https://www.postalley.org/2026/01/26/now-more-than-ever-lets-remember-whats-in-the-declaration-of-independence/

President Donald Trump on Tuesday again insisted Alex Pretti shouldn’t have been armed with a handgun when he was killed by federal immigration agents in Minnesota, remarks that could further inflame tensions with gun rights advocates.

The president said he hadn’t heard the assessment from some of his top officials, including deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, that Pretti was a domestic terrorist or an assassin, but said, “certainly he shouldn’t have been carrying a gun.”

“I don’t like that he had a gun, I don’t like that he had two fully loaded magazines, that’s a lot of bad stuff. And despite that, I’d say it’s very unfortunate,” Trump said while visiting a restaurant in Iowa.

Pretti had a permit to carry, yet administration officials have criticized him for being armed, drawing a sharp rebuke from Second Amendment advocates.

Earlier on Tuesday, Trump said, “you can’t have guns, you can’t walk in with guns.” When prompted by a reporter about the Second Amendment, he repeated, “you can’t walk in with guns.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday that “any gun owner knows” that carrying a gun raises “the assumption of risk and the risk of force being used against you,” during interactions with law enforcement.

On Sunday, FBI Director Kash Patel said “you cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want,” and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said Saturday that she didn’t “know of any peaceful protester that shows up with a gun and ammunition rather than a sign.”

Trump has enjoyed longtime support from the National Rifle Association, but the group has called for a full investigation into Pretti’s death and condemned “making generalizations and demonizing law-abiding citizens.”

“The FBI director needs to brush off that thing called the Constitution, because he clearly hasn’t read it,” National Association for Gun Rights President Dudley Brown told POLITICO. “I know of no more crucial place to carry a firearm for self defense than a protest.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/trump-pretti-shouldnt-have-been-carrying-a-gun-00750241

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15477867/amp/Illegal-gun-explosives-factory-linked-criminal-gangs-secretly-run-Britains-biggest-traveller-site.html

Prize-winning composer Philip Glass has called off a scheduled world premiere at the Kennedy Center of a symphony about Abraham Lincoln, the latest in a wave of cancellations since President Donald Trump ousted the previous leadership.

Glass’ Symphony No. 15, “Lincoln,” was to have been led by Grammy-winning conductor Karen Kamensek for performances on June 12 and June 13.

“Symphony No. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony,” Glass said in a statement released Tuesday by his publicist. “Therefore, I feel an obligation to withdraw this Symphony premiere from the Kennedy Center under its current leadership.”

Roma Daravi, the center’s vice president of public relations, responded in a statement, “We have no place for politics in the arts, and those calling for boycotts based on politics are making the wrong decision.”

Glass, who turns 89 on Saturday, was a Kennedy Center honoree in 2018. Three years earlier, he was awarded a National Medal of Arts by then-President Barack Obama.

https://apnews.com/article/philip-glass-kennedy-center-cancellations-d29fda6fa3ea80dcdc7ded1033d6c04e

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First watch the explanation

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Then go to the website

https://www.reasonstostay.co.uk/

And then when you do you’ll be abused, attacked and ridiculed

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Didn’t Gary Lineker do so and singer presenter Beverley Humphries has been doing so for years.

https://petapixel.com/2026/01/26/28-award-winning-photos-from-society-of-photographers-photographer-of-the-year-2025/

This film was on BBC2 this evening and is available on iPlayer.

It stars Anthony Hopkins as Nicholas Winton.

Synopsis:
In the months leading up to the Second World War, a young London stockbroker attempts to rescue hundreds of predominantly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Fifty years later he comes to terms with the guilt and grief he carried with him for decades. Fact-based drama, starring Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Flynn, Lena Olin and Helena Bonham Carter.

This film deals with wartime immigration so may not be appropriate for some Anything Plus members. However, it is extremely moving and copious amounts of tissues will probably be needed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002ql0x/one-life

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White House claims protester shot dead by ICE was a threat. Here’s what footage shows
Analysis of witness videos casts doubt on version of events claimed by authorities.

Alex Pretti appeared to have been filming a federal agent with his phone before the shooting in

A 37-year-old intensive care nurse was shot dead while confronting immigration agents in the second high-profile killing to take place during protests in Minnesota.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claimed Alex Pretti challenged Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers with a handgun as they carried out a targeted search in Minneapolis on Saturday.

But witnesses have given sworn testimony that he was holding a camera.

Donald Trump, the US president, blamed local politicians and police for the shooting, sharing a picture of the tan pistol Pretti was said to have concealed on Truth Social, and the DHS insisted that officers fired in self-defence after he resisted arrest.

The deadly shooting on Saturday came less than three weeks after Renee Good, a mother of three, was shot and killed in her car by an ICE agent, in equally disputed circumstances that triggered widespread protests.

The Telegraph has analysed first-person accounts and witness footage to provide a comprehensive view of the shooting, which casts doubt on the White House’s version of events.

Alex Pretti is seen confronting ICE agents on the street before the shooting in Minneapolis.

ICE agents were deployed to Minneapolis as part of a large federal immigration enforcement operation launched by the DHS.

Around 2,000 agents were sent to the city for targeted arrests, raids and investigations related to illegal immigration and suspected fraud.

Following the death of Good on Jan 7, the agents faced fierce resistance from thousands of protesters, with tensions reaching a boiling point on Saturday.

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets to call for the immigration agents to leave the city, including Pretti, who had become frustrated with Mr Trump’s crackdown.

The first in a series of widely shared videos of the incident emerged at 9.03am, filmed from inside Glam Doll Donuts on 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue.

The footage shows at least four masked federal agents wrestling a man to the ground before two others join the skirmish and begin hitting him. A woman in pink appears to film the encounter from the pavement.

