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If you encouraged, supported or didn’t question ‘lockdown’ what did you expect?That closing schools & universities,disabling the NHS,suffocating the economy & atomising society, would leave a little pocket of normality?Adults have let children & young people be abused for months.
Let me introduce you to a brave hero from my country, Iran.
She was 16 years old. Just a girl. And on the streets of Iran, she did something braver than most people do in a lifetime: she took off her hijab and burned it in public. Right in front of the regime. Right in front of the world.
That was her crime: civil disobedience. A teenage girl refusing to obey men who claimed authority over her hair, her body, her life.
Her message spoke for millions of Iranian women:
To every man who rules over women in the name of religion, honor, or culture: We do not obey you. Your laws were never made for us.
This is what real power looks like: unarmed, unafraid, unbowed.
For that defiance, she was arrested. Her family says she was tortured and killed after falling into the hands of security forces. The Iranian authorities denied responsibility and gave a different account of her death.
Her name was Nika Shakarami. She was 16.
Now ask yourself: How many women in the West know her name? How many know what she risked for a freedom they have never had to fight for?
Say her name: Nika Shakarami.
"The Green Party would give biological men a legal right to compete in women’s sports under proposals drawn up by its members". At what point will the open misogyny of @thegreenparty register with the members & voters? What more will it take?
https://t.co/7dVQR8PyZ4
That’s a lie. The Green Party is not proposing men in women’s sports. Nobody trans supports that. The Green Party supports women who happen to be trans in women’s sports. As was the case for half a century - during which every top sporting championship and medal in the world was won by a c!s woman.
This is a nazi site @elonmusk you big fat transphobe. All because you can’t cope with have a trans kid. Sad.
This is full on bonkers and dangerous to women and girls.
It's also contrary to any reasonable interpretation of Green Party policy and isn't something we should be saying or doing or advocating for.
Give biological men legal right to compete in women’s sport, say Greens
The plans, which could become party policy within weeks, would “extend trans people’s rights” so they can compete in the categories “they feel most comfortable in”.
https://t.co/vqVGbdHAII
Wow, just wow. Here we were thinking that commonsense was returning to sport and then The Greens come along with a proposal to set women’s rights to fair sport back decades.
The Green Party conference motion ‘warns that sporting bans at “any level” have “serious consequences” for the physical and mental health of trans people’…
Hello! 👋 Women here. You know, the 51% of the population that have their rights to single-sex sport enshrined in law. The people who’ve had to fight tooth and nail to get sports governing bodies to respect the need for the female category for our safety and fairness in sport.
This proposal sends a message to all women: you are not worthy of fairness and safety in sport.
Of course he does, because he cares not one jot about the sporting dreams, aspirations, rights or safeguards of women & girls.
@JamesMelville This might provide a partial explanation,
https://t.co/nENjqFfcss
A number of people have said the same thing to me lately…Britain on the far side of Covid is a different place. The decay is plain enough to see. But, what is harder to describe is the spirit slowly draining out of society. The country feels subdued, as if a fog has settled over it and never quite lifted.
The boiling frog fable is a perfect metaphor for Britain over the past 40 years or so. Dialled up significantly since Covid.
I wrote that Jews and Christians should stand together.
The comments filled up with Muslims and leftists telling me it should be Christians and Muslims. Same floor. Same root. Brothers of the book.
Last year that brotherhood killed 4,849 of us.
Christians are the most persecuted group on earth. 388 million now live under high or extreme persecution. More than one in seven Christians on the planet.
Of those 4,849 killed for their faith, 93 percent died in sub-Saharan Africa.
Nigeria alone: 3,490 people, murdered for being Christian. 125,000 have been killed since 2009. Around 32 a day right now.
Go look up who killed them.
Boko Haram and ISWAP in Nigeria. Al-Shabaab in Somalia, where not one open church remains. Islamic militias in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, handing villages the choice of conversion, jizya or flight. The ADF in Congo, beheading villagers in Allah's name. ISIS in Mozambique. The Taliban in Afghanistan, where a Christian has no legal existence at all. The blasphemy laws in
Pakistan, where Christian girls of twelve are abducted, forcibly converted, and handed back to their kidnapper by a court. The Copts in Egypt, bombed inside their own churches.
