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We need far more politicians of this calibre. Well said @SuellaBraverman
This is superb from @SuellaBraverman. She tears SHREDS out of the govts dangerous decision to ignore safety concerns and house illegal migrants in Piddington.
She rightly calls out the fact there are NO female Labour MPs taking part in this debate.
She does NOT hold back! 🔥
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100% support from Cleese
Islamophobia, a word much bandied about by Sadiq Khan, is used by Islamists to stifle legitimate criticism
of their culture
It should be replaced by the more neutral word 'Islamoscepticism'
🚨BREAKING: Jeremy Clarkson is facing fresh calls from the left to be CANCELED after he weighed in on the Muslim grooming gangs scandal and said it is not racist to investigate a rapist.
His exact words: “It’s not racist to investigate a rapist! We need to remove the shackles of political correctness from the police.”
In his column, Clarkson argued that police must be freed from the fear of being labeled racist if they pursue these cases. He wrote that a young girl could report being raped by a gang of Pakistani men only to be dismissed because officers know they risk cancellation for reporting it.
Clarkson said another public inquiry is unnecessary because the problem is already clear, and the real obstacle has been the refusal to confront the ethnicity of the perpetrators without being accused of bigotry. The comments have drawn sharp criticism online from activists who claim he is stoking racism, with some calling for advertisers and platforms to drop him.
This is the same pattern that has followed Clarkson for years whenever he says something "politically incorrect".
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I have never denied that people who call themselves trans exist and in the UK, they rightly have exactly the same rights as every other citizen. What you want is for women to lose their sex-based rights to accommodate men who say they're women. That's the conflict.
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The Jews were driven out of all those green countries by Muslims, almost to the last one. And they were driven out of Europe by the antisemites.
And what really enrages them all is that despite being surrounded by countries that are openly and absolutely committed to extinguishing that tiny red dot, they haven’t managed to.
It is a miracle.
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Since riots are now spreading across Europe, there are some simple things any country that wants to avoid them can announce.
Anyone found guilty of rioting/looting:
- who is a foreign national will be immediately deported
- who is a dual national will be immediately stripped of their citizenship, then deported
- who is an asylum seeker or has been granted asylum, will be denied asylum/deported
- permanently banned from receiving any benefits/welfare of any kind
- given harsh custodial sentences
Announce this now and avoid riots or watch your country go down the route of France and Germany.
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The EU obsessed Labour Government
Sold one of our only EU sceptic newspapers
To an EU obsessive.
Can you see why that's scandalous?
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Wow. Employers aren't working people?? That explains everything about @UKLabour's attitude to the private sector
Doesn't she understand that the engine room of the economy is the thousands of SMEs run by people who risked their own money and used their own hard work to build something
If they fail they lose. If they succeed they get accused of being parasites and taxed into oblivion
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May we have a comment on this please @Telegraph ? This is deal breaker for me. I will not voluntarily fund any organisation committed to a united Europe.
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This ⬇️
Allison Pearson is not only the best columnist in journalism right now, she’s also a ferociously brave warrior. My hero.@AllisonPearson @Telegraph
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ISLAMOPHOBIA AWARENESS MONTH 2026
Islamophobia Awareness Month (IAM) takes place every year throughout November.
In order to tackle Islamophobia, we need to analyse where this phenomenon comes from.
Below is a list of incidents that I maintain and update to track the global origins of Islamophobia:👇
GERMANY - Munich Olympic massacre 1972 - 12 dead.
UK - Iranian Embassy siege, London 1980 - 2 dead.
SCOTLAND - Lockerbie, Pan Am Flight 103 bombing 1988 - 270 dead.
USA – World Trade Center Truck Bombing 1993 - 6 dead, over 1,000 injured.
INDONESIA - Bali Bombings 2002 - 202 dead from 23+ different nationalities.
SPAIN - Madrid train bombings 2004 - 200 dead.
NETHERLANDS - Assassination of Theo Van Gogh 2004.
UK - 7/7 bombings - London 2005 - 52 dead.
INDONESIA - Second Bali Bombings 2005 - 20 dead.
INDIA - Mumbai attacks 2008 - 166 dead.
USA - Fort Hood Shooting 2009 – 13 dead, 32 injured.
USA - Boston Marathon bombing 2013 - 3 dead, hundreds injured …including 17 who lost their limbs.
UK - Murder of Lee Rigby, London 2013.
CHINA - Kunming train station attack 2014 - 31 dead.
BELGIUM - Brussels Jewish Museum Shooting 2014 - 4 dead.
AUSTRALIA - Lindt Cafe Siege, Sydney 2014 - 2 dead.
FRANCE - Charlie Hebdo shooting, Paris 2015 - 12 dead.
USA - Chattanooga Military Shootings 2015 - 5 dead.
USA - San Bernardino attack 2015 - 14 dead.
FRANCE - Coordinated Paris attacks 2015 - 130 dead.
BELGIUM - Brussels airport bombings 2016 - 32 dead.
USA - Pulse nightclub shooting, Orlando 2016 - 49 dead.
FRANCE - Nice truck ramming attack 2016 - 86 dead.