Moments later, several gunshots are heard, and the agents are seen springing to their feet.

Pretti is seen lying motionless on the floor. He was later confirmed dead by police at the scene.

The point of contention has centred on when the agents realised Pretti was armed, and whether they had shot him after his weapon was seized.

Slowing the footage down appears to reveal an officer retrieving Pretti’s 9mm pistol. But some of the agents seem unaware that he has been disarmed by their colleague.

Amid the confusion, one officer is heard asking: “Where is the gun?”

The DHS claimed Pretti had confronted officers while holding a gun and two magazines as the officers were “looking for an illegal alien wanted for violent assault”.

In a statement, the agency said: “An individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun. The officers attempted to disarm the suspect, but the armed suspect violently resisted.

“Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots.”

However, a second video, filmed from the perspective of the woman in pink, appears to call into question this perspective.

The video begins with the piercing cries of whistles, a tactic used by anti-ICE protesters to distract federal officers during their patrols.

Pretti, wearing a black cap, tan coat and trousers, walks into frame. Standing in the middle of the road with a phone in his hand, he appears to direct traffic before being approached by an officer.

Moments later, a woman wearing a white coat is shoved into the snow before Pretti intervenes, being sprayed with a substance, most likely pepper-spray.

As he attempts to shield the woman, he is quickly wrestled to the floor by agents. By now, several more have arrived, and as many as six officers attempt to restrain him.

“The f--- is wrong with you?” the person behind the camera is heard saying.

Then comes a moment of panic. Onlookers scream as the piercing sound of whistles is replaced by several gunshots.

The group of agents struggling to detain Pretti spring to their feet.

Pretti momentarily rises to his knees before falling to the floor, where he is shot again. As per the DHS statement, officers quickly administer first aid.

One agent slips and falls on the ice as he rushes to Pretti’s side, and it is still not clear where Pretti’s pistol is.

The woman in the pink coat gave sworn testimony on Saturday night, saying: “I didn’t see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.

“I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.”

Screengrab of video appears to show an ICE agent holding a gun after a scuffle.

A third angle appears to show one of the agents running away from the scuffle before any shots are fired, carrying the victim’s handgun.

According to online experts, it was a Sig P320, with Mr Trump later posting a picture of the weapon on social media.

Stephen Miller, Mr Trump’s deputy chief of staff, called Pretti a “domestic terrorist”.

On Saturday, Pretti’s family painted a picture of a law-abiding citizen who cared deeply about people. He had been upset, like the hundreds of others who had taken to the frigid streets, by the immigration crackdown in his city.

Pretti was an avid outdoorsman who loved going on adventures with Joule, his beloved Catahoula Leopard dog who also recently died.

He had participated in protests following the killing of Good earlier this month, according to his family.

“He cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father.

“He felt that doing the protesting was a way to express that, you know, his care for others.”

ICE shooting victim Alex Pretti was protesting against the ICE crackdown in Minneapolis to show ‘his care for others’, his family said
Tensions are rising in the city of Minneapolis following a second fatal ICE shooting.

The family statement said: “The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs.

“He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper-sprayed.

“Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/01/25/minneapolis-ice-shooting-footage-moment-protester-killed/

As we are a few weeks into 2026 we should look back at the
‘Flag shaggers scam’ and how much was pocketed during their visits to France

https://youtube.com/shorts/xoGbqqdP6to?si=PyNRisx8GjG-DSbV

'I almost died fighting in Afghanistan. Trump is literally adding insult to injury’

After losing three fellow soldiers to American ‘friendly fire’ in Helmand, Stu Parker condemns the US president’s ‘careless lies’.

“When I heard President Trump tell the world that Nato forces stayed well away from the front lines in Afghanistan, I felt as though I had been kicked in the solar plexus – no, not the solar plexus, the balls,” says Stu Parker, telling it straight, like any soldier would.

To describe Parker, 48, as furious would be an understatement. The former Royal Anglian corporal served in the Taliban heartland of Helmand Province. In 2007, he was all but blown to pieces by “friendly fire” from an American fighter jet that erroneously dropped a 500lb bomb on him and his fellow troops as they were locked in a battle with the enemy.

But according to Trump – who on Thursday claimed that British and other allied forces “stayed a little back, a little off the front lines” – Parker and his unit weren’t there.

“I feel outraged and insulted – most of all for my three soldiers who died that day. How must their mothers feel about the commander in chief of the US military denying their bravery and their sacrifice?”

Privates Aaron McClure, 19; John Thrumble, 21; and Robert Foster, 19 lost their lives in the incident in Mazdurak, Helmand Province, nearly two decades ago after American forces were fed the wrong coordinates.

Parker, who was flown back to the UK with catastrophic injuries, was put into a six-week medically-induced coma and missed their funerals, something that still pains him.

His survival was touch and go. The force of the impact blew off his body armour, his clothes melted on to his body resulting in third-degree burns, his lungs collapsed, his eardrums burst and his spleen was ruptured. His leg was broken, his hand was shattered, part of his pancreas was lost, and he was covered in blood – his own and that of his soldiers.

“Trump has literally added insult to injury,” says Parker. “What he says is a complete lie, but the trouble is that when he makes ignorant, careless statements like that, people listen.

“He has no idea. He doesn’t care about facts. This is a president who dodged the Vietnam draft and yet refers to his own soldiers as ‘losers.’”

Indeed, this is not the first time Trump has faced a backlash for making controversial remarks about service personnel. In 2020, he was widely castigated after reports emerged which claimed he had mocked American soldiers killed in action as “losers” and “suckers”.

Trump was said to have made the comments after cancelling a planned visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, near Paris, where he had been scheduled to honour America’s war dead. “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers,” he is reported to have commented at the time.