Iraq had one and a half million Christians in 2003. Today under 250,000. Syria had more than two million. They are gone.
That is not crossfire. That is a direction.
Now the part where the conversation always gets shut down.
Islam was not built as a private faith. It was built as a state. Muhammad was lawgiver, judge and commander in one.
Christianity began with a man on a cross who said his kingdom was not of this world.
Islam began in Medina with an army. Classical jurisprudence divides the world into dar al-islam and dar al-harb, the house of Islam and the house of war. The objective is that the first expands until the second no longer exists.
And people want it. Pew surveyed 38,000 Muslims across 39 countries. 99 percent
in Afghanistan want sharia as the official law of the land. 84 percent in Pakistan. 86 percent in Malaysia. Nearly eight in ten across sub-Saharan Africa.
That is not the fringe. That is the centre.
Now try this.
A Muslim stands up and says: Jesus is God.
In that second he is no longer a Muslim. Placing anything beside Allah is shirk, and according to the Quran it is the one sin that is not forgiven. Sura 5:72 says it plainly: whoever calls Christ God is an unbeliever.
What does it cost? At least 22 countries criminalise leaving Islam. In roughly a dozen of them it can cost your life. Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Mauritania, Qatar, the Emirates, Pakistan, Malaysia, the Maldives, Brunei.
Elsewhere you lose your marriage instead, your children, your inheritance, your citizenship. In Malaysia, Lina Joy fought six years for the legal right to leave Islam. She lost.
And outside the courtrooms, the family is waiting.
A Christian who converts to Islam in the West gets a welcome ceremony and a post on social media. A Muslim who converts to Christianity changes his name, moves city, and never tells his mother.
There is your same root.
So no.
If that solidarity were real, it would run both ways. Where were the marches for the 3,490 Nigerians? Where was the Friday sermon about the burned churches in Burkina Faso?
It does not exist. Solidarity that only switches on when it can be aimed at a third party is not solidarity. It is an alliance against someone.
There is not one Muslim-majority country where Christians hold full and equal rights. Not one.
Meanwhile there are Western countries where Muslims hold more rights than Christians hold anywhere in the Muslim world. The whole case sits inside that asymmetry.
And let us not pretend this only happens out there. We carried the ideology forward ourselves. Not under force. Out of politeness. CONTINUES👇🏽
The Social Cost of Not Going Out
When a pub closes, Britain loses more than a business.
It loses a meeting place. A first date. A birthday meal. A wedding reception. A works party. A wake.
It loses the corner table where old friends put the world to rights, and the familiar place where people come together.
That is why our hospitality sector matters, and why the decline of our pubs, bars, restaurants, clubs and music venues matters.
It is far more than a pint down the boozer. It is about the erosion of British culture: the places where communities meet. From a village pub to a town-centre club, hospitality venues are where British traditions are lived.
Humans are social beings. We need to meet face-to-face to laugh, talk, celebrate, and share an atmosphere that cannot be recreated through a delivery app or another night home alone in front of a screen.
If Britain keeps losing its hospitality and nightlife, it will lose part of its soul.
Hospitality is being squeezed from every direction: higher minimum wages, increased employer National Insurance, VAT, corporation tax, business rates, rent, insurance, energy, repairs and soaring stock costs.
These are labour-intensive businesses. They employ people, train young workers, buy from local suppliers and keep town centres alive. Yet they are expected to absorb ever-higher costs while their customers have less to spend.
Consecutive governments have treated hospitality as an easy target for another tax, another levy or another burden. A pub, restaurant, club or venue should not be viewed as little more than a cash machine for the Treasury.
Every closure takes life out of a town.
A pub closes, then the taxi firm loses fares, the local supplier loses orders, the hairdresser and clothes shop lose trade, the high street loses footfall, and a once-vibrant town becomes that “Ghost Town” where
“bands don’t play no more”.
But what is a town centre without pubs, cafés, restaurants, bars and venues?
What is a high street without somewhere to meet?
A town without hospitality is not regenerated.
It is diminished.
