like, and that despite all the rhetoric, everything changes when the other man might kill you.
Most people in England still cannot picture it. They think what happened in Iran on those two days, or what happened on 7 October, is a horror reserved for other people, in other places. It is not. You are not immune. Not at all.
Your politicians have brought the same kind of men into this country. IRGC, Hamas and Hezbollah supporters. No vetting. They live among you. Many of them are sleeper cells. They have not been activated, YET.
The people who were supposed to protect you are in bed with the same terrorists. Last month the US Treasury Secretary, @SecScottBessent , said on camera that Washington knows where the regime’s accounts sit in trust companies in the British Virgin Islands, and knows the hundred-million-dollar houses it owns around the world.
Regime’s new leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has been linked by a Bloomberg investigation to more than £100 million in luxury London property, held through intermediaries. That is the tip of the iceberg. So when I say something is going on behind the scenes, that is not a conspiracy theory.
They announce that the IRGC is banned, that diplomatic ties are cut, and so on. It is a sham. UK has been one of the biggest lifelines the Islamic regime has had.
I warned long ago that a parallel power structure was being built in the mosques, the community centres, and elsewhere. An army is being assembled. Once it is deployed, it will be too late. They may not be able to take over UK, but they certainly can inflict an unimaginable pain on you. They hate you enough for that. There is a reason they are called death cult.
Not long ago @manototv released a documentary, “This Is Our Story“, cut from footage of 8 and 9 January in Iran. I will put the YouTube link here. Watch it, and send it to the friend who is not political, who is not here in X, the liberal, the person who still defends this immigration madness and cannot see the monster growing in the dark. Tell them, you are not immune to this. Wake up before it is too late.
https://t.co/YaJqwOOk54
This story has broken me. It has unleashed a rage so strong I can barely express it, but allow me to try.
Above all, I am angry with the decades-long malevolent incompetence of the British state: politicians of all parties, the judiciary, the civil service. Their collective uselessness has shattered the social contract and made us all poorer and less safe. In just 25 years, they have led us from an affluent, high-trust society to a broken, low-trust one.
I am sickened by the growth in sectarian politics. I am appalled by the foreign ghettos in our cities and imported, bent voting practices and resultant corruption in some of our councils. I hate seeing the clothing of female oppression on our streets. I am sickened by the fact our Jewish community lives under siege.
I no longer wish to pay tax to support those who have come here illegally and should be removed immediately. It is to our shame that we have accepted mass immigration without insisting on integration. I am tired of being told that a British passport makes a foreigner as British as me. I assure you that the “British citizen” in this story is not. I am saddened that for so many people, the concept of “British” is essentially meaningless.
I am sick of the obsession with a minor war 2,500 miles away that barely affects us. I despise that £88m of our tax money is going to Hamas (because it will), when the tax burden is a record high, everything is expensive, welfare spending is out of control and we can’t even pay for our own defences when the global risk of conflict is the highest it has been since the end of the Cold War. And in spite of how much of our money the government steals from our pockets, nothing, at all, in this country works. Healthcare, transport, education - all broken.
It is a stain on our national politics that we have five Gaza MPs. It is our national shame that our government is intent on sucking up to the Palestinian entity which contains some of the worst monsters on the face of planet. It is a disgrace that our Foreign Secretary shook the hand of the representative of the Iranian regime that has slaughtered tens of thousands of its own people, and that he doesn’t seem to understand why that photograph will damn him forever. It is embarrassing that we had a Foreign Office minister dancing with and hugging the representative of the Palestinian Authority. The lack of serious statesmanship is mind-boggling and indicative of how far we have fallen.
They say the past is a foreign country, but my goodness, do I miss the country I grew up in. I feel so sorry for the generation that grew up after 2000 and will never know how good it was. It’s not coming back.
I have no time for the demagogues and grifters who exploit this anger. I know other people feel the same as I do, and my goodness, do I understand why people are angry. For decades, those we have elected to govern in our interests have instead run our country into the ground.
