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[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

This was Manchester a few years ago…
Yet @andyburnham just said on TV that we haven’t seen masked groups on our streets before Danny Thommo .

WHY LIE ?

THIS IS THE FAR LEFT ‼️

[livvie @livvzeegs]

Princess Diana talking about James Hewitt’s book where she says she was very distressed that someone she trusted made money off of her and that she worried for her children and that Prince William saw she was hurt so he gave her chocolates to make her smile.

[Queen Esther @XOQueenEsther]

My heart breaks for Prince William. He really does get the impossible end of this.

William was 15 when Diana died. He wasn’t a commentator looking back on 1997 decades later. He was a teenage boy standing behind his mother’s coffin while the entire world watched. And now, nearly 30 years later, Charles Spencer has decided to reopen that week and put his own version of those events back into the public arena.

What makes it particularly uncomfortable is that Spencer’s version places himself at the centre of decisions about what was best for Diana’s sons, while William was actually there and old enough to understand far more of what was happening than Harry was. Spencer may genuinely believe he was protecting them, but William is the one who had to live with that day, that loss and everything that followed.

And then there is Harry, who has spent years reopening the same wounds from his own perspective. At some point, you have to ask what this constant excavation actually does to the person who has chosen not to turn it into a lifelong public grievance.

William has never had the luxury of being just Diana’s son. He grew up and became the man expected to carry the family, the institution and eventually the Crown. Every time this history is dragged back into the headlines, he is left with an impossible choice: say nothing and let other people define the story, or respond and turn one of the most painful chapters of his childhood into another public royal spectacle.

And Charles Spencer should not be treated as though being Diana’s brother automatically makes every recollection unquestionable. His relationship with Diana was complicated too. He fell out with her after withdrawing an offer for her to live at Althorp when she was desperate for somewhere to escape to after her separation. They eventually reconciled, but that history matters when he now presents himself as the definitive voice on Diana and what she would or would not have wanted.

What I find most distasteful is the endless monetisation of Diana’s tragedy. Montecito and Althorp have become two very different places from which the same old story keeps being mined: another book, another interview, another grievance, another version of what Diana wanted, what the family did wrong and who should be blamed.

And somehow William is expected to live quietly with the consequences.

I cannot imagine being 15, losing your mother in front of the entire world, growing up under that shadow and then watching your brother and your mother’s brother repeatedly reopen the story for public consumption.

Harry chose to make his grievances part of his public identity. Spencer has chosen to publish his recollections nearly 30 years later. They can both make those choices.

William did not choose any of this.

He was a child when Diana died. He has spent his entire adult life living with the consequences.

That deserves more consideration than another round of people picking through Diana’s life, her death and her children’s grief for their own narratives.

Some wounds do not become less personal just because three decades have passed.

So before another person decides to tell the world what Diana’s sons should have felt, what they should have done, or what their mother would have wanted, perhaps they should remember one simple fact:

William was there. He lost his mother too. And yet he has spent nearly three decades carrying the consequences without turning her death into an endless public reckoning.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

The people shouting “the children” are the ones paying for the corpses.

Mosab Hassan Yousef grew up inside Hamas. His father helped found it. He is not guessing when he says the leadership already knew Israel would come into Gaza hard, and still seeded the Strip with booby traps so children would die on camera.

Dead children are not a tragedy in that system. They are inventory. He puts a number on it because that is how the people running it think. Close to a billion dollars, a million dollars a head, and the more the West wires the money, the more violent the next round becomes.

They started with suicide bombs. They graduated to October 7 and called it resistance while hiding behind the same civilians they refuse to put in the tunnels. Then the West, instead of cutting the incentive, walks around chanting “Free Palestine” like the slogan itself is a policy.

He is not asking you to like him. He is telling you the game. Stop buying the product.

[The British Prince @freedom_007__]

Private letters revealed during the 2002 Paul Burrell trial exposed a much darker side of Charles Spencer towards Princes Diana.

The illusion of their closeness was shattered when private letters from April 1996—just over a year before Diana’s tragic death—were read aloud in court.

The correspondence revealed a brutal falling out:

Admitting They Weren't Close: In the letter, Earl Spencer explicitly told Diana that after years of neglect on both sides, their relationship was the "weakest I have with any of my sisters" and that he had become a "peripheral part" of her life.

