Today (6 June) marks the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, France, which led to the liberation of western Europe and, ultimately, the end of the Second World War.
Manchester United striker, Jack Rowley was one of those involved in the invasion of Normandy, known as Operation Overlord.
He was wounded during the heavy fighting that took place inland.
Jack would eventually rejoin Manchester United, and played his first competitive game in almost six years on 5 January 1946, when United drew 2-2 with Accrington Stanley in the third round of the FA Cup.
Rowley was about to turn 21 when the war first broke out in September 1939, and had already netted 19 goals in 58 games as a Red.
His final tally of 211 goals in 424 games puts him fourth on our all-time goalscoring list, behind only Wayne Rooney (253), Sir Bobby Charlton (249) and Denis Law (237).
How many goals Jack Rowley might have scored, had it not been for the Second World War, will forever remain an unanswerable question. We remember him as a hero, both on and off the pitch.
Britain had a moment of silence for George Floyd. Our politicians kneeled en masse to show their outrage at his killing. "I can't breathe" became a slogan.
George Floyd died on the other side of the world. He wasn't British.
Henry Nowak *was* British and his treatment by the police was shocking and negligent in the extreme. Yet there is no minute of silence. There is no coordinated public campaign. There is no kneeling at sporting events.
And we all know why.
During the summer of BLM, some people said "All Lives Matter". This was treated as the highest form of racism and anyone who said this was immediately cancelled. Why? Because the people in charge don't actually think all lives matter in the same way.
They have created a racial hierarchy of victimhood where a career criminal who died through mistreatment by police in a foreign country with 0 evidence of racism like George Floyd is automatically sanctified because of the colour of his skin.
And Henry Nowak, a British man, one of ours, is automatically dismissed and ignored because of the colour of his.
This is the ugly fruit of so-called "anti-racism", an obsession with race that has created a two-tier society which treats people differently because of the colour of their skin.
This needs to stop.
How to be a great climate activist:
1. Own a private jet
2. Own a yacht
3. Have five mansions
4. Fly to a climate conference every six weeks
5. Lecture poor people about their carbon footprint
6. Convince them the planet can be saved by taxing them more
7. Tell farmers their cows are the problem
8. Eat the wagyu at the gala
9. Give yourself an award
10. Post about it from the yacht
The moral abdication of those claiming Iran has not “provoked” - weeks after tens of thousands of innocent Iranians slaughtered in the streets. And after years of funding despots who have terrorised civilians & willed to destroy the West.
If that isnt provocation, what is?
Muslims kick out a Christian street preacher at Whitechapel.
'This is our area!'
Puts the fury at Jim Radcliffe's interview into perspective, doesn't it?
What's fascinating is that in his reply Starmer doesn't even try to challenge the claim Radcliffe made.
The response to "mass uncontrolled immigration is bad" is not even "mass uncontrolled immigration is good", it's "yes, but you're a bad person for noticing".
Today’s top news story: The British Prime Minister demands an apology from a billionaire who used a word he didn’t like. Meanwhile, the economy flatlines, our borders are being breached, the birthrate has collapsed and 6 million people are paid not to work.