Emeritus professor of international history at LSE. Author of key works ‘The Case for Brexit’ and ‘Scotland. A Unionist History’. His views are his own.
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Alan Sked retweeted
Has the Defence Secretary told the Defence Secretary this? Because I’m pretty sure he’d be horrified to discover he was cutting defence programmes and training days while simultaneously expecting a war within 1000 days.
Britain must be ready for war within 1,000 days, Defence Secretary warns
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Alan Sked retweeted
The BBC has agreed to pay £400,000 to an award-winning Jewish documentary-maker who alleged she was subjected to antisemitism and pushed out of the corporation after October 7.
Lucie Kon, 57, spent 22 years at the BBC and worked on programmes including Panorama, Today, BBC Breakfast and Storyville. Films she commissioned or helped produce won an Oscar, Emmy and Bafta.
Kon says her treatment changed dramatically after the Hamas attacks. She alleges colleagues described Zionists like her as “evil”, argued that Israel should be called terrorist if Hamas was, and told her to consider what had driven Hamas to carry out the massacre.
When she proposed a documentary about October 7, Kon says she was told she was “too partial” to oversee it because she was Jewish.
She subsequently filed a formal grievance, but a BBC investigation rejected her complaint. Kon says she was then kept away from work for months. During a restructuring, her position was made redundant and she failed to secure the similar role replacing it.
She launched unfair-dismissal proceedings.
The BBC has now agreed substantial compensation, reported as £400,000, without admitting liability or accepting that Kon suffered antisemitism.
Kon says Jewish employees still at the corporation continue to face hostility and feel unable to identify openly as Jewish or Zionist.
Alan Sked retweeted
🚨 France Opened Its Doors. Now Its Conquerors Are Mocking Them - America, Listen Up!
Watch these men beat their chests under the Eiffel Tower - France’s greatest symbol of civilization reduced to a stage for Islamic dominance. This is not culture. This is conquest made visible.
France got the low-level Islamic foot soldiers. The street muscle. The rioters. The ones who fill the banlieues, torch cars, enforce parallel rules, and simultaneously bankrupt the welfare state.
Generations of them. From a handful of mosques in 1975 to over 2,600 today. Arab-Muslim first names among newborns rising from under 1% to over 25%. Marseille 30–40%. Roubaix 35–40%. Seine-Saint-Denis 30–40%+ with whole communes already majority. Native French minorities in their own maternity wards.
The 2021 generals warned of “Islamism and the hordes of the banlieue” and civil war if nothing changed. They were mocked. The 2025 intelligence report confirmed the Brotherhood’s 139 linked mosques and 280 front groups building the infrastructure. France invited the numbers and is now living with the results.
America got something more dangerous.
We imported the sophisticated leadership. The doctors, the lawyers, the engineers, the professionals. The ones who arrive with credentials, set up the organizations, and execute a deliberate plan.
Each group has a purpose: CAIR and its affiliates for politics and lawfare. Muslim Student Associations for campuses. Islamic schools and mosques for the next generation. Charity and “community” networks that double as parallel societies.
They push Islam into every sector - government, schools, media, corporations, law, medical, sports, city councils - while simultaneously building mini-Islamic states where, from birth to death, you never have to deal with a non-Muslim. Arabic on the signs. Sharia norms in the neighborhoods. Halal everything. Parallel courts, parallel finance, parallel education. Funded by the same Gulf money that bankrolls Europe’s problems.
In America, they are quieter, more professional, and far more effective than street riots.
France got the poor foot soldiers who overwhelm the streets and the budget. We got the officers/leaders who seize the institutions and build the enclaves. Same ideology. Same end goal. Different delivery system.
The Eiffel Tower video is another Islamic flex/warning. France is further along. We are on the same path, only with better-organized operators who treat every election as jihad and every school board as territory.
America - the 2026 midterms on November 3 are the last clean chance to interrupt this.
They vote as a disciplined bloc. They turn out at 80–93% while most of us stay home. They win razor-thin local races that lock in the parallel systems. Once the numbers and the institutions tip, you do not get the country back.
Show up. Vote early. Vote Republican. Bring everyone you know. Treat every race like the future depends on it - because France already proved it does.
France opened the door and surrendered its future. America is following their lead, and more of our politicians do not even realize it
Alan Sked retweeted
Mais il vit sur quelle planète ?
