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Las Islas Falklands son británicas por historia y leyes
Si Argentina tiene un argumento -legal, histórico o geográfico- debería acudir a la CIJ.
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Hasta que Argentina no lo haga, el asunto está zanjado
Argentina es impotente.
Argentina es irrelevante.
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Pero por favor, disfruta de la vista
Span Ows retweeted
1/2 Leslie Standish - The Times. RiP
"During the advance on Goose Green he led his section in a series of ferocious night actions. The enemy had to be cleared trench by trench. Shortly after dawn, enemy fire caught his men in the open; he calmly withdrew them to dead ground."
Star!
British or English?
But is that the right question?
Strictly Education explains why it isn’t.
Have a look and subscribe! 👇
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Nice... I know we're four fifths of a century from the end of that war but it's a pity it seems to be turning out to be all for nought.
"These are the 364 MP's who voted against a national inquiry into child sexual exploitation and Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs.
They deserve to be named and shamed"
Jack Abbott (Labour)
Debbie Abrahams (Labour)
Shockat Adam (Independent)
Zubir Ahmed (Labour)
Luke Akehurst (Labour)
Sadik Al-Hassan (Labour)
Bayo Alaba (Labour)
Dan Aldridge (Labour)
Heidi Alexander (Labour)
Douglas Alexander (Labour)
Rushanara Ali (Labour)
Tahir Ali (Labour)
Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)
Mike Amesbury (Independent)
Callum Anderson (Labour)
Fleur Anderson (Labour)
Tonia Antoniazzi (Labour)
Scott Arthur (Labour)
Jess Asato (Labour)
James Asser (Labour)
Jas Athwal (Labour)
Catherine Atkinson (Labour)
Lewis Atkinson (Labour)
Calvin Bailey (Labour)
Olivia Bailey (Labour)
David Baines (Labour)
Alex Baker (Labour)
Richard Baker (Labour)
Alex Ballinger (Labour)
Antonia Bance (Labour)
Lee Barron (Labour)
Alex Barros-Curtis (Labour)
Johanna Baxter (Labour)
Danny Beales (Labour)
Lorraine Beavers (Labour)
Apsana Begum (Independent)
Torsten Bell (Labour)
Hilary Benn (Labour)
Siân Berry (Green Party)
Clive Betts (Labour)
Polly Billington (Labour)
Matt Bishop (Labour)
Olivia Blake (Labour)
Rachel Blake (Labour)
Chris Bloore (Labour)
Elsie Blundell (Labour)
Kevin Bonavia (Labour)
Jade Botterill (Labour)
Sureena Brackenridge (Labour)
Jonathan Brash (Labour)
Phil Brickell (Labour)
Chris Bryant (Labour)
Julia Buckley (Labour)
Richard Burgon (Independent)
Maureen Burke (Labour )
David Burton-Sampson (Labour)
Dawn Butler (Labour)
Ruth Cadbury (Labour)
Nesil Caliskan (Labour)
Markus Campbell-Savours (Labour)
Irene Campbell (Labour)
Juliet Campbell (Labour)
Alan Campbell (Labour)
Sam Carling (Labour)
Sarah Champion (Labour)
Bambos Charalambous (Labour)
Luke Charters (Labour)
Ellie Chowns (Green Party)
Feryal Clark (Labour)
Ben Coleman (Labour)
Jacob Collier (Labour)
Lizzi Collinge (Labour)
Tom Collins (Labour)
Liam Conlon (Labour)
Sarah Coombes (Labour)
Andrew Cooper (Labour)
Beccy Cooper (Labour)
Yvette Cooper (Labour)
Jeremy Corbyn (Independent)
Deirdre Costigan (Labour)
Pam Cox (Labour)
Neil Coyle (Labour)
Jen Craft (Labour)
Stella Creasy (Labour)
Torcuil Crichton (Labour)
Chris Curtis (Labour)
Janet Daby (Labour)
Nicholas Dakin (Labour)