During the same trip, Trump also allegedly referred to 1,800 US soldiers who died during the First World War, at Belleau Wood, as “suckers”. The troops’ sacrifice had helped to prevent a German advance on Paris, and remains venerated by the US Marine Corps.

Some details of the incidents were corroborated by a number of news organisations, including Fox News, but Trump has persistently denied ever making the remarks.

“Whatever that disrespectful idiot says, I think it’s important to recognise he’s not speaking on behalf of the US military,” says Parker, whose army career saw him serve in Bosnia, Northern Ireland and Sierra Leone before embarking on two tours of Afghanistan in 2001 and 2007.

“In Afghanistan, we worked with them [US troops], and I’ve also worked with them elsewhere in the world. Trump has no concept of the heat, the dust and the high-pressure environment soldiers endure. They lose limbs, they lose their lives, but all he cares about is grandstanding.”

Stu Parker
‘I feel outraged and insulted [about Trump’s comments], most of all for my three soldiers who died,’ says ParkerCredit: Jay Williams
Trump’s latest incendiary statement was made during an interview with Fox News, in which he suggested that Nato would not support America if asked.

“We’ve never needed them,” he said. “They’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan... and they did, they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines.”

In fact, 457 British troops were killed in combat and during other operations in Afghanistan between 2001 and the withdrawal of coalition troops 20 years later. A great many more – including Parker – were wounded and suffered life-changing injuries.

Britain’s swift involvement came at the behest of the US, which invoked the collective security provisions of Nato’s Article 5 after the 9/11 terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York. But according to Trump’s version of events, American troops largely fought alone.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was damning in his assessment of the president’s intervention, saying Trump’s remarks were “insulting and frankly appalling” and suggesting he should apologise.

His outrage was echoed by Kemi Badenoch. “Trump saying Nato allies ‘weren’t on the front line’ in Afghanistan is flat-out nonsense,” was the riposte from Tory leader.

“British, Canadian, and Nato troops fought and died alongside the US for 20 years. This is a fact, not an opinion. Their sacrifice deserves respect, not denigration.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/23/almost-died-fighting-afghanistan-trump/

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About Tice

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British soldiers are ‘great and brave’: Trump backtracks on Afghanistan slur.

US president says British military is ‘second to none’ after comment on veterans provokes anger.

Donald Trump says British troops were 'among the greatest of all warriors'

Donald Trump has backtracked on claims British troops stayed away from the front line in Afghanistan after anger over his “appalling” comments.

In a statement on Truth Social the US president said that British troops were “among the greatest of all warriors” and were “GREAT and very BRAVE”.

He added that the bond between the British and American military was “too strong ever to be broken”.

Mr Trump issued the statement hours after Sir Keir Starmer confronted him directly on the phone over his comments about British military staff.

On Thursday Mr Trump told Fox News that he was “not sure” America’s military allies would support the United States “if we ever needed them”.

Speaking about the US’s global partners, Mr Trump said: “We’ve never needed them. We’ve never really asked anything of them.

“They’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan... and they did, they stayed a little back, a little off the front line.”

Prince Harry – who served in Afghanistan – responded to the president’s remarks, saying that the “sacrifices” of British soldiers must be “spoken about truthfully and with respect”.

Sir Keir also published a video calling Mr Trump’s remarks “insulting and frankly appalling”.

Kemi Badenoch, Nigel Farage and Sir Ed Davey also condemned the remarks.

On Saturday afternoon the Prime Minister spoke to Mr Trump on the phone, raising his concerns in a discussion that touched on “the brave and heroic British and American soldiers who fought side by side in Afghanistan, many of whom never returned home”.

‘Bond too strong to be broken’
After the call, Mr Trump released a public statement honouring the “GREAT and very BRAVE soldiers of the United Kingdom”.

He said: “In Afghanistan, 457 died, many were badly injured, and they were among the greatest of all warriors. It’s a bond too strong to ever be broken.

“The UK Military with tremendous Heart and Soul is second to none (except for the USA!). We love you all, and always will!”

Mrs Badenoch, the Conservative leader, said: “I’m pleased President Trump has now acknowledged the role of the British armed forces and those brave men and women who gave their lives fighting alongside the US and our allies.

“It should never have been questioned in the first place.”

Prince Harry declined to comment on Mr Trump’s latest statement. However, a friend noted that the US President had not apologised, nor had he mentioned any of the other Nato countries that had served on the front line, incurring between them hundreds of deaths.

The US invaded Afghanistan in October 2001 to oust the Taliban, who they claimed were harbouring Osama bin Laden after the 9/11 terror attacks.

Britain suffered the second-highest number of military deaths in the conflict, sacrificing 457 troops, while the US saw 2,461 fatalities.

More than 3,500 coalition soldiers were killed in Afghanistan, before the US withdrew in 2021.

No 10 said that the two leaders also discussed “the need for bolstered security in the Arctic”, which Sir Keir said “was an absolute priority for his Government”, in their afternoon call.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/24/trump-backtracks-on-afghanistan/

So why was this hidden away

Found on threads

Reeves gets deals done at Davos
Votes of confidence in the UK economy as Chancellor secures £1.5 billion in major new private investments

From:
HM Treasury, Office for Life Sciences, British Business Bank and The Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP
Published
21 January 2026

UK savings and investment giant M&G earmarks £1 billion for communities, biopharmaceutical firm UCB confirms £500 million for UK R&D
Deals were secured by Rachel Reeves as she meets global investors, CEOs and leaders at the World Economic Forum where she promoted the UK as a haven of stability in an uncertain world.
Britain’s reputation as one of the best places in the world to invest was bolstered today as the Chancellor announced major new private investments at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

225 places across Britain – including in the North, Midlands, Wales and the South East – have been identified by savings and investment giant M&G as places where communities could benefit from a landmark £1 billion investment fund, announced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves today in Davos.

