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🚨 NEW: The BBC has now suspended its secondment scheme for civil servants after revelations they helped write and fact-check stories on contentious issues such as small boats
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When you read an official investigation, bear in mind they are authorized on the basis of "... never open an inquiry, audit, or review without knowing what evidence it will surface..." Considering that, this about the UK electricity system over the summer is quite something:
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🚨JUST IN: BBC AI chief previously jailed for immigration offences after al-Qaeda manual found.
• An Algerian migrant who was once found in possession of an al-Qaeda training manual is now principal data scientist in the Responsible AI division at the BBC.
• Hicham Yezza was working at the University of Nottingham in 2008 when the document was discovered on his computer; he and a colleague were arrested under the Terrorism Act but released without charge after he said it had been sent for printing.
• He was then rearrested under immigration rules and sentenced in 2009 to nine months in prison for an offence related to his claim of having permission to remain in Britain; he served five months and is now a British citizen.
• Before joining the BBC he worked as an editor and later as an Al Jazeera consultant, and held editorial roles at the corporation including as a Middle East and North Africa expert.
• Prior to his BBC employment he posted online about the occupation and apartheid in Israel and described rockets fired from Gaza as resistance.
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Billions of pounds lost on a single project because we can’t connect it to the grid for half a decade and have destroyed our capacity to generate reliable electricity.
Exclusive: Microsoft cancels UK data centre deal with Nscale. Comes just as Nscale hopes to pull off a $35 billion IPO telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
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“So protecting an abstract narrative matters more to them than actually listening to people who really experienced it” - well said here by @latricex
The basic bigotry of refusing to listen is what fuels most of what we see on social media these days.
When you know what the regime in Iran has done to its own citizens and that terrorist groups like Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis are their proxies, but you still choose to see them as “the resistance”, then something has gone very wrong in your life.
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Courtesy of @JerryBarnett.
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Article on ‘Yookay’ in the Wall Street Journal
From @WSJFreeEx via @WSJOpinion: Plato warned that anarchy leads to tyranny. In Britain, tyranny is sowing anarchy, writes @DrDominicGreen.
on.wsj.com/4B1zufd
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Hola, soy palestino. 🇵🇸
Y como la honestidad es poco común en mi política, permítanme confesar algunas cosas.
1947. La ONU me ofreció un estado. Junto a Israel. Fronteras, independencia, reconocimiento. Dije que no. Mis líderes prometieron que la guerra "arrojaría a los judíos al mar". En cambio, lo perdí todo y lo llamaron catástrofe. No porque no me ofrecieran un estado, sino porque lo rechacé.
1948–2025. Los estados árabes podrían haberme integrado, dado derechos, pasaportes, dignidad. En cambio, me encerraron en campos de refugiados durante generaciones, para que siguiera siendo un arma contra Israel. Construyeron palacios para ellos y cárceles para mí. Me usaron como propaganda, no como personas.
1967. Tras otra guerra perdida, podría haber construido un estado en Cisjordania y Gaza. En cambio, insistí en "ni paz, ni reconocimiento, ni negociaciones". Tres noes. Cincuenta años después, sigo sin Estado. Resulta que el rechazo no paga el alquiler.
Oslo, década de 1990. Israel dijo: «Intentémoslo». Me dio autonomía. Armas para la policía. Miles de millones en ayuda. ¿Qué hicieron mis líderes? Robaron el dinero, armaron milicias y lanzaron una intifada. Atentados suicidas en lugar de escuelas. Cohetes en lugar de fábricas.
Gaza, 2005. Israel se fue por completo. Sin colonos, sin soldados. Tuve la oportunidad de convertir Gaza en un Singapur mediterráneo. Voté por Hamás. La convirtieron en Mogadiscio junto al mar. ¿Miles de millones en ayuda? Túneles, cohetes y palacios para sus líderes, mientras mi gente come comida enlatada en la oscuridad.
¿Democracia? No he tenido elecciones en casi 20 años. Hamás mata a los disidentes en Gaza. Fatah los encarcela en Cisjordania. Mis líderes cancelan elecciones porque están demasiado ocupados luchando por el poder.
Religión. En lugar de construir un futuro, pongo a clérigos en televisión enseñando a los niños a odiar a los judíos. Glorifico a los "mártires" que hacen estallar autobuses. Crío a mis hijos con canciones de sangre y fuego en lugar de libros y ciencia. Cambio la esperanza por la guerra santa.
Mundo árabe. Los regímenes árabes me llaman "hermano". Pero pregúntenles cuántos palestinos pueden vivir libremente en Líbano, Siria, Egipto o Kuwait. Me excluyen, pero celebran mi muerte, porque mi muerte es su excusa.
Absurdo. Sigo diciendo que quiero "construir un estado". E irónicamente, justo al lado está Israel: el vecino que construyó una democracia próspera, una potencia tecnológica, granjas en el desierto, ciudades de polvo. Sin petróleo, sin riqueza infinita, solo coraje. Podría haber aprendido, copiado, colaborado. En cambio, elegí la envidia y la rabia.
Obsesión antijudía. Podría haber aceptado a los judíos como vecinos. Podría haber dicho: "Dos naciones, dos estados". En cambio, repito: "Del río al mar". En lugar de exhibir el honor, la hospitalidad y la rica cultura árabe, mostré solo la cultura de la espada: la ira, el extremismo y la sangre. En lugar de gritar salaam (paz) a los israelíes, grité muerte a los judíos. Y luego finjo sorprenderme cuando los israelíes no confían en mí, cuando están enojados, decepcionados y convencidos de que no quiero coexistencia en absoluto.
