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harry 🇵🇸🇱🇧 retweeted
Paused for too long mid-sentence - arrested under terrorism legislation.
This can't go on, surely.
harry 🇵🇸🇱🇧 retweeted
no, sorry, the glottal stop is an essential and iconic part of the British accent.
however: there is a war on the letter t and it is being waged by the horrific Americanised soft “t” - saying it like “bridish” with a very soft d sound. this we must resist
All three surviving Traitors in the flame-lit final episodes of the BBC's Celebrity Traitors pronounced the word 'traitor' as 'trai'or'. They'd been 'recrui'ed', for better or for worse, and had 'had the hea' pu' on them' at various times throughout the series.
'This is the final murder and it's really impor'an,' said Maya Jama at midnight in the turret. 'I'm not goin' down wivou' a figh'. I'm ge'in' shivers,' said Kenny.
✍️ Ysenda Maxtone Graham
Article | spectator.com/article/celebr…
harry 🇵🇸🇱🇧 retweeted
Nice try but totally wrong
The fascinating thing about Brazil is that is is probably the "western" country that is the least influenced by the US.
It is so big, they are more or less autonomous economically. They don't consume as much US media content because they produce so much of their own content.
The more I learn about them the more it gets interesting.
in his continued efforts to troll as many muslims and leftists as possible (?), lee has performed a spectacular inversion of the sandwich's original purpose as first described by the hero Montagu. an obviously amateur sandwich enjoyer, man has never truly appreciated a sandwich.
harry 🇵🇸🇱🇧 retweeted
ok i’m sorry but this is insane. the word ‘reverting’ is deeply loaded and implies followers of other religions are somehow wrong. i understand why some converts may want to use it about themselves but for non-Muslims to use it is just ridiculous. SFL has seemingly lost her mind!
The actual term within Islam is "reverting". Just saying.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
"Revert" for converts is a modern English term preferred by some (mainly Anglophone) Muslims based on fitrah. Not traditional Arabic; "aslama" means become Muslim. Arabic "irtadda" means apostasy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversio…
islam.stackexchange.com/questions/32/w…
beginnings.org.uk/converts-rever…
harry 🇵🇸🇱🇧 retweeted
In July 1938, as a smug response to the West's failure to accept Jewish refugees at the Évian Conference, the Nazi newspaper Völkischer Beobachter published the headline "No one wants them."
The Spectator today:
This is an appalling idea. Palestinians are probably the worst migrant population on Earth. We know this because in March 1992, Denmark made the mistake of granting residence to 321 of them.
As of 2016 over 63 per cent had been convicted of at least one crime, with 67 of them being jailed. Even then, in the 1990s, Palestinians were highly criminal and highly economically inactive.
Now, having been ruled by Hamas for over two decades, fed endless anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli propaganda, they are even worse.
Similarly, we know that Afghans have very low levels of economic activity and the men are around 14 to 20 times more likely to commit sexual offences than British men.
✍️ David Shipley
Article | spectator.com/article/taking… | @ShipleyWrites
harry 🇵🇸🇱🇧 retweeted
Spent my 20s being told these characters were the reasonable decent people that wanted to save the British left from itself.
Palantir hires Tom Watson to fight left-wing campaign against US firm thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
harry 🇵🇸🇱🇧 retweeted
it’s still somehow taboo to point out that this man is pushing the interests of a hostile foreign state to the detriment of our national interest
This is truly a dark day for British Jews.
Today our Government has chosen to ignore the deep concerns expressed by so many of us.
The measures announced amount to little more than political flag bearing for mendacious anti-Israel rhetoric and those who harbour a dangerous obsession with the Jewish State. These measures will succeed only in bolstering the very extremism they seek to target.
On the eve of Rosh Hashanah and at a time when our community is more vulnerable than ever to the wave of extremism that has been building over recent years, these sanctions do nothing to advance the cause of peace. Nor do they make anyone safer – quite the contrary.
Gesture politics of this kind feeds into an increasingly hostile discourse about Israel, and the cumulative effect of such punitive policies is to further embolden those, at home and abroad, who use hatred as a weapon against Jews.
harry 🇵🇸🇱🇧 retweeted
There are a lot of valid criticisms to be made of Eleanora (and I would agree with most of them) but it shouldn't go unsaid that a lot of the hostility she faces online is primarily because she's trans and people celebrating this should think carefully about the precedent it sets
Breaking News.
