Mike Nanker Phelge

[Natasha Hausdorff @HausdorffMedia]

Dear Iain, I would encourage you to listen back to the clip before continuing to misrepresent it. It was a year ago, so perhaps you should be forgiven.

I certainly didn’t insult anyone, unless you consider the truth to be insulting? It is possible that Michael Mansfield shares such a belief - it is he who rudely left a conversation on the radio, seemingly unable to stomach being corrected on the law.

I don’t tend to engage on X, because it is not the best use of time, but I make an exception here, in light of David’s valiant efforts and since it is a medium in which you can’t cut me off - it seems like a good opportunity to set the record straight.

Your earlier guest had misled your audience when he claimed that Israel was losing its democracy. Despite the passage of time since our conversation, you can see that Israel is still a thriving democracy and is preparing itself for yet another democratic election. The only real democracy in the Middle East. True, not a high bar, but Israel's democratic practises can also put many European countries to shame. It is a pity that you did not allow me the time during the program to explain this.

As we progressed in the conversation, you gave an example which was wholly inappropriate: you suggested that you might be barred from entering due to having criticised Israel. I said that misrepresented what these two MPs had done, and you cut me off. Had you not done so, I would have told you that your example flies in the face of the fact that Israel has free press and free speech. It is a place where everybody can - and many do - criticise Israel, its Government, its Prime Minister or any other body or person. All you would have to do is turn on Israeli TV (with subtitles?) and this would be evident to you.

What was even more egregious, however, was the suggestion that the falsehoods these MPs had told immigration officials, and their campaign for BDS - a vehicle for incitement and the attempted destruction of Israel - is somehow comparable with “criticism”. Immigration turned these politicians away under a framework parallel to the one we deploy in the UK.

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[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Could somebody show this to Lenny Henry

[John F Kennedy Jr @John_F_kJr]

🚨 BREAKING: Elon just nuked the entire media playbook in under 90 seconds.

Journalist: “You support the far-right!”

Elon: “No. You support the lunatic left.

What was completely normal 10-15 years ago is now called ‘far-right’…

because your side went completely insane.”

Safe cities. Secure borders. Biological reality. Common sense.

None of that is “far-right.”

It’s just not crazy.

The Overton window didn’t shift right.

The left sprinted off a cliff and started calling everyone who didn’t jump “extremists.”

Elon said it out loud.

And the media still can’t cope.

Lunatic left.

He’s 100% right.

FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING

[Scott Savage @ScottSavage6669]

If you are a Labor or Greens supporter:

FUCK YOU

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

Christopher Hitchens: "If I was a Muslim".

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

This is long but incredibly worth reading.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Example #1727388 why socialism always fails.

[🇬🇧 Suze 🇬🇧 @WeLeftTheEUSSR]

Yup, this nails it.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Clearly respect for other traditions only goes one way

[Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO @nyunggai]

100% right.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Is there one particular window that they are all falling out of, or it just any old window that happens to be large enough

[Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO @nyunggai]

The savagery of Hamas.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Surprising that a 'dogwhistle' can start a movement that never existed before the whistle was blown

Magic ?

Rather like the verbal trick of dismissing criticism as
phobic

[Succeeded Mind @SucceededMind]

I'm 59.

Here are 18 uncomfortable truths I wish I knew earlier:

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

If people have to pay reparations for slavery, the British could claim three and a half centuries colonisation by the Romans, and 300 years of colonisation by the French

This would be profitable for us since we were slaves for much longer than our shameful Empire lasted

It is a tribute to the foresightedness of the Muslims that, due to their practice of castrating all slaves, no
candidates exist for reparations for their long periods of slavery

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

You talk about communities

Most Muslims are not interested in the multiculturalism that the other faiths accept

They want uniculturalism

They want respect for their traditions, but show no respect for other faith's traditions

Please stop the cant

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Not the best start for a multicultural society, I'm afraid

[Douglas Murray @DouglasKMurray]

‘Are we allowed to feel angry yet?’ My column in this week’s @spectator https://t.co/ihCQHb71Ii

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

In the late forties, George Bernard Shaw visited Stalin's Russia, and had nothing but praise for it

[Valerie 🤌🏻 @AussieVal10]

A bit of plain speaking is going a long way in Aus - Hughesy on the Today show