Rangers Season ticket holder.💙
Glasgow, Scotland
Joined December 2012
- Tweets43.2K
- Following1.1K
- Followers876
- Likes8.4K
Dougie retweeted
Real poster from Buckinghamshire Council and Thames Valley police.
Police have issued a warning to the public that Halloween can upset "religious or cultural beliefs" ahead of the celebrations this weekend.
I’m so tired of all this crap.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The poster is a standard "no trick or treat" notice from Thames Valley Police and Buckinghamshire Council for residents (esp. elderly/vulnerable) who do not want unexpected callers. It contains no mention of Halloween upsetting religious or cultural beliefs.
x.com/ThamesVP/statu…
familyinfo.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/news/halloween…
Dougie retweeted
“Friday I’m in Love” is from The Cure’s 1992 album Wish. Robert Smith has called it a dumb pop song that is also excellent, precisely because it is so out of character: optimistic, naïve and happy.
Released in May 1992 as the second single, it reached No. 6 on the UK Singles Chart (the band’s last UK Top 10) and No. 18 on the Billboard Hot 100, while topping the Modern Rock Tracks chart for four weeks.
Smith became convinced he had stolen the progression and called everyone he could think of to play it for them, asking if they had heard it before. He had also accidentally left the vari-speed on during recording, so the track sits a quarter-tone sharp. After months of work in concert pitch, that slight lift is what makes the song jump out. The video, directed by Tim Pope, won the European Viewer’s Choice award at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards.
Dougie retweeted
Hamas Terrorist Mahmoud Mahadi Afana who killed 10 Jews including 3 newborn babies by roasting them in a microwave was ELIMINATED by IDF when he was hiding in a mosque.
Dougie retweeted
It’s enough to look at the facial expressions of these two Israel-haters and terror supporters to see that each word of @jconricus hits the mark!
Dougie retweeted
While celebrating his 36th wedding anniversary with his wife, on the Italian luxury cruise ship Achille Lauro, the vessel was hijacked by members of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF).
Because he was Jewish and American, Leon Klinghoffer—who was 69 years old and used a wheelchair after suffering a debilitating stroke—was singled out, shot in the head, and thrown overboard along with his wheelchair.
Remember his name.
Never forget the evils perpetrated by the Palestinians.
Read more about Leon Klinghoffer and the hijacking of the Achille Lauro in the post below.
ALT The shooting of Leon Klinghoffer aboard the Achille Lauro cruise ship which was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists.
Four armed hijackers executed a 69-year-old disabled American in a wheelchair and threw him overboard into the Mediterranean—only for US Navy fighter jets to ambush their getaway airliner in pitch-black airspace, forcing it down onto a NATO runway for an armed standoff between American commandos and Italian carabinieri.
The reason might surprise you.
On October 7, 1985, the Italian luxury cruise liner MS Achille Lauro was cruising off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, carrying hundreds of international holidaymakers.
While the majority of passengers had disembarked for a shore excursion to Cairo, four heavily armed militants from the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), led by 23-year-old Youssef Majed al-Molqi, seized the vessel.
Their original plan had been to stay undercover until the ship docked in Ashdod, Israel, to launch a suicide raid on military installations. But when a cabin steward caught them cleaning assault rifles in their state room, they panicked, commandeered the bridge, and held over 400 remaining passengers and crew hostage.
They redirected the cruise liner toward Tartus, Syria, demanding the immediate release of 50 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
When the Syrian government refused to allow the ship to enter port, the hijackers decided to execute a hostage to prove their resolve:
They singled out Leon Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old Jewish-American retired appliance manufacturer from New York who had suffered two severe strokes and was confined to a wheelchair.
Forced onto the open deck, Klinghoffer was shot once in the forehead and once in the chest.
The hijackers then forced two ship crew members at gunpoint to dump Klinghoffer's body and his wheelchair into the open sea.
Fearing international retaliation, PLF leader Muhammad Zaidan (known as Abu Abbas) established radio contact with the ship, ordering the hijackers to steer back toward Port Said, Egypt.
In Cairo, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak arranged a controversial diplomatic compromise:
In exchange for releasing the cruise ship and the remaining hostages unharmed, the hijackers were granted safe passage out of Egypt aboard a commercial EgyptAir Boeing 737 bound for Tunis, alongside Abu Abbas.