The new UK Social Investment Fund will invest in areas facing housing and transport shortages and in communities needing town-centre renewal, new education and health facilities, and low-carbon or digital infrastructure to support the UK’s net zero transition.

In a further vote of confidence, global biopharmaceutical company UCB confirmed its £500 million investment in UK R&D and manufacturing, in Surrey.

The investment means that UCB will continue to develop a range of medicines for immunological diseases, here in the UK, from its new world-class research hub being developed in Windlesham. It will support cutting‑edge research, safeguard and create high‑skilled jobs, and help drive the growth that keeps Britain competitive on the global stage through our outsize strengths in the life sciences sector.

Made possible by the government’s Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund, the investment will also strengthen the country’s health resilience, securing capacity for end-to-end medicines development in the UK.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves said:

I came to Davos to champion Britain as one of the best places in the world to invest, grow a business, and deploy capital – and that plan is working.

M&G’s investment is exactly what our pensions and investment reforms are designed to unlock - billions of pounds to build the homes, infrastructure and invest in innovative businesses that will power Britain’s next decade of growth.

I’m also delighted with UCB’s vote of confidence in Britain’s world‑class life sciences sector that will support cutting‑edge research, create highly‑skilled jobs, and help drive the growth that keeps Britain competitive on the global stage.

Andrea Rossi, Chief Executive of M&G plc, said:

By unlocking capital from British savers and international partners, M&G is poised to build critical infrastructure, support the growth of British businesses, while laying the foundations for a more productive, sustainable economy and stronger communities across the country.

Alistair Henry, Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, UCB, said:

The LSIMF grant strengthens our collaboration with government to support the life sciences sector and we are delighted to be able to deliver a campus and scientific capability that not only cements drug discovery here but adds value to the country’s health resilience and opportunities for the life sciences workforce.

In addition, M&G also announces today that its M&G Catalyst Growth Equity Fund (‘Catalyst’) has secured commitments in excess of $850 million, including $100 million from the British Business Bank alongside other institutional investors.

Catalyst backs innovative growth-stage companies in the UK and globally that are addressing critical challenges for our society. With the help of capital from Catalyst, these companies can become market leaders in technology, healthcare and sustainability. The British Business Bank’s investment is driven by its wider mission to boost support for high‑potential UK companies at the stage when growth capital is hardest to secure.

The Chancellor’s programme at the World Economic Forum continues today with a Women in Work fireside chat, where she’ll set out how women’s participation in the economy drives a stronger, more productive and more competitive Britain on the global stage. She will also meet with top executives from AstraZeneca, LinkedIn and Revolut.

Credit from the James O’Brien Appreciation Society and a chap called Michael Michael

And strangely before you read it, it helps me understand who my step dad was just a wee bit better. He couldn’t see that the people he voted for, let him down. Anyhow, read on…..

The country’s changed, the street’s have changed, the slang has changed —

but no one ever sat him down and explained when that happened.

He says something at breakfast and the room goes quiet.

“You can’t say that, Dad.”

Not shouted.

Not angry.

Just… awkward. Like he’s said something from the wrong decade.

He doesn’t even know what word he used wrong.

Only knows it used to be fine.

Used to be normal.

Later, out with the missus — he jokes with the waitress, calls her “love”.

There’s that look.

The one that says please don’t.

The one that says people are listening.

He clocks it.

Swallows it.

Learns to say less.

At home the kids talk identity like it’s homework.

School emails read like HR policies.

Everything’s inclusive now, except him.

And he’s thinking:

I didn’t vote for this.

Didn’t ask for this.

Didn’t get a say.

Then a familiar voice pops up online.

Same haircut, same cadence, same fury —

a Tommy-by-any-other-name type.

And standing just behind him, polished and grinning, there’s Nigel Farage, pint in hand, telling him it’s all very simple really.

It’s immigration.

It’s boats.

It’s borders.

Not the politicians who rinsed the country for a decade.

Not the Tories who smashed it up, sold it off, and walked away.

Not the wages frozen in 2010.

Not the ladder pulled up while he was still climbing.

No — it’s the bloke with an accent who arrived with less than him.

And suddenly everything clicks.

He’s not falling behind —

he’s being overtaken.

He’s not angry —

he’s protecting something.

He’s not racist —

he’s just “asking questions”.

That’s the trick.

Turns decline into invasion.

Turns economic vandalism into culture war.

Turns “we’ve been robbed” into “they’ve been given”.

And best of all, the people who actually mashed the country up get to float away, while he’s left shouting at the wrong horizon.

No fixing the street.

No fixing the work.

No fixing anything.

Just point.

Repeat.

Rinse.

Because as long as he’s angry at them,

he never has to ask what was done to him —

or who really did it.

I'm probably the only one fed up to the teeth with the current 'news'. Not in the least interested in sad Harry and his unhappy wife (other than the possible cost to come) nor David Beckham and his family - with both craving publicity at every turn. I think it's highly unlikely anyway that Harry's wife will ever set foot on these shores - out of choice - and the Beckhams won't change their promoting ways come what may, especially as they still have Harper to push. Hard-hearted Hannah remains.

Or does it - as it owes money

https://healthpolicy-watch.news/stars-and-stripes-no-longer-flying-at-who-but-us-cant-really-leave-until-dues-are-paid-agency-says/

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It’s only got until March

But with More MP’s letting their constituents down and leaving the party there were elected in as , change is needed .

