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“The reset talks are a national shame, an exercise in collective humiliation. The Government is not going into them with a series of demands to be traded against EU demands. Rather, it is going in determined to expiate the sin of the 2016 referendum, to atone, to agree to whatever is put in front of it, and then to claim that such agreement was its own plan all along. Eurocrats have clocked it. They smell our negotiators’ misery, their embarrassment, their longing for absolution. They have understandably upped their own demands in response, ordering Britain to hand over cash, fish, sovereignty and self-respect.” Paywall down. telegraph.co.uk/gift/0fa19b6…

🚨BREAKING: A 46-year-old Christian Police Community Support Officer has won a confidential settlement from North Yorkshire Police after his career was nearly ended for speaking up in diversity training. Luke Salmons was suspended just two days after a mandatory diversity session where he questioned the claim that Islam is a "religion of peace" and asked questions about jihad, Hamas, and the war in Gaza. For that, he was found guilty of gross misconduct and placed on the Police Barred List — a list that effectively bans you from ever working in policing again. He refused to accept it and appealed. On appeal, North Yorkshire Chief Constable Tim Forber overturned the decision, concluding that Salmons' conduct did NOT amount to gross misconduct and did NOT breach professional standards. He was removed from the barred list. Salmons then took legal action against the force, bringing claims of religious discrimination, harassment, and breaches of his freedom of religion and freedom of expression. Rather than face him at an Employment Tribunal, North Yorkshire Police settled the case. The settlement amount remains confidential. A Christian officer punished for asking questions — and ultimately vindicated.

Two leftist Marxist students celebrating the Islamic Revolution in Tehran, 1979. Sahar Mohammadi (left) and Maryam Rafiei (right). Maryam Rafiei was later executed by the same regime in the 1988 prison massacres, along with thousands of other leftist political activists. The revolution ate its own. They hated the Shah of Iran so much that they cheered Khomeini’s arrival, convinced the revolution would bring freedom and modernity. Reminds you of anything today?

Christopher Hope’s performance is textbook lobby cartel behavior. Farage and Jenrick stood up to deliver a serious, structural 64-point economic rescue blueprint to salvage a bankrupt country, and the very first question from "the people's channel" wasn't about productivity, £40bn in Whitehall cuts, or tax relief. It was a sneering, gossip-column attack about room capacity and a cherry-picked Ipsos poll. GB News built its entire brand promising to be the insurgent antidote to the BBC, yet the moment Reform puts forward real alternative governance, @christopherhope sounds indistinguishable from a Guardian lobby intern doing a hatchet job for the Tory rump. @GBNEWS

You stand with an org that has lost it's way, forgotten it's true purpose and that facilitates and chaperones #ILLEGALimmigrants and #Islamist #Terrorists into the #UK from the burning declining zone that is the #EU! Can you reconcile these fundemental wrongs? #ReformUK will.

Labour open up a 12 point lead on Reform. Why does @ZiaYusufUK keep telling us he’s going to be Home Secretary?

Andy Burnham sold an utterly false prospectus to his own electorate just weeks ago👇 This was, sadly, always the plan. If there was one single aspect of the EU that the majority who voted to leave objected to most, it was surely free movement, and yet that’s what he wants.

There is a tidy version of John Healey. St Peter's School, York. Christ's College, Cambridge. Twenty nine years in Parliament. Now the Chancellor, signing the cheques, setting the budget, deciding what you are allowed to keep. There is another version. It is not tidy. In 1997 he took a Rotherham seat. For the sixteen years that followed, in the streets he represented and the schools he walked past, fourteen hundred girls were being passed around by men the state had quietly decided not to notice. Some of them twelve. One was doused in petrol and told to burn if she talked. He was their MP. He had a seat, a voice, a vote, and the standing to make a noise. He made none. In 2012 the Times finally broke it and demanded an inquiry. His own website still carries the verdict. He had an open mind. He was "not convinced this would help the abused girls." Not convinced. Fourteen hundred of them. One of the few men in the country who could have forced the truth out, and he wanted more time. Then he sued the woman who said so. A UKIP MEP, Jane Collins, accused him and two colleagues of knowing and doing nothing. They took her to court and won. Fifty four thousand pounds each. Healey pocketed his. He did not give it to the girls. He kept it. He had been called out for inaction and he turned it into income. The pattern held. Forty thousand pounds from two donors whose addresses the register lists only as "private," while he lectured Farage on secret money. His own council tax, on his own second home, unpaid, an administrative error, and he meant to claim the fifteen hundred back from you while his party took the winter fuel payment from millions of pensioners. Then, in June, he resigned as Defence Secretary with a letter that buried Keir Starmer. Six weeks later Starmer was gone. Burnham moved in. And Burnham made Healey Chancellor. The knife went in. The chair was warm. The reward was the Treasury. Now he wants to tax the banks, because a war abroad has emptied the purse and the IMF has told him to cut spending instead. He has run out of other people's money and he is going through the City's sofa cushions. Meanwhile the legacy gathers dust. The Child Trust Fund, his idea, one point six billion pounds of children's own money left to rot in forgotten accounts while the City takes a hundred million a year in fees. Housing, where he decided families renting rather than owning was "a good thing." A children's charity he vouched for, whose founder was later convicted of child sexual abuse. In Rotherham. Of course. The girl who was twelve is thirty seven now. She lives with it every day. He was not convinced her rape was worth an inquiry. And now he decides how much of your money you keep. That is the Chancellor.

What possessed them? Foreign Sec @Ed_Miliband & chancellor @JohnHealey_MP on a tuk tuk in Thailand at at IMF summit. Seemingly without a care in the world even though British economy is heading for the rocks

We asked Greens at conference: why is it great to be a Green?

Three years since the terrorist attacks of October 7, we remember those who were murdered, honour their memory, and hold in our thoughts all those who continue to feel the hurt and loss of that day.   And for too many Jewish communities here in the UK, October 7 wasn't just one day: it marked the beginning of escalating antisemitism here on British soil.   Jewish communities should be able to live safely, freely and proudly. Today and every day, we stand with you.

Hang on, A mother received a sentence of 31 months for one social media post. Throwing an empty plastic bottle at the police is a two year sentence. Human trafficking is just a sentence of 18 months. The UK is a two-tier joke.

Labour told what to post on X. Presumably, because they aren’t able to think for themselves. Challenge and report any criticism. Wow. Commies.

What a speech! The best for twenty years for sure. Mayors stand ready to be part of his success. Time to put the people first.

If a hostile actor wanted a soft entry point into a Western state, this is what one would look like: record numbers, low verification, rapid dispersal, and a government whose language treats every question about it as prejudice rather than security. Nobody in office can say they were not told. NATO said it in 2016. Poland and Lithuania are saying it now, with tunnels and troops to show for it.