Ashley Dalton (Labour)
Emily Darlington (Labour)
Alex Davies-Jones (Labour)
Jonathan Davies (Labour)
Paul Davies (Labour)
Marsha De Cordova (Labour)
Josh Dean (Labour)
Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour)
Jim Dickson (Labour)
Anna Dixon (Labour)
Samantha Dixon (Labour)
Anneliese Dodds (Labour)
Helena Dollimore (Labour)
Stephen Doughty (Labour)
Peter Dowd (Labour)
Graeme Downie (Labour)
Rosie Duffield (Independent)
Neil Duncan-Jordan (Labour)
Angela Eagle (Labour)
Maria Eagle (Labour)
Lauren Edwards (Labour)
Sarah Edwards (Labour)
Clive Efford (Labour)
Damien Egan (Labour)
Maya Ellis (Labour)
Chris Elmore (Labour)
Kirith Entwistle (Labour)
Florence Eshalomi (Labour)
Bill Esterson (Labour)
Chris Evans (Labour)
Linsey Farnsworth (Labour)
Josh Fenton-Glynn (Labour)
Mark Ferguson (Labour)
Patricia Ferguson (Labour)
Natalie Fleet (Labour)
Emma Foody (Labour)
Catherine Fookes (Labour)
Vicky Foxcroft (Labour)
Daniel Francis (Labour)
James Frith (Labour)
Gill Furniss (Labour)
Barry Gardiner (Labour)
Allison Gardner (Labour)
Anna Gelderd (Labour)
Gill German (Labour)
Tracy Gilbert (Labour)
Becky Gittins (Labour)
Mary Glindon (Labour)
Ben Goldsborough (Labour)
Jodie Gosling (Labour)
Georgia Gould (Labour)
John Grady (Labour)
Lilian Greenwood (Labour)
Nia Griffith (Labour)
Andrew Gwynne (Labour)
Amanda Hack (Labour)
Paulette Hamilton (Labour)
Emma Hardy (Labour)
Carolyn Harris (Labour)
Helen Hayes (Labour)
Tom Hayes (Labour)
Claire Hazelgrove (Labour)
Mark Hendrick (Labour)
Meg Hillier (Labour)
Chris Hinchliff (Labour)
Sharon Hodgson (Labour)
Rachel Hopkins (Labour)
Claire Hughes (Labour)
Alison Hume (Labour)
Patrick Hurley (Labour)
Imran Hussain (Independent)
Leigh Ingham (Labour)
Natasha Irons (Labour)
Sally Jameson (Labour)
Dan Jarvis (Labour)
Terry Jermy (Labour)
Adam Jogee (Labour)
Diana Johnson (Labour)
Darren Jones (Labour)
Gerald Jones (Labour)
Lillian Jones (Labour)
Louise Jones (Labour)
Ruth Jones (Labour)
Sarah Jones (Labour)
Gurinder Singh Josan (Labour)
Sojan Joseph (Labour)
Warinder Juss (Labour)
Chris Kane (Labour)
Mike Kane (Labour)
Satvir Kaur (Labour)
Liz Kendall (Labour)
Afzal Khan (Labour)
Naushabah Khan (Labour)
Stephen Kinnock (Labour)
Jayne Kirkham (Labour)
Gen Kitchen (Labour)
Sonia Kumar (Labour)
Uma Kumaran (Labour)
Peter Kyle (Labour)
Laura Kyrke-Smith (Labour)
Peter Lamb (Labour)
Ian Lavery (Labour)
Noah Law (Labour)
Kim Leadbeater (Labour)
Brian Leishman (Labour)
Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour)
Andrew Lewin (Labour)
Clive Lewis (Labour)
Simon Lightwood (Labour)
Rebecca Long Bailey (Independent)
Josh MacAlister (Labour)
Alice Macdonald (Labour)
Andy MacNae (Labour)
Justin Madders (Labour)
Shabana Mahmood (Labour)
Seema Malhotra (Labour)
Amanda Martin (Labour)
Rachael Maskell (Labour)
Keir Mather (Labour)
Alex Mayer (Labour)
Douglas McAllister (Labour)
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)
Martin McCluskey (Labour)
Andy McDonald (Labour)
Chris McDonald (Labour)
John McDonnell (Independent)
Blair McDougall (Labour)
Lola McEvoy (Labour)
Pat McFadden (Labour)
Alison McGovern (Labour)
Alex McIntyre (Labour)
Gordon McKee (Labour)
Kevin McKenna (Labour)
Catherine McKinnell (Labour)
Jim McMahon (Labour)
Anna McMorrin (Labour)
Frank McNally (Labour)
Kirsty McNeill (Labour)
Anneliese Midgley (Labour)
Julie Minns (Labour)