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/737660

https://youtu.be/CgfWn1csMgY?si=mi-tJMqmU7SkO6md

Friend had key-hole surgery on his knee (waited well over a year), cartilage growing on bone, lump behind knee and was told to ring GP for stitches to be removed in two weeks. Rang the next day - after hanging on the telephone for a considerable time (no turning up at the reception desk to make appointments) - to be told earliest they could give was 9th February. Operation was done on the 19th January so three weeks after. Decided to ring the original hospital who said it wasn't ideal, would probably be OK but to be on the safe side, go to A&E. (I've Googled it and apparently if left for too long, skin can grow around them which makes it harder to remove, scaring and maybe a risk of infection). Obviously not a life-and-death situation but how long does it take to take a few stitches out, and yet more work for the overburdened A & E.

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Found guilty of sex crimes

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4grr3368n3o.amp

Every time someone calls me a lefttard/loony leftie or sneers about socialism, I like to ask them what they’re doing this weekend. And tell them this: you didn’t invent the weekend.. you inherited it. And it wasn’t gifted by benevolent bosses or enlightened markets, it was won, inch by bloody inch, by organised workers, unions, reformers, and yes, the broad left.
For most of history, people worked six days a week. Long and brutal days too. Sunday off wasn’t “leisure”, it was church and collapse. During the Industrial Revolution, people worked until they were exhausted, maimed, or dead, children included. This was the free market in its natural habitat.
The weekend didn’t appear because capitalism suddenly grew a conscience, it appeared because people fought back, they organised and struck. They demanded shorter hours because human beings were breaking. Employers eventually conceded a Saturday half-day, not out of kindness, but because unrest and exhaustion were bad for profits and social stability.
The two-day weekend only really solidified in the early 20th century, after decades of pressure from labour movements. Even then, it was justified in cynical terms: rested workers are more productive, and people with free time spend money. Fine. We’ll take the deal.
So when someone spends Saturday morning in bed, Saturday afternoon watching football, and Sunday pretending Monday isn’t coming, then turns around and mocks woke libs, they are enjoying the proceeds of struggles they neither understand nor respect.
The weekend, the 40-hour week, sick pay, safety standards, paid holidays, child labour laws, all the boring things that quietly make life tolerable, none of these came from the right.. they came from people the right mocked, resisted, attacked, and still derides.
If you enjoy your days off, you are living inside a left-wing victory. You don’t have to like it, but you might want to stop insulting the people whose shoulders you’re standing on.
History has receipts, and they’re not signed by billionaires.

Arrival

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Saw on TV this morning that there is a new activity called 'Doom-scrolling' taking over, sound familiar?

We see you Yaxley-Lennon.

Face contorted constantly with hatred and anger because that’s all you have and you infect the gullible fools who tag along because you validate their hatred. Only your hatred is your business model living in a £1 million pound house when those who pay you can’t even afford the rent from one week to the next.

Calling yourself a patriot while living in Spain and travelling on an Irish passport. Asking for a foreign nation to overthrow our own nation is not the approach of a patriot is it? Nor is siting there like a nodding dog while your Zionist paymasters tell you Britain has a special place in hell, no comeback, no disagreement, just sat there silently nodding in agreement.

Telling everyone you are a journalist when the reality is no decent news outlet would ever employ you in this role. So you call yourself a “citizen journalist” just like the rest of the YouTube so called auditors who shove cameras in peoples faces hoping to get a reaction for social media.

Proclaiming yourself “the protector of women and children” but doing nothing about the hundreds of child abusers, rapists et al in your ranks whilst leading the EDL. Refusing to clean house and kick them out instead protecting them so as to swell your ranks.

Trying to take credit for supposedly exposing the Rochdale grooming gangs taking all the glory just to make yet another grift from the susceptible. In reality those who know it was down to a nurse called Sara Rowbotham who was a sexual health specialist who collected evidence to help the prosecution. DC Margret Oliver who resigned from her role in the GMP because she wasn’t happy with the investigation and turned whistleblower to expose it. Taken on by Nazir Afzal head of the north west CPS who risked his career to ensure the prosecution went through and a real journalist Andrew Norfolk who wrote an expose on the whole matter.

What did you do Yaxley-Lennon? You thought it would be OK to try and “interview” defendants leaving the court when there was a news embargo on so the case wouldn’t be prejudiced. That’s what you almost did, mess the whole trail up and lose it for the prosecution and ended up in prison (again) for contempt of court. All because you wanted to beat your chest for something you had nothing to do with.

We see you, wrapping yourself up in the flag so as to hide your racism, shouting your rhetoric so as to hide your fascism, using your faux outrage to expand your bank balance while at the same time picking the pockets of those who believe you to be a “saviour” rather than the charlatan you really are. How many times have you pushed fundraisers for a paycheck, telling others it’s for your legal fees for yet another prosecution before you then plead guilty and pocket the money?

We see you Yaxley-Lennon, we see your attempts to turn everything into an offence even before you have managed to ensure if it’s true or not because you have to act quick to get your next go fund me up. You’re still the same football hooligan from Luton, you’re still the ex con who assaulted a police officer, a fraudster who tried to steal £160,000 in a mortgage scam, you’re just a thug in a suit now, no different from then hiding behind multiple aliases in turn hoping it hides your multiple crimes.

We see you Yaxley-Lennon, we see you bullying a young non-speaking autistic boy for clout because that’s all you are, a bully and we saw how bullies react when pushed by a boxer you only got brave when others got between you.

We see you, one day we hope never to see you or your ilk again and that won’t be a day too soon.

https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2026-01-21/gloucestershire-mother-found-guilty-after-holding-woman-hostage-for-25-years

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I know Gavin was there as he was his usual self, a bad mannered bully to the media after Trumps ridiculous hour long rant


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There was an exchange in the 1954 witch-hunt of the House Un-American Activities Committee when Senator Joseph McCarthy went a step too far. A lawyer for the other side pounced.