« Ce qui s’est passé aujourd’hui c’est un tournant. C’est la première fois qu’il y a un acte terroriste planifié pour tuer nos compatriotes, nos enfants, a raison de leur couleur de peau ou de la religion qu’on leur donne » « Ne baissez pas la tête »
Emmanuel Macron à Trappes.
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La déclaration citée d'Emmanuel Macron n'est pas exacte. Des attentats terroristes planifiés ont déjà tué des enfants en France en raison de leur religion, comme celui de Mohammed Merah en 2012 à l'école juive Ozar Hatorah de Toulouse.
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Alan Sked retweeted
Today in Hamburg, Germany 🇩🇪:
Thousands calling for establishment of Muslim Caliphate and Sharia Law across Europe.
They escaped their shitty countries to come to Europe, to turn Europe into the shitty countries they escaped from.
Alan Sked retweeted
🚨😡 CE MEC EST DINGUE ! IL A OSÉ L’IMMONDE ! 🤮
Il vient de tenir des propos qui sont une véritable gifle au visage des victimes du terrorisme, de leurs familles et de tous ceux qui portent encore le deuil de nos compatriotes assassinés ! 💔
🎙️ JE CITE :
« C'est la première fois qu'il y a un acte terroriste planifié pour tuer nos compatriotes à raison de leur couleur de peau ou de la religion. »
💥 AH BON ? VRAIMENT ?! 😡
La rue Copernic ? La rue des Rosiers ? Toulouse ? L’Hyper Cacher ? Le père Jacques Hamel ?
TOUT CELA N’AURAIT DONC JAMAIS EXISTÉ ?!
📜 RAPPEL HISTORIQUE : ATTENTATS, ASSASSINATS RACISTES OU RELIGIEUX ET ATTAQUES TERRORISTES EN FRANCE, DE 1979 À 2026 !
📍 1979–1999 : LES ANNÉES DE SANG
🔴 1979 — Paris : attentat contre un restaurant d'étudiants juifs — 33 blessés.
🔴 1980 — Paris : attentat contre un foyer protestant — 4 blessés.
🔴 1980 — Paris, rue Copernic : attentat contre une synagogue — 4 morts.
🔴 1982 — Paris : assassinat d'un diplomate israélien.
🔴 1982 — Paris, rue des Rosiers : attentat contre un restaurant juif — 6 morts.
🔴 1985 — Paris : attentat contre le Festival du cinéma juif — 18 blessés.
🔴 1985 — Paris : attentats aux Galeries Lafayette et au Printemps.
🔴 1986 — Paris : série d'attentats dans des commerces, transports et lieux publics — plusieurs morts.
🔴 1986 — Paris, rue de Rennes : attentat contre le magasin Tati — 7 morts.
🔴 1988 — Cannes : attentat contre un foyer de travailleurs immigrés.
🔴 1995 — Paris, Saint-Michel : attentat du RER — 8 morts.
🔴 1995 — Paris : attentats avenue de Friedland, boulevard Richard-Lenoir et station Maison-Blanche.
🔴 1995 — Villeurbanne : voiture piégée près d'une école juive.
🔴 1995 — Paris, Musée d'Orsay : attentat dans le RER — nombreux blessés.
🔴 1996 — Paris, Port-Royal : attentat dans le RER — 4 morts.
📍 2000–2014 : LA TERREUR CONTINUE
🔴 2006 — Bagneux : assassinat antisémite d'Ilan Halimi — 1 mort.
🔴 2012 — Toulouse et Montauban : assassinats de militaires par Mohamed Merah — 3 morts.
🔴 2012 — Toulouse, école Ozar Hatorah : attentat antisémite — 4 morts, dont 3 enfants.
🔴 2012 — Sarcelles : attentat à la grenade contre une épicerie casher.
🔴 2013 — La Défense : attaque au couteau contre un militaire.
🔴 2014 — Joué-lès-Tours : attaque au couteau contre des policiers.
📍 2015–2019 : LA FRANCE FRAPPÉE AU CŒUR
🔴 2015 — Paris, Charlie Hebdo : attentat terroriste — 12 morts.
🔴 2015 — Montrouge : assassinat d'une policière municipale — 1 morte.
🔴 2015 — Vincennes, Hyper Cacher : attentat antisémite — 4 morts.
🔴 2015 — Nice : attaque contre des militaires protégeant un centre communautaire juif.
