Andres

[Andres @Daedalus6]

@SholaMos1
It would be wrong to judge our ancestors by today's standards or values ... argues Nigerian journalist and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, one of whose ancestors sold slaves

https://t.co/dIekyoAyux

[Iain Dale 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 ⚒️ @IainDale]

This interview on @bbcnewsnight with @vicderbyshire is an absolute car crash for Andy Burnham. All over the place. No clue about 'fiscal rules', tetchy, unable to answer basic questions. Why do some people see him as the Messiah who can save Labour?

[Andres @Daedalus6]

@WingsEcosse @boswelltoday @OorLorna Sadly, this is not sufficient. The key control mechanism is elections and a watchful electorate. The SNP as the independence party will get votes even if the shoot someone on the Royal Mile.

[Bruce Bowman @boswelltoday]

1/
🧵Things I now believe to be true.

Scotland has not just watched a party finance scandal. It has watched the state, the party machine and the prosecution system close ranks in real time.

The public were expected to notice nothing.

Unfortunately for them, we did.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Sam Harris has written the best thing you’ll read today.

https://t.co/gI0wZZNH4m

[Gillian Lazarus @GillianLazarus]

It's intolerable that this is Maureen Lipman's predicament.
Maureen Lipman reveals she has had to hire security to protect herself from pro-Palestine activists https://t.co/WYetm19ejT

[Andres @Daedalus6]

@msp710 @SubwayTakes @JLo Transplant like Mamdani?

[Andres @Daedalus6]

@Quillette Embarrassingly weak logic

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

It looks brilliant actually

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

Good news. My patriotic friend @LordWeirDUP won the Private Members’ Bill ballot, and has just introduced a Bill to prohibit any change in the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands without the consent of both Parliament and the Chagossian people.
We are going to win this thing.
🇮🇴🇬🇧

[Andres @Daedalus6]

@soniasodha @BluskyeAllison They’re bring back MENSTRUAL HUTS! 🤬

[𝓓𝖗. 𝓥𝖔𝕏 𝓞𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖎 ᴹᴰ 👁️‍🗨️ @Vox_Oculi]

🏳️‍⚧️ The sexual offending rates of trans-identifying men are:

385% more than normal men

63,767% more than women 🤯

[Andres @Daedalus6]

@NormanLeedsFRSA @clashreport Whatever

[Stephen Pollard @stephenpollard]

Here's my @Telegraph column, 'Zack Polanski wants a Jew register. What could be more sinister than that?'

https://t.co/l1z6YW44ez

I’ll say one thing for Zack Polanski: he knows a winning strategy when he sees one. When he became leader of the Greens last September, he spotted straight away that the secret to boosting the party’s poll ratings – and thus electoral success – was straightforward. Dump the green stuff and focus on Gaza.

There was a ready-made group of voters for whom Gaza is the only issue that really matters, waiting to be courted by any party which turned itself into the anti-Israel train. That group fell into the Greens’ arms when Polanski arrived on the scene.

He has been masterly in his care of them, not least in his skilful elision of being anti-Israel with being Jewish himself. It provides a much-used “get out of jail free card” when the Greens’ professed anti-Zionism slips into accusations of barely disguised anti-Semitism.

But even by Polanski’s standards, his demand that any dual British-Israeli citizen who has fought for Israel against Hamas in Gaza has their name listed on a database – a list, in other words, of bad Jews – is breathtakingly blatant.

The Green leader has signed an open letter sent to Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, and Foreign Secretary, Yvette Cooper, which calls on the Government to act in the name of “public safety and justice” to “track the movements of Brits who have served in the IDF” and “subject them to secondary screening where necessary at ports of entry”. Britons, that is, who just happen to be Jews.

Israel has national service, and all Israeli citizens (with the exception – which is deeply controversial in Israel – of some religious groups) are conscripted to the IDF at 18. Many have been called up as reservists when they are older.

Polanski is thus calling for a large proportion of British-Israeli dual citizens to be listed on a database. “Nobody wants to live next to a potential war criminal,” the letter organised by campaign group Declassified UK states. Presumably then, Polanski wishes to refuse entry to or deport any British-Israeli who has served in the IDF.

You will notice one obvious element to this demand. There are wars on every continent. There are accusations of war crimes in all those conflicts. But Polanski has said not a word about British dual citizens – or even those of sole UK nationality – who have fought in any of those wars, either ongoing or historic.

I wait, for example, for Polanski to demand a list of dual-nationality Britons who fought in one of the most brutal post-1945 conflicts, the 1971 Bangladesh war of independence. The nine-month conflict led to the death of up to three million Bengalis and the displacement of 10 million refugees into India.

This is not merely historic. War crime investigations are still going on. But no Israelis were involved (let’s be honest: no Jews). So Polanski is silent – not least because many new Green voters are drawn from those communities.

By signing the letter, Polanski doesn’t only demand that Britons who have fought in Gaza be put on a database. He goes far beyond that. The letter calls says “travellers with Israeli travel documents or arriving from an origin of Tel Aviv airport” should be subject to “potential secondary screenings at ports of entry”. For Polanski then, any Israeli should be marked out for special screening.

As for the allegation of genocide against Israel, it is, at the very least, hotly contested. But there is a well-founded allegation of genocide against the Chinese in its treatment of the Uyghurs. Does Polanski demand that any Chinese national arriving in the UK is deemed a suspected war criminal? Of course he doesn’t.

If Jews aren’t involved, neither Polanski nor any of his fellow Greens could give a damn. Polanski may be Jewish, but his party’s strategy could hardly be clearer.

[Andres @Daedalus6]

@NormanLeedsFRSA @clashreport Although I agree with you, you’re rather missing my point

[Ameer Kotecha @Ameer_Kotecha]

“When Mark Nowak says that he has had to “fight for the truth” about his son, one reason is that he’d battled to stop the force issuing a statement claiming the incident was racially aggravated, despite there being no evidence.”

[Andres @Daedalus6]

@DavidLammy Complete rubbish. Want protection? Get married! Don’t force it on couples.

[Andres @Daedalus6]

@AnnaDeMilanese @TrueFactsStated Bullshit logic. The plant can stay open and sell its goods elsewhere.

The politicians aren’t “concerned for the community”. They’re dirty.

[Andres @Daedalus6]

@yuanyi_z Funny yummy mummy gummy in me tummy

[Andres @Daedalus6]

@ChrisMartzWX It’s a grift. California ballot counters are paid by the hour.

Britain is almost twice as populous but we have results the next day.

[Andres @Daedalus6]

@RealHughJackman @MichaelSarnoski @DeathOfRH_UK @A24 Legendary TAIL?