Steve

... Be more Brown - Gordon or Tina ….

Meanwhile the “psychologically flawed” Gordon Brown, having enacted the most redistributive economic policies in the UK for the past 50 years, and saving the UK from full impact of 2008 - is still engaged in acts of public service….9/

Alistair Campbell - podcaster, whose handwringing isn’t enough to erase his role in the WMD narrative.
Nick Clegg - enabled the morally repugnant ‘austerity’ initiatives of the Cameron coalition, then covered for the anti-democratic ethical sinkhole Meta, as head of PR, …8/

Where are the psychologically perfect individuals who variously passed judgement on Brown? Peter Mandelson - disgraced ( not the first time) revealed as dishonest, greedy, treacherous to his post and country.Tony Blair - war crimes aside, Board of Peace candidate, undermining UN for 💰7/

This leads me to reflect on how the press (my own paper at the time, The Observer, where I was business editor ) splashed on the ‘psychologically flawed’ briefing, given by a deeply morally dubious Blairite team. The story in some ways holed Brown’s leadership below the waterline 5/

'Finally got him to go today': Mandelson's emails to Epstein on Gordon Brown Emails released by the US appear to shed new light on the dying days of Gordon Brown's government.

And here is Mandelson emailing Epstein boasting about his role in ushering out Brown www.bbc.com/news/article.... so 4/

Tony Blair: 'psychological flaws' remark was brutal truth about Gordon Brown | Nicholas Watt Tony Blair had been in power for barely a year when Britain was given a taste of a bitter feud between the two neighbours in Downing Street

Whilst Brown was having his character assassinated by Tony Blair’s closest aides, Mandelson was busy emailing convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that he had ‘persuaded’ Brown to step down as leader of the Labour Party …here is some background

www.theguardian.com/politics/win... …/3

…and he was turned down as being an unsuitable co-partner for a coalition government by that other paragon of moral virtue Nick Clegg - who instead formed a coalition with David Cameron ..a decision which accelerated Brexit. 2/

Political people love to debate who the worst modern PM in modern times was but it's unquestionably Cameron.

10 years ago this week he gambled the prosperity and fragile unity of the UK on a referendum on an issue that most people didn't even understand to placate back benchers and fucked us all.

New passport rules have ruined our family reunion Dual British citizens say they are treated more harshly than foreign visitors under changes coming into force this week

This story is absolutely nuts.

www.thetimes.com/article/63d9...

MATT GOODWIN INTERVIEW I had a swastika put on my door for having Right-wing views

Is there a secret Remainer writing Telegraph headlines?

Reform UK will pledge to restore Britain's Christian heritage by preventing churches being converted into mosques, enacting mass deportations of illegal migrants and persuading British expats to return to the country Zia Yusuf, the party's new home affairs spokesman, said renewing Britain's Christian faith was vital to tackle the "crisis of meaning culturally" among ,young people and men in particular. In an interview with The Times before his first speech on Monday setting out his plans to be home secretary, he said Christianity was "core to the history and the DNA of the country". However, he said Britain was losing its Christian values because of the "sheer quantities of people that came to the country in a short period of time"

Zia Yusuf is a practising Muslim. He's currently fasting because it's Ramadan.

And he tells The Times this.

This is lovely.

Perfect thing to sign off with.

Happy birthday, Mr Williams!

On air from 10! 😉

Farage accused of 'cheap stunt' after being 'denied entry' to Chagos Islands The Foreign Office website makes clear the restricted access of the British Indian Ocean Territory and clearly states 'you need a permit before you travel'

But it's not "a cheap stunt."

Farage won't have flown economy, or alone and if there was "an aid boat" that will have cost money too.

It's expensive flying to the Maldives.

Where did he stay?
How long is he staying?

How much did it cost?
Who picked up the tab?

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Good to see Phil Noble getting proper credit for his masterpiece

YouTube video by The Independent Protesters hang photo of Andrew leaving police station in the Louvre

"Everyone Hates Elon" hang Andrew "Scream" photo in Louvre

youtu.be/XDf6-_-2fxE?...

New WaPo-ABC poll:

Trump's approval stands at 39% positive and 60% negative among adults — including 47% who say they strongly disapprove.

The last time Trump's disapproval touched 60% was shortly after the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?

Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards

My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

‘I've gotten to know Robert [Jenrick] since he joined Reform...’

‘And, don't tell me, you now *don't* think he's a 'liar' or 'dishonest'?’

Zia Yusuf, Reform UK's home affairs spokesman, on how he changed his mind about his party's pick for Chancellor

#Newsnight

Yup. I got blocked by someone who took offense at me calling Embery racist, saying he was left wing and I shouldn’t call him racist! 🤦🏼‍♀️

5 American preachers with 2 little children standing near a market in Whitechapel

No, I don’t know who they were. This was them at the end of the video

When you see a short clip, it’s always worth asking what was the wider context?
What are you being asked to think and feel in that clip?
Could there be more to it?
The woman in the clip was brilliant
Calm, reasoned and no escalation
But the men were also pretty calm and no one escalated either!👍🏼
END

The short clip has gone viral with people making out it shows something very different

For 3 days a group of Americans came and stood near a Mosque and called Muslims sinful, criminals full of anger and hatred

And the worst that happened was some Muslims asked the police why that was allowed🤷🏼‍♀️

At one point the recording suddenly cuts and the group of Muslims are asking the preachers not to call them terrorists and compare them to ISIS.

Who knows what was said (because the footage somehow cut during that bit🙄) to warrant that push back, but we can easily infer.

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“There’s no good hope in praying 5 prayers a day and visiting Mecca…Muslims are all going to hell anyway”

“I’m just quoting the Quran and asking you to think critically and ask if it is logical”

“I don’t want you to worship a false prophet.”

They weren’t preaching Christianity 🙄

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However later in the footage they were talking about donkeys again claiming that donkeys, black dogs and women were all deemed to be the same by the Prophet Mohammed.

One of the passers by heard him mention donkeys before prayers too.

They definitely liked talking about donkeys!

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There was a suggestion that the preacher had likened the Prophet to a donkey

The police asked him to clarify:

“I didn’t say the Prophet was a donkey, I was quoting a passage saying that when donkeys bray it’s because they’re in the presence of Satan. Do you believe that? Why do you believe that?”

Which feels a little hypocritical coming from Christian preachers!

Umm…. Have they read the Bible?

It is also full of stuff that shouldn’t get taken literally🤦🏼‍♀️

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The Americans kept quoting things they claimed were in the Quran and demanding to know why they believed it as it was clearly ludicrous:

“Do you believe that if you slept in in the morning it is because Satan urinated in your ear?”

“Im just asking you to think critically and not believe this”

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