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[spiked @spikedonline]

Harriet Harman wants to ban men from running to be the next Labour leader. This is clueless. We don’t care about politicians’ sex. We care about what they stand for, writes Ella Whelan
https://t.co/4x2HEHaZmr

[jac-y-jwc @mpharries]

"Spain has been INVADED! Our Prime Minister goes on holiday" | Ada Lluch... https://t.co/yFOEApYjFg via @YouTube

[jac-y-jwc @mpharries]

@women_outspoken @jk_rowling Not sure, but definitely a Green Party hero.

[Darren Grimes @darrengrimes]

I don’t view it as remotely amusing or a clever debating tactic to admit that you have a mob outside that would harm your opponent without security. How far the Oxford Union has fallen.

[jac-y-jwc @mpharries]

New Rule: Commie By Your Name | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) https://t.co/31nojUdKGt via @YouTube

[Zineb Riboua @zriboua]

Ceuta, Morocco, Understanding the Situation

For a long time, Islamist rhetoric in Morocco has painted Europe as a kind of promised land, a place where welfare never runs out, chances are everywhere, and prosperity comes easily, with barely any effort required. The objective has always been to weaken trust in Morocco's own institutions and steer young people toward leaving.

But those very currents held power after the 2011 constitutional reforms tied to the Arab Spring. Their time in government produced a sluggish economy, unfulfilled promises, and a public that steadily lost faith. Since then, the pitch has barely changed. The same refrains keep coming back, while Morocco is framed as a failed state, not worth anyone’s loyalty, not worth building, not worth investing in.

In that narrative, Morocco is often branded a kafir state and the King is attacked as not Islamic enough. Young Moroccans are urged toward jihad and a permanent stance of confrontation with the West. Amazigh (Berber) identity, too, is mocked or dismissed as backward, even primitive. Year after year, the effort has been to drain the spirit out of an entire generation, to sell them on one bleak claim above all: their country has no future.

The same ideological current also pushes a claim that Morocco is trying to “reclaim Muslim land” via Ceuta and Melilla. In reality, no Moroccan government has expressed such a demand to the United Nations or any similar international body. Official diplomacy has kept those enclaves separate from Western Sahara, where Rabat has made a formal, explicit sovereignty claim for decades. That difference says a lot about the distance between Morocco’s actual foreign policy and the Islamist storyline built for ideological mobilization.

It’s also worth noting where the loudest demand has come from. A Moroccan Islamist leader has publicly argued that the country “must eventually regain control of Ceuta and Melilla.” By projecting that position onto the state while brushing aside official statements and practice, Islamist activists manufacture a thin appearance of legitimacy for a campaign that aims to weaken state authority, and amplify the message online for global support. Morocco’s ties with Israel and the United States then get turned into a weapon as well, presented as proof that the government itself lacks legitimacy.

Morocco remains a developing country. Real social and economic difficulties persist, and legitimate frustrations deserve to be taken seriously. Still, describing the country as hopeless helps no one, not Moroccans and not anyone interested in meaningful reform. In practice, that narrative mainly benefits two groups: people looking to justify illegal migration, and those trying to strip the Moroccan state of legitimacy.

The timing is also interesting: general elections are set for 23 September, and Islamist operators understand that border chaos, magnified on social media, can destabilize the incumbent narrative before the vote.

Since October 7, this has sharpened, in part because Islamists now face a possible political rival in Fouzi Lekjaa, the highly capable president of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation. Lekjaa is widely credited with driving Morocco’s historic run to the semi-finals in the 2022 World Cup and with turning the national team into a global force. Now he is using his key role in winning and preparing for the 2030 World Cup, co-hosted with Spain and Portugal, to bolster his profile as a potential prime minister, and to deepen his standing as one of the country’s most influential public figures.

Contrary to the conspiracy talk that spreads online, Morocco gains nothing from uncontrolled crossings. Some critics point to Algeria’s relationships with European governments, but every major European state keeps channels open with Algiers, Giorgia Meloni’s Italy has a notably strong relationship, while Morocco’s day-to-day cooperation has stayed consistently solid across the board. That includes strong migration frameworks with France and Germany, including a bilateral partnership signed with Berlin in 2024 that has driven higher returns, deportation arrangements with Hungary and Poland, and, most recently, close operational coordination with the United States.

The truth is that Morocco is itself under heavy migration pressure coming from the Sahel. In 2025 alone, authorities intercepted 73,640 attempted irregular crossings, and sub-Saharan nationals now account for nearly 60% of foreign residents.