“Until this moment, senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?” he said.
The televised duel was electric and suddenly turned the tables, halting McCarthy’s campaign of lies, manipulation and bullying demagoguery in its tracks.

Donald Trump’s abuses of decency have been hitting America and the world on so many fronts at once that it is hard to keep a clear focus on what he is doing and how dangerous he has become.

Is clarity at last emerging with his demands for the “complete and total control of Greenland”, today by means of economic warfare against eight Nato allies, or tomorrow the “hard way” by means of military attack if resisted?
Donald Trump’s desires to acquire Greenland shows just how dangerous he has become

Has the moment of dysepiphany arrived with Trump’s text message to Norway’s prime minister, complaining that since he did not win the Nobel Peace Prize for “having stopped eight wars plus”, he was now free to take the gloves off?

Can we not all finally see the evidence of a seriously diseased mind?
But perhaps we should treat the outrages of the last two weeks as a single package, starting with the deployment of a US naval armada to steal Venezuela’s oil on the high seas, to sell it on the open market, and then to transfer the first $500m (£370m) to a slush fund in Qatar beyond Congressional oversight.
Let us not pretend that this escapade has anything to do with either democracy or fentanyl.

Trump has shut out the democratic opposition and entered into a cynical joint venture with the Chavista police-state regime, newly headed by a woman deemed a “priority target” by the US Drug Enforcement Agency but now nonchalantly whitewashed as a “terrific person” after she agreed to hand over Venezuela’s oil industry and minerals.

The latest assaults on decency include the attempt to evict Jerome Powell from the US Federal Reserve on bogus criminal charges, patently to debauch monetary policy and pump-prime the economy before the mid-term elections.

They include the unpunished murder of Renee Good, a Presbyterian poet, ex-missionary and civic protester in Minneapolis, and then the shameless attempt to frame her and her family as terrorist extremists – leading to the resignation of six federal prosecutors in Minnesota, disgusted at such political abuse of the judicial apparatus.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) has become Trump’s personal paramilitary force and secret police in all but name – not so different from the Nazi Sturmabteilung in the first year of Hitler’s reign – with a budget second only to the Pentagon.
It is now invading American cities with the clear purpose of provoking civil unrest and justifying recourse to the Insurrection Act, a precursor to suspending future elections if need be.

Ice is invading US cities with the clear purpose of provoking civil unrest

There must be a high risk that Trump will escalate further across all fronts, and many other fronts that I have not even mentioned. Will he order the destruction of every solar panel and wind turbine in America, peeved that renewables made up 91pc of extra power added in the US last year?

Neuropsychologist Ian Robertson says Trump has succumbed to “power addiction”. It is a disorder that works through the same dopamine reward circuits as drug addiction, requiring ever greater doses, and leading to hyperactive rage when thwarted.

If US democracy were still functioning properly, it would be time to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump for insanity, before he completely smashes both America’s institutions and what is left of Pax Americana abroad (still worth saving).

But that requires a high-minded vice-president, cabinet and majority party in Congress. So far, they have been complicit or too frightened to act. JD Vance, the vice-president, came close to stating that the point-blank triple shooting of Renee Good was OK because she was a “deranged Leftist”.

How does one become a fascist? Slowly, then suddenly, to borrow from Hemingway.
China can take care of itself and profit from this unfolding disgrace. It has the weaponised deterrent of critical minerals. Trump’s capitulation has been total: China has won access to advanced H200 Invidia chips needed for artificial intelligence, and won a green light to take Taiwan – “it’s up to Xi”, said Trump.

Europe and much of the world are not so well prepared. They are close to defenceless.
The only constraint on Trump Unleashed is the global bond market. If you have a structural fiscal deficit of 6-7pc of GDP, a savings rate near zero and a reliance on the goodwill of foreigners to fund an explosive increase in debt issuance, you might wish to treat global creditors with a little care.

The US treasury sold $654bn of federal debt over the four days from Jan 12-15, about the same in one week as the annual GDP of Argentina or the United Arab Emirates.
It did not go well. The market yields on long-term bonds are refusing to come down as the Fed cuts rates, and it is the long end that sets the borrowing cost for mortgage debt, car loans, student loans and corporate debt securities.

The yield spread between three-month Treasury bills and 10-year bonds has widened by some 0.6 percentage points since early November. “The Fed may want lower interest rates, but the market ain’t buying it,” said Willian Adler, an Elliott Wave technical analyst.
He warns that the conditions are in place for a serious sell-off across risk assets. It could be similar to the bond rout that spooked Trump after the “liberation day” tariffs.

This rising spread may simply reflect fears of resurgent inflation as front-loaded stimulus from the “one big beautiful bill” juices the economy over the coming months, with the risk of full-blown overheating if Trump hands out $2,000 a head as a pre-electoral bribe.
But it may also be the first sign that America is starting to pay a price for the collapse of political credibility.

The US treasury had to sell $30tn of federal debt last year, either in the form of rollovers on old debt or in new issuance.
This is 100pc of GDP or five times the normal “danger line” monitored by rating agencies. The comparable figure is 31pc for Japan, 19pc for France, 16pc for Italy and 10pc for the UK – the latter reflecting the uniquely long maturity of gilts.

Yes, the role of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency distorts the picture. Companies and funds all over the world use US Treasury bills as quasi-cash, a liquid safe asset for parking money.

Which makes you wonder what would happen if they started to use digital tokens linked to gold or a basket of commodities and global currencies as alternatives.
Scott Bessent, the treasury secretary, is disguising the fragility of the bond market with “activist treasury issuance”.