Navendu Mishra (Labour)
Abtisam Mohamed (Labour)
Iqbal Mohamed (Independent)
Perran Moon (Labour)
Jessica Morden (Labour)
Stephen Morgan (Labour)
Grahame Morris (Labour)
Joe Morris (Labour)
Luke Murphy (Labour)
Chris Murray (Labour)
Ian Murray (Labour)
James Murray (Labour)
Katrina Murray (Labour)
Luke Myer (Labour)
James Naish (Labour)
Connor Naismith (Labour)
Lisa Nandy (Labour)
Kanishka Narayan (Labour)
Josh Newbury (Labour)
Samantha Niblett (Labour)
Charlotte Nichols (Labour)
Melanie Onn (Labour)
Chi Onwurah (Labour)
Simon Opher (Labour)
Abena Oppong-Asare (Labour)
Kate Osamor (Labour)
Kate Osborne (Labour)
Tristan Osborne (Labour)
Sarah Owen (Labour)
Darren Paffey (Labour)
Andrew Pakes (Labour)
Matthew Patrick (Labour)
Michael Payne (Labour)
Stephanie Peacock (Labour)
Jon Pearce (Labour)
Matthew Pennycook (Labour)
Toby Perkins (Labour)
Jess Phillips (Labour)
Bridget Phillipson (Labour)
David Pinto-Duschinsky (Labour)
Lee Pitcher (Labour)
Jo Platt (Labour)
Luke Pollard (Labour)
Joe Powell (Labour)
Lucy Powell (Labour)
Gregor Poynton (Labour)
Peter Prinsley (Labour)
Richard Quigley (Labour)
Steve Race (Labour)
Connor Rand (Labour)
Andrew Ranger (Labour)
Mike Reader (Labour)
Ellie Reeves (Labour)
Joani Reid (Labour)
Emma Reynolds (Labour)
Martin Rhodes (Labour)
Jake Richards (Labour)
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Labour)
Dave Robertson (Labour)
Tim Roca (Labour)
Matt Rodda (Labour)
Sam Rushworth (Labour)
Sarah Russell (Labour)
Oliver Ryan (Labour)
Jeevun Sandher (Labour)
Michelle Scrogham (Labour)
Mark Sewards (Labour)
Naz Shah (Labour)
Tulip Siddiq (Labour)
Josh Simons (Labour)
Andy Slaughter (Labour)
John Slinger (Labour)
Cat Smith (Labour)
David Smith (Labour)
Jeff Smith (Labour)
Nick Smith (Labour)
Sarah Smith (Labour)
Karin Smyth (Labour)
Gareth Snell (Labour)
Alex Sobel (Labour)
Euan Stainbank (Labour)
Jo Stevens (Labour)
Kenneth Stevenson (Labour)
Elaine Stewart (Labour)
Will Stone (Labour)
Alistair Strathern (Labour)
Alan Strickland (Labour)
Lauren Sullivan (Labour)
Kirsteen Sullivan (Labour)
Peter Swallow (Labour)
Mark Tami (Labour)
Mike Tapp (Labour)
David Taylor (Labour)
Rachel Taylor (Labour)
Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour)
Fred Thomas (Labour) (Proxy vote cast by Chris Elmore)
Gareth Thomas (Labour)
Adam Thompson (Labour)
Emily Thornberry (Labour)
Marie Tidball (Labour)
Stephen Timms (Labour)
Jessica Toale (Labour)
Jon Trickett (Labour)
Henry Tufnell (Labour)
Anna Turley (Labour)
Matt Turmaine (Labour)
Karl Turner (Labour)
Laurence Turner (Labour)
Derek Twigg (Labour)
Liz Twist (Labour)
Harpreet Uppal (Labour)
Valerie Vaz (Labour)
Chris Vince (Labour)
Christian Wakeford (Labour)
Imogen Walker (Labour)
Chris Ward (Labour)
Melanie Ward (Labour)
Paul Waugh (Labour)
Chris Webb (Labour)
Michelle Welsh (Labour)
Catherine West (Labour)
Andrew Western (Labour)
Matt Western (Labour)
Michael Wheeler (Labour)
John Whitby (Labour)
Jo White (Labour)
Katie White (Labour)
Nadia Whittome (Labour)
David Williams (Labour)
Steve Witherden (Labour)
Rosie Wrighting (Labour)
Yuan Yang (Labour)
Mohammad Yasin (Labour)
Steve Yemm (Labour)
These are the 364 MP's who voted against a national inquiry into child sexual exploitation and Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs.