Harsh Personal Attacks: Charles accused Diana of being a "fickle friend" and weaponised her personal struggles. He wrote, "I know how manipulation and deceit are parts of the illness... I pray that you are getting appropriate and sympathetic treatment for your mental problems," in a direct jab at her battles with bulimia.

They never spoke again. She said he was cold, uncaring and an abusive husband and terrible brother.

Diana felt sorry for his wife who was going through her on struggles because of her brother's cheating and horrible behaviour.

[Think Beautiful @ThinkBeautiful_]

Imagine being 62 years old and writing a book about a 5 minute argument you had with your dead sister’s ex 29 years ago.

Meanwhile in that 29 years he has been married 3 times, had 3 divorces and ruined his relationship with his 4 adult children.

But apparently the 5 minute argument is what he still focuses on 🤔

I wonder why 💰💰💰

#charlesspencer #kingcharles

[🇬🇧 Rachel @RachelD1892]

Dec '25 to July '26, Angela Rayner received £150,000 from 'Refrigeration House Ltd' for 'staffing costs'.
The July 2026 accounts show:
- zero staff
- £62,733 net assets
A company with no employees make a huge political donation exceeding it's assets to Rayner?
Does it add up!?

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Here’s how Gaza deceived the world with the fake “genocide.”

Same actors.
Same script.
Same fake acting.

Anyone who still believes this propaganda must feel really dumb right now.

[Marion Small @maripine]

@higginscartoons Melon and Parma ham!

[Rɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ Kᴇᴍᴘ ⋁ @COLRICHARDKEMP]

Islamic jihad was behind the most deadly enemy attack here in the US, today in 2001. Britain also suffered the greatest loss of life of its citizens ever in any terrorist attack anywhere on that day. Islamic jihad was also behind the London bombings in 2005 & the 7th October 2023 orgy of violence in Israel, in which British lives were also lost.

The enduring threat is obvious yet the British government seeks to appease Islamic jihadists for domestic electoral gain by siding with them over Israel, one of our most important allies. As history shows this will only encourage Islamic jihad and lead to greater violence — against Britons as well as Israelis and Americans.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Bill Clinton: “The Palestinians were offered a state. They refused. A state wasn't their goal. Killing Jews was."

This must be shared every single day.

[Camilla Tominey @CamillaTominey]

BINGO

[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

The British Foreign Secretary @Ed_Miliband posts a video recounting “stories” he was told about Gaza.

If the Foreign Secretary were interested in facts rather than stories, he would know that there are no restrictions whatsoever on the entry of medicines into the Gaza Strip, and that no medicines are being blocked; that 22,500 tons of medical supplies have entered Gaza since the ceasefire began; and that Gazans exit the Strip for medical treatment, including 200 who did so in just the last two weeks.

And of course, the British Foreign Secretary is well aware of all this, as the UK is a member of the International Gaza Support Center, which facilitates the delivery of medical aid to the Gaza Strip.

But apparently, facts matter less (when making a video for a political audience).

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The threat level against the country continues to grow yet the Burnham government has told the British Army to cease major exercises with Challenger 2 tanks and Apache gunships to save money.
Our Bus-Conductor-in-Chief can find money for all sorts of gimmicks that allow him to play to the gallery. But not for essential defence spending. Unforgivable.

[The New Era on X @EditorTNE]

Good to see that this is trending on this platform. Well done @ClareCraigPath. The government has no business adding toxic chemicals to basic foodstuffs.

https://t.co/5BMQgCywCh

[Lloyd @LGB_1962]

Wait until you find out who signed off on all those PFIs currently crippling the NHS.

[Neil Oliver @thecoastguy]

If you want to help prevent men developing prostate cancer, protest the introduction of folic acid, that more than doubles the risk.

[Dr Clare Craig ✝️ @ClareCraigPath]

From 13 December every white loaf in Britain must contain folic acid, a synthetic compound the NHS says some people should avoid.

Parliament never debated it.

100,000 signatures will secure that debate.

We are past 56,000.

Sign and share:

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Roger Whittaker made whistling sound effortless, but it wasn't.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

A lovely touch. Chapeau.