🔴 2015 — Villejuif : assassinat d'Aurélie Châtelain et projet d'attentat contre des églises — 1 morte.
🔴 2015 — Saint-Quentin-Fallavier : assassinat et décapitation d'Hervé Cornara — 1 mort.
🔴 2015 — Thalys : tentative d'attentat contre les passagers d'un train à destination de Paris.
🔴 2015 — Paris et Saint-Denis, 13 NOVEMBRE : attentats du Bataclan, des terrasses et du Stade de France — 130 morts dans le bilan historique.
🔴 2016 — Marseille : attaque antisémite au couteau contre un enseignant juif.
🔴 2016 — Magnanville : assassinat terroriste d'un couple de policiers — 2 morts.
🔴 2016 — Nice, 14 JUILLET : attentat au camion — 86 morts.
🔴 2016 — Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray : assassinat du père Jacques Hamel dans son église — 1 mort.
🔴 2016 — Paris, Notre-Dame : tentative d'attentat à la voiture piégée.
🔴 2017 — Paris : assassinat antisémite de Sarah Halimi — 1 morte.
🔴 2017 — Paris, Louvre : attaque contre des militaires.
🔴 2017 — Orly : attaque contre une militaire.
🔴 2017 — Paris, Champs-Élysées : assassinat du policier Xavier Jugelé — 1 mort.
🔴 2017 — Paris, Notre-Dame : attaque contre un policier.
🔴 2017 — Levallois-Perret : attaque à la voiture contre des militaires.
🔴 2017 — Marseille, Saint-Charles : assassinat terroriste de deux jeunes femmes — 2 mortes.
🔴 2018 — Paris : assassinat antisémite de Mireille Knoll — 1 morte.
🔴 2018 — Carcassonne et Trèbes : attentats terroristes — 4 morts.
🔴 2018 — Paris, quartier de l'Opéra : attaque terroriste au couteau — 1 mort.
🔴 2018 — Strasbourg : attentat contre le marché de Noël — 5 morts.
🔴 2019 — Lyon : attentat au colis piégé — nombreux blessés.
📍 2020–2026 : ET LE CAUCHEMAR SE POURSUIT !
🔴 2020 — Villejuif : attaque terroriste au couteau — 1 mort.
🔴 2020 — Romans-sur-Isère : attaque terroriste au couteau — 2 morts.
🔴 2020 — Colombes : attaque à la voiture contre des policiers.
🔴 2020 — Paris, anciens locaux de Charlie Hebdo : attaque au hachoir — 2 blessés.
🔴 2020 — Conflans-Sainte-Honorine : assassinat et décapitation de Samuel Paty — 1 mort.
🔴 2020 — Nice, basilique Notre-Dame : attentat dans une église — 3 morts.
🔴 2021 — Rambouillet : assassinat terroriste de Stéphanie Monfermé — 1 morte.
🔴 2023 — Arras : assassinat terroriste du professeur Dominique Bernard — 1 mort.
🔴 2023 — Paris, Bir-Hakeim : attaque terroriste au couteau — 1 mort.
🔴 2024 — Rouen : incendie criminel d'une synagogue.
🔴 2024 — La Grande-Motte : attentat incendiaire contre une synagogue — 1 policier blessé.
🔴 2025 — Apt : attaque au couteau dans un centre commercial — 2 blessés.
🔴 2025 — Mulhouse : attaque terroriste au couteau — 1 mort.
🔴 2025 — Lyon : assassinat d'Ashur Sarnaya, chrétien irakien — 1 mort, enquête antiterroriste.
🔴 2026 — Paris, Arc de Triomphe : attaque terroriste au couteau contre un gendarme.
💥 ALORS, MONSIEUR MACRON, « C'EST LA PREMIÈRE FOIS » ?!
😡 Comment peut-on prononcer une telle phrase sans penser aux familles endeuillées, aux enfants assassinés, aux victimes de la haine antisémite et religieuse, à tous ceux qui ont été massacrés sur notre sol ?
🇫🇷 LA MÉMOIRE DE NOS MORTS MÉRITE MIEUX QUE DES DÉCLARATIONS AUSSI CONSTERNANTES !
🕯️ NOUS N'OUBLIONS PAS. NOUS N'OUBLIERONS JAMAIS. 🇫🇷
Alan Sked retweeted
“De Europeanen staan op het punt om binnen zeer korte tijd wakker te worden in een verschrikkelijke nachtmerrie.
