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[Rob @Rob1178]

Will he be doing the hilarious Chinese character he got famous doing?

[Grifty @TheGriftReport]

LENNY HENRY HITS OUT AT RISE OF FAR RIGHT AS HE RETURNS TO STAND UP AFTER 15 YEARS

Sir Lenny Henry aged 67 has launched his first nationwide stand-up tour in more than 15 years with a new show called Still At Large that directly tackles racism and the rise of the far right.

The comedian told The Sunday Times the title reflects issues he discussed in the 1980s that remain relevant today saying the reason the show is called Still At Large is because things like racism the rise of the far right and the tumult we are in as a world at the moment are still at large.

Henry who grew up in Dudley during intense racial hostility in the West Midlands referenced historical events including the Smethwick election slogan and Enoch Powells rivers of blood speech as part of his personal experiences with racism.

The tour launched in May and will visit Glasgow Edinburgh Liverpool and Cardiff before ending at the Hackney Empire in London on 3 November.

Sir Lenny Henry ALSO called for the UK to pay £18 trillion in reparations for transatlantic slavery.

In his book, The Big Payback: The Case for Reparations for Slavery and How They Would Work (co-authored with Marcus Ryder), he argued that compensatory payments should go to Caribbean nations and all individual Black British citizens.

Thoughts?

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

For late games we simply pay £25 for a Temporary Events Notice. Takes 3 mins online. The likelihood of being turned down is very low, unless your premises is a hotbed of trouble or noise nuisance.

The Government will pretend they are doing something amazing for us pubs. They’re not.

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

This past week, on a test bed in Britain, a Rolls-Royce jet engine ran at full take-off power on pure hydrogen, putting out water vapour instead of carbon.

Nobody on Earth had managed it before. It is the sort of thing that ought to stop the country in its tracks, and it will be forgotten by the weekend.

Leave aside the recent paroxysms of renewed net-zero insanity from Derelict Ed and the pervasive atmosphere of offended envy that greets much homegrown achievement nowadays in Britain. This engineering is a wonder, and it's British to the bone.

We gave the world the jet engine in the first place - Frank Whittle, a Coventry man and an RAF officer, patented it in 1930 while the Air Ministry assured him it was a curiosity. Rolls-Royce is today one of perhaps three firms anywhere that can build a large aero engine at the outer edge of the possible, and it has just done what most of the industry swore was twenty years away.

As usual, you marvel at how little the people who govern us had to do with it. The engineers in Derby are world-class; the stewardship above them is third-rate. They pulled off a global first while paying the most expensive industrial electricity in the developed world to keep the power on over the bench - a weight no German, American or Gulf rival has to carry. We produce frontier brilliance on the shop floor and fritter it away at the despatch box, and we have done for two generations.

That is the maddening shape of modern Britain: brilliance from below, sub- (or, indeed, ultra-) mediocrity from above. The people here who actually make things are still among the best in the world; the state that is meant to back them treats a firm like Rolls-Royce as a photocall today and a takeover target tomorrow, and prices its energy as though it would prefer the next plant were built in Texas.

Progress starts from the other end. Give these people what every rival government gives its champions and we beg ours to do without: the cheap, abundant power their competitors already enjoy, a supply chain built around them, and a state that guards a national asset rather than auctioning it. The hard part of a British revival - the talent, the nerve, the engineering - is already done, and was done again this week, by people who deserve a far better country than the one currently sitting above them.

We just taught an engine to breathe fire and exhale water. The least we owe the men and women who managed it is a government and a state as brilliant as they are.

[Rob @Rob1178]

A strangely familiar tale

[Lozzy B 🇦🇺𝕏 @TruthFairy131]

16 year old Mernda Aussie teen Declan was hunted by a Sudanese youth gang then stabbed 56 times & he received 66 blunt force injuries.

One of Declan’s African killers was released because he was deemed too young to take responsibility for murder.

In 2025, the African killer took part in an aggravated home invasion in Gladstone Park, Melbourne that saw a 60-year-old man stabbed countless times, shot in the arm & bashed repeatedly with a hammer.

Labor DO NOT care about your safety. They are responsible for this violent crime crisis.

These imported barbaric crimes are happening daily now in Melbourne, many days we have multiple horrific incidents & most are committed by foreign criminals that are already on bail.

Nothing will change until Labor is gone. Like these violent criminals, Labor does not value our lives either.

