Next up, a serious conversation about how Europe apologises for making them do the riots.
BREAKING: Absolute CHAOS on the streets of Paris. Rioters hurling Molotov cocktails at police as tear gas floods the city.
Total lawlessness. France needs real leadership to take back control before it’s too late.
Law and order MUST prevail. Stand strong! 🇺🇸🇫🇷
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Illuminated signs flash the words “Make America Sexy Again”, while on side tables, rows of black baseball caps sit, emblazoned with the slogan of the night: “Make America Party Again”
Look inside the Maga Hallowe'en party ⤵️
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His country is on fire and his main concern is apologising to some black people who were never affected by slavery.
What a cluster fuck this dude is.
What a cluster fuck this dude is.
Burnham 'open' to calls for slavery apology but not reparations bbc.in/3W3enJP
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It all suddenly makes sense why the @Telegraph ditched the only writers we bothered to read it for.
There are serious questions tonight for Lisa Nandy, who approved the sale of The Telegraph newspaper to Axel Springer, the CEO of which is on the record as saying that all employees of the group are required to support a united Europe, and anyone who doesn't should leave.
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Watching the @Telegraph commit suicide is so sad.
I was hoping to be able to announce this in my own time – but the media rumour mill is swirling, I'm being contacted by various reporters and others, and I don't like denying the truth, so ...
I wrote my first "Economic Agenda" column in The Sunday Telegraph 27 years ago, under ic Lawson – filling-in occasionally during the late-1990s, before being given my own weekly slot from 2003.
Since then, while I've been heavily involved in television, and am perhaps better known as a broadcaster, penning "Economic Agenda" for The Sunday Telegraph each week has been the backbone of my journalistic life.
On Thursday, the @Telegraph rang to tell me my column is being scrapped.
I was asked, and have agreed, to write "Economic Agenda" until the end of November, as per my contract. After that, my Sunday Telegraph column will be no more.
Why this decision has been made, and whether or not my columns were any good, is for others to judge.
All I will say is that, as the first person in my family to attend university, sustaining a weekly column in a leading national newspaper for a quarter of a century has been a source of enormous pride for myself and my family.
Lots of people have been asking me about the future of "Planet Normal" - the hugely-popular Telegraph podcast which I co-created and co-present with the brilliant @AllisonPearson
"Planet Normal" has, over the last 330 weekly episodes, also become a major part of my professional life and my broader identity.
With Allison reportedly leaving the Telegraph as well, there is a lot of speculation about whether or not the podcast will continue to impart "news and views from beyond the bubble" with our usual blend of sharp analysis, humour and occasional outrage !
Well, I am delighted to confirm that Co-Pilot Pearson and myself are deeply committed to our joint podcast – and, above all, to our beloved listeners.
We will, as and when notice periods allow, continue our voyages through space every Thursday – perhaps to "Planet Normal", or maybe to another part of the solar system – so we can "gaze down each week at the madness of Planet Earth", as we have done since the Spring of 2020.
So citizens of Planet Normal, stand ready ! The "rocket-of-right-thinking", the "flying refuge of reasoned views", will soon be launched once again 🚀🪐👨🏭👱♀️🎙️📺
I poured my heart and soul into "Economic Agenda" and "Planet Normal". The Telegraph's decision to scrap them is obviously a huge personal blow. But I will always be grateful for the opportunities the paper has given me.
Above all, I would like to thank the illustrious list of successive Telegraph business editors I've worked with since the late-1990s, many of whom have become and remain good friends - including @Peston @RobertsDan @larmitstead @neilbenet @benjaminmarlow @cg_williams @kamalahmednews @MarkKleinmanSky @jamesrquinn (sorry if I've forgotten anyone, it's been a long time!)
On Friday, even though I almost always write my column from elsewhere, and despite being extremely disappointed by the paper's decision, I decided to go into the Telegraph and write today's column sitting in the newsroom.
I am glad I did - as being at the heart of the paper at such a difficult time allowed for lots of conversations, with everyone from junior production staff to senior reporters and executives, which reminded me that journalism, despite being an industry at the whim of seemingly endless and often brutal commercial and technological upheaval, is not only hugely important to our country, but full of talented, decent people.
See picture below, having just filed my piece, as I was heading out the door ...
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No one cares about Black history month.
And no white person should pay reparations to any black people.
Especially when neither had anything to do with slavery.
Black history month should be sent down the same road as child mutilation month.
Ignore.
And no white person should pay reparations to any black people.
Especially when neither had anything to do with slavery.
Black history month should be sent down the same road as child mutilation month.
Ignore.
As Black History Month draws to a close, I want to reflect on what we do tomorrow.
It was important that this year’s theme was ‘honouring our communities’, recognising people whose contributions are a vital part of everyday life but often go uncelebrated.
But to do this, the British state needs to move beyond warm words and confront our imperial past, so that we can build an anti-racist future.
That means heeding calls for reparatory justice and tackling systemic racism across our institutions.
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If people boycott the poppy this year then they will have to sack the moron who came up with this political sloganeering.
I won’t wear a poppy until they end this rubbish.
I won’t wear a poppy until they end this rubbish.
Disappointed to see that the Royal British Legion is standing by the rainbow flag poppy.
The pride flag is extremely political and its agenda should not be anywhere near the remembrance of the fallen.
To say it’s an insult is an understatement.
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Proper leadership. 👏
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
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A 40-year-old Afghan migrant who stabbed a father of 11 to death and nearly decapitated him because he believed the victim had desecrated the Quran has been given an indefinite hospital order in Cardiff, Wales.
Mujeeb Hassani, an Afghan national resettled in Britain, killed his home in Butetown on February 18, 2024, following morning prayers at the Butetown Islamic Centre.
A jury convicted Hassani of manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility after hearing evidence of untreated psychosis.
The court heard that Hassani had been admitted to the Hafan y Coed psychiatric unit three times since May 2023. He was last discharged on February 15, 2024, just three days before the killing, despite a psychiatrist warning that he posed a risk to himself and others and frequently failed to take his medication.
His earlier behavior included smashing objects at his accommodation, believing staff were poisoning his food, and making bizarre statements about traveling to Saudi Arabia to meet the Crown Prince.
Following the killing, Hassani told police he had acted because of God.
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Not a single comment on the ongoing slave Labour of the Uyghurs. Not a single comment on the Arab slave trade, but give him an opportunity to bash Britain and he will grab at it with both hands.
A welcome step from the PM.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade was one of history’s most heinous crimes.
We must be honest about how the horrors of our past have shaped the present - because only then can we begin to build a fairer future for everyone.
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The Jacob’s creek of virtue signals.
I’ve reached an age when some people offer me their seat on the tube - and I no longer feel any offence to my dignity. I just say yes gratefully. Except I’ve noticed they have one thing in common - they are almost always people of colour. True Brits.
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@LeilaniDowding @CaliforniaFrizz Please don’t. Please. Promise me you won’t. Ever.
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