@HallMonitor80@LucyHunterB I don't think you get the point. The award was placed around the woman's neck because the man would have been horrified if the Archbishop had touched him.
From my point of view it seems as if the Archbishop has colluded in her own humiliation.
Yes. The UK - as part of the committee that nominates countries for seats on this body - joined the consensus that nominated Iran.
That nomination is why a wider vote took place this week and why Iran was elected.
Canada & Australia have stated publicly that they voted against. The UK won’t say.
Tomorrow at the city chambers Glasgow city centre a lot of concerned parents are rightly wanting some answers to what has been going on with the schools the past couple months we have not had any sort of explanation or communication regarding this situation @CraigHouston_
Migrants with temporary permission to stay in the UK should NOT be allowed to stand for the Scottish Parliament.
That’s why we’re introducing our Right to Stand Bill👇
Reminder, Labour Government lawyers argued in court that the rights of asylum seekers trump the rights of local people.
That’s all you need to know.
Labour’s @bphillipsonMP agreed with her lawyers !!
FOREIGN MEN HAVE MORE RIGHTS THAN US.
Fury as UK 'nominates Iran' to key UN committee overseeing counterterrorism - after Ed Miliband's handshake with Tehran minister https://t.co/fZBC8Cg39J
"Only British citizens...should have the right to stand for elected office".
A new bid has been launched to ban foreign nationals who don't have the permanent right to live in the UK from standing for election in Scotland.
A bill is being considered this afternoon on the right of people with limited leave to remain from being candidates.
It's after an SNP-led Holyrood committee said the "rationale" for doing so was "simply not clear".
Scottish Conservative Leader Russell Findlay is proposing a new right-to-stand bill in its place.
I’m furious. Blindingly furious. In fact, blindingly furious doesn’t cover it.
On Wednesday, the Islamic Republic of Iran was elected to the United Nations’ Committee for Programme and Coordination, the 34-member body that oversees how the UN delivers its programmes, from human rights and women’s rights to counterterrorism.
Yes, really. The world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism now has a hand in reviewing the UN’s counterterrorism operations, and a regime that hangs dissidents from cranes will help to scrutinise its work on human rights.
America, Canada and Australia explicitly voted against the move. “The committee should not seat a regime that silences dissent and fuels regional instability,” said Canada’s foreign minister, Anita Anand. Australia’s Penny Wong said Iran’s conduct “undermines multilateralism”.
Ed Miliband, by contrast, had already approved Iran’s candidacy back in April. According to the Foreign Office, its hands were tied. Iran had been put forward by the UN’s Asia-Pacific group, alongside India, Japan and Pakistan, and Hamish Falconer, the Middle East minister, described the nomination as an “automaticity”. Chris Elmore, another minister, insisted that Britain could not have blocked it.
Really? Then how did the Americans, Canadians and Australians manage to stand up and be counted? Nobody was asking Britain to perform a miracle. We were being asked to do the bare minimum: to say, out loud, that a regime which has spent the past four years trying to murder people on British soil has no business sitting in judgement on anybody’s counterterrorism programme. The Foreign Office couldn’t even manage that.
Let’s consider what Tehran has been up to...
New post. Link in first reply
‼️Abdul El-Sayed is swearing in on the Quran. That choice isn’t ceremonial. It signals where his ultimate authority rests. Not the Constitution. Not the biblical principles that shaped American law.
When a senator places his hand on the Quran, the question isn’t just loyalty. It’s which legal framework he will defer to when the two conflict. Sharia, or the supreme law of the United States?
🚨 NEW: Two illegal migrants who arrived by small boat and lorry have been found guilty of spying for Iran
Mostafa Sepahvand and Farhad Manesh were granted temporary leave to remain before plotting a “violent attack” on journalists and a lawyer
I asked the First Minister why we should allow foreign nationals on a temporary visa to stand for the Scottish Parliament, when the public overwhelmingly oppose it.
His response was to accuse me of stoking division.
Why didn't the SNP publish the investigation into Kenneth Gibson bullying claims at the time? Why are we only finding out years later? I asked an SNP press officer and they said they do not know. I first contacted the party about this two months ago but it didn't respond.
Bid to ban foreign nationals in Scotland on temporary visas from standing for election after Q Manivannan scandal - https://t.co/WqtKBwv4qv
https://t.co/WqtKBwv4qv
This Hamas guy - sitting on the front of the bike - with the hostage from October 7 - appears to be one of those "doctors" killed in the strike on Nasser today in Gaza.
Not something that @bbcnews@guardian or @nytimes will tell you. They'll tell you he was a saint.