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These are the people whom Starmer, Rayner, Sarwar, Sturgeon, Swinney, Yousaf and other virtue signallers want to reward by recognising their murderous kind of terrorist state.
Explain how anyone can go shopping on a bike ? Where do you put your shopping ?
More space for cycling. What would that mean for shoppers and businesses on George Street?
@CllrWhyte questions the council’s priorities in “Edinburgh’s George Street, but not as we know it!”
bit.ly/4iQ5Y48 #Edinburgh #CityPlanning
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Egypt's peace with Israel has held since 1979. Jordan's since 1994. The UAE, Bahrain and Morocco since 2020.
Every Arab government that tried peace with Israel got peace.
Hamas tried rockets and Oct 7 and got exactly what that gets you.
Cry harder.
Love how they try and make it sound like he joined the Boy Scouts or something. He’s a suspected terrorist
Suspected Hamas member guilty of UK knife attack bbc.in/4BX8bU5
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The government is rendered sterile with a Blob totally out of control and an almost insurmountable task to rectify without radical surgery. The Civil Service is dominated by wokeism, left wing ideology, DEI and powerful trade unions. Productivity is bottom of the list.
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"She joined a company whose entire commercial proposition in Greater Manchester rested on a contract with the authority her husband chaired, in a policy area he had personally championed for six years. Her role deepened as his power grew. That is the timeline. Draw your own conclusions."
The Mayor. The Contract. The Wife. The Questions Andy Burnham Has Never Been Asked.
Andy Burnham spent eight years as Mayor of Greater Manchester championing the Bee Network, his flagship public transport project combining buses, trams and electric vehicle infrastructure under a single integrated system. He has described it repeatedly as the model for how Britain should run its public services. He is now seeking to become Prime Minister and implement that model nationally.
His wife sits on the board of the company that holds the public contract at the heart of it.
Marie-France van Heel, known as Frankie, is a director of Be.EV, the Manchester based electric vehicle charging network backed by Octopus Energy Generation. Be.EV holds a contract with Transport for Greater Manchester, the body that delivers Burnham's transport policies, to operate and maintain TfGM's public EV charging network. That contract was awarded in 2019. The terms of the arrangement are not secret. Burnham declares his wife's role in his register of mayoral interests. He formally steps back from decisions relating to her firm. Those are the facts of compliance. They are not the end of the story.
It is worth noting what the Bee Network actually delivers in practice. Bus patronage is up and fares have been simplified. But passenger reviews consistently describe ghost buses, unreliable timetables and school services that were horrifically late following the January 2025 rollout. Burnham's own transport commissioner acknowledged the network remains an estimated twenty two years behind London. The model he is proposing to implement nationally still needs years of improvement to reach the standard he has promised.
But the timeline is where the questions begin. Frankie joined Be.EV as chief marketing officer in July 2023, six years into Burnham's mayoralty and with the Bee Network already his flagship policy achievement. She became chief customer officer in July 2024 and was appointed to the board of directors in September 2024, as Burnham's mayoralty entered its final phase and his Westminster ambitions became increasingly visible. She did not join a company that happened to hold a public contract. She joined a company whose entire commercial proposition in Greater Manchester rested on a contract with the authority her husband chaired, in a policy area he had personally championed for six years. Her role deepened as his power grew. That is the timeline. Draw your own conclusions.
This sits alongside a pattern documented across multiple stories. £578 million in public money lent to developer Daren Whitaker of Renaker, whose personal fortune grew from £140 million to £698 million during Burnham's mayoralty. A tribunal finding that adequate due diligence was not conducted before that lending. Luxury towers built with public money marketed to Chinese investors in Hong Kong. A confidential bilingual letter praising China's Covid response sent to the Mayor of Tianjin. A Court of Appeal hearing on £140 million of those loans with judgment reserved. And now a board directorship held by Burnham's wife at a company whose public contract flows from the transport authority he chaired.
Each element has an explanation. Interests are declared. Processes are followed. Steps are taken back. That is the language of compliance. It is not the language of scrutiny. And it is scrutiny, not compliance, that the office of Prime Minister demands.
Burnham is no longer Mayor. He is an MP and a declared leadership challenger seeking the highest office in the land. The question is not whether he followed the rules. The question is whether the full picture of his eight year mayoralty, who benefited, and under what circumstances, has ever been examined with the rigour that entails.
It has not. It should be. The public deserves to know before he reaches Downing Street, not after.
"[Burnham's] wife sits on the board of the company that holds the public contract at the heart of it."
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Iran's Long Arm Reaches Into Britain. Our Governments Have Looked Away for Too Long
Iran has threatened to strike American military bases in Europe if they are used to launch further attacks against Tehran. That warning should alarm Britain. American forces operate from RAF installations on British soil, including Lakenheath and Mildenhall. If Iran carries out its threat, British territory would become a target. Yet the greater scandal is how long successive governments have known about Tehran's hostile activities within our own borders.
In April 2025, the Henry Jackson Society published The Long Arm of Tehran, a damning examination of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its activities in Britain. Its findings exposed an organised campaign of intimidation, surveillance and attempted assassination, including the use of criminal gangs to target opponents of the Iranian regime. The report also highlighted weaknesses in British sanctions and counter-terrorism legislation that had allowed IRGC-linked activities to continue.
The warning was hardly new. MI5 had already identified more than twenty potentially lethal Iran-backed plots against people in Britain since 2022. Iranian dissidents and journalists had become targets. Jewish communities faced growing threats. Tehran had demonstrated that it was prepared to export its campaign of intimidation onto British streets. Yet our political establishment continued to treat the danger as something that could be contained through sanctions, diplomatic pressure and occasional ministerial condemnation.