They deserve to be named and shamed . Never forget their betrayal in which they placed the Muslim block vote before children’s safety!
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Chart 2 – Excess Mortality Weekly Balance Sheet (USA) Wk 25 2026
"Blood Clots" contine to ravage US health as expressed inside Cerebrovascular, Respiratory, and Kidney related mortality - (as we observed with a family member last week).
Below is a summary of all forms of excess mortality, with Pull-Forward Effect (PFE) taken into account. PFE must be included, because each of the Big 12 ICD codes, ranked in terms of percentage excess in the chart (beige boxes), contains Pull-Forward Effect.
The asymmetric impact of PFE can be observed as indicated by the green/black/red annotation in the chart. The reason that negative numbers still exist in these figures (in green text) is because we have chosen a conservative PFE allocation, which is overcome by the actual PFE in those mortality codes which impact the elderly the hardest.
This PFE was confirmed by the Society of Actuaries in their Covid-19 Mortality Survey Report of November 2023. The top ICD codes in terms of excess mortality are highlighted in red.
Read this VERY carefully...if you doubt any part, read it again then look it up.
The State of Things Pandemic - Wk 25 2026
As of June 27th 2026, there have been
960,072 Excess Non-Covid Natural Cause Deaths (primarily from the Covid Vaccine),
232,990 Excess Non-Natural Deaths (including 130,000 sudden cardiac deaths in casual drug users),
389,595 Excess Deaths from Malpractice and Denial of Treatment (to enact Vaccine EUA),
384,132 Excess Deaths from the SARS-CoV-2 virus (6.6 x annual influenza-pneumonia)
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Muslim/Fabian British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood presents the greatest threat to our national security and civilisational survival than any historical enemy. Three reasons:
1) Mahmood will give an IMMEDIATE Indefinite Leave To Remain (IRL) to ONLY two groups of planned new imports - Palestinian and Afghan women.
2) This enables them to legally and immediately bring their husbands and sons into Britain.
3) Palestinians are THE most dangerous imports to any country. Recent history states they bring civil war and violent horrors - Jordan, Lebanon, 1970s.
King Charles and the British military will do nothing to stop this government engineered war against Britain.
Shabana Mahmood has a number of links to organisations linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, which is proscribed as a terrorist group by many Islamic countries - but not Britain.
We are being taken over by a hostile force. Our King, government and military have betrayed us.
telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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Britain Can Find £88 Million for Palestine. Its Army Is Told to Find £30 Million in Cuts
There are moments when two government announcements, placed side by side, tell you more about political priorities than a hundred speeches. Britain has committed more than £88 million this financial year to humanitarian and early recovery support for Palestinians. At home, the British Army has reportedly been ordered to find savings of around £30 million, with major training exercises suspended and reservists losing service days.