Er zijn mensen die eruitzien zoals ik, met een baard en donker haar, die zijn gevlucht voor de terreur en de islam. Ik ben bijvoorbeeld half Duits, half Egyptisch en geboren in Duitsland. Ik zie er nog steeds uit zoals zij.
Maar er zijn ook mensen die eruitzien zoals ik en die niet voor de terreur zijn gevlucht. Zij hebben de terreur en de islam juist met zich meegebracht. En om heel eerlijk te zijn, vormen zij de meerderheid. Niet andersom.
Jullie hebben werkelijk géén idee wat er onder de oppervlakte sluimert en slechts wacht tot een kritische massa is bereikt.
Als jullie liberalen niet naar een witte man willen luisteren, luister dan naar mij. Ik waarschuw jullie omdat ik weet hoe deze mensen zijn. Ik ben daar geweest. Ik heb er een jaar gewoond. Ze haten jullie.
Jullie zullen wakker worden in een verschrikkelijke nachtmerrie. Een absolute nachtmerrie.
Zodra een bepaald punt is bereikt, wat ik de kritische massa noem, onder andere door geboortecijfers en demografische ontwikkelingen, zullen jullie niet langer in staat zijn jezelf te verdedigen.
Helaas is de witte man door psychologische manipulatie gaan geloven dat mannelijkheid iets slechts is. Dat mannen zwak moeten zijn, zich vooral door hun emoties moeten laten leiden en zacht en meegaand moeten zijn.
Tegelijkertijd komen hier zeer agressieve mensen naartoe. Ze accepteren jullie cultuur niet. Ze accepteren jullie religie niet. Ze accepteren jullie vrouwenrechten niet. Ze accepteren helemaal niets van dit alles.
Ze willen het uitwissen. Ze willen jullie uitwissen.
En jullie zijn blind voor wat er gebeurt. Jullie weigeren het te zien.
Geloof me, dit wordt een nachtmerrie. Een bloedige, verschrikkelijke nachtmerrie.
Word in godsnaam wakker. Ik meen dit bloedserieus.”
Alan Sked retweeted
Six police surround myself and my wife and arrest us at home. This is from the police bodycam footage. We’re currently taking action against Bedfordshire police for this outrageous arrest. Myself and my wife were clearly soft targets, not exactly hardened criminals but they handcuffed both anyway …all charges dropped after a couple of months with no apology or explanation. The children were terrorised and they’ll never trust the police again.
Alan Sked retweeted
THIS IS CATHERINE PIERSE!!!!
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS IN IRELAND WHOSE OFFICE WITHDREW THE PROSECUTION AGAINST A 27 YEAR OLD ASYLUM SEEKER ACCUSED OF THE ALLEGED SEXUAL ASSAULT OF A 10 YEAR OLD GIRL!!!!
THE CASE HAD BEEN BEFORE DUBLIN CIRCUIT CRIMINAL COURT BEFORE THE DPP ENTERED A NOLLE PROSEQUI, BRINGING THE PROSECUTION TO AN END AT THIS STAGE BEFORE IT EVEN PROPERLY STARTED
ITS JUDGES, COPPERS, AND NOW WE CONTINUE TO CLIMB THAT LADDER AS WE REACH HIGH OFFICE!!!
MEANWHILE, YOU WONT BE SURPRISED TO LEARN THIS STARTS AT THE VERY TOP OF THE TREE - WHICH POWER STARTS !!!!
SHE MUST BE ARRESTED IMMEDIATELY AND THAT HARD-DRIVE CHECKED!!!
Credit Predator awareness
Alan Sked retweeted
**You need to watch Zelenskyy's interview with Steven Bartlett.**
Sitting in front of the camera is an utterly exhausted, at times visibly broken man who has spent almost five years personally managing a war, making critical decisions day and night.
From the very first minutes, you can see just how drained he is. When asked the routine question, "How are you?" he replies that he barely sleeps because he spends his nights in military group chats, moving the last remaining air defense systems from one region to another.
Two stories are particularly heartbreaking.
The first is about a missile that struck a children's playground within seconds, while parents watched from their apartment windows as their children were torn apart.
The second is about presenting posthumous military awards to the families of fallen soldiers:
"You present an award to a father, feel his strong hand, and then he quietly asks, 'Can we hug?' At that moment, I simply cease to exist inside. These people are gone. They will never be the same again."
