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Appalled by this news - an institution in Marlborough which survived 2 world wars, broken by Labour's cost of living crisis and its war on employers. We need urgent cuts to VAT on hospitality, cuts to employer NICs, and scrap the Employment Rights Act (the anti-employment act)
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Coming to a town near you. Be kind.
CHAOS AT BERCK BEACH, FRANCE.
Friday 6 November, 3pm.
It started with a young child being carried through freezing water towards a migrant boat.
Then chaos erupted.
Objects thrown at me. An attempt to grab my camera. A power bank launched at my head.
French authorities ded the boat.
But something else caught my attention.
The boat was red and green, identical in colour to the one I filmed leaving Belgium.
Coincidence? Or are smugglers deliberately ordering unusual colour combinations to disguise the intended use of these boats during purchase and shipping?
Another extraordinary crossing. All caught on camera.
MEDIA: Credit doesn’t pay for these trips. All footage requires prior paid licensing permission. Email nowherephotograher@icloud.com before using any content.
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Around a dozen veterans at Stone Court in Torquay face eviction after government funding under the Reducing Veterans’ Homelessness programme was not extended.
"You can tell what a government believes in by what it finds money for & for whom - they find £138 per night for undocumented men who enter the country illegally but abandon men who fought for us."
"You can tell what a government believes in by what it finds money for & for whom - they find £138 per night for undocumented men who enter the country illegally but abandon men who fought for us."
In the week of Remembrance, the British government told a dozen veterans in Torquay it would stop paying for their homes. The same week it told Parliament it would pay £138 a night for every illegal migrant it puts up in an army camp in Sussex.
The veterans live at Stone Court, Legion found them places this spring. Scott Marshall did a tour of Iraq as a Lance Bombardier and came home with PTSD. Maurice Quinlan, a Navy man, was sleeping in a shelter on the seafront before Stone Court took him in, and his two-year-old daughter stays with him there three nights a week. Their rooms were paid for by the government's own Reducing Veterans' Homelessness programme. A fortnight ago they were told the application to extend it had been turned down. They have until March to find a place to live, or they're out, back on the street again.
Elsewhere, on Saturday night Downing Street put out a press release headed "No one who has served our country should sleep rough on our streets", announcing £8.7 million for that same programme.
You can tell what a government believes by what it finds money for, and for whom. They value undocumented men with thus-far appalling rates of criminal activity who enter the country via invasive means over men who've fought and risked death for us. They value the criminal generally over the law-abiding.
The small boats episode may be the only reason anyone involved in the government of Britain will be remembered in 400 years time - those who began it, those who perpetuated, continued and defended it.
The manifest insanity of it shall soon end. Men who stow into our realm via illegal means will become instant prisoners. Social homes will once again go to citizens, not men from abroad who have an outsized likelihood of making a nil contribution to this country over their lifetime. And we will give our veterans, the most deserving of all those walking among us, dedicated tracks to prosperity and tailored medical care, so that a homecoming from battle will be worth it.
Scott Marshall, who served, has a home until March. The camp at Crowborough will keep the party going for undocumented migrant men until 2030.
This is your Britain this Remembrance Sunday.
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I like M&S but also, I’ve been to Bethlehem, which I think on balance has a better claim to be the home of Christmas
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This is so depressing, the reset seems to be driven almost entirely by EU vibe and ideology
For the many UK politicians @UKLabour and journalists @BBC who don't know anything about UK trade, here are the highlights:
1. The UK is now predominantly a service exporter. 57% of UK exports are services, which are not affected by EU 'red tape'.
2. UK goods exports have dropped from almost 70% of our total exports in 1997 to just 43% in 2025. This trend began long before Brexit and is tied to Net Zero mandates, high UK energy prices, and EV mandates.
3. Machinery and transport goods, such as cars and aircraft parts, are 42% of all UK goods exports. This is by far the UK's largest export sector, although it is also falling. It was 50% of UK exports in 2000. But if the UK joins the EU's CBAM, companies in this sector will see their imported material costs rise, making their exports even less competitive.
4. Chemicals are the UK's second-largest export sector. They account for 19% of UK goods exports, but this share is shrinking due to UK and EU energy costs and Net Zero regulations. These will increase if the UK joins the EU ETS.
5. Miscellaneous Manufactures account for 11% of UK goods exports. This is still the UK's third-largest export sector, even though it includes many goods the UK no longer makes because of our high Carbon taxes, which will increase if the UK signs up to the EU's even higher ETS on November 20th.