Read those figures again. £88 million for Palestine. £30 million squeezed from the training of the men and women whose first responsibility is defending Britain.
The package forms part of a wider £127 million bilateral aid allocation for Palestine in 2026/27, intended for healthcare, clean water, sanitation, waste management and rehabilitation for children injured in the conflict. Those are stated humanitarian purposes, and money earmarked for a hospital is not the same as money handed to a militia.
But that distinction has a history of not holding. The Palestinian Authority already runs a payment scheme, worth over $300 million a year, that rewards convicted terrorists according to sentence length. In Gaza, donors from the EU to Qatar have watched their own materials, water pipes, concrete, fuel, repurposed into rocket casings and tunnel networks, with Hamas leaders openly admitting as much on camera. Money is fungible. Aid that frees up funds for a hospital frees up other funds for something else entirely. Britain has no serious mechanism to guarantee that £88 million stays confined to bandages and water pumps.
Meanwhile the Army is being asked to save roughly one third of that sum, at the exact moment Europe faces its gravest security environment in decades. Defence officials have warned the measures risk weakening Britain's military credibility. Ukraine has shown what modern industrial warfare actually consumes in men, ammunition and armour. NATO wants greater readiness. Somewhere inside Whitehall, someone still decided that training exercises were the place to find £30 million.
The government will say these are different budgets. Of course they are. Treasury accounting can put money into whatever departmental boxes ministers choose. The taxpayer has only one pocket, and that taxpayer is not in a generous mood. Real wages have barely moved in years, mortgage costs remain painful, energy bills are soaring, and household budgets are stretched thin enough that asking people to accept squeezed defence spending while £88 million heads abroad, to a territory whose governing bodies have a documented record of diverting aid toward violence, is a harder sell than ministers seem to appreciate.
It's also worth asking what recipients of British generosity, more broadly, actually think of the country supplying it. Britain's aid budget flows disproportionately toward states and territories where Western values are treated with open contempt, and where women's basic freedoms are routinely stripped away by law. That's not a reason to abandon every humanitarian instinct. It is a reason to stop pretending gratitude, partnership or shared values are guaranteed to follow the cheque.
A government has countless responsibilities, but one precedes all the others: defence of the realm. Without security, everything else is academic.
Britain can afford compassion abroad. It cannot afford compassion abroad purchased through diminished readiness at home, financed by a public already struggling to make ends meet, and directed toward institutions with a track record of letting aid slip toward the wrong hands. If ministers can commit £88 million to Palestine, they should explain to British soldiers why finding £30 million for their training has apparently become too difficult, and to British taxpayers why their patience is the resource nobody in Whitehall thought worth budgeting for.
the two-tier is obvious and actually getting worse.
Curious isn't it when this cunt and his brother did this to a female Police officer they were released from custody within 24 hours and sat back at home on their sofas.
Now we see a man charged with criminally damaging a dinghy and he's remanded overnight straight to court the next day.
The law can be tough when it wants to be can't it, depending obviously on who you are in Andy Burnhams #TwoTierBritain
#DannyTommo
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Quite correct. Started with an essay competition in 1937 for a school magazine called Figuritas.
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Left and right isn't British. 🇬🇧 👑
It's a seating plan. And it isn't even ours. It's French. 🍟🇫🇷
The French built a new parliament. 🪑
The king's friends sat on the president's right... The king's enemies sat on his left.
That's it.
That's the whole idea. A way of splitting a room into two camps. We've been sitting in it ever since.
Britain had been running a parliament for 500 years by then. 🏛️
Without it. Whigs and Tories. Liberals and Conservatives. Factions and interests. Arguments that went on for centuries.
But not a line with 2 ends. And look what we did without one. 🤝
Slavery ended by Quakers and Tories and a Whig government, together.
The weekend, a deal between the mill hands and the mill owners.
The police, a Tory's idea. The whole country's now.
The NHS, a Labour minister building on a wartime plan, a miners' society and a Liberal's report.
