jan bowman

Architect-trained artist/author. Inspired by humanity, democracy, gardening, ancient Greek vase paintings & melodious songs about 21st-century angst.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

Yes, he really hates misogyny

[Tal Hartuv @TalHartuv]

Hi Zack, I'm a British-born Israeli who was stabbed 18 times by a Palestinian terrorist. Another chopped up my friend in front of my eyes. One got out in the hostage deal. They were paid a salary for years by the UK gov.
Could you tweet: "all of this is a horrific crime. He should be held to account."
Thanks

[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.

[Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio @LeoKearse]

I’m pretty sure that when Henry Nowak’s father said he did not want his son’s death to create more division, he did not mean: “I want left-wing politicians and commentators to weaponise my grief to shut down debate.”

Yet that is exactly what is happening. It’s disgusting to see his words misappropriated as a political battering ram, used to attack anyone who asks difficult questions about the way Henry was treated, and about the anti-white ideology explicitly codified in the public sector.

Mr Nowak also said that the police treatment of his dying son was “inhumane and degrading”.

We should make sure no other British child is treated the way Henry was.

[Neo @Realneo101]

ERFAN AMIRI,
A 17-YEAR-OLD KID,
IS ABOUT TO BE HANGED
BY THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC
JUST FOR PROTESTING.

WHY THE HELL ARE YOU NEGOTIATING
WITH THESE MURDERERS?

IRANIAN LIVES MATTER!

IRANIAN LIVES MATTER!

IRANIAN LIVES MATTER!

IRANIAN LIVES MATTER!

IRANIAN LIVES MATTER!

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Keir Starmer: Nigel Farage is exploiting Henry Nowak!

Also Keir Starmer: We must use George Floyd as a catalyst for change!

[jan bowman @therealjanbow]

On the nose

[The Spectator @spectator]

I see that the people who took the knee and tore down statues after a man was killed 4,000 miles away from Britain are now yelping 'Don't politicise Henry Nowak's death'. The same leftists who poured onto the streets to rage over the death of George Floyd are barking at the rest of us not to rage over the death of young Henry.

'Don't stir up tensions', says an activist class which in that heady summer of 2020 happily hurled missiles at British cops and danced like Taliban-lite loons on a monument to a slave trader they'd just toppled.

Fear of the masses is in the air. You can almost smell the establishment dread that the wrong sort of people are about to hit the streets – not graduate leftists in keffiyehs but gammon-hued blokes in white t-shirts.

The front page of Wednesday’s Independent is a classic of this fretful genre. ‘Family’s plea for calm ignored’, wails the headline over a photo of the protest in Southampton. But the people in the pic are perfectly calm. It’s just rows of mournful folk carrying the England flag. Are you okay, Independent?

The Guardian, too, seems consumed by foreboding. It says there are ‘fears’ that ‘the populist right’ will ‘whip up racist resentment’. Demagoguery is always the chief dread of the bourgeois left, given their view of the little people as a coiled spring of bovine fury that might be unsprung at any minute.

The Guardian blasts Farage for calling for ‘pure, cold rage’ in response to Nowak’s death. It’s a complaint that would carry more weight if the Guardian hadn’t published pieces in the wake of Floyd’s death saying ‘We need the rage that abolished slavery’.

✍️ Brendan O’Neill

Article | https://t.co/ACdwYqk5R0

[jan bowman @therealjanbow]

Quite!

[Luai Ahmed @JustLuai]

In honor of Pride month, here’s a list of countries in the Middle East that recognize same sex marriage:

1. Israel

[Rita Panahi @RitaPanahi]

During the BLM riots in the UK, Leftists tore down a statue & chucked it in the river. Same quislings who say we shouldn't 'politicise' Henry Nowak.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Based on what I’ve read today. When it’s George Floyd, responding with All Lives Matter made you as bad as Hitler.

When it’s Henry Nowak, responding with All Lives Matter is perfectly fine.

People do notice stuff like this and that is what’s really causing division. Not Farage.

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

*WHEN A FLY FALLS INTO A CUP OF COFFEE . . .*

*The Italian –* throws the cup, breaks it, and walks away in a fit of rage.

*The German –* carefully washes the cup, sterilizes it and makes a new cup of coffee.

*The Frenchman –* takes out the fly, and drinks the coffee.

*The Chinese –* eats the fly and throws away the coffee.

*The Russian –* Drinks the coffee with the fly, since it was extra with no charge.

*The Israeli –* sells the coffee to the Frenchman, sells the fly to the Chinese, sells the cup to the Italian, drinks a cup of tea, and uses the extra money to invent a device that prevents flies from falling into coffee.