Last year, several thousand Sudanese and other Sahel-origin migrants also crossed the eastern border, adding to the strain already felt in Moroccan cities, it’s a pressure ordinary Moroccans regularly complain about. The chaos of the past two days only worsens Morocco’s position rather than helping it: once the impression of an open or uncontrolled border spreads, it draws in even more refugees and irregular migrants, piling additional weight onto a burden that is already substantial.

https://t.co/sR2fyqMzrY

[Ben Habib @benhabib6]

Those who suffered are dead. Those who traded them are dead. Those that survived them in the West are immeasurably better off.

There is nothing to repent.

Our country, your country, abolished the slave trade and then policed the high seas to ensure it was shut down.

Thank goodness for Britain and its Empire.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Let it never be forgotten.

In Britain in 2026, a court allowed unnecessary and likely ruinous, life-damaging medical testing to go ahead on CHILDREN.

What have we become?

Thanks to @JamesEsses for his tireless work.

[Lembit Öpik @lembitopik]

Children forced to ingest “milk” produced in a man’s chest, as a result of hormone usage, should have the automatic right to sue for involuntary participation in a dangerous medical experiment not conducted in the context of the child’s wellbeing

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

🤔 Louise Haigh is still not being honest.

“I made a mistake 13 years ago… I was mugged and mistakenly said my work phone was stolen.”

No. You did not “mistakenly” say it. You pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation. You deliberately reported your work phone as stolen to Aviva so they would issue you a new one. That is what the court record says. That is what you admitted to. Calling it a simple mistake after all these years is just another version of the same dishonesty.

A spent conviction does not rewrite what happened. It does not turn a deliberate false representation into an innocent error. And it certainly does not entitle you to demand a “second chance” at the highest levels of government while you continue to soft-pedal the facts.

You resigned as Transport Secretary in 2024 when this became public. Andy Burnham then brought you straight back as First Secretary of State. That is not accountability.

If after more than a decade you still cannot be honest and describe your own fraud without watering it down, you have no business anywhere near the levers of power.

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

Labour refuse to say if extremist groups influenced their so-called Islamophobia definition.

So I asked for a copy of all the responses received by the Working Group.

Every single one has been deleted.

Now why would that be?

[Diogenes @adriansopinion]

@MForstater Simply unbelievable, a ludicrous argument from the Police, and an equally ludicrous decision from the Court.
I suspect you will have to take it to the High Court to get any sense.

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

“Went and whispered to ‘the sorting hat tree’ that trans women are women, and the leaves whispered yes in return”

Is it any wonder that the Health Research Authority signed off on the puberty blockers trial, when members of their senior leadership team post things like this?

[jac-y-jwc @mpharries]

Kellie-Jay the Lion-heart.

One Woman Stops Entire Islamic Public Prayer! https://t.co/G3ucOsHLsJ via @YouTube

[jac-y-jwc @mpharries]

Interesting….

Ceuta: Is the 711 Conquest of Spain Repeating Itself? | Live with Rodrig... https://t.co/prC9W7YO71 via @YouTube

[jac-y-jwc @mpharries]

@douglasbulloch @helensaxby11 @AlexXanthaki @akuareindorf The Trans movement has conflated gender (sex) with gender-behaviour (stereotypes of feminine or masculine).

They have asserted that behaviour (expressions of femininity or masculinity) determines whether one is female or male. That assertion is clinically insane.

[jac-y-jwc @mpharries]

“We know very well that a man's sex (male) should keep him out of female sport even if his gender (transwoman) makes him believe he belongs there.”

>> you’re conflating gender with (stereotypical) gender-behaviour.

Gender is a synonym for sex; whereas gender-behaviour, or simply behaviour, is a component of persona.

Persona/behaviour does not determine whether one is male or female.

So…

“We know very well that a man's sex (male) should keep him out of female sport even if his gender-behaviour (stereotypical feminine) makes him believe he belongs there [in the female category].”

[jac-y-jwc @mpharries]

You are conflating gender with (stereotypical) gender behaviour.

Gender behaviour is non-binary - see persona; whereas gender is binary and a synonym for sex; and is observed at birth and immutable.

One is not ‘assigned’ sex at birth anymore than one is assigned 10 fingers.

Behaviour/performance/costume does not determine whether one is male or female.

Grow up.

[jac-y-jwc @mpharries]

Love this. Henry Mancini’s version of ‘If I Fell’ in particular.

The Music Of Lennon and McCartney (Full TV Special 12/16/1965) https://t.co/uEIblC1RaA via @YouTube

[jac-y-jwc @mpharries]

I can't take this insanity.
For the sake of those poor Scottish babies... please, please can Donald Trump do a Nicolás Maduro on John Swinney!

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[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Is anyone looking after the interests of the babies ?