President Mubarak publicly claimed the hijackers had already left the country, but US intelligence knew the plane had not yet taken off from Al Maza military airbase.
When President Ronald Reagan learned of Klinghoffer's murder, he issued an immediate directive: intercept the airliner.
On the night of October 10, four F-14 Tomcat fighter jets from the USS Saratoga (Carrier Air Wing 17), supported by an E-2C Hawkeye radar plane, roared off the catapults into the dark Mediterranean sky:
Without using radio transmissions or radar illumination, the F-14s crept up on the EgyptAir flight in complete blackout mode at 34,000 feet south of Crete.
Switching on running lights and drawing within inches of the airliner’s wingtips, the American fighter pilots rocked their wings and radioed the Egyptian pilot directly on emergency frequencies: "Divert your heading to Sigonella, or face interception."
Flanked on both wings by armed Tomcats, the airliner had no choice but to follow the escorts down to Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily.
The crisis, however, didn't end on the tarmac. It triggered a near-shooting standoff between two NATO allies:
As soon as the airliner touched down at midnight, US Navy SEAL Team Six operators surrounded the plane in tactical gear.
Within minutes, fifty Italian Carabinieri and military police surrounded the Navy SEALs with submachine guns, drawing down on the Americans.
Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi insisted that because the aircraft had landed on sovereign Italian soil and the hijacking occurred on an Italian-flagged ship, Italy retained absolute legal jurisdiction.
(Read more below...)
Dougie retweeted
Glen Rosa (due 2018) has had repeated delays. The SNP Scottish Gov now confirms handover delayed from end-2026 to Feb 2027 for new propellers & LNG systems. Now nearly 9 years late. The latest excuse from the rudderless @StephenFlynnSNP is another kick below decks for islanders.
Dougie retweeted
Tan Ikram is the Deputy Chief Magistrate.
He is linked to an organisation that dismissed the rape gangs as “so-called grooming gangs”.
I do not make a habit of criticising judges, but his conduct outside the courtroom raises serious questions.
So I asked the Justice Secretary for an investigation.
His response was to tell me to stop my "dangerous public criticism".
I will not be silenced.
Dougie retweeted
When a female patient is raped by a "transgender woman" on a hospital ward your NHS say she could not have been raped because her attacker is "defined as a woman".
It took the hospital a year to admit there was a rapist with a penis on the ward.
They lied to save their misguided DEI policy and ignored the suffering of the victim and the safety of other female patients.
And as far as I know, no one was fired or reprimanded.
Real women are not even second class citizens to the NHS.
Dougie retweeted
Alastair Campbell turned his instrumental role in an unnecessary war leaving British troops plus hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead into a successful media career and podcast.
Quite staggering.
He now has a book out about how to turn setbacks into ‘life changing opportunities’
The man has zero shame.
Dougie retweeted
Where is the outrage from the media and the City?
Why is Burnham not being hounded out of office with ‘lettuce’ comparisons?
Dougie retweeted
👏 This is brilliant from Zia Yusuf! He put that smug, lecturing, hypocritical war criminal firmly in his place.
On Question Time, Alastair Campbell had the front to accuse others of lying and refusing to take accountability. Zia went straight for him:
“Alastair Campbell is calling other people liars, saying they don’t apologise and take accountability. As far as I remember Alastair, you were the person who presented a dossier to the British people claiming Saddam Hussein could launch weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes. We now know there were no WMDs of any sort.”
“You deceived the British public because you and your old boss Tony Blair wanted to go to war with Iraq, and as a direct result of your deception Alastair, almost 180 British troops are dead, 600,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. You have told some of the most consequential lies in the history of this country.”
He finished him off:
“There are people watching this who would disagree with you when you described yourself as a ‘national treasure’ recently. They would more aptly describe you as a WAR CRIMINAL! If there were any justice in this country, frankly you and your old boss Tony would be on trial!”
I didn’t know he’d described himself as a national treasure. Truly delusional.
Ruthless and accurate from Zia. You could see Campbell itching to interrupt, absolutely fuming, his old spin-doctor rage barely contained. But the “reformed” version with the carefully managed mental health narrative had to sit there and take it. That must have been agony for him.
His response was as weak as expected. He pointed to inquiries that found no deliberate lies or “sexing up”. Then he tried to equate the economic impact of Brexit with the catastrophic, ongoing consequences of the Iraq War. The two are not remotely comparable.