Nobody's side. Everybody's.
Then, about 100 years ago, we borrowed the French word. 📏 And started calling each other left and right.
Here's the thing about a line with 2 ends. It tells you where everyone else is.
And it lies.
Ask the country what it wants and most of it says the same things. 🏡
A doctor when you're ill. A copper who'll come. A wage you can live on. A country your kids can be proud of.
They teach you left and right. They never teach you it's a borrowed seating plan, or that this country did its best work without one.
That's what Proud Of Us is for.
No left. No right. Just us. No sponsors. No ads. No party. Just people who'd rather build than argue.
We agree on more than we're told.
It's time we sat at the same table and worked together. 👇
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Everyone's arguing about 1,500 years today. 🏴
Here's a thread that's 9,000 years old, and it's still in the same valley. 🇬🇧
🦴 A skeleton in a cave. Nine thousand years old.
They tested his DNA. 🧬
And matched it to a man living half a mile away. 🇬🇧
In 1903, workers were digging a drainage channel inside a gorge in Somerset. They hit bone. A body. Curled up. Deep inside the rock.
He'd been there since before Stonehenge. Before the pyramids.
They called him Cheddar Man. 🧀
He hunted deer through forests that covered this island. He fished rivers that still run through the same valley today. And then he died. Alone. In a cave.
For a century, he sat behind glass. A museum piece. A curiosity. A name on a plaque.
Then in 1997, a scientist from Oxford had an idea. He took DNA from one of Cheddar Man's teeth. Then he went into the village. Walked into the local school. Swabbed the
cheeks of twenty residents.
And ran the tests.
🧬 One matched.
Adrian Targett. History teacher. Living half a mile from the cave.
Three hundred generations. Same family. Same valley. Nine thousand years. And the line never left.
He didn't know.
The longest unbroken connection between a living person and an ancient ancestor. Anywhere in the world.
Same hills. Same river. Same village. Half a mile from the cave.
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Just an update to highlight that since @UKLabour came to power, 6 and a half divisions worth of fighting age men have completed amphibious operations against our coast.
That's more divisions than were in the Allied assault wave on D-Day.
Wonderful
They call the English a mongrel people... 🏴🇬🇧
The science says something better. 🧪👨🔬
In 2015 scientists in Oxford tested 2,039 people. Only people whose 4 grandparents were all born within 50 miles of each other. So the map they drew wasn't Britain today. It was Britain in 1885. Before anyone moved.
17 groups across these islands. 🗺️ Cornwall. Wales in pieces. The north. Scotland in pieces. Orkney. And the English were one. One people from Kent to Yorkshire. One group, where everywhere else on the map was many.
So where did they come from?
In 2022 they went to the graves. ⚱️ 278 people who died here 1,500 years ago. They read what was in them. 3 streams.
The Britons who were already here before the Romans. The families who crossed the North Sea after the Romans left. Whole families. As many women as men. Not a wipe-out. They married in. And a third stream from across the Channel, over centuries.
3 streams. 1 river. 🌊 By the Middle Ages the mixing had settled. The map of 1885 still showed it, 900 years on. Same fields. Same church. Same names on the gravestones.
That's not a mongrel. A mongrel is a mix nobody meant. This is a recipe. 3 ingredients. 1,000 years to set. 🏺
And here's the part that matters. A lineage isn't a wall. It's a line. People who kept the same place and the same ways, then handed them on. The Normans joined it. The Huguenots joined it. Anyone can. The price is keeping it.
They teach you the English are a mixture. So is every people on earth. What they don't teach you is what it became. 1,500 years on the same ground. Not many can say that.
That's why Proud Of Us is here. To teach the next generation who we really are. No sponsors. No ads. No agenda. Just people like you.
If you can, stand with us. If you can't, send this to someone who's never been told.
They said mongrel. That doesn't change a thousand years of lineage. It just means nobody told them.
Let's teach our next Generation the truth.👇
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Full explication on TES website.
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