*The Palestinian –* blames the Israeli for the fly falling into his coffee, protests the act of aggression to the UN, takes a loan from the European Union to buy a new cup of coffee, uses the money to purchase explosives and then blows up the coffee house where the Italian, the Frenchman, the Chinese, the German and the Russian are all trying to explain to the Israeli that he should give away his cup of coffee to the Palestinian so there will be peace.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Keir Starmer: “there is no such thing as two-tier policing”.

Police chiefs today: “we will review controversial guidance advising officers to treat ethnic minorities differently”.

The absurdity of modern Britain.

[Ike Ijeh @ikeijeh]

@rafiqalam1985 @KevinASchofield No. It's beyond preposterous to suggest that people need Farage to make them angry when an innocent 18-year-old boy bleeds to death on the street in handcuffs after being mocked & arrested by the police, they're angry already. Farage is reflecting public mood, not setting it.

[Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio @LeoKearse]

"It's important that this incident isn't exploited for anyone's political agenda"

[James Heartfield @JamesHeartfield]

The protesters marching on Southampton police station over the death of Herny Nowak are chanting 'No Justice no Peace!' and 'Racist Police off our Streets!'

[Winston Marshall @MrWinMarshall]

As of 2025 the police force were told NOT to treat everyone the same. They were told NOT to be colour blind.

Two-tier policing is explicit in the 2025 Police Race Action Plan

[Darren Grimes @darrengrimes]

Labour Government says a police officer has been forced to relocate after being mistakenly identified as one of the arresting officers in the Henry Nowak arrest.

That is obviously bad.

However, the Batley Grammar School teacher is STILL in hiding today and Labour has NEVER addressed that. Why?

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Digwa played the race card against Henry Nowak because he knew police would believe him not the white boy.
This is the warped country Britain has become.

[spiked @spikedonline]

The bodycam footage of Henry Nowak’s arrest is truly harrowing. Henry says ‘I can’t breathe’ nine times. He says ‘I’ve been stabbed’ four times. Yet the cops drag him across the ground and cuff him. This is the barbarism of wokeness, says Brendan O’Neill

https://t.co/QmkcunSicH

[jan bowman @therealjanbow]

Worryingly this seems true

[Mosab Hassan Yousef @MosabHasanYOSEF]

The Secret Plan to Install Ahmadinejad as Iran’s Leader, And Why It Collapsed

A senior Israeli intelligence figure has now confirmed what was hidden during the recent war: Israel and the United States went into the conflict with a concrete plan to overthrow the Iranian regime and install former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the transitional leader.

Maj. Gen. (res.) Tamir Hayman, who headed Military Intelligence during Operation Roaring Lion, spoke openly on PBS’s Firing Line about the multi-stage operation that was supposed to follow the initial strikes.

Ahmadinejad had been consulted in advance and was initially willing to play the role. The plan even included a targeted Israeli strike on his home in Tehran on the very first day of the war, February 28 designed to free him from house arrest so he could publicly emerge as the new face of power.

But the real centerpiece of the entire sequence was something far more ambitious: a Kurdish military invasion into northwestern Iran. The goal was to ignite rebellions among Iran’s oppressed ethnic minorities, pin down large numbers of IRGC and Basij forces, create internal chaos, and open the door for regime collapse from within.

The plan never got that far. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan saw any Kurdish advance as a direct threat to Turkey’s stability and interests. He personally convinced President Trump to cancel the Kurdish invasion. Once that opening move was removed, the whole sequence fell apart.

Ahmadinejad himself was injured in the Israeli strike meant to liberate him. He survived, went underground, and quickly distanced himself from any further cooperation. He is alive today. What was intended as a clean “jailbreak” became a near-death experience that ended his involvement.

I personally met with Iranian Kurdish leaders in Erbil during the first two weeks of the war, under IRGC fire on the Iraqi-Iranian border. I saw the real potential on the ground, the networks, the motivation, and the strategic value of using internal pressure from Iran’s minorities. Kurdish forces were willing and ready to move.

Trump had the chance to change the equation decisively. When Erdoğan pushed back, he blinked. That was the moment the operation lost its strategic backbone. Israel had no plans to strike Iran early this year.

Trump, emboldened by his success in Venezuela, wanted another quick win. When faced with real challenges, he abandoned the main pillar of the plan.

The regime survived because the Kurdish card, the only serious internal lever available was removed before it could be played.

President Trump turned a potential historic opportunity into a strategic defeat through impatience and poor war management. He is now desperately seeking an exit to save face, while the Iranian regime remains intact and more dangerous.

This is not theory. This is what actually happened.