We do not want our town centres turned into housing estates; we want vibrant towns, with busy pubs, welcoming cafés, family restaurants, local music and lively streets where people still have a reason to gather.
The Great British Pub is a true part of British society, rooted in our villages, towns and cities for some 2,000 years. It is where communities gather in good times and bad; where friendships begin, celebrations are held and people from every walk of life still mix naturally. It is part of the fabric of Britain.
We must start supporting the on-sales market:
To make hospitality businesses economically viable and make going out affordable for everyone.
I suggest giving tax breaks to on-sales only, to ensure Britain does not become a nation served only by takeaway businesses delivering to isolated people in their homes.
Once these places are gone, they are not easily replaced.
When a nightclub or live music venue closes, we lose a dancefloor, a youth space and a place where music becomes part of your soul, giving memories that live forever.
These are the places that give young people somewhere to belong, somewhere to discover themselves, and somewhere to find a new style, an identity and a culture that feels like their own.
New music does not begin in big cities. It starts in small towns, in small venues. These are the places where the next new scene begins, grows and develops into the next big sound.
The next youth revolution will not be invented by committee or born in an arena in a big city.
It will come from a small town, a backstreet bar, a local promoter, a new beat and a crowd of young people hearing something that feels like their own.
But if all the clubs have closed down, where does the next scene come from?
Will there be a venue for that underground sound to become the next mainstream scene?
Where will we build new venues if our town centres have been changed from vibrant high streets into housing estates?
Where will you dance once the last dancefloor in England has gone?
And where will we build new venues if our town centres have been changed from vibrant high streets into housing estates?
Having spent more than 40 years in nightlife and hospitality, I have seen a few changes. Let me assure you now:
A change is coming - A new sound will emerge.
I only hope we have not lost all the spaces to housing, and we still have space for new venues to open and play that underground sound which becomes the new mainstream.
A society that removes its shared spaces becomes more isolated. Public life shrinks. Town centres die. Communities weaken. The world becomes a smaller, quieter and far lonelier place.
Britain must not become a place where isolation is normal and togetherness is a luxury.
Save the pubs. Save the clubs. Save the dancefloors. Save the high street. Save the town centre.
#SaveNightlife #SaveHospitality
Save the places that bring Britain together.
Because once they are gone, they are gone for good.
Martin Murray
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Taraneh and Romina Rahimi were two sisters who were arrested in Isfahan on January 8. Taraneh was sentenced to death, while Romina was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Romina is now facing the horrifying reality of witnessing her sister’s execution from behind bars.
These are not just numbers. They are human lives.
The Islamic Republic’s execution machine continues to take lives while the world watches, debates, and carries on.
Mass executions, political repression, arbitrary arrests, and the silencing of dissent must never be accepted as normal governance. These are serious human rights abuses, and those responsible must be held accountable.
The people of Iran deserve freedom, justice, dignity, and a future without fear.
The world cannot keep looking away.
Silence is not neutrality when people are being executed.
#StopExecutionsInIran
#EndTheIslamicRepublic
URGENT: Stop the Execution of Reza Zanganeh, 27
Reza Zanganeh, a 27-year-old from Malayer living in Karaj, is on death row in Qezel Hesar Prison. He was sentenced to death for “Moharebeh” and alleged “cooperation with Mossad”—charges his family strongly rejects. Arrested in a raid on his car repair shop shortly after returning from Malayer, he was reportedly beaten. Recently married and with limited time for appeal, this young man’s life is at immediate risk after an opaque process.
This regime must stop executions in Iran. These death sentences, often after unfair trials lacking evidence and due process, serve only to instill fear and crush dissent. They violate the right to life and justice. Halt the killing of Reza Zanganeh and end this cycle of state violence now.
#IslamicRepublicHangs
#RezaZangeneh
The ‘Beautiful 6’.
OTD in 2024, we remember these 6 beautiful souls, executed by Hamas in captivity in Gaza:
🕯️ Hersh Goldberg-Polin
🕯️ Almog Sarusi
🕯️ Eden Yerushalmi
🕯️ Alexander Lobanov
🕯️ Carmel Gat
🕯️ Ori Danino
May their memories always be blessed!
The Highland Clearances are taught as a tragedy of poverty. They were the removal of a cattle economy, and the famine that followed was designed on paper decades before the blight arrived.