[Rob @Rob1178]

@frentzen_hh They really should tighten piscine and rascasse entry again. Shouldn’t be easy flat out

[Rob @Rob1178]

It’s a very thin line it seems between ‘interfering in democracy’ and ‘making a social media comment’

[ShadowJ @shadowJ47]

This is Keir Starmer straight-up admitting he wanted to bury Henry Nowak’s death.
The PM is crying to the world that if it wasn’t for Elon Musk and X, nobody would’ve known a British kid bled out begging for help while cops protected the attacker.
He’s not mad about the killing — he’s mad the cover-up failed.
This is two-tier Britain in one pathetic rant: sacrifice native sons, then rage when the truth leaks.
Starmer and his regime would rather hide the blood than fix the open border disaster they created.
The mask is off.
Brits see who their government really serves.

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

June in Britain. Remember this next time the Sun comes out against and we are all told we must pay more taxes to the God of Man Made Global Warming...

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

I’m not saying China is deliberately pushing the West into these batshit net-zero leftist fantasies to gut their industry and make them totally dependent on Chinese manufacturing.

But if they were, what would they be doing differently?

[Rob @Rob1178]

This largely depends on who he means by ‘our people’ though doesn’t it

[The British Patriot @TheBritLad]

Keir Starmer: “My first duty, the duty above everything else, is to keep our people safe”

Reality:

• Blocked grooming gang inquiry
• Open borders for illegals
• Released criminals early
• Kneeled while cities burned
• Persecuted veterans

Safe for who exactly??

[Rob @Rob1178]

This is absolute rubbish btw, stop pretending you like it just to seem edgy

[Rock Photography @Photomusicrock]

2026 may have already seen its biggest breakout act, Canadian Rock band 'Angine De Poitrine.'

[Race+ @racepluscom]

🚨 | Fernando Alonso: "This is the worst generation of cars I have ever driven in Monaco."

"Hybrid cars shouldn't be competing. It's as simple as that. The inconsistency in braking is down to the regulations.

[Rob @Rob1178]

@NuvolariTazio1 WE all still watch in the hope that one day it’s as good as this again

[Rob @Rob1178]

@karunchandhok Sticker tyres 😍

[Rob @Rob1178]

He should stop interfering in other peoples business

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Keir Starmer launches an attack on FIFA for banning refillable water bottles at the World Cup

"It's just wrong... and I can't help but think that it's about making money. The tickets themselves cost a fortune - far too expensive in my view. Think of the fans"

[Rob @Rob1178]

@RaceDayReplay When the corners were corners…

[Shrodingers Borderline Normal @JeremyCordite]

Sainsbury's:

Flying in soft fruit in the winter and 'fair trade' slop all year round ✅

Brown eggs ❎

[Film Facts @ElfwickDraws]

“D.E.I. DOESN’T EXIST IN THE UK!

POLICE DOCUMENTS NEVER MENTION D.E.I.!

IT’S A FAR-RIGHT CONSPIRACY THEORY!”

Then why are police forces paying staff over half a million quid in wages for something that doesn’t exist?

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Ed Miliband has signed the UK up to a legally binding 87% CO2 emissions cut by 2040. Paul Homewood says this can only be achieved by the devastation of industry and sharp cuts in the standard of living. Read his article in the Climate Skeptic. https://t.co/bGOg3zigaP

[Rob @Rob1178]

So, context applies only selectively? They arrived on a call-out after a guy cried racism. They were only there in the first place to ‘protect’ someone claiming a racist attack. You can’t just omit facts to suit an agenda.

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

I call BS.

The facts are these:
Henry Nowak told officers he'd been stabbed. He told them he couldn't breathe. An officer replied, “I don't think you have, mate”. They dragged him along the ground and handcuffed him. He died before anyone called an ambulance.

No DEI course teaches you to ignore a dying man. Officers have a duty to assess injured persons, call for medical assistance, and not take one party's word as gospel. They failed on all three.

This is incompetence repackaged as ideological victimhood. “DEI made us feel certain ways” shifts anger from officers who let a teenager die onto a culture-war target. That's their defence strategy.

Henry told them he was dying. They didn't listen. They didn't follow protocol. That's a conduct and skill problem, not a DEI problem.

[Rob @Rob1178]

Someone has to do it; the govt won’t.

[Ike Ijeh @ikeijeh]

Mob rule is wrong & Digwa's family's criminal complicity should be punished by the law not by vigilantes.

But unless the political class seriously addresses the systemic prejudices exposed by Nowak's death and stops demonising Farage instead, this will be the future for Britain.