He is raising money through short-term bills to take the strain off long bonds, lifting the share of bills to 40-50pc of the monthly issuance, against the advice of the treasury watchdog that it should not exceed 20pc.
Michael Gray, from Gray Capital Management, says this is a perilous game. The longer it goes on, the greater the accumulating rollover risk. He has accused Bessent of running the treasury like a hedge fund.

The way to hold Trump’s feet to the fire is for the whole world – Europe, China, Japan, Brazil, central banks, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, insurance companies and banks – to sit out the next auction by the US treasury and see how easy it is for US domestic capital markets to cover debt sales running at $2.5tn a month.

Impossible to coordinate? Yes, of course. But it is time to start floating such ideas in public. The only language Trump understands is money, so let us cut off his global credit card.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/01/21/trump-crossed-lines-cut-off-global-credit-card/bond market

A Humberside Police officer has spoken of his disgust after being the victim of 21 hate crimes and racially aggravated assaults in the past three years.

PC Mourad Karaouani was at one point the number one victim of hate crime in the entire East Riding area.

He is speaking out now to support Humberside Police Federation’s campaign, Protect The Protectors: Stop Racism Against Police.

Mourad, who joined the force after working as a firefighter for five years, is based in Bridlington, an area of low racial diversity.

He said: “As soon as I started going to jobs, there were hate incidents every week. Even in the jobs that I wasn’t directly involved in, if I’d been called as backup, people would turn their hate towards me. Sometimes the suspect would say: ‘I have no issue being arrested. I've admitted what I've done is wrong. However, I don't want him to touch me.’

“As a new officer, I was thinking, is it something I do that makes people hate me? Is it the way I speak to people? I’d go back to my station, put my body-worn video on and watch the way I interacted with people. It made me doubt myself.

“It was happening so often that it was reviewed by supervisors, and it was established that there was definitely nothing that I was saying that was instigating that kind of hate, it was just because of my skin colour.

“After a couple of months, I was surprised when a colleague from the neighbourhood team said: ‘Today in the briefing, we were told you are number one in East Riding for being a victim of hate crime’. I said: ‘Really?’, and he said: ‘Yeah, we literally had your picture in our briefing.’ He then reassured me that his team would attend as quickly as possible if they heard of any disturbances.”

Mourad was asked if he would like to change stations and go to a more multicultural city, such as Hull.

But Mourad decided not to move. He explained: “I like my team here, and if I go somewhere else just because it's easier for me, what about other officers? What about other people that come to Bridlington to live, and who are from different minorities or have a different skin colour? Why do I have to move somewhere else to avoid those kinds of incidents? In fact, those people need to change their mindset.”

But in May 2024, there was a particularly troubling incident. Mourad was on night shift when he tried to break up a fight between two men outside a Bridlington nightclub. He recalled: “One of them just launched at me, grabbed my body-worn video, and tried to take off my hi vis, saying, ‘Do not record me’, and then started giving me a lot of abuse, shouting and swearing.

“I got him down to the floor, arrested him, and while I was on my knees handcuffing the man, I got assaulted. Somebody came from behind, hit me in the face and smashed my glasses. It was his partner. She was shouting and screaming in my face, calling me all the words you can imagine, the P-word, the C-word, the N-word, all of it.”

Backup officers arrived at the scene and, shockingly, Mourad’s body-worn video shows the woman telling them she wouldn’t attack them because they were white.

Thankfully, Mourad says these kinds of assaults have become rarer. He said: “I still experience those incidents; there was one at the beginning of December. But it is nowhere near as bad as it used to be. I believe that is because I had a lot of support from my teammates and my supervisor and we got robust about it.

“Whenever there is any kind of situation like that, we'll deal with it positively, and we arrest for it, if there is grounds. Bridlington is a small town, so people see that there are consequences for their actions.”

Mourad appreciates the fact that his colleagues look out for him. He said: “It’s little things like when the control room calls me and says: ‘Can you attend this emergency? It's a fight in progress now’, my colleagues will shout to say, ‘We're attending as well, to assess’. Those colleagues have their own workloads, but they leave all that and go to that live job, which is potentially going to give them more work to do.

“Sergeants will also leave the station and come to assist when they hear there’s been a hate incident towards me. You don't want to be a victim, you don't want to be weak, you don't want to feel like you're getting some advantage over other colleagues. But I like to think we are all similar, we are all trying to look after each other.”

As part of its anti-racism campaign, Humberside Police Federation carried out a survey and found that over 50% of minority ethnic officers and staff had experienced racial abuse while on duty. However, some had not reported it as they didn’t want to be seen as difficult, or they didn’t believe it would be taken seriously.

Mourad agreed there have been times when he hasn’t reported every instance of verbal abuse. But he still thinks it’s important to report hate crimes, saying: “If I'm a police officer in uniform, having to go through this, what would it be like for a member of the public? It could be a refugee, it could be a person who doesn't speak the language. So to me, it is my duty to actually stay here and report it.”

Mourad hopes the Federation’s anti-racism campaign will raise awareness of what is happening to many minority ethnic police officers.

He said: “People need to know that these kinds of incidents are real, they do happen, and there are some people who still have that kind of mentality. Just because you lost your temper or you had an issue, it doesn't give you the right to start insulting people and giving them abuse.”

Humberside Police Federation Chair Lee Sims described Mourad’s experience as ‘disgusting’ and said the officer had the full backing of the Federation.

Lee said: “What Mourad has had to endure in such a short space of time is absolutely disgusting – no police officer should ever be subject to racist abuse while they are carrying out their duty to protect the public.

“Mourad has the full support of Humberside Police Federation, and his experience illustrates exactly why we have started the Protect The Protectors: Stop Racism Against Police campaign.

“One incident is one too many, there is no room for this in society and our colleagues do not come to work to suffer any hate crime. There is simply no excuse for this abuse, and it must stop.