"The Greens have suspended a trans woman who was elected to a role on the party's council as it faces legal action from a portion of its own members over the appointment.
Eleanora Folan, who describes herself as a communist and 'anti-Zionist', won a vote last month to represent the Eastern Region on the council in a women's role."
dailymail.com/news/article-1…
harry 🇵🇸🇱🇧 retweeted
Revisiting this to ask a simple question: Why would these organisations, in the UK, be concerned about financial sanctions being placed on illegal settlements and settlers living illegally in these illegal settlements, in Israel? Can they explain why & how they would be affected?
harry 🇵🇸🇱🇧 retweeted
Glad to see this old classic being reissued from the 🔥 strike summer of 2022. Old skool!
🚆 It's time for a levy on the profits of privateer train owners
RMT research revealed that a 100% cost of living levy on this year’s profits could pay for a 2.5% fare cut that would provide immediate relief for passengers.
It's time to end the rolling stock racket!
rmtunion.org/4wG8a2N
harry 🇵🇸🇱🇧 retweeted
The tell here is calling this priest a “preacher”.
It takes the most passing knowledge of British Christianity to take in the context clues (clothes/style of dress) and know that the chances of this guy priest referring to himself as a “preacher” are exceptionally low.
harry 🇵🇸🇱🇧 retweeted
local man gets mad when not allowed to enter school he doesnt work at
BREAKING: A security guard has barred teacher Enoch Burke from entering school this morning
He is blocked from his place of work after he refused to call a young child “they” and affirm transgenderism, an anti-Christian ideology upheld by church, state, and government.
Transgenderism is being forced on children, silently and subversively, in classrooms all across Ireland.
The security guard at the gates of Wilson’s Hospital School is another cog in the wheel of judges, school principals, boards of management and Church leaders and patrons who are working together to destroy the basic religious freedoms of our civilisation.
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Enoch Burke was dismissed from his position at Wilson’s Hospital School in May 2026. The High Court has issued orders barring him from entering the school grounds. The security guard is enforcing those orders.
irishtimes.com/crime-law/cour…
thejournal.ie/enoch-burke-re…
harry 🇵🇸🇱🇧 retweeted
BREAKING: Trump has just designated Palestine Action a terrorist group.
As a Palestinian and Iraqi, the fact the country which destroyed both my homelands is calling me a terrorist, is beyond hypocritical.
Trump is the antithesis to everything Palestine Action stands for.
harry 🇵🇸🇱🇧 retweeted
Interesting how the photos are always of the food on the shelves and not prepared in their houses. It’s almost like they don’t actually eat the shit they smugly tell us all we should put up with.
Just made all my lunches for next week for £4.38
£0.88p per portion
Tomato pasta and a pork loin each day. For clarity I’ll add a spoon of Philadelphia to make the tomato pasta creamy and a bit more exciting.
It’s not extravagant but it’s cheap and affordable and anyone can make this.
You can eat affordably if you’re not fussy and lazy.
I’d spend an extra £13-£15 eating meal deals all week.
harry 🇵🇸🇱🇧 retweeted
parents wearing AI merch and filming their children’s distress for content knowing full well strangers will mock the child. utterly rancid vibes. poor kid. and yeah i don’t want shitty mcdonalds either. bet they can’t cook.
harry 🇵🇸🇱🇧 retweeted
This is my hot take on mental illness... you may not like it. So strap in.
People who are in the throws of mental illness are typically deeply ashamed of that struggle. They don't talk about it. They don't put it on display.
"Destigmatizing" mental health struggles was well intentioned to get people the help they might have otherwise not sought out. It's had some unintended consequences.
"Mental illness" has now been co-opted by people (mostly women) who suffer from a desperate need for attention. They wear their "diagnoses" on their sleeves like a badge of honor.
Just think about what had to occur for this video to take place... she set up her camera, put ice in a bowl, did the whole throwing it at the bathtub thing, and then edited the video after to post on the internet.
So many steps. So many opportunities to rethink those choices. People in the throws of the mental illness they claim are not usually thinking when they act. They have no time to prepare. They just "do."
This isn't someone experiencing any level of shame. This is someone experiencing pride. She wants attention. She wants to feel like the hero and this is her opportunity.
We want people to feel less shame in order to get help, but we do not want a society without shame altogether. It only encourages others to overly identify with their illness (and let's face it, even sometimes fake one), and stay fully in it for the validation it brings in our modern culture.
