Paul M 🇮🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇵🇸🚲🐟

Well, I suspect that the shady characters who backed Robbie Gibb's and Jake Wallis Simons' takeover of the JC, with its Douglas Murray opeds on how "SS camp guards had feelings too" don't *genuinely* have the interests of British Jewry at heart.

This sounds like a classic example of "pluralistic ignorance" - where people hold an opinion which they erroneously believe places them in the minority. In this case, immigration is not a major concern to them, but they assume it is to a majority elsewhere.

What about the legion of dirty old men in the Senate, megachurches and boardrooms who are silently egging on the diversionary operation going on here? Ms Giuffre’s three nights under Andrew are the very thin end of a very fat wedge. Time to pan the searchlight across all of them.

This whole thing makes me uneasy - no sympathy for thingummy but this is beginning to look like an extrajudicial pile-on which sneers at rule of law, and worse - what about all the dirty old men, senators, pastors CEOs etc in the US who are using the Giuffres to divert attention from their own sins?

Apart from the prince thing, it's hardly a rarity. In the words of the music hall song:
🎶It's the same the whole world over
It's the poor what gets the blame
It's the rich what gets the pleasure
Ain't it all a bleedin' shame?🎶

Estate agents say sorry to Rachel Reeves for rental licence 'oversight' It comes after Tory MPs demanded a full-blown probe and Rachel Reeves to be sacked as Chancellor for failing to obtain a licence to rent out her family home in Dulwich

Will Rachel Reeves now receive an apology from the kneejerk unprincipled Tories and the rest of the British Right? Thought not.

"Estate agents say sorry to Rachel Reeves for rental licence 'oversight'."

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It isn’t just that what Badenoch did was much worse in that it was a criminal imprisonable offence… but also because the responsibility was all hers…whereas Reeve’s agents have admitted it was their responsibility & fault that the licence was not applied for

How does this work? He negotiated a 75 year lease, for valuable consideration (albeit maybe not valuable enough) with a third party - not with his mother or brother.
Surely he has a contractual right, just as I do over my home?

The latter, i would have thought. After all, isn't "son of a queen" the very definition of "prince"?

From the details now available, I suspect Rachel Reeves’ husband has a) been frantically searching his email history & b) just breathed a huge sigh of relief.

Rayner’s stamp duty issue was pretty esoteric, and it’s easy to see how she might think her legal-but-not-beneficial interest in another property might not have affected her liability absent very specific circumstances, but her lawyer told her this and advised her to seek specialist advice.

Firstly, as errors go, this was a belter - after all it’s not as if HMRC wouldn’t have access to her PAYE records, is it?
Secondly, it was not discovered by HMRC, but by an affected “customer” who had to make at least three phone calls (HMRC, her bank, HMRC) with no doubt loooong periods on hold.

So why does the BBC label the academic and economist Faiza Shaheen an "activist" but refuse to do the same for the former academic, turned anti-migrant activist Matt Goodwin?

What a brilliant protest

Having argued that Angela Rayner had to go when it became clear that she had not sought proper advice over her housing arrangements, I can't help thinking that entrusting the renting of your house in a specific area to people who routinely rent out houses in the specific area is pretty blameless.

Too many migrants innit.
Not like Dubai, oh nosirree……

Indeed. Think how different things could have been if the Remain campaign had told us about Carmela the Angel from Madrid, who looked after you or your old mum on that hospital visit you had last year, instead of a few % off GDP a decade hence.

Well, if you read the gospels carefully, you will see that Jesus ejected the merchants and bureaux de change from the Temple, but there’s no mention of him kicking out the bookies.

Perhaps they’ve been redeployed to arresting elderly Palestine Action protestors.
After all, there’s a crying need for resources there, isn’t there?

So it seems that Metplod shows no interest in reuniting stolen phones with their owners.
I guess they are just far too busy arresting retired vicars and geography teachers for sitting down holding cardboard sheets with the words “Palestine” and “Action” on them.

The transformation of The Times under Gallagher from a true newspaper of record to a partisan pamphlet and, finally, a global joke is genuinely heartbreaking.

This really does cry out for the “Family Guy” colour chart meme, doesn’t it?

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Like Groucho Marx. If you don’t like them, they have others.

I confess I’m not sure it would have occurred to me, and I too would probably have assumed I could rely on my letting agent to set me straight on something so obviously within their remit.

It’s a source of some irritation to me - lugging my folded Brompton back and forth - that while I can just walk down the platform and out of the station at Gare du Nord without hindrance, returning to St P involves downstairs and up again and around the world for sport to exit.

But the spell is broken along with the promise, so why stop there?

I saw it neatly captured recently in an article as “people don’t listen to arguments, they listen to stories”. Certainly explains the Brexit ref vote.

In the all-conquering media/politics ecosystem that brought you Brexit, Boris Johnson, austerity, Liz Truss & the recent revival of weapons grade racism, she really is the Newcomer of the Year. Hands down. And the Spectator is now owned by a man who basked in the ugliest depths of far right Twitter.

Keir Starmer tries to look tough - and exposes himself as a coward The government's immigration policy is in desperate need of a bold change in direction.

3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇

1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK

2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves

3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
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