Nancy Scotson

[Nancy Scotson @ns2885]

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[Nancy Scotson @ns2885]

@linadreaamy No, 98

[Nancy Scotson @ns2885]

@EJWoolf @GBNEWS Well spoken tonight on GBNews. So good to hear someone speaking common sense

[Tock @yvan_theriault]

«Avant de vous énerver contre les personnes âgées à cause de ce qu'elles ne peuvent plus faire, arrêtez-vous et pensez à comment elles doivent se sentir frustrées de ne plus pouvoir le faire.

Parce que derrière chaque geste qui devient difficile, il y a une histoire.
Une vie entière passée à aider, à porter, à courir, à travailler sans jamais se plaindre.
Aujourd'hui, leurs corps ralentissent... mais leur cœur, lui, se souvient encore de tout ce qu'ils faisaient avant.
Et croyez-moi, il n'y a rien de plus douloureux pour eux que d'avoir besoin d'aide pour des choses qu'ils faisaient autrefois en un clin d'œil.

On vit dans une société où l'on s'impatiente pour un rien, où l'on oublie que nous aussi, un jour, nous marcherons plus lentement, nous tremblerons un peu plus, nous répéterons peut-être les mêmes questions.
Alors avant de soupirer, avant de lever les yeux au ciel, ayez un peu de douceur.
Le respect ne coûte rien... mais il change tout pour ceux qui en reçoivent encore un peu.»

Respect des anciens

[Nancy Scotson @ns2885]

@EJWoolf And,incidentally, no one, ever, had to remind you to stay "hydrated". We seemed miraculously to know when we were thirsty!

[Nancy Scotson @ns2885]

@EJWoolf I was so glad to hear your outburst on GBNews last night. A real breath of fresh air. I am closer to eighty than seventy and remember hot summers as a child. Our teachers would open all the windows and allow us extra time outside for playtime. Tap water tasted wonderful!

[sr.Dana Benedicta OP 🇵🇱🇳🇴 @danabente]

Od dzisiaj kangur jest moim ulubionym zwierzatkiem

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

When the war broke out, Douglas Murray flew straight to Israel to see the reality on the ground with his own eyes. While the media was busy spreading Hamas lies, he told the truth. This is real journalism. Share this interview everywhere.

[Yossi BenYakar @YossiBenYakar]

Thousands erupted in applause for Douglas Murray’s powerful speech.

His message to Palestinian Muslims and the rest of the world was crystal clear and unapologetic: “The Jews in Israel will defend themselves — whether the Muslim-Arab world, the West, the UN, or the ICC likes it or not.”

Strength. Truth. Clarity. This is exactly what the West needs to hear.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

The Man Nobody Is Talking About. His Name Is Sir Philip Barton.

Buried inside Tuesday's committee testimony, beneath the headlines about constant pressure, bullying and secret job searches, is the detail that may prove the most consequential of this entire affair. It concerns not Olly Robbins, not Morgan McSweeney, not even Keir Starmer. It concerns the man who was there before all of them. The man who said no. The man who then left his post eight months early.

Sir Philip Barton was the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office when Peter Mandelson's appointment was announced in December 2024. He was, in other words, the most senior civil servant in the building at the precise moment the machinery of state was being directed to place a man with documented links to Russia and China into the most sensitive diplomatic posting in the Western alliance.

What Robbins told the committee on Tuesday is this. Barton pushed back. When the Cabinet Office argued that vetting Mandelson was unnecessary, that a peer and Privy Councillor did not require developed vetting, Barton refused to accept it. He insisted that vetting was a requirement. He had to be, in Robbins's own words, very firm in person. He also voiced reservations about the appointment to Jonathan Powell, the National Security Adviser, reservations that were noted and not acted upon. He was worried, Robbins suggested, about exactly the same reputational risks that had been detailed to the Prime Minister before the appointment was announced.

Then Sir Philip Barton left his post. Eight months before his tenure would otherwise have concluded.

The question Richard Foord put to Robbins on Tuesday was the right one. Why did Barton's tenure end early? Robbins said he did not know. He suggested ministers may have felt it was time for a change. That answer is not an answer. It is the absence of one.

Consider what the timeline now shows. A senior civil servant pushes back against the appointment, insists on vetting when the Cabinet Office wants to bypass it, raises reservations with the National Security Adviser, and departs eight months ahead of schedule. His replacement arrives to find the appointment already treated as a fait accompli, the vetting process under constant pressure from Downing Street, and the question of outcome entirely subordinate to the question of speed.

If Barton was removed because he stood in the way of this appointment, then Robbins was not the first civil servant sacrificed to protect it. He was the second. And the question of who else was moved aside, overruled or silenced in the months between December 2024 and the moment the security services finally said no, becomes the most important question this affair has yet produced.

Starmer sacked Robbins for following the rules. The Foreign Affairs Committee will now call Barton to give evidence. What he says will either confirm what the timeline already suggests or provide an alternative explanation that the evidence does not currently support.

There is a pattern here that goes beyond process failure. Process failures are random. They point in different directions. What this affair has produced is a series of events that point consistently in one direction. Officials who comply are retained. Officials who push back depart. The security services are bypassed. The vetting is treated as an administrative inconvenience. And the one question nobody at the top of this government will answer is why this appointment, this man, this post, mattered so much that every obstacle was removed to make it happen.

Barton apparently asked that question. He left eight months early. The country deserves to know why.

[Nancy Scotson @ns2885]

@Kristinartz Woodbine!

[Nancy Scotson @ns2885]

@Kristinartz Senior Service. Craven A. Players

[Casey Babb @DrCaseyBabb]

This is an extraordinary clip of the great @DouglasKMurray. Not only does Murray absolutely eviscerate this BBC host, but he raises a very important point that people need to speak about more openly: that when even a fraction of a community embraces extremism, you've got a serious problem on your hands.

Moreover, when that community is massive, that fraction has the potential to pose a very, very real and dangerous threat. Watch this clip. Then watch it again. Phenomenal stuff by one of the great intellectual giants of our time.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

When the BBC interviews someone as well-informed
and intelligent as Douglas Murray, they should find someone well-informed and intelligent to do it

Not some clown like this

He is very stupid

But perhaps the BBC hadn't noticed

[Lucy Biggers @LLBiggers]

I spent half of my 20s as a brainwashed climate activist. This is the story of how I changed my mind and became a climate realist.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

This is a must listen and a must share.

Seriously. The BBC at its very worst.

And this isn’t even @DouglasKMurray at his very best, yet he’s utterly brilliant.

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

Thank you @elonmusk for recognising my work. I thought you might like to hear a little more about it.

[Nancy Scotson @ns2885]

@RupertLowe10 I wish you the very best. You are what the country needs. I just wish that you and Reform were not competing with each other. What can you do to overcome this problem?

[Rael Braverman @raelbrav]

How on earth does a country descend to such depths?