@owenjonesjourno@Shambles151 No worries Owen. It's because we are white, and we are to blame for everything wrong in the world today. We love getting beaten and stabbed, and having our fellow countrymen beheaded on the street. We're not living in fear at all. It's what we were born for. #sarcasm over #hate
As a Japanese watching the UK right now, I have one simple question.
A Sudanese asylum seeker just tried to behead a local man in Belfast. The victim lost an eye.
This comes after years of grooming gangs raping thousands of British girls — gangs that police and councils deliberately ignored because they were afraid of being called racist.
In Japan, even one case like this would have triggered national outrage and immediate policy reversal.
But in Britain, the conversation is still about “not being far-right.”
British people, at what point does protecting your own children become more important than protecting your reputation?
We genuinely do not understand this.
They changed the law in 2018. Then left our children to die. 100,000 signatures forces a parliamentary debate. Sign now. https://t.co/fRffBCX8Bm
#ForgottenChildren2018
They changed the law in 2018. Then left our children to die. 100,000 signatures forces a parliamentary debate. Sign now. https://t.co/fRffBCX8Bm
#ForgottenChildren2018
DUFFY ANNOUNCES FIRST CONCERT IN 15 YEARS FOLLOWING HER RAPE AND KIDNAPPING ORDEAL
Welsh singer Duffy aged 41 has confirmed her first live performance in more than 15 years with a secret intimate gig in London on 5 July where she will sing new songs.
The show marks her return to the stage since 2010 after she stepped away from public life.
In 2010 on her 26th birthday Duffy was drugged in a restaurant taken abroad raped in a hotel and held captive for four weeks in her Surrey home before she escaped.
She first revealed the full ordeal in a 2020 Instagram essay stating she felt suicidal and only alerted police on two later occasions due to fear.
A Disney Plus documentary on her life featuring new interviews was announced earlier this year.
DUFFY ANNOUNCES FIRST CONCERT IN 15 YEARS FOLLOWING HER RAPE AND KIDNAPPING ORDEAL
Welsh singer Duffy aged 41 has confirmed her first live performance in more than 15 years with a secret intimate gig in London on 5 July where she will sing new songs.
The show marks her return to the stage since 2010 after she stepped away from public life.
In 2010 on her 26th birthday Duffy was drugged in a restaurant taken abroad raped in a hotel and held captive for four weeks in her Surrey home before she escaped.
She first revealed the full ordeal in a 2020 Instagram essay stating she felt suicidal and only alerted police on two later occasions due to fear.
A Disney Plus documentary on her life featuring new interviews was announced earlier this year.
HE KNEW THE DOSSIER WAS FAKE. WEEKS LATER HE WAS DEAD IN A FIELD
Dr David Kelly was Britain's foremost weapons inspector. He spent years inspecting Iraqi facilities, earned a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, and knew more about Saddam's arsenal than almost anyone in government.
In 2002, Tony Blair's government published a dossier claiming Iraq could deploy chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes. Britain went to war on the back of it. No weapons were ever found.
Kelly knew the dossier was rubbish. He said so, quietly, to a @BBC journalist. That conversation ended his career, his privacy, and ultimately his life.
The MOD carefully allowed his name to leak to the press as the BBC's source. He was then hauled before parliamentary committees, stripped apart by his own employer, and thrown to a media frenzy he never asked for.
Two days after giving evidence to MPs, the 59-year-old was found dead in woodland near his Oxfordshire home.
Instead of a proper inquest, Tony Blair asked Lord Hutton to run a private inquiry. Hutton concluded suicide. The inquest was opened, then suspended, and never resumed.
Eight senior legal and medical figures, including a coroner, later wrote to @thetimes saying the verdict was unsafe. They argued the wound found on Kelly's wrist, a severed ulnar artery, would not have caused sufficient blood loss to kill a healthy person.
There were no fingerprints on the knife found beside his body, even though he was not wearing gloves.
In 2011, Attorney General Dominic Grieve rejected all calls for a new inquest. He said the Hutton Inquiry was "tantamount to an inquest" and that further investigation would be dismissed by judges with irritation.
A man challenged the government's justification for a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people. He was publicly destroyed, died in mysterious circumstances, never got a proper inquest, and the people who sent him into that media storm faced no consequences whatsoever.
Tony Blair became a Middle East Peace Envoy the following year. You genuinely could not make it up.
Sources: @BBCNews, openDemocracy, Hansard, @thetimes | Hutton Report
The mainstream media want you to believe only 50,000 people have turned up to unite the kingdom.
The truth: London is gridlocked with millions of patriots.
Iconic scenes 🇬🇧
A sea of 🇬🇧 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇮🇪 flags and Brits singing Sweet Caroline.
No face masks, no genocide chants, no adoration for murderous regimes, no support for proscribed groups.
@Keir_Starmer is this what hate and division looks like? Looks welcoming to me.
Harriet Harman lobbied parliament, on behalf of the Paedophile Information Exchange, to legalise filmed child sexual abuse as long as the “model” did not appear “harmed”.
Keir Starmer made her a life peer in the House of Lords and the UK’s Special Envoy for Women and Girls.
In 458 BC, Rome was on the brink of collapse.
An invading army had trapped the Roman consul and his legion in a mountain pass. Panic spread through the city. The Senate did the only thing they could think of:
They sent messengers to find a 60-year-old farmer plowing his field.
His name was Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. He had once been a senator, then lost his fortune paying his son's bail. Now he worked his own four-acre plot just to feed his family.
When the Senate's envoys arrived, they found him sweating behind a plow. They asked him to put on his toga so they could deliver an official message.
The message: Rome was making him dictator. Absolute power. Total command of the army. No checks. No oversight. No term limit.
He accepted.
Within 16 days, Cincinnatus had raised an army, marched out, surrounded the enemy, and forced their surrender. The republic was saved.
He had legal authority to rule for six months. He could have stayed. He could have expanded his power. He could have done what every other ruler in human history did when handed unlimited control.
Instead, he resigned on day 16.
He took off the toga, walked back to his farm, and finished plowing the field he'd left half-done.
Twenty years later, when Rome faced another crisis, they called him back. He was 80 years old. He took command, crushed the conspiracy, and resigned again, this time after just 21 days.
He died poor. On his farm.
2,200 years later, when George Washington was offered a kingship after winning the American Revolution, he refused and went home to Mount Vernon. The reason he was hailed as "the American Cincinnatus" is because Europeans literally could not believe a man who had won would willingly give up power.
King George III, on hearing Washington would resign rather than rule, said: "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world."
The lesson isn't that Cincinnatus was humble.
The lesson is that for most of human history, the people most qualified to lead were the ones who didn't want to. And the moment a society starts rewarding those who chase power instead of those who flee from it is the moment the republic begins to die.
Cincinnati, Ohio is named after him.
Most people who live there have no idea why.