In 1800 the Sutherland estate raised a Highland regiment in Strathnaver. In 1814 it burned Strathnaver to the ground.
The first muster of the 93rd was held at Skail, in the strath. The men who came were sons of tenant farmers, related to each other, recruited off the same few miles of glen, and officers wrote about them with something close to bewilderment, because British regiments were not usually made of respectable neighbours. Fourteen years later their families were carried out of their houses and the roofs set alight behind them.
The Highlands before this ran on cattle. Small black cattle, walked south in droves to Crieff and Falkirk, and at home the milk, the butter, the cheese and the beast. Land was held through kin. After Culloden the law turned the chief into a landlord, and a landlord with a rent roll starts doing sums.
The sum favoured the Cheviot. One shepherd and a flock beat a valley of tenants, and wool was booming.
On 13 June 1814 Patrick Sellar's men fired the houses at Strathnaver with a woman of ninety still inside one of them. Margaret MacKay was pulled out by her daughter with her blankets alight, carried to a shed, and died five days later.
Donald MacLeod, a stonemason from that strath, stood on a hill and counted the burning houses in every direction. More than two hundred alight at once, smoke visible from out at sea, and the cattle bellowing.
Sellar was tried at Inverness in 1816 for culpable homicide and acquitted at a quarter past one in the morning by a jury of landowners, merchants and lawyers, most of them magistrates. He then took a tenancy of the emptied ground and farmed sheep on it for the rest of his life. Around fifteen thousand people were cleared off that one estate between 1811 and 1821.
Sellar put the plan in writing. The interior to shepherds, the people down onto the coast in lots of under three acres, sized to be pinched enough to cause them to turn their attention to the fishing. He described this as benevolent, and as a step towards civilisation.
Under three acres of coastal rock will not graze a cow.
So the cattle went, and the family's own milk, butter and meat went with them. What grows on that ground and feeds a family is potatoes. A people who had lived off animals for a thousand years were put on a single root crop, by design, in writing, and told it was progress.
Thirty-two years later the blight reached Scotland.
Charity, relief and the mass shipping of people to Canada kept the death toll below Ireland's, which is why the whole thing fell out of the national memory. The people went anyway. The glens have never refilled.
Eight years after that the Crimean War started, and the Duke of Sutherland went north to raise men from the country his family had emptied. The meetings were attended and the recruiters were baaed at. Send your sheep, the men told them. Send your deer and your gamekeepers. They never did us any harm.
Sutherland is being bought again. Estates are selling to investment funds and corporations for tree planting and carbon credits, and land values are climbing past anything a local buyer can reach.
Wool needed shearing, carting and selling, which meant somebody had to live there. Carbon does not need shearing.
The land pays best now with nothing on it at all, and this time nobody has to hold the torch.
Samira Khani was only 12 when she was killed by Islamic Republic forces on January 8.
A child whose name must never be forgotten.
Your path lives on, Samira.
#IranMassacre2026
2 years ago I faced you all with this. I was distraught.
I would say exactly the same words again now. The silencing of millions will be the end of not only free speech but the life you take for granted. I cannot be clearer than I was here.
Be brave fellow humans 🙏
Right now I am facing a defamation case against me for speaking about the profound child abuse of medicalising children, a police interview for speaking about Islam and two separate men have been charged for violent threats toward me.
This is the life of a women’s rights campaigner.
That's precisely why the policy is so hard to defend. If a job pays so little that the person doing it contributes less in tax than they consume in public spending, importing more people to do that job doesn't solve the underlying problem. It entrenches it.
The answer isn't to import an endless supply of low-paid labour. It's to raise productivity, improve pay and conditions, invest in training and make employers compete for British workers. If the job genuinely needs doing, the market should have to pay enough to attract people to do it.
And there's another point you're overlooking. A British citizen already here doesn't require the state to provide the additional housing, infrastructure, schools and services needed to accommodate a new population. Comparing the two as though they are fiscally identical misses the wider cost of large-scale immigration.
The issue isn't nationality. It's the decision to use mass immigration as a substitute for fixing a low-wage, low-productivity economic model.
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