FRANCE - Normandy Church attack 2016 - Priest dead.
USA - Ohio State University Attack 2016 - 11 injured.
GERMANY - Berlin Christmas market truck ramming attack 2016 - 12 dead.
AUSTRALIA - Melbourne Bourke Street car ramming 2017 - 6 dead. Islamic convert.
UK - Westminster Bridge and Parliament attack 2017 - 4 dead.
SWEDEN - Stockholm truck attack 2017, - 5 dead.
UK - Manchester Arena bombing 2017 - 22 dead.
UK - London Bridge and Borough Market attack 2017 - 8 dead.
SPAIN - Barcelona van ramming attack 2017 - 13 dead.
USA - Truck Attack on New York City Bike Path 2017 - 8 dead.
AUSTRALIA - Melbourne, Flinders Street SUV ramming 2017 - 1 dead.
AUSTRALIA - Melbourne Bourke Street attack 2018 - 1 dead (Sisto Malaspina, famous cafe owner).
SRI LANKA - Church and hotel bombings Easter 2019 - 269 dead.
UK - Reading stabbings 2020 - 3 dead.
FRANCE - Murder of Samuel Paty 2020.
AUSTRIA - Vienna Shooting, 2020 - 4 dead.
BELGIUM - Brussels International Shooting 2023 - 2 (Swedish soccer fans) dead.
ISRAEL - Hamas attack, October 7th 2023 - 1195 dead, 251 taken hostage (of which 85 later died or confirmed dead).
RUSSIA - Moscow Crocus City Hall attack 2024 - 145 dead.
AUSTRALIA - Bishop Mari Emanuel stabbing 2024.
GERMANY - Stabbing attack, Mannheim 2024 - Police officer dead, 5 injured.
UK - Southport stabbings 2024 - 3 dead.
GERMANY - Solingen Festival Stabbing 2024 – 3 dead, 8 injured.
GERMANY - SUV Christmas market attack, Magdeburg 2024 - 6 dead, 299 injured.
GERMANY - Car ramming attack, Munich 2025 - 30 injured.
GERMANY - Car ramming attack, Mannheim 2025 - 2 dead.
USA - Pickup Truck ramming attack, New Orleans 2025 - 15 dead.
UK - Manchester Synagogue attack 2025 - 2 dead.
AUSTRALIA - Bondi Beach shooting, 2025 - 15 dead, 41 injured.
NIGERIA - Ongoing Christian genocide - Since 2000, 62,000 Christians in Nigeria have been victims of genocide perpetrated by Islamist extremist groups Boko Haram, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), and organised Fulani jihadists.
* NOTE: 9/11 (2001 - USA, 2977 dead) has been deliberately left off, because the above list is already more than enough to outweigh and silence conspiracy / false flag whack jobs 🤪
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Sky Arts' Portrait Artist of the Year is a "serious celebration of art" in which artists draw famous people.
So obviously a drag queen has to be involved.
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"Since Labour came to power, the number of FSU cases involving people penalised for criticising Islam has doubled."
Why?
Is it because the Government are interfering in policing?
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🚨 ISLAMIC BLASPHEMY LAW BY THE BACK DOOR 🚨
Kellie-Jay Keen (@ThePosieParker) has been charged with a criminal offence over posts criticising Islam, Muslim cultural practices and Islamism.
The Free Speech Union is proud to be defending her.
In a free society, no religion or cultural practice should be immune from criticism.
Since Labour came to power, the number of FSU cases involving people penalised for criticising Islam has doubled. It is now the single biggest category in our casework.
And now, with a state-approved definition of Islamophobia — rebranded as “anti-Muslim hostility” — things are only getting worse.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Communities Secretary Angela Rayner met Muslim community leaders in Downing Street. Burnham took a swipe at critics of Islam, saying “some of the language” opposition parties use “is unacceptable”, and told the leaders “we need to find ways with you to demonstrate that more and more”.
We now await Rayner’s appointment of an “Islamophobia tsar” who will help enforce the definition.
All five hand-picked members of the Working Group that drafted it have concerning links to Islamist organisations, as FSU Research and Policy Director @DavidRoseUK exposed in his report. We have little hope that the appointed tsar will be good news for free speech.
Meanwhile, the Government is refusing to say who submitted responses to the Working Group, so we cannot know which groups shaped the definition. Islamists may well have had a hand in its drafting.
Support the FSU’s campaign against an Islamic blasphemy law — and the people penalised under it 👇
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How on earth is TfL allowing a woman to operate a London bus in a full niqab??
Passengers need to be able to clearly identify their driver in an emergency, and unrestricted peripheral vision is a basic safety requirement.
It’s utterly insane. The same rules should apply to everyone.
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The Telegraph is losing all its best people!
At this rate it’s going to be even worse than The Times and The Guardian!
I was hoping to be able to announce this in my own time – but the media rumour mill is swirling, I'm being contacted by various reporters and others, and I don't like denying the truth, so ...
I wrote my first "Economic Agenda" column in The Sunday Telegraph 27 years ago, under the editorship of Dominic Lawson – filling-in occasionally during the late-1990s, before being given my own weekly slot from 2003.