6. Fuels account for 9% of UK exports. This is still the UK's 4th largest goods export sector, even though the current and previous governments are/were trying to destroy it with bans on new exploration and ultra-high taxes.
7. Material Manufactures account for 8% of UK goods exports. This sector includes iron, steel, aluminium, ceramics, and glass manufacturing - industries that have gone, or are going, out of business in the UK because of high UK energy costs, which will rise if the UK joins the EU ETS.
8. These five sectors make up almost 90% of UK exports. The other 5 industry sectors are insignificant. But the government and our journalists think the UK is New Zealand and that the only goods we export are food and live animals to the EU. We don't! UK food and live animal exports to the EU were just 1.3% of the UK's total exports.
9. The government is about to sacrifice all of the export industries listed above to slightly reduce the IMPORT costs of a handful of Supermarkets, at least two of which are privately owned German companies.
These savings will not be passed on to UK shoppers because the government has also increased wages again, and supermarket energy costs will increase if we join the EU's ETS.
10. UK exports of food and live animals will not increase because we are paying farmers to not produce them, this has nothing to do with EU red tape. Instead we are paying farmers to plant trees and wildflowers or plaster their farmland with solar panels. (54% of UK electricity is coming from gas today, 12% from solar and 3% from wind.)
11. Write to your MP and tell him to #StoptheReset.
If you don't stop this, don't complain when all of our goods export industries have closed because of EU higher carbon taxes, EU higher carbon import tariffs, and the cost of complying with the EU's new packaging and process regulations.
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November is the Month of the Holy Souls.
O God, take pity on those souls who have no particular friends and intercessors
to recommend them to Thee, who, either through the negligence of those who are alive,
or through the length of time are forgotten by their friends and by all.
O God, take pity on those souls who have no particular friends and intercessors
to recommend them to Thee, who, either through the negligence of those who are alive,
or through the length of time are forgotten by their friends and by all.
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Carl Jung said he only ever treated about 5–6 practicing Catholics. He said the Church’s confession & sacraments did the psychological work. “Confess it before God: you’re better off in the Church than in analysis”, he said. One case even earned him a private papal blessing for teaching Catholics how to confess properly.
Genuinely this.
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Las feministas gringas estaban tan obsesionadas con El Cuento de la Criada, que votaron para hacerlo realidad.
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"The @Conservatives are the co-architects of our managed decline: 14 years in power proved they're institutionally incapable of dismantling the Whitehall apparatus they spent a decade feeding. @UKLabour bound by union paymasters, Net Zero dogmatism & legalistic framing of human rights law, views that apparatus not as a broken machine but a sacred temple to be expanded."
Interesting thread.
Interesting thread.
🧵 Today’s installation of a Shadow Defence Secretary is the catalyst. Grassroots insurgencies don't run Whitehall; the fatal vulnerability of any insurgent political movement in British history is the failure to scale from electoral protest into executive governance. Westminster campaigns that successfully captured the public imagination, only to be systematically neutralized upon contact with the administrative state.
This visual represents a deliberate, calculated pivot. It captures the formation of a specific, targeted strike group within the wider Reform apparatus. To defeat Whitehall’s multi-decade holding pattern of managed decline, an opposition must construct a parallel architecture. The individuals positioned here—representing the executive, constitutional, and economic flanks of the party—are not selected for generic retail appeal. They are selected for their specific operational utility in targeting and dismantling the entrenched pillars of the British state. The protest phase is over; the era of statecraft has begun.
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While Brand "was never funny, just a grifter who made a generous living from whoever paid him, his saga is a good analogy for the left/right divide. The left couldn’t get enough of him when he was a promiscuous drug-addled dickhead; the right got interested when he kicked his addictions & discovered a bit of morality.
That tells us a lot about the values of the modern left & the modern right & the sorts of people each side considers worthy of admiration."
That tells us a lot about the values of the modern left & the modern right & the sorts of people each side considers worthy of admiration."
Russell Brand was a columnist for the ultra-woke publication The Guardian. He also spoke in some capacity for Turning Point, which is a right wing conservative platform.
Here's the difference.
When Brand was embraced by the left and fawned over by people like Owen Jones and George Monbiot, it was at a time when he was known and celebrated for being a womaniser and a sex pest.
He was crowned "shagger of the year" three years in a row, he went on a radio show and mocked a national treasure by bragging about having sex with his granddaughter, and was invited onto flagship shows on the BBC to giggle and titter about his promiscuous ways. He was also gushed over by the left for being a junkie. In other words, the left loved him when he represented degeneracy.