“There is no place for Racism – and this kind of abuse against our colleagues needs the toughest of punishments and deterrents. We all need to stand together.

“Mourad (and any other officer who is a victim of any crime) has the full support of Humberside Police Federation. His experience illustrates exactly why we have started the Protect The Protectors: Stop Racism Against Police campaign.”

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After more than 50 years

https://www.essex.police.uk/news/essex/news/news/2026/january/84-year-old-jailed-for-child-abuse/

Can you figure it out lol

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The president’s address in Switzerland featured a range of dubious assertions, from exaggerated to false.

Donald Trump’s address at the World Economic Forum in Davos featured a parade of dubious claims about everything from peace deals to windfarms. Several assertions ranged from exaggerated to provably false.

Here’s what Trump got wrong.

"I’ve now been working on this war for one year, during which time I settled eight other wars."
Trump did not go into detail on which wars he was talking about, but he has repeated the claim enough times in his first year back in office that we can assess those we believe he was describing. His administration played a role in brokering ceasefires between Israel and Iran, India and Pakistan, and Armenia and Azerbaijan, though these were incremental agreements, and some leaders dispute the extent of his involvement. He did secure the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage deal, but it involves multiple stages and remains incomplete – with hundreds in Gaza reported killed since the first phase took effect in October.

The temporary peace deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo fell apart, with fighting killing hundreds of civilians since it was signed in June. Cambodia and Thailand are still trading accusations over broken ceasefires and border clashes. The Egypt-Ethiopia dispute is about a dam on the Nile – a diplomatic problem, but not a shooting war. As for Kosovo and Serbia, it’s unclear what brewing conflict Trump believes he prevented.

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"We’re leading the world in AI by a lot. We’re leading China by a lot."
Key figures in the AI industry have assessed the race differently. Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang, said in September that China was “nanoseconds” behind the US. The White House AI czar, David Sacks, estimated in June that Chinese models lag by “three to six months”.

Chinese companies such as DeepSeek have released cheaper models that rival America’s best, despite restrictions on advanced chips. Trump himself called DeepSeek a “wake-up call” for US tech companies.

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"China makes almost all of the windmills, and yet I haven’t been able to find any windfarms in China. Did you ever think of that? It’s a good way of looking. You know, they’re smart. China is very smart. They make them. They sell them for a fortune. They sell them to the stupid people that buy them, but they don’t use them themselves."
This claim is incorrect. China has more wind capacity than any other country and twice as much capacity under construction as the rest of the world combined.

China’s wind generation in 2024 equaled 40% of global wind generation, according to the thinktank Ember Energy. The country is building 180 gigawatts of solar projects and 159 gigawatts of wind projects, which together amount to nearly two-thirds of the renewable capacity coming online worldwide, according to Global Energy Monitor. Rather than avoiding wind power domestically, China is the world’s largest generator of wind energy.

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"We’re there for Nato 100%. I’m not sure if they’d be there for us."
Nato allies have already demonstrated their willingness to support the US, suffering significant casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past two decades.

In Afghanistan, according to the independent nonprofit tracker icasualties. org, Nato allies sustained 1,144 deaths out of 3,609 total coalition fatalities between 2001 and 2021. The UK lost 455 service members, Canada lost 158, France lost 86, Germany lost 54 and Denmark lost 43. In Iraq, coalition partners sustained 324 deaths out of 4,910 total fatalities, with the UK suffering 182 casualties. These were substantial commitments to American-led military operations.

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"They called me Daddy."
Nato secretary general Mark Rutte did indeed call Trump “Daddy” at a summit last June. It happened after Trump compared Israel and Iran to “two kids in a schoolyard” fighting, with Rutte quipping that “Daddy has to sometimes use strong language”.

Trump’s use of the plural “they called me” suggests a pattern of Nato leaders breathlessly addressing him this way, which is for now unsupported. Unless, of course, world leaders are calling him Daddy in soon-to-be-leaked private text messages.

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"After the war, we gave Greenland back to Denmark. How stupid were we to do that? But we did it. But we gave it back. But how ungrateful are they now?"
The US never owned Greenland. In 1916, the secretary of state, Robert Lansing, declared the US “will not object to the Danish government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland” as part of a deal in which Denmark sold the US Virgin Islands. That’s not ownership.

When Norway tried to claim part of Greenland in 1931, the international court ruled for Denmark in 1933, citing an 1814 treaty showing Denmark retained Greenland when it ceded Norway to Sweden. US-Denmark agreements in 1941 and 1951 allowing American military bases explicitly stated these were “without prejudice to the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark”. At no point did the United States possess sovereignty over Greenland that it could then return to Denmark.

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"If we were able to cut out 50% of the fraud … we would have a balanced budget without having to talk about even growth."
The math doesn’t work. The highest estimate of US fraud losses is $521bn, according to the Government Accountability Office. Even eliminating all of it – which would be unprecedented – would cover less than a third of the 2025 deficit of about $1.7tn.

Cutting fraud in half, as Trump proposed, would yield roughly $260bn if the highest estimate is the target. That’s less than one-sixth of the deficit, leaving the government more than $1.5tn short of balanced.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/21/trump-davos-speech-factcheck

https://hopenothate.org.uk/2026/01/20/press-briefing-raise-the-colours/?fbclid=IwU1NDUAPfQD5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEegHeKwfiSvFi9NZ3wd08pAubDWKVf2h9L8-dqrozLfmKUJuwAbxYo38MACQE_aem_B50FcsRECUXQJ9VWCMXLdg

Still gets away with it

I like the way the Canary words it

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/01/21/farage-breaches/

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/theyve-done-nothing-wrong-26-33274441#