And to cap it all, now we are led by fatuous, asinine, deeply unserious airheads who think serious governance is a TikTok video about pork scratchings, as the last vestiges of a coherent society die under the weight of their malignant frivolity.
The worst part of it is that there is absolutely nothing any of us can do about it. I just want to live in a happy, stable, prosperous country like we used to be, instead of one that is run by a state apparatus that does nothing but beat us down, obsess over irrelevances, take our money, and leave us poorer and less safe.
Every time someone says "1948," we only get half the story. So here's the whole thing.
In November 1947, the UN voted to divide the land into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. The UN didn't give the Jews a country. It recognized a people with 3,000 years of roots in the land, who had been promised a home since 1917.
The Jews got a small, fragmented territory, and Jerusalem wasn't even part of it. They said yes anyway. The Arab leaders said no. The day after the vote, Jewish buses were attacked, and the country slid into war.
And to those who say Israel stole a country.
There was no Palestinian state to steal from. The land had been ruled by the Ottomans for 400 years and then by the British. Israel got its share through the UN. The rest came from a war the other side started.
On May 14, 1948, Israel declared independence. The next day, five Arab armies invaded from Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq. The goal wasn't a Palestinian state. The goal was that there would be no Jewish state.
Israel had no real army and barely any weapons, and many of its soldiers were Holocaust survivors who had come ashore only months earlier. They won because the alternative was to die.
Yes, around 700,000 Palestinians lost their homes in that war. Some were expelled by Israeli forces. That's documented, and it shouldn't be denied. Others fled the fighting, and some were told by their own leaders to leave their villages until the Arab armies had won. They didn't.
But there was another expulsion nobody talks about.
Around 850,000 Jews were driven out or pushed out of Arab countries like Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, and Morocco. Families who had lived there for centuries lost everything. The Jews of Jerusalem's Old City were expelled by Jordan.
Israel took them in and gave them new lives.
The Arab countries did the opposite with the Palestinians.
They kept them in camps and in refugee status that is now passed down to the fourth generation, so today there are nearly six million registered refugees.
In Lebanon, they're still barred from a long list of professions. And from 1948 to 1967, Jordan held the West Bank and Egypt held Gaza. Neither of them created a Palestinian state. They could have done it at any time.
Israel took in refugees, drained swamps, and built a beautiful country with no oil and enemies on every border.
The Palestinian leaders were offered the same chance, and they chose war instead. Imagine what could have been built if they had said yes.
The roughly 160,000 Arabs who stayed in Israel became Israeli citizens. Today they number around two million, with the right to vote, their own parties, and seats in parliament.
So when someone says Israel was built on expulsion, remember the whole picture. The Palestinians were offered a state before Israel even existed. The Arab side chose war. Israel defended itself.
Israel didn't start that war. It just refused to lose it.
Am Israel Chai.❤️🔥
On my way to church this morning with my son in the car, I was followed from my house, and when I arrive near the location of my Church I boxed in by multiple police vehicles, and surrounded by eight officers.
My son is traumatised by the experience!
The only thing they could put on me? Window tints they say are too dark.
We all know why this is happening.
#PatriotPlatform
Prof Jason Arday called the police on a fellow academic and a journalist who were investigating discrepancies in his academic and charitable record.
Devon and Cornwall Police declined to investigate Prof David Harris after he sent Prof Arday a series of legitimate questions about inconsistencies in his record via email. Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Police investigated a harassment allegation against Times Higher Education journalist Jack Grove for doing his job.
The Met went on to advise Mr Grove not to contact Prof Arday again because it was affecting the professor’s mental health.
This is the same force that sent five armed police officers to arrest Irish comedian Graham Linehan as his plane landed at Heathrow over three gender-critical posts on X.
It is not good enough for Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley simply to say his force “dropped the ball” in this case. It happens too often.
Jason Arday sought to use the police as a tool to silence those who were investigating his record.