The Henry Jackson Society also exposed a glaring contradiction. Labour had demanded that the IRGC be proscribed as a terrorist organisation while in opposition. Once in government, that determination weakened. Britain had sanctioned the organisation, but sanctions alone could not address the full range of its activities. The United States and Canada had already designated the IRGC as a terrorist organisation. Britain continued to hesitate.
In July 2025, Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee added its own damning assessment. Britain's approach to Iran had been too reactive, with national security repeatedly competing against diplomatic and economic considerations. That criticism should have prompted a fundamental change in policy. Instead, the familiar pattern of warnings, reviews and limited measures continued.
In July 2026, Labour finally designated the IRGC as a threat to national security, introducing criminal penalties of up to fourteen years for certain forms of support and assistance. It was a significant step, but one that stopped short of full terrorist proscription. Membership of the organisation remains outside the specific criminal offence that applies to proscribed terrorist groups. After years of assassination plots, intimidation and hostile operations, ministers must explain whether these new powers provide all the protection Britain needs, and why they chose this framework rather than terrorist proscription.
The wider failure extends beyond Iran. Successive governments have struggled to confront Islamist extremism, foreign-funded ideological influence and hostile networks exploiting Britain's democratic freedoms. Our borders must be properly enforced, foreign interference investigated and extremist organisations subjected to the full force of the law. None of this requires abandoning civil liberties. It requires the political will to defend them.
Britain faces a regime openly threatening military installations in Europe while its intelligence services have spent years uncovering hostile operations at home. The warnings have come from intelligence chiefs, parliamentary committees, independent researchers and from Iran itself. Ministers can no longer plead ignorance. How much more evidence do they need before they finally act?
"Tehran had demonstrated that it was prepared to export its campaign of intimidation onto British streets."
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Huge respect 👏🏻. Everyone said he’d be off to California after the general election but Rishi is made of better stuff, committed to public service and there for the right reasons.
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Veterans in Perth barred @JohnSwinney from their Remembrance service after he refused to apologise for telling people to “move on” from Sinn Fein’s links to the Provisional IRA.
Families of Scots killed by the IRA (including those who lost relatives at Warrenpoint, and the three young Royal Highland Fusiliers, brothers John McCaig, 17, and Joseph McCaig 18, plus Dougald McCaughey 23, who were lured from a Belfast pub and murdered off-duty in 1971) called his comments deeply hurtful.
The Association of Perth Veterans said he caused great offence to those who lost colleagues and friends, and that he is not welcome until he issues a public apology.
Swinney’s response? “I have no intention of apologising.”
He’s happy to push his “Celtic alliance” with Sinn Fein because it suits the independence agenda.
Wanting independence is one thing. Putting that above basic respect for servicemen and women killed by the Provisional IRA is something else entirely.
It shows exactly where his priorities and loyalties lie.
Neither he nor those who share that outlook should be given a platform at Remembrance events.
The veterans got this right. I would go further and ban these secessionists from laying wreaths, because one look at them doing so, you can tell they don't want to be there. Look at Doogan, he couldn't even bring himself to sing the National anthem. They embarrass our country.
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🚨🇮🇱 ÚLTIMA HORA: Gal Gadot rompió en lágrimas al denunciar el avance del antisemitismo en el mundo.
«Me da miedo la rapidez con la que se extiende el odio hacia los judíos y la naturalidad con la que se expresa y se acepta.
Desde la masacre del 7 de octubre y la guerra que le siguió, me pregunto: ¿hasta dónde puede llegar esto?».
«Nuestra historia nos da todas las razones para tomarnos esta pregunta muy en serio».
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The curious case of Mohammed Alfatih Naim is worrying evidence that Britain really has lost the plot.
His father was a senior Hamas politician.
He’d been a bodyguard for Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
He’s been detained in Egypt on suspicion of helping Hamas smuggling.
He entered Britain illegally in 2014.
Yet a year later we granted him asylum.
Then British citizenship.
Facing trial for an altercation with a bailiff at his Brum home, some numpty of a magistrate ruled he couldn’t be named for 100 years.
Thankfully The Sunday Times challenged that, which is why he can now be named.
He is now facing extradition to Germany, where prosecutors accuse him of orchestrating a planned massacre of Jews in Berlin and Vienna last year.
This is how he thanks us for asylum and citizenship.
Which he was given under a Tory government.
But has this Labour one, as it welcomes ‘refugees’ from Gaza, learned any lessons.
Not if we’ve lost the plot.
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You’d never have guessed hamas is to blame
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BREAKING: US personnel were told to take shelter at RAF Lakenheath, a major base hosting American forces in the UK, following "suspected unauthorised drone activity".
Defence and security editor @haynesdeborah reports
news.sky.com/story/us-person…
Who’s behind all of these power outages ?
BREAKING: The Federal Aviation Administration ordered a nationwide ground stop Friday for all airlines "due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety." abcnews.link/j08v8yG
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BREAKING: US grounds ALL flights over ‘extraordinary safety reasons'. The FAA states this is over a communications issue with air traffic control.
They hand out citizenship like sweeties. We don’t know half of what’s going on in our country
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She’s been laughing at everyone for years. Of course, the climate must be a joke to her now she’s fully pro-Palestine, seemingly a more lucrative grift.
Greta Thunberg laughs hysterically when told Fridays for Future, climate change group she founded, still protesting: 'They still do that?' trib.al/NzkW0gv