When the host tries to take him back into his past, showing old photographs from Kryvyi Rih, his student comedy performances, his voice acting as Paddington Bear, and scenes from *Servant of the People*, Zelenskyy looks at them with detachment, almost as though he is watching someone else's life.
He also recalls February 2022 without any attempt to portray himself as a hero.
He says that for the first 20 days, he simply ran from office to office on adrenaline, calling everyone he could and trying to organize deliveries of water and food to Kyiv.
Fear and the full realization of what had happened only caught up with him three weeks later, when Bucha was liberated and mass graves containing hundreds of murdered civilians were discovered.
Using Bucha as an example, he explains why advice from outsiders to simply negotiate a quick deal causes him such deep frustration:
"Imagine that in the United States or Britain, a mass grave is discovered containing 500 tortured people with their hands tied. How could you simply forgive everything after that?"
The rest of the conversation revolves around the deadlock in which Ukrainians, and indeed everyone involved, now find themselves.
Zelenskyy explains the causes of the war in simple terms: Moscow is trying to forcibly rebuild the Soviet empire because Ukraine's integration into Europe would finally bury that project.
But when the conversation turns to the present, there is unmistakable bitterness in his words.
Almost one-fifth of Ukraine's territory is occupied. The east is under relentless bombardment. Cities are left without electricity. People are dying every single day.
Meanwhile, every discussion about a ceasefire runs into the same demand: Kyiv must withdraw even farther from its fortified positions, without any guarantees that Russia will not launch another offensive a year later.
Toward the end, the conversation turns to Trump and Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil facilities.
Trump publicly reprimands Zelenskyy over attacks on Russian refineries because he fears rising diesel prices for American farmers ahead of the elections.
And this is where you can see just how deeply that approach affects Zelenskyy.
His country is burning.
Moscow has rejected his proposal for a mutual halt to attacks on energy infrastructure.
Patriot missiles paid for by Europe are being redirected by the Americans to the Middle East.
And somehow, Zelenskyy is the one being blamed for fuel prices in the United States.
The entire interview leaves you with a profoundly bleak feeling.
Here is a man trapped between the daily deaths of people in his own country and the pragmatic bargaining of allies who have their own elections, their own interests, and their own political calculations.
And yet, he can no longer step away from this responsibility.
**Watch it.**
Alan Sked retweeted
Visiting Hagia Sophia is now a miserable experience. You are restricted to the balcony, they have roped off the balustrades, they have covered up the icons in the centre, they hector you to keep moving. No longer is it a place to roam and muse within.
Alan Sked retweeted
BREAKING 🚨This is what Sweden looks like after opening its doors to Muslim immigrants. Here they are attacking and smashing police cars.
If they hate the West, why do they come to it?
Alan Sked retweeted
🚨 👕 𝗟𝗨𝗡𝗔𝗜𝗥𝗘 - « Mon fils a juste chipé 2 pulls dans un magasins pendant les émeutes ! Et il est au commissariat ! Il a juste manifesté ! »
👆Cette mère défend son fils arrêté au commissariat du 8e arrondissement de Paris
(Source France Info)
Alan Sked retweeted
It’s now officially confirmed.
Tonight, russia struck Kyiv’s historic centre with an Iskander ballistic missile carrying a cluster warhead.
58 submunitions explode in mid-air, designed to inflict maximum casualties across a 400 × 400 metre area.
“This strike had no military purpose. The goal was to destroy part of the old city and injure as many people as possible,” said a Ukrainian presidential adviser.
No military objective. Just terror.
Alan Sked retweeted
BREAKING 🚨Muslim immigrant tearing down Christian cross from a church in England.
Their religion is not about peace.
Alan Sked retweeted
Of all the things that have been hardest to communicate in my life, this seems the most impossible: that our civilisation is not, by some law of nature, immortal. It has no right or likelihood to continue existing if it insists on committing harakiri.
The people who are welcomed onto our airwaves, work in parts of our government and lead some of our political parties include those who would burn down this country in a heart-beat. They would look us in the eyes and kill us. And we know that because they have done it elsewhere.
They don't do it at the moment because the time is not right. But when they feel it is, they will act. At which point I suppose people will have to decide whether they wish to be spectators at their own funeral pyre or not.
✍️ Douglas Murray
Article | spectator.com/article/france… | @DouglasKMurray
