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Lifelonglearner retweeted
Burnham demands answers as 12,000 Poundland jobs at risk.
Here's one: when you tax business to death, you kill jobs.
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For the first time: The pilots who landed the Flydubai flight have been revealed.
They entered the cockpit after the Indian pilot, Sumit Machhar, was attacked with an axe during an attempted suicide attack.
They managed to land the Boeing in Saudi Arabia, despite part of its tail having been broken off.
Following a commendation ceremony in the UAE—where they were honored alongside Machhar—the pilots' names have been disclosed: Hanson Stephen from Fiji and Rowan Toth from South Africa.
"They acted with heroism and composure."
Lifelonglearner retweeted
Boy George!
Thank you, @BoyGeorge .
Israel is dancing again! Love it 🇮🇱
Video Danny Botton
Lifelonglearner retweeted
Spot on. The leadership Britain is lacking
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
Lifelonglearner retweeted
The cult of Palestinianism will be studied in years to come.
A collective madness.
Lifelonglearner retweeted
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
Lifelonglearner retweeted
Well said
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
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WTF? A Prime Minister who has never run a business in his life demands answers because a private business fails? … let me help you, Andy & co.
A retail chain needs to stay in fashion, needs to go with the flow! … But you and successive governments don’t like their “tat” products (mostly sourced off shore to sell them at £1!!! That the whole point right?) anyway…
for free (without a taxpayer funded £MULTIMILLION enquiry I’ll tell you the problems… (you’re welcome)
▪️massively increased regulations and compliance costs.
▪️cheap tat sourced from abroad, with rising shipping and transport costs.
▪️Hit by increased minimum wages and employer National Insurance.
▪️Hit by rising rents and business rates.
▪️Hit by soaring energy bills and net zero costs.
▪️Hit by higher interest rates.
▪️Hit by consumers with less disposable income.
▪️Hit by the soaring cost of borrowing to buy stock months in advance.
▪️Hit by higher insurance premiums.
▪️Hit by shoplifting, organised theft and security costs.
▪️Hit by packaging taxes, recycling regulations and environmental compliance costs.( which you just throw into general taxation, non of it changes the weather)
▪️Hit by higher fuel, warehousing and distribution costs.
▪️Hit by increased employment costs, pensions and statutory obligations.
▪️Hit by competition from overseas online retailers operating with very different overheads.( duty free … for foreign businesses oops)
▪️And hit by the impossibility of passing those costs onto customers, who shop at Poundland precisely because they need cheap stuff! … which isn’t cheap anymore (see above)
Every single time you add something on … so do they!
And the idiot, deluded politicians who have made Britain more and more expensive and difficult to do business in, are demanding to know why businesses are struggling?
You are all moronic. My work here is done 🤡
I’ll never forgive them for this. I cannot wait for Labour to fall.
“During hostage negotiations Israel
pleaded with the UK not to recognise
a Palestinian state unconditionally as
it could harm the remaining hostages
and put lives at risk.”
The UK ignored those warnings.
Via @JewishChron
You are a special individual. Someone who in the Holocaust would have tried to help Jews. I’m sure of it. I’ve been banging on about the Muslim Brotherhood for over 10 years. Very few understand the bigger picture. Jews are just the fall guy for now. Thank you for this.
A week of Jewish hospitality in Israel has left me ashamed of the welcome Britain offers its own Jews. My latest essay is a love letter to people who should never have to wonder whether they belong in the country they call home.
mrandrewfox.substack.com/p/a…
It’s like Audrey II in the Little Shop of Horrors. The government is feeding it to appease the Muslim vote. Meanwhile the Muslim Brotherhood is in full swing. Yet they want Israel’s Intelligence to avoid terror acts on British soil. Labour has to go for so many reasons.
I was just in Israel with @Mr_Andrew_Fox - part of a larger group of journalists and think tank people hosted by the Israel Press Club.
We spoke to many high ranking people, some on the record, many off.
Almost all spoke about Britain with warmth as a great country but also spoke as an increasingly hostile state.
They all described how our government is blowing up our relationship with Israel for internal political reasons. And because of a moral blindness.
They recognise that moral blindness. They once tried to appease Islamism, ignore the rhetoric of hatred.
The consensus thought in Israel was one of appeasement - let Hamas have the Qatari millions, trust that when they say they want to destroy Israel they aren’t really mad enough to attempt it.
That blew up in their faces on October 7 and they see our country as foolish for not learning that lesson.
And, as Andrew points out, the violence is already here in the UK too. It’s just over a year since the terrorist attack at Heaton Park killed two people. We’ve had stabbings, ambulances and synagogues set on fire.
We have had multiple cases of people either in prison or going through the court system for attempted terrorist attacks on my tiny community.
The hatred was uncorked on October 7 2023 when people in our country were in the streets celebrating the murder of Jews and the establishment, the DEI departments, the feminist groups, seemed unable to condemn any of it. There has been no let up since.
It unleashed this centuries old hatred and it’s been fed by an obsession which means Israel has been discussed in the Commons more than the NHS while BBC Verify has done more ‘investigations’ into Israel than all the UK stories put together.
The obsession, the skewed narrative in which Hamas is almost always missing is dangerous. And they know it is.
The response has simply been defence. Higher walls around our schools and synagogues. We don’t want higher walls. We want our government to stop appeasing the beast. We want the demonisation of Jews in the guise of Zionists to stop.
And if they aren’t doing it for us, they should do it for everyone else.
Because we are just the first in line.
Thank you for sharing Nicole.
Interesting piece. I have almost always tried to educate people as to why something they have said can be seen as antisemitic rather than label them an antisemite, but this work cannot be the work of Jews alone.
We are too few and we are tired.
Do you pledge now @LucasGageX to be part of that education effort?
Lifelonglearner retweeted
The three clowns in the panel with me on @PiersUncensored were busy trying to smear the only democracy in the Middle East that enables Arabs to vote freely. They were totally oblivious of the fact that Arabs haven’t voted under the PA for 22 years and in Gaza for 20!
Lifelonglearner retweeted
Jewish staff at the BBC have said managers “gaslit” them when they complained about anti-Semitism at the broadcaster.
Instead of taking the complaints seriously, managers had asked the alleged victims whether they would like therapy, it was claimed. Others were allegedly told they were being “oversensitive” when they had reported anti-Semitic language⤵️
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
Lifelonglearner retweeted
Always happy to rebut mendacious anti-semitic activism
Watch the full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=Cqf5dOvZ…
We got a furious response from the former Conservative minister Lord Michael Gove when we asked about his position on Israel at the Labour Conference.
Gove claimed he knew more about antisemitism than Zack Polanski, the only Jewish leader of a major political party in the UK. He also accused us of not being journalists and of an obsession with Israel, despite the Labour government's change in position on the occupation of Palestine being the key topic at this year's conference.
Gove now sits in the House of Lords and is editor of right-wing magazine The Spectator.