But then he disappeared from the limelight for a few years, left his addictions behind him and got more disciplined, discovering Christianity and practicing martial arts. That's when the right started to listen to what he had to say. In other words, the right gave him the time of day when he was apparently a reformed character who cleaned up his act.
In my personal opinion, he was never really either of these two things. He was never funny as a comedian, he was never a good performer as an actor, he was just a charismatic, glorified TV presenter, a grifter who played up to certain caricatures in order to make a generous living from whatever idiot corporation was willing to pay him a fat salary.
But regardless of who he hoodwinked, you can't escape the fact that the Russell Brand saga makes a good analogy for the left/right divide.
The left couldn’t get enough of him when he was a promiscuous, drug-addled dickhead, whilst the right only became interested when he appeared to have grown up, kicked his addictions and discovered a bit of morality, which tells us a lot about the values of the modern left and the modern right, and the sort of people each side considers worthy of admiration.
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Just discovered the photographs of Heinrich Kühn:
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Just a reminder that it’s normal to drive your car until it dies, cook dinner most nights, live in a smaller home, pack your lunch, keep your phone until it stops working, buy used before buying new, make coffee at home, and wear the same clothes for years.
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In 2008, Russell Brand publicly humiliated Andrew Sachs and his granddaughter, Georgina Baillie. His behaviour was so disgraceful that he was suspended by the BBC and then resigned.
Yet by 2015, Ed Miliband was courting him. His character and treatment of women were hardly a epellent at the time. Perhaps that reflected my un-unfashionable bourgeois values. 🤷♂️
But what I want to know
is what on earth did Ed Miliband and others find so attractive at the time? And what did their willingness to overlook Brand’s behaviour say about their own moral judgement and credibility?
Yet by 2015, Ed Miliband was courting him. His character and treatment of women were hardly a epellent at the time. Perhaps that reflected my un-unfashionable bourgeois values. 🤷♂️
But what I want to know
is what on earth did Ed Miliband and others find so attractive at the time? And what did their willingness to overlook Brand’s behaviour say about their own moral judgement and credibility?
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And, re point 4, the case of Nick Brown, the @UKLabour chief whip who was suspended without explanation in 2022, remains mysteriously unexamimed:
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Four things can be true at once:
- Russell Brand went against the leftist establishment during and after Covid
- Russell Brand was a sex addict who lied to and exploited women
- it is almost impossible to prove assault allegations beyond a reasonable doubt decades after the fact with no physical proof
- the British legal system went after him far harder than immigrant rape gangs, Jimmy Savile, Cyril Smith and many others
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Brailes and Winderton war memorial. Nr. St. George’s Church, Lower Brailes, Warwickshire. First and Second World Wars. #LestWeForget
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"Trump brought regime change to Texas faster than to Tehran."
Mark McKinnon, a former aide to George W. Bush & John McCain, quoted by @ShippersUnbound in @spectator
Mark McKinnon, a former aide to George W. Bush & John McCain, quoted by @ShippersUnbound in @spectator
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Four things can be true at once:
- Russell Brand went against the leftist establishment during and after Covid
- Russell Brand was a sex addict who lied to and exploited women
- it is almost impossible to prove assault allegations beyond a reasonable doubt decades after the fact with no physical proof
- the British legal system went after him far harder than immigrant rape gangs, Jimmy Savile, Cyril Smith and many others
- Russell Brand went against the leftist establishment during and after Covid
- Russell Brand was a sex addict who lied to and exploited women
- it is almost impossible to prove assault allegations beyond a reasonable doubt decades after the fact with no physical proof
- the British legal system went after him far harder than immigrant rape gangs, Jimmy Savile, Cyril Smith and many others
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Do absolutely whatever you like as a UK celebrity but don‘t become rightwing or a Christian, because we will smash you.
Russell Brand used to be a tedious, cringeworthy lout. He has matured. Redemption can happen. His conviction seems to rest on a disputed event 17 years ago involving consensual elements. Meanwhile too many grooming gang participants & young men who have “mental health” or difficulty understanding the mores of UK society get little in the way of punishment.
Russell Brand used to be a tedious, cringeworthy lout. He has matured. Redemption can happen. His conviction seems to rest on a disputed event 17 years ago involving consensual elements. Meanwhile too many grooming gang participants & young men who have “mental health” or difficulty understanding the mores of UK society get little in the way of punishment.
It seems so very obvious that Brand was exposed, charged and now convicted of sex crimes simply because he turned against the regime he had once enthusiastically supported. Had he not done so, none of this would have been used against him.
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