Responsabilidad. Culpo a Israel de todo. Siempre. ¿Mis líderes roban miles de millones? Culpa de Israel. ¿Hamás dispara cohetes desde hospitales? Culpa de Israel. ¿Glorifico la muerte más que la vida? Culpa de Israel. La responsabilidad no es mi fuerte.
Soy palestino.
Podría haber construido una nación, muchas veces. Elegí el rechazo, la corrupción y la guerra sin fin. Podría haber vivido en paz con Israel, pero elegí vivir a la sombra de su destrucción.
Así que sí, soy una víctima. Pero con demasiada frecuencia, soy víctima de mis propios líderes, de mis propias decisiones y de mi propia negativa a abandonar el odio.
Y esa, querido lector, es la tragedia que nadie quiere admitir.
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Arab Israeli Yoseph Haddad at Oxford Union:
“I volunteered for the IDF.
It’s IDF, not JDF.
When Hamas and Hezbollah attack, they attack all of us.
When the IDF protects, it protects all of us.”
Audience screams “SHAME!”
His reply: “I’m proud of that shame.”
Then he drops the real story:
Maxim restaurant, Haifa 2003. Arab-Jewish co-owned.
Palestinian suicide bomber kills 21 — Arabs and Jews.
That day his decision became 1,000,000%.
Later he commanded Jewish soldiers.
When he was wounded, those same Jewish soldiers carried him 3 km under RPG fire to save his life.
You can keep shouting “apartheid.”
He lived the opposite.
🇮🇱🔥
Regular armed forces personnel circa 138,000. MOD civil servants circa 58,000. #justsaying
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The current state of what was once the greatest Navy in the world. A national scandal.
I am told that of 254 assessed airports Lisbon was the 6th worst in the world. Having recently been to Lisbon I can see why that might be.
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She raised the alarm 181 times.
181 separate referrals, about girls being groomed and abused in one northern town.
For years, almost nothing happened.
Then they made her redundant.
Her name was Sara Rowbotham.
She was born in Middleton, Greater Manchester. She was not a police officer, not a senior manager, not a politician. She worked for the NHS in Rochdale, on a small team called the Crisis Intervention Team, offering sexual health support to young people.
She started there in 2004.
It was the kind of job where teenagers told you things they told nobody else.
And what they were telling her was horrifying.
Young girls, many of them vulnerable, many of them already known to services, were being groomed, passed around and sexually exploited by groups of men.
This was not a rumour. It was not one case. It was a pattern.
So she did exactly what she was supposed to do.
She reported it.
Between 2005 and 2011, Sara and her team made 181 referrals detailing the abuse and grooming of young people.
181.
Each one was a child. Each one was a warning.
Here is the part that should make people angry.
Those warnings went to the agencies whose job was to protect children. And again and again, they were not acted on. Some of the girls were treated as if they were making choices about their own lives, rather than as children being abused.
Think about what that actually meant. A girl of thirteen or fourteen, being exploited by grown men, and the system looking at her and seeing a problem teenager instead of a victim.
Sara would not accept that.
She kept reporting. She kept pushing. She kept telling anyone who would listen that this was happening, and it was happening now.
In May 2012, nine men were convicted in the Rochdale grooming case.
Suddenly, everyone wanted to know how it had been allowed to go on for so long.
That year, Sara gave evidence. She told the Home Affairs Select Committee in Parliament that Rochdale's child protection services had failed to act on her alerts, and that the abuse had been widespread.
She said it in public. About the system she still worked within.
Two years later, in 2014, she was made redundant.
Two more years.
Then gone.
The woman who had done more than almost anyone to expose what happened in Rochdale was out of a job.
For a while, it looked as if that would be the end of it. Another person who had told the truth, quietly moved aside.
Then, in May 2017, the BBC broadcast a drama called Three Girls, based on the Rochdale case.
Sara was in it. The actress Maxine Peake played her.
Millions of people watched a sexual health worker refuse, again and again, to let it go, and wondered who she really was.
Within days, a petition was started calling for her to be formally recognised. It gathered more than 275,000 signatures.
Consider what it took to get there. Years of being ignored by the people who should have listened. Losing her job. And it took a television drama for the country to find out her name.
By then, she had already found another way to serve the town.
She was elected as a local councillor for North Middleton, and she went on to become Deputy Leader of Rochdale Borough Council and its cabinet member for health and wellbeing.
The woman who had been pushed out of the system ended up helping to run part of it.
In 2018, she received a Special Recognition Award at the NHS Heroes Awards. That October she became an honorary member of the NSPCC's council.
In 2021, she was appointed MBE for services to young people.
Her case became one of the clearest examples in modern Britain of what happens when a frontline worker sees abuse and the institutions above her do not respond. It is now part of how social workers, health workers and police are trained to think about exploitation, and part of an ongoing national reckoning with grooming gangs that has still not finished.
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Across the country, the police are becoming increasingly zealous in their policing of speech, particularly online.
Yet again, we have a clear example of the dire state of free speech in this country.
In the past five years, 62,199 people have been arrested for speech-related offences, including for posts online. This is not right in a free and democratic society.
Vexatious complaints to the police from activists, accusing people of spreading or stirring up hatred, are becoming far too frequent.
If you need help, contact @SpeechUnion at [email protected] or fill in our web form. We’re here to help.
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If this was white people with anti immigration views… this would be rolling news.
It would be spoke about by every left leaning politician.
But it will be ignored… especially by @MayorofLondon
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Charlie Ireland was supposed to meet with representatives of the Labour Party including 'The Labour Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' to discuss farming & agriculture. They’ve cancelled on him, for the third time.
