Since then, while I've been heavily involved in television, and am perhaps better known as a broadcaster, penning "Economic Agenda" for The Sunday Telegraph each week has been the backbone of my journalistic life.
On Thursday, the @Telegraph rang to tell me my column is being scrapped.
I was asked, and have agreed, to write "Economic Agenda" until the end of November, as per my contract. After that, my Sunday Telegraph column will be no more.
Why this decision has been made, and whether or not my columns were any good, is for others to judge.
All I will say is that, as the first person in my family to attend university, sustaining a weekly column in a leading national newspaper for a quarter of a century has been a source of enormous pride for myself and my family.
Lots of people have been asking me about the future of "Planet Normal" - the hugely-popular Telegraph podcast which I co-created and co-present with the brilliant @AllisonPearson
"Planet Normal" has, over the last 330 weekly episodes, also become a major part of my professional life and my broader identity.
With Allison reportedly leaving the Telegraph as well, there is a lot of speculation about whether or not the podcast will continue to impart "news and views from beyond the bubble" with our usual blend of sharp analysis, humour and occasional outrage !
Well, I am delighted to confirm that Co-Pilot Pearson and myself are deeply committed to our joint podcast – and, above all, to our beloved listeners.
We will, as and when notice periods allow, continue our voyages through space every Thursday – perhaps to "Planet Normal", or maybe to another part of the solar system – so we can "gaze down each week at the madness of Planet Earth", as we have done since the Spring of 2020.
So citizens of Planet Normal, stand ready ! The "rocket-of-right-thinking", the "flying refuge of reasoned views", will soon be launched once again 🚀🪐👨🏭👱♀️🎙️📺
I poured my heart and soul into "Economic Agenda" and "Planet Normal". The Telegraph's decision to scrap them is obviously a huge personal blow. But I will always be grateful for the opportunities the paper has given me.
Above all, I would like to thank the illustrious list of successive Telegraph business editors I've worked with since the late-1990s, many of whom have become and remain good friends - including @Peston @RobertsDan @larmitstead @neilbenet @benjaminmarlow @cg_williams @kamalahmednews @MarkKleinmanSky @jamesrquinn (sorry if I've forgotten anyone, it's been a long time!)
On Friday, even though I almost always write my column from elsewhere, and despite being extremely disappointed by the paper's decision, I decided to go into the Telegraph and write today's column sitting in the newsroom.
I am glad I did - as being at the heart of the paper at such a difficult time allowed for lots of conversations, with everyone from junior production staff to senior reporters and executives, which reminded me that journalism, despite being an industry at the whim of seemingly endless and often brutal commercial and technological upheaval, is not only hugely important to our country, but full of talented, decent people.
See picture below, having just filed my piece, as I was heading out the door ...
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I can't get my head around this. Danny Tommo is STILL remanded in custody on a charge of *criminal damage* for allegedly popping a rubber dinghy.
There's a hearing in November and his trial date is provisionally set for March 2027.
Our two-tier legal system is utterly corrupt.
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Dominic Grieve KC (Chair of the Govt’s ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ definition) repeatedly assured us that it doesn't and wouldn't amount to a blasphemy law and would leave people free to criticise Islam, its doctrines and practices. Yet @ThePosieParker has been charged under s.127 Communications Act 2003 for a post listing real issues (grooming gangs, treatment of women, terrorism etc.) and calling Islam “a vile woman-hating.. death cult.” Police say this is “grossly offensive”. The definition is non-statutory guidance; s.127 is existing criminal law. Police and the CPS are applying the latter in ways that make the former’s free-speech assurances look hollow. Criticism of a religion is not hostility toward people. In application, the gap between the two is the problem.
The police have charged me teapawt.org/i/broadcasts/1qKVmydoa…
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In a world that is going nuts, Allison is a fearless advocate for common sense.
A big loss for The Telegraph.
Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson is reportedly about to leave the newspaper amid significant job cuts to the newsroom theguardian.com/media/2026/o…
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This excellent speech is indicative of the arse about face lunacy which seems to apply to multiple aspects of politics in the UK and elsewhere these days.
Common sense, doing what is right, and logic don't appear to apply any more.
In a sane world all layers of management which support such lunacy, should be sacked (NOT promoted or moved sideways, SACKED).
"Imagine telling your daughter, sister, wife or mother that if she objects to undressing in front of a man at work, she is the one who must leave. That was our reality.”
Powerful full speech from President of the Darlington Nursing Union, Bethany Hutchison, at the 'When Reality Meets NHS Policy' Conservative Party conference fringe event
This excellent speech is indicative of the arse about face lunacy which seems to apply to multiple aspects of politics in the UK and elsewhere these days.
Common sense, doing what is right, and logic don't appear to apply any more.
In a sane world all layers of management which support such lunacy, should be sacked (NOT promoted or moved sideways, SACKED).
"Imagine telling your daughter, sister, wife or mother that if she objects to undressing in front of a man at work, she is the one who must leave. That was our reality.”
Powerful full speech from President of the Darlington Nursing Union, Bethany Hutchison, at the 'When Reality Meets NHS Policy' Conservative Party conference fringe event