Richard Stone

Criminal lawyer, not a fat-cat lawyer. ABC, GCSE, LLB, CFE in that order

[Richard Stone @richstone59]

@Paul__Browning_ @amscanlon What a fantastic thing to do

[Legal Cheek @legalcheek]

Solicitor avoids strike off over antisemitic social media posts

https://t.co/WjbRuk4hnl

[Richard Stone @richstone59]

@PolitlcsUK When does this come in ?

[facts about @destinationXIX]

The “Free Palestine” movement isn’t a moral crusade. It’s a demoralization campaign - and it’s working brilliantly.
What started as « woke » on the fringes of radical politics has crept into the mainstream, powered by Qatari money, Soviet-era tactics, and a sea of credulous activists who can chant slogans but couldn’t pass a basic history quiz if their lives depended on it.

Let’s be honest: the movement thrives not on facts, but on ignorance dressed up as virtue. The useful idiots - well-meaning but uninformed - have become the perfect foot soldiers. Trans activists, climate campaigners, BLM organizers, students with $80k gender studies degrees… all proudly waving flags for a cause they don’t remotely understand. They chant “from the river to the sea” with the zeal of revolutionaries, unaware they’re echoing the slogans of Islamist theocrats who would strip them of every right they claim to defend.

It’s almost comedic: they shout about “decolonization” while backing a movement funded by an Islamist colonial power, parroting lies that collapse under the weight of a single decent history book. The Arab migration to the area took place largely under Ottoman and British colonial rule - not some mythical ancient indigeneity. Meanwhile, Palestinians themselves say one thing to Western audiences (“liberation, human rights”) and something very different to their own (“jihad, annihilation”). The fact that Western activists can’t be bothered to check primary sources - or even notice Hamas’s own charter - is proof of how slogans have replaced thinking.

This isn’t a coincidence. The PLO was born as a KGB destabilization tool, designed to weaken pro-Western Arab states like Jordan and Lebanon and turn anti-Zionism into a revolutionary export. Soviet archives and defectors like Vasili Mitrokhin exposed how Palestinian factions were trained, armed, and politically shaped by Moscow. That same playbook - destabilize, divide, demoralize - is now being executed in the West, with hashtags instead of Kalashnikovs.

And the results are unmistakable:
Wherever this movement takes root, you see riots, violence, flag burnings, antisemitism, and attacks on free speech - not “dialogue” or “justice.” It’s a terror-supporting revolutionary movement, not a civil rights campaign. And every time a government rewards it - by recognizing a Palestinian state or indulging the lies - it feeds a beast designed to erode Judeo-Christian values, fracture democratic societies, and undermine the West from within.

The saddest part? Many of these activists truly believe they’re “doing good.” In reality, they’re being used - not to build a better world, but to advance the goals of regimes and movements that laugh at their naivety. They’re not liberators; they’re pawns. Just like the same leftists were when the Islamist ayatollahs regime took over Iran, and executed the same activists supporting it.

This is why governments must stop treating this as a benign moral cause and start recognizing it as a strategic threat. Because appeasing a movement built on lies, historical amnesia, and ideological manipulation doesn’t bring peace. It brings rot and eventually demise.

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[Richard Stone @richstone59]

@LloydShmoyd @MelonOn4Water @BeatlesArchive2 I think John might have been wrongly accused of doing something else 🫢

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@MoJGovUK So it suddenly appears that there aren’t delays in the Magistrates’ Courts too !! People can be waiting just as long for trips in that court too so what are you going to do to change that ?

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@Joanna__Hardy When talking about the Criminal Justice System,the media (& most others it seems) always focus on the Crown Court & ignores the equally huge delays in the Magistrates’ Court. More Legal Advisors desperately need to be recruited so more courts can be opened & trial delays reduced

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@JimmyLRalph @Camp4 Plus big companies will now be queuing up to sponsor him. He’ll make millions.

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@DariusJButler He just stands there like it’s nothing !!! This guy is just not human.

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@EE Are you having technical issues with your app right now ? Been trying to log in all day and it just says I can’t

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@BeatlemaniaUK This is actually a really good album in its own right

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@Crim_sol_PH @nataliecberman @DXW_KC @AdamWagner1 @JewishChron @BoardofDeputies @PhilR_R @EFBWcrime I like to think I could have stayed as calm and professional as you did Paul but………😳🤯

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@somethingrand77 I believe John originally wrote it as a slow number but George Martin persuaded him to change it

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@BeatlemaniaUK Listen to Love me Do in 1962 and then Tomorrow Never Knows only 4 years later !!! The evolution of the Beatles in music (and image) is unmatched by anyone else

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@QuickBooks What have you done to your phone app? Entering invoices is twice as confusing and takes twice as long as it used to !!! Updates are not always an improvement !!

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Love the taxis in Belfast from the airport - cars and drivers immaculately turned out

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@HMRCcustomers Thanks for getting back to me. I think I’ll just need to try and keep on speaking to someone but, unfortunately, I’ve trekked several times during work breaks bad just been on hold and have had to give up as I have to get back to work. Any tips ?

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@HMRCgovuk @HMRCcustomers Hi. Having trouble getting hold of you on the phone to discuss my self assessment account and there are no other options to contact you. Is there an email address I can write to ? Thanks

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@BeatlesEarth 100% yes
Their musical development and change of image in such a short time is unmatched

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@OctopusEnergy you pride yourselves on customer service but you have classed a cancelled direct debit as a missed payment even though we carried on paying manually and now that is affecting a mortgage application. An approach to you to remove it from our credit file was refused